No Choice but to Be the Villain's Wife

On the first day of summer break in his final year of high school, Chi Yu is bundled up by a system and dumped into a cultivation novel starring an overpowered hero. His mission: eliminate the archvillain, Xie Xiyi.

Chi Yu takes one look at the villain-poisonous from head to toe, with a single strand of hair capable of dissolving a Nascent Soul cultivator's body, and wielding a Ten Thousand Souls Banner refined from the souls of countless prodigies. A vicious, irredeemable monster through and through.

His eyes widen in horror. Who's supposed to fight him? Me?!

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According to the system's walkthrough, Chi Yu must become the person Xie Xiyi trusts most before he can steal his fortune. Then, as the villain's most trusted confidant, he must deliver a fatal blow to eliminate him and save the world.

The walkthrough offers three routes with excellent odds of success: become Xie Xiyi's fairy godfather, loyal lackey, or true love.

On his first attempt, Chi Yu chooses fairy godfather. Before he can get a single heartwarming platitude out, Xie Xiyi runs him through with a sword. Game over.

On his second attempt, Chi Yu chooses loyal lackey. He gushes declarations of loyalty and vows to follow Xie Xiyi to the death-only for Xie Xiyi to stab him through the heart. Game over.

On his third attempt, the straight Chi Yu, who simply cannot bring himself to take the true-love route, switches sides the moment he sees Xie Xiyi. Clinging to his leg and sobbing, he cries, "Boss, they made me do it! It was all the system's idea! It told me to win your trust, steal your fortune, and stab you in the back! Aaaaaah!"

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Later, Chi Yu gets his wish and becomes Xie Xiyi's personal leg-clinger. Sure, he's covered in forbidden curses, but he's alive. He's perfectly happy with that.

Later still, Xie Xiyi carries Chi Yu off to bed and dissolves his butt-protecting gear with a single strike of his palm. His laughter is dangerously seductive. "Guarding against me?"

Chi Yu: "..."

Fuuuuuuuck!

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Bonus Scene 1:

Xie Xiyi asks Chi Yu, "Anything else you're hiding from me? Confess everything."

Chi Yu scratches his head. "I'm immune to your poison?"

The corners of Xie Xiyi's pale lips lift into his most radiant smile yet. "Excellent. Now I can touch you."

At the time, Chi Yu has no idea just how far Xie Xiyi intends to take that word, touch.

By the time he finds out, it's far too late for regrets.

Tell him absolutely everything, and getting thoroughly ravished is only to be expected, right? (Not really.)

Bonus Scene 2:

Chi Yu: "Your poison is making my stomach hurt. I really can't take it. Can we break up?"

Xie Xiyi: "Heh."

Also known as I Can Be His Disciple, His Friend, or His Clingy Sidekick-Just Not His Wife!

Reading Guide:

1. Bottom-POV romance. A sunny, cheerful, passionate, energetic turncoat bottom × a beautiful, powerful, tragic, outwardly abstinent, utterly unhinged top whose deep devotion lies beneath formidable restraint.

2. The top is genuinely unhinged. Seriously. Completely off the rails!

3. A huge, huge, HUGE serving of fluff, featuring "I'll never do that-oh, actually, I love it" moments! The top spoils the bottom rotten! Learning to be human for love. (Well, sort of.)

4. The cover depicts the author's imagined grown-up version of our puppy-like little Yu!

5. Please leave comments and bookmark! QAQ

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A little plug for my next novel: The Real Heir Refuses to Be Everyone's Scapegoat

Synopsis:

Everyone knows Xie Mi has a beautiful face-and nothing inside. Greedy, petty, vicious, forever twisting the truth and lying through his teeth.

Xie Mi was seventeen when the Xie family finally recognized him as their biological son. Before seventeen, he struggled in the mire of poverty. After seventeen, he had mansions, luxury cars, and more money than he could spend. Yet his own vicious nature ruined the excellent hand he'd been dealt, earning him the loathing of his parents and brothers.

Anyone familiar with his sordid affairs had no doubt that sooner or later, the Xie family would throw him out. When that happened, his life would be worse than death.

But at some point, without anyone noticing exactly when, Xie Mi suddenly changed. He stopped making scenes. Stopped trying to attract his family's attention with exaggerated, cutting remarks. Stopped hurling venom at the adopted older brother who still lived with them. Stopped coaxing his younger brother down the wrong path.

He quit street racing, cut ties with his disreputable friends, gave up smoking and drinking, dyed his hair back to black, picked up his textbooks, and started paying attention in class.

Everyone told him, "Stop pretending, Xie Mi. We all know what kind of person you are."

Xie Mi merely smiled and offered no explanation.

His parents and brothers didn't believe him. They mocked him and watched coldly as he kept up his supposed act, day after day.

Only when Xie Mi got into a good university, becoming ever more accomplished and dazzling, did they realize they had been wrong.

Xie Mi really had changed.

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Xie Mi has a secret: he has been reborn.

In his previous life, his family finally lost patience, confiscated his mansion, luxury cars, and money, and banished him to a remote little town.

He had briefly tasted paradise, only to spend decades struggling through the mire of ordinary life.

He learned discipline. He learned restraint. He learned everything a life of poverty could teach him.

After his rebirth, he no longer seeks attention or love. Like a craftsman, he is willing to spend ten years polishing himself into a magnificent work of art.

Yet once he stops asking for anything, everyone who despised him in his previous life comes flocking back, desperate and yearning for even a sliver of his attention. Even Pei Yunshen, the mysterious man with whom he had no dealings in his past life, discreetly offers him a ticket to the opera.

Reading Guide:

1. Bottom-POV romance. A laid-back bottom with a penchant for deadpan jokes × a steady, composed powerhouse top.

2. A faint touch of self-love romance: the bottom is deeply self-contemplative and serves as his own muse. A serene sort of character.

3. From universally despised to universally adored.

4. Please bookmark!

Completed works: Hello, Let's Get Hitched-a sunny, cheerful bottom × a deeply devoted top who hides his passion behind a reserved exterior.

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