Off the Rails: Difference between revisions

* In ''The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System'', all that main character Shen QuingqiuQingqiu had to do was to tie the loose hanging plot threads of the novel he transmigrated into. He instead prioritized to keep his character, originally a scummy villain that was killed by the novel's protagonist in revenge for years of abuse and mistreatment, alive and free of punishment, via acting like a decent person the minute the System that registers his progress lift its [[Out of Character Alert]] restrictions. By the time Shen QuinquiuQingqiu realizes the full effect his actions had done to the plot, what originally was aan extremely [[Escapism|Escapist]] [[Harem Genre|harem novel]] about the rise of a super-[[Marty Stu]]esque [[Villain Protagonist]] has become a [[Yaoi]] novel about an [[Anti-Villain]] whose love [[Oblivious to Love|towards]] [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|Shen Qingqiu]] [[Love Makes You Crazy|drives him into increasingly questionable shenanigans]] in a misguided attempt to woo and protect [[Because You Were Nice to Me|the only person that was remotelyactually nice to him]].

** In the end of the novel, {{spoiler|it's revealed by the original author (who transmigrated into his own book) that the way Shen QuingqiuQingqiu derailed the plot was actually ''closer'' to his original drafts, and in fact it was the published harem antics-filled version the one who went away from his original plans due to a combination of [[Lost Forever|losing his original drafts when his former computer fried]], [[Writing by the Seat of Your Pants|writing day by day]], [[Pandering to the Base|culling plots and characters the audience didn't like]] and [[Only in It For the Money|only writing whatever got him more audience and income]] (read [[Sex Sells|all the sex scenes he could get away with]])}}.