Synopsis:
Geralt Riviana Thompson was an ordinary man on Earth, a gamer who lost himself in sprawling JRPGs. But death was not the end. His soul transmigrated into a xianxia realm, where under the name Hei Yao Zhenren—the True Lord of Black Obsidian, he clawed his way to the heavens. He became a Demonic Divine God, his power boundless, his name whispered with fear across countless sects and dynasties. Yet even gods can bleed. Betrayed and besieged by the righteous, Hei Yao Zhenren was torn down, his reign ended in fire and steel.

But fate was not finished with him. In his third life, he awakens in a world both strange and familiar—a modern-medieval realm lifted straight from the JRPG he once played in his first life. His new name is Vizimir Lucius Azariah Von O’Dimm, a minor villain, a third-rate antagonist fated to die. The Von O’Dimm family is accused of murdering the hero’s parents, though the truth is otherwise. Cleared by the courts but condemned in the eyes of the protagonist, they are slaughtered in cold blood.

Yet this Vizimir is not the doomed noble from the game’s script. He is Geralt, the gamer who knows the story. He is Hei Yao Zhenren, the god who once bent heaven and earth to his will. And he knows the truth: his family’s tragedy was never fate—it was the scheme of the true antagonist hiding in the shadows.

Now, in a world of guilds and kingdoms, magic and steel, Vizimir must act with cunning. He cannot face the protagonist yet, not while he lacks power. To survive, he must play the role of a minor villain, even as he pulls strings behind the scenes. Step by step, he will shield his family from their destined execution, unmask the puppet master who twisted the story, and drag the so-called hero from his false pedestal.

For once, he was Geralt. Once, he was Hei Yao Zhenren. And now, as Vizimir Von O’Dimm, he will not allow himself to lose everything a third time.

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