A Scumbag's Guide to Playing a Role [Quick Transmigration]

[Come check out the blurb for my new story, “A Cannon Fodder, Coveted by a Celestial Dragon Sentinel,” at the very end!] There’s a type of villain in novels who is crazy and obsessive, a Mount Everest-sized obstacle on the leads’ path to love, and the sort of character countless readers hate with a burning passion. System mission: [Fight back against the villain! Make him cry! Make him beg for mercy!] To get the job done, Shang Chi, who had transmigrated into a book, planned to give the villain a taste of his own medicine, staying up all night to learn how to act like a heartless woman. Heartless Woman Acting Handbook, Rule One: Insult his dignity. Shang Chi grabbed the male lead by the collar and said viciously in his ear, “You’re the baddest little puppy I’ve ever met!” System: [Beep! Host verbally insulted the villain. Reward: 250 scum points!] Heartless Woman Acting Handbook, Rule Two: Torment his body. Shang Chi pinned the villain against the wall and wiped the corner of his mouth. “Hmph, your looks aren’t all that.” System: [Beep! Host inflicted emotional torment on the villain with her honeyed words. Reward: 300 scum points!] Heartless Woman Acting Handbook, Rule Three: Trample on his feelings. Shang Chi tugged the villain’s tie, forcing him to raise his head. “Darling! I don’t love you at all! You only love your looks and money! I’m tormenting you!!” The villain blushed. She called me darling... System: [? Something’s wrong with the villain. The System detects that he’s getting excited?] Shang Chi, just starting out as a heartless woman: trembling with fear, worried that she was being too superficial and not going far enough. Shang Chi, now an experienced heartless woman: trembling with fear because she was so exhausted she’d developed six-pack abs. The heroine stood tall and proud: I’m so heartless, so wicked! The hero clutched his chest: Help, why is she so cute! Worlds include, but aren’t limited to: [Sports girl x dance boy] [Complete] “Dancer, get over here and do my homework!” (arms akimbo, scowling) [After the divorce, I made my ex-husband’s older brother marry into my family] [Complete] “Big brother! Feel the humiliation!” (confident smile) [The gossip reporter with dirt on him gets his happily-ever-after with the entertainment industry’s top-tier star] [Complete] “Make it worth my while, superstar!” (leans back tactically) [The sacrificial matchmaker and the ghostly merman] [Complete] “Don’t come any closer!!!” (screeches like a dolphin) ---Upcoming story begins here--- One day, she transmigrated into the role of an unlucky cannon-fodder character destined to die young. A disabled mother, a self-reliant daughter, and a three-legged dog: together, they made up a broken home. With no other choice, she joined the underground guides as a second job, alongside her regular work as a butcher. On her first job, she broke down and took off her gloves, then followed the instructions and placed her hand around the client’s slender neck. The impeccably dressed doctor’s face was flushed and his voice husky. “We both get what we want. You’re just testing ways to soothe Sentinels on me.” This strange method looked like a scam, but it worked surprisingly well. Every Sentinel she treated had nothing but praise for her, especially those Celestial Dragons who thought they were better than everyone else. At first, they warned her disdainfully, “Lowborn, never forget your place.” In the midst of their agony, they begged for help. “Guide, what do I mean to you?” Later, they pleaded humbly, “Ms. Fuxing, please, have mercy on me.” Fuxing: ? Are they asking for a blessing in human skin? That’s a bit forward! This pure relationship of mutual need mustn’t be tainted by lovestruck nonsense! “They really are going too far,” said the one among them who seemed the most free of worldly desires. “If you’re willing, I’ll take care of everything for you.” Fuxing thought he had ulterior motives. “So, kid, what’s the price?” He knelt on one knee and kissed her toes. “I’m not like the others. I want nothing.” I only ask that you be my one and only goddess. The other male contenders scoffed at him and commented, “What a poser.” [Important notes] 1. Please don’t extrapolate from the characters’ behavior to the author. 2. The setting involves transmigration into a book, so the details of the profession have been altered as needed for the plot. Please don’t extrapolate to real life. 3. The male lead has multiple facets. There is one male lead and one-on-one romance. 4. I write sweet romances. The characters won’t fake their deaths in the side stories. Theme: Be a good person and live happily