The Villain Decides to Go on Strike [Transmigration] - Chapter 1

Luo Xiying woke up again in a hospital.

The first thing she saw was the snow-white ceiling, and the first thing she heard was a phony wailing sound ringing in her ears, like a professional mourner.

“Xiying, you can’t be in danger! What will I do if something happens to you? I told you that person surnamed Mu was up to no good. She must have pushed you into the water to steal your role, causing you to hit your head and be in a coma for so long without waking up. But don’t worry, I will definitely get justice for you…”

The voice was sharp and grating, with a theatrical, exaggerated rhythm that made her head swim.

Or perhaps her mind was just not clear to begin with.

Luo Xiying blinked several times before her muddled consciousness reluctantly returned to her.

She turned her head and saw a heavily made-up young woman beside her, whose expression of grief and pain was overly dramatic and exaggerated.

Turning in the other direction, she saw no one else.

This was a single-patient room. Faint sounds of conversation drifted from outside the door. Although the voices were deliberately lowered, she still caught her own name, along with phrases like “female lead,” and “audition.”

Luo Xiying’s consciousness slowly returned, and another realization became incredibly clear—

She had transmigrated again.

And it was still the world she was extremely familiar with.

Overall, the plot of this world was very simple: it began with the female lead’s entrance into the entertainment industry as a newcomer, where she was relentlessly bullied and harassed by various villains, cannon fodder, and malicious supporting characters (both male and female). She would then furiously slap them back, ultimately becoming a superstar and, incidentally, conquering the male lead. It was a brainless shuangwen (wish-fulfillment novel).

If one ignored the lack of logic, it was undoubtedly an excellent shuangwen that would make the reader feel mentally and physically refreshed by reading it straight through.

That is, if she hadn’t transmigrated into the terribly-fated villain who was relentlessly slapped in the face.

Even more tragically, while other transmigrators could go hug the female or male lead’s thigh, Luo Xiying was stuck with an unlucky System that forced her to diligently follow the villain’s plot. She had to seize every opportunity to obstruct and create trouble for the male and female leads, and every now and then, she had to cause an incident to drive a small climax in the story.

It’s safe to say that the character “Luo Xiying” was the textbook definition of “Life continues, so does seeking death.”

Eventually, she finally managed to bring about her own death.

Luo Xiying, in the villain’s shell, had thought she would truly die according to the end of the plot, but when she opened her eyes again, she was back at the very beginning of the story.

Luo Xiying stared blankly at the ceiling for a long time before finally dredging this specific plot point from the corners of her memory.

This was shortly after the female lead, Mu Qinghan, entered the entertainment industry. She had just finished two small-budget web dramas, and because of her good acting and refined demeanor, she was scouted by a producer and invited to an audition.

When the director saw her, he also felt her temperament was a perfect match for the TV series’ female protagonist and intended to cast her as the lead.

However, the investors were wealthy and generous, and their funding came with a stipulation: they pushed in their own pre-selected female lead, effectively squeezing out the female protagonist from the role.

This is where the villain first makes her appearance.

Chapter 1

Luo Xiying opened her eyes again in a hospital.

The first thing she saw was the snow-white ceiling, and the first thing she heard was a phony wailing sound ringing in her ears, like a professional mourner.

“Xiying, you must not be hurt! What will I do if something happens to you? I told you that person surnamed Mu was malicious; she definitely pushed you into the water to snatch your role, causing you to hit your head and be in a coma for so long. But don’t worry, I will definitely get justice for you…”

The voice was sharp and grating, with a theatrical, exaggerated cadence, making her head spin.

Perhaps her brain wasn’t too clear to begin with.

Luo Xiying blinked several times before her muddled consciousness reluctantly settled.

She turned her head and saw a heavily made-up young woman beside her, whose expression of grief and pain was overly dramatic.

Turning in the direction away from the woman, she found no one.

This was a single-patient room. Faint sounds of conversation drifted from outside the door. Although the voices were deliberately lowered, she still caught her own name, along with phrases like “female lead,” and “audition.”

