Villainess, But Universally Loved

Novel Info

Author:
荞十五
Status:Ongoing

Summary

Synopsis:

Next Work: “Plain and Honest Girl, But Bound to the Xianzhiwen Xitong” — Seeking Favorites~

As the eldest daughter of the Xu Group, Xu Qiao has lived her twenty years with everything she could ever want.

Showered with endless affection, possessing both fame and status, and even blessed with exceptional beauty as the cherry on top.

She thought her life would continue like this forever.

—Until one day, she suddenly overheard the inner thoughts of her cousin and her system.

[In this novel, Xu Qiao is nothing but a villainess supporting character with a pretty face and no brains. She is arrogant, domineering, and acts recklessly. Before long, she will meet a tragic end. Only you are the chosen heroine. As long as you successfully romance the five Qiyun Zhi Zi in this book, you can change the predetermined fate of this body, gain wealth, power, status, and become the ruler of this world.]

Upon hearing this, Xu Qiao thought: Romancing the Qiyun Zhi Zi can change fate and make one the ruler of the world?

Xu Qiao has never believed in fate; she only believes in herself. She wants money, power, and status. She wants the Xu family to prosper forever and to change her early death fate!

Romancing the Qiyun Zhi Zi can change fate?

Fine!

But how to romance them—isn’t that up to her!

—

Luosi Xueyuan is famously an elite school, gathering heiresses of wealthy families and scions of prestigious clans.

It is free, open, and likewise, gossip spreads at lightning speed. Often, something that happens one second is already on the forum the next.

But from some unknown day onward, the tone of the forum posts suddenly took a strange turn:

[Shocking! The impoverished top student was actually forcibly taken by a wealthy heiress—the two are seen together constantly, having secret talks for a full day and night! Photos and evidence provided!]

[Confirmed! Eldest Young Master Jiang fought for love, personally taking down a homewrecker!]

[Am I seeing this right? President Xu, known for being immune to love, actually has a secret lover on his phone!]

[Post Deletion Alert! Doctor Jiang, the ultimate crush in the brother circle, frequently enters his “niece-in-law’s” lounge!]

[Secret of the Elite: Business tycoon rejects arranged marriage for love—the white moonlight is actually from our school?]

…

The students of Luosi Xueyuan are addicted to gossip every day, almost constantly glued to the forum. On one hand, they wonder what kind of girls could possibly win over these aloof, untouchable prodigies; on the other hand, they complain: These posts are too fake and exaggerated!

Who doesn’t know that these big shots are all noble, cold, and hard to approach?

This forum is making things up out of thin air. Once those big shots notice, they’ll shut it down sooner or later.

But the students waited and waited. Not only did they not see the forum shut down, but they were met with an even more explosive scoop.

That anonymous post appeared out of nowhere, skyrocketing to the top of the hot list within a minute:

[Confirmed! Confirmed! At the graduation ball, Campus Belle Xu was cornered on the confession stage… One, two, three… So they all love her!!]

Reading Guide:

1.The female lead is not a good person; spoiled and pampered, she has a bit of a temper. Lightly beloved by all, no stock-picking;

Novel Items

Princess dress

Clothing

A limited-edition pale pink princess dress brought from L Guo by Xu Qiao's brother. Designed by Master S from France, it is the only one in the world, worth tens of millions. Stained with oil from the incident.

Patent leather shoes

Footwear

Deep red patent leather shoes meticulously polished by Aunt Liu. Stained with oil and used by Xu Qiao to kick Pei Jinchuan.

Lunchbox

Item

A lunchbox packed by Qin Ya herself, which she brought to Shi Jianchuan at the office as a gesture of affection, begging for praise in return.

Tissue

Daily Item

Shen Jiaojiao carried tissues in her pocket. She used one to wipe the cola off Xie Yanqing's clothes and arm after the incident, and later to gently clean the blood from the corner of his mouth.

Uniform

Item

The work uniform that Zhao Qianqian needed to collect as part of her job handover at the food factory.

System

Arcane_treasure

A star mecha that transformed into a small white kitten due to low energy. It communicates with Yun Shu, accumulates favor points, and serves as her companion. It can only meow to others but Yun Shu understands its words. It feeds on favor points rather than conventional food.

