The original body wanted to run, but those women turned vicious and fierce, desperately blocking his way. When the original body was beaten, they looked at him with faces full of sympathy and reluctance. When the original body turned cold and cursed at them in rage, they would mock him with sharp, sarcastic words, calling him ungrateful and ignorant of his own good fortune, while quietly advising him in low voices: since he had already been married off, he should just live a proper life and strive to give birth to a big, fat child as soon as possible.
In this way, the original body was "taken in" and forced to stay in the home of the lame woman in Hongye Village, made responsible for taking care of her and bearing children.
A tool. Pure and simple.
Listening to all this, Su Yu couldn't help but laugh from sheer anger.
Give birth! Give birth your ass!
How the hell is a man supposed to give birth to a child? These people must be mentally ill. If they're sick, they should go get treatment. If that doesn't work, they might as well just die.
Failing that, they can go be wage slaves in the modern world.
Since they're so generous, they might as well give him the few measly coins they earn from exhausting themselves to death. He wouldn't mind how little it was.
Speaking of earning money in the modern world… tsk tsk.
Working like a madman, staying up late doing overtime until you turn into an old man, and in the end, still ending up with empty hands… talking about it just brings tears.
Especially for Su Yu, who had literally worked himself to death, all he wanted to do was look up at the sky and sigh.
…Wait, he seemed to have gone off topic again.
That wasn't the main point anyway.
At first, he hadn't been interested. After all, his own life was already miserable enough—why would he want to read about someone else's even worse suffering?
Only an idiot would drag their exhausted body to compare miseries with others, then smugly say, "Heh, look, there's someone even more pitiful than me." When you're tired, can't you just lie down on the bed and rest properly?
But when his friend got to the later parts of the story and started laughing so hard he looked like a complete lunatic, Su Yu—who originally had zero interest in the novel—couldn't help but grow curious. Just how was this book written that it could make his friend's face go from shock to such an extremely weird expression? The smile was so distorted it looked downright twisted.
What kind of expression had he himself made back then?
…Hmm.
He seemed to have clicked his tongue in disdain and told his friend he was probably mentally deficient.
So Su Yu took the book and flipped through it. A few minutes later, his eyes were wide as saucers.
Holy shit!
What the actual fuck!
The name "Su Yu" appearing as a character in a novel wasn't strange in itself. The problem was—this was a female-supremacy novel.
Did he know what "female supremacy" meant? Of course he… had no clue.
Unable to suppress his curiosity, he skimmed through it roughly. His expression went from initial shock, to disbelief, and finally to complete stupefaction and numbness.
…What the hell did "soft, delicate, and glutinous men" mean? What did "men giving birth" mean?
He understood every single word when they were separate, but when put together… it just felt… um…
After thinking for a long time, Su Yu finally found the right word to describe it—magical! It was fucking magical!
He couldn't help but give the author a big thumbs-up in his heart.
The author's brain was seriously… hilarious!
…Unfortunately, now was not the time for him to sit around sighing in amazement.
Because after reading the ending, he knew one thing: in the book, the character Su Yu only had one ending—death.
As for why he died…
Well, that was thanks to the novel's male and female protagonists. Since Su Yu was a villain, it was only natural that he would be killed off by the protagonists.
The female protagonist in the book was called Lin Qingya. She was a scholar from Hongye Village. Just like her name suggested, she had delicate, refined features and a gentle, elegant temperament.
She was one of the few women in the village who had a good personality and a genuinely kind heart.
After the original body had been locked up, beaten, and thrown into chaos several times—cursing and screaming the whole way—he finally ran out of steam and behaved himself. During one of the rare times he was allowed out, he ran into Lin Qingya and immediately set his sights on her.
Just because she had kindly greeted him a few times, the original body treated her like a life-saving straw, desperately hoping she would rescue him.
