Mistakenly Saving the Villain (Novel) Vol. 1

Mistakenly Saving the Villain #1

by Feng Yu Nie

A mission gone wrong and a villain in need of serious therapy await in this heart-rending drama—finally available in English!

Medical student Song Qingshi has just awakened inside a historical fantasy novel and bestowed a mission: save the protagonist from a life of slavery.

There’s just one not-so-minor problem: Song Qingshi doesn’t read historical fantasy and has no idea who is who! So, instead of correctly identifying and saving the protagonist, he’s actually just rescued the brilliant and beautiful minor antagonist, Yue Wuhuan.

Yet not all is lost. Rather than being put off by Yue Wuhan’s suspicious interest in poisons and villainy, Song Qingshi makes it his mission to treat the underlying trauma to reform his “heroic” ward. United by their love of medicine and a budding mutual attraction, the two must face a hostile and fantastic world in a fight to give Yue Wuhuan the happy ending he deserves.

Genres: Fantasy, Romance, LGBT, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels

300 pages, Paperback

Published November 25, 2025

About the author

Associated Names:
* I Feng Yu Nie (English)
* 凤羽涅 (Chinese)
* เฟิ่งอวี่เนี่ย (Thai)

Reviews

[Alexia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This danmei stands out due to its unique setting. It takes place in a world where cultivation exists, but unlike traditional narratives, cultivators here no longer pretend to be just and righteous. Instead, they reveal their true, often dark, faces. In this universe, cultivators wield their power not for the common good but to enslave mortals, tormenting their lives.

Yue Wuhuan is the love interest of the story, and from the very beginning, we are thrust into his tragic backstory. He starts off as a slave who has endured unimaginable abuse, leaving him deeply hurt and completely hopeless about escaping his circumstances. His despair is so profound that he contemplates ending his own life. However, there is a cruel twist: slaves in this world cannot take their own lives without their master's permission. The cultivators maintain full control over their souls, wielding the power to command and manipulate them at will. This realization adds a layer of hellish suffering to Yue Wuhuan’s existence.

Amidst this darkness, the story introduces a glimmer of hope through Song Qingshi, the protagonist and Yue Wuhuan’s savior. Song Qingshi is a transmigrator and his mission, assigned by the system, is to save the hero of the novel he has transmigrated into and to shower him with love and care. However, Song Qingshi is a medical student with little understanding of love, and due to a system glitch, he lacks complete information about his mission. This leads him to inadvertently save Yue Wuhuan, who, in the original novel, is a minor antagonist.

From this point on, the story unfolds into a journey of healing. Song Qingshi begins to mend Yue Wuhuan’s fractured soul with genuine care, love, and sincerity that are so profound that they bring you to tears. Yue Wuhuan has the settings of a yandere character; he wants to possess Song Qingshi, wishing to keep him by his side forever. Yet, he restrains these unhealthy feelings because he loves Song Qingshi so much and he wants only happiness for him.
He also perceives himself as unworthy and too filthy to express his love openly.

Their relationship evolves into one of the purest and healthiest portrayals of love in danmei. Song Qingshi’s unwavering devotion—his desire to protect Yue Wuhuan, seek revenge for his suffering, and cherish him—reflects a deep, sincere love. His attentiveness to both Yue Wuhuan’s physical recovery and his mental healing adds layers of tenderness and care to their bond. The interaction between them is beautifully portrayed as a pure, nurturing, and genuinely healthy connection.

I particularly appreciated how the author handled sensitive topics like slavery and sexual abuse. This is one of the first danmei stories I’ve read that thoughtfully and respectfully explores these themes, emphasizing that Yue Wuhuan's mental scars will not heal overnight. Even on good days, he remains hurt, and his healing process is portrayed as long and complex, which felt very authentic and respectful.

My only major dislike was the side character An Long, who also acts as a love rival. I despised his character intensely. Every time he appeared, I found myself rolling my eyes at how irritating and annoying he was, which only strengthened my dislike for him.

In conclusion, this danmei marks the beginning of a profound healing journey for Yue Wuhuan. I am eager to see him embrace all parts of himself, recover fully, and take revenge on the suffering inflicted by the world in the second volume. The story’s depth, emotional honesty, and beautiful portrayal of love and recovery make it truly compelling.

[Stacie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I forgot how freaking pure hearted, cute and adorable Song Qingshi really is. Sometimes when I see edits of Hualian, it feels like I’m looking at this CP 🥰. Considering the heavy themes in this novel, IMO the author does an excellent job incorporating humor and sweetness to balance out the tears.

