A Popular Villain's Secret Identity in Action

【Recommended upcoming novel: A Manga Extra, but the Mastermind. Blurb at the very bottom】 After accidentally transmigrating into a manga, Yu Lin became the villain of a shonen series and was bound to a card-drawing System. The good news: he had a luck buff, so he could pull rare cards no matter what. The bad news: as the villain, he was destined for a miserable ending. The System advised him to get on the protagonist’s good side. Faced with the choice between sucking up and picking a fight, Yu Lin chose to draw cards instead, then beat the champion in his very first simulation match. All the students: Wait, where did this guy come from?! Comments: Whoa, a gorgeous new character with insane combat power! The System was dumbfounded. Just as it was about to ask Yu Lin what he planned to do, the protagonist rushed over and invited him to team up. Yu Lin smiled sweetly. “It’s really not that complicated, is it?” The System: “…” How did this turn into the protagonist wanting to be your friend?! This isn’t how the story’s supposed to go! He immediately decided to stick close to the protagonist and get some screen time, but he never expected the story to take such a strange turn. A top-ranked powerhouse at the academy decided Yu Lin must be some kind of formidable fighter and insisted on challenging him. Yu Lin himself had no idea how he’d somehow managed to win. His opponent was absolutely convinced: “He must have known he’d win from the very beginning!” When they left campus, they got caught up in a high-risk plot. Yu Lin diligently rescued the protagonist, never noticing that the criminals across from him were trembling all over and nearly scared to tears. The protagonist and readers were stunned: “What ordinary student could scare these guys like that?! Who is he, really?!” The comments had just been insisting he was on the protagonist’s side, but the next moment they were shouting in alarm that he had to be a villain. Yu Lin: “…” I don’t know what’s gotten into you all. He kept helping the protagonist with ulterior motives until the comments gradually started believing he really was a good person. Only then did Yu Lin smile as he pulled out an identity-switching card, ready to log in as the villain. How could he pass up the fun of playing both the protagonist’s companion and the villain? :) As the protagonist’s companion, Yu Lin is a reliable powerhouse who stays cool under pressure and keeps everything under control in the eyes of the protagonist and readers. As the villainous BOSS, he is an arrogant ruler who seems saintly on the outside but is actually cold-blooded and cruel. The protagonist trusts him completely, while the comments engage in a daily battle between their own two sides, and the other villains both love and hate him. Yu Lin just smiles faintly. Transmigrating into a manga? Easy as pie. Reader Advisory: * The main story features lots of comments, with occasional glimpses of the manga itself. * Yu Lin is something of a troublemaker with few scruples. He deliberately makes use of the manga’s protagonist and leads the readers on. * A talented character who grows stronger over time. His identity will be exposed, and people will imagine him as a beautiful, strong, tragic figure who has endured hardship in silence. * Lots of wild speculation. Fans on both sides champion both of the protagonist’s identities, and there are plenty of shipper vibes. More upcoming novels in the same vein: A Manga Extra, but the Mastermind; The Villainous Protagonist of a Broken Manga Blurb for upcoming novel A Manga Extra, but the Mastermind: You Shu is an insignificant background extra in a popular manga, but somehow he keeps getting swept up in the manga’s key plot points. Faced with this situation, he chooses to create a new identity! He only wants to keep a low profile and pass through unnoticed, but he never expected people to imagine his new identity as the mastermind behind every accident, or to mistake him for some mysterious bigwig. A powerful mercenary unaffected even by heavily polluted zones, and the hidden leader of a mysterious organization with control over all information. At the scene of a villain’s death, he passes by under his mercenary identity. The protagonist and the other villains stare in horror: “He’s the real mastermind! What kind of background does this man have?!” When a church ceremony unexpectedly fails, he watches the show under his identity as the organization’s leader. The Enforcement Bureau members are shocked: “He must have sabotaged the ritual! How did he avoid the surveillance hidden in the shadows?!” Everyone frantically speculates about who they really are, only to quickly discard their earlier theories and replace them with even more terrifying and outrageous ones. Even the forum is ecstatic: “Sorry, guys, I’m defecting this time! The villains are just too alluring (wipes drool).” You Shu, turned into a gleeful mastermind: “…” He really isn’t a villainous BOSS! Worse still, in everyone else’s eyes, he has no idea any of this is happening, yet he’s closely connected to them, an important person they care about, and the only one who might be able to change everything. You Shu, surrounded by people worrying about him every day: Isn’t it a little weird to worry this much about some random extra? How did things even end up like this? :( Theme: Courage is humanity’s greatest hymn