Back to My Youth with the Gloomy, Gorgeous Wretch

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In her previous life, Meng Yan secretly met her lover and was caught by her betrothed, the sinister and deranged Prince Regent. Everyone knew that Prince Regent Xie Hanyuan was a vicious, mad fiend.

On her wedding night, she died suddenly.

Her spirit drifted through the prince's residence, where she accidentally discovered that the madman was pressed against her corpse, entwined with her in an intimate embrace.

Reborn three years before her wedding, she was twenty-one.

An uproar suddenly arose at the mansion gates. Xie Hanyuan was curled up beneath a red-lacquered beast-head door ring, looking half dead. At this point, he had yet to gain power over the court.

Meng Yan thought that since he had no memories of his previous life, she might as well tame him into her loyal dog and have him help her.

The fifteen-year-old boy sneered inwardly: Got you!

She locked the boy in a side room and ran her fingertip, dabbed with salve, over his sharply protruding butterfly bones.

Xie Hanyuan opened his eyes amid the searing pain, his voice light and airy. "Sister, your little brother hurts..."

Meng Yan: ∽>□<‖∽

Was this really the same mad Prince Regent who struck terror into everyone's heart?

He was clearly just a puppy-like boy!

From then on, she watched him act meek and obedient every day, even saying that he wanted to be her servant for the rest of his life!

Meng Yan: He's putting on an act. I may as well play along!

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Later, she stayed by his side through the darkest moments of his life.

On the day he became Prince Regent, he thought she belonged to him and him alone, but she wanted nothing more to do with him!

He had been so exhausted from keeping up the act. Then he saw everything between her and Xiao Huan, and he never wanted to pretend again!

Xiao Huan had seen the curves she adored and tasted her sweet, soft little tongue.

He ordered his men to take Xiao Huan away, intending to gouge out his eyes and cut out his tongue!

That day, the prince's residence held a banquet. Meng Yan came to plead with him on Xiao Huan's behalf.

Xie Hanyuan had just killed a dancer. He licked a bead of blood from the corner of his lips and smiled wickedly. "Sister, weren't you the one who said we should part ways and owe each other nothing?"

He swept his hand across the table, sending every cup and dish crashing to the floor, then leaned over and pinned Meng Yan against it.

"Face the other way! Anyone who dares take a look, I'll gouge out their eyeballs and soak them in wine!"

His roar cracked like thunder, leaving the ministers terrified to their cores. None dared hesitate. They all turned around to face the hall's entrance, wishing they could go blind and deaf on the spot...

They say that after faking her death and disappearing, she became the cinnabar mole in the heart of the mad Prince Regent, whose name alone made the whole capital tremble.

He had never shed a tear or bent the knee for anyone.

His first half of life was steeped in filth and hatred.

Once, his hands were made only for killing.

Now, he no longer wanted to kill. He wanted to truly be her little dog!

He dreamed that one day he could hold her, cherish her in the palm of his hand, soothe her and dote on her... and have her!

Clear-headed and easygoing heroine × sinister, unrestrained hero

Reading note: If you only like pure sweetness, feel free to stop after the wedding concludes in Chapter 133.

[Readers with high moral standards, proceed with caution!]

1. The male lead is younger than the female lead. At the start, he has never even touched a woman's hand. He is instinctively attracted to her. He appears ruthless and unhinged, but is actually hopelessly lovestruck and has a psychological disorder. The second male lead seems like a gentle, refined gentleman, but is actually a gloomy, ghostly creep!

2. The leads are not perfect people. The characters' values do not represent the author's own.

The background image for the male lead's character card is from @Heisen.

Synopsis posted on 2025.2.17, with a screen recording saved.

Coming soon: The Outcast Is Also Glad. Synopsis:

Prince Regent Xie Jingyuan is The Outcast, second only to the emperor and above all others. He is noble and peerlessly handsome, the dream man of countless young noblewomen.

In early spring, after finishing his duties at the palace, Xie Jingyuan walked along a leafy path. His gaze passed through the garden in full bloom, and a graceful woman entered his view.

The woman was chasing and playing with her personal maid. Her skirt brushed the fallen blossoms as she seemed to tread on lotus flowers with every step, her laughter rippling through the air.

Who could have guessed she would crash right into him?

The woman was flustered and repeatedly lowered her head to apologize.

Xie Jingyuan looked down at her from above, his eyes like whirlpools, as if reflecting several overlapping images of her.

Her body rose and fell sharply with her hurried breathing, and the fair skin at her chest seemed ready to spill out.

On the way back, his trusted aide noticed something and played to his interests. "That woman wasn't wearing her hair up. She must still be unmarried."

Seeing his expression soften, the aide continued, "She and Your Highness would make a perfect match."

Xie Jingyuan parted his thin lips. "Find out which family she belongs to."

A few days later, his trusted aide knelt before him, not daring to look up. "Your Highness, that woman is the newlywed wife of the current third-place scholar!"

In the waterside pavilion, Xie Jingyuan's amber eyes suddenly darkened, and his face turned livid.

In the dead silence, the cup in his hand shattered in an instant!

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Theme: Let go of your preconceptions; time will reveal a person's true heart.