A Villain Needs a Villainous Mommy

[The opening fell apart, waiting for the contract to be terminated...]

Everyone knows the Zhang family's forbidden grounds: the cold pool behind the mountain.

Rumor has it that a monster that devours human flesh and blood is imprisoned there. Only the newly appointed head of the family must enter alone and undergo three months of trials. When they return, they will have been transformed, and will never marry, devoting their whole lives to the family.

This secret has been passed down for a thousand years, but only the successive heads of the family know the truth: there is no monster by the pool, only a beautiful man in white, cursed by the gods.

He is breathtakingly beautiful. A single glance from his eyes can leave anyone utterly captivated and devoted to him.

The Zhang family exploits this "curse," making every head of the family fall in love with him, and thus remain loyal to the family.

So he stays in these mountains, keeping company with generation after generation. He listens to their words of love and watches them leave in the end.

On the thousandth winter, the freedom promised by the gods finally arrives.

The barrier around the back mountain quietly fades away.

He puts on a veil and reenters the Zhang family under the guise of a disfigured scholar, intent on seeing the results of his thousand years of devotion.

What he doesn't know is that from the moment he steps through the Zhang family's gates, the successive heads of the family have already fixed their eyes on him, their gazes twisted with both love and hatred.

*

They entered the back mountain in their youth, where the beauty there bewitched them until they were utterly lost.

When their time was up, every one of them fell to their knees and begged, "Don't make me leave... Do I really have to go? Wait for me, okay? I'll come back for you, and take you out of these mountains."

Yet less than a year after leaving, they returned to the back mountain, only to see their beloved entwined with someone else, looking at them with utter indifference.

When they begged again, all they got in return was disdain from on high.

The love that had already been far too intense turned into hatred in that moment.

When they saw the "god" who used to recline on the bed and let him serve him, putting on his shoes and clothes, become an ordinary disciple of the sect overnight, they could no longer conceal the hatred in their hearts.

Such a beautiful, worthless beauty.

He should belong to one person alone, as their private plaything.

* One-on-one pairings at each stage, bottom in control, everyone has a one-sided crush, an angsty and deliciously dramatic story

* An alternate ancient setting

Theme: Strive to improve yourself and stay positive when faced with difficulties