Chapter 1 - Intermission (1) (1/2)

In the darkness, darker than the middle of the night, with no stars, or whatsoever giving off even the faintest light... Er, probably except for a pair of lifeless orbs from a kneeling gentleman floating in this void. Time ticked by indiscriminately and a long while had already passed. But the young man seemingly didn't care and was not even minding the passage of time.

It seems he was not even aware that instead of getting thrown to the purgatory, he got pulled up into a void-like space. A very questionable being called the system was the culprit.

An impatient voice suddenly rang beside the lifeless-eyed young man's ears to wake him up from the trance.

”You know that you just died, correct?”

The kneeling figure, which seemed to be a statue depicting the truest definition of hopelessness, didn't respond. It was ever silent, not even moving the slightest.

”Don't wanna answer? Aiya, this poor bloke. But I can't blame you. You just experienced so much. Even I, a being made up of numbers and data couldn't help but pity you. I even wonder if you're so dead asleep when the Mighty Creator rained down some luck and fortune on the multiverse. You're so unlucky.”

”Eh? Still no reply? Sad. Maybe all the breakups, treacheries and zombie-biting paralyzed you and even made you brain-dead. Really, really, sad. But hey! You actually don't have to worry anymore! Your luck and time to shine finally came! Listen up, poor bloke! It's because the Mighty Creator finally noticed you and got you bound to me!”

The thing babbling probably knew that its newly found host wouldn't reply so it went on with its explanation.

This time, it considerately made an intangible hologram-like screen appear before the young man's lifeless eyes. Then with its still child-like voice, it began to explain.

”Host is now bound to me, so let me introduce myself. I will be your companion for your many years and missions to come. My name is 025, and my official system name is 'Crazy Villainess Saving System'! Just from the name itself, you can immediately infer that you will be saving every desperately in love crazy villainess out there in the whole multiverse! Host, isn't it amazing!? Aren't you excited?”

A sound of someone taking a very deep breath faintly echoed in the space. Followed by that was a soft, hate-filled voice replying to the system.

”... I, the unluckiest man in my world, who even failed to save myself, has to save someone else?”

The system energetically responded, ”Yup! That's your goal as my host! Through my help and guidance, you will tunnel through worlds and take over the body of some guys there to save the villainesses who died tragically insane and slave to love. As someone who experienced getting driven insane, you should be able to relate to their experiences. You will be able to, since, in a sense, you will be near them, possessing memories of their past lives, thus learning why and how they went mad.”

”.... I will be able to relate to them? On how they went mad?”

As he uttered these words, the man had to close his eyes at the sudden pain that tackled him inside out. The word 'mad' seemed to have triggered something within. Memories started to rush forth, they engulfed him, as if they wanted to forever remind him of things he had just gone through.

Now, he remembered. The system was correct.

He died.

Emotionally.

After his father died due to an orchestrated accident set up by his uncle, his mother committed suicide as she couldn't accept the fact that his father was already dead. He became orphaned and buried in debts. His uncle sabotaged the company left by his father from within.

The last blow was when the woman who has been his girlfriend for three years suddenly broke up with him, and not just on any day, but on the day his family business was declared bankrupt.

Mentally.

When he learned that a few minutes after their breakup, his b*tch of an ex-girlfriend immediately accepted the marriage proposal from his bastard cousin, Jiang Yun, son of that same son-of-a-b*tch uncle that destroyed his family and company.

Now everything he and his family once possessed got thoroughly stolen by his uncle and his family. He, Jiang Li, felt like killing himself already as he was a failure of a human who let all these happened.

Ah, heavens, as he remembered how things ended up this way, Jiang Li couldn't help but die inside.

It was all painful.

Very.