I'm not being a villain this life, what can you do to me?

"Bang!"

With the sound of a gunshot, Lin Ao's life was ended once again!

"Screw you, you damn heavens!"

"Lin Ao, I came here today to discuss breaking off our engagement!"

"Ah—!"

Lin Ao, sitting across from the young woman, suddenly let out a miserable shriek.

He tumbled to the floor, the scalding coffee from the table spilling all over him.

His face was deathly pale, and he was drenched in a cold sweat from the shock of the scene he had just witnessed.

Damn it! That bastard Xiao Fan actually hid behind a woman to fire a cold shot! What a piece of trash!

His head was throbbing with a dull, aching pain, and he completely ignored the sting of the coffee as he muttered under his breath.

The girl sitting across from Lin Ao was startled by his sudden outburst, and she reached out a hand, intending to help the disheveled man up.

Her fair, slender hand hung in mid-air before Lin Ao slapped it away.

His head was currently in unbearable pain.

Although this woman was breathtakingly beautiful—with willow-leaf brows, eyes like stars, a graceful figure, and an ethereal, flawless temperament like a fairy—Lin Ao had no desire to pay her any mind! Seeing her only stoked the fires of rage in his gut.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's this infatuated fool again, handing the entire Gu Family over to Xiao Fan on a silver platter. Seeing her the moment I return is truly bad luck.

Lin Ao cursed the woman before him in his heart.

"Get lost!"

Lin Ao barked angrily at the girl trying to approach him.

The girl was taken aback by Lin Ao's shout, standing there in a daze.

He's angry? He's actually angry—is it because I said I wanted to break off the engagement? Does he care about this betrothal? Impossible!

Seeing Lin Ao with his brows tightly locked and his face full of fury, a ripple of emotion stirred in the girl's heart.

The girl was Gu Wanqing, the eldest daughter of the Gu Family in Jianghai City, who had been betrothed since childhood to Lin Ao, the eldest son of the Lin Family, the number one family in Jianghai City.

She had asked Lin Ao to meet her today specifically to negotiate the dissolution of their engagement in private.

Lin Ao had always struck her as an extremely dangerous person; having known him since she was a child, she had never been able to see through him. He was as terrifying as an abyss.

She wanted to find someone who loved, cherished, and doted on her to spend the rest of her life with, not someone as ruthless, selfish, cold, and dangerous as Lin Ao.

Yet, why was Lin Ao's reaction so intense when he heard she wanted to break the engagement today?

Could it be... Gu Wanqing shook her head violently. She had seen what kind of person he was long ago.

He's probably just angry at the thought of losing the Gu Family as a bargaining chip!

I cannot harbor any illusions about a man like this! I must make things clear today!

"Lin Ao..."

Before Gu Wanqing could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by Lin Ao.

"I don't want to say a single word to you right now! Remember! Not a single word!"

Lin Ao clutched his head with one hand and braced his body with the other, the headache making his expression look incredibly ferocious.

He stood up unsteadily, nearly falling over again.

Gu Wanqing tried to reach out to support him once more, only to be slapped away fiercely again.

"You want to break the engagement, right? I agree! If you get married, remember to notify me. I'll send a gift of two hundred million to wish you a happy and fulfilling life!"

Lin Ao's expression was savage, his face twisted in pain.

He felt terrible right now and had no desire to entangle himself with this woman any further.

Every word that came out of Lin Ao's mouth sounded like a death threat, scaring Gu Wanqing into taking two steps back.

After speaking, Lin Ao staggered out of the coffee shop.

Gu Wanqing stood where she was, blankly watching Lin Ao's disheveled retreating figure; that silhouette made her feel an inexplicable pang of heartache.

Does he... truly have me in his heart? Gu Wanqing didn't know what he was really thinking.

Impossible! Wake up, Gu Wanqing. I said he isn't that kind of person. It's a good thing I learned his true nature from Xiao Fan, otherwise, if I had just married him, my life would have been ruined.

The servant standing outside the door saw Lin Ao stumbling out and hurriedly brought the car around.