MC Song Qingshi: pure-hearted, gentle, overachiever but clueless and naive when it comes to emotional matters, loves textbooks but thinks novels are corrupt, medical student/MD with ALS who transmigrates into the Medicine King
ML Yue Wuhuan: traumatic past, smart, loyal, self-loathing, thinks he is unclean and unworthy, possessive but sets boundaries

🐦‍🔥 Xianxia
🐦‍🔥 Character driven
🐦‍🔥 Transmigration
🐦‍🔥 Tragedy with comedic undertones?
🐦‍🔥 Heavy themes-SA, mental illness, suicide, human trafficking, trauma, torture
🐦‍🔥 The cutest misunderstandings/misinterpretations

I see and understand all DNFs/lower ratings! I just really have a special place in my heart for Song Qingshi, his devotion YW, and their love story. It’s been almost two years since I first read this so I was nervous if I was going to love it as much as the first time- and thankfully so far, I do.

[kay! ☾ · Rating 5 out of 5]

“May I hold this hand for a lifetime?”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ five out out of five stars .ᐟ.ᐟ


⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ plot ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

misvil is a transmigration danmei that reminded me so much other popular transmigration novels such as scum villain self-saving system & how to survive as a villain while actually being very different from them at the same time. the mc song qingshi was a sickly medical student who dies and ends up in a popular xianxia novel. the mc does not read so when he receives his first mission to save the kind and tragic shou protagonist…he ends up saving a character who is not in fact the protagonist.

for a transmigration novel this barely has any input from the system which was interesting??? i’m used to the system being an omnipresent figure looming in the background, always ready to offer input or make the transmigrates life harder. that’s not the case with misvil. there are mentions of the original body and tapping into their memories but the system mostly remains silent

this volume was super slice of life. the first few chapters focused on introducing the characters and saving the ML while the rest center healing both physical and emotional wounds. which i did enjoy because it allowed the author to delve deeper into the characters, plus i have a feeling i’ll appreciate this lower levels of angst when things get progressively more painful 😭 however, this first volume was still heavy. like, please please please read the warnings because it deals with SA & a laundry list of other things that are heavily discussed


⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ characters ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･


╰┈➤. song qingshi
my shayla. he’s just so. relatable. chronically ill with severe social anxiety and an inability to understand social cues? it’s like looking in a mirror fr

he’s such a deeply lovable character. he’s genuinely so kind and selfless. he tries to connect the dots but sometimes he misses the mark but his heart is in the right place

╰┈➤. yue wuhuan
i just want to wrap yue wuhuan in a big fluffy blanket. he deserve the whole world. he has a lot of disgust and self-hatred toward himself which is absolutely heartbreaking. yue wuhuan went through hell and back so i appreciate that the author isn’t just glossing over it. it’s exploring his psyche and complex web of emotions. the amount of times he referred to himself as dirty,,,

song qingshi says yue wuhuan is his family’s angel, he can do no wrong. and that’s exactly how i felt because i think a little homicidal revenge is okay in the grand scheme of things

yue wuhuan:


song qingshi:


╰┈➤. an long
a second male lead? in my danmei? in this economy? that’s such a rarity that i can name maybe three danmei in which there was a sml that was prevalent for the majority of the story. i didn’t care for an long. his character is interesting but he got on my nerves. a lot. i feel like in this volume there wasn’t that much of a chance to flesh him out like song qingshi & yu wuhuan so an long felt more one dimensional. the writing is amazing so i might just need to have patience because surely we will be able to see the real person an long is behind his mask. his dynamic with yue wuhuan is so funny tho.

yue wuhuan purposely tries to seduce an long just so that song qingshi will go after him. the pair of them are so two faced and manipulative but in different ways


⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ pairing ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

╰┈➤. yuesong 💔 they are going to break my heart to pieces. even though misvil is angsty the two of them are serious adorable. yue wuhuan clearly has feelings for song qingshi but he doesn’t allow himself to feel them because he’s scared that his perfectly normal and okay feelings and desires are just as monstrous as all the men who have harmed him. song qingshi is just oblivious. mans got nothing going on in his brain besides medicine poison and his beloved rats that he experiments on.

⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ final thoughts ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
a couple that dissects corpses together is a couple that stays together. please read misvil because it’s phenomenal and will definitely end up as one of my favorite danmei’s of all time 🤌🏻 .ᐟ.ᐟ

[V~ · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.9/5 🌟

Amazing!!!

