After Becoming the Villainess’s Lackey, I Stopped Pretending for Good

(Transmigrate into a book + one heroine + loyal lackey + romance + play the pig to eat the tiger) Xu Ming has known since birth that he lives in the world of a novel. He’s a minor character, kidnapped as a child in the story. After enduring countless hardships and finally returning home, Xu Ming discovers that someone else has already taken his place. No matter how hard he tries to win them over, all he gets from his parents and two older sisters are endless insults and humiliation, along with schemes from the fake younger brother who replaced him. Looking at these ungrateful people who don’t know what’s good for them, Lu Chen decisively makes a run for it and throws in his lot with the book’s most deranged, vicious, terrifying, and utterly heartless female villain. Later, the young lady asks Lu Chen, “Little follower, what does ‘Hear the Way in the morning, and you may die content in the evening’ mean?” “Reporting to the young lady, it means if I find out where your family lives in the morning, I’ll go beat you to death there that evening.” “And what about ‘Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire’?” “If I don’t like something, nobody else can take it away!” “Then what about ‘An army may be deprived of its commander, but even a common man cannot be robbed of his ambition’?” “I can take the enemy general’s head from the midst of his army, and use civilians as a shield, but you can’t take away my fighting spirit!” “And what about ‘Since you’ve come, make yourself at home’?” “Since you’ve come, you’ll be buried here!” At last, the young lady asks her final question: “Will those who first made clay figures for burial have no descendants?” “The person who started all this has already been beaten by me until he can’t have any descendants!” Lu Chen replies, still looking perfectly innocent. The young lady gazes at her little follower, who’s even more twisted than she is, and falls into deep thought.