Yes, It's Me. Sub Yandere

T/N: This chapter is about the MC’s life, before he became a webtoon character. (Those who haven’t read the description, I would recommend you to read the description first to understand this story better.)

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Is there anyone whose life is as hard as mine? As soon as I arrived at the university, my classmates started to tease me.

“Did you watch the news today? You were on the public TV news.”

“What? What else happened, Yoo Ha-jin?”

For your information, my name is not Yoo Ha-jin. So even though I am not Yoo Ha-jin, people compare me to him. Why? Because it’s a webtoon character that looks exactly like me.

Being curious, Jimin snatched Min-woo’s cell phone immediately. After confirming the contents, Jimin couldn’t help being surprised. Yeah, I was surprised, too. Yoo Ha-jin even appeared on the public TV news!

“Wow, that’s true. The real Yoo Ha-jin was on the news! Is the world going crazy?”

“It’s crazy, it’s crazy. Are they using webtoon characters because they have nothing else to show on the news?”

Whether my classmates were trying to amaze me with this situation or were just teasing me, I wish they only did one of them.

“Will you, Yoo Ha-jin,  the representative of overusing power, be overusing power too?”

At Jimin’s question, Min-woo condescended as if he knew the situation very well.

“He will definitely overuse his power. He’s a total jerk who does everything bad in the world. How famous is he? When it comes to Yoo Ha-jin, he’s a complete b*stard. Didn’t you learn any formalities?”

“I don’t read webtoons.”

I didn’t like the two of them looking at the cell phone and saying useless things, so I took it from Jimin’s hand.

On the screen, the anchor was sitting at the desk, and the title said, [How far will the chaebol’s power trip be tolerated?] On the data screen floating in the upper right corner, Yoo Ha-jin, a character from a webtoon, was embedded like a wanted criminal.

Yeah, everyone says that it is a popular webtoon and now Yoo Ha-jin was used and broadcasted as a news material. When I watched this scene on TV while preparing to leave for university in the morning, I stopped in my tracks and blinked several times. I screamed inside saying, “This can’t be real.”

“Look at the comments. You’ll be out of breath, laughing.”

At Min-woo’s words, I scrolled down and looked at the comment window.

⟨Comment Section⟩

– ㅅㅂㅋㅋㅋ Why is our son of a b*tch here? 

– Ha Jin? Why did you overuse your power? Did you get caught on the news because of violence and promiscuous privacy?

– It’s Ha Jin-ah. You can’t use him. 

– Ha Jin appeared on the public TV network. Saving it as an anniversary on xxxx year xx month xx day.

– If you don’t get sick of subs after seeing Ha-Jin, you’re not a human.

– Yoo Ha-jin. It makes me glad to see your face on the news in the morning. Son of b*tch.

– What is it? Which manhwa?

ᄂIt’s our Ha-jin! 

ㄴHa-jin? Who is that? Why did they draw montages like a cartoon?

ㄴㄴ Ack ㅋㅋㅋㅋ I’m crying.

ㄴㄴ Are you crazy? Montage.

ㄴㄴ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Montage ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴㄴ ㅅㅂㅋㅋㅋㅋ Can someone explain to “Fan ID”? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴㄴ It’s a webtoon called [The Circumstances Of The Golden Spooners]. It’s Sub-Yandere Ha Jin who appears there. He’s also known as “B*stard”. Very handsome, very cool, very handsome, very handsome, very hot, but he is…

ㄴㄴㄴ?????

ㄴㄴㄴ ᄏᄏ This person doesn’t understand!!!

ㄴㄴㄴ The explanation is very simple. That’s amazingly summarised. Minimum bel 1 type reader. 

[T/N: Bel- a unit used for the comparison of power levels in electrical communication or of intensities of sound, corresponding to an intensity level of 10 to 1.

 Here “bel” is probably used to mean that the understanding capability of the reader is of type 1 which is very low.]

– Did you take any drugs before making the news? How did you get past the data screen? That’s an R-rated BL webtoon!

– The writer is trying to drop Ha-jin’s stock like crazy, but we’re the ones who volley on it. Whether it’s a joke or a bad taste, I’m proud. Our little b*stard Ha-jin was recognized by the news.

– (This comment is deleted.)

ㄴ “Fan ID”, delete it. If you become famous by commenting a lot, you may go down to webtoons. The parties said they hated it. 

ㄴㄴ What is it?

ㄴㄴ Someone in the comments said that there are people who look like Yoo Hajin. 

ㄴㄴㄴAre you crazy? Twin? Someone who looks like our Ha-jin? Our Ha Jin is there in reality? Give me some hints.

ㄴㄴㄴ In the university that is shown in the webtoon.

ㄴㄴㄴAre you crazy? University A? You must be good at studying. I gave up in junior year. 

ㄴㄴㄴ  Feng Ye, a senior in our department ㅋㅋㅋ. He is a very smart student. As soon as he enters the university, all the students go crazy. Because of him [The Circumstances Of The Golden Spooners] became a must-read webtoon. Thank you for being Yoo Ha-jin in person.

Without reading further, I threw the cell phone at Minwoo.

“As expected, chaebols are different. Throwing the phone away? Huh?”

When I saw Min-woo jokingly saying that he got another one, I couldn’t let it go quietly. My head was hurting at the thought of how much people would gossip.

“It’s because the writer was a student at our university. The background is also the same as this university. Isn’t Yoo Ha Jin’s face the same as yours? If they used a person’s face, they should have paid him a fee.”

“Minwoo, have you read it?”

“Ofcourse, I have read it but shouldn’t you all read it too?”

“You need an ID and stuff. It’s R-rated, so it’s charged.”

“I have already paid for it. Yoo Hajin, have you read it?”

I couldn’t stand the jokes of my classmates any longer and got up from my seat. When I packed my bag, Min-woo grabbed me as if he was sorry, but I shook it off.

“You are so cold. Isn’t it just a joke? Do you want to borrow a cap? I brought it.”

“Oh, Min Woo. Why did you bring a cap? You don’t even wear them. Are you going to give it to Yoo Hajin?

“He’s my friend so I must take care of him.”

“It’s fine.”

But before I knew it, I took the cap from his hand and left. On the way to the classroom, the gazes of the people following me were several times worse than usual. Now that there’s a public news, even the people who didn’t know about it have come to know. I have truly become a celebrity.

‘Oh, damn that webtoon! Damn Yoo Hajin!’

My normal life was completely ruined by it.

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T/N: For the people who didn’t understand the meaning of “Sub Yandere”… No it’s not semi-yandere or something. If you guys have been a BL reader for a long time, then you guys might have heard of the words “Sub” and “Dom” which mean “Submissive” and “Dominant” (in simple words “dom” means “top” and “sub” means “bottom”). So the “Sub” in the title of the novel means “Submissive”. And about “Yandere”, it’s like someone who acts like a good person from the outside but is like a crazy, heartless or possessive person inside. But truthfully the word that was used in Korean in the place of “Yandere” didn’t have an exact meaning, it roughly means “Possessive lover” (in this case, that Webtoon character who got possessed by our MC, was a possessive lover.) I thought “Yes, It’s Me. Sub Possessive lover” would not sound that good for a title so I changed it to “Yes, It’s Me. Sub Yandere” as it has almost similar meaning. I hope this clears the confusion about the title of this novel (though I am not good at explaining) (╹▽╹ )T/N: “ㅅㅂㅋㅋㅋ” and “ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ” these just are like “Ha ha ha” indicating laughing sounds so I didn’t translate these and just kept it as it is.This story is written from the perspective of the MC, so the whole story is in first person.