Stop Reading My Mind, It’s Bad for the Villainess!

Coming next: “The Most Washed-Up Girl Group in Entertainment” Blurb: Luo Qing’s job is to play professional villains who don’t survive past the third chapter of a novel. She only has three more roles to finish before she can retire. The System: “Because three books accidentally merged, you’ll get triple your retirement pay as compensation.” For the money, Luo Qing grits her teeth and goes along with it. But she doesn’t know that, because of a merging bug, the protagonists can hear her thoughts. Script One: As the illegitimate daughter in a wealthy-family novel, she’s a shameless, jealous villain who gets caught selling her domineering CEO brother’s company secrets to a rival company at a crucial moment. Luo Qing successfully steals the documents and gets caught while making the deal with the rival company. She waits for her furious CEO brother to kick her out. [He’s so scary! Aren’t these fake secrets? D-did I take the wrong ones? I wonder if everything I own is enough to pay for the damage... Is he going to kick me out and have me assassinated?] Her CEO brother, hearing her thoughts: ... The CEO pulls her behind him to protect her. “Don’t hang around with those bad people again.” Luo Qing: “?” Script Two: As a little-known celebrity with a huge hate-fan following in a showbiz novel, she gets exposed after spreading rumors and trying to make the top-tier star heroine look bad. Luo Qing gets caught on camera making up rumors about the heroine behind her back during a variety show. She waits for the heroine to expose her nasty side and get her blacklisted across the internet. [How could I ever bring myself to criticize such a hardworking, beautiful big sister? When I get back, I’ll buy some internet trolls to go after her haters.] The top-tier star heroine, hearing her thoughts: ... The heroine blushes and hands the recording back to her. “Don’t do it again, okay?” Luo Qing: “?” Script Three: As a greedy, lecherous team owner in an esports novel, she tries to buy the male lead’s services and make him throw a match, but he turns the tables and bankrupts her. Luo Qing slaps a wad of cash in the male lead’s face and threatens to destroy his dreams of becoming a champion unless he signs a contract to be her kept man. [Good thing the coffee I threw at him was cold. But he’s so good at gaming. If he turns me down, maybe I can make a secret account and send him money. Could I get into his fan matchmaking group?] The male lead, hearing her thoughts: ... He raises an eyebrow and leisurely sits down. “I suppose I wouldn’t mind playing games for you.” Luo Qing carefully prods the System: Are you there? Are you sure there’s only one bug? Am I still getting my triple retirement pay? Upcoming novel: “The Most Washed-Up Girl Group in Entertainment” There’s a girl group in the Chinese entertainment industry where every member is beautiful, but they’re all hopelessly unpopular. Each member has her own secrets, and they’ve all tacitly agreed to coast along, doing nothing and waiting for death. Until one day, they realize that the youngest member, who’s also the most laid-back of them all, seems to know everything. - My name is Shi Er, and I’m a member of the most washed-up girl group in the Chinese entertainment industry. I’m a hardworking little nobody whose only job is to be the group’s pretty face. What? My secret? An ordinary mind-reading ability. Nothing compared to my big sisters. My daily work is skincare, staying pretty, and listening to my big sisters’ gossip. I listen to the leader reminisce about how lonely it was to be unbeatable in the palace power struggles of ancient times. I listen to my second sister, who’s bound to a harem-protagonist System, constantly curse out all the clueless simps who can’t read the room. I listen to my third sister tell spooky stories about telling fortunes and catching ghosts for different people every day. Until one day, my dad decides I have no future and tells me to come home. I forgot to mention: before I entered show business, Dad said that if I didn’t become famous, I’d have to go home and inherit the family fortune worth billions. Thinking about spending all day at the company, scheming against all those old fogies, I sit bolt upright on my deathbed. I hand tissues to my leader, who’s crying her eyes out. “I know you’re lonely, but don’t be lonely just yet. There are more tricks in the audition show’s house than in the imperial palace.” I pull my second sister away from yet another family heir who’s pestering her. “Sorry to interrupt. We’re about to miss our appointment. I’ll put your name down so you can cut in line before the third male guest next time.” I run into my third sister just after she catches a ghost. “Why not bring it along? It’ll make a great stage prop.” When it comes to putting on a show, leave it to me. The most washed-up girl group in the Chinese entertainment industry is officially in business. From ancient times to the present, from ghosts to humans, none of them can compete. - “Why Does Everyone Call Me a Master?” Lin Tingqiao has such weak mental powers that she’s widely regarded across the interstellar alliance as the most useless dreamweaver. She doesn’t even qualify for the minimum allowance, so she has to wander around scavenging for a living. In the end, she gets dumped into the endless void for damaging the city’s appearance. When she opens her eyes again, she’s transmigrated to 2024 and become the person everyone in show business loves to hate. Knowing she has nothing to offer, she gets hounded by online commenters until she doesn’t dare raise her head. She quickly packs her things and goes scavenging and wandering, just like before. What makes her happiest is that it’s 2024, and the beautiful Earth that can only be found in history books is still here. As she wanders, she gets to see all sorts of scenery. The trash here is also more plentiful and better than the trash in space. Every day she can find food other people haven’t finished, and she even finds a cat to keep her company. Cats are rare animals in space, after all. But the cat is a picky eater and never touches garbage. After thinking it over for a long time, Lin Tingqiao decides to take up her old dreamweaving job again. She works up the courage to approach her first client: the child at the entrance to the village who’s been crying all day because his pony died. Lin Tingqiao: “I can let you see your pony, but you have to pay me.” The child: “What do you want?” After a long struggle, Lin Tingqiao awkwardly asks for a fortune: “Two steamed buns.” The child: “...” Later, Lin Tingqiao realizes she may not be as useless as she thought. Everywhere she wanders, lots of people come to ask her to make them dreams. Oh, people here call it visiting someone in a dream. And they can heal themselves without her spending any mental energy. How strange. They’re even grateful and call her a master. PS: The male lead is a cat. - Theme: Unity, warmth, and healing.