I'm the Villain, and I'm Proud

Two lunatics walk together. Whoever goes straight first is a dog!

After transmigrating into a book, Lin Wuan hears that he's supposed to be a villain who turns over a new leaf. He spends three hundred years in seclusion, cultivating hard, then emerges and begins his fearsome villainous life.

Turn over a new leaf? Not a chance!

His scumbag father tells him to hand the family fortune over to an illegitimate son, threatening to kick him out if he refuses. Lin Wuan punches his father and kicks the illegitimate son. "Get lost."

A passerby accuses him of stealing without checking the facts. Lin Wuan steals the item and beats him up. "You get lost too."

Everyone in his sect favors the junior disciple and even wants to dig out Lin Wuan's spiritual root to give it to him. Lin Wuan burns the sect to the ground. "All of you, get lost!"

Being a villain is so satisfying. He can go crazy and start a fight whenever he wants, never has to put up with any mistreatment, and can get revenge on the spot. The more Lin Wuan fights, the more excited he gets. "I worked hard at cultivation just to enjoy this!"

There's just one strange guy who keeps following him. Lin Wuan can't shake him off, and every time they fight, neither wins.

Shen Qingchuan is the ancestor of the righteous path, bound by the Mandate of Heaven to cultivate the Way of Ultimate Goodness, forgive everyone around him, and eventually nearly go mad from anger. In the end, he simply shuts himself away for thousands of years.

Then he comes out of seclusion and meets Lin Wuan, a wild genius who never puts up with injustice and lives as freely as he pleases.

Shen Qingchuan is overjoyed, convinced that this is the close friend fate has made for him. He won't stop pestering Lin Wuan and insists on following him, even volunteering to be his bodyguard.

When Lin Wuan goes wild, Shen Qingchuan jumps in as his bodyguard and fights. Since he's acting on orders, it doesn't count as defying the Mandate of Heaven. Everyone is happy. Perfect.

Later, when Lin Wuan is falsely accused again, he's excitedly getting ready to strike back when he sees Shen Qingchuan rush in ahead of him, loudly declaring, "Young Master, be careful! I'll protect you!"

Lin Wuan: You just want to fight! How dare you steal my kill?

Theme: Stop exhausting yourself with needless inner conflict, starting with me.