Hiding My Mastermind Core in a Yandere Academy

​Welcome to Akuto Academy — a den of predators where talent dictates survival, and commoners are treated as mere fuel.

​Neil Harlan is a ghost in the shadows. To the elite factions of the inner court, he is just a pathetic scholarship disciple. A low-tier janitor working the freezing midnight shifts, coughing up blood due to a fractured Dantian that everyone believes can never be healed. He bows his head, stammers on command, and wears the perfect mask of a defenseless weakling.

​But beneath that fragile facade lies a dormant, high-grade Mastermind Core.

​Neil’s plan was flawless: play the submissive servant, survive at the absolute bottom of the academy’s food chain, and quietly steal the residual Qi left behind in the cultivation halls to stitch his broken meridians back together. He just needed time.

​Instead, his impeccable acting has attracted the absolute worst kind of monsters.

​Lilith Vespera: The terrifying heir of the Vespera clan. With her piercing crimson eyes and unstable sword-Qi, she looks at Neil with a suffocating, possessive warmth, ready to lock him away in a golden cage forever so “no one else can soil her clean toy.”

​Celine: The ruthless Vice-President of the Disciplinary Hall. Cold, transactional, and calculating, she corners him in the dark with a silver jade token, using merciless blackmail to turn him into her personal pawn.

​Caught in a tightening web of homicidal obsession and deadly political factions, Neil cannot afford a single misstep. If his hidden core is exposed, the academy will execute him. If he rejects the girls, they might just burn the entire world down out of love.

​In an academy built for villains, survival isn't about fighting the monsters. It's about manipulating them until they believe they own you.