I Bound Myself to the Wrong Villain, Then Helped Him Lie Flat and Stage a Comeback

The most absurd thing that ever happened to Xia Xiao was walking into a telephone pole while reading a novel after work. When she woke up, she had become a “defective product” in the System world: a beginner System that was supposed to bind itself to the original novel's male lead had a signal glitch and mistakenly bound Lin Mo, the villain who was about to be hit by a car, as its Host. Seeing the prompt on the System interface, “Mission failed: if the Host dies, your consciousness will disappear too,” Xia Xiao swallowed her urge to complain and was forced to adopt the persona of a “cold-blooded System”: “Beginner mission: get at least two hours of sunlight every day. No trying to kill yourself.”

Lin Mo was notorious for his ruthlessness in the business world. One moment, he was locked in a bitter feud with the original male lead, Gu Yanchen. The next, a System voice appeared out of nowhere and teleported him to a remote mountain village. Faced with missions like “feed chickens for the villagers in exchange for points” and “treat an injured bird to earn a reward,” the aloof villain fell into thought: Was this some new mind-game from Gu Yanchen?

From being forced to “cultivate his character” to secretly using satellite internet to move his assets and pursue new ventures; from hiding out in a mountain village to escape poverty-alleviation development projects to starting Qinghe Tourism in a second-tier city, Xia Xiao watched the villain who'd once been locked in a bitter feud now squat on a field ridge, asking a farmer for tips on growing corn. Her complaints, trapped inside the System, were about to burst out: “Wasn't the villain supposed to die from talking too much and seeking revenge? How did you end up lying flat and getting into agriculture?”

Later, Xia Xiao woke up in the real world. Outside the hospital, Lin Mo held up a Qinghe Tourism recruitment sign and smiled warmly. “Director Xia, your villain Host has come to the real world to turn his life around with you.” One mistaken binding, a lifetime of turning things around. It turns out the best story is the one where you step out of the script and stand by my side.