In a world where drama equals power, Plotforge Academy trains students to become "Main Characters" — a rank above Heroes and Kings. The more tragic your backstory, the stronger you get. Norman has none. No dead parents. No sworn enemies. Just a herbalist with a painfully normal past. Then a strange new line appears on his status screen: NPCfication: 1% His unique skill, Ignorable Face, makes him unnoticeable in the presence of anyone drawing significant attention. Everyone draws attention. Now he's surrounded by classmates obsessed with drama: a dragon regressor who regressed into a lizard, then regressed again into a dinosaur after being stepped on, and a half-giant waiting for someone to call him weak — all of them auditioning loudly for the role of Most Tragic Protagonist. Norman just goes along like a proper background character: returning dropped handkerchiefs, folding things neatly, occasionally winning fights with a syringe to the shoulder. Not the neck — he wasn't a psychopath.