One-line summary: When the protagonist goes quiet, he's definitely up to something.
Synopsis:
1.
After getting tired of working himself to the bone, Meng Tinglan turned evil and became the version boss of a nightmare world, turning its players into a rare protected species. Unable to take it anymore, the world's consciousness restarted the world and sent him back to age seventeen, while also binding him to a group chat for reforming evil protagonists.
Every evil protagonist in the chat was a talented conversationalist with a vicious tongue and ruthless methods. They were all on their own world's consciousness's blacklist, too.
Meng Tinglan was very interested. “So, what did everyone do?”
Electronic Ghost: A mother who ran off while pregnant, a father who says the family's finished now that the weather's turned cold, a melodramatic plot, and a family gone mad. As a genius child, I don't get it, but I respect it, so I locked them together forever, from the highest heavens to the deepest underworld.
Call Me Family Head Xie: The real young master raised in the countryside doesn't want to play a guessing game about love. He just wants to become head of the family and inherit a trillion-dollar fortune without lifting a finger. Emphasis on inherit.
Bright Moon High Above: Hello, I'm the wicked supporting woman. I was reborn, and this time I'm taking back everything that's mine. Send me fifty million and I'll tell you how I killed my way through the plot and sent the male and female leads to the crematorium together.
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2.
As the evil protagonists' conditions worsened in tandem and they got along famously, the world's consciousnesses grew desperate. With no other options, they fused together to create a new plot, hoping to pull these runaway horses back on track.
But the protagonists…
Meng Tinglan: The worlds have merged. Time for an IRL meetup! Hotel XXX. Type 1 if you're coming.
Group members: 1111
Meng Tinglan: New scenario is up. It's a face-slapping roleplay scenario, difficulty D, nothing too hard. Just resist the protagonist halo forcing you to act stupid. Audience tickets cost 3,000, actor tickets 5,000, and starring roles 10,000. All profits generated by the plot go to the roleplayers, including the asset division after the “family's finished now that the weather's turned cold.” Limited spots, first come, first served. Type 1 if you're coming.
Group members: 111111.
Meng Tinglan: The new supporting character is way too one-dimensional and poses no challenge. Boring. I suspect the world's consciousness is slacking off, so I'm going to invite it for tea and tell it to get back to work. Type 1 if you're coming.
Group members: 111111111111111!!!
The world's consciousnesses: …?!
Oh no, they're coming for us!
Theme: Life is unpredictable, and everywhere is a stage.