After I Died, the Entire Galaxy Watched the Manga Live

[If you want to skip straight to the twists in the story, they’re marked at the beginning of each volume, so feel free to jump ahead] The interstellar pirate Ye Jia is infamous. Countless people are hunting him down, and the Empire’s citizens would love to see him dead this very moment. A mysterious forum quietly appeared on the Star Network. It was a place to discuss a comic, and when people took a closer look, they discovered that its protagonist was the Marshal whose name was recorded in their history books and whose fame was renowned throughout the Empire. The comic’s events all matched reality, down to countless little details they had never known. Just as the Empire’s citizens had accepted the idea that there were higher-dimensional worlds beyond their own, a spinoff starring Ye Jia, the comic’s great villain, was released. It turned out that Ye Jia was a descendant of Marshal Ye Lou Nian, a common-born man who had been made a political scapegoat back in the day. His father’s death had left him unable to trust the Empire. Ye Jia had been adrift among the stars since childhood, enduring countless hardships. His brutal surroundings forced him to grow up, and despite starting with nothing, he relied on his own strength to become the greatest interstellar pirate of all. And even after becoming a pirate, Ye Jia secretly helped many suffering civilians. Watching the young man in the comic smile with tenderness, mockery, or wild abandon, then recalling the little boy in the earlier chapters, muddy from head to toe but refusing to give in, the Empire’s citizens felt both heartbroken and relieved. Citizen A: A villain? Please. If I’d been through what Ye Jia has, I’d be an even bigger villain! Citizen B: Waaaaah, Ye Jia, Mommy’s precious son! Go do whatever you want. Mommy will always support you! Citizen C: So it was Lord Ye Jia who saved my life on that abandoned planet back then. I even hated him because of the Empire’s reports. I regret it so much. If Lord Ye Jia needs me, I’ll become a space pirate and join his crew right away! Citizen D: So handsome, so handsome, huff, huff Citizen E: Ye Jia is righteous! The Empire wronged Ye Jia. The Empire should apologize to him! * Prince Ning Zhixi of the Empire stared at the comic. In the picture, Ye Jia was only five years old, crouching down to look gently at the lonely boy before him. Ning Zhixi’s long-dormant heart began pounding. So the tenderness in the memory he had searched for desperately and could never forget had belonged to Ye Jia. Marshal You Si of the Empire clenched his fists. He had once nearly died on an abandoned planet after his opponent framed him. Someone had reached out to help him from the darkness, but he had never imagined that person would be Ye Jia. Mecha master Duan Ziyao flipped through the comic with great interest. No wonder his all-out efforts to find the friend he’d made on the Star Network had never gotten him anywhere. That friend was Ye Jia. Overnight, Ye Jia, the space pirate once hated by the entire galaxy, became a star idol with millions upon millions of fans. The Empire’s prince, marshal, and mecha master even came looking for him in person. Ye Jia: “…” Ye Jia: I only want to be a villain, and I’m only willing to be a villain. P.S. A fiery, over-the-top light novel. The comic portions are passionate and full of swagger, while the real-world portions are mostly lighthearted. Coming soon: An Ordinary Person Gets Caught in a Love Triangle I’m a low-ranking mission worker. I play the most insignificant passersby in every novel. Since I’m so inconspicuous that I barely have any work to do, I even have to play passersby in several novels at once. One day, the System bugged out, and the protagonist’s plot fell into my lap. I stuck to my role as a passerby, but the protagonist refused to leave me alone and piled more work on me. I could no longer handle being a passerby in multiple novel worlds. Worse still, these novel worlds, which should never have intersected, began to merge because of me. I was caught in a love triangle. [Rich Family Romance] I’m a side character’s lackey. Since everyone’s usually out of their minds in the scenes where they need me, I can slack off as much as I want. But today, the protagonist who was supposed to fall into the arms of the protagonist gong after being drugged, and might even have gotten involved with the side character gong, grabbed me instead. I tried to leave, but this protagonist shou, who was supposed to be so helpless, was stronger than me and dragged me off to a hotel room. I had less than an hour before my next job. [Showbiz Romance] I’m just an obscure actor. I’m so insignificant that I can often skip work without anyone noticing, as long as I show up on the protagonist’s set. But today, the entertainment industry’s award-winning actor gong grabbed my hand and announced that I was his new flame, just to put rumors about his ex to rest. We were going to appear on a dating show together. I shook off the actor gong’s hand, told him there was something wrong with his head, and the whole thing was broadcast live. [Campus Romance] I’m the roommate of the protagonist gong and shou. The two of them are always clinging to each other. Even an idiot can tell the protagonist shou likes the protagonist gong, but the protagonist gong insists they’re just innocent roommates. Ha. On a night of torrential rain, I’d finally managed to get away from the rich-family shou and the actor gong when the campus shou came running through the rain, eyes red. He grabbed my hand and said through tears, “Falling in love with a straight guy never ends well. Let’s date.” I was so tired that my mind went blank, and I answered, “Two shous have no future together.” The actor gong and rich-family shou had followed me and overheard. They both let out a laugh whose meaning I had no desire to understand. The actor gong said he’d always been a gong, the rich-family shou said he’d become a shou for love and could now switch back, and the campus shou tried to explain the benefits of being a gong. And that’s not even the scariest part. In the showbiz novel, I’m a reasonably good-looking minor actor; in the rich-family novel, I’m a well-off lackey; and in the campus novel, I’m the top provincial exam scorer at the same school as the protagonists. Once all those buffs stacked up, I became an extraordinary person. Theme: Become someone with a strong heart