Playing the Villain in a True, Good, and Beautiful Comic

[The preview for the second installment, The Whole Comic Knows We're Nemeses, is on my profile. Scroll down to find the synopsis, and feel free to save it!] The so-called true, good, and beautiful means true in the sense of incredibly boring, good in the sense of incredibly stupid, and beautiful in the sense of utterly ridiculous. Put them all together, and you get a beautiful waste of space on a comics app. Every passerby has to let out a regretful sigh. Everyone knows that in the modern world, having no popularity is practically a death sentence. That's why comic characters so easily end up bound to a System to save a true, good, and beautiful comic world. Eli raised an eyebrow. Me? Before the villain in the next installment of the comic tells the protagonist, “I opposed you because I was jealous you had so many friends. I was so lonely. Can I be your friend?” Eli has to come up with a reason attention-grabbing enough to keep the audience and popularity from slipping away and get noticed by the “camera.” For example, in an orderly subway station, the protagonist smiles as he rides the escalator up. Eli, wearing the same true, good, and beautiful smile, rides the escalator down. As they pass, he leans in and whispers something demonic into the protagonist's ear... “I'm gonna [censored] the protagonist I [censored]!” The true, good, and beautiful protagonist's pupils quake. While the protagonist is too true, good, and beautiful to climb over the escalator and come after him, Eli calmly rides downstairs after dropping his bombshell, puts on his sunglasses, and leaves. The forum explodes on the spot. [Who is this? What did he say? Why was it censored?] [The protagonist? What protagonist? Did he break the fourth wall?] [Huh? This is kind of interesting. Let's see where it goes.] As Eli pulls more and more stunts, the villain group “Matchbox” appears out of nowhere, and their popularity skyrockets. [I think I saw an invisible hand manipulating everything!] [Not invisible!] [Not a hand!] [Nonsense! We in Matchbox haven't done anything. We've been on the protagonist's side from the very beginning!] [Uh... Manipulating the protagonist into being on our side? Nice!] Synopsis for the second installment: The post-apocalyptic arc of the hugely popular comic The Light of Eden is about to begin, to great fanfare. It has inherited the popularity of the previous arc, and the readers are cheering. Things are looking great. But everyone knows that comics like this can easily give rise, for all sorts of reasons, to mysterious characters entrusted with important missions. Eli raised an eyebrow, suddenly understanding, and pointed at himself. That's me! The energetic System Xiaojiu shouted, “That's right! Boss, you've been chosen! Come on, let's save this world together before it falls into ruin and destruction!” Eli, a voracious reader who'd even resorted to shameless competition to get this opportunity, readily accepted. But there was something else everyone knew: he had two things to tell the System. The bad news was that Eli had finally raised his hands from the shadows. Amid the clank of heavy chains, Eli, the mastermind and great villain of the previous comic, was now being held under close guard by the protagonist, with barely a moment apart. His captor even waited outside the bathroom as if afraid he'd drown in there. As System Xiaojiu's expression grew increasingly blank and frantic... Eli's lips curved into a faint smile. And the good news was, although they'd once been locked in a fight to the death, the relationship between the great villain and the protagonist was “quite good” now~ System Xiaojiu: Huh? Is that right? The comic The Light of Eden was about to begin its next arc, “The Wasteland,” and the readers were beside themselves with excitement. Light, the protagonist known as Little Light in the previous arc, had finally pulled off an impossible reversal at the end of the Eden arc, killing the great villain Eli after being thoroughly suppressed at every turn. He'd also realized that the city of Tingzhou where they'd lived was only the most insignificant corner of the wasteland. The sequel meant a bigger world, more varied settings, more villains, and a far more treacherous plot! Of course, as the soul of the previous arc, what would become of the great villain Eli was one of the storylines readers had been eagerly anticipating. The answer soon arrived. [Huh? Wait, what