Marrying the Soft-hearted Villain

"Qiuqiu."

"Ruan Qiuqiu."

"Ruan Qiuqiu? What's wrong with you? The chief is talking to you." A sweet, slightly blurry voice echoed beside her ear, gently repeating Ruan Qiuqiu's name.

Someone lightly pushed her shoulder. Ruan Qiuqiu felt a burning pain throughout her body, especially in her chest. Her limbs were weak and numb, her whole body as cold as ice.

Who's talking to her? Ruan Qiuqiu wondered instinctively, then suddenly snapped back to reality. How could there be anyone else in the basement she rented at the base center?

Ruan Qiuqiu's heart skipped a beat. Enduring the throbbing pain in her head, she forced her eyes open and met a pair of beautiful, charming eyes.

Standing before her was a delicate beauty with willow-leaf eyebrows, alluring phoenix eyes, cherry lips, and long black hair simply tied up. She wore a pure white fox fur coat, and a beauty mark between her eyebrows made her look even more elegant and radiant.

Behind the beauty stood several people with red and blue lion-like patterns painted on their faces. They were also dressed in animal furs of various colors. The kind-looking elder at the front held a wooden staff carved with a lion's head.

At this moment, they were all staring at her with a slightly anxious look, as if waiting for her to answer some question.

Seeing Ruan Qiuqiu's dazed expression, the kind-looking elder at the front gave her a reassuring smile. "Ruan Qiuqiu, don't be afraid."

"The chief knows that marrying a demon is difficult for you humans to accept, let alone a disfigured and disabled wolf demon. But this time, the wolf tribe is willing to offer three hundred catties of salt stones. The chief still hopes that you can consider it for the sake of the tribe. No matter what, the chief will respect your opinion."

Ruan Qiuqiu was even more confused after hearing the elder's words.

Consider what? Marrying a demon? Or marrying a disfigured and disabled wolf demon? For the tribe and three hundred catties of salt stones?

Looking at this inexplicably familiar scene and listening to these familiar lines, Ruan Qiuqiu suddenly recalled the plot from the novel she read before going to bed last night.

[Because the winter beast tide came early, the Wind Lion Tribe, who hadn't stored enough salt stones, fell into crisis.]

[At this time, the wolf demons from the Flame Wolf Tribe came to them and said they were willing to trade three hundred catties of salt stones for a human female willing to marry their disfigured and disabled former leader as compensation.]

[Therefore, the lion demons of the Wind Lion Tribe gathered in the council cave to ask the opinions of the only two human females in the tribe who were not yet married: Rou Yuerao and Ruan Qiuqiu.]

This, isn't this the scene from the ridiculous novel she read last night, where the female supporting character refused the marriage proposal?

Could it be that she transmigrated into the book?

As this thought arose in her mind, Ruan Qiuqiu felt even colder. She couldn't help but wrap her fur coat tighter around herself, falling into deep self-doubt.

Yesterday, when she saw the novel titled "Beloved by the Demon Race: My Lion King Husband, Spare Me" at the street vendor, Ruan Qiuqiu was immediately attracted by its flashy cover and suggestive title.

But she couldn't stand it after reading half of it. Not only did the cannon fodder female supporting character, who seemed to be cursed with stupidity, have the same name as her, but the entire book didn't have a single bit of the sweet romance she wanted to see.

The female lead, Rou Yuerao, was a delicate and lucky girl.

As long as she stood still, ripe fruits would fall into her hands, and wild chickens and rabbits would automatically jump into her arms, waiting to be eaten.

This setting was originally quite interesting, but unfortunately, the author, "Trashy Mu," lacked writing skills and wrote Rou Yuerao as a crybaby who couldn't work hard and would burst into tears at the drop of a hat.

The male lead, Lu Ziran, was the most handsome and powerful young lion demon in the Wind Lion Tribe. He would become the cool, arrogant, and invincible Demon King Lion in the future.

This was originally good too, but the author insisted on adding a "warm demon" buff to Lu Ziran, making him not only responsive and considerate to the female lead, Rou Yuerao, but also caring and considerate to other females who needed him, unable to refuse them.

The relationship between the male and female leads in the book was also very complicated and incredibly dramatic.

The female supporting character with the same name as her, "Ruan Qiuqiu," was a tool who sacrificed her precious life for the dramatic and abusive love story between the male and female leads.

Because of all these reasons, when Ruan Qiuqiu saw that the female supporting character with the same name as her died tragically in the beast tide because she refused the marriage proposal, and the male and female leads were kissing passionately and praising love beside her corpse, she couldn't bear it anymore and dropped the book.

Not only did she drop the book, but she also threw it under the bed and stomped on it twice.

As a result, when she woke up, she transmigrated into the book.

Ruan Qiuqiu: "……"

Looking at the tall and impatient lion demons in front of her, Ruan Qiuqiu couldn't help but close her eyes tightly and pinch herself hard.

Although she was just a low-level ability user who made a living by selling water and struggled to survive in the apocalypse, with no power, no influence, no contribution points, and a very Buddhist-like attitude.

