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A interesting novel that emphasize on the hypocrisy and major weaknesses of typical urban romance Chinese novel protagonists through the use of satire. Our MC, Lin Yuan, for this novel is a modern person who transmigrated into the main villain of a Chinese urban romance novel that he read. In order to not die to the 'protagonist' of the novel, Lin Yuan chose to plan and go against the protagonist by slowly taking away all his supporting 'pillars' via stealing all his harem members to make them fall in love with him instead.The aspect that I like about this novel is that Lin Yuan is very self aware. He is shown to be very manipulative, cunning, and goal-driven when it came to accomplishing his goal of surviving against the 'protagonist'. At the same time he has his own bottom-line and has shown his gentle side to his family and those he loves. Nevertheless Lin Yuan acknowledges that many of his actions are very scummy and even admits to one of the capturing targets that he is a scumbag.Lin Yuan's enemy, the 'protagonist' of the urban romance novel he read Ye Feng, is what you call a stereotypical Chinese novel protagonist template that is seen used in many novels. The best way to describe Ye Feng is a dumbed down version of Yun Che from Against the Gods. Ye Feng has all of Yun Che's bad qualities and almost non of his good ones except that he is really strong. The author put great emphasize on these bad characteristics that has been disliked by readers of Chinese novels.The relationship between Lin Yuan and the female leads has been the main focus of the novel so far. Depending on which female lead he interact with, Lin Yuan will change the way he interact with them ranging from gentle and playful to cold and emotionless. This the main core aspect that got me hooked into this novel besides Lin Yuan tr*shing Yun Che 0.5.As for the system that Lin Yuan has, to put it plainly it's just overpowered. With Lin Yuan's own ability, he can maximize the use of the system and with it over time can basically maximize all his physical stats and basically master any ability that he can possibly learn. Tbh this is the only downside to this novel, the function of the system is basically too OP in my opinion.