After ten years of being called a blind cripple, the shaman Li Xiaoman finally dies. His hated life is over. Before he can even breathe a sigh of relief, he transmigrates into a book, becoming the real young master in a wealthy family who gets no respect.
Whether they respect him or not doesn't matter. What matters is that his eyes work and his legs are fine!
Now that he's whole, why would he want to follow the plot through misery and strife, or fight the fake young master for affection?
The original owner fought tooth and nail for his parents' meager favoritism, and ended up sick and suffering after competing with the fake young master. He drank to drown his sorrows over an ex-boyfriend who'd fallen out of love with him, and ultimately died after the villain Pei Duan schemed against him.
Li Xiaoman slaps his hand down. Enough of all that nonsense. Watch your big brother Xiaoman swindle everything that belongs to you back into your hands.
Right after he's acknowledged by his biological family, his parents say, "Xiaoman, your younger brother is frail. Seeing you makes him uncomfortable..."
Li Xiaoman: "As long as the money's right, we can work anything out."
He gets a check, and grinning as he holds the money, says, "He can stand on this side of the equator, and I'll stand on the other. I could even hide out in outer space."
Everyone says the real young master, who grew up away from home, is uncouth and all looks with no substance.
Li Xiaoman raises his voice, talks his way into securing a major project, and brings the whole team along for the ride.
As everyone looks at him with admiration, Li Xiaoman wraps himself in a cotton coat and says, "No big deal. Your big brother Xiaoman's words are worth their weight in gold."
Every day, Li Xiaoman talks a mile a minute. Besides fooling people, he also has to keep the villain Pei Duan happy.
Beautiful on the outside and venomous within, Pei Duan is ruthless and always at odds with him.
Li Xiaoman uses the original owner's sickly body to fuss over Pei Duan, but Pei Duan scoffs, "Putting on an act."
He saves Pei Duan from danger and warms the heart of the reclusive villain, but Pei Duan gives him a cold look. "False concern."
Li Xiaoman can fool everyone except Pei Duan.
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Pei Duan is a good-for-nothing layabout, a famous useless pretty face in the capital. One day, he magnanimously tries to save a disabled person, but fails and ends up transmigrating into a book himself. And he's the villain, hated by his father and mother alike!
His transmigration-into-a-book mission is simple: do three bad things every day to bully Li Xiaoman.
Every day, three things! On top of sleeping, eating, and having fun, he has to rack his brain to do three bad things!
Pei Duan would rather let his labor go to waste in bed or dump it in a river than give in to the mission!
So he starts getting electrocuted.
If he doesn't do bad things, he gets electrocuted. If he doesn't push the plot forward, he gets electrocuted. If he doesn't bully Li Xiaoman, he gets electrocuted... Other people transmigrate into books and take the world by storm. Did he transmigrate just to serve as an electrical resistor?
All he can do is practice a fierce look in the mirror, then rack his brains to insult Li Xiaoman and do bad things.
Putting on an act! Fake and phony! Hypocrite!
He knocks over Li Xiaoman's cup, messes up his desk, and kicks his slippers away.
When he isn't electrocuted again, Pei Duan laments: I've become a cold, heartless machine for learning to be bad. I'm not the kind-hearted person I used to be anymore.
Li Xiaoman has ruined everything...
Theme: What do you do when you've landed the villain? Help!
