I Conquered That Brooding Villain [Dating Show]

After transmigrating into a book, Xie Huai discovers that he's become a doomed, short-lived supporting actor and award-winning actor in an entertainment-industry novel. Because he's deeply in love with the protagonist on the bottom, the protagonist on top steals all his resources, leaving him to die in a rental apartment, burdened with a mountain of scandals.

Xie Huai values his life too much to put up with this kind of treatment.

So he decisively leaves the protagonist on the bottom and plans to carry on peacefully as an award-winning actor. But to his surprise, he's still roped into an unexpected dating reality show alongside him.

On the first day of filming, the two protagonists are all sweet and affectionate on camera. Xie Huai stands beside them, dutifully serving as a background extra and bracing himself for a flood of insults and scandals.

But then he finds out that the beautiful guest beside him, someone he's never met, is getting even more hate than he is?

Xie Huai: ...

In the spirit of a dedicated actor, Xie Huai takes his script and approaches the somewhat gloomy, beautiful guest.

During their introductions, Xie Huai calmly switches out the microphone that someone deliberately damaged.

The young guest hesitantly takes it, the tips of his ears turning red.

Fans: "Ooh, I ship it!"

When it's time to pick rooms, Xie Huai opens his door and lets the young guest, who was about to be left outside overnight, stay in his room.

The young guest hooks his finger around Xie Huai's and obediently follows him inside, though his eyes, hidden beneath his lashes, are dark with intensity.

Fans: "Are they allowed to show this?!"

Xie Huai: Thanks for asking. It's just a script.

He doesn't notice the increasingly dark, brooding gaze the young guest gives him from behind.

As an obscure, low-ranking celebrity, Xia Zhiqing has a secret nobody knows: he's the runaway young master of a top financial dynasty.

Raised in luxury, Xia Zhiqing leaves his sheltered home and witnesses the countless cruelties of the world. The two protagonists regard him as a thorn in their side and a splinter in their flesh, relentlessly suppressing him.

Just as Xia Zhiqing is about to escape this bottomless mire, someone reaches out to him of their own accord.

Xia Zhiqing gazes at that long-missed glimmer of light, hesitating for a long time.

At last, he reaches out and takes the offered hand.

But the possessiveness in his eyes is nearly overflowing.

At the awards ceremony, Xie Huai, dressed in a sharp suit, stands onstage to accept his award. He looks at the person he thought was a pitiful little thing, now standing by the award that originally belonged to the protagonist on the bottom.

The protagonists, who should have been basking in the spotlight, have vanished without a trace.

Only when the famous financial magnate appears beside him and Xia Zhiqing, smiling as he places Xia Zhiqing's hand in Xie Huai's palm, does Xie Huai realize something is wrong.

Wait.

So the pitiful little thing I thought I was helping is actually the villain?!

[An award-winning actor top who values his life above all and is occasionally a little mischievous, with explosive A energy x a runaway young master bottom, beautiful and tragic, with extremely, extremely, extremely strong possessiveness and a scheming nature]

Important content notes:

● No angst, just pure feel-good sweetness and wish fulfillment, around 300,000 to 400,000 characters.

● The bottom really knows how to put on an act. He really, really knows how to put on an act! A scheming, beautiful, strong, tragic bottom.

● No team wars. Both leads are my darlings, so readers who are extremely devoted to one side should stay away.

● Both leads are strong.

● You can't please everyone. If this isn't for you, just click the X in the upper-left corner and leave, darling~

Theme: Love is free and equal.