The Fate of the Villain: The Rebirth of Liu Chen

Liu Chen, the young master of the Liu family from Beijing, stood in the center of a luxurious hall. The crystal chandeliers cast their brilliant light upon him, yet his face, a mask of immaculate beauty, remained devoid of emotion.

At that moment, he was surrounded by a crowd of people, their disdain and contempt clearly written in their eyes as they watched, eager to witness what was about to happen.

Lan Ruoxi, his fiancée, clung lovingly to the man who had torn him and his family apart. She had been called the "Ice Queen" due to her cold and distant demeanor, but Liu Chen knew that there was more to her facade. However, their relationship had deteriorated since she had fallen in love with the protagonist, Xiao Tian, and publicly humiliated him by breaking off their engagement.

The betrayal still cut deep into his heart.

Xiao Tian, the protagonist, stood at the center of the room with an arrogant smile on his face. He was a handsome and muscular man with black hair and golden eyes.

He openly mocked Liu Chen while embracing Lan Ruoxi. The audience laughed and cheered, enjoying the spectacle. The laughter, taunts, and expressions of scorn and hatred reached Liu Chen's ears, but he remained unresponsive. At this moment, his whole being felt numb, and everything happening in front of him seemed distant, like a dream.

However, a voice filled with arrogance and contempt pulled him out of his reverie. He looked up and saw the protagonist of this world, Xiao Tian.

"Look at Liu Chen, the great master of the Liu family! How pathetic he is now!" exclaimed Xiao Tian, mocking him while holding Lan Ruoxi.

Lan Ruoxi nodded with a malicious smile and then turned to Liu Chen, her celestial blue eyes full of contempt. "You are just a memory of a time that no longer exists, Liu Chen. My heart belongs to another now, and there is no place for you in my life."

Liu Chen tried to contain his emotions, but Lan Ruoxi's words cut him deeply. He could not bear the public humiliation and the loss of the woman he had silently loved. It didn't matter how many times it had happened already; for Liu Chen, it hurt as much as the first time.

Xiao Tian, the protagonist, seized the opportunity and launched a final attack against Liu Chen. The crowd applauded as he defeated him, leaving him seriously injured. Finally, the protagonist leaned over him and uttered his last words.

"You have been a despicable villain, Liu Chen. Now you will pay for your sins."

The voices around Liu Chen grew more and more distant; his consciousness weakened, delaying his impending end.

In the end, with his last breath, Liu Chen closed his eyes and died at the hands of the protagonist and the heroines. But this was not the first time he had experienced this death. Liu Chen had died and been reborn many times in this world, always destined to play the role of the villain. Death was his only friend and solace throughout this endless cycle of death and rebirth.

However, something unusual happened in his next rebirth. When Liu Chen awoke, he was not at the same point in the story where he had died last.

He had returned to the moment when he had first taken over the body of young Liu Chen, about three months before the plot began.

Before, he had been a simple young man but had died prematurely. When he realized that everything had come to an end, he woke up in the body of the young master of the Liu family, Liu Chen. In that moment, as he awoke in this new world, he was filled with intense jubilation. He had two loving parents, wealth, and a beautiful fiancée who had been absent before.

His life had improved, and the early years as Liu Chen were magnificent. But it had all come to an end rapidly. His father had died in a car accident, and his mother had fallen into depression and sought solace in work. Things with his fiancée had also taken a turn for the worse. Liu Chen had been innocent and inexperienced in romantic relationships at the time, so he had gone above and beyond to please Lan Ruoxi, unknowingly turning himself into a sycophant.

In the end, he lost everything with the arrival of Xiao Tian, and his fiancée left him, publicly humiliating him and destroying his Liu family along with all the heroines. Liu Chen met his end at the hands of the protagonist.

When he thought that things had come to an end, Liu Chen returned to the past, but this time, not as his younger self but in the middle of the plot. This marked the beginning of his endless odyssey of death and rebirth.

Liu Chen sat in his office chair, staring out at the horizon through the large windows. He was exhausted from the repeated deaths and suffering he had experienced. The unending cycle of life and death he had endured had been too painful to bear.

Liu Chen left the office and started driving alone through the streets of Beijing, feeling that he could not escape his fate. It was suffocating to know that he could do nothing to change the plot.

But then, a voice whispered in his mind, a soft yet powerful voice.

"The aura of the protagonist and the heroines is fading all over the world."

Liu Chen stopped his car abruptly, surprised by these words. He wondered where they had come from, if they were as illusory as a dream. He had heard them perfectly, but he also wondered if it had all been an illusion.

'What did that mean? Could this be an opportunity to change his destiny?' Liu Chen thought as those words still echoed in his mind, intensifying his desire to put an end to it all.

