They All Say I'm the Mastermind

The world was devastated by a global calamity. To investigate its source, the Star-Seeking Bureau dispatched countless powerful individuals. Before they were wiped out, they finally obtained an address from before the apocalypse...

It was the home of a mad scientist.

But in the blink of an eye, the world rewound to the beginning, and everyone was reborn.

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Ji Anhe recently picked up a gentle, frail beauty, fell in love at first sight, cherished him, and happily married him.

His frail beauty would always kiss him tenderly, make all kinds of delicious food for him, and even knit towels and clothes to build them a nest where they could snuggle together and sleep warmly in bed.

Ji Anhe was blissfully happy!

Sadly, the good times didn't last. Just a few days into their marriage, strange people kept showing up at their home and workplace. They carried official badges and called him the “mastermind,” saying they wanted to reform him and stop him from destroying the world.

Ji Anhe had just bought a tricycle so he could take his beauty out for a ride: ...?

“I think you've got the wrong idea about me. How could someone who loves life as much as I do be the mastermind...” Ji Anhe laughed brightly and carefree. “I just got married to the love of my life. Why would I skip our honeymoon unless I was crazy?”

They didn't believe him and were certain he was just pretending.

Ji Anhe couldn't be bothered with these chuunibyou patients. He carried on working, living his life, and cuddling with his beauty. His only worry was that this wasn't the only group coming after him.

Some used superpowers to stage crime scenes while he and his beauty were out having fun. Others tried to kidnap him to get their hands on the source of the calamity, and some threatened his beauty to force him to give in...

Seeing his beauty in such a pitiful state because of him, Ji Anhe got angry:

“Leave my family out of this!”

He'd already told them he wasn't the mastermind!

# Why won't you believe me, damn it

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Life got stranger by the day. To deal with all these weirdos, Ji Anhe cooperated by joining the Star-Seeking Bureau. As its only ordinary person, he worked hard but still ended up in a support role.

At least the harassment decreased. The job came with full benefits and weekends off, and for the sake of letting his frail beauty live off him, he could stick it out.

Then one day, he accidentally discovered the source of the calamity in a basement at home. The whole scene looked exactly like the cruel scientist the Bureau had described as the mastermind!

And on a chair in the basement was the wool coat he'd worn just a few days earlier.

Ji Anhe: ...

Ji Anhe: ...!?

Holy crap! Could I really be the mastermind!?

Ji Anhe hurriedly and clumsily tried to leave, only to run straight into his frail beauty leaning against the doorway. In a moment of panic, he blurted out, “I might leave you a widower, sob sob sob...”

His beauty merely looked at him coolly, a hint of seduction in his eyes, and hooked a finger under his chin. “Is that so?”

Ji Anhe stammered, not daring to say a word.

-

For reasons he couldn't explain, Ji Anhe never dared report it. He kept it carefully hidden, but he never expected his frail beauty's gaze to grow stranger and stranger.

Then one day, while his beauty was pinning him to the bed and doing all sorts of things to him, Ji Anhe suddenly felt warm, lingering breaths against his ear. “Good boy, why didn't you report it?”

Ji Anhe, dazed and red around the eyes: ...?

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# They all say I'm the mastermind

# But now, I'm willing to turn myself in

At the Bureau's spacious, bright disciplinary hearing, Ji Anhe spoke earnestly and with complete sincerity:

“I'm sorry, everyone. I've wasted so much of your time... The truth is, I was lying before. I really am the mastermind you've been talking about...”

Before he could finish, someone suddenly kicked open the Bureau's doors. His gentle, frail beauty raised an eyebrow, his gaze cold as he gripped Ji Anhe's wrist tightly.

“Turn yourself in?”

“Who taught you how to turn yourself in like that?”

Theme: A twist of fate can be destiny all along.