[You have activated the Sister-in-Law System. Bound identities: Conqueror of Every Character, Officially Certified Sister-in-Law]
[Final Mission: Reach MAX Villainy (0/22)]
As the seventy-eighth-generation successor of Dragon-Tiger Mountain, Xiang Xun tried a dating game rumored to be impossible to beat. Driven by an intense desire to win, he played for several days straight and finally reached the male leads as a fan, receiving private messages from them first.
But that very night, he transmigrated into the game world and became its protagonist: the fake young master despised and rejected by the Lin family. The day he was kicked out and made to find somewhere else to live, he stared at the messages popping up on the System panel, feeling his vision go dark again and again:
The Sister-in-Law's Rules
1. Forget where you came from. 2. Bully the weak. 3. Kick people when they're down. 4. Push your luck. 5. Fawn on the powerful and look down on the weak...
And the last two:
21. Show off your relationship. 22. Taunt the fans.
Xiang Xun: ...
Am I trying to get myself killed?
System: If you don't do it, you really will die.
Xiang Xun: ...
So Xiang Xun worked diligently, making it his mission to be a thoroughly villainous sister-in-law. He maneuvered among the male leads and planted his schemes, until one day he became a regular on "Sister-in-Law, Don't Do This," with four scandals exploding at once and his name going viral across the internet.
"Could that actor please stop sending his sister-in-law, who's taller than he is, to visit him on set?"
"A certain top-tier star's concert seems to have featured a male sister-in-law. He couldn't take his eyes off him, and all his fan service was directed at that one section. Not subtle at all."
"Spotted a certain competitive gamer at Disneyland acting intimately with someone. Is that his sister-in-law?"
At last, the onlookers noticed the key detail:
Why do all these sisters-in-law look like the same person?!
The accusations instantly turned around. The disgraced idols became the unlucky victims of a scumbag who'd seduced them and stolen their hearts, while Xiang Xun found his entire family tree dug up amid a storm of abuse.
Xiang Xun: I'm just breathing.
Netizens: He's taunting us.
In no time, some were issuing statements, others were denying rumors, and even the Lin family joined in, hoping to grab a piece of the trending-topic traffic by stepping on Xiang Xun.
The night his name got its own trending page, Xiang Xun calmly started a livestream. Smiling faintly as the screen filled with insults, he said:
"Your idols? I've kicked every one of them to the curb."
*
After finally shaking off the System, Xiang Xun turned his livestream into a personal show of supernatural expertise. Some called him a fraud, while most treated him as a master. By the end of one livestream, the netizens who'd been watching just to insult him had changed their tune:
"Master, do you think I can make a fortune?"
"Master, could you read my idol's career prospects for me..."
Xiang Xun: Building a career beats being a sister-in-law.
Advertising myself. Plan success. : )
One day, he went to meet a mysterious new client, only to find the young master of the Fu family: a sponsor of one of the male leads, the true young master's unforgettable white moonlight, the man he had always longed to pursue, and also his... one-night stand.
Fu Tinghuai looked at him with an amused smile. "Have we... met somewhere before?"
Xiang Xun played dumb. "Have we? I don't remember."
*
It wasn't until a variety show brought the Fu family into the public eye that Fu Tinghuai became an online celebrity too.
Before everyone had time to grow emotionally invested, though, they spotted traces of the sister-in-law in the tiniest clues.
Xiang Xun could only watch himself land on the sister-in-law gossip site once more.
And the onlookers who finally figured out who it was exclaimed:
"Why is it you again?!"
Theme: There is true affection in this world.
