“So what you’re saying is…”
“Even though I’m a scumbag who abandons his Sect at critical moments, lets his ‘old man’ mentor flee, wants to add every beautiful woman he sees to his harem, has a perpetually lecherous gaze, bullies men and oppresses women daily, looks for trouble for no reason, keeps all the benefits for himself, and leaves all the downsides for others while hiding behind people at the first sign of danger…”
“I’m actually the protagonist of this world.”
“And even though that guy Su Xiao has extraordinary talent, is loyal and righteous, has eyes as clear as a college student’s when looking at beauties, has a cold and beautiful Master who treats him like her own son, and several Junior Sisters with different personalities who are all stunningly beautiful—making him the only man on the entire mountain peak…”
“He’s actually the Villain?”
Magical Beast Mountain Range.
Inside a dilapidated small wooden hut.
Ye Shu watched the white-haired little girl standing on his freshly made braised pork.
She had her hands on her hips, a bite mark on her small foot, and a flushed yet serious face.
He repeated her words verbatim.
Originally, he had stepped onto the path of immortality today.
He had prepared a table of fine food to celebrate and was enjoying it when he suddenly bit into a ‘milky-scented pig’s trotter.’ After two bites, he realized it was this brat’s foot.
And then this brat claimed to be some kind of Heavenly Dao?
She had babbled a bunch of things he couldn’t understand.
“That’s right, everything I said is true.”
Xiao Bai stood with her hands on her hips, looking dead serious.
“Wait a second.”
Ye Shu waved her off, stood up, walked to the hut’s bookshelf, and began rummaging through it.
“Hey!
What are you looking for?”
“I’m looking for a dictionary,” Ye Shu replied without turning his head.
Before long, he returned with a thick dictionary, frowning as he flipped through the pages.
“How could the words you said possibly form a coherent sentence?”
“Everything I said is true!”
Xiao Bai stomped her foot in frustration.
Hearing this, Ye Shu finally put down the dictionary and said with an exasperated look, “So you want me to believe that even though I’m a scumbag like a reincarnated Chihuahua who will have a harem of three thousand in the future, I’m actually a virgin who hasn’t even kissed any of those Female Leads?”
“Do you dare to repeat that yourself?”
“Don’t you feel the contradiction?
Isn’t your left brain attacking your right brain?”
“Even if you say this world is actually a book…”
“I’ve lived this long and never seen a protagonist as beastly as you describe.
That’s clearly a Villain template, yet you insist it’s the protagonist?”
“And you’re saying this protagonist is me?”
“Can you even believe that coming out of your own mouth?”
Ye Shu slammed the table, his eyes wide as he stared unblinkingly at Xiao Bai.
“Well?
Answer me!
Look into my eyes!”
“Everything I said is true!”
Xiao Bai’s face turned red with urgency.
She reached out a finger and tapped Ye Shu’s forehead.
“I can’t out-argue you, just see for yourself!”
In an instant, countless images flashed before Ye Shu’s eyes.
He saw a handsome man who usually held his nose in the air, acting incredibly arrogant.
He would show a lecherous expression whenever he saw a pretty girl.
Eventually, he encountered the Villain’s Master and Junior Sisters—the early-stage Female Leads.
He was beaten until all his trump cards were exhausted, looking pathetic.
Finally, facing death, he heartlessly abandoned the ‘old lady’ in his ring who had accompanied him for a long time.
This treacherous act completely disillusioned the old lady, who ended up falling for the Villain instead?
What was even more ridiculous…
All the Female Leads who appeared later looked down on the man.
He was beaten so badly he fled like a cornered rat, while the Female Leads actually fell in love with the Villain?
Until finally, the man’s Dao Heart shattered, and he fell into the Demonic Path.
He was slain by the Villain atop Mount Huaguo.
From then on, the Villain lived a wonderful, intimate life with the women.
The vision ended there.
