My System Forces Me to Live off Women-Chapter 65 - 63: The Villain CEO Is Really Vile

[A Happy Family]WeChat group, video call with three people.

"Why was the line busy just now?"

Xu Manning appeared serious, with the background showing her company office. It was probably the weekend, and she had returned to her family business for work. The intern female CEO of Sen Meng Clothing Group was online.

"You’ve become a famous writer, sold film rights, and are about to win all sorts of awards like the Mao Dun, Lu Xun, Nobel, and Oscar. Busy with business, it’s understandable."

Wu Wenyue teasingly smiled while typing on her computer at her bedroom desk.

"I’ve noticed that both of you have had quite the improper attitudes lately!"

Li Peifeng found a suitable angle, pointed the camera at his handsome face, and criticized, "I informed you first, then called my own mom to share the good news. Yet you’re still not satisfied?"

"Auntie, oh..."

Xu Manning immediately beamed, "That’s filial of you!"

"Very filial indeed."

Wu Wenyue chuckled softly, "Aunt Yu is just worried he’s too filial."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Of the three unfilial acts, having no descendants is the worst."

Li Peifeng quickly caught on, snapped his fingers at the camera, and declared, "Little thing, messing with me across the screen? Just wait till I get back. If I don’t bust you for four and a half hours, I’ll write ’Li’ backwards!"

Wu Wenyue blushed, surprisingly showing an enchanting expression, rolled her eyes at him, and fell silent.

"Hahaha... Hic, what are you guys talking about?"

Xu Manning was a bit slow, just pondering over "Of the three unfilial acts, having no descendants is the worst" and couldn’t understand "bust for four and a half hours."

But her intuition told her there was something up!

"What bust? What four and a half hours?" Xu Manning’s face faintly turned green, "Explain it to me clearly!"

"Just joking around."

Li Peifeng laughed it off, changing the topic, "You both have always wanted to know what female-oriented novels I’ve written, right? Now I can tell you!"

"Why didn’t you say before?"

"Because before, no one wanted to adapt it into a film. If it was destined to be terrible, it might as well be unknown."

Li Peifeng sighed, "Now that the film rights are sold and a physical book is going to be published, it’s about to be terribly well-known. If I don’t tell you, you’d find out sooner or later."

...

Hangzhou to Wuzhen is eighty kilometers, an hour’s journey, neither too fast nor too slow.

After Li Peifeng hung up the video call, the bus arrived at the destination—the gate of the Wuzhen scenic area.

Zhao Qingge remained silent, got off the bus with her luggage, and walked ahead. Li Peifeng followed behind, maintaining a two-meter distance.

Because it was a press conference for online literature officially organized by Zhijiang, the local department had already coordinated with the scenic area. The two of them didn’t need to buy tickets. Zhao Qingge showed some relevant proof on her phone and entered directly. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

The staff kindly pointed the way, "Qingshui Vacation Hotel is right within the scenic area. Tomorrow’s meeting will also be held there. Walk straight along this road for about 800 meters, and you’ll arrive."

"Okay, thank you."

Inside the scenic area, one could see the typical scenes of a Jiangnan water town.

The cobblestone roads were uneven, the streets were bustling with crowds, and the architecture was ancient and charming. The lightly rippling river ran through the entire town, dotted with quaint bridges and black awning boats, making for beautiful scenery.

Unfortunately, the unpleasant atmosphere between the two of them dampened the beauty.

Silently, they walked to the vacation hotel, received their room keys, and returned to their rooms, without exchanging a word.

Li Peifeng couldn’t be bothered to apologize anymore. He had already said what he needed to in front of Zhao Qingge’s room earlier; continuing now would only irritate her.

Back in his room, Li Peifeng didn’t go out to wander but instead took out his laptop to study his novel.

The matter of selling the film rights to "Evil CEO" indeed gave Li Peifeng some confidence in his book, but it also brought more confusion.

"How can something I wrote be wanted for film adaptation? Domestic entertainment is really doomed!"

However, existence means reason. This indicates that there might be some merit in the book "Evil CEO."

Li Peifeng wanted to carefully research the key points for its film adaptation, understand why it attracted attention, and focus on these aspects in future creations to increase the value of his works.

But Li Peifeng’s memory of the book "The Devil CEO Falls for Me" had faded, and he couldn’t recall the details.

This was the first novel he had written after shifting to female-oriented fiction, and it had been over five years since.

Now, to study it, he could only start from scratch, reading it Chapter by Chapter.

Revisiting his own book, especially one written five years ago, was rather nauseating...

In the female-oriented section five years ago, as well as now, domineering CEO stories were particularly popular.

In such stories, the female lead is usually naive, sweet, and pretty ordinary-looking, from a poor family, with a younger brother. Her parents favor males over females and treat her as a cash cow, along with a bunch of annoying relatives. Overall, from a normal person’s perspective, the heroine is a pitiful character who gets bullied in every way possible.

The male lead, on the other hand, is rich and handsome, an heir to a top capitalist family, managing multiple business conglomerates. His way of doing things is decisive and assertive, with a severe violent tendency. From a normal person’s view, he’s practically a massive psychopath who should be in the ICU of a mental hospital, receiving regular tranquilizer shots.

The plot usually goes like this; the heroine works in the male lead’s company. Because of a minor incident—maybe she was late, maybe she filed the wrong document, maybe she spilled coffee on the male lead, or perhaps she farted in front of him—somehow, she caught the domineering CEO’s eye, and he falls for her.

