I Got a Happy Ending with That Villain

[The anthology story After the Cannon Fodder Leaves the Plot is currently being serialized. Please add it to your favorites! *^O^*]

Synopsis:

In novels, there are always people who scramble for profit, play all sides, cage others with love, treat their sincere feelings like dirt and toss them aside, then mock them for being ruled by emotion...

They're selfish, despicable, hypocritical, and stupid, toying with other people's feelings...

Readers cry out, "We don't want toxic romance. We want healing and redemption!"

A freshly launched System nods. It will satisfy the readers, turn angst into sweetness, make scumbags devoted lovers, and let the wronged be reborn.

System: "Our motto is: The Host must be the most devoted Host, and the System must be the laziest System."

After I died, I was kidnapped by an unknown creature calling itself the "Atonement System." It ordered me to redeem all the villains in novels who had been betrayed.

Under the System's threats, I was forced to accept the missions.

From then on, I set off down a road of no return, with no escape...

I once stood high above you. You pulled me down to the mortal world and into the mud. We get another chance. This time, I won't lose.

Advance notice: Who's Really the Stand-In?

I'm the stand-in for the beloveds of all the main characters in a melodramatic novel.

Apparently, although I'm just a stand-in, I'm hopelessly in love with the leads. Because I can't accept it, I use every trick in the book, hoping to make them love me too.

The leads also keep bringing their "lost-and-found" lovers in front of me to warn me to stay away from them and not disturb their happy lives.

But when I look at the lead's face, I wonder: I clearly like his uncle/brother/friend.

When did I ever like him?!

The lead thinks he can relax now that he's gotten rid of his "stand-in," but he never expects that one day he'll see his former stand-in, with a new identity, by his uncle's/brother's/friend's side...

Uncle: "This is your aunt."

Brother: "This is your sister-in-law."

Lead: "..."

Theme: Even when treading through mud, keep your heart turned toward the light.