I Got a Happy Ending with the Reborn Male Lead After Becoming a Villain

[Completed and unlocked, updates slower while I revise] [Chapter 110 giveaway on Weibo: @DaoDaoDaoDianHunShen] Top Gong, 1v1. Theatrical, sunny transmigrator Gong (Zhong Hui) x cold, arrogant, obsessive reborn Shou (Yang Zhuo) The character art for the leads is now on the author's Weibo, @DaoDaoDaoDianHunShen. Interested readers can check it out. Commissioned work. Please do not repost or reuse. Zhong Hui woke up one day and had transmigrated. He'd landed in the fantasy novel Tian Xuan Supreme, which he was following as it was published, as a recurring villain who shared his name. The villain had money and looks, but unfortunately no brains. He was determined to antagonize the male lead, Yang Zhuo. He insulted and beat him before Yang Zhuo awakened his cheat, then taunted him after he did. He was vile through and through, and deserved to die in the latest chapter. No problem. "Zhong Hui" might be an idiot, but he had a brain! Just as Zhong Hui was planning to mend his ways and cling to the male lead Yang Zhuo for dear life, a System that had crawled out of some dark corner slapped him with a cold, merciless rejection: Not a chance. These damn System tasks! He couldn't break "Zhong Hui's" idiotic character, and he also had to help Yang Zhuo become a god? Unwilling to die young at the System's hands, Zhong Hui dutifully began his performance. He secretly tried to win Yang Zhuo over and protected him in roundabout ways. To his face, he ordered Yang Zhuo around and mocked him. Behind his back, he wanted to put this imposing Buddha on a pedestal and worship him, terrified that Yang Zhuo would kill him the moment his cheat came online. But as he kept up the act, events slowly slipped out of Zhong Hui's control. Bad news: He hadn't transmigrated into a book. This was a real other world. Good news: Yang Zhuo was reborn, so the task progress was flying along. Bad news: After being reborn too many times, Yang Zhuo was a little crazy. Good news: He wasn't crazy around Zhong Hui, who found it pretty adorable. Bad news: He was forced to fake his death. Good news: He came back! Bad news: Yang Zhuo seemed really, really angry. The former servant, now His Majesty the Demon Lord, wore bloodstained armor and reached out with a cold hand, clamping it ruthlessly around Zhong Hui's throat. Just as Zhong Hui was resigning himself to death, Yang Zhuo said, each word ringing with conviction: "You are not allowed to leave me." Zhong Hui: ... Zhong Hui: ??? Good news? Yang Zhuo might be in love with him? Content warnings: 1. The romance develops slowly. Slowly, slowly, slowly. Very, very, very slowly. 2. Fantasy setting with a plot focus. The first 60 chapters cover their youth; the story shifts to adulthood after chapter 60. There's plenty of straightforward fighting, not political scheming or battles of wits. 3. The Shou is 100% villainous from the start, with little regard for morality. He is not a good person. The Gong was an ordinary college student before transmigrating and doesn't gain a cheat that lets him dominate everything. If you want perfectly virtuous characters, this may not be for you. 4. Gong stans and Shou stans, please don't read. Detailed content warnings with minor spoilers: 1. The Shou has lived through 499 cycles. In five of those lives, he fell in love with different female supporting characters, but none of those relationships had a happy ending. By the time he meets the transmigrated Gong, he has been without love or desire for a very, very, very long time (hundreds of lifetimes, totaling thousands of years). In his current life, he has no positive feelings for any other supporting characters and only uses them. 2. The original owner of the character the Gong transmigrates into was a recurring villain in the novel. Bound by the System's tasks, he had beaten and humiliated the Shou against his will. The original owner killed the Shou many times. The Gong and the original owner are entirely different people. Because of his hatred for the original owner and the lessons learned from being reborn, the Shou is wary and suspicious of the Gong wearing the original owner's face at first (before he knows the Gong transmigrated into the body). He even threatens him, but never truly harms him. 3. At first, the Gong cares for and protects the Shou out of kindness, sympathy, his affection for the novel's male lead as a reader, and the needs of his System tasks. Everything he does for the Shou is within his own means. Theme: The moon may wane, but its light remains; the sword may break, but its strength endures.