Chapter 1
It was a day just like any other. Ah, there was one difference though. The fact that I had been transmigrated into a BL novel. And the fact that I only realized this today, long after entering this book. That was the difference from the usual.
‘What is all this?’
New memories that hadn’t been in my mind began to settle in one by one. These memories, which had seeped in like water, showed me what my original self was like and what the rough storyline of this book was. The reason for the transmigration didn’t come to mind, but why would that matter? The most important thing now was…
‘I was the villain and the secondary bottom? That’s absurd!’
This fact hit me more shockingly than the fact that I’d been transmigrated. Lee Jaehee, the nasty villain who would die miserably without ever receiving attention from the main top. That was my role in this book.
‘This isn’t a secondary bottom—it’s just a villain!’
Lee Jaehee was a 99% pure villain with the ridiculous title of “secondary bottom” who couldn’t even catch the main top’s eye once. But he couldn’t even properly fulfill his role as a villain. That was because his page count was pathetically small.
He was just a plot device used to connect the main bottom and the main top before disappearing, making him perhaps the most pitiful character of all.
‘The secondary bottom has so little significance, yet whenever he appears, he gets beaten up left and right as a form of catharsis.’
Due to his woefully inadequate page count, Jaehee didn’t have time to build up plausibility, and in the end, he was just a petty villain with a bad personality who couldn’t cause a single major incident.
Wait, so according to these memories, I’m either supposed to prepare to be torn apart by the main top, or show some sign of redemption within my mouse-tail-sized page count and barely cling to life? Is that what I have to do?
Finding himself suddenly in a situation where he was told, “You’re the villain and the secondary bottom! So you must be miserable from now on!” Jaehee felt bewildered.
‘I’m right to feel outraged and wronged in this situation, aren’t I?’
That’s how abrupt these revelations were. It felt unfair, happening to someone who was just living their life well. But what could he do? Rather than feeling upset, Jaehee actually snickered.
‘But guess what? I’m not going to play the villain secondary bottom role.’
Though he felt sorry for the author who wrote the book, he was already a completely different person from the original villain secondary bottom. His appearance, background, abilities, most things like that were the same, but the most important core was different.
As a result, he couldn’t faithfully play the villain role like the original Lee Jaehee, nor could he keep his place as the secondary bottom. That’s not to say he didn’t love the main top. He loved him passionately. Even more than the original Lee Jaehee did! And that remains true now.
‘Well, the main top Choi Geonwoo was exactly my type.’
There was no reason not to fall for him. The only S-class Esper in the country, with an appearance so unrealistically beautiful it seemed impossible for a human. Plus a charm that subtly captivated people.
How could someone be born with so much? I had wondered, but then I realized it was because he was the main top. That explained everything. In short, Choi Geonwoo was a man who had received every possible spec.
But then he approached me. He came to Lee Jaehee, who was just a secondary bottom, whispered words of love, and desperately begged for love in return.
Just as the original Lee Jaehee had changed, the main top Choi Geonwoo’s behavior had also changed. The main top himself had actually made the first move. And of course, I fell for him right away.
And now the two of us were in a passionate and heated relationship. As a result, things were already quite different from the original story. According to my memories, the main bottom would appear soon, but I didn’t think Geonwoo’s love would change just because the main bottom showed up. He was a faithful man who, befitting a main character, only had eyes for one person.
‘How can I be the villain and secondary bottom when, far from receiving the main top’s hatred, I’m only receiving his abundant love?’
Rather, these newly discovered facts even made Jaehee feel smug. To think that a secondary bottom had captured the main top! Feeling elated, Jaehee even found himself humming.
Then suddenly, a doubt occurred to him.
‘But why am I only realizing this now? And so long after entering this book…’
Even knowing this now wouldn’t change anything. Jaehee was already happy in this world, and Geonwoo was by his side. As his relationship with the main top had changed, he was no longer the villain secondary bottom.
‘Do I need to think about this anymore?’
Memories that wouldn’t change anything even if he knew about them. Therefore, concluding that today’s memory was unnecessary, Jaehee carefully folded this newly recalled memory and put it away at the back of his mind, then got up. And this day was remembered as just one of many ordinary days.
Only much later would he learn how much he would come to regret dismissing this day so casually, something that Jaehee at this time did not know.
***
After that ordinary day, time passed quickly.
There was a moment of tension when the main bottom appeared, but true to being the main top, Geonwoo was completely straightforward. He didn’t give the main bottom even a single glance and ignored him, to the point where seeing the main bottom cry every day actually made Jaehee feel a little sorry. After all, that position was originally meant for that person.
But besides that, there were no special incidents. Though as an S-class Esper and Guide, they always led busy lives, they were always happy because they were together.
‘The original novel was a completely sweet romance, wasn’t it?’
It was a very sweet novel that focused solely on the emotional line between the main bottom and the main top, without any major incidents. The fact that there wasn’t even a single frustrating section says it all.
Perhaps that’s why it had been a succession of happy days. The story of the two was flowing well. No, he thought it was flowing well. If only it weren’t for the unfortunate accidents that began one day.
‘Am I really this unlucky?’
At first, small accidents that were hard to even notice happened every few days. Things like tripping over something, or food that had been bought to eat going bad—things at a level that could be dismissed with a “Just having a bit of bad luck today!” They happened so infrequently that he didn’t think much of them.