happened? Was that even a whole chapter? Eli escaped right at the beginning?] [I knew it! I knew getting caught was part of Boss Lai's plan! He was just going easy on him, heh heh heh! Wasteland, tremble beneath Boss Lai's leather shoes!] [Ha! Compared to Tingzhou, Eli's so frail he'd better be careful not to die in the wasteland! This isn't the true, good, and beautiful Tingzhou!] [We finally have the answer to the question that had people at each other's throats on the forum. Boss Lai is still Boss Lai. He's a villain in Tingzhou, and an even bigger villain in the wasteland.] [Damn it, how did those absurdly stupid base leaders trust Eli? We told you he's a villain! He's dangerous!] [Don't worry about how they trusted him! All that matters is that without Eli, the wasteland would be plunged into eternal darkness!] [Wait, is it just me, or does it look like Little Light and Boss Lai are about to take over the entire wasteland between them? Is that right?] [It kind of does! They've practically split the wasteland in half. If one of them ever died, wouldn't the other end up ruling the whole place? Seriously?] [What are you talking about? Our protagonist has it rough too. Only those who've survived Boss Lai know what that takes!] [Now that's what I call evenly matched nemeses!] [I have a daring thought :D] [Are they evenly matched nemeses, or evenly matched something else? I'll decide that for myself!] System Xiaojiu, browsing the web, read all this and slowly typed a question mark too, asking its boss: “Right, is this right?” Eli casually gathered up a handful of hate mail exchanged with his “nemesis,” tucked it neatly into a drawer, and answered earnestly, “Why wouldn't it be? Everything's exactly right. Just look: did we save the world or not? They should even be thanking us!” Eli stood and smiled as he warmly shook hands with the people who had joined him. A minor villain who had just escaped from Light was overcome with gratitude and cried, “It's all thanks to you, Mr. Eli! Yours is the only place in the whole world where we can find shelter! Thank you, Mr. Eli!” Eli shook his head slightly. “I should be thanking you for your support.” Sigh... Hadn't he already announced to everyone that he was a dangerous man? Oh, and of course, he and his “nemesis” got along quite well. Why wouldn't anyone believe him? Aide, who had secretly helped deliver the “gift,” was amused all over again by the scene. But the moment he remembered that he, a wage slave, had to make sure a “provocation letter” reached the hands of Eli's nemesis, the light of humanity, his face fell. He let out a dry laugh. Just how many lifetimes of bad luck did it take to end up working in this couple's shop? Reading Guide: 1. The second installment of the true, good, and beautiful series, set in the wasteland. I finally came up with a framework for it =v= 2. It should still be plot-driven. 3. An ascetic, sickly, extremely controlling older villain × a passionate college student hero who's warm on the outside and cool within, and relentlessly devoted. Reading Guide: 1. An ascetic, sickly, extremely controlling older villain × a passionate college student hero who's warm on the outside and cool within, and relentlessly devoted :D 2. To fit the synopsis, this part should be censored. 3. Includes forums. The shou gains abilities through popularity. A few forum users ship the characters. The comic won't make their relationship explicit, but it will draw them kissing =v=. The protagonists are pure romance; they might occasionally say something suggestive, but it's still pure romance! 4. The plot is the main focus, with lots of foreshadowing, and an ensemble cast. The romantic storyline is relatively minor. The comic is called True, Good, and Beautiful, but it isn't actually true, good, and beautiful. The characters' personalities have their own reasons for developing the way they do =v= 5. The shou is genuinely committed to being the great villain. His goal is to destroy the protagonist's convictions and annihilate the world. He's the final boss, the real mastermind behind it all! He starts out weak and cautious because he needs to keep a low profile and build up his strength first. He has a secret identity organization, but those secret identities basically won't be exposed =v=! 6. This is the third version of the synopsis =v=! 7. Updates follow the rankings before signing; daily updates after signing =v=! Theme: The world needs what is true, good, and beautiful!