"I want to give you everything," he said. and let out a noise that Song Qingshi couldn't decipher. He could not speak the other words
The first gift is my body.
The second, my soul.
The third is my heart...
I'm yours, forever.
Song Qingshi raised his hands and swung them in time with the countdown. His red lotus blaze popped and sparkled in the air like splendid fireworks, lighting up the entire valley. He stood under the fireworks and gave Yue Wuhuan his most heartfelt wish.
"Happy birthday, Wuhuan."

i was crying happy tears at this point! It was so beautiful , so well written, so tender .. I never wanted this to end! This chapter and the one right after were both part of the cover, and I just could not stop thinking, "well that was mean! why would you do this to us ST! You made that cover so damn emotional and beautiful!" T^T

I said this before in my updates but I'll say it again, one of the biggest issues I have with a lot of BL and dark romance stories is how they avoid the real, brutal trauma that assault victims actually go through — and it’s incredibly sad.

Victims are left feeling ashamed, dirty, unworthy of love, and utterly disgusting, even though they did nothing wrong. They’re innocent, yet they carry this invisible weight that doesn’t wash off, no matter how many times they try. This was a really refreshing take to see. (also, to think 10 years have passed from the beginning to end of the volume!)

So for Wuhuan to be willing to give his body, soul, and heart over to Song Qingshi despite still mentally healing, just leaves me weak! I just want to wrap them up in a warm blanket like a burrito, feed them, and let them be happy forever! ( っ´ `)っ(˶˘ ³˘(´͈ ᵕ `͈˶)

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Wuhuan literally went though hell. He hates himself and wished to die to just leave the hell he was living. He used to have so much bright potential to him. He deserved none of the cruelty and torture... So seeing him battle the intrusive yandare-like thoughts of wanting to stain Song Qingshi, but feeling too dirty to be worthy of him is so gut wrenching. In reality, this man deserves love, warmth, and kindness.
And then the heavens decide to want to kill him. Why must it be like this! ｡°(°¯᷄◠¯᷅°)°｡

"Why?" he murmured to himself, staring up at the lightning-filled sky. "Am I not even worthy of living?" Yue Wuhuan understood at last. He laughed as he looked at the clouds above.
"You'd break all the heavenly laws just to end me now? This is beyond hatred... There must be a reason you want to kill me at the foundation stage. Are you afraid of me?"
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Yue Wuhuan stared down at the limp body in his arms.
Please! This isn't the ending I want! His heart reeled from a blow not even the lock bug could cushion, and his breathing grew erratic.
"D-don't be sad." Sensing his state, Song Qingshi struggled to muster the last of his strength and force the words from his burned throat. His grasp on consciousness slipped. Wuhuan, did you hear me? .·°՞(っ-ᯅ-ς)՞°·.

Man, this part hurt!

I'm so excited for what's next! I love that Song Qingshi got revenge for him! I love that he's so gentle. Haha he unconsciously snuggles Wuhuan and don't even know it! Lmao! ꉂ(˵˃ ᗜ ˂˵)
Mr An is driving me a little nuts tho... What's his deal!? 😱

Only reason this is not a 5/5 is because at times, they emphasized what he went through and brought it up too much, and as a fellow victim of abuse, it honestly made me queasy—bringing back my trauma! It was too much, man! They mentioned and brought up his beauty at least one too many times. Just on repeat.

[Kay · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5 I know I've been rating these novels pretty high! I love, live for danmei okay!

Twenty pages in and I was already crying. I didn't think the pain from volume one would hit me so suddenly! I can't really articulate how I feel about their dynamic at the moment. It's a small volume, so I hope to see more development soon. You can slowly start to see one person's true side emerging (trying not to spoil anything! 🙊).

I feel so deeply for how trapped Yue Wuhuan is. Song Qingshi wants to save him and bring him back to who he was before. Song Qingshi is determined to heal Yue Wuhuan using his medical knowledge from his previous life and make Yue Wuhuan feel like himself again, but other complications keep arising, namely Yue Wuhuan's mental illness. The sheer amount of care Song Qingshi has for Yue Wuhuan just breaks my heart!

I just want to hold Yue Wuhuan and cry with him. He has gone through so much! I've cried over him multiple times, even as I write this review. He deserves nothing but happiness!
Happy reading!🥰

🪷Spoiler Warning🪷

Song Qingshi died from ALS and was transmigrated into a novel. He became the character Song Qingshi, known as the Medicine King for his incredible medical skills and knowledge of poisons. He cultivates Emptiness and possesses two different fire abilities, one of which is Hell Fire, which can be poisonous
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Song Qingshi saves Yue Wuhuan, who is a slave—and tragically, a sex slave. Yue Wuhuan endures immense pain, both mental and physical, and hates every part of himself because he feels defiled and dirty. These horrible people trained him how to seduce men! If he resisted, they would drug and torture him. I cried my eyes out reading about it!

Yue Wuhuan doesn't want Song Qingshi to touch him, perceiving Song Qingshi as clean and pure, but he has been having desirable thoughts toward him. Yue Wuhuan wants him all to himself. He wants to defile Song Qingshi, and that is where his Yandere tendencies start to emerge.

