Scheming villainess x gloomy, rabid dog
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Ming Zhuo was reborn.
In her previous life, she tormented Chong Wang in every way imaginable. They fought each other for a hundred years, and in the end, she still died by his sword.
Only after her death did she learn that she was the vicious villainous master in a book, while Chong Wang was the chosen son of Heaven, a destined hero favored by the Heavenly Dao.
Ming Zhuo was destined to lose to him.
And after she died, Chong Wang severed his inner demon, attained the Great Dao, and ascended to godhood in just ten years.
The thought made Ming Zhuo grit her teeth in anger.
So what if he was Heaven’s chosen one? She would fight Heaven to the bitter end.
In this new life, she would crush Chong Wang beneath her feet, cut him to pieces, and grind his bones to dust.
But this time, something seemed to have gone wrong with her unfilial disciple’s mind...
Ming Zhuo stared at Chong Wang, thinking about how to kill him with one strike.
He leaned closer and asked with a smile, “What does Master want? Everything this disciple has belongs to you.”
Ming Zhuo sent him tumbling down the steps with a single palm strike.
The next moment, he stubbornly crawled back, took hold of her ankle, and bowed his head to kiss it, his lips burning hot. “Master, is this a reward?”
Ming Zhuo: “...?”
Is he sick???
She bent down, smiled, and stabbed him with her sword. “Then I’ll give you another reward.”
Blood sprayed as she drew her sword, soaking his deep, dark eyes. It was just like the day, a hundred years later, when he would fight her to the death.
The boy trembled in pain, but the smile at his lips only deepened. “Thank you... Master.”
*
Ming Zhuo never denied that she was a villain, a wicked demon.
She had used Chong Wang, and she hated him.
She had always believed that Chong Wang felt the same way about her.
Until one day, she discovered a secret compartment in Chong Wang’s room.
The cramped, dim space was plastered with portraits of her in every mood and pose.
The little things she had lost over the years, even a broken piece of her sword tassel, had been carefully collected and regularly dusted.
Behind her, the door clicked shut.
“Master,” Chong Wang’s soft voice murmured by her ear. “You finally found it.”
In the gloom, the young man’s expression was obedient, but his eyes were filled with an almost frenzied obsession. “I’ve waited so long for this day.”
*
Chong Wang had always believed that the moment Ming Zhuo died by his sword, his inner demon had ended.
He sealed away everything connected to her and erased every trace of her from the world.
But even so, she still haunted him, becoming his nightmare day and night.
Whenever he awoke from a dream at midnight and closed his eyes, Ming Zhuo would appear.
Sometimes she lay in a pool of blood, smiling at him. Sometimes she gently stroked his hair. Sometimes she guided his hands as he practiced swordsmanship...
More often, Chong Wang knelt at her feet while Ming Zhuo held the golden core she had cut from his body, her gaze cold, her hands covered in blood, as demonic as an evil spirit.
He had killed her, but from then on, he had fallen completely into her grasp.
At last, Chong Wang went mad.
He would return to the past and kill her one more time.
Theme: Human will can triumph over fate.