Chapter 1

"Forced to Take Someone, but Took the Wrong Person" by Xiao Yao [Complete + extras]

Synopsis:

He transmigrated into a book as a domineering villain who took what he wanted by force. With

the system

telling him the plot in advance, it should have been easy enough.

But just as the mission was about to begin in earnest, something went wrong.

"Host, you're already late for the first important plot point!"

What was done was done. Qin You ignored the system's warning and made it to the scene as quickly as he could.

In the plot, he was supposed to "give in to his bestial urges" and assault the protagonist shou here. Then the protagonist gong would arrive and rescue the protagonist shou from him once again.

When he entered and saw a figure standing in the living room, Qin You didn't waste a second under the system's anxious urging. He yanked the man over, ignored his angry demands, forcibly subdued his resistance, and began taking what he wanted by force.

Halfway through, Qin You waited and waited, and finally, before the deed was done, the other protagonist burst in.

The newcomer sucked in a sharp breath as soon as he entered. "Qin You, what have you done to Tingshen?" he asked, his voice trembling.

Tingshen?

Yan Tingshen?

That was the protagonist gong's name.

Qin You: "..."

He looked down into Yan Tingshen's blazing eyes, then rose unhurriedly from the sofa.

The system was shrieking in his head.

A suffocating silence spread through the living room.

Qin You's face was expressionless.

His career had hit its Waterloo, and the plot was going downhill fast.

The villain had taken the wrong person. What was he supposed to do now?

Tags: strong protagonists

Wealthy families

Aristocratic clans, system

Sweet romance

Transmigration into a book

Lighthearted

Search keywords: protagonists: Qin You, Yan Tingshen ┃ supporting characters: ┃ others:

One-line synopsis: His career hit its Waterloo, and the plot went downhill fast.

Theme: A twist of fate might just be a match made in heaven.

Chapter 1

Deafening, raucous music.

The strong, pungent smell of alcohol.

Raucous laughter and chatter surrounded him, while the dizziness of intoxication still lingered in his head.

Before Qin You even opened his eyes, he sensed someone leaning close, speaking in a cloyingly affected voice.

"Young Master Qin, why aren't you drinking?"

The air-conditioning in the room was turned up far too high. Someone had shoved a glass into his hand, and it felt like he was gripping a block of ice.

The biting chill brought Qin You fully awake.

As it eased for a moment, memories swept over him.

Qin You paused.

He had died.

He had died trying to help others, after a moment of carelessness led him to misjudge his stamina and exhaust himself. Still, he had saved four people at the cost of his own life, so it was a net gain.

Afterward, a voice calling itself a "system" had asked to bind with him. It said it would transport his intact body to a mission world, and that as long as he completed the mission, his reward would be "continuing to live in a new world."

This was probably the so-called mission world.

At the same time, the system issued a notification.

[Congratulations, host. Your physical data has been successfully overwritten.]

[Text content triggered. Main mission loading.]

As it loaded, a flood of information surfaced in an instant.

It was the contents of a book, but the information was so fragmented that he couldn't piece it all together.

The only parts he could be relatively sure of concerned his current identity. Even those were incomplete.

Qin You raised a hand and pinched the bridge of his nose.

In this book, the original owner of his body shared his name and was a young man from a wealthy family.

"Qin You" was the eldest grandson of the Qin Group's chairman. Although he had lived comfortably from childhood, his education had been lacking to some degree, and after spending twenty-two years abroad on his own, he had long since grown into a good-for-nothing wastrel.

In the known story, the original owner's father had suddenly fallen gravely ill and lapsed into a coma.

The chairman of the Qin Group, the original owner's grandfather, had ordered the original owner to return from his studies abroad out of affection for his eldest son.

His grandfather then used his seventieth birthday as an occasion to invite prominent figures from all over. At the banquet, he announced that the original owner would formally join the Qin Group as general manager, becoming its tacitly acknowledged heir apparent.

But not everyone could accept that arrangement.

Some members of the Qin Household whose interests were directly affected paid lip service to it while secretly pursuing their own schemes.

First, they set the original owner up to make a complete fool of himself at the banquet where he was introduced. Afterward, they resorted to every possible means to steer him toward a life of pleasure and keep him from seeking advancement, hoping to prevent him from inheriting the company.

As it happened, after returning to the country, the original owner had fallen deeply in love with an old acquaintance

he had reunited with after a long separation.

He wanted no one else and devoted all of what little attention he had to courting him, making an even bigger mess of things.

That old acquaintance was the protagonist shou of the book.

The original owner had pursued him and showered him with attention, but still failed to get the response he wanted. Egged on by all sorts of ill-intentioned people, he tried to win the protagonist shou's body first and his heart afterward. Even after that failed, he refused to repent and kept coming up with foolish schemes.

