After My Junior Brother Turned Evil

Next up: A silly beauty x a scheming, seductive man, in After Failing to Win Over Senior Brother. Please add it to your reading list! Blurb at the end

[Blurb]

A fiercely survival-minded, carefree little ray of sunshine vs. a possessive, unhinged mastermind who makes up his own love story

Jiang Ying transmigrated into a short-lived cannon-fodder character in a xianxia novel.

In the original story, her core was destroyed, and three years later she died beneath the blades of the Demon Clan.

Meanwhile, the extraordinarily gifted junior brother Xie Wenyan, who would one day wield a frost-cold sword and save the entire Sword Palace, was still a good-for-nothing junior brother, trampled into the mud by his fellow disciples and treated as lower than dirt.

To stay alive, Jiang Ying decided to cling tightly to the future savior's leg, offering him spirit pills, secret medicines, and high-level cultivation techniques.

Beneath the moonlight, Xie Wenyan lowered his bloodstained lashes. His eyes were slightly red, like a puppy on the verge of death. "Senior Sister, I fought tooth and nail to survive and waited for you for eleven whole years..."

"Do you remember what you took from me?"

Jiang Ying: ...Help, she didn't remember this part of the story at all!

Later...

When the demon army invaded, she seized a divine sword for him, only to be betrayed and killed by her fellow disciples.

When she opened her eyes again, all memories of her past life were gone.

After losing the battle, the immortal sects offered her up as a "tribute," trembling as they presented her to the new Demon Lord, who had conquered the Three Realms and was known for his cruelty.

Rumor had it the Demon Lord had a beloved white moonlight in his heart, someone no one was allowed to touch.

On their first night, the Demon Lord gripped her chin. His cold fingertips brushed the corner of her clear eyes, his gaze dark and unfathomable, as he personally marked it with a crimson vermilion mole.

Under Jiang Ying's scalp-crawling stare, she frantically took mental notes: Got it, the white moonlight has a matching red mole.

Rule one for being a substitute: Never break character!

Until one day, she accidentally knocked loose an old keepsake the Demon Lord wore close to his body and treasured above all else.

Jiang Ying thought she was doomed and was just about to drop to her knees in practiced submission.

But the man on the throne seized her trembling waist and pressed her tightly against him.

He didn't get angry. Instead, he kissed the red mole at the corner of her eye with almost pathological obsession, his voice so hoarse it barely sounded human:

"It's all right... If you've forgotten, then we'll get to know each other all over again."

"Yingying, if you dare leave me again this time, I'll kill everyone and die with you."

Jiang Ying: ...?

Wait, the white moonlight is me?!

*

Xie Wenyan was born the world's most filthy half-demon, despised and trampled by everyone.

Until someone shone into his life like a ray of light and pulled him out of the abyss, only to cruelly abandon him and die on that snowy day.

After she died, Xie Wenyan went completely mad.

He turned his back on the immortal sects, slaughtered every enemy, and climbed a mountain of corpses and sea of blood to become the Demon Lord. He scoured the heavens and the underworld, all to gather a fragment of her lingering soul.

When the immortal sects sent the amnesiac young woman before him...

Everyone thought she was a cheap substitute and waited to see the Demon Lord tear her apart.

Only Xie Wenyan knew she was the life he'd lost and found again.

He watched coldly as she clumsily imitated her former self in front of him just to survive.

His heart was being cut to pieces, yet he willingly played along with her performance.

Now that they had reunited, he was like a deranged, obsessive madman, personally branding her with a mark that belonged to him alone.

By day, he was the aloof and merciless Demon Lord, high above all others. At night, he became a prisoner, desperate and insecure, kneeling by the bed to kiss the hem of her skirt with reverence.

"You said you'd stay with me forever."

"Since you broke your promise, I'll punish you by keeping you by my side for all eternity."

Reading Guide:

1. The male lead starts out a pitiful little thing and becomes truly unhinged later, but always acts obedient around the female lead.