Luo Xiying’s consciousness slowly returned, and another realization became incredibly clear—

She had transmigrated again.

And it was still the world she was extremely familiar with.

Overall, the plot of this world was very simple: it began with the female lead’s entrance into the entertainment industry as a newcomer, where she was relentlessly bullied and harassed by various villains, cannon fodder, and malicious supporting characters (both male and female). She would then furiously slap them back, ultimately becoming a superstar and, incidentally, conquering the male lead. It was a brainless shuangwen (wish-fulfillment novel).

If one ignored the lack of logic, it was undoubtedly an excellent shuangwen that would make the reader feel mentally and physically refreshed by reading it straight through.

That is, if she hadn’t transmigrated into the terribly-fated villain who was relentlessly slapped in the face.

Even more tragically, while other transmigrators could go hug the female or male lead’s thigh, Luo Xiying was stuck with an unlucky System that forced her to diligently follow the villain’s plot. She had to seize every opportunity to obstruct and create trouble for the male and female leads, and every now and then, she had to cause an incident to drive a small climax in the story.

It’s safe to say that the character “Luo Xiying” was the textbook definition of “Life continues, so does seeking death.”

Eventually, she finally managed to bring about her own death.

Luo Xiying, in the villain’s shell, had thought she would truly die according to the end of the plot, but when she opened her eyes again, she was back at the very beginning of the story.

Luo Xiying stared blankly at the ceiling for a long time before finally dredging this specific plot point from the corners of her memory.

This was shortly after the female lead, Mu Qinghan, entered the entertainment industry. She had just finished two small-budget web dramas, and because of her good acting and refined demeanor, she was scouted by a producer and invited to an audition.

When the director saw her, he also felt her temperament was a perfect match for the TV series’ female protagonist and intended to cast her as the lead.

However, the investors were wealthy and generous, and their funding came with a stipulation: they pushed in their own pre-selected female lead, effectively squeezing out the female protagonist from the role.

This is where the villain first makes her appearance.

“Luo Xiying” had debuted many years before Mu Qinghan, and due to her deep family background, she often parachuted into film crews.

However, since she was considered one of the investors’ benefactors, and her acting was decent, coupled with a pure and innocent public image, the crew members could only hold their noses and accept it.

The villain’s ability to dominate the industry for years without crashing was a testament to her skill, but unfortunately, the female lead here was not her, and her only role was to cause trouble for the female lead and push the plot forward.

Thus, due to various twists of fate, the news that the director preferred Mu Qinghan and was planning to replace her reached the villain’s ears.

The villain’s arrogance bordered on the warped, and the inflammatory additions from her lackey further fueled her rage, leading her to start targeting the female lead both openly and covertly.

As the villain with the longest run, “Luo Xiying” naturally wouldn’t be brainless enough to personally confront the female lead in a shouting match. Instead, she used various underhanded tactics and her lackeys to trip up the female lead.

The plot of falling into the water and being hospitalized was also in the script. It said that “Luo Xiying” was feigning a rapprochement with the female lead, but was actually trying to frame her, smear her reputation, and get her kicked off the set.

The hospitalization, of course, was also a fake act arranged by bribing a doctor. This scene would later become the trigger for “Luo Xiying’s” downfall.

The first time Luo Xiying went through this plot line in her past life, she did genuinely slip and hit her head, which resulted in her staying in the hospital for several days.

The script said it was a fake fall; her past life was a real fall—

The newly awakened Luo Xiying reached up to touch the back of her head, feeling a dull throb.

Excellent. She knew which version she was in now.

Perhaps “rebirth” was a more accurate term to describe it.

In her past life, Luo Xiying’s first formal meeting with the female lead, Mu Qinghan, was in this hospital room. Her lackey had already released news that framed the female lead while she was unconscious.

Although anyone with a clear mind could see what was going on, Luo Xiying’s family background held sway publicly, so people could only pretend to be blind and advise Mu Qinghan to apologize to her.