The book is filled with classic lines like:

"Woman, no one has ever dared to treat me like this. You’ve successfully attracted my attention!!"

"Woman, you’re playing with fire!"

"Woman, trying to escape? First, leave my heart behind!"

"Beg me, and I’ll give it to you!"

"Call out if you’re comfortable, I want to hear..."

This kind of president novel, in Li Peifeng’s view, is practically the king of trash.

Yet they are incredibly popular, so Li Peifeng had no choice but to write along with the trend.

But to create something novel, he employed a reverse trope operation.

In the book "Demon CEO Entangles Me," the female lead Chen Aohong created by Li Peifeng, is the immensely wealthy, dominant bad girl CEO, overlooked and underestimated by her patriarchal father, but eventually earning her place as the successor through her own capabilities.

The male leads have turned into naive, gullible poor boys, either working at her company or being her rivals.

All in all, the so-called "Demon CEO Entangles Me" refers to the vicious, extravagant female lead, and the ones being entangled are those weak, pitiful male leads.

The female lead is immensely wealthy, a strong woman, chairperson of a billion-dollar company. Her daily life involves flirting with subordinates, teasing women, flirting with men, and playing workplace rules and sexual harassment games.

Classic lines from the book include:

"Young man, you’re very clean and smart, qualified enough to bear my children!"

"With so many fish ponds in the world, you just had to walk into mine, Chen Aohong’s. It’s fate, I must say."

"You poor small man still dreaming of getting close to me? You’re not worthy!"

"Speak up, do you want cash or a check? Love? That’s something I definitely can’t give."

"How dare you! Do I, Chen Aohong, need to explain my actions to you?"

"The chill has come, let the Wang Group go bankrupt!"

"Don’t forget your place, you’re just the pretty boy I keep!"

The entire storyline of the book revolves around one word—thrill!

Write for thrill, Li Peifeng’s portrayal of Chen Aohong sweeps away everything, be it romantic rivals, business opponents, relatives who disdain her, or male leads who don’t fancy her...

All crushed!

Romantic rivals? Two big slaps.

Opponents? Directly bankrupt them.

Disdainful relatives? Scold them until they vomit blood, land in ICU, then turn around and flatter her.

Male lead doesn’t like her? Throw money, force him, toss him after done.

Love? Not needed, sister Chen Aohong is just that proud, just that cool!

...

From noon till afternoon, Li Peifeng finally finished reading his "Demon CEO" and then he had an epiphany.

He figured out why this book caught people’s eye and got adapted into a TV drama.

The book’s realm is so high, the depth so profound, it crushes those market clichés like Mary Sue, strong female lead, silly sweet blood dramas.

Chen Aohong is a grand female version of Long Aotian, killing gods that block her path, destroying buddhas that hinder her, all along the way acting cool and electrifyingly slapping faces. She doesn’t care about any man except her father, embodying a self-centered contemporary independent woman.

She’s focused on her career, with emotions merely as seasoning, taming all characters in the book with negative IQs through inherited wealth and author-given golden fingers...

"Chen Aohong is not just any individual. She inherits the spirit of female resistance, actively demonstrating to all women that you don’t need to rely on men, you can fully depend on yourself (questionably) to live the life you want! At this moment, she’s not fighting alone, she’s not just anyone, she’s the fearless warrior of feminism, a model pioneer of equality. The market needs her, women need her, she symbolizes the collective awakening of female consciousness!"

[Happy Family]

Xu Manning: "Hahaha, your novel made me want to throw up, what did you write, it’s truly disgusting!"

Wu Wenyue: "I finally understand why he doesn’t let people know what books he writes, it’s purely for others!"

Li Peifeng was both pleased and annoyed: "Existence is reasonable, you can dislike what you dislike but please allow it to exist!"

Wu Wenyue: "Are you kidding? People over 1.5 meters tall shouldn’t say that!"

Xu Manning: "Someone, cut this dog off at the waist!"

Li Peifeng: "Show some respect, soon I’m going to be famous, and the literary world of Dong will have a saying; ’Nan Jingming of the South, Peifeng of the North’, these are the two peaks of female-oriented writing in Dong!"

Wu Wenyue: "Thanks for reminding me, let’s end this friendship quickly, knowing you is embarrassing!"

Member Wu Wenyue left the group chat.

Xu Manning: "Ugh, so unlucky!"

Member Xu Manning left the group chat.

"?"

The newly established [Happy Family] disbanded within hours!

Li Peifeng looked at his lonely self in the group chat, a bit bewildered, is "Demon CEO" that powerful? Is the father-daughter relationship severed?

Fortunately, the phone displayed a message from Yun Xin Yue Xing on TT software, this notification somewhat comforted him...

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "Saw people discussing this in the book club group, congratulations little brother, you’re going to become a renowned author!"

Online version Zhao Qingge is great apart from being lustful!

Real version Zhao Qingge is great with lack of lust!

Li Peifeng replied with a smiley face and then edited another message, sending it.

World’s Breeze: "Sister, I’ve encountered a life dilemma, can you provide some advice?"

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "What dilemma?"

World’s Breeze: "I’ve upset my gentle, kind, beautiful, graceful, unparalleled advisor, how do I coax her back!"

"..."

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