A Guide to Playing the Savior's Secret Identity

[Please read the official version on Jinjiang Literature City. Don’t read pirated copies: they contain typos and kill authors.]

Ye Zhixiao was an utterly ordinary shut-in who scraped by on his meager writing royalties, taking life one day at a time.

Then one day, he awakened as an NPC.

He discovered that he was the protagonist of a novel, and the author had a serious thing for putting the main character through hell.

According to the plot, he would lose his closest family, be betrayed in tears by a dear friend, suffer a crippling injury and emotional devastation, then endure corruption in his broken body, pose as a villain, save the world, and finally fall to his death in a miserable end.

To survive, he had to fulfill every one of the author’s kinks and reach the required level of buzz on the discussion forum.

After reading his entire script, Ye Zhixiao: …

Is this author a pervert or what? Why are they piling every kind of kink onto me? I just want to be a layabout living an ordinary life!

Fortunately, when Ye Zhixiao was forcibly bound to the missions, he was also bound to a Secret Identity System. As long as he played the roles in the author’s script well, his real self could still enjoy a peaceful, happy life!

The story needs a protagonist, but it never said the protagonist has to be [Ye Zhixiao], right?

He decided to play the role of his own [older brother], whom he had never met.

And so Ye Zhixiao dutifully wrote scripts, letting his secret identities act out one dramatic tale of love and hate after another in his world.

The forum erupted:

[Ye Zhixiao, you’ve done so well. You clearly want to die, but you keep forcing yourself to live for everyone else’s happiness. How can anyone be this good?]

[As a member of the Society of Light, he was forced to accept corruption. He must feel so guilty about what happened to his younger brother…]

[The obsessive, scheming villain younger brother X the beautiful, strong, tragic, fragile older brother is just too delicious… The younger brother has always wanted his brother to stay by his side, hasn’t he? Can’t we get some forced-proximity scenes?!]

[Please be nicer to Xiao Xiao, Author! I’ll do anything, T_T (tip +1 +1)]

…

Meanwhile, Ye Zhixiao, at the center of the story, drew the attention of countless forces lurking in the shadows.

A pure monster was born into the world. Even after losing everything that made him human, he still loved his family dearly.

Whoever offered the monster his most precious treasure would earn the monster’s affection.

As the ghosts roamed the night, a familiar figure appeared before the crowd and, as if it were only natural, held out a hand to his older brother, inviting him into the abyss.

“Why won’t you come with me? Even if I’ve become a monster, I’m still the younger brother you love most.”

The line between black and white was drawn. The family member who had once mattered most finally stood on the opposing side, forcing him to make a choice.

And he gave up on himself, choosing his younger brother and the world.

…

Ye Zhixiao: …This isn’t how the script I wrote was supposed to go. Do I really have to live such a conspicuous, attention-grabbing life?

Author: Of course! You’re my protagonist!

· The protagonist is a scheming, villainous little cat. His secret identities are beautiful, strong, and tragic saviors. Their identities stay hidden from beginning to end. The setting is an urban superpower world.

· The protagonist plays his own older brother. I want to write some two-person dramas starring himself and himself, plus a bit of nemesis fiction.

Theme: The self is a guiding light on the road ahead.