I’m Secretly Disliked by Everyone, but Actually Everyone Loves Me

Original title: Crystal Mask

[Menu: men loving men / irresistible charm / lots of hurt and damage / secret identities / dark, twisted submissive / everyone has one-sided feelings for the protagonist / no fixed pairing for the protagonist / submissive protagonist / beautiful, powerful, and tragic / fictional modern city / all dominant partners are virgins / everyone turns into a yandere

Warnings: the protagonist has moments of one-sided attraction / the protagonist is not a virgin / misunderstandings / tragic love and bitter hatred / a secondary lesbian couple appears, but doesn't get much focus / the early part is a patchwork of separate short stories, with the main plot picking up later (anything else to add?)]

Blurb:

When people are trapped in despair with no hope of turning things around, do they pray to the gods, or cover their faces and weep?

Rumor has it that in the desperate corners of the city, a man wearing a black cat mask will appear. He ignores every rule and, before you reach the point of absolute despair, lowers an iron chain to you. He is “Crystal Mask.”

Public opinion is sharply divided. No one has ever actually seen him murder or commit arson, yet the international bounty on him is higher than that on many wanted criminals guilty of the most heinous crimes.

To uncover the truth behind his parents' deaths, Xu Yang dons the crystal mask and walks in the darkness, investigating an evil organization connected to the case. Rescuing people along the way is just a bonus.

But in the peaceful life opposite to all that, he meets a mixed-race blond guy he knew as a child at the orphanage. That man becomes the person he indulges again and again, his unforgotten first love. Living a double life, Xu Yang doesn't realize that the other has already laid a trap, pushing him into the pain of his memories time and again...

[Expected to finish at around one million words]