Splash-
Ice-cold water splashed into his face. The chill invaded every limb, seeped into every gaping wound, rushed up his nose, and choked his windpipe, forcing the unconscious man awake in a fit of violent coughing.
"The sect master will be here soon. Wake up, you demon!"
"Stop playing dead!"
Ning Ke's ears rang. Every breath made the near-fatal wound piercing his chest hurt so badly that he could pass out again at any second.
He blinked his somewhat blurry eyes twice before making out the person standing before him, dressed in ancient robes with a sword at his waist. Then he glanced around the room, which was clearly an ancient prison, and snapped fully awake!
Holy shit!
What the hell was going on?!
Hadn't he been sleeping in his cozy rented apartment? How had he suddenly ended up somewhere like this?!
While he was still utterly bewildered, a sound came from outside the cell. The disciple before him called out a respectful "Sect master," and another person entered the dungeon.
A pair of satin boots embroidered with pale clouds and silver patterns appeared in Ning Ke's field of vision.
Following them upward, he saw a tall, slender figure. Even beneath layers of lavish ancient robes, the man's broad shoulders, narrow waist, and long legs were unmistakable. He was practically a walking clothes model.
Then there was his face: hair bound beneath a jade crown, sharp brows, a high nose, deep black eyes, and thin, red lips. If his entire presence hadn't been cold enough to freeze someone to death, Ning Ke had no doubt that his sister, had she been there, would have tackled this gorgeous man straight to the ground, shrieking that she wanted to "have your babies, handsome!"
But why did that little patch of demonic markings running from the outer corner of his left eye to his temple look so familiar?
Had he seen it somewhere before?
Before he could think it through, the handsome man spoke.
"Demon Ning Ke, a hundred years ago, you destroyed the barrier and led the Demon Clan in razing the Flowing Cloud Sect. You slaughtered countless people, wiped out my sect, dug out my golden core, and stole both my eyes. This hatred cannot coexist beneath the same sky. Today, I will skin you, tear out your tendons, and subject you to every imaginable torment to console the thousands of souls you unjustly slaughtered!"
A demon? The Flowing Cloud Sect? Digging out a golden core?
Ning Ke: ?!!!!!
Fuck!
Only then did he realize he had transmigrated.
And of all the places he could have ended up, he had landed in the novel his younger sister had written.
Ning Ke's sister was a webnovel author. The girl loved writing, always chose her brother as her first reader, and loved giving him roles in her novels.
In this novel, titled "Ask the Heavenly Dao," Ning Ke's role was an outrageously arrogant archvillain. Early on, he could wreak whatever havoc he wanted without dying and toyed with everyone like puppets. It was ridiculously satisfying.
By contrast, the male lead, Lou Yunxiao, had suffered far more than the word "tragic" could describe.
His sect was massacred, his golden core dug out, his eyes gouged out, and he was humiliated. Reduced from a genius to a useless wreck, he fought enemies and leveled up step by step, struggling to grow. He spent well over half the book suffering before finally cultivating enough strength to defeat Ning Ke.
But just after he captured Ning Ke alive, stabbed him, and locked him in the dungeon, right when he was about to begin torturing him, Ning Ke's sister decided she couldn't treat her own brother like that and simply stopped writing.
Ning Ke had actually found that rather heartwarming. His sister really did treat him well.
Once she'd let him enjoy being arrogant to his heart's content, she stopped writing.
But fucking hell!
Never in his wildest dreams had he expected to transmigrate into the very last scene where his sister had abandoned the story!!!
He hadn't gotten to enjoy a single moment of that outrageous arrogance!
Instead, he had to endure Lou Yunxiao's terrifying wrath!
If he'd known novels could become reality, he never would have let his sister give him a role!
Now... what was he supposed to do?! QAQ
"Why are you trembling?" A low voice brushed past his ear. Before Ning Ke could process it, a tremendous force clamped around his throat and slammed the back of his head into the stone wall!
Ning Ke's entire body shook with pain. He opened his mouth and struggled to breathe as Lou Yunxiao leaned closer, mocking him coldly. "So even a heartless, soulless demon like you knows fear?"
