1. Facing Ruin from the Start—Did I Get Something Wrong?
“Have I… transmigrated?”
Yino stared blankly at himself in the mirror.
Golden short hair spread in fine strands, like the newborn sun. His handsome face had perfect contours, as if carved from marble by an artist. A pair of light blue eyes carried the deep serenity of a lake.
So handsome!
Yino felt his heart skip a beat at the sight of the person in the mirror. Even with his aesthetic sense shaped by countless modern idol dramas, he couldn’t help but marvel at how such a handsome man could exist.
But this wasn’t him.
No, this was him—or rather, he had become someone else.
After clocking out at 2:30 AM, celebrating a lucky ten-pull with five golds in his gacha game, and then promptly getting hit by a dump truck on the road, he had transmigrated to another world, becoming another person.
“Yino Campbell.”
As waves of memories flooded into his mind, making his head spin, he couldn’t help but speak his current name aloud.
The exact same name as his previous life.
But this name made his heart sink.
“No way… what a coincidence?”
Yino Campbell.
Because the name matched his own, his impression of this character was extremely vivid.
He was a character from a female-centered Western fantasy novel he’d been reading recently.
Son of a duke, noble status, ethereal demeanor, handsome appearance, and even betrothed to the empire’s third princess.
A perfect character setup—a top-tier elite born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
The odds of transmigrating into such a person were lower than the national soccer team making it to the World Cup.
But there was one flaw—
He was the early-story blonde villain.
That’s right: handsome, young noble, blonde hair, rich and powerful, arrogant, specializing in creating face-slapping opportunities for the protagonist—a template villain character.
His only purpose was to oppress the protagonist early on, forcing them to grow, sending underlings of various levels to provide experience points, letting the protagonist experience rocket-like growth amid constant oppression and adversity, and ultimately the satisfying reversal of fortune.
And Yino Campbell, naturally, would face his inevitable downfall later in the plot, successfully creating a favorable impression event between the protagonist and one of the female leads—his fiancée.
Even Yino himself couldn’t help but curse “what an idiot” when he read that part of the story.
—Yino Campbell, the original owner of this body, had become jealous simply because Selicia was getting too close to the protagonist and distant with him. Angrily convinced that Selicia was “getting above herself,” he decided to drug her at a banquet, intending to forcibly claim her before their wedding.
Of course, thanks to the protagonist’s timely arrival, he didn’t succeed.
In fact, using the rescue as a catalyst, Selicia—who had previously only paid attention to the protagonist because of his gradual rise to prominence—truly began to develop special feelings for the protagonist.
Talk about losing the chicken and the rice too.
As for the original Yino, he was stripped of his noble status by the furious king himself for the crime of plotting against the princess. Even his doting parents couldn’t protect him.
His ultimate fate was naturally miserable.
In Yino’s memory, although the original didn’t die, when the protagonist’s group saw him again in the latter half of the book, he had become a beggar missing one hand and one leg, struggling to survive on the streets.
“I can’t believe I actually transmigrated into a blonde villain. This is ridiculous. As a transmigrator, shouldn’t I have a halo, cheats, the ability to defy heaven and earth, and take the protagonist’s place if I’m not the protagonist myself?”
Yino wanted to cry but had no tears.
But he couldn’t think that way.
Because this wasn’t an ordinary male wish-fulfillment novel.
This was a female wish-fulfillment novel.
In other words, a female protagonist story.
The protagonist was female! Female! Female!
And due to the setting, romance was exceptionally free in this world. Female same-sex relationships were completely normal, and there was even magic that allowed women to have children together!
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That’s why the original Yino became jealous when he saw signs of Selicia’s relationship with the protagonist becoming irregular, feeling that his property was being violated.
But would a male villain in a yuri novel have any chance of turning things around?
Impossible. That kind of NTR plot would be lambasted by readers!
So even a noble young master like Yino Campbell could only serve as an early villain, spectacularly failing before the twentieth chapter to advance the princess storyline.
“So it’s a strange doomsday opening, huh.”
Yino stroked his chin, sinking into thought.
“But thinking carefully, this position isn’t bad to start with. As long as I don’t antagonize the protagonist and just live as an ordinary duke’s son, keeping myself completely marginalized, even if I can’t marry Selicia, I could still marry other beautiful noble girls and live the luxurious life I’ve always dreamed of. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?”
“The only question is how far the conflict between the original and the protagonist has developed. Hopefully it’s before the academy arc begins.”
Only someone who had read the original story would know how ridiculous the destiny and cheat abilities of that female protagonist were. Yino wasn’t stupid enough to try to compete with a wish-fulfillment protagonist in a pure power fantasy world.
If I accept my weakness, then I’m invincible!
Thinking about it that way, isn’t his position actually quite comfortable?
“Young Master Yino.”
Just as Yino was feeling pleased with himself, a knock suddenly sounded at the door behind him.
A maid with a dignified and beautiful appearance entered.
“It’s An.”
Yino recognized this maid. She had appeared in one or two plot points in the book as the original Yino’s personal maid and confidante. They were extremely close, and many of the schemes against the protagonist were this maid An’s ideas.
“Is something the matter?”
“Madam has called for you.”
An folded her hands in front of her stomach and respectfully curtsied.
“She says your formal attire for tomorrow’s banquet has arrived.”
“Oh, I see. I’ll be right there.”
Yino casually responded, intending to dismiss An first. After all, he had just transmigrated and needed time to adjust. Otherwise, it would be difficult to prevent this personal maid from noticing something unusual.
“Wait, what did you say?”
But just as An was about to leave, Yino suddenly called out to her, his expression stiffening:
“Banquet? What banquet?”
“Your coming-of-age ceremony banquet, Young Master.”
An frowned slightly, looking concerned. “Are you feeling unwell, Young Master? How could you forget something like this?”
“No, nothing’s wrong. I just… I just woke up and my mind is a bit foggy. Sorry, you may go now.”
Yino forced a smile and dismissed An.
Though An still seemed confused and concerned, she dared not disobey Yino’s orders and obediently left the room.
After she left, the room fell silent once more.
Yino slowly turned around, staring at the person in the mirror—the stranger who was also familiar.
Memories continued to surge, merging the memories of both Yinos.
Some blurry scenes gradually became clear and solid.
He was now both Yino and Yino Campbell.
His cause, his effect, became his cause, his effect.
He could not escape.
“Aaaaaah, how did this happen?!”
Yino suddenly clutched his head in distress, letting out a miserable wail:
“Why is my coming-of-age ceremony banquet tomorrow?!”
Becoming a laid-back duke’s son, marrying a beautiful noble girl, living a happy, carefree life—all of this had one prerequisite.
—Not provoking the protagonist, not becoming the book’s self-destructive blonde villain.
Ideally, having nothing to do with that female protagonist at all.
That would be his HAPPY END.
But now that ending was impossible.
Based on the current timeline, he had already provoked the protagonist, and the severity was probably like a powder keg just waiting for a fuse to ignite a complete explosion.
And tomorrow, Yino Campbell’s coming-of-age ceremony banquet was the day he would drug the Empire’s Third Princess, Selicia.
That was the fuse.
And the moment of his downfall.