Of course, as the female lead of a shuangwen, it was impossible for Mu Qinghan to seek her out just to “apologize to the villain”…

While she was lost in thought, the sounds outside the door had stopped at some point. After a few knocks, the door was pushed open.

Luo Xiying had just snapped back to attention and hadn’t had time to say “Come in” before she was faced with a familiar—though only unilaterally familiar—face.

The woman named Mu Qinghan still had her hand resting lightly on the doorknob, a gentle smile on her face, and her gaze, devoid of any warmth, projected toward Luo Xiying.

She was praised for her beauty even in the entertainment industry, a place full of beautiful people. Her eyes and brows were striking and fiercely beautiful, but the constant smile she wore softened her aggression, making people feel as if they were basking in a spring breeze.

Just looking at the beautiful, gentle smile on the woman’s face, Luo Xiying’s body involuntarily tensed up a little.

Mu Qinghan’s persona was a standard “gentle on the outside, tough on the inside.” Her appearance was breathtaking, and her displayed personality was the epitome of a gentle, well-bred lady, yet internally, she was incredibly strong. Anyone who crossed her would be verbally and mentally crushed from 360 degrees.

And Luo Xiying, who suffered the most from this in her past life, felt a headache starting the moment she saw her.

But the villain persona could not collapse, or the System would erase her.

She had finally managed to survive; she didn’t want to die yet.

Life was truly too difficult…

Luo Xiying sighed silently in her heart, while on the surface, she had to maintain the essence of the “white lotus” villain—giving Mu Qinghan a polite, fake smile.

“Senior Luo,” Mu Qinghan called softly, her deliberately elongated tone making her voice sound even gentler, with a hint of laziness at the tail end. “I heard you jumped into a river in the cold for the role of the female lead? That’s really unwise. Not only might you catch a cold, but if you happen to injure your brain again, that would be such a pity. I was hoping to exchange more experiences with you.”

Mu Qinghan closed the door behind her and slowly walked forward. By the time her words landed, she was standing by Luo Xiying’s bedside, directly opposite the stunned lackey, her lips curving into a light smile.

Although her words were clearly mocking, they were much more subtle than the roundabout, cutting remarks from the previous life, like, “It’s truly heartbreaking that you’re still alive polluting the human world.”

Luo Xiying was barely able to maintain her stiff smile.

These exact words weren’t in the script, but the core essence was the same.

A qualified actor must know how to improvise.

When the villain is alone with the female lead—the lackey is an insider and can be ignored—and they supposedly hate and despise each other, how should she react to avoid being Out of Character (OOC)?

Luo Xiying spent one second thinking and two seconds acting.

“I know you really want this role, Sister Mu. You just had to say so; why go through all this trouble and beat around the bush?”

Luo Xiying leaned against the back of the bed, her face pale and weak, with a touch of helpless, miserable smile. Her eyes teared up with a blink, looking as if she had suffered endless grievances.

This level of acting stunned even Mu Qinghan for a moment.

“It’s not impossible to give you this female lead role, as long as…”

Luo Xiying paused, then suddenly reached out and grabbed Mu Qinghan’s collar with a surprising amount of strength for someone who had just woken up.

Her eyes and brows, however, grew softer, looking exactly like the innocent, naive “angelically pure and kind” image the outside world praised her for.

But the words that followed were anything but.

Luo Xiying lowered her voice, her lips almost touching Mu Qinghan’s earlobe, a little burst of warmth and an inaudible whisper only the two of them could hear entering the other’s ear.

“As long as you kneel down and beg me.”

Chapter 1

Luo Xiying opened her eyes again in a hospital.

The first thing she saw was the snow-white ceiling, and the first thing she heard was a phony wailing sound ringing in her ears, like a professional mourner.

“Xiying, you must not be hurt! What will I do if something happens to you? I told you that person surnamed Mu was malicious; she definitely pushed you into the water to snatch your role, causing you to hit your head and be in a coma for so long. But don’t worry, I will definitely get justice for you…”

The voice was sharp and grating, with a theatrical, exaggerated cadence, making her head spin.