Xiao Bai withdrew her hand and said proudly, “Now you believe me, right?”
Hearing this, Ye Shu nodded.
Then he shook his head again.
He subconsciously touched the ancient ring on his finger, feeling like his head was about to explode.
“While that may be so…
first of all, the male lead in those images is somewhat handsome, but he’s still thirty percent less handsome than me.”
“Secondly, why is the male lead such a beast?”
“Why is the Villain instead pure and noble?
And why did the Female Leads all look down on the male lead and go with the Villain?”
“Are you sure you didn’t get them mixed up?”
“Who the hell is the Villain and who is the protagonist?”
Before Ye Shu transmigrated, it was the year 2010, the era when web novels were booming.
He had read countless web novels and had never seen a protagonist as beastly as the one in the images.
That was clearly pointing at a Villain and insisting he was the male lead.
And now you’re telling me this is the male lead?
And it’s me?
Whose male lead acts like a Villain, has the Luck with women of a Villain, and gets the treatment of a Villain?
You’re just pointing at a Villain and calling him the male lead, aren’t you?
Even a dog would shake its head at this!
Xiao Bai, however, replied as if it were a matter of course.
“Of course that isn’t you, because none of this has happened yet.
This is a scene imprinted in the Void Realm by the Heavenly Dao of another world before its death.”
As she spoke, her body trembled slightly.
“In parallel timelines, an evil existence has recently appeared.
They are called Systems.
They often take ‘Outer Realm Demons’ to possess the Villains here, twisting their minds and feeding them so-called’scripts’ to seize the world’s Luck.”
“After they finish plundering the Child of Destiny’s Luck, they leave heartlessly, causing the world that lost its Luck to wither and collapse completely.”
*Hiss…*
Ye Shu sucked in a cold breath.
Even though Xiao Bai’s explanation was abstract, with his extraordinary intelligence, he actually understood it.
Simply put, a System possesses the original Villain.
At the same time, it generates an ‘original plot’ in the Villain’s mind.
Of course, this original plot is definitely tweaked to forcibly label all the original male lead’s actions as Villainous behavior.
Meanwhile, the System feeds this plot to the nearby Female Leads.
Making these Female Leads think they have been Reborn.
For instance, the original Villain’s Master and Junior Sisters are made to feel they owe the Villain too much and that it was all the Child of Destiny’s fault.
This fills them with hatred and prejudice toward the original male lead, making them eager to compensate and save the Villain.
“Then why don’t you all intervene in time?”
Ye Shu asked, puzzled.
“Because the Systems are too cunning.” Xiao Bai got angry just thinking about it.
“They deliberately make their hosts very cowardly, forcing them to follow the so-called ‘original plot’ and turning them into ‘cuckolded’ losers to arouse the Female Leads’ sympathy and provoke them into bullying you.”
“This minimizes detection by the Heavenly Dao.”
“By the time the Heavenly Dao reacts, the System has already grown powerful, and it’s too late.”
Xiao Bai looked sorrowful, her eyes welling with tears.
She sobbed, “I…
a close sister of mine who I grew up with…
her Luck was devoured by a System like this.
I could only watch helplessly as her world collapsed…”
“That’s why I was able to come and warn you in advance.”
“So that’s how it is.”
Ye Shu nodded.
Now he had sorted everything out, but soon, he suddenly remembered something!
“Wait!”
Ye Shu’s body suddenly froze, and cold sweat instantly drenched the clothes on his back.
“You said the System gives the nearby Female Leads a Rebirth script?
Making them feel killing intent toward me?”
“That’s right.” Xiao Bai nodded.
Seeing his ‘facing a great enemy’ expression, she asked curiously, “What’s wrong?”
Ye Shu’s face was pale, and sweat beaded on his forehead.
“Right now…
there’s a Female Lead right by my side.”
He gritted his teeth and stiffly lowered his head to look at the ring finger of his left hand.
There, an ancient ring was glowing.