The Villain Empress's Shattered Script

Transmigrating into a novel as the villain empress? Manageable. Playing mentor to the destined hero? Annoying but doable. But when the system suddenly hits RESET at the story's climax and forces him to loop through 1, 2, 3, 4 cycles again, Lu Wuchen realizes he's trapped in a cosmic joke. Worse still, the heroines who were supposed to follow the script have gone completely off-rails—unpredictable, untamable, and utterly exhausting. As his carefully maintained villain persona crumbles with each iteration, Lu Wuchen faces an existential crisis: why won't these women just stick to their roles? No…