I want to continue this story, but I'm not sure yet! I also want to read The Wife Comes First when it comes out.

[Brigi · Rating 3 out of 5]

So far I'm a bit disappointed if I'm being honest. This series has a lot of fans, so I expected something more interesting? Apparently more things happen from vol 2, but yeah, this was very light on plot so far.

[Özlem]

The ultimate 'you CANNOT fix him'. He sure can't!

[Queens Love Books · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Everything you once had, Ill find and return to you. I'll give you everything you've longed for."

The cover was the first thing that grabbed me, and I actually really like it. Seven Seas covers are usually a hit or a miss for me, but this one works. The interior art, though, didn’t land the same way. The bodies, outfits, and backgrounds look solid, but the faces feel off in a way that kept pulling me out of scenes. It seems small, but it matters when the story leans so much on emotion.

The story itself delivers a charged and uneven ride built around hurt characters learning how to breathe again. The tone swings between dark trauma and awkward humor, which can be engaging but also jarring depending on the reader. Song Qingshi reads as a gentle and anxious healer who means well even when he fumbles, while Yue Wuhuan is sharp, guarded, and shaped by deep wounds. Their dynamic has a slow pull. Qingshi offers quiet care without noticing how personal it feels, and Wuhuan studies every touch as if it might vanish. The emotional work between them grows in these quiet pockets and will appeal to readers who like relationship development that simmers more than it bursts.

The plot moves through medical trials, buried pain, and moments where small steps forward break apart again. It’s a heavy mix of healing, fear, and hesitant connection, with bursts of danger that give the story a sudden push. By the time the larger conflict arrives near the end, the momentum feels earned and the characters feel changed. It lands as a solid but imperfect read that rewards patience, though some readers may struggle with the graphic abuse, power imbalances, and the way the narrative favors feeling over action.

date Read: 2025.12.09

[mara - hyrulevalkyrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just KNEW I would love this

[terka · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a re-read for me, since I read the whole thing this summer. And it was even better the second time around! So many small hints now make SO much more sense. All those references… but I’ll keep this spoiler free. Figuring out everything was one of the best parts of Misvil :) highly recommended!

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Song Qingshi: Yue Wuhan is my sweet little angel baby who can do no wrong
Yue Wuhan: *daydreams about vicious vengeance and making Song Qingshi his*

Yue Wuhan: I am too filthy, I can't taint my precious, innocent savior
Song Qingshi: the eternal torment of your enemy's soul is a good present, right?

Content Warnings: human trafficking, slavery, SA, physical abuse, mental health disorders including depression and suicidal ideation, self-harm, and potentially others I'm missing.

[Kate♡]

DNF

I have now tried reading this 4 times between the fan translation and this official one, and I just can't do it. The story is so interesting, the set up is great, and I love a story about healing from trauma/finding a person you can heal with. But this one just... the writing wasn't it. It felt very impersonal and extremely tell-y rather than showing. It was hard to care for these characters that we barely know, and it felt like every scene was the same thing over and over again.

I guess I'm pickier with writing/structure than I thought when it comes to danmei - I feel like I used to push through bad writing/writing I don't vibe with because we only had like 3 options, but now dozens of danmei are being published and I don't feel the need to force myself.

[Linnea⊹ ‧₊˚ ౨ৎ · Rating 5 out of 5]

devoured this book within a couple of hours and I now have to wait until like february for the next one💔💔

[Munch · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5

[ari ⋆˚ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can't wait for the next volume next year! At some points it was slow but it was so relaxing and cute just seeing our main characters together that kept me reading all the way through.

[goblin · Rating 3 out of 5]

i’m interested in snake dude. what’s his deal

[K · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting mix of extremely dark and rather funny.

Song Qingshi is a pampered rich medical student with ALS who spends his shortened human lifespan studying and dreaming of a future where he might have a healthy body. This wish is granted in an unexpected way, by a "system" that offers him a special opportunity after his death: to let his soul transfer into the world of a novel that had been going somewhat off-track from the readers' expectations.

As someone who had never been in any romantic relationships and never read fictional novels, Song Qingshi is wildly unsuited for this task - to save and heal the heart of the traumatized protagonist - but he cheerfully lies about his qualifications and gets sent into the body of a famed (and feared) medical cultivator who has a lifestyle and personality very similar to his. The primary difference is that this world's Song Qingshi is truly heartless, willing to engage in human experiments and shutting off any possibility of romantic entanglement, much to the despair of his best (only) friend, a poisonmaster named An Long.

