How Come I Became the Protagonist? official iQIYI Original poster with two illustrated leads in suits

How Come I Became the Protagonist?

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What happens

Most legal careers end with a retirement party. This one ends with a murder, and then, against every rule of the universe, keeps going. How Come I Became the Protagonist? (ตื่นมาอีกทีก็เป็นนายเอกไปซะแล้ว) begins with a lawyer who is killed, closes his eyes for what should be the final time, and opens them again in a body that is not his.

The body belongs to the nayek of a series, the man the whole romance revolves around. One moment he is a professional who builds arguments out of evidence. The next he is a character whose life already has a plot and a love story queued up, none of which he agreed to.

That collision is the engine of the series. A lawyer does not stop asking questions just because the face in the mirror has changed, and the world around him expects him to behave like a romantic lead. Every scene becomes a small cross examination. What does this man's story demand of him, and how is he meant to play a role whose lines he never read?

The source is a webtoon with a large following, and the story keeps one foot in the life that ended and one in the life he woke up inside. Somewhere between those two, a romance is waiting for a man who has just been handed the most unlikely second chance of his career.

CONTENT DETAILS

Native Title
ตื่นมาอีกทีก็เป็นนายเอกไปซะแล้ว
Original Title
How Come I Became the Protagonist?
Also Known As
ตื่นมาอีกทีก็เป็นนายเอกไปซะแล้ว, Tuen Ma Ik Thi Ko Pen Nai Ek Pai Sa Laeo
Adaptation
Thai webtoon ตื่นมาอีกทีก็เป็นนายเอกไปซะแล้ว by PuGun25.
Genres
ComedyFantasyMysteryReincarnationRomance
Themes
BL
Key Themes
Second LifeIdentityInvestigationComedyWebtoon Adaptation
Country
Thailand
Language
Thai
Networks
iQIYI

Before You Watch

  • Platform: an iQIYI Original BL from Thailand, with the iQIYI Original badge on the official poster.
  • Tone: the production promised to keep both the comedy and the investigation of the original story.
  • Faithful adaptation: the team is working with the webtoon’s author to check that the series stays complete for readers.
  • Release: iQIYI has not announced a premiere date or an episode count yet.

Reviewed by Renkaze

Fair warning: this premise is exactly my kind of trouble. A murdered lawyer waking up as the leading man of a BL story is the kind of pitch that makes me want to read the last page first, and How Come I Became the Protagonist? hands it over with a straight face.

Isekai, but Make It a Courtroom

Waking up inside a story is a beloved trope, and most of the time the hero lands in a palace or a fantasy kingdom. This one lands in a romance, which is funnier, because nobody trained for that. What makes the setup click for me is the profession. A lawyer reads every situation as a case to be argued, so the series gets a lead who treats meet cutes like evidence and confessions like testimony. Yes, there is a love story already written for him. No, he has not read the script.

Comedy With a Case File

The producer on stage was clear that the comedy and the investigation from the webtoon both stay in. I am glad, because that pairing is what separates this from a plain body swap romance. There is a death at the start of the story, and the man who died is now walking around with fresh eyes and a professional habit of asking awkward questions. That gives the series a mystery spine to hang the jokes on.

A Webtoon With Readers to Answer To

Adapting a popular comic is a high wire act, since readers arrive with every panel memorised. The team says it is working directly with the author to keep the story intact, and that is the reassurance webtoon fans want most. The official poster already leans into the source, with two illustrated leads in sharp suits and the Thai title splashed across them in bright yellow.

What I Am Watching For

Casting comes first. The lead has to play a seasoned lawyer and a romantic hero at the same time, often in the same scene, and that double layer is where the comedy lives. I also want the investigation to pay off, so the laughs have something solid underneath them.

The score waits until the lawyer has finished arguing with his own love story.

My tip: if you have not read the webtoon, go in blind. Discovering the plot alongside a lead who has also never read it doubles the fun.

Themes and Messages

How Come I Became the Protagonist? plays with the gap between a life you built and a life you are handed. The lawyer arrives with his own instincts and unfinished business, and the body he wakes up in comes with a romance that was decided before he got there. The story asks how much of a person survives a change of face.

Under the comedy sits a question about control: whether a man who argued for a living can rewrite a role, or whether the role ends up rewriting him.

Did You Know?

  • iQIYI presented it in the IP announcement block of iJOY Thailand 2027, directly after Ayothaya Ayeyarwady.
  • The project was introduced with a poster reveal, while some neighbouring titles in the same block came with a video.
  • The English title ends with a question mark, which suits a lead who wakes up with nothing but questions.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

When and where can I watch How Come I Became the Protagonist?

It is an iQIYI Original, so it will stream on iQIYI. iQIYI has not announced the premiere date yet.

Who is in the cast of How Come I Became the Protagonist?

No actors have been named so far. iQIYI introduced the series with its official poster.

Is How Come I Became the Protagonist based on a webtoon?

Yes. It adapts the Thai webtoon ตื่นมาอีกทีก็เป็นนายเอกไปซะแล้ว, credited to PuGun25.

What does the Thai title mean?

Roughly "I woke up again and had already become the nayek". Nayek (นายเอก) is the Thai term for the leading man in a BL romance.

Is there a trailer for How Come I Became the Protagonist?

Not yet. The poster was presented at iQIYI iJOY Thailand 2027 at ICONSIAM in Bangkok on 5 November 2026; the segment starts at about 5:02:27 in the official livestream on the iQIYI Thailand YouTube channel.

Written and verified by Renkaze · Last updated 8 November 2026

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