The Other Person Retracted a Rival

[Next up, my upcoming novel "A Hundred Ways to Win Over a Paranoid Villain". The blurb is at the bottom~]

After enduring 27 years in a wealthy family, Rong Jing was finally about to inherit the family fortune. Then the Rong family went bankrupt overnight, and he went from a pampered young master surrounded by admirers to a penniless nobody.

The one who sent him to hell was the impoverished student Sui Yue, whom he'd grown tired of and dumped eight years ago.

Eight years ago, Rong Jing had taken an interest in a handsome poor student named Sui Yue and relentlessly pursued him until he won him over.

Their breakup was ugly. Sui Yue was driven out of A City in a miserable state, while Rong Jing simply dusted himself off and went abroad.

But Sui Yue was so handsome that it was impossible to forget his face. Even after eight years, he was still devastatingly beautiful.

So when the man who had ruined his family stood before him, Rong Jing found his gaze fixed on Sui Yue's sharply tailored, sexy trench coat.

Sui Yue: "No reaction? Too scared to move?"

Rong Jing was kneeling on the floor, his hands bound behind his back. He raised an eyebrow:

"Who says I have no reaction?"

Sui Yue: "...You never change."

Sui Yue was sick. He had a disease that made him unlucky whenever he came into contact with Rong Jing.

He had people force Rong Jing's head down to make him kneel, and Rong Jing went and hooked up with his rival, laying all of Sui Yue's secrets bare.

Sui Yue exposed the Rong family's scandals at a press conference, hoping to see Rong Jing panic and fly into a rage. But when he opened the security feed, he saw Rong Jing holding one of his shirts and pleasuring himself in front of the TV. When Rong Jing noticed him watching, he slowly stopped and smiled at the camera's blinking red light.

"If you miss me, watch all you want. Don't drive yourself crazy holding back."

By day, they fought as if they wanted to kill each other. By night, they made love with desperate abandon in hotel rooms.

He thought this relationship could go on like that, until Sui Yue suddenly realized he could no longer bring himself to hate Rong Jing.

Hating Rong Jing took more effort than hauling cement in the slums back in the day.

Honestly, this bothered him more than impotence would have.

To avoid facing the truth, he gritted his teeth, cut off all contact with Rong Jing, and flew abroad to clear his head.

When Rong Jing saw the red exclamation mark in their chat, the veins in his forehead immediately bulged.

His gossip-loving friend beside him: "Is he bored of you?"

Rong Jing chuckled. "He's tired of living."

Coming soon:

"A Hundred Ways to Win Over a Paranoid Villain"

Chu Jiangxing is a talentless actor who got by on connections. Somehow, he landed a role in a TV adaptation of a hugely popular novel.

But because his acting was so awful, the screenwriter rewrote the script and turned the original novel's most popular second male lead into a murderous villain who goes dark.

The night the show aired, fans of the original novel stormed the forums for three days straight.

The day before, Chu Jiangxing had been trading insults with haters. The next morning, he woke up inside the book.

System: "Congratulations, Host. The novel's fans' resentment has reached its limit, and you've been cursed.

Mission: Redeem the villain, Zhu Yunfei. Failure penalty: execution."

Chu Jiangxing: ...These days, something crazy happens every day.

On his first trip into the book, he gazed deeply at the villain:

"I know there's love in your heart. Let me warm you..."

Zhu Yunfei stabbed straight through him, then drove to the mountains in the middle of the night to dump his body.

On his second trip, he tried another approach, pinning the villain against the wall with swagger:

"Kid, come with me. I'll protect you..."

Zhu Yunfei pushed him off a building, then skillfully pulled out a sack to dispose of the body.

On his third trip, he called the police.

"Hello, Officer, there's a murderer here..."

Before the person on the other end could answer, everything went black. The System executed him.

Chu Jiangxing: "What the hell! That's not fair! You can't even call the police on a murderer?!"

System: "Host, could you please wake up? Have you ever seen an untouchable CEO in a ridiculous novel get taken down by the police?"

Since his acting was truly atrocious, the System made an exception and let him return to the villain's childhood to redeem him. Chu Jiangxing transmigrated as six-year-old Zhu Yunfei's older brother, though they weren't related.

After all, his acting skills were only good enough to fool children.

[Oh, Host, I think I forgot to tell you. You only have four chances, and you've already used three. If you fail this time, you'll be executed for good.]

[Good luck.]

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