100 days of enemy recs: 81. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

[melannen]

OK I will confess: this is a fandom I never really found my feet in. It's by the author of the novel of Modao Zushi (back when I first started reading MDZS there was little enough fic that I wandered over there, believe it or not.) I have not read it because I felt like I needed a better grounding in Chinese webnovel tropes first in order to understand what it was parodying, but I think I have picked up the basics from the fic?

It's about a man who was addicted to pornographic online novels (relatable) and was particularly obsessed with this particularly terrible one about a hunky Destined Hero who went around saving the world, having a lot of poorly-justified tropey sex, and building a massive harem. Then the man dies suddenly when reading, and wakes up in the body of a character in the novel. Unfortunately, it's the body of the evil lord who tormented the hero throughout his childhood and is later horribly killed by him. Our Hero has to figure out how to save himself from this terrible fate - without throwing the general course of events too badly off, or acting remarkably out of character, or he'll face a different terrible fate. He settles on just not being a dick to the hero. Unfortunately, he overshoots, and the hero falls madly in love with him instead.

Later there's a subplot wherein the original author of the terrible novel also gets transmigrated in. As far as I can tell his main dilemma is that when he was writing the book, he wrote the Great And Terrible Ice Demon Lord to be his perfect man, and now that the Great And Terrible Ice Demon Lord has met him, he? might have to actually follow through??

So there is definitely some enemyslash stuff in here but it's. Kind of a mess to figure out *where*? And I haven't really read enough fic to really know what is going on in the English fandom for it either. But here are some fics that I read? And like? And managed to at least sort of follow what was going on in them?

• Dual Cultivation or Die (6919 words) by acernor
  Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  Relationships: Liǔ Qīnggē/Luò Bīnghé, Liǔ Qīnggē/Luò Bīnghé/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, Luò Bīnghé/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū
  Additional Tags: Dom/sub, Voyeurism, Fuck Or Die, Rough Sex, Choking, Humiliation, Threesome - M/M/M, Kinda, BDSM, PWP
  Series: Part 1 of Dual Cultivation
  Summary:

  Exactly what it says on the tin.

  Fuck or die, but Shizun's injured... Liu Qingge, hero that he is, says that he'll take the dick in his place.

  Luo Binghe tries to fuck him hard enough that he forgets about his thing for Shen Qingqiu.

  Shen Qingqiu has to sit there and watch.




• so you have a bad day (30999 words) by tagteamme
  Chapters: 3/3
  Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  Relationships: Mòběi-jūn/Shàng Qīnghuá
  Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Kidnapping, Whump, Misunderstandings, Sexual Content, Mild Angst, but not the type that hurts you, it's the type that makes you feel like you're 13 and watching a sad AMV at 3AM again
  Summary:

  Shang Qinghua is not stupid.

  It does not take a genius to know what it means when you ask a servant where your lord has left to and they readily supply the name of an exclusive brothel in between the two realms. Especially when it's after your utterly disastrous first time together.

  So he goes away for a bit to clear his head. And promptly gets kidnapped.




• I Will Never Be Him (78685 words) by SpiritOfFox
  Chapters: 9/9
  Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  Relationships: Original Luò Bīnghé/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, pre-Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū/Zhúzhī-láng
  Characters: Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, Original Luò Bīnghé, Luò Bīnghé, Shā Huálíng, Liǔ Míngyān, Níng Yīngyīng, Zhúzhī-láng, Tiānláng-jūn, Original Characters
  Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fluff and Angst, Fluff and Humor, Developing Relationship, Betrayal, It's Harem Politics Time!, Planned and Unplanned Pregnancies, Hopeful Ending, Unreliable Narrator, Genderqueer Character, Implied Sexual Content, Slight Sha Hualing/Shen Yuan, Mentioned Arranged Marriages and Engagements, Swearing, Panic Attacks, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Vomiting, Oblivious Shěn Yuán, Developing Friendships, Discussion of STDs, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Aphrodisiacs, Genderfluid Character, Miscarriage, unintentional misgendering, Domestic Violence, Mental Health Issues, Alternate Universe - Harem, Background Poly, Unresolved Romantic Tension For Now, Background Bingge/Bingge's Wives, ends on something of a cliffhanger
  Series: Part 1 of Six Feet Under
  Summary:

  Yan Xiyan - Binghe's 67th conquest - never lived up to the expectations placed on her shoulders when the long-awaited Celestial Fox Demon arc started in the novel. The readers and the author quickly forgot about her the moment the wedding was finished and she was never mentioned again.

  This should have made Shen Yuan's transmigrated life smooth-sailing, allowing him to disappear into anonymity, to live his new life freely in the safety of Binghe's harem. But life is full of surprises, eh?