Naruto: The Secret Identity I Bought with My Life Made Me Rich

Lin Chengsi, a 22-year-old overworked office drone, needs 300,000 yuan urgently for his mother’s kidney failure treatment. A bolt of lightning struck him on an overpass, and he transmigrated, his soul inhabiting the body of Konoha’s most forgettable genin, a classmate of Kakashi.

System binding: trade mission time for secret identities. When the timer hits zero, he dies.

He had no time to grieve. He spent 25 years creating Shisui and changed the night of the clan massacre; 50 years creating Minato and saved the Nine-Tails’ Rampage; 75 years creating Madara and turned the Fourth Shinobi World War into his personal show.

A hundred years later, at the Five Kage Summit, Akatsuki assembles, Black Zetsu emerges from underground, and Kaguya opens her Rinnegan.

Hidden in the shadows, Lin Chengsi glances at his System panel:

Mission time remaining: 1 year.

Secret identities: Shisui, Itachi, Minato, Nagato, Hashirama, Madara...

He creates a new secret identity and names it the Sage of Six Paths.

“What’s the rush? I’ve still got another account.”

When he opens his eyes again, he’s back on the overpass, on a rainy night, with a dead phone. In the hospital room, his mother says, “They found a matching kidney.”

A Konoha forehead protector rests on the windowsill.