The Wicked Master Always Loves to Court Death

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After transmigrating, Yan Xici discovers that he has become the villainous master from a novel he once read.

In the story, his main role is to torment the protagonist, body and soul, driving the lonely child to darkness until the protagonist eventually rips out his spirit and tortures him for over a thousand years.

In a cultivation world where people can live for hundreds or even thousands of years, Yan Xici has nothing but worldly desires. He decides that he won't just torment the protagonist, he'll torment him even more, making him hate Yan Xici so much that he's consumed with resentment and finally runs him through with a sword. That way, Yan Xici won't have to waste hundreds of years, and in eighteen years he'll be a brand-new man.

With his goal set, Yan Xici devises the Thirty-Six Strategies for Tormenting the Protagonist and works diligently to become a truly villainous master.

But he never imagined that the protagonist had been reborn!

Trapped in a sealing formation, Yan Xici deeply regrets having gone too far. Now all those cruel methods are being visited upon him one by one.

Yan Xici: Please let me reload and start over! QAQ

Scheming, black-hearted disciple x cold-looking, lazy-at-heart master

How to teach your disciple

Yan Xici: Listen up. When dealing with an enemy, be fast, ruthless, and precise. If one strike will do, don't leave room for a second.

Ji Moze: But the sect leader says you should always leave some leeway, so you can meet again in the future...

Yan Xici: If you don't pull up the weeds by the roots, you deserve to be reborn. So make sure you finish the job cleanly and decisively. (Meaningful, frantic look) Never give your enemy a chance to strike back!

Later

Ji Moze: Master taught me to be fast, ruthless, and precise. But I could never bring myself to be ruthless with you, Master, so I left you a chance to strike back.

Yan Xici lies sprawled on the couch, eyes rolling like a dead fish: St-strike... back... my... ass...

Bonus scene

Ji Moze presses close to Yan Xici and whispers with a smile: Master, you always send me to the back mountain's spirit spring to catch fish... The water is freezing, and I'm so cold. Now it's your turn, but I'll be considerate. We'll catch fish slowly in your favorite lava spirit spring. Master, be sure to hold on tight.

Yan Xici: Catch your... ass... catch your... ass... Ah!

A quote from an adorable reader in the comments:

What did the bottom do wrong?

Nothing. He just made the same mistake every master in Jinjiang makes.

What did the top do wrong?

Nothing. He just made the same mistake every disciple in Jinjiang makes.

Next book: I Became the Hottest Cross-Platform Livestream Sales Host

Yan Zhi is a minor internet celebrity, around number thirty-eight on the charts, who's never been especially popular. His face is the only thing keeping his last shred of pride afloat.

One day, he gets bound to a livestream System and thrown into various small worlds to fight for survival.

The wimpy Yan Zhi: QAQ

Faced with hordes of hideous zombies, he clings to some big shot's leg: Sir, I'm your leg warmer!

Faced with man-eating bugs as big as villas, he clings to some marshal's massive leg: Daddy, love me one more time!

Faced with vampires who keep trying to take a bite out of him, he cowers behind an exorcist hunter and trembles: Dada, save me!

Faced with a hanging ghost sticking out its tongue and coming to claim his life, he pulls a stack of exorcism talismans from a Heavenly Master's pocket and plasters them all over himself.

Later, Yan Zhi faces the livestream windows of billions of planets:

This is XX's fully automated weapon powered by super particles. It costs one million star coins in its original world, but through the link below, you can get one for just eight hundred thousand...

Next up is rare beast meat from the OO world, beaten to death by the marshal himself in his mech. It's only oooo star coins...

This exorcism talisman is personally signed by Daoist Master YY and is highly effective against evil spirits. If you're afraid of ghosts, click the link below to buy one. Buy five, get one free, limited-time sale! For a demonstration... Hey, there's a red-clad vengeful ghost right up ahead. Go get it!

It doesn't matter if I'm a wimp. The big shots I cling to are awesome. If you think you can do better, come try! Hehe, you can't cling to them!

Relying on his System to keep changing worlds, Yan Zhi runs wild, until one day all the worlds merge.

Escape Room Game

Jian Huaiyu is a veteran escape room fan. His greatest pleasure is getting together with his buddies to solve puzzles at different escape rooms, then tearing them apart on a review site after they finish.

"I can't stand escape rooms these days. They keep calling themselves the best in the business. The best? Does the ceiling leak? And this place gets five stars? Must be paid reviews."

"Oh my god, I'm dying. The ghost in today's escape room had his wig fly off, but he kept crawling. I could see his white sneakers under that robe!"

"My god, this prop is so plastic I can't even look at it. Could you put in a little effort, please?"

His sharp, merciless reviews have earned him a devoted following among other escape room fans. He's known as the escape room filter, a heartless review machine.

One day, Jian Huaiyu receives an invitation on the review site from a brand-new escape room, asking him to come and evaluate it.

Jian Huaiyu smiles faintly, gathers a group of friends, and gets ready to check the place out...

Theme: What goes around comes around. If you get the chance to start over, become a better person