Yun Xi is emotionally detached, born with the fate of a villain, and destined for a short life from the moment the story begins.
To stay alive, she must collect regret points to extend her life.
Every time she goes out to collect them, she runs into a woman who is either fleeing her wedding or has been left at the altar.
The System bound to her tells her these women are heroines.
Born with a villain's fate, Yun Xi decides to embrace it and steal the heroine away.
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World One: Modern ABO. Poor, weak Alpha top x proud Omega heiress
Yun Xi is a weak Alpha and a poor student. After moving out of school, she shares an apartment with someone.
Her roommate is an art student, dressed in expensive, understated clothes with a melancholy air. She's an A-rank Alpha, an irresistible heartthrob at the academy, and nothing like Yun Xi, who is a bookworm from a small town and wears thick glasses.
Whenever she's been drinking, the roommate always drags Yun Xi into complaining about her domineering fiancee of many years, who wants to control everything and makes life miserable for a poor little Alpha like her.
Yun Xi looks at her roommate's designer clothes and the bag lying on the floor.
She says mildly, "Then why don't you break off the engagement?"
Drunk out of her mind, the roommate waves a hand smugly. "You wouldn't understand."
Until one day, Yun Xi is woken by a loud knock. Several tall Alphas stand outside, clustered around a haughty Omega.
Yun Xi stares in surprise. The Omega is dressed in a wedding gown, her makeup immaculate, like a bride who's just walked out of a lavish wedding.
She adjusts her glasses. "Who are you looking for?"
They've never met, but Yun Xi has a feeling this must be her roommate's domineering fiancee.
The Omega, glittering with jewels, lifts her chin. "My wife!"
Only then does Yun Xi realize her roommate has eloped in the middle of the night.
To catch the Alpha who ran away from their wedding without permission, Lin Weirui decides to move into the room her roommate left empty, living side by side with Yun Xi.
Yun Xi doesn't mind. Even if the fiancee has bought the apartment, a sale doesn't break a lease, so she can stay without worry.
Just as her roommate said, the fiancee is domineering and proud, unable to tolerate a speck of dust in her eye, and determined to control everything that enters her line of sight.
As the heiress to a top family, Lin Weirui has always had everything her way.
Her first major setback in life is the fiancee she's been raised for since childhood, who runs away just as Lin Weirui's heat approaches.
Her second is the aloof roommate who refuses to be swayed by either threats or enticements.
There are plenty of things about the other woman that get on Lin Weirui's nerves. At the top of the list are the beat-up glasses with their arms wrapped in tape.
Using their unsightly appearance as an excuse, Lin Weirui thrusts a new pair of glasses at Yun Xi. "Put them on. Those old things are hideous."
Yun Xi puts them on without a word. Her prescription is strong, and getting another pair would cost a lot of money and time. No reason to turn down a free pair.
Lin Weirui finds this fascinating. She thought Yun Xi would despise her for being covered in money, like her previous fiancees, who hated her habit of throwing money around.
Out of curiosity, Lin Weirui gives her more and more things. Yun Xi accepts them all, like a hamster filling up its room.
The roommate still hasn't returned when Lin Weirui's heat arrives early.
The sweet scent of a top-grade Omega's pheromones fills the whole room. The fiancee is curled up in a corner when Yun Xi comes home late and finds her.
Yun Xi gathers her trembling body in her arms and finds several empty suppressor syringes.
"They won't work. My constitution is unusual, and I can't suppress it anymore." Lin Weirui lets Yun Xi hold her obediently. "Too bad you're a weak Alpha. You can't mark me."
Yun Xi tightens her arms around her and kisses her ear. "Who says I'm a weak Alpha?"
After spending all her savings, the roommate finally comes back to find her fiancee, looking thoroughly dejected.
She doesn't get to see her. Her former poor roommate blocks her way.
Yun Xi stands before her former roommate, arms folded and expression cold. She has become a completely different person.
The roommate she once looked down on is now far beyond her reach.
The disgraced, bewildered Alpha says, "Move. I need to see my fiancee."
Yun Xi: "What fiancee? She's my wife."
Roommate A: "???"
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Modern paranormal: A family god worshipped by an ancient clan x a good-for-nothing exorcist whose younger relatives broke off her engagement
Modern elite academy: A student council president who butts in x a steward's daughter who would rather die than give in
Interstellar Sentinel and Guide: A Guide from a trash planet who can control the field x an imperial eldest princess and Sentinel retired due to injury
Ancient court: Twin empresses x a regent who holds power over the court (one-on-one)
Modern entertainment industry: A strict family head cleaning up after a younger relative who fled her wedding x a bright, dramatic actress who works hard and takes her craft seriously
Modern fantasy: A spirit-plant cultivator mocked for showing up with a jade pendant to claim an engagement x a burden from a blended family
Should actually be aloof but doting x insecure and fragile
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Neither of them remembers anything from their previous lives. Each can be read as a parallel world.
Villain top x pitiful bottom
Theme: The highest good is like water.