But gradually, the frequency began to increase. What had happened once every 2-3 weeks started repeating every week, and the scale kept growing.
Fights would break out unexpectedly, gates suddenly began appearing frequently, and sometimes things would suddenly fall from above while walking. Nearly getting hit by cars wasn’t a one-time occurrence either.
The intervals between these increasingly suffocating incidents shortened day by day, until finally, significant accidents occurred every day without fail.
‘I’m not some cursed doll that only brings misfortune—how can this be happening?’
At this rate, even dozens of lives wouldn’t be enough. Fortunately, under the protection of the S-class Esper Choi Geonwoo, he was able to get through all these misfortunes without any harm, but it couldn’t prevent his nerves from becoming sensitive.
‘Has the genre changed because the story went off track?’
That thought suddenly occurred to him, and it kept growing, spiraling from one thought to another. After all, incidents that clearly didn’t exist in the original work were now happening.
‘Is it… me who’s the problem? Because the secondary bottom is taking the main bottom’s place?’
The thread of thought that had been continuing finally flowed to the place he had most hoped not to reach. All the incidents seemed to be occurring as if to eliminate him, the foreign element disrupting the flow of the original work.
And after forming a bond with Geonwoo, he had the ominous thought that this unwelcome speculation might actually be true.
He couldn’t help but think so. Right after bonding with Geonwoo, as if he had crossed a line that shouldn’t have been crossed, a huge incident incomparable to anything before occurred.
The sudden emergence of an S-class gate. Everyone fell into panic at this urgent situation that had never happened before. Among them, the one most steeped in fear was, of course, Jaehee, who knew the original story.
Jaehee was confused.
‘What do you want… why do these things keep happening?’
And he was scared. The continuing incidents were as if…
‘Do you… really want me to die?’
Jaehee absolutely did not want to participate in this gate subjugation. Even though he knew an S-class Guide couldn’t do that.
But contrary to Jaehee’s desperate wish, Espers and Guides were urgently mobilized, and naturally, S-class Jaehee and Geonwoo were included among them. Jaehee suppressed his anxious feelings, ignored his unwilling footsteps, and headed toward the gate.
Inside the gate was truly horrific.
From deep, deep darkness where the end couldn’t be seen, monsters poured out endlessly. The fighting was endless. With the continuous battle, both Espers and Guides gradually tired, and the number of injured increased day by day. The precarious battle continued. It was only possible because of Geonwoo, the S-class Esper.
In the long battle, it was the Guides who collapsed first. They, who were no different from ordinary people except for their guiding abilities, were seeing their energy hit bottom due to continuous guiding. Among them, the worst was Jaehee, who was guiding the S-class Esper. Already under psychological pressure, he grew even more exhausted.
The one fortunate thing amid the misfortune was that not long after, the master of the gate, with its horrific appearance signaling the end of the gate, appeared.
The final battle began. A bloody battle where flesh and blood flew. In that battle, only the master of the gate and Geonwoo could fight completely.
Jaehee sent guiding energy to Geonwoo until all his energy hit bottom. Just as Jaehee, unable to withstand the continuous guiding, was about to stagger, a terrible monster’s howl that struck the eardrums was heard, and finally, they achieved victory.
Jaehee shed tears of relief and joy while gasping for breath that had filled up to his chin. It felt like it. The climax of the event corresponding to the ‘before’ in the beginning-development-climax-conclusion of the story in the novel. It felt like he had just crossed that. The anxiety that had been building up kept melting away like snow.
‘Then the remaining conclusion is the main characters living happily ever after, right?’
But an unbelievable thing happened before his eyes.
“Geonwoo!”
Geonwoo’s blood was added to the ground already soaked with monster blood. Then a tremendous wave that seemed to tear through flesh wrapped around his body, and suddenly Geonwoo’s face appeared before his eyes. Sticky blood was flowing from his mouth, nose, ears, and even his unfocused eyes.
He was going berserk.
Embraced so tightly that his entire body felt like it would crumble, a kiss full of the thick scent of blood followed. The guiding, forcibly draining energy when there was almost no energy left in his body, slowly ate away at Jaehee’s lifeline.
“H-Hyung…”
Only after taking guiding energy until Jaehee’s body went limp and faint breathing sounds could be heard did Geonwoo momentarily regain his senses. And at the reality unfolding before his eyes, the situation he had created, he wailed.
But a greater horror remained. The energy inside Geonwoo’s body was trying to twist again. The rampage wasn’t over yet.
“H-Help…”
Geonwoo embraced Jaehee’s body and pleaded for help from everyone. Pitying gazes poured down. But not a single person reached out.
Everyone knew. That the only thing that could stop an S-class Esper’s rampage was guiding. And that while Geonwoo was the only S-class Esper, there were two S-class Guides here.
They were hoping that when the bond was erased through Jaehee’s sacrifice, they could transfer the guiding to the main bottom, who had energy to spare for guiding.
Everyone here knew this. Jaehee knew it. And Geonwoo knew it.
Soon, as everyone hoped, the rampage ended.
Geonwoo took his own life.
In his sinking consciousness, Jaehee could only watch as Geonwoo, who had always been as solid as an iron fortress, crumbled into mere grains of sand.
The story’s conclusion wasn’t “they lived happily ever after.” That was the story of the main bottom and the main top.
The conclusion for the two of them, the secondary bottom and the main top, ended with Geonwoo’s death.
Jaehee’s world came crashing down.
