Villain's Ascension Diary

Nan Lince despised Lai Yueqing from the moment they met—her icy demeanor, her joyless existence, everything about her rubbed him the wrong way. A woman like that could never be loved, he thought. Yet fate has a twisted sense of humor: he finds himself falling for the very person he swore to hate. Pride becomes his greatest enemy as he struggles between his true feelings and the villain's mask he wears. Can a self-proclaimed villain learn to love, or will his pride destroy the one chance at redemption he never knew he wanted?