The Universally Hated Villain Wants to Reform

(The full novel costs about 5 to subscribe to. Thanks for your support!) My new novel, How to Make a Beautiful, Treacherous Minister Devoted to You, is complete. My next novel, The Dragon-Prince’s Master Is a Cauldron With No Cultivation, will be starting soon. Blurb: The villain fell from power and became a cauldron. Now his love interests regret everything. A melodramatic angst novel: first the bottom suffers, then the tops do. The tops chase their beloved through hell to win them back. A pitiful cauldron bottom starved for affection x a loving master x a prodigy of a junior brother x an illusionist x a wicked Demon Lord x a saint of supreme virtue x a miserable household servant When people talk about the calamities that befell the great villain Song Baijue, they sum it up in two words: “Serves him right!” Rumor has it that the great villain Song Baijue was born of a lowly liaison between a nobleman’s concubine and a bandit, so of course he was a man of poor character. At home, he tried to murder his younger brother and stole the man his brother was betrothed to. So he deserved to end up a lame beggar, tasting every misery the world had to offer. Then Lord Huixu rescued him, and he rose to become the sect’s chief disciple. But knowing he was unworthy of his position, he deceived his junior brother into loving him and used demonic arts to drain his cultivation. So he deserved to be imprisoned in the frigid dungeon for ten years. Even in the dungeon, he refused to repent. He released the Demon Lord, bringing about a five-hundred-year war between immortals and demons. The only person who protected him, his master, sealed the Demon Lord with his own body. Only then did peace return to the world. Song Baijue became a stray dog with no one left to rely on. He deserved to have his cultivation crippled, to be thrown into the Hell of Torment, where someone deceived him into surrendering his heart and body, cut out his heart, and cursed him to never find peace in any lifetime. For three hundred years, the people outside the prison laughed at him. In the end, as his junior brother watched coldly, the curse took hold and he bled to death. That was the easy way out for him. He swore that in his next life, he would reform and become a good person. But the people he had hurt would not let him become a good person, and his fate had already been written before he died. He meant well and did good wherever he went, yet he was still nothing but the lowliest of cauldrons. His brother recognized him only to humiliate him even more. The junior brother who had once been his cultivation partner watched his suffering with cold indifference. The world’s most virtuous saint took his life twice. The Demon Lord spoke sweet words, all honeyed promises, yet pinned every misdeed on him. And the master who had always protected him personally cast him out of the sect, scolding him as incorrigibly unruly, beyond saving, and unworthy of being a disciple. He endured eight-tenths of the world’s suffering over the course of three lifetimes. By the time he had atoned for his sins, his love had vanished too. In this life, all he had left was the people of the world. But those who hated him suddenly came to their senses, fell deeply in love, and racked their brains trying to win him back. But how could they make a piece of jade that had already lost its heart change its mind and love again? It would be harder than reaching the heavens. How could they possibly succeed? [Please note] This is a melodramatic angst novel with a happy ending, and the protagonist ends up with all the love interests. The author likes beautiful, strong, tragic protagonists who are adored by everyone: breathtakingly beautiful, utterly tragic, kind, and never defeated. By the later chapters, he is unquestionably the strongest and living the best life. There is one chapter involving Schrödinger’s childbirth: whether he was ever pregnant is up to each reader to decide, but in the end, there is no child. If any of this bothers you, please don’t read. Mwah! [Coming soon] The Dragon-Prince’s Master Is a Cauldron With No Cultivation The protagonist is the legendary wife who is killed so her husband can ascend through cultivation. As a cauldron, he helps the scum of a husband ascend, only to be stabbed through the heart at the last moment. He falls into a lake and, by sheer luck, survives, though his cultivation is completely destroyed. When he returns to his sect, he finds that his scum husband’s ascension tribulation has burned the whole sect to the ground. To stop the scum from discovering he’s still alive, he has no choice but to act mysterious and pretend to be an unparalleled master. Then some clueless fool actually comes to ask him to be his master, and the protagonist can’t turn him away. He takes the fool in, pretending that experts never act lightly, and casually tosses him a manual to practice. He never expects the fool to be exceptionally gifted. In just three years, he stumbles upon countless opportunities and shoots up several cultivation levels, becoming one of the leading figures in the cultivation world. Once the sect becomes famous, challengers arrive in droves. Each time, the protagonist acts mysterious and looks down at them. “You’re not worthy of fighting me. First, beat my foolish disciple.” Of course, his disciple has never lost. Before long, rumors about the protagonist grow more and more outrageous. If his disciple is this powerful, just how terrifying must his master be? … The master thinks his disciple is an oblivious fool, but the disciple knows everything. He quietly improves his cultivation to protect his master, quietly braves countless secret realms to find his master elixirs of immortality, and quietly drives away every villain so his master won’t have to worry. Every so often, he pretends to be weak, pretends he can’t win, and pretends to be in trouble, so that his master will light incense at night and willingly use his cauldron constitution to help him improve his cultivation. As long as he’s here, his master will always be number one. Until that shameless demon who killed his wife to ascend suddenly descends from the heavens, intending to take his master away. Theme: It’s easy to do evil, but hard to do good.