"Gh... gh..."
He was scared! He was scared to death!
And if you were going to ask him a question, you had to let him speak first! How was he supposed to answer when you were strangling him to death?!
A binding formation covered Ning Ke's body, leaving him unable to move. Lou Yunxiao's oppressive presence pinned him down completely, and waves of suffocation assaulted his brain.
Just as he thought he was about to get killed immediately after transmigrating, a voice rang out in his mind.
[Host soul signature detected. Binding the plot repair system. 3, 2, 1.] [Binding successful.] [System Xiao Yuan will be at your service.]
A system?!
Ning Ke's eyes lit up. Without needing any instruction, he shouted in his mind, Xiao Yuan, save me! I don't want to die yet! I want to go home!
[Oh my, this is my first time meeting such a proactive host.] Xiao Yuan sounded both surprised and pleased. [I can already imagine how delightful our future cooperation will be. Now, allow me to explain your mission. First, we need to...]
Hearing her gearing up for a long-winded speech, Ning Ke felt his brain throb. He was so furious he could have spat blood.
He hurriedly shouted again, Stop talking for now! Save me first!
[Oh, oh, of course! Look at me, failing to read the room. If my master saw this, I'd get a scolding.]
Ning Ke was already rolling his eyes back from suffocation by the time Xiao Yuan finally got to the point.
[Initiating the first time rewind. You only need to travel into the past, repair this novel world's first plot point, and obtain an important quest item to gain ten days of life. Once the plot has been completely repaired and this novel world is fully stable, you can return to your own world.] [Time rewind countdown: 3, 2, 1.]
Ning Ke's mind went blank for an instant. In the next moment, the suffocation and the pain throughout his body vanished.
Instead, he felt filled with power, as though he could hold heaven and earth in his grasp.
If he had to describe it, five words would do: I'm the biggest badass alive.
Xiao Yuan's voice followed.
[Rewind successful. Issuing your first mission: disguise yourself as a beautiful woman and save Lou Yunxiao after the Flowing Cloud Sect is massacred.]
Huh?
The words "beautiful woman" left Ning Ke stunned for a moment.
Wasn't he a man? Why was he supposed to pretend to be a beautiful woman?
Still, he didn't rush to dwell on that. Instead, he immediately examined his current body.
His eyes, which had been somewhat blurry in the dungeon, now saw everything with perfect clarity.
He raised a hand and saw the archvillain Ning Ke's pale, slender fingers, as exquisite as jade. Even his nails were rounded and pink.
Looking himself up and down, he discovered that he was wearing a luxurious purple dress? It was embroidered with all sorts of flashy patterns, and he held a folding fan half over his face. The whole look positively radiated sultry bitch.
Only then did he suddenly remember that his sister had set conditions when making him an all-conquering archvillain.
She had to have full control over his outfits, makeup descriptions, personality, and quirks.
And what his dearest, most beloved sister adored above all was extreme gap moe!
So the archvillain named Ning Ke had become a stunning Nine-Tailed White Fox who practiced the Charm Art and the Transformation Art, capable of captivating a whole crowd just by walking past!
He even had a penchant for cross-dressing and disguises, an obsession with cleanliness and refinement, and a love of makeup, treasures, skincare...
At that thought, Ning Ke couldn't help shuddering away his goosebumps. He folded his fan shut and tapped it against his forehead.
Wasn't this fucking exactly a "beautiful woman"?
What a... disaster.
-Reading guide-
If you'd like to see this book cross over with my first book, "This Host Is Something Else-Tell Him to Die for the Villain, and He Actually Does It," please read chapters 174 and 175.
If you don't want to read the perfect ending in the modern-day arc, you can stop at chapter 173.
If you want a captivity angst story with a bad ending, please familiarize yourself with the general plot, then jump to the parallel-world extras series in chapter 195.
Please choose the reading approach you prefer. Of course, you can leave a bad review-even one star is fine-but please don't insult me. If my writing is bad, you have the right to critique it, but I also hope you'll respect me and avoid malicious language. I just want some peace of mind through keeping it out of sight. U•ェ•*U
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