Unfortunately, the system was (unexplained as to why) broken when it recruited Song Qingshi, so it only gave him scattered information about the novel world when it loaded all of his new body's memories into his head. (Some of those memories are damaged or missing, too, like whatever An Long did to make him so angry in the past.) The main problem for Song Qingshi is that he has no idea who the protagonist is. So he makes his first mistake: saving the beautiful, intensely traumatized man he's the most drawn to, rather than the hero he was meant to rescue.

The title seems a little misleading, because Yue Wuhuan couldn't have ever been considered the novel's villain. He'd been a minor character who had died from a tiger attack during the banquet where the protagonist was unveiled to a lustful crowd. He does have a darker side to his personality now, with a heart that's filled with thoughts of revenge, but all of that is pretty warranted, and it's not as though he's going around slaughtering people indiscriminately. The only life he takes in this volume is someone who had assaulted him during his time as a sex slave.

Which can't be considered villainous if you're comparing him against Song Qingshi, who brutally kills the man who'd sold Yue Wuhuan into slavery, then traps his soul in a bottle for eternal torment.

Regardless, this misunderstanding doesn't seem to impact anything - the system was perhaps too damaged to yank Song Qingshi back out or set him on the right past to save the true protagonist - so they settle into a quiet life together, with Song Qingshi trying to patch Yue Wuhuan back together physically, mentally, and emotionally. Some of that is a lot harder than others, because Song Qingshi is not very good at understanding emotions, but he's trying his best.

The romance has a nice build, with Yue Wuhuan gradually growing to trust Song Qingshi (ten years of torment and betrayal makes it hard to believe anyone is truly good) and Song Qingshi remaining quite oblivious about what his attachment to Yue Wuhuan truly means.

There's also a love triangle, with An Long very obviously in love with an intensely oblivious Song Qingshi. I liked him a lot as a character and hope he isn't turned into any sort of villain, although he does seem rather more on the brutal side, mostly holding himself back for Song Qingshi's sake. Not sure why he slaughtered an entire sect at the end of this volume, but it must've been something embarrassing to do with his secret love for Song Qingshi.

The other cliffhanger at the end of this volume was...a little puzzling, honestly. I don't understand why a single lightning strike "meant for a yuanying cultivator" would have nearly killed Song Qingshi, considering he is a very powerful yuanying cultivator who had gone through his own tribulation trial to attain that status. It felt like a sort of cheap trick to make things more dramatic.

It's possible, certainly, that this lightning was system-generated to finally try to fix the mistake of Yue Wuhuan living and attaining status he never should've been able to reach. But still. The setup still didn't really work with putting Song Qingshi in mortal danger.

Interested in the next volume, and in seeing Yue Wuhuan finally figuring out how to convince Song Qingshi he's in love with him. I just hope An Long won't get a true villain arc to pave the way for their happy ending. He and the snake are kind of the tragic heroes at this point.

[Toni · Rating 3 out of 5]

Song Qingshi is a promising medical student in the modern world who dies of ALS and awakens in the body of the immortal Song Qingshi, who is a medical whiz in a fantasy world -- that's part of a novel! He lied to the system that brought him to this fictional world in the hopes of acquiring a healthy body, but in return, he must save the protagonist of the story. The only problem is, he doesn't know who that is, and the system gave vague and incomplete clues. To make matters worse, in this world, immortals are cruel beings who treat mortals as slaves and sexual playthings, so any of the humans he comes across could fit the bill. However, after a brief encounter with one such pitiful soul, Yue Wuhuan, Song Qingshi feels certain he is the protagonist and rescues him from an attack.
Whisking him away to his medicine valley, Song Qingshi begins the slow and difficult process of healing Yue Wuhuan -- both physically and mentally. At first, Wuhuan is suspicious of the medicine king who has a reputation for being cold, aloof, and finicky. But as time passes and Song Qingshi shows him nothing but kindness, life begins to return to the broken former slave. But healing his mind is a much more difficult task, and the social anxiety-ridden Song Qingshi feels poorly equipped to handle this case. Still, he'll use every trick in his doctoral arsenal to cure the surprisingly brilliant and seemingly kind-hearted Wuhuan. This is one case he will not fail!

I was unprepared for the harshness of the fantasy world Song Qingshi woke up in. Sexual enslavement was a theme throughout the entire novel, so be warned now. In the face of that grim environment, Song Qingshi seems to be the only light in the darkness, so it's understandable when Yue Wuhuan begins to have feelings for him (some pure, some...less so). However, years of abuse have left him traumatized, and he struggles with wanting to love Song Qingshi while also feeling too dirty for him. The most emotional moments in this book came from delving into Yue Wuhuan's horrible past, despite not going into extensive detail. However, other than that, the rest of the plot felt pretty flat. The story focuses on Song Qingshi creating medicines to heal Wuhuan's body and fumbling through his social shortcomings to create a connection with his patient and heal his mind as well.
That's it.
There are a few encounters with a friend of the former Song Qingshi (about whom it's unclear if he's friendly or secretly hostile), as well as a righteous confrontation at the end, but I was surprised at how quickly it came and went; the lack of any revenge plot at all threw me off. It's clear this series is going to focus on the relationship between the main leads, and for that kind of story, this book does a pretty good job. However, I need something more, so, while this isn't a bad novel, it failed to excite me enough to make me want to continue the rest of the series.

