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How to survive as a villain

Tác giả: Kuroitsuki

Chương 1: Reading Kills

Some books give you trauma for life.

The first kind shatters your world, leaving you questioning your entire existence.

The second?

The book leaves your soul shattered, and you wonder, what if you kill the author, and the characters of the book?

Going to jail for eradicating this level of junk is worth it.

No?

Ren Picked up a random audiobook to calm his mind. According to the description, the story was set in the futuristic era where people have different physiques, and some have different powers.

A male lead named Win Xander of level S physique, a third child of the Xander family, one of the most influential families, falls for a female student named Sabrina.

Happy ending?

Hell no!!!

The female lead doesn't care about the male lead's good looks, and money...pretty obvious. Sabrina is the embodiment of purity. So, as a sensible female lead, she ignores the male lead, making him angry and jealous.

She only liked her childhood friend, who looked after her since she was a toddler.

After making a final decision, she confessed to her crush, only to be rejected by him.

What will any girl do after a rejection?

Cry? Cut hair? Go clubbing? Something along these lines.

Right?

NO!

That's for "normal" people, and She is a female lead. How dare you mortals compare yourself to her?

The rejection fueled Sabrina's anger. Ignoring the fact that her crush had trouble with normal interactions, let alone a full-blown relationship, Sabrina pestered the male. She deliberately let the male lead see when she got rejected for the second time.

Why?

Ask Sabrina, Ren doesn't know either!!!

And Here comes the male lead.

No matter how long Win Xander chased Sabrina, she never took interest in him.

So, he stalked *cough* followed her to her home, where he saw his dear Sabrina laughing and giggling with a boy he never knew.

This boy was the topper of his class, yet he doesn't have much impression of the boy. Even spider webs are more visible in the dark than that boy. Forget about the face, Win had no idea what his name was. How could he, when all his time was spent chasing Sabrina and participating in Mecha fights?

So, Win Xander decided to find his weakness. He wanted to go for an absolute kill. He tried studying and ended up 25th in his class.

Win: "....."

After concluding that he couldn't beat the nerd in this game, he went to look for him.

There, he saw his beloved Sabrina, confessing to the Nerd and getting rejected.

He dared to reject her!!!

Now, how could he bear that?

But bro, shouldn't you be happy about the rejection part?

Ren was having a hard time grasping both male lead's and female lead's characters.

Clouded with anger, he went to his group of friends, which included Lifra Denaria, a girl of temper and too much pride and Zery Riones, a clown of the group. A popular boy, a rich girl and another rich boy whose only purpose is to make a fool of himself…yeah pretty "new".

A group of teenagers came to the absolute best idea they could come up with. To make the nerd, whose name they still don't know, fall for Win. Then, Win will break his heart just like the nerd did with his beloved. Pain needs to be repaid tenfold.

He enticed the students, and soon others started bullying the nerd. Win always appeared at the critical moment to save the day. Slowly but surely, the nerd opened up to him. He confided in Win that he was poor and hid it so others wouldn't look down on him. Imagine Win's delight when he found a new way to make the nerd's life even more miserable.

The next day became the official day where no one listened to the nerd's side of the story.

Even the teachers stopped standing up for him. No one wanted to go against the Xanders and other powerful families for a poor student who was only surviving on a scholarship.

At this point, Ren thought that it was a romance between Win and the nerd. He even checked the tags whether it was a dark romance BL or something else. The happy ending tag did assure him to continue listening to the audiobook.

The time passed, and the nerd ended up falling for Win. When Win invited him to the park near the school, he agreed. He had no idea about the rejection he had to face in front of so many students.

The point to note is that, no one knows how the nerd looks. He always wore a hat, mask or hoodie to cover his face.

The entire school watched the live stream of Love and Betrayal.

One might wonder, what the female lead did because Sabrina liked the nerd.

She was a sadist. Maybe, that was the only reason she liked the nerd.

After all, the nerd didn't have the best life out there. The author mentioned his separated parents, neither of whom wanted to take him in. However, that's all we know about him.

After a few days, the nerd disappeared from their lives.

Through various trials, Win and Sabrina ended up together. They fought for the family inheritance with Sister Xander, the second child of the Xander family. Don't ask where the firstborn is.

He died.

Why???

The plot!!!

After gaining a few hundred million with difficulty as high as one would gain fat after eating junk food, they decide to celebrate their success.

At that party, they encountered the nerd, again.

Nerd, who fell in love with the female lead.

Excuse me????

Nerd knew he suffered at school because of her, yet he fell for her.

Ren wasn't a fan of the male lead, but even he wanted to question nerd's loyalty.

Nerd, are you a masochist? S and M? Pair made in heaven?

That's not the point!

After all the characters gathered under one roof, they unlocked the super plot. A scenario used so much that without it, readers might think that the author forgot to put it in.

The kidnapping incident!

Ren "..."

At this point, Ren was only listening for the sake of ending the story, and to also see just how ridiculous a story can get.

Was it the nerd who kidnapped the female lead?

No. If that were the case, won't everything make sense?

The sister Xander kidnapped the female lead because… she liked her.

When did this happen? The last time both ladies were at each other's throats. Ren even supported the ongoing bet in favor of sister Xander.

It was because her character had more depth and definitely not because her strong personality and strong body which was Ren's type. Yup! Totally for the character.

Well forwarding to the story...

The nerd went to save the female lead.

Why is everyone falling for the Female lead?

Again, The plot!

Ren wondered about what the male lead would do next.

Much to Ren's dismay, Win Xander panicked and went after… the nerd.

He was still unable to wrap his head around the fact that he couldn't even make an insignificant person fall for him.

At this point, Ren checked the tags again to see if the story was BL, a genre he had been avoiding until now because his friend Rummi kept talking about her obsession with ukas, or was it ukers?

Don't worry Ren you will learn what uke is soon enough, but now is not the time to wander.

Somehow, everyone managed to reach where Sabrina was. The police were still nowhere to be found.

While fighting with each other, they found that the nerd sexually assaulted a girl who was only sixteen years old.

Ren understood the author's intentions for pulling the hidden molester plot because, till now, everyone was sympathising with the nerd. With this, readers had a solid reason to hate him and tilt in favour of male lead, and female lead.

The kidnapping 'party' was stopped by the male lead's friend, who was also quite coincidentally the elder brother of that 16-year-old girl.

There is always this one person with underworld connections, willing to do the dirty deeds for the male lead.

Then, just like every story, the police arrived at the end of the time when everything had been already settled.

The elder brother took the nerd to torture him, and the male lead was left to take the credit for saving the female lead.

In the end, the nerd died, sister Xander died too, elder brother Xander was already dead, and mummy and daddy Xander suddenly died as well.

At this point, Ren found the idea of opening up a coffin house in this world pretty profitable.

The female lead married the male lead.

The end.

Can someone tell where the promised fluffy moments, the long-awaited romance, and the sane main characters were?

What is 'relaxing while listening to audiobooks'?

Now, he might get high blood pressure.

To calm his mind, he went to the balcony. As the cold wind brushed his face, he felt a stabbing pain in his chest. His fingers only felt something wet sliding through them and he fell.

A bullet meant to kill someone hiding inside his balcony ended up piercing his heart.