I Played a Dual Personality as a Background Character in a Manga

【If you've read the whole thing, please leave a rating for the completed story!】 【Coming Soon: Can a Socially Anxious Shut-In Become a Popular Character? Blurb at the bottom~】 On his way to register at school, Ji Qing, an S-rank freshman at the Esper Academy, became bound to a comic forum System. Comparing the comic with the school's brochure, he discovered that the comic's protagonist was a classmate in his year. Ji Qing: Interesting. At this point, the protagonist was still an F-rank weakling, while Ji Qing was already at the top of the freshman class. While the S-class students picked on the protagonist, Ji Qing daydreamed in the library. While the S-class students fought the protagonist, he fed the fish in the pond. While the S-class students were soundly defeated by the protagonist, he ate in the cafeteria... Looking at the comic's stale, clumsy plot, Ji Qing was thoroughly bored. Meanwhile, the System, which had vanished as soon as it bound itself to him, suddenly returned. Staring at the comic in front of him, Ji Qing had a flash of inspiration Ji Qing (excited): Let's make the story a lot more interesting! System (bewildered): ...What are you planning to do? * Esper Academy: The Hunt is a middling shonen comic about an esper academy. Its story initially stays at the academy, following the protagonist through all sorts of stale, clumsy plotlines. Just as readers were growing tired of it, the appearance of a new character instantly set the forum ablaze He was arrogant and reckless. His origins were mysterious, yet he looked exactly like the freshman top student. He moved between the worlds of light and darkness, helping the protagonist time and again, only to put him in danger just as often. The comic became a huge hit, and the forum filled with shipping wars and plot discussions. After readers had built hundreds of forum threads speculating about his relationship with the freshman top student and the protagonist, the story finally revealed his identity and past. Comic forum: 【Waaah, so this is the story of how I became you after you left.】 【Revenge, except I'm the only one getting revenge.】 【Who actually died? I want revenge for whoever died, aaah!】 【Protagonist, stop standing there like an idiot! Hurry up and talk him back into S-class!】 Ji Qing: So, isn't the story a lot more interesting now? System (coldly): ...What do you mean, isn't it? You took a perfectly good hot-blooded shonen comic and completely turned it into a revenge story, aaah!!! 【Coming Soon: Can a Socially Anxious Shut-In Become a Popular Character? Please add it to your favorites~】 Before Chu Chi was about to die, he became bound to a comic forum System. The System demanded that he become the comic's No. 1 most popular character. Otherwise, his life would end the moment the comic did. The good news: Anything believed by more than 80% of the readers would become true in the comic. The bad news: The artist said the comic would only cover six months in its world. In other words, Chu Chi had to get enough memorable moments and claim the No. 1 popularity spot within the next six months. Another bit of good news: He could have a forum account all to himself. All right, here's the problem How could someone who could barely get a sentence out in front of other people survive in a comic world where ghosts, evil spirits, and supernatural oddities coexisted, while also claiming the No. 1 popularity spot in the next six months? Chu Chi: ...I'm doomed. * Socially anxious as ever, Chu Chi decided to lean hard into his character as a cool, taciturn masked heartthrob. But for some reason, comic readers always saw through the truth hidden beneath his social mask 【I'm freaking dying over here. Who is this cool guy in the protagonist's imagination? Our Xiao Chi has to rehearse his thoughts three times every time he talks to the protagonist, hahahaha!】 【I'm dying to know when the protagonist will see the real Xiao Chi.】 【They talked past each other the whole way, and neither of them understood what the other really meant, hahahaha... Are they both just disasters when it comes to socializing? Hahahaha...】 【Lmao, do you guys really love arguing with the air this much?】 Seeing this, Chu Chi let out a melancholy sigh. System, is my acting really that hard to watch? System (coldly): ...Just make sure you survive. Chu Chi: What if I don't? QAQ Theme: The bonds of youth and friendship must never be betrayed.