[Carmen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well it’s been a long time since I spontaneously purchased an ebook and read it throughout the night. Normally I’m buying the physical copy of seven seas releases because the Danmei publications are so pretty but when I noticed last night that it was already out I decided to eat the cost of an ebook even though I know I’ll be grabbing the special edition the next time I’m at the bookstore and honestly zero regrets.

Finishing volume 1 and this is shaping up to be one of my top Danmei series. I can’t wait for the other three volumes to go out.

I love all the tropes this volume had but I also was impressed with the translation and how easily it flowed. Granted I find the transmigration ones tend to be easier reads because the MC has modern slang in their POv thoughts and that tends to translate smoother but overall it was a decent pace. Big fan of the hurt/comfort caregiver trope in this arc and appreciated that even though the ML (the one the MC saves thinking it’s the protagonist) is broken and traumatized from 10 years of physical and sexual abuse while being a slave and they don’t shy away from letting us know how he was assaulted continuously, they also don’t include flash backs or present scenes depicting the SA, glorifying/romanticizing it or even leaning in to scenes a “trauma porn” which I think too many authors especially in these types of Danmeis utilize.

[Susanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Song Qingshi reincarnates into a novel he hasn’t read with orders to save the hero. But since he has no idea who that is, he saves the person he thinks needs saving most. Yue Wuhuan is a sex slave who has been brought so low he has lost his will to live. Song Qingshi, a medical student in his own life and a masterful healer in this, with a thousand years of memories, sets out to heal his body and mind. First is easy. Latter is more difficult.

Yue Wuhuan isn’t really a villain. He’s a badly traumatised man bent on revenge. Song Qingshi sees nothing wrong with that, and in fact enables it. And by the end of the book, he has no idea he’s rescued the wrong man. Nothing is made of it.

This wasn’t a very interesting or good story. The opening was strong enough to pull me in, but after that it was mostly events, one after another, with no proper plot. The ending was a cliffhanger. I won’t continue with this.

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

¿Cómo va a terminar el libro así?😭 Qué buena historia. Este primer libro, aunque lo he sentido como muy introductorio para lo que se viene realmente (faltan 3 libros más), me ha encantado. Personajes muy carismáticos e interesantes. Definitivamente, Son Qingshi mi favorito🥺✨️ La trama me está pareciendo muy interesante, pero también dolorosa. En especial todo lo relacionado con los traumas de Yue Wuhuan. No le dan ni un segundo de paz. An Long también me pareció un personaje bastante guay, pero a la vez me está costando pillarle las intenciones y con ese final me he quedado a cuadros.

En fin que yo solo quiero qje Son Qingshi y Yue Wuhuan sean felices juntos y se pasen la vida entera estudiando medicina. No pido más😭

Ahora a esperar hasta finales de febrero del próximo año para leer el siguiente 🥲

[Breanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love our so so smart (yet so so idiot) MC. Parts are full of heavy themes, but I love their interactions and can’t wait to keep reading.

[Aria · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this! I can't wait until February for vol 2 - Yue Wuhuan and Song Qingshi have my whole heart, and all I want is to see them be happy and live their slice of life fantasy in the Medicine King's Valley.

Also, I love Haolong/Xiao Bai, and I really hope Song Qingshi takes his pet snake/son home!

[isbah ♡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

codependency and transmigration, my weaknesses
these characters are my babies <3 please check CW before reading!

+ 1000 points for oblivious, anxious mc rep & i'm just a sucker for their overall dynamic.

SQS: wuhuan is my little angel & i will defend all his rights and wrongs (& he is so real for that)

my review of the full series: ₊˚⊹♡
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[Dania Paola Chavez · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit of a slow start, but interesting nonetheless. Transmigration novels are just my Achilles heel, oblivious MCs seem to also be a weakness of mine when reading danmeis XD

[mikayla :) · Rating 3 out of 5]

it’s a good start. part of it is super cringey but i like how it deals a lot with trauma. it’s trying to pull someone back from the brink of wanting to die all the time and giving him a way to live. making him feel safe again, even if it’s through unconventional ways that are meant with good intentions. the plot felt a bit vague but it’s the first book so with danmei i feel like it’s usually like this.

