Alternative Title: 把反派錯認成主角後
Author: 長夜一燈明
Status: Completed
Added: 2025-07-31
Updated: 2025-07-31
Blurb: New promoted novel on same channel "Has the Male Lead Gone Dark Today?" - please add to favorites, blurb located at bottom
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[Insensitive pure-hearted heroine × cold-acting jealous villainous male lead]
Li Jingtang wakes up to find herself inside a classical novel she's never read before.
The situation looks bleak - she's surrounded by ghosts and monsters attacking an unarmed youth, with her probably next on their list.
Fortunately, she obtains a命書(fatal decree book).
The book doesn't identify the true protagonist, but given the special appearance manner of this person before her, she assumes this must be the main character. Thus, she attempts to rescue him and takes him along to benefit from the protagonist's protection.
Soon she meets two other lucky companions who also got stranded here. Li Jingtang gestures generously: "Come follow along - together we'll cling to the protagonist's leg to return home."
However... After enduring numerous adventures together, she starts sensing something is amiss with this "protagonist" she keeps clinging to.
Who can tell her where the cautious, cold, yet consistently able-to-escape-dangers youth has gone?
Is the current figure who pretends to be pitiful at her mention of returning home and personally chains her not the original frail young man they knew?!
Oh, turns out they were wrong about the protagonist - this person is actually the major antagonist...
The命書(fatal decree book) trembles nervously: "Girl quickly devise an escape plan, how do we get out?"
Knowing this person can't hear the book's voice, Li Jingtang uses some clever tactics to escape danger.
Unexpectedly, the next day this youth appears amidst blood and carnage, smiling as if completely detached from the slaughter surrounding him.
"Ah Tang wants to leave? Perhaps we can bring my corpse with you too?"
*
Originally, Xie Changyan remained obedient to stay near this person since his spiritual powers weren't recovered yet after being rescued.
Once his powers were restored, he left Tang behind alone.
He prides himself on ruthlessness, disguising true nature, and caring nothing for others' lives, believing he should be indifferent when coming or going.
Yet later, for the first time, someone cried when seeing him near death.
And for the first time, when he was trapped, someone broke through the mist to come directly for him.
Then promising not to let him die.
How irritating that beside her was another madman coveting her.
"That's enough!" With a smile that doesn't reach his eyes, the youth declares - "Then I'll just eliminate them all."
Just having her alone should suffice.
Until the day she finally tries to take him back home, Xie Changyan narrows his eyes when hearing the girl and this ancient book conspiring about how to abandon him.
#A tender youth who gradually transforms into a psychopathic demonic lord, and his extraordinary love
Reading Notes:
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1. One-to-one, pure relationship. Male lead is not a completely evil traditional villain.
2. Will have righteous protagonist group. Primarily romantic development with secondary plot (Not purely romantic content though). Female lead with limited combat prowess.
PS: First 40 chapters contain relatively less romance, featuring more ensemble focus. Male protagonist becomes intensely romance-oriented gradually, with intensifying romantic storyline.
3. Fully fictional setting with numerous personal additions.
4. Will promptly delete any unfair criticisms.
5. Male lead can hear the fatal decree book's voice but can't perceive the female lead's thoughts.
6. Author currently improving writing skills - readers with high expectations for prose should proceed cautiously.
--- Advance Notice Section ---
Xu Songhe finds herself in a novel after death where her mission is to increase the male lead's darkening coefficient and push him toward demonic transformation.
System announcement: "Please strictly follow plot progression and abuse male lead accordingly." Xu Songhe silently stares at the kneeling bruised teenager before her -
?? Is this even proper speech from you?
System: "Otherwise, Qi Wuang will kill you first during his initial dark transformation.
Xu Songhe: …
In her endeavors to complete the mission quickly, she has to harshly treat this innocent person, secretly working against system constraints to create special meals for him as a balm to her guilty conscience.
Through her conscientious effort, Qi Wuang's darkness coefficient finally reaches 80%.
That day, amid drizzling rain and pervasive blood scent, Qi Wuang walks towards her carrying his long blade and declares lovingly while wiping her tears:
"Dear He, with me here, no one dares harm you."
But truthfully, the person intending to hurt him was herself...
This dark-transformed youth offers her every remaining ounce of tenderness, while she, at the moment he becomes completely devoted to her, swiftly plunges a sword into his chest without hesitation.
Heavy rains wash away his vengefulness. As the youngster barely breathes, he whispers:
"Why?" Why he asks? Because she wants to live.
The faulty system had misdelivered its message - claiming she needs to kill this completely darkened male lead to protect her family's security.
After many peaceful days following this incident, she's soon to marry her gentle bamboo-horse companion.
Yet on the morning after nuptials, she awakens in chains within a dungeon, physical distress evident due to the heavy shackles.
Qi Wuang leans down, forcefully grips her chin, his tender smile unchanged:
"Dear He, let's go meet someone together, shall we?"
Although phrased as a question, he roughly pulls her up. Salty rainwater from the cellar splashes across her face.
Her bamboo-horse friend is currently head bowed under torture.
When Xu Songhe pleads for his release, this boy offers a gentle smile:
"I'll release him gladly - but you must substitute him for remaining punishment." If she indeed made a mistake that day, these continuous tortures should have settled all debts.
She fears him thoroughly now, their previous affection vanished into ether.
Xu Songhe selects an excellent burial date for herself. As her bamboo-horse friend's blade almost pierces Qi Wuang's chest, she positions herself directly in the sword's path.
Blood continuously flows from her lips. She senses her life slowly fading as he watches with growing distress.
"I always owed you apologies. Today, I take this blade as my repayment." *
In classical storytelling, Qi Wuang should be a ruthless protagonist focused solely on vengeance through martial cultivation, not meant to pursue love matters.
Yet upon Xu Songhe's arrival, things change:
He lives in disgrace yet she keeps smuggling delicacies when he's confined.
She defies danger to rescue him first.
When he nearly perishes from demonic transformation, she embraces him tightly with loving eyes, willing to live and die alongside him.
How should he not cherish this warmth, why wouldn't he fall for her madly like the trapped man he now is?
Later, Qi Wuang witnesses her stabbing his chest, crimson staining his robes.
Before he can ask "why," she pushes him down the cliff mercilessly.
When he finally returns, she's on the edge of marrying another man.
He's furious, seeking revenge by causing unbearable suffering before he makes her beg for mercy.
The reality? After miraculously surviving, he can't bring himself to harm her even once!
What does she mean by such action?
"I don't want your repayment." Kneeling on the ground, he tightly hugs the nearly lifeless young woman, his tears soaking her collar.