Rewriting the Ending Because the Author was Incompetent.
Lee Ji-Hoon was just another college student pretending to live the “normal” life that campus zombies call routine… but that act only fooled his parents.
Inside the dorms, the truth was a whole different horror show:
physical abuse, daily humiliation, psychological bullying on nightmare difficulty — and Ji-Hoon was so broken on the inside that even his soul needed a vacation.
With no strength to fight back, he basically became a ghost.
Gray days.
Even darker nights.
And the only thing that actually kept him breathing?
Novels.
Reading stories where the protagonist always wins, because in his real life he couldn’t get a victory even by accident.
One day, after finishing his entire reading list, a strange recommendation pops up:
“THE BATTLEFIELDS WHERE THE STRONGEST RULE!”
stylish cover, catchy title, insane vibe.
Ji-Hoon clicks.
And bro… he gets HOOKED.
The story was brilliant, inspiring, filled with motivational lines that could make even a depressed person attempt a squat.
For two weeks, he read it while hiding between tears, despair, and being ignored in the hallways.
Then he reaches the final chapter.
The last one.
The grand finale.
He reads it.
And realizes that…
THE ENDING IS COMPLETE TRASH.
Like:
> The protagonist spends 500 chapters getting stronger, defeating empires, breaking the system… and dies by tripping on a rock.
The end.
Author: “I thought it was poetic (✷‿✷)”
Ji-Hoon wanted to yeet his phone out the window, but remembered he was way too poor for that.
So he did what any emotionally-destroyed young adult would do:
Got wasted.
Drank everything in sight.
Mixed alcohol, anger, and literary disappointment.
On his way back to the dorms…
Completely drunk…
Wondering how such a garbage ending could exist…
He did NOT hear the classic, legendary, traditional, cliché ISEKAI TRUCK coming right at him.
And then…
BOOOOOOM!!!
End of Lee Ji-Hoon’s life.
Beginning of the legend of Theodor Umbralis.