[Gracie (gracie.belle.reads) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️

[Sleepy Zirka · Rating 4 out of 5]

✧˖°.˗ˏˋ MISTAKENLY SAVING THE VILLAIN ˊ˗˖°.✧
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He had no power. No reputation. No gems, no friends, no home.
He was Yue Wuhuan, still, a filthy beast with absolutely nothing to his name.
The mirror landed on the floor, shattering into pieces.
So dirty. Everything is so dirty…

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Characters: ★★★★★
World Building: ★★★★★
Plot: ★★★★☆
Tension: ★★☆☆☆
Writing style: ★★★☆☆
Entertainment: ★★★★☆
Romance: ★★★★☆

Overall Score: ★ 4.1/5.0 ★ 8/10 ★
Oh wow! This piece of literature has a big amount of discourse, let me see what's going on! *walk walk* *7seas jumpscare* AHH!

Okay jokingg~ This Danmei caught my eye on two occasions, first of being a fan favorite and generating a good amount of hype and anticipation. The cover drawn by suto (st.) and the interior illustration also done by a majestic artist under the name 墨路. On the other hand we had the discourse of the monopolistic and greedy behavior of seven seas, which made this book barely 300, paper thinner than the one on a public toilet and the 'special edition' being so lackluster done (The art was great, but the quality and decision to make paper goods and charge $10 on top... yeah...) We couldve gotten two thick volumes or maybe even 3... but no we got to pull this long, like a chewing gum.
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˗ˏˋ The Story ˊ˗

Song Qingshi, a medical students wakes up being transmigrated into a novel! Under the task to help the main hero, he starts his journey with much enthusiasm. Although shortly after the system starts to disappear and leaves him with a cryptic and uncomplete mission. Following the Systems instruction, he is guided to find the handsome and smart main character of the novel... and stumbling onto the ball he see's him. Yue Wuhuan. Checking every criteria!

On the contrary, Yue Wuhan is a villain and he had every right to be. But having a annoying tail following him and treating him like a kicked puppy. Tending his wounds in and out. He starts to struggle internally why the young man would do such kind deed's to tend for *villains* wounds.
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˗ˏˋ My Two Cents ˊ˗

Okay! Lets get to the meat, i quite liked the first volume, but not loved it. The dynamic between the characters? Very Good! They have quite the chemistry and the development happens lightning fast. As a transmigration novel it has certainly a quick pace, yet lingers on the moments between the main couple and the aspects of trial and error. Not only in the medical field, since Song Qingshi was a medical student in his prior life, but also as they start closing in.

The rather dark topics are handled expectantly with care, exploring the aspects of human trafficking, sexual assault, mental illness, trauma, torture, suicide. So keep your eyes peeled for those if you have negative experiences with such content warnings.

The only aspect that lacked in my option, was the lack of a persistent goal or threat outside the character motivations. Big Plus points and stars on Characters, momentarily lacking in the suspense and tension. Maybe the next volumes will bring more to the table, whilst the first volume did serve as a splendid afternoon snack. A pity 7Seas did cut the volumes in such a profit driven mindset.
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- Series ☆ 4.1/5 ☆ -
[ Mistakenly Saving the Villain Vol. 1 ] ★ 4.1/5.0 ★ 8/10 ★
[ Mistakenly Saving the Villain Vol. 2 ] ★ x/5.0 ★ x/10 ★
[ Mistakenly Saving the Villain Vol. 3 ] ★ x/5.0 ★ x/10 ★
[ Mistakenly Saving the Villain Vol. 4 ] ★ x/5.0 ★ x/10 ★
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[Lanie Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Song Qingshi always knew he would die young, what he didn't know is that he'd be chosen to be sent into a historical romance novel in his next life!! Which would be great, but Song Qingshi knows next to nothing about romance novels. Although he should be fine, he knew a ton of women that loved them, so when the "system" tasks him with saving the protagonist he's 100% sure he's got this!
Of course I loved this, I mean do you really even need to ask? An absolutely naive mc, who actually says at one point the only books people should read are non-fiction, has to figure out who the protagonist is and then save them, what could possibly go wrong?

Song Qingshi is the most perfect character for this type of plot. He's not just a sick kid who dedicated his entire life to medicine he's a rich sick kid who dedicated his entire life to medicine. He has zero people skills to speak of and while his sickness (I believe he had ALS) plays a part in his lack of social skills his privileged life clearly plays just as large of a role. He is just one of those people who live in their own world and thanks to that he's actually developed his own set of rules to determine what is right and wrong. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing but without these personality quirks I don't think this would have worked as well. It's his inability to read the room due to his very sheltered existence that I believe allows the reader to see Yue Wuhuan in a positive light even as he is doing awful things.

