The Villain Boss Turns the Tables with Sweet-Talking

[Blurb dated 2025.1.10]

Gu Yan, an elder of Xuan Yi Palace and the greatest talisman cultivator in the cultivation world.

He's gentle and considerate, beautiful and kindhearted, frail and uncompetitive, the unattainable ideal in countless people's hearts.

Although the talisman arrays he crafts can slay Nascent Soul experts, his own spiritual power is weak, his body frail, and his heart too soft to bear killing.

The whole sect carefully protects the cultivation world's one and only good person.

At the final battle, players see Gu Yan looking down with utter contempt, as if the ants beneath his feet aren't even worth acknowledging.

Players: Give us back our beloved ideal! Give us back our innocent hearts!

After being transported into the game three hundred years ago, Gu Yan had no System and no powerful backer. He could only struggle through cultivation on his own.

He was already in the Deity Transformation stage when the Reverse-Engineering System arrived.

[This System will help the Host rise from the Qi Refining stage, defeat the final villain Gu Yan, and become the greatest cultivator in the cultivation world.]

Gu Yan: So... I'm the villain?

Mission: Make a name for yourself in the entrance trials.

Completed: Fall to demonic cultivation. Someone from the righteous path has fallen to darkness for you.

Mission: Become the First Sword Immortal's disciple.

Completed: Rivalry. Master and disciple have turned against each other because of you.

Mission: Put down the sect's internal turmoil.

Completed: Cocoon of Butterflies. Your enemy has given up everything for you.

Protagonist's System: ???

When the demon realm attacked, the elder risked being trapped in the demon lair to save his disciples, and barely escaped captivity.

Gu Yan weakly clutched his chest as he faced a fierce beast. The Immortal Venerable took the fatal blow for him.

The aloof Immortal Venerable of the righteous path took him somewhere to shelter from the rain.

A cold drop of rain slid from the tips of Gu Yan's hair.

The air was charged with intimacy.

The Immortal Venerable's breathing grew slightly uneven.

Desire seemed to flicker in his eyes beneath the mask.

"Elder Gu is truly breathtaking."

"He's such a good liar. I believed him."

"Don't believe him, or you'll regret it!"

Watching the lines of text float past, the Immortal Venerable [Demon Lord] suspected his Daoist heart had shattered into pieces, impossible to glue back together.

Gu Yan: Oh?

Is this the righteous-path Immortal Venerable who has renounced all emotion and desire? Could he be lying to me?

This novel features:

[A BOSS bound to the protagonist's System.]

[An Immortal Venerable who thinks the on-screen comments are inner demons.]

1. Male lead pursues the love interest. The protagonist is the strongest, and though he pretends to be weak, he's incredibly cool when it counts.

2. A cunning, seemingly weak beauty top X a cool and composed bottom who eventually loses his composure.

3. A crowd-pleasing top, and an impure love between a hypocrite and a fake aloof type.

Theme: Facing your true self.