Every time he took the initiative to talk to her, it drew the attention of her cousin, Liu Xu—the male lead of the story. Liu Xu was described as delicate, soft, and easy to push over, a white lotus who would burst into tears at the slightest provocation.
Thinking of this, Su Yu instantly shuddered. Ew—
So disgusting!
A man should bleed, not cry! How could he just start weeping whenever he felt like it?
Cough… anyway.
Things quickly developed into the extremely possessive Liu Xu—who appeared cute and innocent on the surface but was actually black-hearted—secretly scheming against the original body at every turn.
In order to escape and return home, the original body clung tightly to the female protagonist. Even after he was eventually schemed into marrying her, he remained trapped in the rear courtyard, constantly fighting wits and courage against the male lead.
The methods grew increasingly vicious, and his own situation became more and more miserable each time.
In the end, the lonely original body was left disfigured and crippled, his corpse tossed into a mass grave.
His entire experience couldn't be summed up with just the word "miserable."
It was more like "bitter gall hanging on a Chinese pistachio tree—misery upon misery."
Throughout all of this, the female protagonist remained beautifully detached, rising through the ranks and amassing wealth, living quite happily.
Su Yu sneered coldly in his heart.
Village thugs pretending to be kind, superficial goodness that was all fake.
The female protagonist had grown up in a den of thieves, in a dark and dangerous environment where men were not treated as human beings. How could her heart possibly remain untainted?
The world was not simply black and white; right and wrong were muddled and hard to distinguish.
Yet the original body had still trusted others too easily, ultimately meeting a tragic end.
What a pity…
And now, that unlucky bastard's fate had fallen onto him.
What kind of shitty luck was this!
If he could trade this once-in-a-century level of bad luck for winning the lottery, he would've been so excited he'd scream at the sky, "Heaven, you are my god!"
But right now, he could only shut his mouth—hell, he even wanted to poison himself mute.
Because the most important part of the plot recollection was still to come.
…He had actually already fallen into the trap yesterday, right after he transmigrated.
Sigh!
Yesterday afternoon, the "pure and adorable" Liu Xu had invited the original body up the mountain to dig for wild vegetables. Taking advantage of the moment when the original body wasn't paying attention, he drugged him with that kind of despicable aphrodisiac, then casually tossed him to a short, wretched-looking woman before leaving.
The intention was to make the original body commit the crime of adultery, so that the lame woman would beat him to death. That way, he would never bother the female protagonist again.
Alternatively, even if the original body managed to escape the wretched woman, the drug's effects would slowly burn him alive. And if he somehow survived that, there were fierce beasts in the deep mountains and old forests—he still wouldn't escape death.
Three deadly measures at once. Truly vicious.
Was this the male lead? Wasn't the male lead supposed to be righteous and kind?
Excuse me?
This guy was clearly the villain.
After staring blankly for a long while, Su Yu came to a conclusion.
…Very good. No matter how you looked at it, the author who wrote this novel was deliberately singing the opposite tune.
So yesterday, right before the original body passed out in a daze, Su Yu had transmigrated over. Not understanding the situation at all, he saw a disgusting person grinning with yellow teeth and approaching him. Without thinking, he grabbed a stone and smashed it against her head.
Once the person fainted, the drug's effects kicked in rapidly. In his hazy state, he stumbled into a mountain cave.
Everything lined up perfectly. There just happened to be a woman fainted inside the cave. She just happened to still be alive. And he just happened to be unable to hold on any longer. So… things happened.
The cave was dim and dark; Su Yu couldn't see the woman's appearance clearly. Under the complete control of the drug, the inexperienced him acted purely on instinct for everything that followed.
Even someone as thick-skinned as Su Yu couldn't help but have his face flush red, then turn black, then flush red again when he recalled what had happened.
He only vaguely remembered that while he was being controlled by the drug and had lost his mind, a low yet extremely magnetic voice rang out intermittently beneath him:
"Insolent… Who dares to… harm… this… Wang…"