The Villain Winked at Me Before He Died

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1.

“Five hundred years after I personally killed my villainous junior brother, I realized he might... possibly... have been in love with me.”

Ran Tang cultivated for eight hundred years before finally earning the chance to ascend.

But beneath the Heart-Inquiry Lightning, the incarnation of the Heavenly Dao said she had killed someone who truly cared for her five hundred years ago. Those who betray sincere affection cannot ascend.

She thought for a long time before finally remembering that, five hundred years ago, she had indeed killed someone.

However...

“He was once the junior brother of my sect. He was vicious, sly, and hypocritical, greedy beyond measure, and nearly brought the sect to ruin and drowned it in blood. I killed him with a clear conscience.”

Ran Tang still remembered how her junior brother had committed every manner of evil, then died without the slightest remorse. He had even raised his brows and curled his lips in a taunting, arrogant smile.

“Oh?”

With a wave of its sleeve, the Heavenly Dao’s incarnation sent her back to the moment her junior brother had died five hundred years ago.

At the time, she had expressionlessly driven her blade into her junior brother’s heart.

“Senior Sister,” her junior brother said. Blood spilled from his mouth, making his voice thick and sticky, with a hint of sweetness. “That stab really hurts.”

As he spoke, the hand hidden in his sleeve twitched slightly.

Ran Tang watched him coldly. Hmph. Sweet words, hidden blade. First act weak, then wait for a chance to strike back. She had remembered him correctly.

She struck again, briskly and decisively.

Her junior brother’s face instantly lost all color, turning white as wax.

“But what can I do? I think I’m falling more and more in love with you, Senior Sister.”

The words she hadn’t heard clearly five hundred years ago reached her ears.

After saying them, her junior brother’s lips curved slightly. His eyes bent into crescent moons, and he gave her a gentle wink before breathing his last.

Wait, had he just... winked at her?

Ran Tang was stunned.

Before she could recover, the Heavenly Dao’s incarnation kicked her back eight hundred years, to the day she and her junior brother first joined the immortal mountain sect.

Her younger self was far less composed than she would be eight hundred years later. Nervously greeting the elders, she lost her footing and fell forward with a loud thump, knocking her head on the ground.

“Heh.” Someone chuckled softly.

She looked up and saw the junior brother who would die by her sword three hundred years later for all the wicked things he had done.

2.

When Ran Tang had cultivated for three hundred years, she purged the sect and killed her junior brother, Shang Yu.

Five hundred years later, her attempt to ascend failed. She returned to the past, where a bewitching ghost took the form of her junior brother and called her Senior Sister. It entered her dreams every night and insisted on becoming her cultivation partner.

By day and by night, the face was the same, so Ran Tang could hardly avoid mistaking one for the other.

She never expected this to cause the young Shang Yu, who had not yet gone astray five hundred years ago, to misunderstand.

“Senior Sister... you dream about me every night?”

She explained carefully, thinking that once the misunderstanding was cleared up, they would get along peacefully. Under her patient guidance, her junior brother was also walking the right path, and everything seemed to be getting better.

Until one day, her junior brother was poisoned by a demon’s spell.

She entered his sea of consciousness to save him.

There she found countless red threads and love-binding charms, all tied to her name.

Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang, Ran Tang...

And the bewitching ghost who had entered her dreams crawled out of her junior brother’s filthy, swamp-like sea of consciousness. Its icy hands wound around her waist as it kissed her neck.

“Senior Sister, shall I let you kill me again?”

This had to be a ghost story.

This wicked junior brother, whom she had once killed with a single strike, really seemed to be in love with her.

Little scene

Shang Yu felt that he had fallen in love with a block of wood.

He wore a snow-lilac, round-collared, narrow-sleeved robe custom-made by the Feather Robe Pavilion, eight hundred li from the immortal mountain. He thought any woman with normal taste would take a second look at him for his looks alone.

But after staking out the spot for three hours, he finally caught Ran Tang there. She didn’t so much as glance at him. Instead, she went to pet the spirit beast his second senior brother had just bought.

Hmph. What was there to like about a dumb animal?

The next day

On her way back after practicing her sword, Ran Tang saw a fluffy white puppy squatting in the middle of the road. It was even cuter than her second senior brother’s puppy from yesterday. When it noticed her looking, it rolled over and showed her its snowy-white belly.

Delighted, she hurried over, crouched down, and reached out... A few moments later, she frowned.

“Shang Yu, are you sick? Why would you take a transformation pill and turn yourself into a dog?”

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Both leads are each other’s only partners. This isn’t a story about an overwhelmingly powerful heroine; it’s purely romance-focused. The male lead is mentally unstable, and the heroine knows exactly how to handle him. Happy ending. There is another reason the heroine cannot ascend, unrelated to the male lead.

Note added on November 17, 2024. Screenshot saved.

Upcoming novel

“My Junior Brother Suspects Me of Cheating Every Day”

“Ning Fu, where are you?”

“Ning Fu, why aren’t you answering my communication talisman?”

“Ning Fu, are you leaving me?”

“Ning Fu, do you even love me?”

“Ning Fu, do you have another man out there?”

“Ning Fu, you were the one who came after me first.”

“Ning Fu, I won’t let you go.”

“Ning Fu, please...”

“Ning Fu, Ning Fu, Ning Fu...”

After spending three days out of contact while hunting demons, Ning Fu returned to find her storage ring packed to the brim with communication talismans. Countless messages, all from the same person: her junior brother, Chu Chao.

Ning Fu sighed softly, then casually picked one of his questions and replied, as she had done many times before.

“Chu Chao, I like you.”

Almost as soon as the message was sent, a new one arrived from the young man.

The obsessive madness was gone. Chu Chao’s voice was clear and smooth, with a hint of sweetness, and he sounded incredibly well-behaved.

“Okay, Senior Sister. I’ll wait for you to come back to the mountain.”

**

A thousand miles away, in the Ten Thousand Demons Cavern.

The young man, surrounded by surging demonic energy, clutched the communication talisman tightly. A faint blush spread across his face, and his long lashes trembled as he listened to the woman’s voice over and over again. His lips curled into an almost sickly smile. “Senior Sister...”

Those words, “I like you,” effortlessly stirred his desire. His lips and teeth parted with an uncontrollable pant, silently tracing the same name again and again...

Ning Fu, a calm and detached woman who saves all living beings × Chu Chao, who suspects every day that his Senior Sister doesn’t want him

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