The Blade Who Chose the Villainess

Lu Jinzhao wakes inside a sword case with a human mind, a dead reader's memory, and a knife sharp enough to end a woman's life on command. He remembers the novel he read, the villainess who was meant to die, and the exact kind of lie that gets her killed. Instead of serving the script, he starts guiding the hand that holds him, using a power training method built on forgetting to make impossible moves from a low level. His first kindness is small, then risky, then public. The more he refuses the role of executioner, the more dangerous his existence becomes. Shen Linyue is close, frightened, and running out of safe choices, while the sword in her hands starts to choose her back.