However, as his emotions calmed down and he began to think things through, he realized that nothing had changed. The plot still continued its course, and he remained the villain destined to die at the hands of the protagonist and the heroines.

Liu Chen was physically and emotionally drained. He had fought and tried to change his fate countless times, but he had always ended up the same way: defeated and humiliated.

Finally, he gave up. He could not fight against the fate that the novel had written for him. He decided to run away from it all, from the people who had hurt him over and over again, from the plot that condemned him to be a villain, and from his destiny of dying at the hands of the protagonist.

The pain and fear he had felt when he was killed by the protagonist and the heroines were still fresh in his memory, making him tremble. His eyes began to tear up and he cried inconsolably.

Liu Chen had given his all, studying the art of business and how to manage a company to make the Liu family stronger and protect himself from the protagonist. But it had all been in vain, as he had also been killed.

On another occasion, he had decided to break off the engagement with Lan Ruoxi and actively avoided the protagonist and the heroines, but it had not yielded any results, and he had still ended up dead.

Escaping to another city, changing his name, living a life in the mountains... Liu Chen had tried everything that came to his mind, but no matter what, he had ended up dying miserably.

'Why not just abandon everything? I... I have given enough of myself; I want to live.'

With a firm determination, he headed to the Liu family mansion. The house that had once been his home now felt strange and oppressive, filled with memories he wanted to forget.

Liu Chen went straight to his room and began packing a suitcase with some clothes and all the cash he had managed to save from his savings and the sale of shares, properties, and businesses he had once owned. As he packed, he wrote a brief note to his mother, whom he had once considered his only ally in this world. He had loved her and had done everything for her, but when he learned a certain truth, he realized something:

The reason why the pain from a betrayal is always so great and incomprehensible is because a betrayal can never come from an enemy; it always comes from an ally.

"Mother, please don't look for me. By the time you read this, I will be far away and possibly dead. Thank you for everything. Liu Chen."

After finishing the note, Liu Chen had mixed feelings, but in the end, he decided to tear it up and throw it in the trash. In any case, the feelings he had once harbored for his mother had died and disappeared a long time ago.

With the suitcase in hand and the torn note in the trash, Liu Chen left the mansion. He took a taxi to the nearest airport, with a new beginning in a place where no one knew him and where he hoped to find the peace he so desperately longed for.

While on the plane, Liu Chen fell asleep, thinking about the new life that awaited him. As he slept, he felt his phone vibrate, and upon turning it on, he realized that his mother had called him several times. He also had missed calls from Lan Ruoxi for some strange reason. With complicated emotions in his eyes, he turned off the phone and focused his gaze on the airplane window, reflecting on a remarkably handsome young man with refined features.

His jet-black hair slightly covered his fascinating emerald-green eyes, which were like two lakes of emeralds. His eyebrows were sharp, and his long lashes framed his slightly red lips in contrast to his pale skin.

Being worthy of an antagonist role, Liu Chen was absurdly beautiful. It was such a shame that his face remained indifferent and his eyes devoid of emotions.

Before Liu Chen could even realize it, the journey had ended, and he had arrived at his destination: Japan. As he left the airport, Liu Chen found himself among a large number of foreign travelers, especially Asians, which was to be expected since he was now in Japan.

Of all the countries he could have escaped to, Liu Chen chose Japan for two simple reasons. The Liu family held significant influence in China, as well as some countries in America and Europe. Curiously, the family had no influence in countries like South Korea, Japan, and Russia. So, by fleeing to Japan, it would be more challenging for anyone to find him. After all, nobody knew he could speak Japanese fluently.

The second reason he chose Japan was that there existed another protagonist. According to Liu Chen's belief, two protagonists could not coexist in the same country at the same time. But now that the "aura or halo of the protagonist" had disappeared, he wasn't sure if this peculiarity still held true.

Leaving the airport, Liu Chen got into a taxi heading for a hotel in Tokyo, where he would spend the night. At this moment, Liu Chen stared at the hotel room's ceiling, his mind blank. Everything felt like a dream, and being able to leave the novel's plot and stop being a villain seemed so unreal, so false.

Liu Chen felt somewhat lost but, above all, he felt exhausted. Nonetheless, the time elapsed between this and the previous round was less than twelve hours, and Liu Chen still felt the mental fatigue and trauma from dying. With that, he couldn't help but let his eyes close, and his consciousness slipped into slumber.

While Liu Chen slept, he had no idea that, at that very moment, in China, specifically in Beijing, at the Liu family mansion, a commotion was brewing. The only heir and the one supposed to take over the Liu family had disappeared without a trace of where he had gone.