The Villain Is Trying to Win Me Over with Love

Now complete! My new lighthearted fantasy romance is a sweet little treat, "Plan on Hold, I've Hit a Snag": fake aloofness, real innocence x an effortlessly popular charmer. The blurb is at the bottom. Welcome!

First published on Jinjiang Literature City. The text is frequently revised, and I only take responsibility for the authorized version.

Thank you to every reader who has added this to their collection.

[Warring States Intrigue | Schemes and Counter-Schemes | Intense Push and Pull | Male Lead with a Split Personality]

An upbeat little ray of sunshine * a gloomy, obsessive villain

From the heroine's perspective:

One day, Qi Ning, a professional plot fixer, saw a chance to make a fortune and took on a big job: enter a novel called "The World Is Mine" as its savior, and rewrite the fate of the Nan Zhen Kingdom, which was doomed to fall beneath an invading army's hooves.

A job that paid that well was bound to be difficult. Her first boss was a notorious villain in the book.

He was the nation's great general, who recognized neither family nor friends and was cruel and unreasonable. Known as the Jade-Faced King of Hell, the blood-red cinnabar at the corner of his eye was said to have come from the blood of his victims.

Fortunately, she wasn't an easy pushover either.

At their first meeting, Lu Wuyan killed a spy.

At their second, Qi Ning was identified as a spy in front of everyone.

As she looked up into the bloodthirsty general's suspicious gaze, she held her trump card close, smiled sweetly, and leaned toward him, her eyes icy.

"Let's make a deal. I'll help you find the spies, and you keep me safe."

Lu Wuyan raised an eyebrow and scoffed, his gaze full of mockery.

"The beauty in a honey trap is trained. She wouldn't be this useless."

She swallowed her anger and went along with it, while a brilliant plan for revenge took shape in her mind.

But when they met again the next day, Lu Wuyan seemed to have forgotten all about it. Not only did he serve her tea, but his attitude was completely different from before.

This is weird. Seriously weird.

To earn his trust, Qi Ning put her heart into the job, all while keeping a few tricks up her sleeve. But in her eagerness to succeed, she walked right into a trap and was forced to bow her head and marry someone in front of everyone.

Her red veil fell. At the other end of the red wedding sash stood Lu Wuyan, his face flickering in the firelight. In his fury, his eyes glowed scarlet.

His cold fingers closed around her neck. His pale, handsome face loomed closer, marked by a sickly obsession. Closer and closer, tighter and tighter...

When she had nowhere left to retreat, the man suddenly loosened his grip.

The next moment, a gentle kiss landed on her lips.

"Don't be afraid. I'm not him."

Later, when Lu Wuyan was imprisoned, Qi Ning stood by him without hesitation. Together, they seized the throne and rewrote the ending in which he was destined to die.

After the new emperor's accession, she remained at his side as the founding military adviser.

Just before she could retire after completing her mission, she lost consciousness amid a cloud of intoxicating incense.

When she opened her eyes again, she was in a darkness so complete she couldn't see a thing.

Two voices overlapped across the void.

The breath beside her ear was warm, but the words sent a chill down her spine:

"The mission is complete. You're leaving, aren't you?"

From the male lead's perspective:

What is love?

Lu Wuyan didn't know. He had never experienced it.

He was an anomaly, with another person living inside his body.

He often stared at his own body in the void, watching "him" clad in armor and wielding a spear as he raced across the battlefield, as if watching someone else's story.

He didn't know who that person was, but he wasn't bothered by his existence.

The nation had already lost its way, and its destruction was only a matter of time. He had considered ending everything before it happened, letting the dynasty and its territory sink beneath a mountain of bones.

Then, one day, when he opened his eyes in the void, sunlight unexpectedly fell across his whole body.

For the first time in ages, he felt alive.

Perhaps Heaven had taken pity on him and granted him another chance to feel the natural world.

Just then, the tent flap was suddenly pulled open.

A woman appeared, smiling brightly. "Do you want to be emperor?"

Once someone lost in darkness has seen the light, they can never leave it behind.

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Reader's Guide:

* Happy ending. Come on in without worry.

* The leads are each other's only partners, and the male lead falls in love at first sight.

* The male lead has a split personality. The novel title includes a "." when the secondary personality appears; otherwise, it's the primary personality. In this version, the secondary personality is a product of the primary personality's repression.

* Not a traditional healing romance. The leads test each other while pretending to be decent people early on, then drop the act and go straight for the knife later. An unconventional story.

