The Cynical Villain Gets Tangled Up with the Top-Student Protagonist [Reborn]

Looking for readers for my novel set in the same world as After Sharing a Body with the Dragon-Raised Protagonist. Blurb at the very end. Blurb: Tang Min is the major villain destined to be killed by the protagonist. After failing to defy fate, he is reborn. At the martial arts exam, everyone expects Tang Min to teach a lesson to that talentless nobody who doesn’t know his place and has declared he’ll defeat the strongest student in school. Tang Min, the strongest student in school: I forfeit. The protagonist, stood up after waiting half an hour in the arena: Get back here! A rumor comes out of nowhere that Tang Min is crooked and jealous, and will definitely become a great villain one day. Tang Min: That’s right. That’s exactly what I’m like. Everyone who wants to defend Tang Min: ?? Reborn, Tang Min gives up trying to change anything and quietly waits to die, but this terrifies everyone around him, who are used to being dragged into his schemes. The teacher who used to point at him and berate him now carefully checks on his mental health. His unsmiling father puts on an apron and cooks for him himself for the first time in his life, hoping to shower him with love. Even the protagonist, who will kill him in the future, keeps saying he wants to save him. Having seen through it all, Tang Min lies flat and waits for everyone to see his true colors and leave once he turns evil as the plot demands. But as he lies there, he discovers that the plot he could never change in his previous life is now falling apart beyond recognition precisely because he has given up trying. Tang Min lies in a rocking chair, feeling utterly hopeless as the protagonist keeps pestering him. “Leave me alone. Let me wait to die.” The protagonist: “No. Even a talentless person like me is working hard. What excuse do you have not to strive for more?” Tang Min can’t make head or tail of it. “What do you get out of persuading me to study?” The protagonist looks flustered. “O-Obviously, because I like you.” Tang Min: … Hello, World Will. Are you there? Maybe you should hear what your precious son just said? [Gloomy, downcast villain bottom x hard-working, passionate protagonist top] The cover uses a template, it wasn’t exclusively commissioned, but it fits the characters pretty well. A story about salvation, with a truly happy ending. Coming soon: After Sharing a Body with the Dragon-Raised Protagonist Blurb: [Mischievous, hot-tempered bottom x calm, deceptively dark top] An Yixie is a nasty little thing who siphons power from his Host every day, and plans to take over his body eventually. His Host used to be a dragon-raised protagonist. After An Yixie possessed him, he became useless overnight. The more glorious his past, the more miserable his present. How wonderful. The more miserable he is, the better An Yixie’s chances of taking over his body. But his Host doesn’t have a shred of the pride a dragon-raised protagonist ought to possess. No matter how much bullying he endures, he remains indifferent. An Yixie is furious. At last, An Yixie can’t take it anymore and forcibly takes control of the body, beating every bully to a pulp. Then he scolds his Host: “Are you useless? They’re walking all over you, and you still don’t know how to fight back!?” His Host wipes the blood from his mouth, but his first question is: “Are you hurt?” An Yixie: “? Who do you think you’re looking down on?” Xie Yian was a peerless genius who had everything from childhood and had seen through it all, until one day a nasty little thing was implanted in him and his powers rapidly began to fade. The nasty little thing has a personality of its own. It talks to itself in his mind and is curious about everything, but it has a terrible temper and flies off the handle at the slightest provocation. Wanting to see what it would become as it grew, Xie Yian let it absorb all his power. His strength plummets, and people who can’t stand him come looking for trouble. But the nasty little thing is even more upset than he is. The moment someone insults him, the nasty little thing fires back. Unfortunately, it has learned only a few human words, so it keeps repeating the same ones, relying entirely on sheer force of attitude. So fierce, and so cute. Listening to them trade insults from afar, Xie Yian’s lips curl into a smile. An Yixie has figured it out: his Host is a total saint. Even when An Yixie declares he’s going to steal his body, his Host simply says, “Then I’ll work out more, so you won’t have trouble using it.” He thought there was nothing in the world that could make his Host angry. Until one day, someone pulled him out of his Host’s body. His saintly Host erupts with astonishing fury, stepping over a trail of corpses as he storms the enemy’s lair alone. His expression is colder than anything An Yixie has ever seen. “Give him back to me.” It turns out his Host isn’t without a temper. Nothing in the world could stir his emotions, until the bloodsucker attached to him became the one exception. Theme: Your fate will always remain in your own hands.