God-Level Villain

What happens to a story when the protagonist's halo is handed to his opponent? God-Level Villain gives a rather amusing answer: its protagonist, Du Yu, is judged a villain by the system from the very first page, and his life's goal shifts from "saving the world" to "being a competent bad guy." Doing evil earns skills, and tormenting protagonists earns points; the rules are absurd, but they thoroughly invert the endless "chosen one" formulas of infinite-flow fiction. The author Ye Shan Hei Zhu writes with fast pacing and strong conflict; familiar wuxia and film-and-television worlds appear in turn, the dungeon switches are crisp, and the satisfying beats come thick and fast—good for continuous reading as a long, relaxing work. What deserves praise is that many of the "certain-death traps" built around the system's rules require the protagonist to break out through calculation and arrangement rather than brute force, giving the reading a dark, villain's-eye pleasure. If you are tired of righteous protagonists sailing through everything, try revisiting those classic worlds from the perspective of a "born villain."