A monster-hunting romance novel titled "Tales of the Strange Beings of the East Sea" became a huge hit, and the righteous female side character who died at the villain's hands became the unattainable ideal in countless readers' hearts.
Lu Wan cursed the villain for three days and three nights. Then she opened her eyes and found herself transmigrated into the female side character's body.
She was even bound to a villain-reformation System.
Lu Wan: What a tangled fate, what a tangled fate.
I'll just think of it as doing good deeds for Sister Lu Qinghui!
So she followed the original story, saving the badly wounded Xie Ning, taking him on as her disciple, and caring for him attentively...
Although the System's restrictions meant Lu Wan couldn't hurt her reformation target, she still couldn't stand Xie Ning.
So she came up with a plan:
On the surface, she acted like a caring mentor, but in reality, she gave him all the food she disliked, the purses she'd botched while embroidering, the pills that had gone wrong during refining, and so on.
But then her disciple actually started crying!
That year, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon was full, and Lu Wan was frantic as an ant on a hot pan.
All she could think was: What if Xie Ning discovers my malice and the reformation fails?
Then the young man appeared in blue, tears filling his eyes. He held an incredibly ugly handkerchief embroidered with a little rabbit to his chest, treasuring it like a priceless jewel.
"Master treats me so well."
Lu Wan was completely reassured.
However, just as the reformation mission was about to be completed...
Xie Ning's demon identity was exposed. According to the plot, Lu Wan had to uphold justice and rid the people of evil by stabbing Xie Ning herself and throwing him into the sea.
She raised her sword and pointed its blade at Xie Ning's brow, but her hand trembled uncontrollably.
She thought: If I stab him, will this brat come back to take revenge on me?
Seeing this, Xie Ning smiled softly, tears in his smile.
Then he raised his hand, gripped the blade, pointed it at his own abdomen, and plunged it in with all his strength.
Lu Wan: ??
Xie Ning: "I know Master pities me, but you mustn't ruin your reputation and virtue because of me."
He summoned all his strength, as if making some momentous decision, and solemnly kissed the back of Lu Wan's hand.
Then he left her with one sentence and leapt into the sea.
"Master, wait for me."
Lu Wan: !!!???
System: Host has completed the scene of sacrificing family for the greater good. Villain reformation value has reached 100. You may return home!
Lu Wan had long since become an orphan. After hesitating again and again, she decided she should go find that stubborn disciple of hers first...
A heroine who acts proper but is genuine at heart, paired with a scheming puppy-like hero who loves to fake his own death.
(The black-hearted villain I reformed into a righteous little puppy!)
(Xie Ning: Watch me transform from black-hearted to pure-hearted, from a black lotus into a white lotus.)
A few details:
1. A fantasy world of monster hunters. Monster hunter ranks, from strongest to weakest: Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding. Demon power ranks, from strongest to weakest: Chi, Mei, Wang, Liang. (The original terms were Chi Mei Wang Liang, but I thought those characters were hard to distinguish, so I adjusted them to similar-sounding ones.)
2. Any typos and such will be fixed all at once at the end.
Theme: Great love in one's heart can change others, allowing one to become a deity and bring blessings to a region.
