The Villain Always Falls in Love with Me at First Sight

[I've been laid up with a bad cold... I'll get back to writing when I feel a bit better. orz]

Interstellar academy * puppy love

Sunny, upright puppy seme x gloomy, wicked kitty uke

Shen Tinghan is the villainous boss in the book. He was supposed to meet his end, but instead seized power against all odds, murdered his elder brother, imprisoned his father, and climbed to the throne over heaps of blood. In the end, trapped in madness and despair, he destroyed himself, bringing his short, obsessive life to a hasty end.

To save a small world where the protagonist dies young and the villain explodes.

The plot-correction System, desperate and out of options, grabbed people at random to protect the protagonist, hoping to correct the plot and restart the worldline.

And I was the unlucky one who died suddenly.

*

I transmigrated into a book.

The System said: This is the protagonist. This is his health bar. Go protect him.

Every tear the protagonist shed cost me a life.

As a five-life expendable whose life force was linked to the protagonist's,

I had no choice but to follow him day and night, stake out his whereabouts, and protect him at close range to stay alive.

And so, in just seven days, I became the number one suck-up to the protagonist, Shen Yanqing.

Good thing I wasn't alone.

He was Shen Yanqing's number one hater.

Shen Tinghan.

We kept running into each other by chance, and tacitly teamed up to lurk in ditches, behind walls, and in sewers like a pair of sneaky, miserable rats who couldn't show their faces in daylight.

Wherever he went, bloodshed followed. I watched him bounce around, attacking the protagonist and everyone around him without discrimination.

Maybe because I followed the protagonist for so long, the person Shen Tinghan cursed more often than anyone else was me.

“Bootlicker.”

Unable to take the abuse, I fought back: “And how are you any different from a bootlicker?”

Shen Tinghan: ...

Me: Wait, why are you blushing?!!

*

While I was busy exploiting bugs in the villain's actions and letting the protagonist grow freely, the System showed up again.

System: [...Stop sneaking off to hold hands with the villain! Kissing is out of the question too! Transmigrators forgotten by the protagonist get erased! Go activate your golden finger, you idiot!]

I was shocked: What?!! I have a golden finger?

System: Did you not read a single word of the contract?

In short, my golden finger was...

Showing off in front of the protagonist.

Everything the protagonist thought of me would become real.

To stay alive and, while I was at it, build up some strength, wealth, connections, and get a certain someone to propose to me, I had to show up in front of the protagonist every few days and act like a cool, expressionless guy from a powerful family, or a peerless master.

On the sixth day, I opened my eyes to find the little villain glaring at me and grabbing me by the back of the collar. His features twisted, his gaze dark, his fangs sharp. Like a hungry ghost pouncing on its prey, he tilted his head and smiled.

“Stupid dog, I can look like him too...”

*

After finally saving the world, I, an exemplary employee, wiped my mouth and held my aching back as I shared my recipe for success.

“Ahem, he fell in love with me at first sight.”

Just writing for fun, updates whenever. (Usually on weekdays when I have time at work!) Mostly first-person, with other perspectives mixed in. I like misunderstandings where people talk past each other. A sweet little slice-of-life story with hardly any plot. w

Theme: Cut through the waves against the wind, and grow toward the sun.