A Villain's POV - Chapter 37: the night comes

[No CP • Group Favorite • Cute Kid • Hidden Identities • Live-Show Variety • System • Ancient Martial Arts • Thrilling Fun]Gu Miaomiao was born with an ancient martial arts system but got caught in a time-space vortex that sent her back to ancient times, where she trained to become a little female warrior. At four and a half, she returned to the modern world and started her journey to find her family.When netizens learned that a top star was bringing his sister to a live parenting variety show, they all thought his image would crash and felt sorry for the kid.Scene 1: Top Star in Bed, Kid Tugs BlanketNetizens: “Game over. He’s always cranky when he wakes up. He’s gonna blow!”Kid: “Second bro, I’m hungry. Can you cook for me?”Top Star: “Coming right up.”Netizens: “This isn’t the star we know!”Scene 2: Top Star Grabs for Ingredients, Falls in WaterNetizens: “This is the star’s darkest moment ever! Screenshot now!”Kid: “Don’t worry, bro! I’m coming to save you!” With a simple water-skimming move, the kid carries the star to safety, still holding the basket of ingredients.Netizens: “Screenshot! This is Miaomiao’s highlight moment! She’s the real boss!”Scene 3: Kids Collecting Ingredients in VillageNetizens: “The star will definitely tell Miaomiao to grab more and show off.”In reality, the star was quietly following Miaomiao, worried she’d get bullied.Netizens: “So that’s who you really are, Star!”

A new emperor rules each year in Yohuachanca.Only the most delicious of food graces his palate; the realm’s most beautiful women fill his harem; his palace dazzles the mind in its beauty; and four priestesses counsel him in all matters. The life of an emperor is good, luxurious, and short. For at the year’s end, he is sacrificed to the Nightlords under the light of the Scarlet Moon.I am Iztac. A pisspoor orphan and the year’s emperor. A sacrifice bound for the altar. But the vampires have made a mistake this time. For I am a sorcerer, whose soul journeys into the secret underworld to plunder the secret spells of the dead. There, in the darkness, hides the power to drag the Nightlords off their throne. I have a year to find it, or perish for good.I may not be the first emperor, but I will be the last.

In a world where its inhabitants can destroy a city wall single-handedly, the empress has a kirin as her pet, and the imperial palace of Great Xia has a pool containing a dragon. There is also a Sword Mountain where spirit swords occasionally leave in search of a master .

Bootlicking the empress, Ren Baqian ascended to the apex of life.

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I was just your average burnout. Now I’m a kobold in a dungeon where everything wants to eat me—and frankly, I get it. I look delicious.Reincarnated as the weakest possible monster in the worst possible place, I start with nothing but panic, backward knees, and a skill called Civilization Mimicry—which is sealed. Because of course it is.But survival isn't the story.This is the story of what comes after.Of finding meaning in the scraps. Of building law from ashes. Of kindling memory in a place designed to erase.Because even if the world sees kobolds as nothing, I’ve seen what we used to be.And I’m going to bring it back.Firelight by firelight. Burial by burial. One fragile tradition at a time.Because if the world wants kobolds to be nothing?Then I’ll teach it what nothing becomes when it learns to dream.