Which, of course, Yue Wuhuan definitely does some pretty awful things but with his backstory plus Song Qingshi's dedication to protecting him those things are kind of understandable. He's been used and abused his whole life mentally, physically, and sexually. He's mad and rightfully so. Song Qingshi is the first person who treated him like he was human for ages, it's understandable that there are not only some serious trust issues in the beginning but that once he mostly gets over those, he puts Song Qingshi on a pedestal. This isn't a healthy relationship for certain, and I think Yue Wuhuan understands that while Song Qingshi simply doesn't have the life experience to see it.

I think the big thing that I loved about this though is, if Yue Wuhuan is the villain the Immortals, who used and abused him for most of his life are like super villains. There is simply nothing he has done (so far) that even comes close to being as bad as the Immortals. From the very first chapter it's established that the Immortals are sadistic to an extreme, like a small child with a magnifying glass and an anthill, the mortals are so far beneath them in their opinion that their lives hold no more value than to end them in the cruelest ways possible. It's pretty clear that it's all Immortals too, at least so far in the series. There simply isn't one immortal that we are introduced too that isn't just evil so no matter what awful things Yue Wuhuan does it just seems like it's nothing compared to what has been done to him and others.
In terms of pacing, world building all of that jazz this is pretty spot on as well. I never got bored and I found that using flashbacks to Yue Wuhuan's life from before Song was a really good way to establish just the type of world we find ourselves in. Song Qingshi's reminiscing on his first life establishes just how naive and spoiled he is, which is so needed to establish Yue's role within their household.

This is definitely a series I plan on continuing, especially since we seem to have a love triangle in place here. While normally this would be something that I disliked about a romance, Song Qingshi is just so freaking clueless it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

[Paula (lovebookscl) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Relectura con la traducción oficial de Seven Seas

Ya había leído este danmei y me encantó en su momento, así que obviamente estaba emocionada por su publicación oficial en inglés. Y la traducción no ha decepcionado. La historia fluye muy bien y la pasé genial visitando nuevamente este libro.

Creo que los capítulos contenidos con el primer tomo dan una muy buena introducción a la historia. Sé que han habido quejas sobre cómo se están dividiendo los danmei (en tomos que a veces son delgados y otros más gruesos), pero creo que para MISVIL, se aborda lo suficiente para este primer vol. Especialmente considerando que cuando se avance más en la historia, esta se volverá más densa. Esta primera parte es la más ligera. Además termina justo en el primer arco de la historia.

Las ilustraciones elegidas me encantaron, le va muy bien al estilo de MISVIL y amo que la artista tuviera el ojo al detalle de representar a Song Qingshi y Yue Wuhan como hombres bellos con facciones más suaves y delicadas, muy acorde al libro. Bello x bello

Respecto a la historia en sí: me sigue encantando. Es una trama entretenida, con un buen ritmo de narración y dos protagonistas que inmediatamente te atrapan. Y volviendo un poco a la calidad de la traducción, hay que considerar que el POV de Song Qingshi y Yue Wuhuan están constantemente cambiando, incluso entre párrafos, así que lograr que se entienda cuando ocurren esos rápidos saltos entre pov no es fácil y creo que se logró muy bien, y se entiende perfectamente.

Ahora, como esta es una relectura, debo decir que la primera vez que leí MISVIL quedé tiesa por todos los plot twist que ocurren en la historia, especialmente los del final. Es un libro que me tomó por sorpresa. Con cada pieza del puzzle se armaba una trama que tuve que procesar por bastante tiempo jajaja dicho eso (ahora que sé todo lo que pasa) puedo ver todas las señales y guiños que te dan desde el capítulo 1 jajaja me siento humillada jajaja

El inicio de MISVIL es mi favorito de todo el libro, pero igual estoy esperando muy emocionada lo que se viene en los próximos volúmenes

En resumen, la historia de un gran maestro de medicina que en vez de salvar al héroe, se confunde y rescata a otro personaje. Y dicho personaje se obsesiona con él. La perfecta combinación del prota que no se entera de nada (Song Qingshi) y el prota calculador que quiere venganza del mundo y apoderarse del corazón de quien lo rescató (Yue Wuhuan).

“You wished me good luck that night. I want a lifetime of good luck for both of us”

“The first gift is my body,
The second, my soul.
The third is my heart…
I’m yours, forever”

“Everything you once had, I’ll find and return to you. I’ll give you everything you’ve longed for”

If I arrange your hair for the rest of your life, will it connect us in the next?

He was perfect when he smiled… Not even all the stars in the sky could outshine his light, and Song Qingshi really couldn’t look away

Wuhuan, don’t be afraid. Being beautiful is not a sin

His intelligence only made him more aware of his own pain