After Saving the Villain of a Male-Focused Novel by Mistake

Everyone knows that pushing a gravely wounded, dying Dragon-Aotian protagonist off a cliff is basically the same as guaranteeing him a place in graduate school.

The protagonist is bound to survive against all odds, be rescued by an expert at the bottom of the cliff, and inherit peerless techniques.

Xie Xiao transmigrated into a story aimed at male readers. The System he was bound to assigned him the role of a mysterious expert at the bottom of a cliff, a mere tool whose job was to pass on peerless techniques to the Dragon-Aotian male lead.

The task was easy, so after giving him his instructions, the System went off to find another Host and left Xie Xiao to fend for himself.

Xie Xiao settled down at the bottom of the cliff. Every few days, he came across someone who had fallen from above, but none of them was the protagonist.

Until one day, he found a pale, strikingly beautiful young man dressed in the uniform of the male lead's sect.

Xie Xiao was overjoyed. It had to be you!

At first, the young man was cold and wary. But Xie Xiao took tender care of him, taught him techniques, and helped him work through his troubles. Little by little, the young man let down his guard and began calling Xie Xiao "Big Brother."

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Years later, the System remembered Xie Xiao and returned to check on him, only to find him having the time of his life raising his little brother.

But why did that little brother look so... off?

The System took a closer look, and its alarm bells went off. "Holy crap, Host, who is this kid you've been raising?"

Xie Xiao looked bewildered. "The male lead?"

The System: "...Yan Fuyi was born with an extraordinary physique. He's vicious and cruel, the biggest villain in the original novel, the protagonist's junior brother, and the kind who nearly stabbed the protagonist to death."

Xie Xiao: "..."

Why didn't you say so sooner?! Can I still abandon him now?

So Xie Xiao slipped away under cover of night and fled to the Demon Realm.

Yan Fuyi clutched the hairpin Xie Xiao had given him and stood in the cold wind at the bottom of the cliff all night before finally turning to leave.

*

After that, with the opportunities and techniques Xie Xiao had given him, Yan Fuyi defeated the rightful male lead and became the Bright Moon Immortal Venerable of the foremost immortal sect.

Though he appeared as pure and noble as moonlight and a gentle breeze, he was in truth a hypocritical and ruthless man, a reputation well known throughout the Demon Realm.

One day, Yan Fuyi led a team to eradicate demons. There, he found that the Demon Palace's ruler bore an uncanny resemblance to the old acquaintance who had occupied his thoughts for years, the one who had abandoned him back then.

Yan Fuyi lifted Xie Xiao's veil with the bloodstained tip of his sword and asked darkly, "Palace Master, have you ever been to Heartbreak Cliff?"

"N-no, I've never been there, not in this life or my last," Xie Xiao stammered.

"Is that so?" The next moment, Yan Fuyi slapped his sword down on the table, reached out to loosen his own clothes, and revealed a gentle, harmless smile.

"I hear... demonic cultivators are skilled in dual cultivation and energy harvesting."

"If you don't want to die, show me what you can do."

Switching roles, a gentle, flirtatious college student with a neighborly big-brother vibe x a stubborn, ruthless, beautiful young villain born into a noble family

One-on-one, both virgins, happy ending

Wei Manqi lived for only two things.

First, killing. His master taught him the blade and ordered him to spend his life serving the assassin organization Golden House.

Second, repaying a debt. On a freezing winter day in the streets when he was a child, a noble family's young lady, with a face like Guanyin, rescued Wei Manqi from a pile of corpses and fed him a steamed bun mixed with blood from her own palm.

As Wei Manqi chewed the bun, he watched the long sash flutter in the wind as the young lady walked away, and swore he would repay her kindness.

He did have one small selfish wish, though: he wanted to marry her.

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Ten years passed. Wei Manqi diligently killed for Golden House, saving up a generous betrothal gift as he waited to ask for the hand of the "true Guanyin" in his heart.

One day, Wei Manqi spotted the jade pendant that the young lady had worn all those years ago hanging from the waist of Golden House's master.

His hand, which had never trembled even after killing countless people, went "clatter" as the treasured blade he regarded as his lifeline fell to the ground.

How could his young lady... be a man?

And a man with a beautiful face and a poisonous heart, whose methods of tormenting people were terrifying.

Wei Manqi bent down to pick up his blade. When he looked up, he met the master's gaze, warm with a smile. "What's wrong, Aqi?"

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Years later, a saying spread among the assassins of Golden House: Don't work for a husband-and-wife assassin organization.

Theme: Love others, love yourself