* I'm a science student, and the Warring States setting isn't historically accurate. Please don't read with a magnifying glass, and don't complain if it's not your thing.

Kisses~

New Novel: "Plan on Hold, I've Hit a Snag"

An aloof, high-ranking cultivator of the Path of Ruthlessness * a brash young woman from the Hehuan Sect

Fake aloofness, real innocence * an effortlessly popular charmer

I'm a notorious bottom-of-the-class senior sister at my sect. After lying low for three hundred years thanks to spreading rumors, my comeuppance finally arrived.

On the sixth day of the month, I found the fifth junior brother of the month in my bed.

He bared his arms and wrapped them around my neck. I told him that would cost extra.

Naturally, I couldn't go on living like that forever. So I went to confront the culprit, only for him to turn the tables and kick me toward the aggrieved party, accusing me of being a disappointment.

Cang Ze was a renowned paragon of the cultivation world, a man with a Profound Yin constitution who had cultivated the Path of Ruthlessness to its peak. He was the subject of my rumors.

People who reached his status usually kept their eyes on the heavens, oblivious to the ordinary world below.

I fussed over him, and he ignored me.

I pretended to be hurt, and he didn't even look my way.

I tried to seduce him, and he remained unmoved.

At long last, I found an opportunity. The paragon's thin lips parted.

"I remember you. You're the Hehuan Sect cultivator who's been spreading rumors about me for three hundred years."

...Hmph. Today you ignore me. Tomorrow, you'll be out of my league.

By a twist of fate, we cultivated together.

I knew he didn't like me, yet he acted like my senior brother at every turn. Even the slightest response from him was only the compassion of a senior brother and a sense of responsibility. He couldn't just leave me to die in a dungeon.

I didn't have feelings for him either. I just wanted a little spiritual energy.

But the feeling was truly addictive.

I wanted to do it with him again, but he avoided me like the plague.

We went around in circles eight hundred times, and I got tired.

Hard work was never my strong suit. Giving up was.

I went home and asked my master for a hug and some comfort.

To help me get even, my master gave me an idea.

Cang Ze wasn't born with a bewitching constitution. It was caused by a curse. Every full moon, the curse would flare up, tormenting his heart and clouding his mind with desire until he burned with lust. Only the secret art of the Hehuan Sect could break it.

I went back, swearing to reclaim every bit of face I'd lost.

I would ravish and humiliate him, and stamp my size thirteen footprint on that exquisite, handsome face of his.

It was a stormy night, lightning flashing across the darkness.

The man knelt in a corner, pinned to the ground by four spiritual chains that pierced his collarbones. As he struggled, blood poured from his wounds.

The sight was so brutal that even I froze for a moment.

He saw me and froze, too.

His expression was so shattered that I couldn't bring myself to step on him. So I used our ancestral secret art to approach him, stroked his mesmerizing face, and said:

"Let's each get what we want."

No one could say who had bewitched whom.

After one night together, my cultivation rose greatly, and he was no longer of any use to me.

I wanted us to part on good terms, but his gaze changed. It wasn't the old, indifferent look anymore. It was something possessive... I couldn't quite put it into words, but it made me uncomfortable.

So I ran away again, back to my hometown to enjoy myself.

The day he stormed into my sect, sword in hand, and demanded that my master hand me over, I was joking around with my junior brothers. I'd drunk so much I could barely walk. The moment I stepped outside, a familiar hand gripped my waist and pulled me close.

The sword at his waist reflected my flushed face with perfect clarity.

Its edge was dazzling, and seven tenths of my drunkenness vanished at once.

"I thought you'd come back once you'd had your fun."

"Do I have to lock you up to make you behave?"

Oh no. I've hit a snag.

Only Fan Ying knew that the man rumored to be as pure and chaste as the cold moon was deeply troubled by his constitution. In the dead of night, he would cast aside his self-control and give in to his uncontrollable desires.

"I did it all willingly."

"The curse on me has flared up again."

"Help me, A Ying."

"Yes, yes, I know... Damn it, go easy on me!!!"

The author swears: Happy ending, one-on-one romance, and both leads have only ever been with each other!!!

Additional Details:

1. Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deification, Void Refining, Body Integration, Great Ascension, Tribulation Transcendence, and then you become an immortal~

2. My own take on cultivation. Some elements can't be compared to reality; everything serves the story.

3. The heroine is at the middle stage of Golden Core, while the hero is at the late stage of Great Ascension, nearly an immortal.

4. The heroine has an amnesia plotline.

Theme: Grow through adversity.