A Popular Villain's Secret Identity in Action

[Coming Soon: Manga Extra, but Mastermind. Synopsis at the bottom]

After unexpectedly transmigrating into a manga, Yu Lin became the villain of a shonen series and got bound to a card-drawing System.

The good news: he has a built-in luck buff and can pull rare cards no matter what.

The bad news: as a villain, he's headed for a truly miserable ending.

The System advised him to get on the protagonist's good side. Yu Lin chose to draw cards instead of sucking up or picking a fight, and took down the champion in his very first mock match.

All the students: Wait, where did this guy come from?!

Comments: Whoa, a gorgeous new character with high combat power!

The System gaped. It was just about to ask Yu Lin what he was planning when the protagonist rushed over and invited him to team up.

Yu Lin smiled. "It's easy, isn't it?"

System: "..."

How did the protagonist end up wanting to be friends with you?! This isn't how the story goes!

He immediately decided to hang around the protagonist and get some screen time, but he never expected the plot to take such a strange turn.

The top players at the academy decided he must be some formidable figure and insisted on challenging him. Yu Lin had no idea how he somehow managed to win every match.

His opponents were convinced: "He must have known from the start that he would win!"

When he left campus and got caught up in a high-risk plot, Yu Lin diligently rescued the protagonist, completely oblivious to the criminals across from him, who were shaking so hard they were about to cry.

The protagonist and readers were stunned: "What ordinary student can scare these guys like that?! Who is he, really?!"

The comments had just been swearing he was on the protagonist's side. The next moment, they were shouting in alarm that he had to be a villain.

Yu Lin: "..." I don't know what got into you all.

He kept helping the protagonist with ulterior motives. Only after the comments gradually became convinced that he really was a good person did Yu Lin smile and pull out a card that let him switch identities, ready to take over the villain's role.

Playing both the protagonist's ally and the villain is way too much fun to miss out on :)

As an ally, Yu Lin is a reliable powerhouse in the eyes of the protagonist and readers, always composed and in control.

As the villainous BOSS, he is an arrogant ruler who seems saintly on the surface but is cold and ruthless underneath.

The protagonist trusts him completely. The comments are locked in a daily battle between their left and right brains, while the other villains both love and hate him.

Yu Lin just smiles.

Transmigrating into a manga? Easy as pie.

Before You Read:

* The main text features lots of reader comments, with occasional glimpses of the manga itself.

* Yu Lin is a bit of a troublemaker with little regard for morality. He deliberately uses the manga's protagonist and manipulates the readers.

* He's a talented player who grows stronger over time. His identity will be exposed, and people will imagine him as a beautiful, tragic powerhouse who has endured great suffering.

* There are lots of people making wild assumptions. Both sides have fans who passionately support the protagonist's two identities, and the bromantic tension is everywhere.

More stories in the same vein: Manga Extra, but Mastermind and The Villainous Protagonist of a Crumbling Manga

Coming Soon: Manga Extra, but Mastermind

You Shu is a background extra in a popular manga. One day, he unexpectedly gets bound to a villain System.

He replaces the original villainous BOSS. Rushed into the role, You Shu decides to meddle in the main plot, show his back for a moment, then quickly disappear.

In the manga, though, his appearance is like the mastermind personally stepping into the fray, radiating menace and wrapped in a full villain filter.

The protagonist thinks he's been plotting from the start. The comments are convinced he's a major villain with an extraordinary identity and are certain he's orchestrated everything behind the scenes.

The utterly ordinary extra, You Shu: Oh wow, these people are so easy to fool?

You Shu: A devious scheme has been generated :)

He quickly puts on a secret identity and slips into the main plot. While continuing to play an extra who occasionally wanders into high-risk situations, he also pretends to be a mastermind who's been plotting for ages.

Except he seems to have gone a little overboard.

As he keeps acting, everyone frantically speculates about his origins, only to quickly reject their previous theories for even more outrageous ones.

The protagonist has mixed feelings about him, while the other villains loudly accuse him of ruining their lives and compete to pull him onto their side.

In the readers' eyes, he's a beautiful, tragic villain: an extreme idealist who's been manipulated despite wanting to save people, and who has calculated every move to control the entire situation.

The forum is ecstatic: [Sorry, everyone, I'm defecting this time! The villains are just too alluring (drooling)]

You Shu, playing both a madman who does things for fun and a beautiful, tragic character: Playing the villain is as easy as pie.

The only problem is that, in other people's eyes, You Shu himself has no idea what's going on. Yet he's close to these two powerful figures, important to them, and the only person who might be able to change everything.

You Shu, constantly worried over by everyone: Is it really normal to care this much about an extra?

How did things even end up like this? :(

Theme: Courage is humanity's greatest hymn