[System: Host, dear, Mission One of this book: help the male and female leads, Xie Zhili and Song Yingyue, achieve a happy ending (HE).
Mission Two: Raise the favorability of the villainous second male lead, Yu Qingci, to 100, and prevent his descent into darkness.]
“Who? Whose favorability did you say?” Tong Huanyou blurted out in shock.
[System: The villainous second male lead Yu Qingci’s favorability, of course~]
“Make me romance that black-hearted psycho? You might as well just kill me directly!” Tong Huanyou simply could not accept it.
Who was Yu Qingci?
He was the hidden, sinister, white-eyed wolf of a major villain who ran throughout the entire story!
From what Tong Huanyou remembered of the plot, his life had been miserable. Though born into the demon race, his demonic powers had somehow been sealed away.
As a child, he was captured by a demon-hunting clan and treated like a punching bag for the younger hunters, beaten black and blue every single day.
After finally escaping, he fell into the hands of a fox demon who sliced flesh from his body and drained his blood daily to refine pills that enhanced cultivation.
Later, he encountered the perfect heroine Song Yingyue and her father, who seemed to embody every beautiful adjective imaginable.
Father and daughter joined forces to drive away the fox demon, saving his life.
Seeing how pitiful he was, Song Yingyue obtained her father’s permission to take him in as her sworn younger brother and personally teach him.
He was frighteningly intelligent. After only two years by Song Yingyue’s side, his swordsmanship had already become extraordinary, and he wielded talismans with effortless mastery.
But because he had grown up in darkness, his sibling-like feelings toward Song Yingyue had twisted into something obsessive. He wished that she would have no one by her side except him.
So, in order to win the heroine’s affection—
In public, he was forever the kind, upright, sunny, cheerful young man.
In private, however, he was a ruthless executioner whose methods of demon hunting were vicious beyond compare. Most of his victims were tortured to death.
He was the type who could smile warmly at you one second, then stab you in the next.
Especially toward anyone—human or demon—who coveted Song Yingyue without justification, he would torture them until their souls were utterly destroyed.
Particularly in the middle of the story, after the male and female leads confessed their feelings to one another, he began to descend into darkness, desperately seeking ways to break his seal.
He even secretly laid traps and repeatedly targeted Xie Zhili.
Because he had hidden his dark side for so long, even after the protagonists narrowly escaped death multiple times, they never suspected him.
However, in the later chapters before the novel was abandoned, he finally shattered the seal and allied himself with a ghost flood dragon, completely succumbing to corruption.
In the Battle of Weakwater, he slaughtered wildly, massacring most of the demon hunters.
Even the two protagonists failed to escape. Both were defeated and fell into the Weakwater River.
Yet at the moment they were on the verge of death, Yu Qingci unexpectedly relented. Revealing his true form, he exhausted all his strength to rescue them from the river.
As for himself, he sank to the riverbed and suffered the agony of countless poisons tearing through his heart.
To sum up this character: deprived of love, sensitive, and obsessively paranoid!
As for whether he ultimately lived or died, nobody knew.
Because… the author dropped the novel! Even the protagonists’ ending remained a mystery, much less the villainous second male lead.
[System: Host dear, if you fail to complete the missions, once the story reaches its ending, time in the novel world will stop. And you will remain trapped here forever, until your soul is worn away and can never reincarnate~]
Tong Huanyou rolled her eyes violently. “Whether I can reincarnate or not, I don’t know. But you should know that right now I really want to beat you senseless.”
[System: Host dear, please stay calm~]
She hesitated for a long while.
Then she thought of her mother waiting back home for her to return for the New Year.
Fine. She accepted it.
Taking a deep breath, Tong Huanyou forced herself to calm down and asked, “Then what role am I right now?”
[System: You are the cannon-fodder female side character at the beginning of the story—Tong Huanyou.]
Boom. Like a club to the head.
How could Tong Huanyou possibly forget this character…
Back then, she had noticed this cannon-fodder girl immediately because they shared the exact same name. It had even made her want to change her own name.
