Corrupted Bonds - Chapter 44: Fault Lines Beneath

Professor Kang lived the same day on repeat - same lectures, same coffee, same quiet evenings.Unremarkable in every way.That is, until the day he died trying to save a student.When he opened his eyes again, he wasn't in a hospital. He wasn't even human anymore.Reborn as the weakest of monsters - a slime - in a world where the strong devour the weak, survival is the only law that matters. But if clawing his way up means becoming the apex predator himself... well, so be it.

Every novel has a slag character, the one who decides to abandon the protagonist at his lowest, most helpless point, either because he can’t stand the poor guy’s circumstances or for other reasons. But after the protagonist wins his way in life again, they’re the ones who beg with broken sobs to be taken back.

Still, water once spilled can’t be recovered again.

Yet the unlucky Shen Jiayan has been bound to a Water Recovery* System to do just that.

*water recovery – comes from an idiom that means “spilled water can’t be recovered” (English equivalent: there’s no use crying over spilt milk).

- Description from Novelupdates

That night, when a Kryptonian spacecraft with a baby fell on Mike Kent’s farm, when he decided to adopt the child, and the golden finger that traveled through was activated, he knew that his life was about to change.

Superman Clark Kent, Professor X Charles Kent, Magneto Eric Kent…

When he became the father of these people, the strongest family was born!

- Description from novelbuddy

The definition of a villain according to Kim Sangmin: The person who has to die for the story to end.But his story had just begun when the villain of the book he was reading died in the end, and he woke up to start the story again.As he uncovers the hidden, untold truths behind the cascade of a villain, the more he leans towards becoming a true villain—only in pretend, of course! He has a little brother to take care of, he can't just die and leave him alone. He's also his baby brother's role model, so he has to teach him how to live a long life by becoming a hero instead!And how does he plan to become a hero?Obviously, by stalking the actual main character of the book and overtaking his spotlight at every chance. Step by step, he would overthrow the 'real' hero of the book and change his status to one with praise.Easy, right?