Shen Zhili is the unluckiest transmigrator in history. In her last life, her task was to assassinate the crazed villain, He Chengyuan. The ending was predictable—she was killed without mercy, a sword piercing her heart.
He Chengyuan is a demon lord who crawled out of a mountain of corpses—a ruthless, cunning, and temperamental “smiling tiger.”
The system granted her the authority to modify the mission, but the price was that the final mission would remain unknown, and she would need enough affection points to unlock it.
To prevent the tragedy from repeating, she decisively modified the mission and bound her system to He Chengyuan. From then on, Shen Zhili embarked on the path of no return: courting the villain. She saved his life, showered him with concern, showed him nothing but tenderness, and accompanied him toward the righteous path.
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Upon her rebirth, Shen Zhili returns to the time before the villain went mad. At this time, the youth is merely an “assassin” in the Black Heart Stronghold—a tool used for the pleasure of the nobility and a gambling chip in their games, his life as insignificant as an ant.
The youth she rescues and brings home appears “harmless to humans and animals.” He always wears a “kind” smile, yet he is guarded at every turn.
She offers tea; he doesn’t drink it.
She gives gifts; he throws them away.
Waking up one day, she even finds a dropped dagger by the bed, while she had spent the night using the boy as a body pillow.
Finally, she unlocks the final mission—kill the thing He Chengyuan loves most to complete his fall into demonhood.
The unlucky girl, Shen Zhili, looks at the entry for “What he loves most,” which displays her own name: “…”
Are you kidding me?!
On a day of heavy snowfall, she blocks an enemy’s blade for him. As the sword pierces her body, she dies in his arms and gloriously exits the stage.
Rumor has it that on that day, the high-and-mighty He Chengyuan held a corpse and wept uncontrollably. He abandoned the immortal path and became a demon in a single thought, devastating every immortal sect in the world.
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In his previous life, He Chengyuan was a demon lord feared by all the major immortal sects. Sitting upon a high platform, he looked down on all living beings with contempt. He met a woman who wasn’t afraid to die, who ran to him saying she loved him. With a playful heart, he played along with the act, but before two days had passed, the woman drew a knife to kill him.
No one would ever love him; he knew this. So, the moment the blade left its sheath, he struck back and killed her.
When he woke up again, the rumored arrogant and willful Miss Shen had traveled to various places and spent a fortune to rescue him from that “man-eating” hellhole. He recognized her—the woman who said she loved him.
With no power to fight back, he had no choice but to smile and please her.
The act this time lasted a bit too long.
The tea she offered turned out not to be poisoned.
The gifts she gave were handmade by her.
On a murderous night of thunder and lightning, he wanted to kill her, but she pulled him onto the bed without any defenses and clung to him like an octopus all night.
She wanted him to be a good person, so the demon lord who had committed every evil deed turned over a new leaf.
But fate would not tolerate him and hounded her to her death.
In that case, he would return to being the world-renowned demon lord forever.
He made an exchange with the system to pull her back into the game once more.
