1.
Pei Jiansong and I were childhood friends. Now we're sworn enemies.
He ruined my marriage alliance, so I seduced his new wife.
He killed my parents, so I wiped out his entire clan.
He gouged out one of my eyes, so I cut off one of his legs.
At last, he became a dog barely clinging to life in my cage, drinking the poison I fed him with my own hands.
Then I saw him smile, as if relieved.
He said, “Yu Xuanqing, how pathetic. You'll never forget me for as long as you live.”
I called him insane. How could I possibly fail to forget him?
But the moment I ground his bones to dust, I remembered.
Pei Jiansong and I were both transmigrators in a melodramatic, angst-ridden novel. Our mission was to make the villain turn evil, then guide the protagonist to kill him and bring about a happy ending.
I heard worshippers from every direction kneel and shout:
“Lord Miaofan is mighty! Lord Gulan is finally dead!”
[Miaofan] was the protagonist of the book, while [Lord Gulan] was the villain who died at the hands of his closest friend.
He was right after all. I'd never forget him for the rest of my life.
2.
For the first few years after we transmigrated into the book, the villain never appeared, so we couldn't leave this godforsaken place.
That was why Pei Jiansong came up with such a terrible idea.
He said, “The villain has no name, no known background. Why don't we play the roles ourselves?”
I replied, “Are you stupid? We have names and backgrounds, and we're cannon fodder in the book. We know each other's pasts, and we're not executioners. How would we know how to kill?”
He gave me a bottle of love-forgetting water and lied, saying that if I drank it, I'd learn peerless martial arts, and then we could play the villains together.
But now I was slumped in his pool of blood, knowing he hadn't drunk any love-forgetting water at all.
He'd always intended to die by his own hand.
The System congratulated me on completing the mission alone and urged me to leave. But I held his hand, drew my sword, and took my own life.
3.
When I opened my eyes again, Pei Jiansong handed me the love-forgetting water once more.
I pretended to drink it, but kept it in my mouth.
I wanted to find out for myself what he was planning.
I closed my eyes and felt his warm lips press against mine.
He even bit my neck, then leaned close to my ear and cursed me. “Fool. We're destined to kill each other.”
I opened my eyes and looked at him, but he only grew bolder. He kissed me, and I didn't resist. I waited until he forced my lips apart, then fed him the love-forgetting water in my mouth.
If he couldn't defy fate and change his destiny, then I would.
From now on, I would be Lord Gulan, and he would be Miaofan.
I would be the novel's first villain, a deranged killer of the martial world's great clans.
I would wait for him to come kill me.
Straightforward, clueless beauty who takes things literally, a career-minded guy who hates men x dashing, loyal dog who hides a crazy, scheming side
Little robot x big golden retriever
[Reading Guide]
1. One-on-one romance, equally matched leads, both virgins, happy ending, with a small ensemble cast.
2. An imagined fictional world with many original settings, not based on real history.
3. After they are reborn, the original plot points still happen, but the way they happen changes a lot. At heart, it's a story of mutual salvation and doting on each other.
Theme: Excessive pampering leads to arrogance, and too many favors breed resentment.
