What's Wrong with the Villain Going a Little Crazy? (Transmigrating into a Book)

[Former title: Calm Down, I'm the Villain. I changed the title on a whim.]

[Preorder in my author column: After Becoming a Rich Playboy, I Became an All-Round Celebrity. A feel-good entertainment-industry story. Please add it to your reading list if you're interested.]

*Lu Shiyu spent a brief lifetime wearing a perfect mask, and finally died.

Then he transmigrated into a melodramatic entertainment-industry novel, where he was in charge of the twisted, villainous part. He would force himself on the protagonist, the shou, bully his way through the entertainment industry, throw his weight around, and ultimately lose everything and die in a fire.

According to the advice he'd been given, he could avoid his inevitable death by cutting his losses in time and saving the protagonist, the shou.

He wasn't interested. He'd rather slack off and wait to die, while letting loose and going crazy in the meantime. But...

He was already following the plot seriously and getting entangled with the protagonist, the shou, only slacking off now and then, and yet the plot was falling apart everywhere.

The protagonist, the shou, who was supposed to be forced into an intimate, passionate scene with him, was enjoying life on his own, while the protagonist's love interest had him pinned to a chair. "A Guide to Breathing and Moaning Convincingly During a Deep Kiss."

The protagonist, the shou, who was supposed to be threatened with his family and acting career and locked in an attic by him, was on vacation abroad with his family. Meanwhile, in an attic equipped with all the props and dripping with a twisted atmosphere, the protagonist's love interest asked him, "Is this what you meant when you said I'd regret not watching?"

According to the plot, he was supposed to be accused of #harassing the protagonist, the shou#, #getting cast by throwing money around#, and #buying a spot on the trending list#. Too lazy to explain, he said, "Yes, I admit it all. Please buy me a high spot on the trending list," then promptly announced his retirement from the industry.

Instead, he shot up the trending list under #World-Weary Beauty# and #Gorgeous Sword Spirit#.

[The sword spirit I love is played by the rich kid who harasses my Zhiyun?!]

[Which rich kid keeps cutting his own scenes?]

[Is harassment supposed to mean what your Zhiyun said on livestream: #Lu Shiyu: Here's a million. Now beg me in tears#?]

[@Everyone I Know, get Lu Shiyu back to work! I'm still working overtime, so how can he retire?]

Fine. If the whole world had gone mad, he'd gladly play along. He'd use the chance to get together with the protagonist's love interest and try out a body-double romance. It didn't matter, since he didn't want to live anyway.

As it turned out, he was very good at courting death. The protagonist's love interest pinned him down in the attic until they were both exhausted.

*Xiao Jingheng, head of the Xiao family, knew he was in a book. He was the love interest in the background, waiting for the protagonist, the shou, to save him. His life was miserable and boring.

Until one day, after a party, he accidentally got drugged. The villain Lu Shiyu looked at him with cold, weary eyes, but the fingers resting under his chin were soft and warm. Lu Shiyu was someone who interested him.

Later, he discovered that this fox, so uninhibited around him, was the uptight CEO who had taken him in during his previous life.

He decided to make Lu Shiyu his, using vile love and frenzied possessiveness to keep him in this melodramatic utopia of a book.

*After a film they had accidentally shot together was released, the #FawnLovebirds# pairing came out of nowhere.

[Does Lu Shiyu not have enough backing of his own? Does he have to cling to Xiao Jingheng now?]

[Maybe take a look at the financial news before you comment. Does Lu Shiyu need to?]

[#Xiao Jingheng: The way he made my useless younger brother go bankrupt was so sexy# and you're still not shipping them?]

Xiao Jingheng, who hadn't posted on Weibo in ages, suddenly came online: Fawn Lovebirds? Isn't that a little too innocent, considering you like it rough, @Lu Shiyu?

A helpful fan replied: #Lu Shiyu: I prefer bedroom scenes. I can lie down for those.#

#Are these the sort of kinks the love interests of a proper novel are supposed to have? This isn't what I meant by courting death!#

#If you want to leave, I'll wait for you in the next world, and we'll meet again.#

* A self-deluded, unhinged CEO gong, and a beautiful, gloomy shou who's just as unhinged and can't manage to die.

* One-on-one, happy ending. The setting is entirely fictional. Early on, the shou really is quite depressed and wants to die.

* The last paragraph of the synopsis will be placed in an extra chapter. I'll write it after my thesis defense in May.

[The characters' words and actions do not reflect the author's values. Though they're in good spirits, they obey the law. Early on, the protagonist treats the people around him like characters on a page.]

[This one is an embarrassing relic. Read with caution.]

Theme: Keep hope alive and find hope and meaning in your existence.