Guide to Becoming a Beloved Background Character in a Manga

The main story is complete! All the foreshadowing has been paid off. I'm extremely satisfied with this novel, and everyone's welcome to binge it!

Next novel: The Raising Game Made Me the Boss Behind the Scenes

[Illustration event now open / The cover is the character design / Please respect everyone's tastes / Old-school, over-the-top Mary Sue]

Wen Yun was reborn into this world after dying, and had lived there for seventeen years. For some reason, she had been required to live with her grandmother and pretend to be a boy ever since childhood.

After accidentally binding to a forum System and awakening to its existence, Wen Yun discovered that the world she lived in was the setting of a no-romance novel about the resurrection of the mysterious, full of all kinds of paranormal and supernatural elements in an extremely chaotic mix.

The novel and its comic adaptation were updated almost in sync. As a novel ranked in the top ten on the largest fiction website, it had an enormous following.

The novel's male lead was a transmigrator with a golden finger who fought monsters and leveled up all the way to godhood. Wen Yun, meanwhile, was a background character destined to die during a mysterious incident at a school.

Wen Yun didn't want to die. She wanted to live.

Not only that, she wanted to help the classmates and teachers who had always treated her so well survive, too.

The System told her that if she wanted to live, she had to become popular and make the readers outside the world remember her vividly.

The more people cared about her, the harder she would be to kill, and the more capable she would be of protecting others.

But Wen Yun was just an ordinary passerby, powerless to fight even a chicken. How could she attract the readers' attention?

When she saw her desk mate transform into a monster, Wen Yun closed her eyes and suddenly threw her arms around it in front of the protagonist's team.

The monster, which had been wreaking havoc a moment earlier, became incredibly docile in Wen Yun's arms. Like a cat, it let her soothe it while making a satisfied purring sound.

Wen Yun knew what she had to do.

*

As a hugely popular, no-romance action light novel, The Mysterious Descent was beloved by readers for its unhinged plot and bizarre imagery. Both the novel and its comic adaptation inspired intense discussion.

When the protagonists arrived at a high school in a small town, the setting of their "new story arc," a mysterious new character appeared before everyone's eyes.

Hair white as snow, a face beyond the bounds of human beauty, and eyes as clear and blue as the sea, like a boundless, all-embracing sky filled with compassion for every living thing...

"He" watched over the world as if he were a god.

Aside from his striking face, he had no abilities at all. He was like an ordinary passerby with his Charm stat maxed out, completely unaware of the strange world around him.

Readers began speculating about the new character's identity. As the story progressed, they gradually learned more about him...

[It seems he once witnessed the death of his dearest loved one with his own eyes, yet he remains optimistic and lives together with the only family he has left.]

[He knows nothing about the strange monsters, yet when an incomprehensible danger approaches, he steps forward, ready to sacrifice himself to buy the protagonist's team time.]

[When the mysterious realm collapses and plans to take the city down with it, he ignores the wounds appearing on his body and rushes toward the center, determined to stop the disaster with his own body.]

Wen Yun successfully rose to the top of the popularity rankings for both the novel and the comic. Discussions about her dominated the forum, and pairings featuring her and various characters ranked among the most popular on every platform.

After she staged her own sacrifice, she became the beloved white moonlight in the hearts of the readers and the protagonist's team. Readers begged the author to bring her back to life...

[Why are there always tears in my eyes? Because I love Wen Yun with all my heart.]

[This had absolutely nothing to do with him in the first place. Our precious boy was just an innocent passerby who got caught up in it, but he still stepped forward and sacrificed himself.]

[Petition in blood for Wen Yun to come back to life!!]

[Adding 10,086 more signatures in blood!!]

At last, a new arc was updated. Hundreds of millions of readers eagerly clicked on the preview for the new volume, only to see a face identical to that of their beloved white moonlight. The only difference was that his snowy white short hair had become long.

The character's identity was finally revealed: their husband had actually become their wife.

Everyone: !!!

Isn't that even better?! We love her even more now!!!

[Some things readers may be wondering about]

Q1: The female lead has a male social gender in the story. When does she go back to being a girl? Will readers ship the female lead (in her male form) with male characters on the forum?

(No. Everyone will only be wondering who will die first. Wen Yun is so wonderful that everyone supports her as a solo fan and doesn't want anyone to sully her. Even if it would happen according to real-world logic, I won't write it, because this is a novel. I wrote this world, so I make the rules.)

Q2: The blurb is really interesting. Could you tell us around when the female lead gets to return to her identity as a girl?

