A Safe Guide to Faking Your Death as a Comic Villain

Lin Su found a comic book.

The villain in the comic had the same name as him. At the end of the story, the hero's team killed him while shouting about friendship and bonds.

The readers' comments were still clamoring: [Way to go, hero! That's it, take that villain down hard!]

Lin Su, who had no intention of dying just yet: ...Are you kidding me?!

Whoever wants to be the villain can have the job. He certainly won't.

Lin Su decided to make a run for it. He couldn't take on the hero's team, but surely he could stay out of their way? The good news was that his escape went smoothly. The bad news was that the outcome did not.

Because he was so delicate-looking, one of the heroes mistook him for a poor little thing who needed saving and took him in. The moment Lin Su opened his eyes, he found himself face-to-face with a blue-eyed, blond young man.

The hero scooped Lin Su out of bed.

“Let's be together.”

The young man's voice was firm. “That way, we'll have every reason we need to get you away from all this darkness.”

Lin Su, still half asleep: ...?

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To hide the truth that he was the villain, Lin Su had no choice but to keep his secret identity under wraps and play a harmless, forgettable background character.

Before long, a refined-looking young man appeared in the brand-new shonen manga Abyss.

Calm and gentle, the boy was the hero's only trusted companion amid the manga's dark, brutal story.

The problem was that he was so fragile that the slightest danger left him gravely injured and on the brink of death. He even deliberately wounded himself and let his blood flow to lure the monsters away and draw the attention of the contaminants.

Luckily, the hero found the boy collapsed in a pool of blood just in time.

Comments: [He was abandoned in a contaminated zone once, so he can't bear to see his companions caught up in another wave of contamination. He'd rather face it alone than let them get hurt, right? I'm actually crying!]

Lin Su, who only wanted to change his secret identity, fake his death, and run away, only to be stopped by the hero again: “...”

The bad news was that everyone had bought into his fragile persona, and the responsible hero wouldn't let anyone get hurt right in front of him.

If Lin Su tried to run, the hero would chase him.

Every time, he ruined Lin Su's fake-death plans right on cue.

Even worse, Lin Su's fragile persona spread so quickly that the villains from other comics began attacking him first, targeting him as the “weak link.”

Then one day, the hero's team faced an opponent they simply couldn't defeat. Even the hero failed to stop the villain from approaching Lin Su.

Amid the bloody scene, the young man's refined face was spattered with blood, looking eerie and bewitching against the stark contrast of the man's body, cut in two.

“This is such a headache.” Lin Su, the real mastermind and final boss, sighed softly. “I only wanted to clock out early. Why does someone always have to bother me?”

P.S.:

1. The seme and uke are both pure in body and mind, 1v1.

2. No comments of any kind shipping reversed pairings or self-insert fantasies, including but not limited to reversed-pairing fetishists, self-insert seme or uke fantasies, or usernames that clearly indicate such preferences. Comments attacking either lead will be deleted.

3. This is an indulgent, trope-driven story. No off-topic comments about non-BL content.

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Here's a preview of my upcoming story.

Title: My Boyfriend Is Actually a Max-Level Player in an Infinite Game?!

Blurb:

After a car accident, Shen Yun lost three years of his memories. The moment he opened his eyes in the hospital bed, his assistant told him something startling.

He had apparently forced a relationship on someone, and that someone was a man!

Shen Yun instinctively protested, “How could that be? I'm straight!”

A tall, slender young man pushed open the hospital-room door. He was so handsome he looked like he belonged on an entirely different visual plane. The moment he heard Shen Yun, he turned his head with a cold look. Even his hair was exactly the way Shen Yun liked it.

Shen Yun: “Actually, I might not be completely straight...”

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After repeatedly questioning his assistant, Shen Yun finally learned that during the three years he'd forgotten, he had fallen for the young man at first sight, pursued him relentlessly, and forced his way into a relationship until he'd finally won the beauty's heart.

The delicate, innocent beauty he'd forced into the relationship was the handsome, aloof young man from the hospital room.

It took Shen Yun less than a tenth of a second to accept this as fact.

What do you mean, the delicate beauty I forced into a relationship? I married him, so he's my wife!

After leaving the hospital, Shen Yun rushed home at once. He arranged his face into a perfect smile and pushed open the door. “Hey, honey~ Did you miss me?”

The young man, whom Shen Yun thought was his kept lover, was expressionlessly wiping blood from a blade. At his feet lay the remains of an indescribable monster. Blood stained his pale profile, making him look bewitching and uncanny.

Interrupted in the middle of his work, the young man slowly raised his long blade. His eyes were pitch-black as he asked lightly, “You saw everything, didn't you?”

Shen Yun kept a straight face. “My wife is beautiful and talented, and can fight like a champ!”

You're filming a special-effects drama right here at home! That's amazing, honey. There's a variety show script at my company that would suit you perfectly. Want to take a look?

Good news: He got a wife after losing his memory.

Even better news: There might be something a little off about his wife.

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Xie Qing, a max-level player in an infinite game, had planned to enjoy an ordinary life after retiring, but Shen Yun forced him into a relationship.

The young man was so enthusiastic, he thought. Being kept by him didn't seem like such a bad deal.

But things did not go as planned.

In their third year together, the infinite game invaded reality, and the monsters that should have existed only in the game descended along with it.

Worse still, his amnesiac lover seemed to have discovered something, too.

For the eleventh time, Xie Qing snapped the neck of a mirror demon escaping from a mirror and sighed. “I only wanted to retire.”

Why did people keep coming after him?

Hopelessly lovesick, looks-obsessed, goofy CEO seme x laid-back, max-combat-power big-shot uke

1. The seme and uke are both pure in body and mind, 1v1. No comments shipping reversed pairings or self-insert fantasies of any kind.

2. No off-topic comments about non-BL content. Comments attacking the characters will be deleted.

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Theme: The world is beautiful. Cherish the present.