Xi Chuan, an exam-obsessed small-town kid, was laid off at 35 and unexpectedly transmigrated into a cannon-fodder extra in an unfinished shonen battle manga. From the start, he was facing elimination.
Xi Chuan: Doesn't everyone transmigrate into the protagonist?
System: Have you ever seen a 35-year-old shonen protagonist? Getting two panels as a background extra was already a favor pulled through connections.
Xi Chuan wasn't having it. Why was everything capped at 35?!
No matter. Xi Chuan had followed the manga as it came out and knew the plot inside and out.
If she couldn't join the protagonist's crew, she'd become the villain!
Xi Chuan unleashed all 35 years of pent-up resentment in the game: blow up the company! Steal the protagonist's luck! Destroy the world!
When the protagonist tried to win her over with talk of friendship, truth, goodness, and beauty, she hit back with, “I could've gained two more levels in the time it took you to spout all that.”
When she ran into the monster ranked number one on the bounty list, Xi Chuan casually took down the notice.
Xi Chuan: You say you're S-rank? I'll kill you tonight!
And so Xi Chuan kept leveling up and grinding for experience, eventually becoming an SSS-rank villainous overlord!
But Xi Chuan realized something seemed a little off.
How had she ended up at the top of the forum popularity rankings?
Why were all the big shots begging to join her villain faction?
What?! The manga had been renamed The Legend of Xi Chuan?!
Theme: All the worlds lie beneath my feet
