The Days I Relied on the Great Villain, and He on Me

After transmigrating, Sang Yao becomes the stepsister of the great villain in an imperial-examination novel. The book has only a few brief lines about the villain's past: His father was unknown, his mother was cruel, and he was harshly treated from a young age. In the end, he turned on them with a blade and slaughtered his mother, stepfather, and stepsister. Sang Yao: ... When she transmigrated into the story, a frail, emaciated boy lay in the woodshed, covered in wounds with one leg broken. He gazed at her with hollow eyes. She was holding a stick in her hand. To keep the story from going off course, she immediately dropped the stick and crawled over to the boy. "Brother, I'm sorry. I won't hit you again!" At first, she begged him through tears. Later, she was still begging him through tears. * Han Jiuxiao spent his life bearing a terrible reputation. He was said to have murdered his mother and kin and persecuted loyal officials. Everyone called him a treacherous beast, worse than a dog or a pig, a shameless, despicable monster living off the people's taxes. He thought someone like him deserved to enter the deepest hell after death and never be reborn. Who could have guessed that when he opened his eyes, he would be alive again? And the little girl who had once hated him so much she wanted him dead was now crying as she promised to treat him well. If she had food to eat, he would have food to eat, too. She would even earn money to support him. Han Jiuxiao: ... Reading Guide: 1. More focus on food, less on the imperial examinations. 2. The female lead transmigrates; the male lead is reborn. The author's currently serialized novel: From Concubine's Daughter to Marquis's Wife After transmigrating as a lowborn daughter in ancient times, Su Tingxue decides to lie flat. She neither fights nor competes, and stays out of trouble. Her legitimate mother treats her fairly well because she is obedient and well-behaved, and arranges her marriage to the son of a close family friend. Her future husband is kind and upright. Although his family has fallen on hard times, he works hard to improve his prospects. She is very pleased with the match and plans to marry him once he passes the imperial examinations. Who could have expected that her second sister, also a concubine's daughter, would try to win favor with their legitimate mother's nephew by drugging him and forcing a relationship? When the plot is exposed, she flees in a panic. Su Tingxue knows nothing about it and blunders right into the scene. The beaded curtain is partly raised. Inside the dark blue canopy, the youngest marquis in the Great Xia Dynasty has a flushed, handsome face, eyes like a phoenix's and a feverish, unsteady breath. He raises a long, elegant finger toward her and says in a noble voice, "Come here." Su Tingxue: !!! * After that absurd encounter, she is initially anxious, afraid the man will cling to her. Fortunately, he seems even less willing than she is to mention what happened, and remains as cold toward her as ever, both in public and in private. She secretly breathes a sigh of relief, settles down to live her own life, and works hard to save up her dowry as she waits for her betrothed to marry her. Until one day, she is cornered in a secret chamber and discovers that the idea that the wind leaves no trace was merely wishful thinking on her part. * Pei Huan is an outstanding man, refined and accomplished in both literary and military arts. His father's family is illustrious, and his mother's family is highborn. In everyone's eyes, he is a bright moon in the distant sky. Born to wealth and privilege, he thought romance was an ordinary pleasure easily within anyone's reach. He never imagined that one day he would resort to every means at his disposal to possess a woman, taking her by force, scheming relentlessly, and stopping at nothing. Coming Soon 1: Everyday Life with Poor Relatives at an Ancient Marquis's Estate After transmigrating, Li Mingyu becomes the third daughter of the Li family. The Li family once enjoyed great prosperity, with several houses and hundreds of acres of fertile land. Unfortunately, each generation of descendants was worse off than the last. By the time of Li Mingyu's father, all that remained was an ancestral home that had fallen into disrepair. When Li Mingyu arrives, her father has been tricked into owing a mountain of debt. The creditors come to collect, giving the family two choices: sell the house or sell their daughter. Her mother, heavily pregnant and close to giving birth, wails and sobs until she can barely catch her breath. Her two older sisters are desperate. The eldest threatens to kill herself by throwing herself against a wall, while the second is in a hurry to find someone to marry. With her family on the brink of ruin or death, Li Mingyu spends the night racking her brain until she finally dredges up a highborn connection who can help get the Li family out of trouble. Early the next morning, she gets ready, takes a chicken in one hand and a duck in the other, and brings her little brother to the Huaiyang Marquis's residence to beg for help. Coming Soon 2: I'm the Stand-In for the Heroine of an Explicit Novel After transmigrating, Qin Wu becomes the half-sister of the heroine in an explicit novel. Everyone in the capital knows the Dou family raised a fine daughter. Dou Yan is so beautiful she resembles a celestial maiden, like Chang'e herself, and countless young noblemen have fallen for her. Everyone says Dou Yan is a once-in-a-century beauty. Any ordinary woman who looked even a third as lovely could captivate anyone. She has many admirers, but one man is the most obsessed. After she rejects him time and again, he vows to make her his and torture her to death. That man has powerful backing, and the Dou family dare not offend him. So they devise a plan: send a concubine's daughter who resembles Dou Yan by fifty or sixty percent in her place, to serve as an outlet for his anger. When Dou Wu arrives, she opens her eyes to hear her legitimate mother speak in a sarcastic, condescending tone: "The Dou family has raised you for years. Being able to serve a noble is a blessing you've earned over several lifetimes." Her mind is still in a daze when she is carried in a small sedan chair to the man's room. In the dim light, the man's face is partly hidden, but the features that show are breathtakingly beautiful. Remembering the original character's gruesome death in the book, she decides it is better to die sooner rather than later. She forces a weak smile and says, "Come on, hurry up and kill me." Coming Soon 3: Transmigrated into the Foil Family in an Ancient Slice-of-Life Novel The Qin family has two branches, and they serve as foils in a novel. The husband and wife of the elder branch are kind, hardworking, and capable. They start with a small eatery and eventually open a large restaurant, and their lives grow more prosperous by the day. Their son, Qin Chengzhang, is bright and studious, a young scholar renowned far and wide. Through his own hard work, he passes the examinations, becomes a provincial graduate, and earns a place on the imperial examination's honors list. Their daughter, Qin Jinxiu, is learned and courteous, earning the praise of their neighbors. Her personal charm wins the attention of the heir to a count's estate, and she successfully marries into a noble family. The couple in the younger branch are a pair of lazybones. They spend all day shirking work and lazing about, dreaming only of leeching off the elder branch. The elder daughter, Qin Jinzhu, is greedy for comfort and obsessed with appearances. She constantly competes with and tries to outdo Qin Jinxiu, but her attempt to seduce the heir to the count's estate fails and ruins her reputation. The younger daughter, Qin Jinyu, is lazy, greedy, and always looking to take advantage of others. She helps her sister oppose Qin Jinxiu, only to end up poisoned to death after her own poisoning attempt fails. After transmigrating, Jinyu Man becomes Qin Jinyu of the younger branch. She arrives just as Qin Jinzhu is about to give the heir to the count's estate a love potion to force a relationship. And Jinyu is the one delivering the potion, caught in the act by Qin Jinxiu and her companions. Faced with Qin Jinxiu's accusations, she doesn't even think twice before drinking the potion on the spot. Everyone: ... Theme: Helping others achieve their goals is also a way of helping yourself.