Transmigrated into a Book—and Became the Villain

Looking at the White-robed Woman, surrounded by his guards and too afraid to move.

Jiang Lan finally let out a soft breath and calmly returned to his seat in the pavilion.

Though his face remained composed, the pain in his chest still made him suck in cold breaths.

After all, that blow just now had been real. It was no joke.

He looked calm, but inwardly, he was anything but. If anything, his balls were aching a little.

He, Jiang Lan, was a transmigrator.

More precisely, a Book Transmigrator.

The moment he woke up, he had arrived in this world—and had even become a villainous cannon fodder character doomed to die miserably in the original plot.

Other transmigrators at least got a system or something. As for him, forget a system—he had not even seen the shadow of a Golden Finger.

The woman before him was named Su Qinghan. She was the eldest daughter of the Su Family, one of the Four Great Families in Yuyi City of Jiangling Commandery, one of the Great Xia Dynasty's one hundred and eight commanderies.

She had entered the First Realm at four, broken through the Second Realm at eight, reached the Third Realm before turning thirteen, and had now successfully broken through to the Fourth Realm.

Across Jiangling Commandery, even throughout the entire Great Xia Dynasty, she was a dazzling, radiant Heavenly Chosen Daughter.

Of course, she had another identity as well—she was the wife of this world's Protagonist, Lin Fan.

More precisely, this world should have been the world of the Eunuch Sword Master.

Eunuch Sword Master was an immortal cultivation fantasy Son-in-Law Genre novel. Of course, Eunuch Sword Master was merely the nickname readers had given it.

It was called Eunuch Sword Master because hundreds of chapters had passed, yet the male lead was still a eunuch.

With all those female protagonists, he had not merely failed to hold hands—he had not even touched the hem of a skirt. Thus, Protagonist Lin Fan had also been mockingly dubbed the Eunuch Sword Master.

The novel chiefly told the passionate tale of the Eternal Calamity Sword Master, a great master of the sword from a past life, who was betrayed by his disciple and left with no choice but to undergo Liberation by Violence and enter reincarnation. Reborn and cultivating anew, he became the son-in-law of the Su Family, one of Yuyi City's Four Great Families, then swaggered through life, slapped faces, slew enemies, and met beautiful women.

The reason he remembered the main plot of Eunuch Sword Master was that one villainous cannon fodder character in it shared his name.

The sole son of the Great Xia Dynasty's Power Chancellor—a Second Generation Scion who was ignorant and incompetent, drowned in wine and women, a sack of wine and a bag of rice.

Eunuch Sword Master was extremely long, and Jiang Lan had not actually finished it. The later chapters had been so watered down that a flood could have drowned Mount Jinshan.

Still, he remembered some of the early plot.

It was the same old formula: a powerful man was reborn, first looked down on by his family and slighted by his mother-in-law. Even Su Qinghan, his wife in name, despised him.

On the day of their marriage, the wedding had not even taken place before Su Qinghan ran away from the family, leaving the male lead to guard an empty room alone.

Over the course of what followed, the male lead gradually revealed his extraordinary nature and slapped the faces of those who had looked down on him.

First, he won the emperor's favor and set the court in order; later, he was recommended by the immortal sects and cleansed the realm.

Then the Su Family regretted bitterly, his mother-in-law repented, and his sister-in-law began to see him in a different light.

Su Qinghan, too, gradually discovered the male lead's excellence and began to acknowledge and accept him.

As for the specific details of the plot, Jiang Lan naturally could not remember them clearly.

But one thing he remembered with absolute clarity was that the Jiang Family behind him would later be exterminated.

Not even a chicken raised in the household would be spared. They would die horribly.

And the Power Chancellor at the center of the court—his father—harbored the ambition of wolves, disrupted the court, and sought to overturn the dynasty. Taking advantage of the Xia Emperor's youth, he pointed at a deer in court and called it a horse, reducing the Xia Emperor's prestige to nothing.

His crimes were so numerous that even bamboo slips could not record them all.

Naturally, he too would come to no good end.

