Why Have I Become Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic in the Comic?

As a hard-working college student still crushed by life every day even after starting over, Yu Sui was finally broken by life on a dark and windy night.

A glowing screen suddenly appeared before him, as glaring as the midday sun in the pitch-black night. It nearly blinded Yu Sui. He wondered if life had been too hard and his mind too exhausted, and if he had... finally gone crazy?!

The screen told Yu Sui that he was in the spin-off world of the once-phenomenal ongoing comic, The Lisi Psychic Academy.

As the name suggests, this world is controlled by the plot. Now, due to unpredictable factors, the plot has begun to go off course, and the world's framework is collapsing. In short, the world is going to be destroyed.

The unpredictable factor isn't really that mysterious. Put simply, the comic artist has run out of ideas and started phoning it in, the fans are leaving, and there isn't enough popularity to sustain the world.

But this was once a phenomenal comic, after all, and it still has a fan base. Yu Sui's mission is to appear on the pages in the real world as a fresh source of inspiration and a new highlight before the artist's inspiration runs completely dry. He must win back the lost fans, giving the comic world enough popularity to support its framework and reach its ending, after which it can truly become a world of its own.

From then on, the artist always drew a vague, pitch-black silhouette behind the protagonist. Murky, shadowy eyes looked down at everyone from behind. In the silent darkness lurked an even more unfathomable taboo, watching from above as the protagonists worked together to resolve one incident after another and congratulated themselves on their easy victories, as if some deeper conspiracy were brewing.

And so, outside the comic, the release of a new chapter sent the fans who loved powerful characters into a frenzy, their excitement soaring. At the same time, fans of the protagonist worried and cursed the artist for being so cruel and ruthless as to put the protagonist through one hardship after another.

But when the false facade of evil was finally stripped away, everyone began to understand how that figure had walked a path no one could understand, alone in the dark, turning his back on everything yet bearing it all.

At the end of the final chapter, the protagonist group stood amid the ruins at the place where everything began. The words "Lisi Psychic Academy" could just be made out on the broken sign beside them. The sun hung high above, and faint sunlight broke through layer upon layer of clouds in the early morning. Scattered rays of light finally fell once more upon this land that had once been shrouded in darkness. The hopeful, happy scene seemed to bring the story to a perfect ending.

Outside the story, almost every reader couldn't help thinking of another image:

Disheveled black hair fell across the boy's forehead. A vast shadow loomed above him. His golden eyes seemed to stare blankly at something, while most of his delicate, pale face was buried in darkness. A blinding flash of crimson passed by.

The scene changed. A giant hand controlling the game dropped a piece from the sky onto a black-and-white chessboard, where one piece after another had already been placed. Silver-white threads, faintly visible from somewhere higher above, connected them all. The black background conveyed an invisible, overwhelming sense of oppression.

The boy's black hair traced a shallow arc. The fragile shadow of his pale jaw flashed by as he turned and stepped onto the chessboard. His black trench coat blended into the darkness at the hem, its spreading silhouette making him look all the more alone. The short path seemed so long. Walking alone, he turned his back on everything, resolutely entering the game himself so that he could break it from within.

And yet his ending was met with curses and accusations. He was even abandoned by everyone...

The readers' hearts broke for him. They demanded justice for him and started a storm on the forums!

He was everyone's beautiful, tragic, powerful character, a true source of heartbreak for countless readers. They begged the comic artist to give him a happy bonus chapter...

Yu Sui himself, meanwhile, declared: If I'm going to do it, I'll do it best. If I'm going to compete, I'll take first place. It's time to show the world what college students can do when they go all out. Top 1 most popular character, goal achieved?

Before You Read:

1. The protagonist isn't purely good, nor is he absolutely evil. He has a bit of a troublemaker streak, and everyone makes their own wild assumptions about him.

2. Everything is fictional. Please be kind if the writing isn't very good ●)o(●

3. The author isn't thin-skinned, but still hopes for "world peace" \(`Δ’)/

Theme: Always strive for first place and stay positive.