The Amnesiac Protagonist with a Secret Identity

[Forum Format/Secret Identity Trope]

[Completed]

Xu Ci has amnesia. Just after waking up, he has nothing to his name and lives in a bare, empty house. All he has left is the System bound to him.

Xu Ci: ...Wait, what's that behind you?

System: ㅍ_ㅍ

After working hard with its Host in this world for years, the System is "surprised" to discover that its Host has lost his memories. Its energy is at zero, and every mission has to start over.

System: 6.

The Comic Book Role-Playing System, in short, has you play different characters from a comic. The daily routine is saving the world, getting your identity exposed, then changing to a new secret identity and saving the world again.

The world Xu Ci lives in is an unconventional shonen ensemble action manga.

In this world, where people with supernatural abilities and monsters coexist, some drown in snowstorms; some have never seen the dawn; some make their final exit before a huge audience...

Xu Ci: So? Which one of those am I?

System: You're overthinking it. You're all of them.

Xu Ci: ...?

Can't they just not die??

To recover his lost memories, Xu Ci has no choice but to keep playing these secret identities.

Xu Ci: Here's the question. Who are all these secret identities?

And so...

[The Other Side of Genius: Ye Zhenyi]

Cloyin University, a cradle for people with supernatural abilities, had a student president arrive out of nowhere last year. He was peerlessly handsome, possessed immense power, and was a genius without equal.

At the start of the new semester, when a freshman challenged him, Xu Ci confidently chose to smash the kid with one hand rather than accept or avoid the challenge.

Xu Ci: I'm safe this time. Who could say I'm not a genius?

But the comments under the new chapter said:

[Why is God Ye so aggressive this year? Last year he wouldn't even look at someone like that.]

[Give us back our cold, arrogant God Ye!]

[This feels like the IF story I wrote. Since when has your Ye been this reckless?]

Xu Ci: ???

Kids, I messed up.

[If Self-Loathing Started Confessing: Jiang Nian]

Jiang Hui, captain of the criminal investigation team at Linjiang Police Station, has an adopted son who just started high school this year. He's quiet, obedient, and well-behaved.

Xu Ci: This character is simple. I've got this.

Xu Ci follows his guardian around obediently, bringing him water when he's thirsty and rubbing his shoulders when he's tired, trying to be the perfect, considerate son.

But the comments say:

[That's weird. Why did the little ungrateful brat stop causing trouble? Did he turn over a new leaf? Is he not going to act out the Orphan any more?]

[Don't drink it! Jiang Nian definitely poisoned it!]

Xu Ci: Come on, man?

What do I have to do to get you to leave me alone.jpg

[The Liar's Loop: Su Xici]

Su Yuheng has the ability to tell truth from lies, and he has an archenemy who is an expert at twisting words and turning truth into lies, a bona fide little liar.

This time, Xu Ci decides to change tactics and take the initiative.

So that day, he staggers to Su Yuheng's door and knocks. In tears, he says, "Please... can you let me stay for one night? I really... have nowhere else to go."

Xu Ci: Got you. I walked right into the trap and still beat fate by half a move.

Then he sees his archenemy carefully tending to the wounds on his secret identity and gently patting his head.

"Don't be scared. Big brother's here."

Xu Ci: ???

Comments:

[So it's a male-male CP story after all? I miscalculated. I'm shipping them first.]

[An archenemy is an archenemy... An archenemy can't become your wife. If they do, then all you can do is curl up together under the covers at night...]

System: What do you think?

Xu Ci: ...These secret identities are terrifying, you know.

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Reader's Guide:

1. Forum format and secret identity trope.

2. The secret identities don't interact with one another in theory, but some other characters will appear across storylines.

3. In theory, only the love interest will discover his secret identities.

The next novel, Finding My Family and Husband in an Infinite-Loop Town, is coming soon. Please add it to your favorites! Here's the blurb:

My husband went missing, and I somehow ended up in an infinite-loop town?

Jiang Yuanze is an orphan.

Growing up, he was mocked as a bastard with no parents. He scavenged for food, slept under bridges, and even fought stray dogs for scraps. Just as life finally started to get better, he found himself a handsome, gentle, wealthy, 185-centimeter-tall husband.

But when he woke up one day, his husband had vanished without a trace.

Unwilling to give up, Jiang Yuanze followed the tracking signal to a strange coastal town:

[Lightless Town]

On the first day he arrives, a transparent dome blocks out the sky and seals off Lightless Town, turning it into an isolated island no one can enter or leave.

[Welcome to Lightless Town.]

From then on, the world is turned upside down.

[First Game: Werewolf]

Among the residents of Lightless Town are four hidden werewolves and four special-role players. Every night, the werewolves kill indiscriminately. In seven days, the entire town will be slaughtered.

You can choose to face the werewolves or hold a meeting and vote suspicious residents to death.

Of course, there is a third option:

The blazing flames lick at the werewolf's flesh, burning it completely into a pile of charred bones.

The man blows the smoke from his hand and looks coldly at the others.

"You think you can bully my kid while I'm gone?"

Jiang Yuanze: "Oh, wow."

[Second Game: A Visitor from Hell]

Strange things have been happening in Lightless Town lately. First, the cross in the church was turned upside down. Then, crows gathered, and the streets filled with the smell of sulfur.

Before anyone realizes it, the enemy of God and mankind has crawled out of the deepest pits of hell.

You can choose to banish the demon or conspire with it.

Except...

Inside, a handsome young man in a police uniform looks at the demon-possessed man, bound from head to toe, and grins as he sharpens his knife.

"So you think you can bully my little brother? Go back and train for a few hundred more years!"

Jiang Yuanze: "Huh?"

A child no one wanted has found a family.

The blessed town of Lightless Town welcomes a family of bullies.

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[Please Note]

1. This isn't a traditional infinite-loop story. Lightless Town is a scenic, auspicious place filled with talented people (?).

2. The love interest appears early, but no one else will discover his secret identity.

3. The witchcraft and supernatural elements in this story are entirely fictional. Believe in science, and don't try this at home.

Theme: Never surrender to a dark fate. The future holds a thousand possibilities.