Playing the Villain Everyone Loves in N Books

Coming soon: The Man I Picked Up Has Been Reborn. Please add it to your reading list! It's a sweet little story. The blurb is below.

Yu Xiaoheng discovered that he had transmigrated. Most people transmigrated into one book, but he had transmigrated into n books at once, gaining a useless System that assigned him the task of playing villainous NPCs in various worlds.

In the plot of The Real and Fake Young Masters, he was the cannon-fodder older brother who was kicked out of the house, coveted the family fortune, wanted to make the refined and well-behaved fake young master his own, and mindlessly bullied the real young master. Once the two young masters made peace and got together, he was the first person they dealt with.

But in the end, the real young master knelt before him, his gloomy aura completely reined in as he kissed the back of Yu Xiaoheng's hand, humble and repressed.

The fake young master wrapped his arms around Yu Xiaoheng's waist. His delicate little face was full of possessiveness. "If only you belonged to me alone, Big Brother."

In the plot of Substitute Beloved, he was the beloved who returned to the country and caused the relationship between the protagonist top and bottom to fall apart. He was destined to be scorned by the scumbag top once he came to his senses.

In the classic scene where the beloved is kidnapped and the scumbag top has to choose, the substitute shielded him tightly, lowering his head to kiss his hair. "Don't be afraid. I'm here. I won't let them hurt you."

And even though the scumbag top knew Yu Xiaoheng only cared about money, he still pleaded with red-rimmed eyes. "Isn't it just money? If you'll be with me, I'll give you as much as you want."

Yu Xiaoheng looked at the protagonist tops and bottoms gathered at the banquet and got a headache. He'd accidentally taken things too far, and now it was difficult to wrap things up.

Just then, the System suddenly issued a new script, Marriage First, Love Later. This time, he was the protagonist. And his marriage partner?

Yu Xiaoheng looked at the powerful villain who had been making his presence felt ever since Yu Xiaoheng started doing missions. He and the villain shared a special connection. In The Real and Fake Young Masters, Yu Xiaoheng had to seduce him. In Substitute Beloved, he had to seduce him too...

But no matter how hard Yu Xiaoheng tried, the big shot remained unmoved.

Yu Xiaoheng asked cautiously, "Qin Xun, will you marry me? You and me?"

Who knew Qin Xun would narrow his eyes, smile meaningfully, and pull him into his arms as he announced to everyone present, "Everyone, this is my fiancee. Please take your eyes off him."

In an instant, the stray dogs who had all been left unwanted turned into rabid dogs.

Coming soon: The Man I Picked Up Has Been Reborn

Blurb:

1. Yu Wushui loved picking up cats and dogs as a child. His friends once teased him, asking if he'd pick up stray men when he grew up, too.

Yu Wushui thought that he picked up cats and dogs because he was afraid they would be bullied while wandering the streets. If it were a person instead...

Years later, his friend's words came true.

After a pleasant blind date, Yu Wushui came across a man covered in blood on his way home. The man's gaze was as dark as water, and his voice was hoarse and fragile. "Did I scare you?"

Yu Wushui narrowed his eyes. He could sense something else in the way the man was gripping his hand.

It was as if they had known each other for ages, as if the man before him were plotting something.

How interesting. Yu Wushui smiled and went along with it, waiting to see what the man would do.

At last

"Could you let me stay the night?"

Yu Wushui looked the man over. After a long, excruciating silence, he slowly replied, "Sure."

2.

A childhood illness had left Zhou Ziheng in poor health. Yet this sickly man controlled the entire Zhou family, and no one dared cross him. His resentful younger brother called him a lunatic, his stepmother said he was mentally ill, and his biological father said he should have died long ago.

He was like a walking corpse, unable to understand happiness or sorrow.

Then he had a dream. In it, he married a man named Yu Wushui, and the two loved each other for a lifetime. The dream was so happy that waking up made life seem all the more pointless.

Zhou Ziheng relied on that beautiful dream to get through day after day.

After a car accident, he opened his eyes. The person who had only ever appeared in his dreams touched his cheek with a fingertip. Silver-white strands of hair fell to the tip of his nose, making it itch and tingle, the gesture almost teasing. "Can I take that as an invitation?"

He kissed him, just as he had in the dream.

Smack!

Zhou Ziheng touched his slapped cheek and chuckled softly. The dream had come true.

*

Yu Wushui had acquired a "boyfriend." The man he'd picked up had lost his memories and insisted that he was Yu Wushui's boyfriend, and that they were even at the point of getting married.

Yu Wushui enthusiastically played along. Sometimes the man's excessive possessiveness annoyed him, but perhaps sensing what Yu Wushui was thinking, the gloomy-looking man immediately put on a pitiful expression. He reminded Yu Wushui of the dog he'd picked up as a child, who loved acting pitiful but was a terrible actor.

"Honey, don't you want me anymore?"

Yu Wushui didn't know how much of it was true and how much was an act, but their back-and-forth was entertaining enough that he was happy to keep playing along for now.

Later, their act turned real.

But Yu Wushui found out that Zhou Ziheng couldn't kick his habit of pretending. On a rainy day, another man gave Yu Wushui an umbrella. Zhou Ziheng was so jealous he could hardly stand it, yet still pretended to be generous. "As long as you didn't get rained on, honey."

Yu Wushui had acquired a new form of entertainment: teasing Zhou Ziheng.

Some time later, Zhou Ziheng cornered Yu Wushui against a wall, nibbling at his lips bit by bit. Yu Wushui couldn't push him away or dodge him. Zhou Ziheng was putting all his strength into holding him there.

Sure enough, you shouldn't tease someone too much.

Theme: Even if the journey through the thorns is painful, you must still be yourself.