While working overtime through several nights, he fell asleep for a short while. When he woke up, he seemed to be possessing the villain of the webnovel he was reading.
“Well, how typically cliché… to the point where I’d end up dead if I were to follow the predetermined fate. Darn it.”
He need to find a way to survive.
The first way to survive as a good-for-nothing villain in the webnovel.
“Convince as many people as possible to be on my side.”
The second way to survive as a good-for-nothing villain in the webnovel.
“Become strong enough to protect myself.”
Lastly, the third way to survive as a good-for-nothing villain in the webnovel.
“Never become friendly with that proud and insane ‘Returnee Master’.”
But what should he do?
Even before he possessed the body, the original owner already caused an incident.
“Use your money to kill the ‘Returnee Master’ who has yet to regain his power? Are you crazy? Then who will stop the Demon King?”
This is the beginning of the modern-day survival + dungeon-raider fantasy story of Choi Yu-Seong, the possessed villain who wants to live a laid-back lifestyle!
<This is the webtoon version of the author So Yu-Hyeon's popular webnovel, "Trapped in a Webnovel as a Good-for-Nothing".>
My Opinion: 55 officially - 76 chapters elsewhere, 3 chapters free, Official English Publisher - Tapas
This is a story where the main character (MC) is a normal person who finds himself trapped in the body of the villain of the story they were reading. The MC knows his character is fated to die at the hands of the hero unless he changes things. And he uses the RPG interface and his own foreknowledge to change his characters path. It’s a bit like a regressor story in that the MC uses knowledge he wouldn’t normally have to gain an advantage and grow powerful.
The story setting and pacing are pretty casual. The setting is of a modern world where dungeons appear and a society where people have classes and powers clear those dungeons for profit and experience. The MC mostly focuses on exploiting his knowledge of the story to gain enough power to survive the challenges he knows are coming. But at the same time, he works hard to not change things so much that the story shifts and he loses his advantage.
The RPG aspects are fairly light with letter rankings (S, A-F) to describe overall power and skills instead of numbered levels. The MC sees notifications about his own character sheet that initially describes him as a mediocre ranker, but with the MCs knowledge about the world from reading the story he works hard to gain unusual new skills and boosts in power. Each skill and power also gets its own notification so there’s lots of that going around.
Overall, I enjoyed the casual reading pace with regular action and the exploit using nature of the story.
Score: 7.5 out of 10
Trapped In A Webnovel As A Good-For-Nothing (I Woke up as the Villain)