I Picked Up a Villain and Raised Him into a Love-Struck Fool

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[Insecure, rabid-dog male lead VS stingy, max-strength female lead]

Synopsis:

When Jiang Shuyu embraces her enemy and blows herself up, she's filled with relief. But the next second, she transmigrates into a male-oriented novel as a nameless passerby.

On the road to exile, a lousy System threatens her and orders her to kill the villain.

Jiang Shuyu: ...Compared to that, she'd rather kill the System.

While forced to follow the plot, Jiang Shuyu finds Xie Agou, who has been bullied so badly he's nearly dead, and then he latches onto her.

Jiang Shuyu shamelessly says, "Let's make a deal. Why don't you sell yourself as a servant and give me the money? That way, we'll both survive."

Xie Agou says expressionlessly, "Exiled prisoners can't sign contracts. No one will buy me. Give it up."

"…"

Jiang Shuyu has no choice but to return to her old line of work.

The northern border has long winters and short springs, but its soil is fertile, unlike anything she'd seen in the apocalypse. She spends her days studying cultivation, stocking up on grain, and opening shops, while doing her best to raise Xie Agou into a carefree, sunny boy. Life is pretty comfortable.

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Locked in a dog cage as a child and forced to fight wild beasts, Xie Siheng only discovers the meaning of being alive when Jiang Shuyu finds him on the brink of death.

The two rely on each other for years, and he keeps putting off his revenge.

Because in Jiang Shuyu's heart, he is the bright, carefree Xie Agou, not Xie Siheng, a dark, twisted man who only wants to possess her.

Then his enemy digs his own grave and sends people to assassinate them.

Jiang Shuyu is thoroughly enraged. She drops her business, grabs him in a hurry, and sets off to kill people and avenge him.

#A story of mutual salvation and raising each other#

#Happy ending# #Entirely fictional setting# #Lots of original worldbuilding#

Reader's guide (content warnings):

1. Both leads are each other's only romantic partner.

2. The female lead is clever, but not very. She tends to solve problems with force, so this isn't a traditional story about a strong female lead. (If you're looking for a female lead who effortlessly slaughters everyone, this may not be your cup of tea.)

3. The male lead seems like a bright, cheerful boy on the surface, but underneath he's a rabid dog with a possessive, unstable streak.

4. There's not much court politics. The focus is mostly on the two leads' everyday struggle to survive. It's planned as a medium-to-long novel, so the pacing is a little slow to warm up.

5. The original novel's male lead will be villainized.

My upcoming novel, Madam Is Always Putting on an Act. If you're interested, you can add it to your library now. I won't abandon it, and once I start a novel, I'll finish it.

A cunning, bootlicking female lead who plays dumb VS a cold, world-weary, gorgeous but tragic male lead

Married first, love later | A little groveling | Love and hate | One-on-one, happy ending

Chi Yingwan has transmigrated fourteen times and died thirteen times.

To find her target, she follows her nominal husband, Ji Zhiyi, north as he pursues the Shadow Pavilion, which everyone in the martial world wants dead.

Only it turns out she's part of the Shadow Pavilion herself...

No matter. As long as she keeps her identity well hidden, she can lie low until the mission ends.

This nominal husband of hers looks frail, but he's decisive when he strikes.

Trapped in Locked Jade Village, Chi Yingwan is threatened with death by him as he tries to get information, and she immediately caves.

The corpse-poisoned people of Thousand Mechanism Peak are ruthless and terrorize the region, and once again he sells her out as bait.

She's furious, but she can't beat him, so she can only take her revenge in secret.

When the Blood Mist Sect reappears in the martial world, Chi Yingwan brings out all her acting skills, juggling several roles in a double-agent operation within a double-agent operation. Then, by accident, she discovers a secret from more than twenty years ago.

During the battle at Maple Forest Crossing, her identity is exposed. Ji Zhiyi, who has tried to kill her countless times along the way, shields her behind him.

Ji Zhiyi has died fourteen times and been reborn fourteen times. He's thoroughly sick of it.

Then something called a System tells him that if he completes a mission, it will grant him one wish.

Fine. Once he's done using this monster, he'll let the world's filth fade forever beneath the intent of his sword.

When he opens his eyes again, he has a strange wife.

She cries on demand to save her life, can flatter someone for a whole hour, and is timid and talkative.

She runs at the first sign of danger, yet is unusually attentive to his mission target, Helian Xi.

When Helian Xi gets beaten up, she says, "The east is down today, but the west will rise tomorrow. Don't look down on a poor young man..."

She's never tried to comfort him like that. It really pisses him off. He wants to kill someone.

Theme: Hold fast to your convictions and overcome adversity.