Novels like Saving the World Starts with Playing the Villain
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- 1 How to Become the Top Villain 如何登顶反派第一 [Main story complete, bonus chapters updating] As a hugely popular anime, Bonebreaker ended its first season perfectly. At the fans' fervent insistence, the second season was rushed into production. At the very start, a never-before-seen character appeared at the door amid a raging storm. Calm and unruffled, he drew a sword from among the dead flowers in the courtyard. White hair, black clothes, silver-red earrings, and eyes like stars and moonlight fallen into a frigid pool. He was breathtaki 7.4kFavorites6.9kClicks/ch21.2kGifts
- 2 I'm the Biological Child of the Barren Eunuch, the Ninth-Thousand-Year Lord 我是绝嗣九千岁亲生的崽 [Child-Rearing + Everyone's Favorite + Genius + No Romance] | Main story complete In an old-school novel, the great villain was once a noble young aristocrat who outshone all others in the capital. After falling into ruin, he rose to become the all-powerful, unhinged Eunuch of Nine Thousand Years. But in the end, he became the heroine's lovesick doormat and the hero's stepping-stone, suffering the most miserable fate imaginable. Little Robot No. 00 was selected to take the Space-Time Bureau's e 56.4kFavorites73.3kClicks/ch125kGifts
- 3 Can the Elderly Type Become a Popular Character Too? 年老系也能成为人气角色吗 Qiu Lin transmigrates into the wildly popular supernatural action manga Bu Du. He's a notorious hater of the manga, a formidable debater who cites sources when writing takedown posts and can recite every detail by heart when arguing with people. Good news: He can probably "see the future" and avoid all the dangerous plotlines before they happen. Bad news: He accidentally transmigrates as an incredibly annoying character 34kFavorites33.2kClicks/ch76.8kGifts
- 4 After the Infinite-World No. 1 Faked His Death and Entered the Pool 无限流NO.1死遁进池后 After destroying the infinite-flow dimension, Yao Hengying, once the top-ranked player, returned to a quiet life, recovering from his injuries and going to work like an ordinary person. Then one day, he discovered that an unknown entity had turned the world into a card-collecting game for higher-dimensional beings. The game’s protagonist, Zhao Yue, is a recent college graduate. As spiritual qi revival begins and supernatural abilities awaken, he finds himself going through one bizarre, fantasti 19kFavorites19.8kClicks/ch55kGifts
- 5 After Accidentally Joining a Villain-Training Livestream 误入反派培养直播后 Zhetan was bound to a livestream room. The System told him that every livestream room had a talent development plan, and his plan was to become a righteous cultivator. So Zhetan worked hard at his cultivation, diligently and conscientiously, until he became the revered Sword Venerable of Spirit Sword Cliff, an immortal-looking paragon of virtue with countless followers. By all appearances, he was a righteous leader whose inner nature matched his outward image. And yet, the comments he saw every 13.5kFavorites8.3kClicks/ch24.7kGifts
- 6 Shi Lü's Marvel Adventure 时律的漫威之旅 Shi Lü's Marvel Adventure There really won't be any more. Stop asking, it's really, really over _(:з"∠)_. The rest is next door, but there's no Marvel there. Theme: Saving the day, the easy way 6.3kFavorites47.4kClicks/ch392Gifts
- 7 Things Went Awry After I Played a Sword 扮演刀剑后出岔子了 Recently, the hardworking Government of Time began receiving one alarm after another. Records of multiple Honmaru appearing out of nowhere left them stunned. - Swords dismantled at random, sent into battle while moderately wounded around the clock, a level-one new sword sent out alone, dying without treatment, deliberately breaking swords, destroying their own Honmaru... Each line of the records was more alarming and horrifying than the last. Government of Time: (curses) Our government’s good 26.3kFavorites29.8kClicks/ch117.6kGifts
- 8 21+ Did not I Tell You Not to Take Manga Seriously?! 都说了别把漫画当真! 21.6kFavorites21kClicks/ch77.6kGifts
- 9 Forced to Play a Terrifying K*ller 被迫扮演恐怖杀手 [Completed] Wei Jihua is a novelist who transmigrates into his own novel as its terrifying serial-killer protagonist. He opens his eyes at a murder scene, a bloodstained knife in his hand, just as police sirens sound outside. At the same time, an evil criminal organization sends him messages demanding that he keep killing. If he doesn't, they'll kill him instead. Wei Jihua: ... The useless novelist Wei Jihua runs around in a panic like a husky lost in a pack of wolves. He can only rely on hi 36.7kFavorites42.1kClicks/ch56.8kGifts
- 10 After I Lost My Memory, My Impressive Secret Came to Light 失忆后我很牛逼的事暴露了 Concise blurb: After agreeing to participate in a virtual-reality reality show, a famous pretty face in the entertainment industry runs into a technical glitch. All the participants lose their memories of being on a reality show and are terrified, convinced they have transmigrated. And so... the fake pretty face reveals the truth: he is actually a true powerhouse. Detailed blurb: As a famous pretty face in Country M, Louis is renowned for being completely useless except for his looks. Cast as 33.1kFavorites41kClicks/ch73.2kGifts