Perhaps her brain wasn’t too clear to begin with.

Luo Xiying blinked several times before her muddled consciousness reluctantly settled.

She turned her head and saw a heavily made-up young woman beside her, whose expression of grief and pain was overly dramatic.

Turning in the direction away from the woman, she found no one.

This was a single-patient room. Faint sounds of conversation drifted from outside the door. Although the voices were deliberately lowered, she still caught her own name, along with phrases like “female lead,” and “audition.”

Luo Xiying’s consciousness slowly returned, and another realization became incredibly clear—

She had transmigrated again.

And it was still the world she was extremely familiar with.

Overall, the plot of this world was very simple: it began with the female lead’s entrance into the entertainment industry as a newcomer, where she was relentlessly bullied and harassed by various villains, cannon fodder, and malicious supporting characters (both male and female). She would then furiously slap them back, ultimately becoming a superstar and, incidentally, conquering the male lead. It was a brainless shuangwen (wish-fulfillment novel).

If one ignored the lack of logic, it was undoubtedly an excellent shuangwen that would make the reader feel mentally and physically refreshed by reading it straight through.

That is, if she hadn’t transmigrated into the terribly-fated villain who was relentlessly slapped in the face.

Even more tragically, while other transmigrators could go hug the female or male lead’s thigh, Luo Xiying was stuck with an unlucky System that forced her to diligently follow the villain’s plot. She had to seize every opportunity to obstruct and create trouble for the male and female leads, and every now and then, she had to cause an incident to drive a small climax in the story.

It’s safe to say that the character “Luo Xiying” was the textbook definition of “Life continues, so does seeking death.”

Eventually, she finally managed to bring about her own death.

Luo Xiying, in the villain’s shell, had thought she would truly die according to the end of the plot, but when she opened her eyes again, she was back at the very beginning of the story.

Luo Xiying stared blankly at the ceiling for a long time before finally dredging this specific plot point from the corners of her memory.

This was shortly after the female lead, Mu Qinghan, entered the entertainment industry. She had just finished two small-budget web dramas, and because of her good acting and refined demeanor, she was scouted by a producer and invited to an audition.

When the director saw her, he also felt her temperament was a perfect match for the TV series’ female protagonist and intended to cast her as the lead.

However, the investors were wealthy and generous, and their funding came with a stipulation: they pushed in their own pre-selected female lead, effectively squeezing out the female protagonist from the role.

This is where the villain first makes her appearance.

“Luo Xiying” had debuted many years before Mu Qinghan, and due to her deep family background, she often parachuted into film crews.

However, since she was considered one of the investors’ benefactors, and her acting was decent, coupled with a pure and innocent public image, the crew members could only hold their noses and accept it.

The villain’s ability to dominate the industry for years without crashing was a testament to her skill, but unfortunately, the female lead here was not her, and her only role was to cause trouble for the female lead and push the plot forward.

Thus, due to various twists of fate, the news that the director preferred Mu Qinghan and was planning to replace her reached the villain’s ears.

The villain’s arrogance bordered on the warped, and the inflammatory additions from her lackey further fueled her rage, leading her to start targeting the female lead both openly and covertly.

As the villain with the longest run, “Luo Xiying” naturally wouldn’t be brainless enough to personally confront the female lead in a shouting match. Instead, she used various underhanded tactics and her lackeys to trip up the female lead.

The plot of falling into the water and being hospitalized was also in the script. It said that “Luo Xiying” was feigning a rapprochement with the female lead, but was actually trying to frame her, smear her reputation, and get her kicked off the set.

The hospitalization, of course, was also a fake act arranged by bribing a doctor. This scene would later become the trigger for “Luo Xiying’s” downfall.

The first time Luo Xiying went through this plot line in her past life, she did genuinely slip and hit her head, which resulted in her staying in the hospital for several days.

The script said it was a fake fall; her past life was a real fall—

The newly awakened Luo Xiying reached up to touch the back of her head, feeling a dull throb.

