The Top-Tier Star Ex-Husband Is a Yandere

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◆Self-indulgent, lovesick, stunning actor X gentle, honest researcher who turns dark

◆Blurb: Scroll down for content warnings! The main story is 680,000 words.

[Female Lead's Version]

The day Jiang Minyun's ex-girlfriend dumped him and left the country, he was devastated. He glanced coldly at Li Shihui, who had run through the pouring rain to tutor him, and warned her, “Falling in love with someone from a different world than yours never ends well.”

Li Shihui used the tissue he tossed her to wipe the rain and tears from her face, then smiled. “I'll remember that.”

Later, they got married anyway. Jiang Minyun went from a poor boy to a top-tier star and award-winning actor adored by millions.

For eight years of marriage, Li Shihui always thought her husband simply had a bad temper.

She figured that since she had been the one to pursue him so desperately, she could put up with it. Whenever she saw his handsome face, which had graced the covers of all the leading magazines year after year, she told herself she could keep living this way.

That was until his ex-girlfriend returned to the country and Li Shihui overheard her husband talking about her to someone else.

“Women need to hear you say you love them. It makes them feel secure.”

Her husband tapped the ash from his cigarette with his distinctively long fingers and gave a scornful smile.

“What’s the point of telling lies every day?”

Li Shihui thought back on everything that had happened between them.

So he really had never loved her.

[Male Lead's Version]

In Jiang Minyun’s eyes, Li Shihui had no self-control.

She couldn’t stop stealing glances at him with that lovestruck look. She couldn’t stop confessing her feelings without a shred of restraint. She couldn’t stop clinging to him for fun, even when her whole body was trembling.

Her shallow admiration meant nothing to him.

He only took pity on her unrequited love, so he made up an excuse about practicing kissing scenes and kissed the soft lips of the young woman with such force that the corners of her eyes grew damp and red, yet he still wouldn’t let go.

He only set the trap of one wild night to punish her for falling for someone else, and indulged himself in her intoxicating tenderness without restraint.

He wasn’t tired of playing with her yet, so it never occurred to him that the woman who indulged and coaxed him in everything would leave him first.

She needed to be taught a lesson.

Jiang Minyun laid an inescapable trap, waiting for Li Shihui to come back in tears and beg him to remarry her. Instead, he got news that she was pregnant.

An acquaintance who didn’t know the truth congratulated him with a laugh.

“How does it feel to be a dad?”

Jiang Minyun’s hand trembled as he held his teacup. He nearly crushed it, and the hot water scalded the back of his hand.

He smiled calmly on the surface. “Of course I’m thrilled.”

In private, he went completely mad, determined to drag his cheating wife back into the palm of his hand.

After all, he’d had a vasectomy nine years ago.

◆Important content warnings: The female lead did not get plastic surgery for the male lead|angsty melodrama|read with caution if these themes bother you|extremely intense romance|both leads are each other's first love and have no other partners; the woman dates normally after the divorce|a happy ending for everyone|200,000 words set during their school years|80% anti-piracy measures|the extra chapters include a daughter|do not connect the characters to real people|comments from readers who pirate will be deleted|if you’re here to criticize the characters, don’t read!

(Not a wish-fulfillment story; there are no good people. All content warnings are provided here. The story has undergone several major revisions, so I’m not responsible for pirated copies or inaccurate content warnings. No unsolicited writing advice, please. You don’t need to tell me if you drop the story.)

Gentle, brooding senior disciple X wicked junior sister villain

[Female Lead's Perspective]

He Yin throws money at cultivating immortality, relying on being the daughter of the richest man in the realm. After great effort, she becomes the Sword Sect’s most arrogant and tyrannical junior sister, but her poor natural aptitude keeps her from finding a way to ascend.

Meanwhile, her senior brother Wei Xuechen takes just ten years to go from a parentless beggar to the greatest swordsman in the lands beneath heaven, ascending to immortality and stunning the world with a single stroke at the Sword Alliance tournament.

She gazes up at her senior brother, surrounded by admirers, and remembers his shabby clothes and humble smile from the past. Jealousy takes root, and she suffers a cultivation deviation.

By chance, He Yin obtains a long-lost forbidden manual. If she finds a powerful cultivator to practice dual cultivation with, she can absorb their power and improve her own cultivation.

At that moment, she and her senior brother both become lost in an illusion.

Under the spell, Wei Xuechen mistakes her for his wife.

He Yin: “Wonderful, wonderful.”

She calls him “husband,” kisses him passionately, and takes his virginity.

That night, He Yin’s cultivation advances by leaps and bounds, but she has a nightmare.

She dreams that she is the wicked villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel, while Wei Xuechen is the story’s dragon-slaying hero. In the illusion, she pretended to be his wife and took his virginity; once they escaped, he ran her through the heart with his sword.

He Yin: “...Oh.”

Just then, her senior brother wakes up too and gazes at her tenderly. “Yinyin.”

He Yin hesitates for only a second, then climbs on top of him again while there’s still time.

Well, fortune favors the bold.

[Male Lead's Perspective]

When Wei Xuechen was young and begging on the streets, a lovely little girl with a porcelain face once helped him.

Later, after he joined the Tianshan Sword Sect to train, he ran into her again, and before he knew it, he had fallen for her.

When he drew near, she frowned. When he smiled, she rolled her eyes.

Knowing he had nothing to offer her, Wei Xuechen could only perfect his cultivation in hopes of earning a chance to get close.

He never imagined they would become husband and wife for real in the illusion, much less that he would kill her with his own hands.

Wei Xuechen held He Yin’s cooling body in his arms. A deafening roar of approval filled his ears as a line of text appeared on the sky screen.

“We know you’re all frustrated, so let’s have the male lead kill the wicked villainess himself for everyone’s enjoyment! The male lead’s true destined one will appear next chapter...”

He transmigrated through the sky screen and personally cut down those devils with his sword. But knowing he would never find his own destined one, he turned his sword on himself.

When Wei Xuechen opened his eyes again, he saw He Yin in the illusion.

“Husband...”

In my last life, I was a puppet. This time, I will never fail you.

◆Thanks to @JinshanYinshan 💗 for commissioning the two-character illustration and @BuAiChiShanZha 💗 for commissioning the two-character full-body art

Theme: Everyone has their own struggles, but happiness belongs to us all.