The Great Sage Wants to Die

Why should you never read a fantasy novel the night before the college entrance exam?
There are roughly three reasons.

1. Because you have a high chance of getting hit by a truck and ending up possessed in another world.

2. Because most Korean high-school seniors who die in front of their entrance exam become overpowered heroes in another world.

3. Because even so, before they become overpowered, they must suffer through every hardship imaginable.

As punishment for reading a 17-volume traditional fantasy novel, The Book of Irkus, the night before the exam, Han Yuwan is struck by a truck on the way to take the CSAT and dies.

Was Heaven moved by the untimely death of a perfect-score mock-exam student?
Han Yuwan is hurled straight into the world of The Book of Irkus.

The beginning of a dramatic “OP high schooler rampage” adventure? So he hopes—only briefly.
Not only does he not understand the language, but he falls into the imperial palace by mistake and ends up degraded to the Empress’s pet human. Worse yet, the story’s protagonist will not appear for another four centuries.

Others get possessed into novels and live comfortably, eating well and thriving. He must have committed some grave sin in his past life. Unless he had sold his country, why else would he be cursed with immortality?

After stumbling here and tumbling there for 400 years, Han Yuwan has unwillingly earned the title of Great Sage—and now he simply… wants to die peacefully.
But to die, he must make sure that the descendant of the witch Yekarina—the one who laid the curse—must become Emperor.

“Who are you? Why would you help me?”
O divine powers, have You finally granted me the mercy of death? Thank you!

Is it truly the 400th birthday present bestowed by Heaven?
For the descendant of Yekarina—and the protagonist of this novel—has rolled right into his arms.