I Started and Abandoned the Tragic, Beautiful, and Powerful Male Lead

Wild Love is a female-lead-centered novel where readers pick their favorite love interest. The man who defeats a host of high-quality men to claim the male lead's place is named Viteli Lyle.

Viteli is the illegitimate son of the emperor and a commoner woman. When his beast spirit awakens at sixteen, his impure bloodline makes him a failure, only half-awakened. He is secretly sent to a sanatorium to recuperate. The sanatorium has a pleasant name, but in reality it is used to house nobles who have gotten into trouble.

Viteli endures relentless bullying at the sanatorium, lying low for four years until his powerful beast spirit finally awakens. Just then, alien creatures invade, and the empire suffers one defeat after another, facing a crisis that threatens its very existence. Viteli takes command, leads the army against the invaders, and crushes them, restoring peace to the empire.

From then on, the heroine's harem is complete, and the story is about to begin.

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Wild Love is being adapted into a comic. Crow, an artist at a comics studio, stays up all night working on the male lead's character design. With the final stroke, a heart-stirringly handsome man appears on the page.

As soon as Crow sets down his pen, he finds himself in a dim dungeon.

Several people stand behind him. Before him is a man with chains binding his limbs and neck. The man's face is so familiar that Crow can't mistake it. Isn't this the male lead he just drew?

Crow turns and runs for his life.

After pretending to be sick for several days, he discovers a serious problem: apart from him, no one at the sanatorium bullies the male lead.

Without being bullied, the male lead won't fully awaken his beast spirit through suffering. Without the male lead turning the tide of war, the empire will be doomed.

Crow has no choice but to play the role of the vicious cannon fodder who bullies the male lead, while secretly putting on another secret identity to tend to his wounds out of guilt.

To his utter surprise, the cool male lead who will one day stand at the pinnacle of the empire shows two completely different sides when he's with Crow's secret identity. In his irrational, half-beast state, he's incredibly erotic; in his normal human state... he's a crybaby.

After four years, Crow feels he's endured far too much. He fakes his death under his secret identity, keeps a low profile, and waits for the war to end so he can enjoy a quiet retirement.

But he never expects the male lead to show up at his door and ask, "Why did you abandon me?"

Crow: "..."

Damn, when did he find out about my secret identity?

Theme: Kindness is rewarded