Excellent. She knew which version she was in now.

Perhaps “rebirth” was a more accurate term to describe it.

In her past life, Luo Xiying’s first formal meeting with the female lead, Mu Qinghan, was in this hospital room. Her lackey had already released news that framed the female lead while she was unconscious.

Although anyone with a clear mind could see what was going on, Luo Xiying’s family background held sway publicly, so people could only pretend to be blind and advise Mu Qinghan to apologize to her.

Of course, as the female lead of a shuangwen, it was impossible for Mu Qinghan to seek her out just to “apologize to the villain”…

While she was lost in thought, the sounds outside the door had stopped at some point. After a few knocks, the door was pushed open.

Luo Xiying had just snapped back to attention and hadn’t had time to say “Come in” before she was faced with a familiar—though only unilaterally familiar—face.

The woman named Mu Qinghan still had her hand resting lightly on the doorknob, a gentle smile on her face, and her gaze, devoid of any warmth, projected toward Luo Xiying.

She was praised for her beauty even in the entertainment industry, a place full of beautiful people. Her eyes and brows were striking and fiercely beautiful, but the constant smile she wore softened her aggression, making people feel as if they were basking in a spring breeze.

Just looking at the beautiful, gentle smile on the woman’s face, Luo Xiying’s body involuntarily tensed up a little.

Mu Qinghan’s persona was a standard “gentle on the outside, tough on the inside.” Her appearance was breathtaking, and her displayed personality was the epitome of a gentle, well-bred lady, yet internally, she was incredibly strong. Anyone who crossed her would be verbally and mentally crushed from 360 degrees.

And Luo Xiying, who suffered the most from this in her past life, felt a headache starting the moment she saw her.

But the villain persona could not collapse, or the System would erase her.

She had finally managed to survive; she didn’t want to die yet.

Life was truly too difficult…

Luo Xiying sighed silently in her heart, while on the surface, she had to maintain the essence of the “white lotus” villain—giving Mu Qinghan a polite, fake smile.

“Senior Luo,” Mu Qinghan called softly, her deliberately elongated tone making her voice sound even gentler, with a hint of laziness at the tail end. “I heard you jumped into a river in the cold for the role of the female lead? That’s really unwise. Not only might you catch a cold, but if you happen to injure your brain again, that would be such a pity. I was hoping to exchange more experiences with you.”

Mu Qinghan closed the door behind her and slowly walked forward. By the time her words landed, she was standing by Luo Xiying’s bedside, directly opposite the stunned lackey, her lips curving into a light smile.

Although her words were clearly mocking, they were much more subtle than the roundabout, cutting remarks from the previous life, like, “It’s truly heartbreaking that you’re still alive polluting the human world.”

Luo Xiying was barely able to maintain her stiff smile.

These exact words weren’t in the script, but the core essence was the same.

A qualified actor must know how to improvise.

When the villain is alone with the female lead—the lackey is an insider and can be ignored—and they supposedly hate and despise each other, how should she react to avoid being Out of Character (OOC)?

Luo Xiying spent one second thinking and two seconds acting.

“I know you really want this role, Sister Mu. You just had to say so; why go through all this trouble and beat around the bush?”

Luo Xiying leaned against the back of the bed, her face pale and weak, with a touch of helpless, miserable smile. Her eyes teared up with a blink, looking as if she had suffered endless grievances.

This level of acting stunned even Mu Qinghan for a moment.

“It’s not impossible to give you this female lead role, as long as…”

Luo Xiying paused, then suddenly reached out and grabbed Mu Qinghan’s collar with a surprising amount of strength for someone who had just woken up.

Her eyes and brows, however, grew softer, looking exactly like the innocent, naive “angelically pure and kind” image the outside world praised her for.

But the words that followed were anything but.

Luo Xiying lowered her voice, her lips almost touching Mu Qinghan’s earlobe, a little burst of warmth and an inaudible whisper only the two of them could hear entering the other’s ear.

“As long as you kneel down and beg me.”