Latest Release

Date	Group	Release
2026-08-11	shanghai fantasy	c3
2026-08-11	shanghai fantasy	c2
2026-08-11	shanghai fantasy	c1

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Kw0zxoh Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ April 30,2025

There's a recurring motif in this chapter batch that I can't stop thinking about: the relationship between cleanliness and moral judgment, and how the author subverts it at every turn. Xu Qiao is described in terms of purity — snow-white skin, spotless shoes, a pink dress like freshly fallen snow. She's literally the only clean thing in that entire apartment building. But here's the thing: she's also the one who says "filthy thing" to Pei Jinchuan. Her cleanliness doesn't make her morally superior — it makes her complicit. She's disgusted by his physical state, yet she's the one who chose to intervene. Is she saving him? Or is she claiming him? The text leaves this deliberately ambiguous. Pei Jinchuan, meanwhile, is covered in blood and filth, but his interiority is the most pristine thing in the story. He remembers Xu Qiao's scent — "a sweet, sugary scent that made his teeth itch." He wants to trap her, yes, but the fantasy is immediately undercut by the knowledge that she'd slap him and he'd be beaten to death. His desire is intertwined with his self-loathing. He doesn't want to be saved; he wants to be consumed, because consumption is the only form of attention he's ever received that doesn't end in violence. And then there's Pei Sunian, the foster father, who reduces his own son to a commodity: "give me money, and I'll sell him to you." This is the ultimate perversion of the theme — when human worth is measured in currency, the abused becomes the abuser's asset. The fact that he's jealous of Xu Qiao's interest in his son, that he feels "a surge of jealousy and resentment" at the idea of someone else valuing Pei Jinchuan, speaks to a twisted form of ownership that goes beyond abuse into something almost spiritual. The Qiyun Zhi Zi question that opens this batch — "Why isn't he the Qiyun Zhi Zi?" — is itself a thematic statement. It's asking who deserves to be chosen, who is worthy of being saved, and who gets to decide. The answer, so far, seems to be: whoever has the most power. And that's a question this story is going to keep coming back to.

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Fo_oky Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ July 28,2025

Okay so let me just say this whole chapter sequence is a masterclass in subverting expectations. You have Xu Qiao, who we've been reading as some kind of cold, calculating攻略者, and she literally intercepts a rescue mission that wasn't even meant for her. The setup is brilliant — we know from the beginning that Cousin Xu Rou planned to save Pei Jinchuan to boost her "Gonglue Progress Bar," but Xu Qiao overhears this and decides to steal the moment. That's not just a plot twist, that's a character-defining move. She's not following the script. She's rewriting it. And then there's the Jiang Wangye and Song Zhiyu subplot that runs parallel to all this. Jiang shows up bruised and battered — literally — trying to apologize, but really he's just fishing for information about Xu Qiao. The whole scene is hilarious and tragic at the same time. Song Zhiyu, this ice-cold guy who everyone fears, ends up letting this shameless dog in, applying medicine, tolerating the interrogation. And then Jiang completely forgets he's there to apologize and starts critiquing Song Zhiyu's handling of Xu Qiao like, "Only a hundred thousand? That's way too little!" Bro, you're the one who got beaten up. Sit down. The plot threads are weaving together in ways that feel organic, not forced. Xu Qiao's intervention at Pei Jinchuan's home, Jiang's obsession with Qiaoqiao, Song Zhiyu's reluctant softening — it all connects through this web of power dynamics and hidden motivations. And that ending with Pei Sunian literally trying to sell his foster son? Chilling. The plot doesn't just move forward, it digs deeper into the darkness.

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unkwnplyr Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ March 6,2026

Okay, I need to talk about this scene where Xu Qiao pretends to buy Pei Jinchuan like some kind of commodity. On the surface, it looks like the most exploitative thing ever—Pei Sunian is literally selling him for fifty thousand a month, and Xu Qiao is sitting there negotiating like she's at a market. But then BAM, she whips out her bodyguards and beats Pei Sunian instead, takes him to the hospital, and brings him to her place. The twist isn't just that she rescues him—it's that she does it in the most humiliating way possible, which is honestly so on-brand for her character. The whole setup with the contract of servitude is peak plot engineering. She's not just saving him; she's making sure he can never escape her control. And the fact that Pei Jinchuan knows exactly what's in those documents—his photographic memory betraying him by letting him read every humiliating clause—adds this delicious tension where the reader is torn between wanting him to sign and wanting him to rebel. The pacing here is also insane. You go from the violent confrontation with Pei Sunian to the quiet, almost intimate scene of him waking up in that bright bedroom, and then immediately back to the cold reality of the contract. It's exhausting to read in the best way. But here's my real question: is Xu Qiao actually saving him, or is she just acquiring something she wants to own? Because the line between rescue and capture seems to be getting blurrier with every chapter.