This character could basically be described as the opening villainess cannon fodder. In love with the male lead Xie Zhili, she attempted to drug him with an aphrodisiac and do unspeakable things with him.
Instead, the villain Yu Qingci drank it by mistake. And then came the scene from earlier.
She was chased into the forest, unlucky enough to run into a snake demon, and ultimately died.
“Ha… hahaha…” Tong Huanyou wanted to cry but had no tears left.
She wanted to die.
The corners of her mouth twitched. “But he already killed me just now…”
[System: Because this novel was abandoned midway, the starting difficulty is relatively high. Therefore, this system has specially equipped you with a death rollback function~ You may infinitely reload from the moment of death.]
Tong Huanyou: …
So I get endlessly murdered? Are you insane?!
[System: Host dear, your injuries have already been healed. The plotline involving the villainous second male lead biting you has been erased.]
[System: Death-save reload for transmigration restarting. Host dear, please prepare.]
“Wait, wait, wait a sec—!”
[System: 3, 2, 1.]
A powerful electric current surged through her body instantly.
Her vision went black and she fainted.
When she opened her eyes again, she was back in the forest she had just run through moments ago.
Tong Huanyou’s mouth twitched uncontrollably. “You might as well just electrocute me to death directly.”
The surroundings were still dark and windy. Not far away, crows startled by the disturbance took flight from the trees, letting out harsh, mournful cries.
Tong Huanyou laughed bitterly. “A wolf in front and a tiger behind me. There’s nowhere to run. Even Jesus himself couldn’t save me now.”
After a moment of silence—
An idea suddenly flashed through her mind.
“Well, he’s currently a demon hunter. What if I make the snake demon run into that black-hearted bastard midway, let them kill each other, and slip away while they fight?”
Just as she thought this, rustling sounds came from behind her once more.
Turning around, she saw two emerald-like eyes glowing in the darkness. A massive body slithered swiftly through the forest.
Forget it! Running first was the priority!
Without hesitation, she lifted her skirts and bolted through the woods at top speed.
Tong Huanyou screamed inwardly: Who released the snake actor from a motorcycle stunt show?!
Just as she was about to make the two “calamities” meet face to face, she suddenly sped up and rushed forward.
However, right before reaching him, Yu Qingci’s sword shot out like an arrow loosed from the bowstring. Accompanied by the sound of splitting air, it pierced straight through her body.
Driven by momentum, her body flew backward, skewering the snake demon behind her as well.
You damned black-hearted bastard, you turned me into kebab skewers?!
Swallowing her final breath—
She died again.
Inside the system space.
Tong Huanyou ground her teeth so hard they clattered. “Good. Very good!”
Damn it, once she got back, she was absolutely drawing fan comics for this novel! She’d turn this black-hearted psycho into barbecue skewers too!
[System: Host dear, would you like a spiritual pill to replenish your mental energy?]
“No need. Today I’m getting past this cursed opening no matter what!” Tong Huanyou had completely dug in her heels.
Since she couldn’t die permanently, what was there to fear? Just charge ahead!
[System: Understood. Death-save reload restarting. Host dear, please prepare.]
[3, 2, 1.]
The familiar electric current surged through her again.
Blackness. Fainting.
The familiar scene. The familiar Tong Huanyou.
When she opened her eyes once more, she was leaning against the same little tree that had witnessed her die twice already.
Looking up at the stars glittering in the night sky, she seemed to see Yu Qingci’s eyes.
A thought crossed her mind.
“Black-hearted bastard, after stabbing me so many times, this time your big sister’s going all out!”
This time, she ignored everything and ran with all her might!
She moved so fast she wished she could sprint ten meters in a second. It felt like she’d already used up all the steps she’d take in this lifetime.
Who knew if, after returning home, she’d finally pass the sports test at school.
Just as she reached the end of the path and spotted that all-too-familiar figure, she immediately shouted—
“Yu Qingci!”