America's Arch-Villain: Fighting Magic with Magic

Chen Yuan’s parents die suddenly in an accident, and he plummets from a comfortable middle-class life straight to the financial razor’s edge. The silver lining: his parents left him a house in Los Angeles. The bad news: property taxes are eight thousand dollars, tuition is forty-five thousand, and his bank balance sits at exactly thirty-two dollars and fifty cents. If he doesn’t pay up, he will be homeless. Just in time, the "American Villain System" activates. As long as he plays the villain, he earns cash and boosts his stats. Even better—whenever someone feels hostile toward him, he can instantly scan their recent dirty deeds. Faced with a wealthy white-left woman’s racial discrimination, Chen Yuan turns the tables by exposing her animal abuse, destroying her reputation overnight. That’s using magic to defeat magic. Faced with a crooked lawyer who cheats women out of money, Chen Yuan reports him for money laundering and tax evasion—let him explain that to the IRS. That’s exercising his rights as a taxpayer. But only when the truth behind his parents’ deaths finally comes to light does Chen Yuan realize: to become the true arch-villain, he must stand against the very system of America itself. With a shrewd, protective nature and zero tolerance for sanctimony, he excels at turning American-style rules into weapons of magical counterattack. Beneath the villain’s mask, this is a lighthearted, satisfying story that quietly delivers surprises—and gifts—to his homeland.