"An extremely beautiful woman was seated opposite to him.

Her beauty made it seem like she had come out of a painting. Her long hair dangled over her shoulders like a waterfall. Her facial features were truly flawless. When you combine the two, it was enough to stupefy most people. Any person would find it enjoyable to just look at her face alone. The perfect figure under her blue dress would make it more difficult for any man to gaze away from her.

It was hard to find any shortcomings in her appearance. Alas, her pretty face was icy cold at the moment and impatience could be seen in her eyes."

Before his taking over, Yan Ruyue hated how Lin Yuan constantly hounded her, never listening to her, and objectified her. After his takeover, what he does is break off the engagement. Now Yan Ruyue thinks there is something wrong with her when he no longer pursues her. What kind of characterization is this when you hated someone for the greater part of their relationship, but just because they decide not to go with the engagement, it's now all different?

Just because he gets to pump his Charm stat through the broken game system that he has, when he meets her for the first time, he can constantly pat her head without her objecting to it, and she ends up following him around without even knowing his name. Then just because he feeds her favorite foods, she immediately opens up to him about her dream of owning a baking shop, and since he's a rich person, he immediately gives her a baking shop. How easy and convenient?

where he has to choose between continuing the relationship with her or breaking the engagement. However, in either choice, he automatically sees the reward, so there isn't exactly a wrong answer. However, whatever choice-reward he picks automatically is very convenient for plot-related events in the future.

Since he chose to break the engagement with Yan Ruyue, he automatically learns godlike medical skills, which amazingly gives him the ability to cure Yan Ruyue's mother, despite them having the "top medical doctors around". How convenient, huh?

to be a god-expert at the stock market, which he automatically uses to convince his parents to invest 5 billion into "Spanish Stock Trade" instead of another stock that their financial advisor was recommending. Yes, he has "knowledge" of the future, but how the event played out continued to highlight how much of a power fantasy it was.

Just within one day, his "investment" made 20 billion, while the other stock crashed. Now he's considered "the chinese Warren Buffett", everyone is lauding his skills for being amazing, and even the financial advisor is now saying he's her savior because if they had gone with her advice, she would've lost the company billions. Seriously?

Basically with Lin Yuan's resources, he's able to track when Ye Feng arrives. What he does is immediately tries to frame him for groping females, starting fights, and property destruction, and he does it right in front of Yan Ruyue so that the two cannot form an actual bond like they did in the previous story.

This is novel essentially takes story beats and character archetypes from the standard urban harem genre and switches out the perverted soldier king main character out for a more shrewd, cautious man. Lin Yuan has a system that rewards him with points based on his counterattacks against the novel's MC, that ranges from developing relationships with the mc's harem, stealing the mc's business opportunities and generally defaming the MC. He can use these to increase his base stats, things like Charm, Strength, Speed, etc. He also has the ability to gain skills from the system depending on the choices that he makes in critical moments. This might bother some because the system reduces his approaches to things, the choices almost always end up be 1) Do thing 2) Don't do thing. That didn't really bother me though.

This novel essentially reads like it's contemporaries in the urban romance genre, there's faceslapping, a lot of fake smiles and the like. Some characters are just terrible people for no real reason, some characters are just npc-like existences. Already, a couple of the women in the original harem act like Lin Yuan is this infallible golden son who's attention they need to bask in otherwise they'll cry to death. I will say that Lin Yuan is a charming person, coupled with his good looks, knowledge of the novel and pay-to-win cheat system, its easy for him to leave positive impressions on people.

What I enjoyed the most is that Lin Yuan actually moves according to his own ideas rather than just stealing the main characters encounters, beyond that he actually cares about some of the side characters and actively moves to make them better people.

Just for an example, the novel says that our MC is a villain, but he just go and help one of the girls and be really kind and supportive and she just fell in love just by him talking and eating with her, I mean, nothing bad with that but at least make the girl be a little bit more interesting. Also, wtf with the logic???, the MC just go to a normal mall that is suppose to be full of normal people but the people just see him and immediately recognize a F*** watch that worth 5 million, like what????? I can't even say how much cost a car, how should I know how much cost a watch???. Moving on, I just don't like the no "Villain" MC who instead of being indifferent just actively tries to help the girls, nothing bad with this, but then don't make him a villain, just make the summary "I want to be a rich boy with a harem" and that's it.

For the poor girl, I mean, yes, they would be excited if a rich men comes and talk with them but I mean, she's poor, why did she trust on him so easily even if she don't know anything about him, why didn't she think he could be a scammer? But overall I understand the point of that, I just don't feel comfortable with the girls being just there for him to get them, yes, they could have their development and I suppose that I didn't reach that part (? So, that's a hit for me but this didn't bring my attention and I'm pretty sure that a lot of people like this kind of character, good for them, I didn't like it but that doesn't mean I'm hating on this novel, I even recommended it.

At first, judging by the system that he got 'Villain Counter-Attacking System' I am fairly sure that this is a world hopping novel but not until chapter 1++ that I noticed it is not. There are many protagonists in the novel and they will be introduced as the current protagonist is defeated and the system is upgraded. Up until chapter 385, it is still the first protagonist. Don't know how the author will write about the 2nd, 3rd... etc protagonists but I hope there won't be too many plot holes.

MC was manipulative and cunning type from all poeple around him (same with his harem) but he was no choice to survive as a Villain it he stay put there was a big question will he survive at the end if he do nothing at all? Or does the protagonist (original novel) will not kill him (MC of the story) we same as anwer for me if I am the same position for MC I will not gamble and stay put but manipulate all around me and use every means as possible and my Knowledge and informations (Novel) . Well even he was manipulative type and looks like playing only their hearts he cares for his harem and (has feelings for them?) (as for my opinion). Worth to read but slow update

He never really goes against her in anyway besides ignoring her. Her pain is honestly caused by her own pride in letting go of a good catch. You may argue that it is incel behaviors, but is it really? Ignoring someone who is basically known for being cold to others, while the MC has his mind on other more important matters sounds pretty reasonable.

Such as framing the original Novel MC.

First of all the FL is
> traumatized because of her abusive father
> likes to be free like everyone else
> her mother chose her fiancée without considering her feelings at all
> her hatred for the ML is justified considering what his former self did to her

The ML's action is uncalled for as he's treating her terribly for something she had no control over. He just looks like a f*cking c*ck who had a sever case of power tripping.

I don't know how the 5/5 people has absolutely no problem with this