After transmigrating into a book, the stunning young Shen Ci becomes Xiao Yu, the vicious, jealous, ruthless villain in a fantasy novel, destined for a gruesome end.
The original Xiao Yu used his talent and family background to target the protagonist at every turn. He committed every imaginable misdeed, and was ultimately reduced to ashes. Readers outside the book had torn him to shreds with their insults.
Just as Shen Ci is standing there, completely bewildered, the [Audience Favorability Survival System] binds to him:
He must stick to the villain’s role while winning the audience’s affection. If his favorability drops, his life force will immediately drain away until his soul is annihilated.
For everyone else, transmigrating into a book means turning their fate around. For him, it means following the villain’s script while charming the audience with his looks and acting.
When the protagonist is in danger, he must “viciously” intervene, while secretly going easy on him;
When everyone curses him, he keeps his gaze cool, then turns around and takes everyone’s breath away;
Even when he’s sabotaging things, every move gets the audience obsessively shipping him with the protagonist.
From then on, a bizarre sight appears across the fantasy continent:
The villain is impossibly beautiful, his acting is god-tier, and he pulls off every wicked deed without a hitch, yet the audience cries, “What a captivating darling!” “This villain is incredible!” “I’m feeling the fated bond between him and the protagonist!”
Shen Ci: Don’t curse me, don’t curse me! I’m playing the villain properly. Please give me some favorability so I can stay alive!
Audience: Aaaah, the villain is so beautiful! I love how wicked he is! Lock in that ship!
Protagonist: ??? Why is this villain getting stranger and stranger?
As the plot spins out of control and their fated showdown draws near, the two who were supposed to fight to the death become the audience’s favorite couple under the gaze of the masses.
Looking at his full life bar, Shen Ci calmly says:
Playing the villain? Easy. With my looks and acting, I can not only stay alive…
