What is a villain?

Is it Samuel Lee shaking the world with his fists, or George Ogden stirring up the winds and clouds?

Is it Henry Yates performing the Celestial Sword from beyond the heavens, or Charles Warren wounding hearts with his tiny arrows?

Reborn into a new life, with the Great Villain System attached to him, Edward Sutton can obtain all the martial arts and skills of villainous characters from the wuxia worlds of his previous life.

In his past life, he died a tragic death. In this life, if he is to live, he will become the most ruthless, the strongest villain!

If everyone says I am evil, then I will be vicious to the end!

If everyone says I am wicked, then I will let demonic flames soar to the sky!

“To be a man, one must keep his word. If I say I’ll kill your whole family, I’ll kill your whole family. My name is Edward Sutton, and I keep my promises.”

Chapter 1: The Great Villain System

Inside a dilapidated hut, the dim light cast a hazy glow, barely illuminating a small, thin figure curled up beside the table.

Grace Sutton was carefully holding half a moldy cornbread, swallowing her saliva repeatedly.

“No! I can’t eat this, it’s for my brother.”

Grace Sutton forced herself to endure the hunger in her belly and put the cornbread back into the bowl.

Looking at the young boy lying on the shabby bed, Grace Sutton’s eyes instantly turned red.

“Wuwuwu! Brother, you have to wake up! Grace is so useless, I can’t do anything, I only know how to cry. I tried to steal some medicine from the pharmacy, but the old shopkeeper caught me, and even the bracelet mother left us was snatched away.”

After crying for a while, Grace wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and calmed herself down.

Her small body climbed onto the rice jar, counting the grains left inside—only a few dozen remained.

Carefully counting out thirty grains of rice, Grace began to make a fire and cook.

Although she was only seven years old, poor children grow up fast; she had learned these things by the age of five.

The damp firewood blackened her once fair little face, and after much effort, she finally managed to cook a bowl of rice soup that could hardly be called porridge.

Sipping the rice soup in small mouthfuls, Grace Sutton’s eyes reddened again, and big tears fell into the soup, which she then drank.

At that moment, the boy who had been lying on the bed suddenly moved. Grace Sutton was overjoyed, threw the rice soup to the ground, and threw herself into the boy’s arms, crying loudly.

“Wuwuwu! Brother, you’re finally awake! Grace was so scared. Mother is gone, father is gone, Grace was so afraid you would leave too!”

……

Edward Sutton slowly opened his eyes, his mind still lingering in memories of his previous life.

In his past life, he was a middle manager at a machinery manufacturing company. Although not quite an elite, he still earned over a hundred thousand a year, managed hundreds of people, and at less than thirty years old, he was considered young and promising.

During a trip to the mountains, the bus he was on was robbed by three thugs. Not only did they steal money, but they also tried to assault a beautiful female passenger.

Of the thirty-plus passengers, only Edward Sutton stood up to stop them, but the result was that he was beaten to death by the three thugs!

More than thirty passengers watched him get beaten to death in a daze; not a single person stepped forward to help, including the woman he had just saved.

In Edward Sutton’s final memory, his blood gradually grew cold, and so did his heart.

Looking at Grace Sutton in his arms, Edward Sutton’s icy heart slowly warmed.

In fact, he had woken up three days ago, but during that time he was getting used to the memories of this life and couldn’t control his body.

But he could feel the meticulous care and lonely helplessness of this seven-year-old girl.

In this life, Edward Sutton was still called Edward Sutton, a low-ranking member of the Flying Eagle Gang, one of the three gangs and four societies in Changning Prefecture of the Great Zhou Dynasty. His parents had died, leaving only his seven-year-old sister Grace Sutton to live with him.

Three days ago, during a turf war between the Flying Eagle Gang and their old rivals, the Green Bamboo Gang, he was betrayed by his own people and fatally wounded by the Green Bamboo Gang’s ambush, leading to his death and Edward Sutton’s transmigration.

Touching Grace Sutton’s head and seeing how the once doll-like Grace Sutton had become like a little beggar in just three days, Edward Sutton’s heart ached as if pricked by needles.

“Grace, be good. Brother won’t leave.”

Grace Sutton climbed out of his arms with red eyes, took out the half piece of cornbread and handed it to Edward Sutton, saying proudly, “Look, brother, I saved this just for you.”

“Mm, Grace, you’re so good.”

Edward Sutton patted Grace’s head and forced down the cornbread, which was as hard as wood chips. Only then did his extremely weak body regain a bit of strength.

Seeing her brother eat the cornbread, Grace finally relaxed, closed her eyes, and dozed off in Edward Sutton’s arms.

For the past three days, she had barely slept while taking care of Edward Sutton. Now that he was finally awake, she could finally rest easy and get some sleep.

Placing the sleeping Grace on the bed, Edward Sutton sneered inwardly: “In my previous life, I died saving someone. In this life, I was betrayed by a brother and killed. Is it really true that good people die young, while evil ones live forever? If that’s the case, then in this life, I’ll be the most ruthless, most evil villain!”

“Boom!”

A loud bang echoed in Edward Sutton’s mind.