Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Summary

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System is a danmei novel by the pseudonymous Chinese author Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (墨香铜臭), often shortened to MXTX. It was first serialized on the online platform Jinjiang Literature City (JJWXC). It was Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's first novel, and it remains her shortest, at eighty-one chapters and nineteen extras. The novel contains more comedic elements than the author's subsequent works, and it has a metafictional structure that parodies stallion novels, a genre of Chinese literature.