The variety show "All Villains" was livestreamed from start to finish.
The first to appear were Jiang Yunli and Ji Nanxian.
As the only pure-love couple on a show of pure hatred, their entrance was harmonious.
None of them had moved into the guest villa prepared by the production team yet, so filming began at the guests' homes.
Jiang Yunli and Ji Nanxian packed their luggage together, discussing what to bring.
Ji Nanxian looked at Jiang Yunli adoringly. "This suitcase is too heavy. Let the servants handle it."
The atmosphere practically begged the effects team to add a constant stream of pink hearts.
[Awww, they're so in love.]
[Jiang-Yunli and Ji-Nanxian CP is fucking the best!!]
[Some bitch just has to use her engagement to break up a happy couple.]
But the viewers hadn't come to watch the two show off their love.
A bunch of people insisted on ruining the mood just as the shippers were getting delirious with delight.
[You make it sound like Shen Yunzhi's interference is the only reason your ship hasn't sailed off into the sunset.]
[Exactly. Your Young Master Ji has this big, badass domineering CEO image. If he's so badass, why doesn't he have the balls to break off his engagement for true love?]
Jiang-Yunli and Ji-Nanxian CP shippers: [LMAO, people are actually defending that homewrecker Shen Yunzhi?]
Jiang-Yunli and Ji-Nanxian CP haters: [What's so funny? Open your front camera. There's something even funnier there.]
It had begun.
The comments were at it again.
Just as the two sides were tearing into each other, Jiang Yunli and Ji Nanxian's segment ended, and the camera switched to Shen Yunzhi.
Jiang-Yunli and Ji-Nanxian CP shippers were already spamming "Drop dead, homewrecker" in the comments.
Shen Yunzhi had fallen for Ji Nanxian when they got engaged.
But Ji Nanxian had no interest whatsoever in this country bumpkin.
In the original novel, Jiang Yunli was written as a villainess.
She hadn't wanted to leave the Jiang Family, so despite knowing the two were engaged, she had pulled out every trick she had to seduce Ji Nanxian.
But the engagement between the two families had been arranged for their families' interests.
Ji Nanxian understood that perfectly well, so he hadn't wanted to bring up breaking off the engagement himself. Otherwise, the elders on both sides would absolutely have beaten him to death.
Ji Nanxian hadn't wanted to take the blame, so he had kept pressuring Shen Yunzhi to break off the engagement.
Going by the timeline.
Jiang Yunli was the actual damned homewrecker the Jiang-Yunli and Ji-Nanxian CP shippers kept talking about.
However stupid, vain, or devoted a simp Shen Yunzhi was.
No matter how you looked at it, she couldn't be called the homewrecker.
Before filming began, Shen Yunzhi had told the production team not to go to the Jiang Family home.
She hadn't wanted to film at the Jiang Family home.
So she had called the crew over to one of her houses that hadn't sold yet to put on an act. A little filming would do.
The comments were still full of malice.
[Will she dare act as unhinged on camera as she does online?]
[I knew it. She's all fists flying online and a total pushover in real life.]
[Even the pushover act is probably fake. She's already been a shameless simp. Does that sound like someone timid?]
[Honestly, when she dared ignore Ji Nanxian's threats and release that video from the birthday banquet, I started feeling like she doesn't like him that much.]
Ji Nanxian's fans declared confidently:
[If Shen Yunzhi has a man hiding in her house right now, then I'll believe she really isn't Young Master Ji's simp.]
The crew followed behind Shen Yunzhi as she packed.
Then she walked to the bedroom door.
Next, she pulled it open.
And found herself face-to-face with a half-naked man walking out of the bedroom.
The Ji Nanxian fans who had just sworn: [...]
The casual viewers: [...]
Shen Yunzhi: "???"
Dude?
Where did you come from?
Honestly.
This man was incredibly handsome, with an incredible body. Wearing only a pair of black trousers, he had deeply defined features, a slightly cold curve to his lips, and cool, composed eyes and brows. His entire presence radiated an unapproachable distance.
The comments: [Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit! Those abs! That face! I'm dead.]
[She says she likes Ji Nanxian, but she's actually keeping a pretty boy even hotter than him hidden away...]
[If any man stood naked in front of me, all I'd ask is whether he's cold. Sorry, I can't bring myself to hurt men. Half-naked men are an exception. I could never let a man down.]
[Now I believe Shen Yunzhi isn't interested in Ji Nanxian. With a hottie like this, who'd still like a brat like Ji Nanxian?!]
