Playing the Big Bad in Four Different Books at Once

Mu Shangyun is given a mission: he must play the villain in four different books, committing every kind of evil, without letting any of the four protagonists discover that he’s moving between their worlds. He sabotages the first protagonist’s project, threatens the second until he kneels and apologizes, forces the third to kneel and polish his shoes, and pours wine over the fourth’s head in public to mock him. Onlookers gaze at Mu Shangyun’s cool, handsome face and don’t think he’s a bad person. Instead, they assume he must have his reasons. No one knows that Mu Shangyun has severe face blindness. He often fails to recognize people, walking past them expressionlessly and getting mistaken for an arrogant snob. When he isn’t on a mission, the young head of the Fu family is always showing up and asking with a smile who he plans to torment next. Mu Shangyun thinks he’s bad enough already, but the man says, “Not bad enough.” That night, the other man lists all kinds of ways to make people suffer. Mu Shangyun gives him a complicated look. Which of us is the villain here? After that, the man sticks to him, and the two of them work together to leave the protagonists in a sorry state every time. Later, the plot falls apart and the System runs away. The four protagonists corner Mu Shangyun in an alley and demand answers. After all the time he’s spent messing with them, they should hate him. But their words make it sound as if they resent him for having stirred up too many entanglements. The loudest complaint is: “There are four of us! How dare you?!” With the System gone, Mu Shangyun can’t tell which of them is which. At the crucial moment, the Fu family’s heir steps forward. “All he did was make you lose projects and your dignity. He didn’t take your lives. You should be thanking him. And just so you know, he and I are dating. Stay away from him from now on and stop interrupting our time alone.” Mu Shangyun: I recognize this one. He’s my boyfriend. The four protagonists are utterly devastated. _ Fu Chengyue used to enjoy watching Mu Shangyun humiliate and toy with people. But once they get together, he doesn’t want Mu Shangyun doing that anymore, in case he turns his attention to someone else. “Humiliate me. Just look at me.” Mu Shangyun sneers, his neck covered in marks. “And after I’m done humiliating you, you’ll get back at me in bed?” Fu Chengyue wraps his arms around him. “I’m just jealous. How could you slap him? From now on, you can only slap me.” Mu Shangyun: “...” One-on-one romance, both leads are faithful and sexually inexperienced Please add my upcoming novel, I’m Willingly Being Kept Under Lock and Key, to your collection. Yan Qi is an obscure office worker who’s a bit antisocial. He recently switched jobs to a company founded by a rich heir. At the company’s year-end party, his new boss’s friend takes a liking to him. The man is the scion of a wealthy family, with money and power at his disposal. He falls for Yan Qi at first sight and launches into a fierce pursuit. Yan Qi can’t handle all that attention and starts wondering if he should quit. He spends every day avoiding the man, which turns into a chase where the man pursues and he runs. After Yan Qi rejects him one too many times, the man locks him up in an estate. He can go out, see friends, and spend as much as he likes with a card. The only problem is that bodyguards follow him everywhere, leaving him practically no freedom! After living like this, with no need to socialize and no limit on his spending, for a while, Yan Qi thinks... it’s kind of great? Everyone at the estate thinks Yan Qi is a pitiful canary being kept under lock and key. Only Yan Qi knows that he’s perfectly happy with this life. As a miserable office worker who hates socializing, being treated this way by a handsome, rich man with a serious possessive streak is wonderful! The only real problem is that they’re not quite compatible in one department. Yan Qi can’t keep up physically, his back is weak, and the finger marks on his body never fade. Yan Qi firmly believes that what you can’t have is always best, so every once in a while he goes out of his way to fake an escape, even though the consequences of getting caught are hard to bear. But it’s fine. As long as he doesn’t have to work and still gets plenty of money to spend, he can put up with this little problem. After yet another failed escape attempt, Yan Qi pretends to sulk and refuses to eat. When he gets hungry, he reaches under the bed for the little rolls he’s hidden there, but can’t find them no matter how long he searches. He bends down to look and discovers that the space beneath the bed is empty! Does that mean he’ll have to go hungry tonight?! As he frets over what to do about dinner, a sigh comes from behind him. Strong arms encircle his waist, and a familiar, gentle voice murmurs by his ear: “Too much junk food is bad for you. Let’s go out to eat.” . Theme: Look ahead. The future is brighter.