I Heard I’m a Scumbag? Me? A SCUMBAG?!

Prepublication: Please bookmark "After Abandoning the Villain, the System Wants Me to Woo Him Again"!

Synopsis:

There is a legend across the Three Thousand Worlds, and in that legend, there is a group of people.

They are greedy and sly, happy to live off others, and in the end, they abandon their wives and children.

We commonly call them scumbags.

But one day, these scumbags get into terrible trouble.

[Ding! Your System has been bound.]

Our ultimate plan is to redeem you!

Hey, what the hell have I even done? Redeem me from what?

[A rebellious mindset has been detected in the Host. Punishment mode will activate in three seconds.]

Random punishments include electric shocks, skin hunger, coughing up blood, having your assets wiped out, and stomach problems.

1. Zerg World (Complete)

A useless prince who appears to be a star pirate vs. a fallen general.

You are the Empire's most useless, rankless male Zerg. He is the Empire's lofty jewel. Your lives were never meant to intersect, but you can't bear being mocked by other Zerg, so you conceal your identity and form a band of star pirates.

You meet him on the battlefield and recognize a kindred spirit in him.

But during a beast tide, you push him and his battleship into the abyss.

As a result, he is branded a traitor, loses his wings, and falls into ruin.

And you, despite being assigned to him by the Empire, refuse to marry a disabled Zerg like him, leading to his eventual death.

Time resets. When you open your eyes again, it's the day you were assigned to marry each other.

"Wait, you mean the Zerg is Laika?"

"That's right. Shocked, scumbag?"

"He hates me?"

"Yep, so the Host needs to reform."

Great. Neil, an Imperial disgrace who has just narrowly escaped death in a medical pod, is absolutely delighted.

He risked everything to get another Zerg to safety, leaving himself disfigured and disabled. He only survived after undergoing a third differentiation, and now that Zerg holds a grudge against him. He must be the only one in the whole Empire with luck this bad.

His finger hovers over the option to refuse the match. "Since he wants to marry a disabled Zerg..."

The System shrieks: "Host, what are you doing?"

Of course, getting revenge. "First! I'll make him my consort, so he has no way out!"

"But... he doesn't recognize you."

"What!!!"

The heartless female Zerg Laika thinks that, although his male Zerg partner is a bit strange, he is actually quite gentle.

Laika falls for him, but he still likes his first love.

Neil: He has a first love too!!!

It's Neil, the one with the same name as the male Zerg and the star pirate captain!

2. Cultivation World (Complete)

Heartless Path patriarch vs. aloof immortal

He is your disciple and your child bridegroom. He has loved you secretly since childhood, and was told that once he grew up, he could marry you.

But after a trip down the mountain, you believe the mortal saying that masters must never marry their disciples, and go into seclusion.

Later, he waits for you day and night, but you decide your sect has fallen into disgrace and force him to take on three rebellious disciples.

As a result, he is imprisoned for half his life. When he finally escapes, you still believe the lies told by those three wretches and send him to the underworld.

In this life, you open your eyes just as those three wretches are drugging him.

You have to atone! Kill those three wretches with your own hands!

The result: Hey, Host?

Why is it that just losing your romantic feelings means you don't have to pursue your wife?

3. Wasteland World (Complete)

A kept man vs. a tentacled monster

In this extremely dangerous world, you are a man who makes a living by mooching off others.

You flirt with people online until you finally pick one carefully.

But as it turns out, he's an idiot who agrees with everything you say.

Overjoyed, you plan to latch onto this sucker, but one day you discover he's a tentacled monster.

Terrified, you leave through the door, abandoning him, pregnant with eggs, to be discovered by his natural enemies.

He begs you for help. You see him trapped in a glass case, but you're too cowardly to step forward. In the end, all you have left of him are slices of his tentacles.

This time, he returns to the moment before you run away.

4. Middle Ages (In progress)

A demon who seduces a bishop vs. a divine child who believes in God all his life

You are a demon who approaches him because of a wager. He is a divine child born to oppose you.

He is like a pool of clear water. You enter his life, convinced that a demon could never love a human.

But then you get caught up in a terrible incident, and your identity as a demon becomes known to everyone.

He defends you again and again, and you see his true nature: a pitiful divine child bound by rules.

So you take him on adventures and lead him into trouble. You have fallen in love with each other and secretly pledged your lives to one another, but later, he hears that he was only part of your wager.

5. Urban Legends

A con artist posing as an archaeology student vs. a merman sleeping beneath Atlantis

6. Academy

A rich second-generation heir with a first love vs. a stuttering arranged-marriage partner (the first love herself, in a battle-scarred version)

(Also known as "All the Scum Gong's Wives Are Hopeless Romantics." More worlds to be added. One couple per arc, order undecided. Gong's POV.)

Note: This is an entirely fictional setting and has nothing to do with reality. Please don't read it as a reflection of real life.

Theme: Get along with others by communicating more and learning to talk things through.