She really didn't want to transmigrate into this ridiculous fantasy novel, which was even more dangerous than the apocalypse, and become a cannon fodder female supporting character who was about to die tragically!

But heaven didn't grant her wish. Ruan Qiuqiu felt a sharp pain in her wrist. Her teeth chattered from the cold, and everything felt so real.

She resignedly opened her eyes, and the scene in front of her remained unchanged. It was still the cold cave, the delicate and beautiful female lead, and the oppressive lion demons waiting for her answer.

Seeing that Ruan Qiuqiu hadn't spoken and didn't seem willing to marry the evil wolf, Rou Yuerao, who was standing by the side, felt a little worried.

There were only two human females of marriageable age in the Wind Lion Tribe. Besides Ruan Qiuqiu, it was her.

If Ruan Qiuqiu was unwilling to marry that disfigured and disabled wolf demon, she might have to marry him for the sake of the tribe.

But she didn't want to. Rou Yuerao clenched her fists. She had long fallen in love with Lu Ziran, the most handsome and powerful warrior in the tribe.

He was a tall and mighty lion demon.

He was strong, tall, handsome, and treated her very well. Her heart was completely captivated by him, and she couldn't marry another demon. What's more, it was a disfigured big bad wolf with a problematic personality.

Love was selfish. For the sake of her love, she couldn't marry that big bad wolf.

If she didn't marry him, Ruan Qiuqiu would have to.

Rou Yuerao quietly looked up at Ruan Qiuqiu and bit her light pink lips. "Qiuqiu, we are both humans. I understand you."

Rou Yuerao looked at her and whispered, "It's indeed a bit scary to marry a demon, but I heard that the former leader of the Flame Wolf Tribe is already seriously injured and dying. If you marry him, he probably won't be able to do anything to you. After he… passes away, we'll take you back."

After Rou Yuerao finished speaking, the two middle-aged lion demons standing beside her immediately echoed, "That's right, we can just take you back after that wolf demon dies."

Hearing their words, even the chief, who had said he hoped Ruan Qiuqiu would consider it carefully and that he would respect her opinion, couldn't help but look at Ruan Qiuqiu with a touch of emotion.

It was as if he was saying that if she refused to marry, she would be letting down their Wind Lion Tribe.

Ruan Qiuqiu was speechless.

She knew that if it weren't for the Flame Wolf Tribe's requirement that the human female marrying the evil wolf had to do so willingly, these lion demons wouldn't even bother asking for her opinion. They would just knock her unconscious and throw her over.

If she didn't marry, the lion demon tribe would become her burial ground.

According to the book's description, the Demon Continent was a very dangerous place.

Humans, demons, and monsters coexisted, with demons occupying the dominant position. Humans relied on demon tribes for survival, while monsters were rare, powerful, and bloodthirsty.

In addition, various ancient creatures lived in the vast forest.

It was unrealistic for her to choose to leave the tribe and live on her own. The forest was very dangerous in winter, full of hungry beasts and monsters. If she, a human female who probably smelled quite delicious, rashly entered, she would probably be killed and eaten within half a day.

Ruan Qiuqiu sighed.

Life was already difficult enough for her. She really didn't want to provoke the female lead in this dangerous world. There was no point in scheming against Rou Yuerao for a man.

She, this salted fish, just wanted to live a good life, farm, and eat meat.

However, there was one thing Rou Yuerao said that was right. Although it was a bit disrespectful to the big bad wolf who was said to have been very fierce…

But Mr. Evil Wolf, who was once infamous, was now disabled and had even lost his ability to hunt. He didn't have many days left to live. Staying by his side, at least she wouldn't be in mortal danger…

She just didn't know why the demons of the Flame Wolf Tribe wanted to find a human companion for Mr. Evil Wolf, and it had to be someone willing.

Thinking of this, Ruan Qiuqiu had another headache. This feeling of knowing there might be a pit ahead but having to jump in anyway was really terrible.

"Ruan Qiuqiu, what have you decided?" Seeing that Ruan Qiuqiu hadn't spoken, the chief couldn't help but ask.

Ruan Qiuqiu took a deep breath, looked at the chief's brown eyes, which were a little cloudy but still sharp, and clenched her fists. "Okay, I agree."

"Oh?" The chief was stunned. He thought Ruan Qiuqiu would definitely refuse after being silent for so long. He was pleasantly surprised. "Really? You're willing to marry him?"

Ruan Qiuqiu smiled bitterly, thinking, did she have any other choice? She could only say, "For the sake of the tribe, I'm willing. But Chief, I have a few conditions."

Hearing her words, the lion demon chief narrowed his eyes. "What conditions? Tell me."

The chief's expression looked kind, but the threat in his words was very obvious.

Ruan Qiuqiu suppressed the chills running down her spine, lowered her eyelashes slightly, and said, "I want to take all my things from the tribe's cave."

"That's no problem." The chief smiled.

Ruan Qiuqiu bit her lip, her palms sweating. "In addition, I also want ten catties of salt stones, fifteen pieces of animal hide, and fifty catties of dried meat."

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