Became a Dark Merchant in the Academy

Luckyzero says:

I quite like it the novel to be honest but other people probably won’t, because even I admit that this novel is poisonous and there are some scene that you may dislike (but since I felt that the evil scene is only equivalent at the level of reading a hard, truly obsessive yandere novel, however not to the point of NTR maybe?) I can still read It cause I’m trained to read It

I mean you need to be an apathetic and indifferent when reading this novel if you don’t want your moral and values to degenerate or to instinctively disgust the story

Oh, but I agree with @Trash Taste said I sometimes get bored because I don’t see any reason why he become a villain, I sometimes think that he can just use [UNKNOWN] skill for fighting and get some giyeon that can change his class to assassin and abandon his merchant class

Velcon says:

I have to agree with everyone that having evil MC just cause evil it pretty bad. With no reason and motive for us to cheer the MC there is really no reason to read this but for the downfall. And what people are saying we always wanted an evil MC here is the thing, those people are asking for an evil MC in the past is cause they just want to see the snap with a justified reason for evil.

Like a good motive would be this: There once was a tale of an MC that fell to this world. A world full of magic and wonder which left him in awe. But as he is exploring he only meets ridicule and hate for he is without mana. During all of this he meets one friend who never judged him for who he was or left him alone in a cruel world. But during all of this a high noble thought it would be funny to rid such a friend, thinking its a favor ridding his life from being friends with the powerless.

With this done, MC choose to hate the world. He chooses to fall into the underworld and take control of gangs, mobs, and drug groups so that he can one day use such a power to destroy the nation by slowly poisoning everything. Falling deeper and deeper to his dark nature as a human, caring not for the weak and slowly ridding all that he hates.

Edgy af, I rather not write something like that again cause I don’t want edgy in my life.

Trashtaste says:

So this is the novel, where some random people from earth got isekai and replace the original evil MC, he replace MC in the beginning or the moment before MC die, then he need to do everything he could to survive.
Or the original world of one of harem member MC have and she time traveler to the last.

jwslayer1488 says:

this is pretty funny. definitely not for everyone but try it if you like amoral/evil/ruthless/manipualative protagonist like fang yuan, dantalian etc

Ryuu says:

I will read this book if there is a fanmade of this novel called I accidentally killed a dark merchant villain in academy!

rob z says:

Why noble? Of all the available novels to translate, this one? Just poison. And gaslighting may be the worst tag I have ever come across. In fact, this is probably the worst Korean web novel I have come across since Villain Who Robbed the Heroines.

Wok_Fuccboy says:

Wow what a rare evil MC
But this is not my taste
I’d rather pushover villain rather than pure evil MC
If he had a reason or good backstory, maybe this would be good, but if there is none
Then this novel pretty much reading criminal story

Suherman Joshua says:

Some people may not understand so much about what gaslighting is. The term originates from the Patrick Hamilton’s original 1939 stage play, “Gaslight,” where a husband psychologically manipulates his wife. In the story, the husband attempts to convince his wife that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting that she is mistaken, remembering things incorrectly when she points out the changes he makes. The play’s title alludes to how the abusive husband slowly dims the gaslights in their home while pretending nothing has changed in an effort to make his wife doubt her own perceptions. Gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse where someone leads you to question your own reality, memory, or perceptions. I admit that this is one of the novels with unique idea.

So here are examples of what gaslighting MCs do. When it’s gaslighting, MC are aware they have done something to hurt to heroine and are pretending to play dumb. In defensively posing this question to heroine, they are denying the impact he had on her and are also forcing her to question it. Sometime MC make statements that cause heroine to feel like she is the problem, even when she have fallen victim to something such as bullying or abuse. He intentionally get heroine to question their experience, behavior, and thoughts in order to take the focus off of them. MC neglect any responsibility for his actions. Instead, he will directly blame others. Ex: make principal even apologize for things that aren’t her fault. MC question some heroines own sense of who they are. In some case MC flip the conversation towards one of heroines and make it out like she is the one who is in the wrong by accusing her of being defensive and that she is attacking innocent people. Then she become the a fugitive and only has an MC by his side.

