Just an Ordinary Guy, But I’m a Part-Time Manga Villain

Lin Yuan has a secret.

By day, he's an utterly ordinary person. But when night falls, he transmigrates into a perilous world of supernatural abilities.

Everything that affects him in that other world, from dazzling powers to superhuman physical abilities, is instantly reflected in Lin Yuan's real-world body.

Lin Yuan finds it hard to cope.

After all, in the real world, he's only a first-year college student.

When Lin Yuan accidentally snaps a steel rebar with his bare hands to rescue a classmate trapped beneath a collapsed wall, he fumes: “Those shoddy contractors and the greedy capitalists behind them! They used plastic for building materials. What a bunch of crooks!”

When Lin Yuan is accidentally taken hostage by a serial killer, his passive defensive power bends the knife in the criminal's hand. He picks up the ruined alloy blade and cautiously asks, “Sorry, man, but I don't have to pay for this knife, do I?”

When Lin Yuan accidentally tears a monster that has appeared in the real world in half right in front of his roommate, he wipes the blood from his face, reassures his roommate after the whole thing, and smiles. “I was acting just now. Didn't scare you, did I?”

And so Lin Yuan just barely manages to maintain his ordinary-person identity.

But why are the people around him looking at him more and more strangely? His disguise should be absolutely flawless.

Lin Yuan is baffled.

Until one day, he passes the anime club and overhears its members discussing a supernatural-themed comic that's recently taken the internet by storm.

A comic based on the other world Lin Yuan transmigrates into.

The comic has a hugely popular villain.

The villain is gorgeous but ill-tempered, indifferent to human life and a remorseless killer. He's powerful, yet commits countless crimes, pinning the protagonist to the ground as he taunts and toys with him. And the villain also...

The villain also has Lin Yuan's face.

Wait, isn't the villain actually him?!

Lin Yuan feels terribly wronged!

His disguise should have been absolutely watertight. How could anyone have figured him out?

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A disaster strikes the real world.

A comic called Tarot invades reality, and the monsters and supernatural powers from its pages begin appearing in the real world one by one.

The Supernatural Ability Management Bureau's biggest headache is that the villains from the comic are appearing too. In particular, Ling Yuan, the comic's most powerful and unpredictable hidden boss.

[High-Risk Arrival: Threat Rating S]

The Bureau issues a warning: “Activate the highest-level safeguards. Be on the alert for any arrivals suspected to be Ling Yuan!”

At the same time, in his rented apartment, Lin Yuan, who was asked by the anime club president to cosplay as Ling Yuan because they look alike, casually tears an unknown contaminant in half and tosses it into a corner where his roommate can't see.

Lin “High-Risk Individual but Ordinary College Guy” Yuan hugs his roommate, mourning the loss of his living expenses through sobs.

“Why? Why did those five-for-ten-yuan clothes at the street stall, even though they're knockoffs, cost me half a month's living expenses?!”

“And they don't even offer installments!”

Without installments, does that mean he'll have to live on instant noodles for the rest of the month?

Comic-book savior protagonist x laid-back, powerful, tragic villain bottom

P.S.

1. The top is the bottom's good friend in the real world, as well as the comic's protagonist.

2. The protagonist is absolutely at the pinnacle of combat strength. He's laid-back, but he can fight.

3. Warning: the top has a one-sided crush. There's a little “turning a straight man gay” content.

4. Both are completely devoted to each other in mind and body, and it's a one-on-one pairing. Please don't bring up danmei in unrelated discussions.

5. This is an indulgent, no-brain story written to suit my tastes. Don't read too much into it. No breaking up the pairing, reversing the roles, control fantasies, or insulting the characters.

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