Transmigrating into a Mob Character to Rehabilitate the Villain

chapter 1

VRP VOL. 1 CHAP. 1

A new project to start off the new year!

Here’s the first chapter of Transmigrating into a Mob Character to Rehabilitate the Villain Plan, or Villain Rehab Plan for short. You can find the summary and TOC on its project page.

This is a story I had a lot of fun reading, with plenty of humor and action/adventure. The bl romance aspect doesn’t really kick in until a bit later. As a heads up, there’s a decent amount of swearing and some chapters that go into R18 territory. I won’t be giving warnings for language in the future, but I’ll mark the R18 chapters if/when we get to that point.

There’s a lot of internet slang and curse words in this chapter. Some of them are more literally translated, and some I tried to find an English equivalent that comes close. If you have suggestions for better wording or alternatives, please leave a message, thanks.

I tried really hard to avoid the word “moe” because I wasn’t sure if using Japanese loan words would be jarring in a translation of a Chinese novel. Thoughts?

Chapter 1:

In “Laughing Proudly Under the Heavens in an Alternate World”, a neither obscure nor popular harem novel, the strongest character is the protagonist, and the second strongest is the villain.

Every time the villain does anything outrageous, it’s always the protagonist who stops him in time.

Having the traits of a ‘Perfect Husband’ archetype, the villain would always persevere, fighting back time and time again. Using even his life for the sake of victory, he was forever locked in a love-hate, mutually destructive relationship with the protagonist in every sense of the phrase.

Today was a very important day. As a die-hard fan of this novel, Ling Xia was prepared to pull an all-nighter sitting in front of his computer, refreshing the novel’s page again and again, waiting for the latest update.

The author said that he’d release the final chapter on time tonight. In other words, after a year and three months of following this story, the battle between the villain and the protagonist had finally reached its thrilling conclusion!

Only, after having reread the final chapter three whole times, eyes almost popping out in disbelief, he suddenly coughed up blood in indignation, spraying it across the computer screen—

The fuck, I’ve been following this for so long, painstakingly voting every month, and turns out it was for this kind of almost-everyone-dies ending?!

That’s right, when writing the final confrontation where the villainous boss gets defeated by the protagonist, the author lost all of his marbles!

In the five thousand words of the final chapter, the protagonist’s immortally elegant and super powerful master died!

The loved by all, incredibly cute and adorable magical beast, also died!

The protagonist’s entire group of bros, needless to say, was completely annihilated!

And the worst part is, his favorite member of the protagonist’s harem, a goddess excelling in both beauty and kindness, even the charming MuRong Xue died when protecting the protagonist with her body!

To be more precise, aside from the protagonist and a few girls from his harem, the entire population of the world was pretty much destroyed by the villain’s colossal puppet army!

Because of the villain’s Ultimate Destruction Plan, the world’s energy circuits were greatly disrupted, causing imbalance among all living things. Finally, because of the Ultimate Weapon, the entire world’s continental shelves collapsed into pieces. It’s basically a doomsday taken straight out of the apocalyptic predictions of 2012!