Saving the Poor Little Male Lead

[Sweet, innocent little darling x a ruthless, obsessive villain]

"Somewhere in this world, someone will grow flesh and blood because they love you."

That sentence had haunted Lin Yao for years.

Because the character she'd transmigrated into was a minor female character whose role was to save the pitiful male lead.

Her only purpose was to love the male lead, Xie Wuwei. The more she loved him, the fatter she got.

Lin Yao bought Xie Wuwei at a market where he was selling himself to pay for his father's burial, then cared for the poor boy devotedly until

The day he grew up and met the female lead from the book.

The wait for that day dragged on so long that Lin Yao had become a chubby little girl everyone found annoying, and Xie Wuwei's female lead still hadn't appeared.

Lin Yao was nearly in tears.

"Miss, don't be sad. I'll marry you."

"Xie Wuwei, I'm not the one you're destined to be with."

"Who is she?" the boy asked, confused.

"She hasn't arrived yet," Lin Yao told Xie Wuwei.

But Xie Wuwei only knew that when he had crawled up from a lightless hell, only to be abused and tormented by the vermin of the human world, it was Lin Yao, carrying light with her, who had saved him from the darkness.

That day, her eyes were like stars as she bent down and held out her hand to him.

"Come on. You're coming home with me."

Someone who loves him will grow flesh and blood for his sake, fight through every obstacle for him, and lead him out of the darkness.

Later, a grand tournament in the immortal realm brought the righteous protagonists into the peaceful, happy life they'd built together.

Xie Wuwei and Lin Yao were separated.

Only Lin Yao knew that leaving was inevitable, that death was her end, and that Xie Wuwei would get together with the female lead and begin their love story.

But when Xie Wuwei abandoned the female lead and found Lin Yao in a sea of bloodied corpses, her body so mangled that not a patch of good flesh remained, he went completely mad!

He fell to his knees beside her, gathered her into his arms, and kissed her eyes and tears again and again, trembling as he licked her bones and blood.

"Yao Yao, I'll take you home." Filled with hatred, the young man burned everyone who had hurt her to ashes, then lifted her in his blood-soaked arms.

Lin Yao had taken the lightning tribulation for him, all so he could meet the female lead and follow the male lead's destined storyline.

But Xie Wuwei had no desire to be someone else's male lead. He would rather be the villain who defied the world for Lin Yao.

Xie Wuwei later became a notorious demon lord.

Many years later, Lin Yao looked at the man beside her bed and, resting her head on one hand, counted up all the outrageous things he'd done in the past.

"Xie Wuwei, you gave up being the male lead for me?"

By then, Xie Wuwei had become the ruler of the three realms, and the past was no more than a passing cloud.

But the sight of Lin Yao dying before him was etched into his soul for all eternity.

Xie Wuwei covered her eyes and kissed her again and again, entwining himself with the body he had painstakingly pieced back together, fragment by fragment.

He loved her, and that would never change.

[When he met her, the whole city was in bloom. After she died, the flowers gradually withered. Xie Wuwei never saw the city's splendor again. Let the flowers fade. When they do, he will scatter his soul and go to be with her.]

---"The mountains and seas rise and fall, the stars may die and the moon may wane, but she alone is the star in his eyes and the moon in his heart."

Reader's guide: The male lead changes a lot between the early and later parts. At first he's a sinister, clingy puppy, then he becomes a deranged, unhealthy obsessive. The heroine will slim down!

Blurb screenshot: September 1, 2025

Upcoming novel in the author's collection: The Short-Tempered Ancestor Is a Little Snake. Please add it to your favorites!!

A beautiful, busty, clever woman who transmigrates into a book x a short-tempered ancestor whose true form is an extremely affectionate little snake

Ning Le opened her eyes after transmigrating into the book and found the short-tempered ancestor slaughtering people with wild abandon.

Amid a sea of bloody corpses, the ancestor twisted someone's head off with one hand and tilted his head back to drink the blood. It slid down his Adam's apple and over his collarbone, making him an irresistibly beautiful male ghost.

Ning Le lay among the corpses, feeling that she was waiting to die far too peacefully.

Changing her pose to keep lying there caught the short-tempered ancestor's attention.

She thought she was doomed, but the ancestor spared her life.

The condition was that she had to find a new and interesting way to die, or he'd blast her brains out.

Ning Le: This ancestor's tastes are seriously deranged!

The original female lead arrived with a mission System to win the ancestor over, but he tore her head off.

Everyone in the book trembled in fear. The ancestor was out of control! The short-tempered ancestor was going to overthrow the three realms! The female lead had been killed! The male lead had all four limbs broken and was tied to a cliff to dry out!

Everyone united to denounce the ancestor. "Feng Hanyuan, may you die a terrible death!"

Ning Le accidentally received a new System, only to see the ancestor standing barefoot in a sea of blood, casually digging out the eyeball of someone who'd been shouting at him and bouncing it like a ball.

Ning Le looked up and sighed. As expected of you, short-tempered ancestor!

That night, Ning Le went looking for the ancestor to start winning him over, but couldn't find him anywhere.

Instead, she saw a snake with its head held high, its blood-red eyes fixed on her.

Huh? Can someone tell her where this slippery little earthworm on the ground came from?

Where did her ancestor go, the one who slaughtered people like crazy and tore heads off with ease?

Since the villain wasn't restricted from killing the original leads, the world of the book activated a mechanism to hunt down the ancestor.

And right then, Ning Le, who had been bound to a System for winning the ancestor over, was on the verge of tears.

Ning Le, forced to run for her life with the ancestor:

"Ancestor, you're wrapped around my waist."

"Mm... I'm cold. I want to get in a little farther."

"Hey, hey! Ancestor, where are you going in?"

"Sss... So warm."

"Damn it! Why are you wrapped around my chest?"

Does anyone know that the short-tempered ancestor's true form is a lecherous little snake?

Forced to flee with the ancestor, she also had to put up with his clinginess every day.

In the end, Ning Le accompanied him on his return to slay his enemies and rule the three realms, and her progress toward winning him over reached its goal!

She rolled out of bed and scrambled to run away, only to be scooped back up by a long, thick snake tail.

The man beneath her was brimming with possessiveness. "Where are you going? Have you reached your goal yet?"

Ning Le was stunned!

"One more time."

Here's a question: What does it feel like to slaughter people alongside the ancestor and put up with his clinginess at the same time?

Ning Le: I want to di...e...

P.S. The male lead really is short-tempered, really is deranged, and really is a clingy (lustful) snake.

Theme: We should always love life!