(She returns to women's clothing in Chapter 26, and her disguise is exposed and the blurb's foreshadowing is paid off in Chapter 48. I love those cheesy plots where a girl pretends to be a boy, then puts on a dress and dazzles everyone.)

Q3: Is there much romance?

(If a dog's love for its owner counts as romance, then there's a lot.)

Cover art by artist @Yu Yi (Chu Liu Yu)

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The Raising Game Made Me the Boss Behind the Scenes

Spiritual qi revival, mysterious forces descend.

Su Yin was the unloved young lady of the Su family. Born with an incurable illness, she had long ago been sent by her family to a sanatorium, where they abandoned her and left her to fend for herself.

One day, an invitation from an unknown game company inexplicably arrived in Su Yin's inbox.

The company invited her to become a beta tester for a raising game.

Suspicious but curious, Su Yin downloaded the game.

She discovered that the game world was an exact replica of reality, apparently designed to give players a more realistic experience.

As the only player, she could choose a talented little character on the world map to raise.

Su Yin casually chose someone who was on the verge of death in a "Danger Zone" and used a game item to drive away the "aberrant monsters."

Save him,

raise him,

and make him the world's only SSS-rank "Hunter."

And so, an SSS-rank Hunter appeared out of nowhere in Su Yin's real world.

This new star of humanity looked just like the little character in the game.

The game app then sent a notification: [Congratulations, your character has been successfully raised]. In return, Su Yin gained ten times the power of this SSS-rank Hunter.

[The game System asks: Would you like to continue raising your second "pet"?]

Everything seemed to be heading in a very interesting direction.

Su Yin curled her lips into a smile and chose [Confirm] without hesitation.

*

Spiritual qi revival. Countless black holes appeared across the world, and a towering, seemingly endless Demon Tower emerged.

Aberrant monsters ran rampant, turning Earth into a living hell and making life unbearable for humanity.

It was at this moment that an SSS-rank Hunter appeared out of nowhere and saved everyone.

Then came a second, a third...

People gradually realized that these genius saviors all seemed to belong to a mysterious organization.

The mastermind behind the organization, who commanded these SSS-rank Hunters, was a mysterious figure shrouded in black mist.

When she finally appeared in public, the saviors of humanity and the supreme beings of the world all knelt before her on one knee, utterly devoted.

"Welcome, our Master."

The Second-Chance Cheat Life Simulator

[Max level from the start, an alternate-world king's life beginning in infancy, conquering the whole continent and every race by any means necessary, a top-tier cheat and ultimate Mary Sue. The female lead does whatever she wants for fun.]

Huaying recently got hooked on a raising game.

To get the most powerful ending, she played several rounds just to farm coins, items, and stats.

It was all so that her daughter in the next round could start at max level.

But just as she had prepared everything and was about to start raising her max-level daughter, Huaying transmigrated into the world of the raising game, bringing the game's System with her.

Seeing that her stats were maxed out while her coins had been reset to zero, Huaying fell into deep thought.

Now she was the one starting at max level, and she could use the System to raise herself.

Huaying: Nice.

Modern cultivation, spiritual qi revival, multiple races, the Church, academies, the Demon Tower, beast taming, the Dark Realm, secret realms...

In this hodgepodge world that combined all kinds of elements, Huaying returned to infancy and began her second cheat-filled life in another world.

But she had one ultimate goal: to "unlock" the best ending, become the richest person on the entire continent, then retire in glory and enjoy a luxurious life.

Before she could accomplish this ultimate goal, she had a few prerequisites to take care of...

First, she needed enough power to protect her future wealth.

And so, Huaying appeared out of nowhere as the first child in the continent's history to possess maxed-out talent. Following the guides she remembered, she gathered every powerful ancient relic and put them to use.

Second, she needed a stable and harmonious living environment.

So Huaying infiltrated the Church to "reform the workplace," bringing under her control the Church that would one day plunge the whole continent into chaos. That way, she nipped the source of the continent's future turmoil in the bud.

Finally, she needed enough money to spend for the rest of her life, without having to worry about a thing.

Now she faced a choice...

Should she become the Demon King, inherit the vast legacy of the Demon Realm, become a hands-off ruler, and spend the rest of her days in a castle?

Or should she become the strongest person in the world, squeeze the imperial families of every empire for all they're worth, amass a fortune, and then retire in comfort?

Hmm... perhaps that was a question worth considering.

That was what Huaying, who had only just been weaned, thought as she lay in her rocking chair.

Theme: Everyone can have a wonderful life of their own.