Synopsis:
Description: (Main text completed, next book: “The Cannon Fodder Played by the Love Rival”)
Wu Ping’an transmigrated into this chaotic era where low-grade demons and monsters run rampant. When she first met Ji Yuwei, the character known as the Black Mud Villain in the book, he was only eighteen—a youth in the prime of his beauty.
Standing before the cage, with his dark hair pinned up with jade after incense bathing, his robes as white as snow and willow, he resembled a young immortal untouched by the world’s impurities. Not only did he sincerely and gently lead her out of the cage, but he also regarded her as a confidante, tolerating her many flaws. He would even kiss her on quiet nights, whispering tender words of comfort by her ear.
For a time, she believed that Ji Yuwei had not yet been tainted by the mud—he was a youth like a green lotus.
It wasn’t until he personally arranged a husband for her that she saw through the fog and recognized the arrogance of the noble clan aristocrats in this era, who casually dictated the lives of commoners.
It was also during that time that Wu Ping’an gradually uncovered his terrifying true nature.
To escape him, she carefully considered her options, chose a beloved gentleman to fall in love with, got engaged… and then sought a way to return home.
If all went smoothly, she would have no further ties to Ji Yuwei in this lifetime.
But on her wedding day, as she was pushed into the red bridal tent and her veil was lifted, the face that appeared before her was Ji Yuwei’s—beautiful yet ghostly and eerie.
As Wu Ping’an lay disoriented in the red tent, she saw the youth’s face flushed with emotion, his eyes brimming with joyful mist. Trembling with damp, long lashes, he bit down on his words with emphasis: “Ping’an, if you dislike the husband I chose for you, from now on, I will personally become your husband.”
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There aren’t so many reasons in the world for someone to become a madman. A madman is always a madman, and even at eighteen or twenty, they cannot hide it.
Ji Yuwei became an inescapable shackle for Wu Ping’an, the black mud clinging to her body that she couldn’t shake off…
(Reading Guide
① Early cliché and melodramatic story, low magic
② Since this was started directly without any drafts, the story will go wherever it goes, and there’s no guarantee it won’t fall apart, but it definitely won’t be abandoned
③ Male lead: 18, female lead: 25, coincidentally started on the 25th ∩_∩
④ Character settings: Ordinary transmigrator vs. Beautiful and dark antagonist
⑤ Male virgin, female non-virgin
⑥ Background loosely based on the Eastern Jin period but fictional
This is a warning: The male lead appears righteous and noble but is actually hypocritical and dark in character. Extremely obsessed with looks and voice, but the female lead doesn’t possess these traits. He both looks down on her (to the point of wanting to give her away to others) and is torn by an obsessive fascination with her and everything about her, unable to let go. Because the female lead never loves him, he is driven mad. To describe him, the male lead is like a mass of pitch-black mud squirming.
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