Question: What does it feel like when an extra accidentally binds to a system and is forced onto a savior route?
Si Ye: Thanks for the invite. I’m already dead. Burn paper offerings if you need me. Won’t help anyway. Heh — I just won’t look.
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Si Ye, whose superpower is drawing flowers, is bound to a system.
He learns that his world is actually a collapsed manga titled Urban Supernatural Chronicles.
The system demands that he become a savior and prevent the original storyline’s ending — where ten thousand ghosts counterattack the human world.
Si Ye:
“How exactly am I supposed to save it? Beat ghosts to death with flowers?”
The system reveals its trump card:
[Golden Finger: Belief Becomes Reality — If readers on the manga forum believe you possess something, then you truly will.]
And so, when the manga updates:
“Who’s this handsome guy? He wasn’t in the original plot.”
“Holy crap, is he a hidden protagonist? What’s with this art style — is the author okay?”
…
Si Ye happily stays low-profile, casually borrowing the protagonist’s halo and slacking off in the Ghost Domain — yet forum attention on him skyrockets.
Until one day.
Ten thousand ghosts shatter the boundary.
The protagonist team fights to exhaustion.
A blood-red fissure splits open across the sky.
Si Ye stands beneath the crack and turns back with a faint smile.
White hair like snow. Eyes molten gold.
“Don’t cry. I’m just… doing what I want to do.”
After that day, the protagonist team sinks into despair. The forum erupts in mourning.
Everyone believes he sacrificed himself.
Only Si Ye knows —
He really did die.
Because he received an employment notice from the Underworld.
[Ding! Congratulations, Mr. Si Ye, on your appointment as the Supreme Leader of the Underworld.]
[Work Location: Netherworld Underworld, Fengdu Ghost City]
[Warm Reminder—]