And Jiang Lan, as villainous cannon fodder, would likewise be unable to escape death.

As for the exact cause, it seemed to be that he had taken a fancy to the Protagonist Lin Fan's sister-in-law—Su Qinghan's younger sister, Su Qingyao—and thus offended Lin Fan.

In the plot where he appeared in the novel, he was a complete good-for-nothing: handsome on the surface, yet indulging in wine and women all day long.

For certain reasons, he could not cultivate, so his heart had become especially twisted, and he loved to bully others by relying on power.

Leaning on his father's influence, he ran rampant across Great Xia, not even placing imperial relatives in his eyes.

Having learned from somewhere that Su Qingyao, the second daughter of the Su Family in Yuyi City, possessed a special Cauldron Physique that could help someone embark upon the path of cultivation,

he had traveled thousands upon thousands of miles from the imperial capital, Jingyang City, and sent his men to abduct Su Qingyao from the academy.

That was what had led to Su Qinghan rushing here upon hearing the news to rescue her younger sister.

Of course, Jiang Lan, who knew the plot well, knew that there was another hidden reason why this man had become the sort of person who committed every evil.

The original owner had been the very image of Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic. Of course, that "strong" referred to the past. Now, he was simply a useless dandy, relying on his family background to act arrogant and tyrannical.

In the original plot, Su Qinghan had always cultivated at Qingshan Academy in Jiangling Commandery. Today, she had happened to break through to the Fourth Realm, the Illuminating Nether Realm, and had caught the eye of an elder from the Dao Cang Sword Sect, who wished to take her as a personal disciple.

The Dao Cang Sword Sect was one of the Great Xia Dynasty's four great sword sects. Even across the entire Nine Provinces Continent, it was a renowned and powerful force, with a long heritage and profound foundations.

The descendants of many royal dynasties and aristocratic families had paid immense prices to enter it and cultivate.

However, Jiang Lan, who knew the plot well, was fully aware that the person intending to take Su Qinghan as a disciple was no ordinary elder of the Dao Cang Sword Sect, but one of the three Sword Immortals currently living in seclusion within the Great Xia Dynasty.

A genuine peerless expert of the Eighth Realm.

That was also why his balls currently ached a little. With an ordinary woman, he could simply imitate the original owner's temperament and snatch her. Why would he need to consider the consequences?

But an Eighth Realm peerless expert carried immense weight in the present-day Great Xia Dynasty.

"Young Master, how should this woman be dealt with? She truly has the gall to defy heaven."

"In broad daylight, she even dared to assassinate Young Master. She simply does not know the immensity of heaven and earth."

A guard clad in armor and carrying a saber stepped forward and asked respectfully.

The voice brought Jiang Lan back to his senses.

He clicked his tongue inwardly.

"Just how heavy was the intelligence-reducing halo in the original plot, for a Second Generation Scion who could wipe out the Su Family countless times with a single breath to be so easily intimidated by Su Qinghan's few words, then obediently hand over Su Qingyao..."

Though he could not remember the plot very clearly, he still retained a faint impression.

As one of the important female supporting characters, Su Qingyao naturally could not possibly be taken advantage of by a villainous cannon fodder character like him.

Thus, Su Qinghan had arrived in time, and just happened to do so when there were no guards around him.

Then, with a few simple threats, she forcibly fed him some strange Pill for which only she had the antidote, threatening him not to reveal or publicize what had happened today—or else he would bleed from seven orifices and die with Ten Thousand Ants Devouring the Heart.

The original owner, afraid of death, had naturally agreed with utmost obedience and meekly handed over Su Qingyao. Afterwards, Lin Fan had come to bear a grudge against him because of this.

This kind of plot truly could not stand up to thought. The moment one thought about it, one could only feel as though the author had pressed one's intelligence to the ground and rubbed it raw.

He was the foremost noble in all Great Xia, while this Female Protagonist was merely the eldest daughter of a family in some remote little city.

How had she dared to do this? Who had given her the courage? The author?

Could it be that the Female Protagonist also had a Protagonist halo?