Of course, after doing every foolish thing imaginable in the name of love, the original owner reaped what he sowed and came to a miserable end.

Not only did he fail to win his beloved, he was also duped into offending the forces backing the protagonist shou. That, combined with the vicious members of the Qin Household kicking him while he was down as they had long planned, brought the Qin Group to the brink of collapse. The original owner himself ended up behind bars, his bleak future plain to see.

[Main mission unlocked.]

[Because the protagonists' feelings in the book have not reached the standard of love, the host must play the domineering villain Qin You, approach the targets, and successfully intervene at the relevant plot points.]

[The mission will be complete once the host successfully helps the protagonists grow closer. The host will then no longer be bound.]

A domineering villain?

Qin You picked out the key words.

So his current identity was the villain.

Every book had its heroes and villains. Apparently, his luck was bad: he had drawn the role of a brainless villain blinded by lust.

But the original owner's ending was already spelled out clearly in the book.

He suffered a mental breakdown and wandered the streets—

A new life like that is the reward for completing the mission? That's revenge, isn't it?

Qin You thought it over.

Why don't I just stay dead?

[During this period, provided that the plot points proceed smoothly, the host may use any means available to avoid the ending in the book.] Perhaps sensing something, the system followed up with a reminder.

In other words, whether his new life turned out well was still entirely up to his own efforts.

Sure enough, there was no such thing as a free lunch.

Qin You was very dissatisfied with this.

I've transformed into a wastrel, and I still have to work hard and struggle? Is that reasonable?

He remembered something else. [What happens if the mission fails?]

[Once the mission goes out of control, if the system has accumulated a certain amount of energy, the host will be transported to the next world for a second mission, and so on until he succeeds.]

Mindful of the cause of the host's death when he was selected, the system spoke carefully and respectfully, focusing on persuasion. [If there is no energy, the mission will fail completely, and the host will lose his chance to live again.]

Just as I thought.

High-handed terms.

Qin You thought.

I'll take it one step at a time, then.

I'm already here anyway.

[The upcoming birthday banquet will lead into the relevant plot points. Host, please be sure to attend,] the system added.

Just then, another voice sounded beside his ear.

"Young Master Qin, come on, drink!"

The icy glass was held up to his lips, and Qin You turned to look.

The one urging him to drink was a pretty woman wearing heavy makeup and a smile. A young man sat behind her.

The man's expression was obscured by the colorful but dim flashing lights in the private room, concealing his ill intent.

When he met Qin You's eyes, the man looked away. A moment later, he turned back and raised his own glass with a broad smile.

"Don't worry, Brother You. Assistant Cui isn't here yet."

The man winked as if they were close buddies, but turned his head and glared at the woman from the shadows.

The woman flinched and hurriedly raised the glass toward Qin You again. "Young Master Qin?"

Qin You casually pushed it away and leaned heavily back into the sofa.

He had already figured out his situation.

According to the plot, this was the second day after the original owner had been ordered to return to the country.

At tonight's birthday banquet, it would be announced that he was taking the position of general manager.

This man, who thought he was doing an excellent job of disguising himself, was one of the original owner's younger male cousins, one who treated him like a fool.

The cousin was a minor actor who wanted to make it in

the entertainment industry.

If he brought the original owner down, even the scraps he picked up would be resources enough to benefit him endlessly, so he had played a considerable part in the various schemes after the original owner returned.

Today, he had deliberately gotten the original owner completely drunk before the banquet began, causing him to make a spectacle of himself in front of the many guests. That made him one of the greatest contributors in his little clique.

It could be said that with this debut, the original owner had thoroughly disgraced himself and the Qin Household.

As for the "Assistant Cui" he had mentioned—

The thought had barely crossed his mind when a knock came from outside the door.

More accurately, someone was pounding on it.

Soon, the door burst open.

Before the manager drinking with the guests in the private room could lose his temper, a group of tall men in black suits walked in and shoved him aside as easily as brushing away a chick.

One went to the door and turned on the light with a click; another strode to the screen and switched off the music.

The private room fell silent in an instant.

The cousin beside Qin You sprang to his feet, bristling with anger.

"Which bastard dares come into my—C-Cui, Assistant Cui..."

His eyes had been in the dark for a long time, so Qin You raised a hand to shield them from the sudden light. He heard the jumble of footsteps come to a halt, and the cousin beside him, who had been issuing threats, wilted on the spot.

The display frightened everyone else badly enough that they stayed quiet, not daring to move.

Then came the only remaining footsteps, crossing from the doorway to the sofa.

Qin You lowered his hand and looked up.

A man also dressed in a suit stood straight in front of the table. He was young too, with a handsome face beneath rimless glasses, though his expression was slightly restrained.

The man's gaze swept over the private room, which had long since fallen completely silent, before finally meeting Qin You's. He gave him only a slight nod in acknowledgment.