[Holy shit, this guy is ridiculously hot!]
[Oh my god! Those muscles! He looks so healthy! Like he drinks tons of water every day and his pee isn't yellow or smelly at all!! Help! Who gets it?!]
[Aaaaah, yes, yes! God, who gets it?! Not yellow or smelly, who gets it?! I sure don't.]
[...]
The comments exploded.
So did Shen Yunzhi.
"Who are you? Why are you in my house?"
The man recognized Shen Yunzhi's voice.
His face remained expressionless. "Didn't you sell this place to me a little while ago?"
Shen Yunzhi: "..."
She recognized his voice too.
He was the buyer who had said, "Give it to me at cost, and let's be friends."
Shen Yunzhi had kept all the betrothal money from her engagement to Ji Nanxian and had bought several houses.
So she had gotten them mixed up in her head.
Shen Yunzhi choked on her words again and again.
But just then, the director hurried over from behind the scenes.
"President Xiao! Didn't you say you wouldn't join the show until tomorrow? Why have you appeared early?"
The director looked from Shen Yunzhi to the man, thoroughly confused.
He asked warily, "Is this your scripted entrance, President Xiao?"
That remark from the director.
Confirmed that the man before them was actually the show's final mystery guest.
The system also dutifully came online to explain the half-naked man's identity.
"Xiao Yao, the greatest villain in the book, head of the Xiao Family, whose wealth rivals a nation's."
"His only lifelong hobby is making money. He recently expanded into the entertainment industry."
"He is this show's producer. Worried that the first show he produced would flop, he joined personally to supervise and experience it, familiarizing himself with the process to facilitate future expansion."
Someone in the comments had already recognized him.
[Holy fuck! Isn't that my asshole boss?!!]
[Who is he? With a boss that hot, just count your blessings.]
[?]
[Allow me to formally introduce this man: Xiao Yao, an evil capitalist who does nothing decent, a champion of bullshit wolf-pack corporate culture, the foremost advocate of employees competing themselves to death. Most of his employees work nine to nine, six days a week. He follows a policy of "if every employee works three extra hours, the company can lay off a batch of inefficient employees every month." He squeezes his employees dry. A modern-day Zhou Papi.]
[The kicker is that his conglomerate just keeps growing. Out of every hundred yuan you spend, thirty might have something to do with this man.]
[He works women like men and men like livestock.]
[All right, still think he's hot?]
The office drones watching deeply related.
[...]
[...]
[You fucking animal!!!!]
Some students who hadn't yet been beaten down by society chimed in.
[It's okay, I guess. Not that big a deal.]
[Yup, yup. All that matters is he's hot.]
The office-drone viewers replied with pure malice: [Most private schools in the south with "Group" in their names are his businesses too. He's always enforced a six a.m. to ten p.m. study schedule and early returns from holidays. One more day of grinding means one more point on the average score.]
The students: [...]
[Bring me my keyboard!!!!]
One scrolling comment spoke everyone's mind.
[No wonder he's the final guest... this guy's a straight-up villain...]
On the livestream.
Xiao Yao pulled on a pajama top.
Buttoning it, he said coolly, "I didn't want to film at my house, so I just bought a place."
He glanced at Shen Yunzhi and added:
"This is already the cheapest house I can tolerate."
Shen Yunzhi: "..."
Unpleasant memories instantly flooded back.
Xiao Yao, huh?
You motherfucker.
Shen Yunzhi snapped, "You're this rich, and you still haggled over the remainder?!"
The fifty-percent drop in the house price had already hurt enough!
Xiao Yao said, "My money doesn't grow on trees."
Shen Yunzhi grew even angrier.
"Trees couldn't grow the millions in profit you make every fucking minute either!"
He'd even haggled over fifty thousand!!
You animal!!
Xiao Yao was the director's boss, after all. The director hurriedly stopped Shen Yunzhi. "Teacher Shen, how can you insult him?"
"It's wrong of me to insult people." Shen Yunzhi, who had spent over twenty years as an office drone, grew angrier still. "But is it right for him to be a bastard?!"
Xiao Yao: "..."
The director: "..."
[Hahahahahaha fuck hahahahahaha I'm dying.]
[I take back my old prejudices about Shen Yunzhi. I love watching her cuss people out.]
[Can Shen Yunzhi lend me that mouth when I'm gaming?]
[Hahahahahahaha!!]
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