Seven Seas Mistakenly Saving the Villain: Volumes and Dates

Seven Seas Mistakenly Saving the Villain headlines a 12-license wave that also gave English-language danmei readers Thrice Married to a Salted Fish by Bi Ka Bi, two titles that already had distinct original runs. The original October 2024 announcement is no longer just a preorder story. Seven Seas now lists four English volumes for each series, which makes the schedule and the original chapter structure much clearer.

Seven Seas Mistakenly Saving the Villain: Why the Count Looks Confusing

Seven Seas’ October 23, 2024 licensing event is commonly called a 12-license wave. That is fair shorthand for the presentation, but it can obscure a useful detail. Comics Beat’s October 25 report counted twelve items in the package while explaining that only eleven were new: The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish had been announced previously.

That distinction matters for readers building a list from the announcement. It prevents an old license from being mistaken for a newly acquired one and keeps the real news focused on the fresh additions. The two titles here were among those new announcements, alongside other Danmei releases such as Copper Coins and The Wife Comes First.

For another publisher announcement with a clear original-title trail, see .

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Seven Seas Mistakenly Saving the Villain: From 120 Chapters to Four Volumes

Image: Seven Seas cover for Mistakenly Saving the Villain (Novel) Vol. 1

The original JJWXC page gives Mistakenly Saving the Villain its Chinese title, 论救错反派的下场, and credits Feng Yu Nie. It marks the work complete and its chapter list ends at chapter 120, an extra. The listing identifies Song Qingshi and Yue Wuhuan as the central pair and places the story in xianxia with system and transmigration tags. Those are source-page facts, rather than assumptions from an English title.

Seven Seas' announcement calls it a "Mature-rated, heartrending drama" and gives the concise publisher pitch: “A mission gone wrong and a villain in need of serious therapy.” Its series page lists four volumes: volume 1 released November 25, 2025; volume 2 February 24, 2026; volume 3 June 30, 2026; and volume 4 is now scheduled for November 3, 2026. That last date is two weeks later than the October 20 we listed in September.

The release route is therefore concrete, but readers should not flatten it into a claim that every English volume is already on sale. When we checked on October 14, the fourth volume was still scheduled. That is a better reason to consult the publisher’s live series page than an announcement article frozen in 2024.

Thrice Married to a Salted Fish: A Complete Original, Four English Volumes

Image: Seven Seas cover for Thrice Married to a Salted Fish (Novel) Vol. 1

Bi Ka Bi’s original Thrice Married to a Salted Fish, 三嫁咸鱼, is also marked complete on JJWXC. Its chapter list runs through 119 main chapters and then 21 extras, for 140 entries total. The source page identifies Lin Qingyu and Lu Wancheng as the leads and tags the work as an original historical romance with transmigration and marriage-before-love elements. Those labels give a more reliable setup than trying to explain the title’s “salted fish” idiom as a genre category.

Seven Seas has likewise mapped the English release to four volumes. Volume 1 released November 11, 2025, with a standard and special edition. Volume 2 followed on February 10, 2026, volume 3 on June 16, 2026, and the last, volume 4, on October 20, 2026, a week later than the October 13 we listed in September. Its volume-one page credits Mimi, Huayu, and Eli for translation, with art by Mio and Mulliga K.

This is a useful example of why an original chapter count and an English volume count should not be treated as interchangeable. Four English books do not mean four chapters: each volume packages dozens of the original JJWXC chapters and extras.

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Seven Seas 12-License Wave: What Readers Can Confirm Now

Both books have official English publisher pages, named authors, four-volume schedules, and source pages that mark their original serials complete. That is enough to make a practical reading decision without relying on unverified copies or a fan-maintained total. It also lets readers distinguish a current schedule from the original announcement: the 2024 report announced intent, while today’s series pages show the actual volume plan.

Readers had been asking for both. In a February 2025 r/DanmeiNovels thread about the license, u/Magikarp_I_love_you wrote: "Whenever I did the 7 seas surveys I would write mistakenly saving the villain and married thrice to a salted fish." Another commenter, u/linest10, greeted the length with "4 volumes, thank God". A third reply in the same thread asked about fights: the original poster answered that there are battles "mainly near the end, but the fights aren’t exactly the main focus of the novel." We'd take that thread as proof of demand, not as a review: it tells you people wanted these books, not how the translation reads.

For facts about authors, dates, volumes, and original chapters, the JJWXC and Seven Seas pages are the sources used here.

Our take

Start with Thrice Married to a Salted Fish if you want the whole story on your shelf now: all four volumes are out. Mistakenly Saving the Villain is the one to buy if you came for xianxia and a dark love interest, but its last volume is the later of the two, and its date has already moved once since our September check. Neither series is at risk of stopping halfway, since both originals are marked complete.

Frequently Asked Questions

When did Seven Seas announce the 12-license wave?

Seven Seas’ licensing announcement was dated October 23, 2024; Comics Beat reported on the package October 25, 2024.

Who wrote Mistakenly Saving the Villain?

The original JJWXC page and Seven Seas credit Feng Yu Nie.

Who wrote Thrice Married to a Salted Fish?

The original JJWXC page and Seven Seas credit Bi Ka Bi.

How many original chapters do the two novels have?

JJWXC lists Mistakenly Saving the Villain at 120 chapters and Thrice Married to a Salted Fish at 140 chapters, including 21 extras.

Are the English editions complete?

Thrice Married to a Salted Fish is: Seven Seas lists four English volumes and the fourth came out in October 2026. Mistakenly Saving the Villain finishes with volume 4, dated November 3, 2026 on its series page when we checked on October 20, 2026.

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• English danmei license tracker: release status by publisher

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References

• Seven Seas: Mistakenly Saving the Villain
• Seven Seas: Thrice Married to a Salted Fish series page
• Seven Seas: Licenses Twelve New Danmei (October 23, 2024)
• Seven Seas: Thrice Married to a Salted Fish, Vol. 1
• JJWXC: 论救错反派的下场
• JJWXC: 三嫁咸鱼
• Comics Beat: 12-license report
• r/DanmeiNovels license discussion