As Lin Ao sat in the car, the pain in his head eased slightly, and he let out a long, heavy breath!

"Young Master! Do you need to go to our hospital to get checked out?"

The driver asked, seeing that Lin Ao was not in a good state, thinking to himself that the eldest daughter of the Gu Family was truly ungrateful.

"Back to the Lin Family."

Lin Ao closed his eyes and replied, wanting nothing more than to go back and sort through his thoughts.

Inside a luxurious manor.

Lin Ao returned to his room, loosened his tie, and collapsed onto the bed.

Lin Ao had been reborn again, and again, and again.

He could no longer remember how many times he had been reborn!

This world was a hodgepodge of various urban novel tropes.

And he was the final boss within it, commonly known as the big villain.

Everyone else was a true child of destiny, the so-called protagonist group!

Restricted by the rules, every time he was reborn, he would be beaten up in turns by Xiao Fan, Lin Feng, Ye Chen, and Chu Tian, forced to live out one life after another according to the villainous plot.

The first time he died was on the day of his wedding to Gu Wanqing, when Xiao Fan crashed the wedding.

"Lin Ao" couldn't swallow the insult and ordered his men to hunt Xiao Fan down, only to be assassinated by Xiao Fan one night after he breached the manor's security.

"Thinking back on it now, it's truly laughable. What kind of trashy trope is that? The dignified Lin Family would let someone sneak in and assassinate him?"

The second time, he was reborn, and this time "Lin Ao" delayed his wedding to Gu Wanqing, so Xiao Fan's wedding crash was never triggered.

However, during the subsequent century-defining business war with the Qin Family, he had a violent conflict with the eldest daughter of the Qin Family, Qin Yun.

In the end, he was poisoned and killed by Xiao Fan at the victory banquet after winning the business war.

"I really have to thank you. Every pretty woman seems to have a connection to those so-called protagonists. That eldest daughter of the Qin Family also had serious issues. Does every woman in this world have a 'crush-on-protagonist' syndrome? Huh? I'm so handsome, why don't they have a crush on me?"

The third time, Lin Ao perfectly avoided the wedding crash and the business war; at the company's annual meeting, he invited the national goddess Xia Qiange to perform.

He invited her over for a drink, but who knew that Xia Qiange would see "Lin Ao" and start crying in fear.

Afterward, while sleeping in a hotel, he was pushed off the 28th floor by Xiao Fan, who had disguised himself as a cleaner.

Hiss----

So her crying was the reason for "Lin Ao" to experience gravity?

Why did she have to cry?

"Lin Ao" paid the money, hired the people, and invited her over for a drink—what was wrong with that?

The protagonist is too reasonable, far too reasonable; if the woman I fancy cries, then you must die.

Tsk tsk tsk, look how overbearing? It's simply charming, I love it so much!

Even a dog would love it!

The 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th times were Lin Feng, the 8th, 9th, and 10th were Ye Chen, and the 11th, 12th, 13th... were Chu Tian.

Heaven really looked after him, letting him be reborn only to be whipped as a corpse, and repeatedly whipped by different people at that!

The plot was also absurd, simply absurd beyond belief, absolutely absurd!

He had tried to struggle, but it was useless; each time, his thoughts were only free for a small portion of time, while the rest of the time he was driven by an inexplicable force to complete certain tasks.

For example, deliberately provoking someone or intentionally flirting with a certain woman.

He had tried to explain himself during those moments of free thought, but who would believe him?

But this time, it was finally different!

It was as if a puppet had been injected with a soul, breaking free from the restrictions of this world!

He had finally truly "come alive."

With this rebirth, he discovered that his thoughts were completely free, and his actions were the same!

"Villain?"

"Why should I, your grandfather, act as this villain?"

"Screw your XXX villain!"

"Whoever wants to be one can go be one!"

In this life, I simply refuse to be this villain; I am going to be a good person!

Heaven! Let's see what you can do to me!

So...

What should I do?

I've never been a good person before!

In all my past lives, I've done every bad thing imaginable, but I've never done a single good deed! Nor was I ever allowed to do one!

Just then, a wisp of red energy dissipated from his body.