- 11 The Villain Is Charming Without Knowing It 反派苏而不自知 Announcement: Bonus stories for Part Two are now available. Pei Chu was a wandering ghost, and the kind who had lost all his memories from life. He wandered alone through endless darkness for who knew how long, until someone claiming to be a System found him. It asked if he was willing to play a villain and travel with it through three thousand worlds. Pei Chu asked why it had chosen him. The System replied, "You're a perfect fit for the job. You were a major villain when you were alive, th 26.4kFavorites62.1kClicks/ch25.1kGifts
- 12 I Became the Most Popular Character by Acting as a Villain in the Manga 扮演反派后我在漫画人气登顶 - The cover changes from time to time. The current cover features the protagonist, Bai Xuechao - [Part One is complete. Part Two is available for pre-order in my author’s collection. [Extras are being updated slowly and irregularly] As Bai Xuechao was about to die from illness, he became bound to a System claiming to come from a “high-dimensional world comics website.” He learned that the world he lived in was a comic, and that a major villain had died unexpectedl 38.1kFavorites61.7kClicks/ch59.9kGifts
- 13 After I Started Shipping Myself with Myself 和自己水仙炒作后 [Bonus extras are dropping at random. Thank you for supporting the official release =3=] Jiang Huai had a handsome face, stood 184 centimeters tall, kept himself in excellent shape, had top-tier professional skills, and was a genius at charming fans. Yet he was a pitiful nobody. The reason was simple. The entertainment industry was a riot of color, but Jiang Huai stood unstained by the mud, untouched by the ripples. In plain language: He was too honest, so he was neither infamous nor popular. 26.1kFavorites39.5kClicks/ch31.6kGifts
- 14 I’m Taking Over This Livestream 这个直播我承包了 [Not a power fantasy. Not a power fantasy. Not a power fantasy. This is a story about the female lead’s growth.] [The author has no brain, so please don’t get your hopes up.] [60% paywall. Paragraph comments available at 10%.] [The female lead’s secret-identity story Don’t Take the Comic Seriously! is currently being serialized.] Jiang Miaomiao never imagined that the little comic she doodled in class would actually appear in the real world. The world was forcibly plunged into an era of livestr 25.3kFavorites38.8kClicks/ch35.2kGifts
- 15 After Being Drawn into a Comic, Everyone Mistakes Me for a Tragic Beauty with Strength 被画进漫画后总被误解为是美强惨 [80% anti-piracy protection. The revised text differs substantially from pirated versions. The main story is complete, and extras are updating. Thank you for supporting the official version w] Yan Shi, a powerful figure with an intense devotion to fairness. She was the director of the Bureau of Anomalous Management, which governed the boundary between the surface world and the hidden world, an official who seemed capable of anything. More unusually, Yan Shi was incredibly mysterious as the bu 44.1kFavorites54.7kClicks/ch109.5kGifts
- 16 A Research Maniac Survives in a Manga by Being Beautiful, Tragic, and Powerful 考据狂在漫画里靠美惨强保命 [Complete!!! The chapters are all up, so you can dig in now!] [My next novel features a male protagonist and no romance: The Cannon Fodder Villain Chooses to Join the Protagonist Squad. It’s the same kind of no-romance, group-adored, battle-worn story. A young villainous cannon-fodder heir awakens to his fate and, to fight against it, takes up the plot strings left behind by his mentor, his late and unexpected first love. He becomes a morally ambiguous drifter alongside the protagonist squad. A 34.9kFavorites53.4kClicks/ch24.1kGifts
- 17 I Am Not the Mastermind [Infinite] 我不是幕后黑手[无限] [Mastermind protagonist + secret identities + unconventional infinite survival + mythology + dungeons with a Western fantasy, Chinese horror, and a touch of cosmic horror influence] Please support the official version. Thank you all~ OvO Life has been too busy, and I haven’t been in a good headspace. I can’t write the bonus side stories for now. I may continue when I have more free time or inspiration, and I apologize. No need to wait for updates every day. I. This is an endless horror game sta 45.8kFavorites38.8kClicks/ch120.3kGifts
- 18 The Comic Book Extra Wants to Become a Fan Favorite 漫画炮灰想成为人气王 01. A week before Cezar was due to die of his illness, he struck a deal with the System. He would transmigrate into the currently hottest comic, Absolute Talent, as an unregistered cannon-fodder character with nothing to his name. With his frail constitution, having too little presence would mean certain death. To survive, Cezar had no choice but to manually add character traits and dramatic moments for himself, becoming an indispensable character in the comic and relying on his acting skills an 60.5kFavorites116.7kClicks/ch71.7kGifts
