4.5 - I’m a sucker for Isekai-type plots so I knew I’d enjoy this.

MC dies and is reborn as a villain in the fantasy novel that he despised in his first life. He must now change the villain’s original fate of a gruesome death at the hands of the over-powered protagonist by changing the protagonist’s opinion of him without changing any major plot points of the original story. He begins to notice that the scenes of the novel meant for the protagonist and his love interests are instead being given to him…

Lots of fun, light hearted with a bit of angst and a super self-aware MC in a ridiculous stereotypical fantasy world which made for a lot of funny moments

Also this is translated from Chinese and I can’t speak on the accuracy of the translation since I don’t know Chinese, but I can say I did not notice anything jarring in terms of the prose itself

Also, the physical copy of this book is sooo pretty