I'm Really Not a Tyrant

[Coming soon: The Heroes and Villains Are Fighting Over the Kids! If that sounds like your thing, come take a look~]

(Blurb for this story)

Bai Xulin is an ordinary, lazy guy whose greatest ambition is to get into college and then keep lying flat.

Then one day, he’s forcibly bound to a bizarre world-saving System and given a sharp-tongued black cat who claims to be his “System usage instructor.”

The System’s only function is to let him draw a bunch of bizarre secret identities whose names alone sound ominous.

Bai Xulin, giving up: Save the world? Not my problem. Besides, the System hasn’t even given me a mission.

Before he can figure out what the System is for, he’s kidnapped by a group of people reborn from the future.

Shouting things like “Kill the tyrant!” “Save the world!” “Liberate all of humanity!” and “Don’t underestimate our resolve!”, they charge at him with all kinds of supernatural abilities.

Bai Xulin: Don’t come any closer!

*

After the kidnapping, Bai Xulin is recruited by the government’s supernatural affairs bureau, landing himself a secure job.

He expects to suffer through the so-called “destiny of a tyrant,” but instead, he finds that

A high-ranking official affectionately pats his head. “Good boy, you’ve got remarkable potential. How about becoming my student… or better yet, my son? Hahaha!”

Bai Xulin: …?

His fanatically loyal, crazy subordinate tracks him down and raises a fist in the air. “Lord Bai, we’ll help you sweep across the continent once more, restore your glory, and conquer the world!”

Bai Xulin: …Who are you?

A reborn person with an unusual way of thinking points at him and shouts, “He’s just a kid! How could I bring myself to hurt him? I refuse to sink into depravity and become a ruthless demon just like the tyrant!”

Bai Xulin: …Weren’t you just saying you were going to kill me?

Meanwhile, the white-haired, red-eyed tyrant who once threatened to destroy the world has somehow torn open the fabric of time and space and made a grand entrance across dimensions.

His black trench coat sweeps into view. He bites down on a black glove, his scarlet eyes gleaming with amusement.

“Darling, lend me your body, and you’ll gain power beyond anything else in this world…”

Bai Xulin, throwing a punch: Don’t try to bribe a proud public servant!

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Also known as:

Help! My System’s Gacha Pool Connects to the Future Villains’ Lair

What Do the Tyrant and I Do When We’re Both Pretending?

Whoever Wants to Be This Savior Can Have the Job. I Just Want to Sleep

P.S.:

1. A secret-identity story. Add it to your library to help the protagonist draw secret identities for self-protection (not really).

2. As the title says, the protagonist isn’t some morally gray chaos gremlin. He’s on humanity’s side throughout. This is marked as serious fiction from the start, not a mindless power fantasy. There’s no wanton slaughter or harming his own kind. The protagonist absolutely will not kill anyone.

3. Please give the author’s intelligence the benefit of the doubt. If you don’t like it, please don’t be rude.

4. Baseless plagiarism accusations are not welcome. I’ll beat up anyone who stirs up trouble, and inflammatory comments will be deleted.

5. Thanks for reading. Kisses~

(One more time: please don’t make baseless plagiarism accusations under this story. If you have a question, report it directly. If you keep stirring things up, I’ll delete your comments. The accusations all come from the same IP, so it’s hard not to suspect you’re using an alt. Don’t start ranting after reading only the blurb. The author you’re supposedly defending would probably be speechless if they saw this. Let’s be civilized and keep the discussion friendly. Thanks!)

(Blurb for a coming-soon story)

This is a poorly received novel with a terrible ending. The hero is blessed with noble blood and powerful light-based abilities, and leads a host of superpowered people to defeat the villain he’s been fighting for over a decade. Then, for no clear reason, the villain comes back to life and kills the hero in turn, leaving the story’s only reader devastated.

[A reader consumed by resentment forcibly transmigrates into the novel, planning to kill both characters to vent their anger.] The System speaks in a flat voice. [As a weak, sickly, and useless background character in the book, your mission is to kill this transmigrator.]

Lang Xuan curls up on a filthy bed and coughs, his voice feeble. “Whatever…” Nothing matters more than finding his biological parents.

[You’re dying. You have less than three months to live, and your mission reward is an extension of the Host’s lifespan.] The System falls silent for a moment. [If you die trapped in this outlying town, you probably won’t be able to find your parents.]

Lang Xuan: !!!

A few weeks later, during the supernatural ability recruitment exam, the golden-haired, blue-eyed hero looks at the strangely familiar boy below, and his heart skips a beat.

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Lang Xuan is admitted to the hero’s supernatural organization with excellent results, attracting the attention of influential figures from all sides.

While tracking down the transmigrator, he discovers that he looks an awful lot like both the hero and the villain.

Countless clues lead to the same conclusion. When he confronts the transmigrator, the other man angrily slaps an old genetic test report and the experimental results against him. “I created you. I’m your father!”

The entire supernatural world is in an uproar.

No one will accept an experimental subject carrying the genes of their enemy. Overnight, the once-genius boy becomes a filthy outcast despised by everyone. Lang Xuan runs away in disgrace, only to find the hero and villain blocking his path.

The hero looks into Lang Xuan’s blue eyes, so like his own, and smiles warmly. Gentle, pure holy light kisses his forehead. “You’re very talented. Would you consider… becoming my successor?”

The villain idly strokes Lang Xuan’s softly curled black hair, just like his own. A clinging shadow at his feet curls around Lang Xuan’s trouser leg. “You’re an interesting kid. How about coming over to my side?”

Meanwhile, the transmigrator’s subordinate explodes with rage. “You bastard! How could you kill the father who created you?!”

The protagonist: …

This isn’t quite how he expected things to go, is it?

Theme: Use your sword to shatter the prison of fate