I Told You to Kill the Black Lotus, Not Win Him Over

[Bonus chapters dropping at random!]

She transmigrates into a world overrun by monsters, only for the great villain to send her straight back to the respawn point at the very start... or try to.

She dies right from the start, and her heartless System abandons her and runs off, yet still expects her to kill the villain and stop the world from collapsing.

Ran Yunzhi gives up completely. She'll kill the villain if she can, and if not, she'll just run home.

She accidentally saves a well-behaved, obedient young gentleman and takes meticulous care of him. What she doesn't know is that this gentle, refined youth, as bright and clear as the moon on a windless night, is secretly the gloomy, obsessive, vengeful supervillain who kills without batting an eye.

He presses a dagger to her throat, forcing her to make a choice against her conscience, then shows no mercy as he condemns her to death.

He follows her everywhere, bringing all her favorite foods to her, then crawls to her bedside on a rainy night, trembling, and cuddles up to sleep beside her.

He also faces a horde of monsters all alone, letting a halberd pierce his flesh as he shields her behind him.

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The white-robed youth who crawled out of a pile of corpses is gentle and bright, peerlessly elegant, and upright to the core. He has never strayed from his original aspirations.

Yet a hundred years ago, a cup of poisoned wine robbed him of all his glory. Imprisoned in a dungeon and subjected to every kind of humiliation, he was haunted by nightmares until he forgot his own name. His heart filled with hatred, he became a madman feared by all.

Everyone treated him like trash, but she was the only one who held out her hand to him. In his wretched life, she was the first glimmer of light he had ever seen.

That rainy night, she carefully wrote a name, stroke by stroke, in his palm.

Zhu Le. From then on, he was no longer nameless.

Starting with his name, she helped him recover everything he had lost, little by little, piecing him back together into a whole person again.

But her clear, black-and-white eyes did not linger on him alone. Even stupid, useless monsters could win her favor more easily.

One wrong step led to another. He went to great lengths to cater to her tastes and used every despicable trick he could think of to win her attention, hoping to earn even a little of her affection and pity.

"Are you a puppy?"

"I have been for a long time."

He would keep his wolf's tail well hidden, stay obedient and sweet forever, and never give her the slightest reason to abandon him.

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There are two ways to return to her original world.

One: gather four divine treasures and stop this world from being destroyed.

Two: kill the villain, Wule.

With the world on the verge of collapse, the white-robed youth holding the divine treasures sheds his disguise and faces her in silence, striding across a sea of corpses.

"Didn't you hate me the most?" He kneels before her, his icy hands reverently cupping her face. Flecks of light shatter in his eyes, leaving him fragile and innocent.

"Come. I'll die for you."

Reading guide:

1. The main cast go on adventures, with a large ensemble of humans and monsters. The male lead is a wolf in sheep's clothing, but becomes very submissive and obedient later on. He switches between two personas, and the main cast don't know his true identity.

2. The female lead and her older sister transmigrate together and become twin sisters. The female lead has no System and no combat ability; the System is with her sister. No rivalry between women, only the male lead competing against everyone for the female lead's attention. The System does not restrict their actions or tell them the specific plot.

3. Side couple: a handsome, free-spirited third prince x a cool on the outside, warm on the inside female martial artist (fellow disciples). They don't get much page time.

4. The world and setting are original. No cheating! Planned as four volumes. Volume one slowly lays out the plot, volume two begins the four-person group's adventures, and volume three reveals the truth about the world.

5. The four divine treasures are the [Spirit Spring Jade], [Mermaid's Tears], [Formless Mirror], and [Sword of All Beings]. Each has a different function, which will be filled in when it comes up in the story.

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Below is the blurb for Caught by the Black-Bellied Snake's Dragon Tail. Now open for reading, please add it to your library!

Sui Chu and the High God Yin Wancheng have fought each other for over a thousand years. Whenever they meet, they want nothing more than to tear each other apart.

When she hears that Yin Wancheng is fighting the Demon King, the Nine-Headed Snake, Sui Chu claps her hands. "Come on, let's go collect his body."

But just before the usually aloof High God, clad in spotless white, loses consciousness, he forces himself to raise his head and snarls, "Witch!"

Sui Chu looks down at him and suddenly gets an idea.

She'll carry him back, nurse him back to health, and keep him locked up. She'll make him submit at her feet and crush every bit of his pride.

Little does she know that when Yin Wancheng wakes, he has forgotten his entire past. His mind has regressed to that of an innocent child, and he trusts her, depends on her, and refuses to leave her side.

"Chengcheng, tell me, who am I to you?" Her mischievous mood takes over. She lifts his chin with her index finger and softly whispers in his ear.

Yin Wancheng looks into her eyes, his expression naive. "Chengcheng is A Chu's husband."

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At first, Sui Chu hates seeing his arrogant, superior expression. She just wants to humiliate him. Taking advantage of his foolishness, she tricks him into changing into his true form, and their white and green tails entwine in an intensely intimate embrace.

Later, she gradually falls for him, captivated by his innocent, bashful reactions. Naturally, she fails to notice that Yin Wancheng's eyes are growing clearer and clearer.

"A Chu, let's try something different tonight." His tail winds tighter and tighter around her waist as he speaks in a husky voice.

When the Demon King comes to ask for her hand in marriage, he sees the High God sitting obediently and can't help but sneer in disbelief. Sui Chu gives a cold laugh, twirling the white dragon's tail around her slender fingers as she says, against her true feelings, "He's just a plaything."

From the corner of her eye, she sees the light in his pupils dim, leaving them lifeless.

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Many years later, on the eve of the Demon King's wedding, Sui Chu is intercepted on the road and taken to the Realm of the Gods.

The long-missing High God Yin Wancheng stands before her, smiling faintly as he forces her to reveal her snake form. "Dear A Chu, are you done with your plaything?"

His dragon tail winds around her snake tail. "Come on, keep playing with me."

There is no trace of foolishness in his words anymore.

Reading guide:

1. Little White Dragon x Little Green Snake, High God x demon woman. I just wanted to write the kind of story I like. Later on, there will be a groveling redemption arc. The Demon King is purely there to help the couple.

2. Little White Dragon is genuinely foolish at first, and gradually recovers.

3. Just an idea I'm saving for later. A silly, sweet little story. I'll start it once I've figured it out.

4. This blurb was saved on December 8, 2024.

5. Yin Wancheng (Wancheng is pronounced with the second tone; a friend read it as Wandeng, and this distressed the author-mother).

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Theme: People in darkness also have the right to seek the light.