Jahe Manis says:

I can say that MC is an optimist. Compared to other main characters who enter novels, games, or webtoons and want to avoid the main plot, by knowing the story plot, the MC sees opportunity and achieves more that he didn’t get in his previous world, a.k.a. power, wealth, and fame. Why would he want to be an extra character when he can be more than that, like president, leader of heroes, or boss of the underworld? So he sells drugs to make money. The problem is that he is also from class K, which is an outcast and an unofficial class. To make sure Class K becomes an official class, he causes an accident that causes many of his classmates in Class K to die (damn, even though all classmates admire the MC and choose him as class president) and the teacher to die too, including the heroine’s father (she appears a year later as a junior admiring the MC, not knowing he killed her father). He slandered one of the villainous organisations as the culprit and pitted them against the heroes and the police. Finally, he gaslighting the principal to officiates class K. He also succeeded in uniting all the students in Class K and make himself look hero that fight against school that discriminate them. Hooray. I think the author succeeded in creating an evil villain that evokes a range of emotions in the reader. In my case, I just want him to screw up.

veldra says:

My review is simple.

I think Novel readers here must make a choice. Make a category of your tastes and what you desire in a novel and match them. I see many people complaining that the MC is evil, and they go to another novel and wish the MC of that novel was evil. I personally think this novel isn’t bad and can’t be enjoyed by those who hate evil. Never the less, it is pure hypocrisy if you try to quantify “evil” by saying it for good; in the end, evil is evil, no matter the end goal, whether it is for power or for the sake of others. Some are saying it’s bad because of drugs. I mean, we have murder and mafia on this site; that is just double standards.

Some are even saying it’s edgy. Of course it will be a bit edgy; edginess also includes stuff like anti-hero, loner, and more.

If you like evil MCs who gaslight this for you, otherwise try other novels.

All Night says:

@Dagonsuznyx

Not a single one of your examples are “evil”. they’re all the “unwilling villain” trope.

Dagonsuznyx says:

Evil for the evil’s sake is boring and edgy, but if the Mc has a solid goal and has to do evil to achieve it, then it is acceptable. The more personal the goal is, the more acceptable the actions become in the eyes of the reader as we immerse ourselves into the characters and the story.

Take Tanya for example. Her goal of survival is relatable and understandable. That’s why we can at least be impartial to her actions. The same goes to novels like “Arifureta” or “the Main Heroines are Trying to Kill Me”, where the MC is put on a position to do evil/ looks like doing it.

Therefore malicious actions for the sake of power, or worse, for the fun of it, are hard to implement for the author. You have to be very careful in order not to irritate the reader. “The Eminence in Shadow” is one of the rarest examples of a very successful evil/ boss character implementation.

Sephir says:

Ehh my 5k comments, it’s gone

Forgotten one says:

Thank you for saving me from this poison…🙏🙏

Yuki says:

To be honest, I read this novel because I was already immersed in it, I was just curious about how the MC would end. I think he will suffer the same fate as Diavolo from Jojo, stuck in a death loop. Both are drug dealers, lack trust, paranoid and do not like to jump directly into the field to be too dangerous, instead relying on his men.

Insufferable says:

Man. What a let down. I like scheming mc’s but not evil ones.

I just enjoy mind games and outsmarting outsmartings but straight up manipulation and Gaslighting isn’t a very intelligent thing for me imo. Sure Liebert is very intelligent but what truly makes him succeed is his unrestrained nature. That’s not what I like. Maybe that’s why I like death note more than monster despite people saying Liebert is superior to Light. (not that I like Light any better.)

Puts a bad taste in my mouth. Especially if innocent people are affected.

Luiz Felipe says:

I refuse to read this

Dagonsuznyx says:

I don’t like malicious MCs who don’t assume responsibility and grow into a better person. There is already enough love for crime and criminals, and I don’t want to waste my toilette breaks by reading these kinds of novels

Yuki says:

Well, finally noble uploaded this novel. I introduce you to the drug dealer MC that destroys many youth with drugs. You expect a realistic story MC getting harem. This is your novel. The MC manipulates many heroines and makes them depend only on the MC. He manipulated heroine A into being bullied so that she only had MC to depend on, not knowing that he was the one causing her grades to drop and bullying to occur. MC pretends to be a model student, while he carries out many criminal activities and terrorism. The MC slandered heroine B as a criminal and made her a fugitive, leaving only the MC to rely on. Kill heroine C father even though the father wanted to set MC up with his daughter. The MC’s goal is to become underworld king while at the same time he enjoys his status as leader of heroes. Basically he is a bad politician pretending to be a good guy. The question is what would happen if all heroines knew that the MC is the cause of their suffering? Can someone stop MC? MC is not OP but he grows stronger, and succesfully force the heroes oppose him bound by a slave contract that forced them to protect the MC.

Insufferable says:

I like scheming mc’s imma go in.

Bravo 6 going d– zzzzt.

Bocchan says:

Idk i just got here