novelsite Chapter 296 Don't let her die again
Chapter 296 Don't let her die again
Xie Yungui knew that this should have been Lu Xianqing's moment of glory.
Calling it a highlight isn't quite accurate; more precisely, it was the moment that made readers develop a liking for Lu Xianqing, because she was tragic enough, and on top of that, she was beautiful enough.
Even if she appears as a villain, many people will be willing to forgive her because they will be soft-hearted towards Lu Xianqing because of her tragic backstory.
What about Jiang Xingni?
Lu Xianqing has died countless times, and Jiang Xingni could too.
Lu Xianqing can gain the pity of readers outside the dimension, and so can Jiang Xingni.
He always remembered what Jiang Xingni told him during the last save file loading: the whole world was just a comic book, and the root cause of her death was that she wasn't popular enough. The writers were unwilling to spend too much energy on her anymore, so the simplest way was to kill her.
They then capitalized on her final moments of glory to absorb one last wave of popularity.
If Xiao Jiming had heard such words, he would probably have secretly wanted to kill someone.
Xie Yungui thought to himself casually. But he was not Xiao Jiming.
He didn't know what the others in the team would do after Jiang Xingni's death, because he chose to reload his save file the moment Jiang Xingni died, going back in time to when she was still alive.
Xie Yungui didn't know how to make the "Creator" who controlled their lives and deaths outside the dimension give up killing Jiang Xingni.
To this end, he frantically read through a bunch of comics and finally understood the core elements of popular comic characters—good-looking, beautiful, strong, and tragic, and also capable of tormenting the fans.
So Xie Yungui came up with this plan.
He didn't know how to create a truly authentic, strong, and tragic character, but that didn't matter; he would simply steal plot elements from Lu Xianqing.
Throughout the entire plan, the only person I felt sorry for was Lu Xianqing.
Lu Xianqing was the last to react.
The little girl, who had seemed clueless and silly, suddenly had a look in her eyes.
She stared in bewilderment at the layers upon layers of corpses before her, each one bearing the same face of the same person.
Lu Xianqing suddenly saw himself.
Confused and bewildered, the little girl, like a child, stumbled and fell, then plunged into Jiang Xingni's corpse.
Then the scene before them gradually collapsed, shifting from Xie Yungui's mental vision to Lu Xianqing's mental vision.
Xie Yungui pursed his lips. Although he had already made two preparations and had long anticipated that things would develop in this direction, the pitiful words he had memorized were never going to be uttered.
But only when Xie Yungui actually experienced this moment within the endless timeline did he truly grasp how difficult it was for Jiang Xingni.
It was only then that he realized that he and Xiao Jiming were all cherished by the world. If they were like Jiang Xingni, they would never have gotten to where they are today.
He meticulously planned the entire plot, waiting for this moment to shape his own destiny, but as soon as he uttered his first words, he was forcefully interrupted, rendering his carefully arranged stage useless, and he could only continue to follow someone else's path.
Jiang Xingni's corpses fell one by one.
Falling into the void, falling, falling forever.
The person who was falling alone gradually gained another person.
Lu Xianqing's body nestled beside her.
Two girls who had both died countless times—although Jiang Xingni's death was in Xie Yungui's memory—stood together, relying on each other to resist the endless repetition of death.
Then there's the story Xie Yungui has seen countless times during the SL process: how Lu Xianqing grew up under VOID's control and developed his current indifferent personality towards his own life and death.
He knew that Jiang Xingni was still thinking of using this to push Lu Xianqing into the main group.
Xie Yungui pursed his lips, still more concerned about the stage that he hadn't fully utilized, which was just newly set up and belonged to Jiang Xingni himself.
Three-year-old Lu Xianqing died from concentrated sulfuric acid; her corroded and mangled body fell next to Jiang Xingni's corpse.
Four-year-old Lu Xianqing died by slow slicing, his body, cut open and mangled, lay quietly beside Jiang Xingni's corpse.
……
Xiao Jiming and the others watched as Lu Xianqing's death was replayed over and over again, and then one corpse after another was piled up with Jiang Xingni's corpse.
Song Juexiao took a deep breath.
"Is this yours or hers?" She turned her head away, no longer looking at the scene before her.
Human emotions have a threshold.
If she now gets used to the deaths of Jiang Xingni and Lu Xianqing from the illusion, then she will have a similar mentality to them and Lu Xianqing.
Song Juexiao still hopes to maintain his sensitivity to death.
Xie Yungui nodded.
"Her".
It was obvious that Lu Xianqing was becoming increasingly engrossed in this illusion.
Her obsession has always been her own death, an endless cycle of death and resurrection, while everyone around her only has one life. Although those with superpowers are not uncommon, to Lu Xianqing, it seems as if she is the only one who is different in the whole world.
She alone suffers the torment of eternal life.
Now, someone who can be her kind has appeared—although it's only under Xie Yungui's control that they have similar characteristics to her, but this doesn't make much difference to Lu Xianqing, whose intelligence is...
Those with superpowers instinctively fear loneliness.
If I had to choose an example, Lu Xianqing is now more like Xiao Jiming.
They also regarded Jiang Xingni as one of their own, and thus, driven by their obsession, they subconsciously craved Jiang Xingni's companionship.
The good news is that Jiang Xingni made his presence known in a way that Xie Yungui hadn't expected.
The bad news is that if Lu Xianqing isn't pulled out soon, she'll really immerse herself in the illusion and become the only character in the main group to be lured away by the illusion.
"...Lu Xianqing!" Song Juexiao stamped his foot and shouted. "Jiang Xingni, we don't even know if she's alive or dead!"
They were certain that Jiang Xingni was still alive, but that didn't stop them from using this tactic to attract Lu Xianqing's attention.
The real Lu Xianqing turned around, finally waking up from Song Juexiao's hypnotic voice. She tilted her head and looked at Song Juexiao: "...Will she die too?"
She remained in a daze, unable to distinguish between illusion and reality.
Then Lu Xianqing saw Song Juexiao reach out his hand to her.
"Yes, she will die too," Song Juexiao said. "She's died countless times already, but she will die again. Don't let her die again, okay?"
Lu Xianqing stared at her for a while.
The original memories gradually returned.
She had a lot to say in rebuttal—for example, what did it matter to her whether Jiang Xingni lived or died, and why no one cared about her when she died again and again.
But Lu Xianqing said nothing and took Song Juexiao's outstretched hand.