- 19 Rules for Playing the Dark Moonlight Top 黑月光攻扮演法则 World-hopping anthology, top-focused. The first four worlds are complete. Original title: How the Black Moonlight Ruins the Protagonist There is a department in the Space-Time Administration whose members specialize in playing kind, beloved white moons in small worlds. They cleanse the tragic protagonists’ dark hearts and guide them toward a better path. When the time comes, they must also die, becoming the one pure, white jasmine flower whose loss will remain an eternal regret. It may seem l 46kFavorites44.4kClicks/ch29.6kGifts
- 20 Global Ascension 全球升格 [Original story with many secret identities and lots of showing off, identities never exposed] [Mastermind] [Not mutual pining, an ensemble romance, many secret identities getting close] “Recommending my friend's complete no-CP secret-identity novel, The Aesthetics of a Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic BE, by We Huo, ID 5867738” Chu Zaizhou was known as a hardcore grinder and dominated the gaming world. One day, he stumbled upon a game called Savior. To unlock every hidden achievement a 107.2kFavorites169.4kClicks/ch195.2kGifts
- 21 21+ Comic Protagonist in the Middle of an Amazing Performance 漫画主角绝赞扮演中 63kFavorites88.5kClicks/ch142.7kGifts
- 22 You Look Like You’re Drawing Me 你好像在画我 A story about a monster and a comic. Yuan Yuanyuan is a half-monster who came into being by accident after birth. Once human herself, she obeys the law and does everything she can to hide her identity. But her peaceful life ends that night. After disguising herself, she rescues someone from a monster. A week after returning home, Yuan Yuanyuan flips through the comic she's been enjoying lately and is stunned to find a scene that feels strangely familiar. A black-haired male monster... rescuing s 58.1kFavorites118.9kClicks/ch210.3kGifts
- 23 The Aesthetic of Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic 美强惨的be美学 ★ There are treats in the featured and long-review sections. ★ If you create fanworks, please credit the original author, and don't post large numbers of screenshots or repost content from VIP chapters. [Recommending my friend's completed novel, Global Ascension, a tragic beauty with secret identities, by Zimu Tao, ID 5520005] Blurb: Gong Du is the least popular deity in the Three Thousand Divine Realms, with dominion over disease. Every world has a protagonist group, and they gather the world 117.9kFavorites137.9kClicks/ch106kGifts
- 24 EN A Novelist's Guide to Saving Side Characters 小说家的边缘角色自救指南 [New story, I Became a Steampunk NPC and Usurped the Divine Throne, is now underway] [Gradually correcting typos and polishing the text] [Bonus chapters updating slowly] Chu Zu was a novelist in his previous life. He died suddenly after working through the night to meet a deadline, and after his death he was bound to the Side Character Correction System. The System proposed a deal: if Chu Zu could play and reform the side characters hated by readers, he could be given a new life. Chu Zu: Change 156.1kFavorites191.7kClicks/ch430kGifts
- 25 Survival Guide for the Otherworldly Hero 异界勇者生存指南 [The full story has been revised, with 40,000 additional words, rewritten scenes, retold events, and reworked character arcs. I take no responsibility for content on sites that pirate the novel.] Blurb 1: I thought that when you died, that was it. But when I opened my eyes again, I was in another world. “You really are beautiful,” remarked a skull he happened to pick up by the roadside. Scott 140kFavorites209.5kClicks/ch673kGifts
- 26 Playing a Popular Character 人气角色扮演中 [Original work, not a derivative; female lead has no romance] [Cross-dressing as a man, comic forums, layers of secret identities, readers imagining things and treating the protagonist as a tragic, beautiful, powerful figure] [The comments contain lots of spoilers. On your first read, you can stick to the long reviews and topics, which have tons of great fanworks and memes~] [80% anti-piracy protection, 10% paragraph comments] [Illustrations are now available. Gacha can be addictive, so spend re 112.9kFavorites175.8kClicks/ch182.5kGifts
- 27 Echoes of My Heart Throughout the Court 满朝文武都能听到我的心声 I have a completed novel next door, The Empress Consort System Made Me the First Emperor's Imperial Tutor. Take a look if you're interested. *Light ancient fantasy novel Bad news: Xu Yanmao has transmigrated to ancient times, and he's completely useless at physical labor or farming. His specialty, cybersecurity, is no use to the ancients. Good news: He's bound to a System. Bad news: It's called the Gossip System. Not gossip in the sense of fortune-telling, but gossip involving people's priva 499kFavorites1.1MClicks/ch2.7MGifts















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