2. [Mutual Salvation] + [Faked Death] + [Substitute Identity Revealed] + [Taking by Force, According to the Male Lead]

3. The male lead secretly crawls around in the shadows and goes absolutely crazy, while acting as meek as a dog on the surface. Both are virgins, one-on-one romance. They run toward each other.

#MyWifeLostHerMemoryAndNowPretendsToBeHerselfInFrontOfMeEveryDayWhatDoIDo##HowDoesAMaxLevelExpertPretendToBeANewbieSubstitute#

---Please add my upcoming novel After Failing to Win Over Senior Brother to your reading list. Blurb---

A lazy, silly beauty heroine vs. a cunning, seductive, scheming male lead

Chi Ling transmigrated into a book and was bound to a useless romance System.

The System said: Win over Yan Jinglan, the eldest senior brother of the Supreme Sword Sect, and make him fall in love with you. Then you can live.

So she dutifully spent five years acting like his devoted puppy, bringing him water, standing guard, and taking blades for him. She did everything expected of her.

Five years passed, and the eldest senior brother still looked at her like she was an intractable rock.

Affection level: single digits.

With only three days left on the countdown to her execution, Chi Ling slapped the table. "Whoever wants to be a lovesick puppy can do it. I'm taking a shortcut!"

She spent her entire fortune buying a poison insect from the black market called the "Love-Cutting, Heart-Breaking Lovesick Gu." On her last tea delivery, she closed her eyes, let her hand shake, and fed it to the aloof beauty.

[Affection +50! +80! +99!]

Looking at Yan Jinglan, his eyes red at the corners, pinning her against the bed and hoarsely begging for cuddles, Chi Ling rejoiced inwardly: That street-stall junk from the black market was the real thing?!

From then on, the lofty, merciless Sword Venerable fell from his pedestal and became her personal accessory.

If another male cultivator so much as glanced at her, Yan Jinglan would clutch his chest and sway on the verge of collapse. "Junior Sister, my Gu poison is acting up. My heart hurts so much..."

With the Gu in hand, Chi Ling threw her weight around.

As the affection level neared its maximum, she prepared to dust off her hands and retire in glory.

But the night before she was due to leave, the mother Gu inside her body went squish and died.

The System shrieked: [Warning! Gu connection severed. Mission failure!]

Chi Ling was petrified.

The moment Yan Jinglan came to his senses and realized she'd toyed with his feelings using Gu poison, he would surely cut her into a thousand pieces and destroy her soul!

That very night, she faked a death by cultivation deviation, leaving no body behind, and hurried down the mountain to become a rogue cultivator.

*

Yan Jinglan was born with a sword body and was immune to all poisons.

The moment the Gu insect entered his body in the tea, his protective sword aura froze it.

But he didn't expose her.

Because he'd been secretly in love with his lively, mischievous junior sister, who never stopped spouting nonsense, for a long time.

He simply didn't understand love and had no idea how to get close to her.

Under the pretense of being "under the Gu's influence," he could finally keep her firmly in his arms, out in the open.

He enjoyed her self-deluded "control," and even thought the Gu wasn't working well enough. So he crushed it, planning to form the highest-ranking "Life and Death Pact" in the cultivation world that very night.

But before he could finish writing half the contract, his clever, cowardly junior sister ran away.

That night, the Supreme Sword Sect's nine-layered bell of fate rang out.

The usually desireless Sword Venerable drew his sword and stormed down the mountain.

*

Not long after escaping, Chi Ling was caught and brought back to the Supreme Sword Sect.

The once aloof and solitary Sword Venerable had gone completely mad. He bound her in the Sword Pavilion with chains, calling it "dual cultivation to cure the poison."

As red candles flickered, Chi Ling was forced to endure the fierce, domineering flow of spiritual energy between them. She was crying and preparing to accept her fate.

Just then, the System, which had been offline in her mind for ages, suddenly came back online:

[Ding! System mission updated.]

[Host must immediately win over your master, Pei Wujiu, and marry him! Current countdown: twelve hours!]

Theme: There's only one you in the world. How could I not cherish you?