After I Cosplayed at an Anime Convention and Became the Corrupted Wei Ying

Lin Zhou is an utterly ordinary modern college student whose one special talent is knowing every detail of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. On the eve of a summer comic convention, his roommate and best friend foists a costume on him: Wei Wuxian at his darkest point in the timeline. It includes black robes, a red ribbon, and the ghost flute Chenqing. Even the crimson touch at the corner of his eyes is applied with meticulous care.

Who could have guessed that, while adjusting his belt in a stall at the convention center, the mirror would warp, and that when he opened his eyes again, he would have landed in Lotus Pier more than a decade in the past?

Young Jiang Cheng stares in shock as he steps out of the men’s restroom, with a group of wary young men in purple behind him. And farther away, the bright-smiling boy holding a lotus pod is none other than Wei Wuxian, who has yet to experience any hardship.

At their first meeting, the story’s timeline goes off the rails.

Because when the real Wei Wuxian looks at his face, his smile freezes. He asks softly, “Who are you? Why do you… look just like I will in the future?”