What Should I Do? The Mad Tyrant Loves Me Too Much

[A lie-flat-loving, fast-writing salted-fish heroine x a tyrannical, unhinged hero who loves with all his heart]

Chang Xi, a writer on Lǜjiang, is reborn as the illegitimate daughter of the Left Chancellor's mistress. She is about to be sent to the palace to become a concubine of the tyrant.

She wants to lie flat, but the System orders her to win over the unhinged tyrant Gu Yingong and change his deadly fate.

Chang Xi, a salted fish through and through: I'm exhausted. Can we just fast-forward to the ending?

So when she enters the palace, she decisively gives up trying and does nothing but lie flat. That is, until she witnesses the tyrant stab a palace attendant through the neck with his sword.

She looks up and meets his gloomy, vicious eyes.

Chang Xi: System, my neck suddenly feels cold. I'm not sure I want to do this anymore.

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Gu Yingong is a bloodthirsty tyrant whose very name makes people tremble. Countless people have died at his hands, until he sees Chang Xi, who spends every day either eating or lying in the sun. Sometimes she leans by the window, blushing as she puts pen to paper.

Later, he asks her what she wants. She lifts her face, eyes shining brightly. "I want Your Majesty to stay alive!"

Many people want him dead. This is the first time anyone has wanted him to live.

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Watching the System announce that the tyrant's affection for her is steadily increasing, Chang Xi, who hasn't done a thing, thinks: So this is what it feels like to get something for nothing?

Then, on the day of the palace coup, she succeeds in changing the tyrant's fate of losing his kingdom and taking his own life. Before she can celebrate, someone stabs straight through her.

She coughs up blood and meets Gu Yingong's nearly despairing gaze.

The System announces: [Congratulations, Host. Affection has reached 100%. World transfer initiated. You will soon be sent back to your original world.]

With the last of her strength, she tells the tyrant, whose face is set on death, "Don't die. Wait for me..."

Gu Yingong does not know what the System is. He only knows that, just as his love reaches its peak, he watches helplessly as his beloved dies in his arms.

That night, blood soaked every inch of the palace's stone paving. Apart from the cries of anguish, no other sound could be heard within the palace walls.

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Later, the world of the book is on the verge of collapse because the tyrant has turned dark, so the System sends Chang Xi back into the story.

She hurries to find the culprit, only to see the tyrant curled up on her favorite reclining chair, his pale wrists covered in countless cuts.

At the sound of footsteps, he jerks his eyes up, their depths filled with a despairing, blood-red light. Only when he sees the familiar figure does a spark of life slowly return to his eyes.

As if he had been abandoned for so long that he had forgotten how to live.

[Extra scene]:

One day, Gu Yingong accidentally discovers the spicy stories Chang Xi has written. That night, Gu Yingong lowers his noble head. His ink-black hair falls loose, brushing over her face, neck, and shoulders before trailing lower and lower... His wet, husky voice rises from below, sending a tingling sensation crawling into Chang Xi's ear. "Is this how it is? Or perhaps... like this?"

The bed curtains sway, revealing Chang Xi's upturned profile. Her fingers thread through the tyrant's dark hair as tears slide from the corners of her eyes.

Another sleepless night.

Reading guide:

1. One-on-one, happy ending. Not an angst novel, and neither lead dies.

2. The male lead is no good person, but he is faithful in both body and heart. His harem is for show. Once he falls in love, he goes completely crazy.

3. The System provides a golden finger. The heroine getting stabbed in the blurb doesn't hurt.

4. A fictional dynasty with a mishmash of influences and plenty of original worldbuilding.

Next up: the xianxia novel The Sickly Second Male Lead Rescue Plan. Once again, a heroine who enjoys being pursued x a seemingly innocent but secretly dark, lovesick male lead.

Character design authorized by: Qiqi

Theme: Love is the most precious thing in the world