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Spencer_BoudreyhB Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ January 31,2026

I've read this scene five times and I still can't breathe. Let me just start by saying: the redness. The author keeps coming back to it like a motif. First there's the red marks on her chest from the 'massage parlor' (which we all know was probably someone else — maybe even Jiang Wangye himself, given the fingerprint description). Then there's Song Zhiyu's red face, his red hands, her skin turning red beneath his touch. Everything is red. It's like the entire scene is painted in this feverish, embarrassed, charged color. And the way she plays with him — this girl who storms into a lab demanding he take responsibility, who grabs his collar and threatens to report him to a teacher, who climbs onto a laboratory table like it's a bed — she's performing this fierce, aggressive persona but underneath it all she's just... soft. When he says he'll give her a massage, she's 'easily pacified.' When he stops, she whimpers. The whole Persian cat metaphor isn't just about her appearance, it's about her behavior. Scratchy on the outside, purring on the inside. But what really got me was the ending. That soft hum. That frustrated question. After everything — the heat, the confusion, the moral panic running through his head — she just wants him to keep going. And he's frozen. Not because he doesn't want to, but because he knows exactly what this means. He knows who she is. He knows what would happen if his best friend found out. The tension between what he wants and what he should do is written so beautifully. It's not just romantic tension, it's moral tension, loyalty tension, self-preservation tension. And the author doesn't resolve any of it. She just leaves him frozen and her asking why he stopped. I need the next chapter immediately.

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AceStudioWE1 Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ May 6,2025

Okay so I have to talk about Xu Qiao because honestly she completely threw me off. At first I thought she was just your typical spoiled rich girl villainess—kick someone, step on them, act all haughty. But then I started paying attention to what she's actually doing, and wow. The scene where she's stepping on Pei Jinchuan? She's not just being cruel for no reason. She's testing things. She's figuring out the system, figuring out her cousin, figuring out what's real. When she says 'a paramecium, huh' under her breath after the system calls her brainless—that's not a brainless person. That's someone who just heard an AI call her stupid and is internally rolling her eyes. She's playing along. She's letting Xu Rou think she's winning while Xu Qiao is actually gathering information. And the cousin situation? Xu Rou is trying SO hard to be the gentle good girl, but you can see the cracks. When Xu Qiao traps her by asking if she knows Pei Jinchuan, Xu Rou panics. The system tells Xu Rou that Xu Qiao is just a fool, but Xu Qiao isn't fooled. She's watching everything. I love how the power dynamic keeps shifting. Xu Rou thinks she's the protagonist with system knowledge, but Xu Qiao is clearly more observant and adaptable. The dynamic between these two is so much more interesting than a simple villainess vs transmigrator setup. Xu Qiao isn't just reacting—she's calculating.

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TheRuler0011JB Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ February 9,2025

On the surface this is a school bullying scene. Rich girl bullies poor boy. Standard setup. But the stakes are way more complicated than that, and I think that's what makes the conflict so compelling. For Xu Qiao, the external conflict is obvious—she's been humiliated (her expensive dress is dirty) and she wants justice. But the internal conflict is where it gets interesting. She's hearing voices. She doesn't know what's real. Is the system trustworthy? Is her cousin trustworthy? Every action she takes is also a test to figure out what kind of world she's in. For Pei Jinchuan, the stakes are physical survival. He's already wounded from last night—scabs splitting open, blood seeping through his shirt. The text makes it clear he comes from a violent home environment. So when Xu Qiao steps on him, he's not just dealing with humiliation, he's dealing with actual pain on top of existing pain. The class bystanders adding to it with their cruel whispers raises the social stakes too. For Xu Rou, the stakes are about maintaining her cover while also following the system's mission. She's trapped between playing the role of the good cousin and actually feeling sorry for this boy. The system tells her Xu Qiao is harmless, but everything Xu Qiao does suggests otherwise. The conflict isn't just rich vs poor or villain vs protagonist. It's multiple characters trying to survive different kinds of threats simultaneously, and the author is really good at showing how these conflicts overlap and intensify each other.

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