Became a God After Pretending to Burn My Life [Infinite]

One day, Ying Guanzhou transmigrates into an infinite-dungeon novel, becoming the vicious cannon-fodder villain who does evil and meets a gruesome end.

At long last, he awakens his golden finger. It is: he is an ordinary person, but he becomes as strong as his opponent imagines him to be.

Except he also has a sickly debuff: gasping for breath every three steps, coughing up blood every ten, liable to faint at any moment, with a terminal illness looming over him.

Ying Guanzhou: ?

How the hell am I supposed to pull that off???

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During a guild-versus-guild match, the opposing guild discovers that the only S-rank guild master on the entire server is a frail young man with pale skin and an air of fragility about him. They mock him mercilessly:

"Where'd this little lamb come from?"

"A sickly weakling can be the master of an S-rank guild?"

When Ying Guanzhou coughs up blood and nearly passes out, the opposing guild laughs even harder. Arrogantly, they raise the betting odds to an astonishing level, wagering that Ying Guanzhou is doomed to die.

But the livestream chat explodes.

"WTF, why is he coughing up blood again? Opponent, run!"

"Holy crap, what huge move is he about to pull this time?! Last time he coughed up blood, he summoned an S-rank monster. What'll it be this time?!"

"I get PTSD every time I see him cough up blood. Anyone else know the terror of being crushed by the strongest BOSS in the whole dungeon..."

Opponent: ?

What are you all talking about???

As the villain watches him with suspicion and uncertainty, Ying Guanzhou suddenly spits out a mouthful of blood. Using it to form a spell array, he curves his beautiful eyes into a smile and says calmly:

"The first rule of a dungeon: the law of conservation of energy. The greater the price, the greater the power."

"My skill is called Life Burn."

The opponent's expression changes dramatically.

Meanwhile, Ying Guanzhou calmly goes on spitting blood while screaming internally.

Believe it! All of you, fucking believe it!!!

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There is a reason Ying Guanzhou became a vicious cannon-fodder villain.

He is mean by nature and holds grudges. His heart is as cruel as his face is beautiful. To survive, he will stop at nothing.

Whether audience members or teammates, everyone is completely taken in by his lies, manipulated at his whim.

And yet...

His haughty, sharp-tongued S-rank teammate weeps in despair: "Why would you rather sacrifice yourself than rely on us?!"

The server's wealthiest healing priest gazes at him intently. "I'll give you every healing treasure I own. If you die, none of us will keep living."

The ambitious protagonist who grows stronger over time is driven to corruption on the spot. His gaze turns sinister. "One day, I'll tear apart everyone who ever hurt you."

Every member of Ying Guanzhou's guild begs him through tears to stop burning his life for them. They throw all their hard-won points and treasures his way without a second thought.

They are like a ferocious horde of dragons guarding their treasure, braving countless storms, snowfalls, blades, and flames just to keep him safe.

Ying Guanzhou, somehow hailed as the god of dungeons and surrounded by a crowd of people, is dizzy and overwhelmed.

Wait, who cares about any of you?

I'm a vicious cannon-fodder villain!!!

#I really haven't been burning my life for you, so why won't anyone believe me? :)

A shameless schemer with endless tricks thinks he's the ultimate villain, but everyone else spoils him rotten. Bottom x Shard Attack

A deceptive beauty of a villain (?), adored by everyone with a slight everyone-loves-him feel, a male-lead-centered plot-driven power fantasy

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A Bystander, but My Secret Identity Is a Criminal Genius!

Ning Zhe transmigrates into a novel as an abandoned pawn of the villain organization, a cannon-fodder character who is later interrogated and executed by the Federation.

Good news: He awakens the ability to "create game characters."

Bad news: The moment he opens his eyes, the other members of the villain organization are fleeing behind him, while the cold, merciless guns of the Federation police point at him from the front. He is even holding criminal evidence in his hands, caught red-handed.

Ning Zhe: ...Fuck!

With the guns closing in, Ning Zhe decides to defect on the spot.

In the darkness, the young man looks up, coughing blood. A relieved smile appears on his pale, delicate face. "You're finally here."

"I was an undercover agent planted by the old chief before he died. These criminal records are everything I've gathered during my time undercover. I'll leave them with you."

The Federation police, solemnly handed a pile of criminal evidence: ???

After winning their trust, he turns around and is about to be killed by the villain organization for switching sides.

But Ning Zhe sneers coldly: "Idiots. What do you mean, switching sides? I'm deep undercover! I've never been disloyal to the organization!"

The villain organization that nearly shot him: ???

Both sides are bewildered: Is this undercover agent of yours... the real deal?

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To survive, Ning Zhe decides to put on a secret identity and play the part of a reliable, responsible double agent.

By day, he is a gentle strategist at the police station, brilliant and always in control.

At night, he is a cold, cunning criminal genius in the villain organization.

When a third party lays siege to the villain organization, he tips off the police alliance in advance. The organization is rescued and left in awe: He redirected the danger and pitted one enemy against another. He's a genius!

When the Federation police are caught in a gang war, he uses the villain organization's underground passages to help them escape. The police look at him with complicated expressions: ...What did he have to sacrifice to get this information?

Before anyone realizes it,

Ning Zhe's standing in the villain organization keeps rising until he accidentally becomes its second-in-command.

His influence at the police station grows until, somehow, everyone looks to him as their hope.

In this crime-ridden city, the civilians he protects begin singing his praises.

Until...

The youngest Federation chief, eyes bloodshot, clutches him tightly and says in anguish, "Enough. Stop sacrificing yourself for us!"

Meanwhile, the head of the villain organization strokes his face tenderly, his expression dark. "It must be exhausting, pretending to get along with those so-called 'righteous people,' isn't it?"

Both sides begin taking turns monitoring Ning Zhe's schedule, tracking his whereabouts, forcing him to see a doctor, and even competing to make him "come home."

Ning Zhe: ???

This is bad. Double agents really have no future!

Ning Zhe decides to stage a story about investigating himself.

Then he'll find a chance to fake his death :)

#I became the beloved of both sides by constantly switching sides

#Wait, you do know kidnapping is illegal, right?!

*The story is entirely fictional. Please don't associate it with real life.

*A sickly beauty of a double agent, mistakenly believed to be constantly sacrificing himself for everyone

*Still an everyone-loves-him sort of story, with a Di Hua-style misunderstood, beautiful, strong, and tragic lead, plus secret-identity doubles

Theme: By acting in your own interest, you can achieve selflessness; by acting selflessly, you can achieve your own interests