novelsite Chapter 63 Incoming Call
Chapter 63 Incoming Call
Jiang Xingni wasn't just making this up.
She made her deductions before choosing to speak at this time.
"Wait, why are you just saying it like that—" the system yelled. "What if it's not like you imagine? Wouldn't your character be weakened?!"
Jiang Xingni couldn't help but smile as he listened to the system's shout.
She looked up and stared at the expression on Lin Hongguang's face that was hard to describe as either suspicion or wariness.
The little girl calmly responded to the system's shout in her mind.
"I know my guess might be wrong, but have you forgotten? This is a comic book. In comics, foreshadowing and speculation are very important. Even a character's memory can be altered."
Jiang Xingni had already considered two possibilities before she even spoke.
One possibility is that, as she thought, Lin Hongguang was indeed once a superhuman, but lost his superpowers after experiencing some events.
The other type is someone who is an ordinary person from beginning to end.
However, the latter possibility is not very plausible. If the descendants of known superhumans are ordinary people, they would not know anything about everything behind the veil. So what makes Lin Hongguang special that makes him an exception?
Since he has special qualities, he can't be considered an ordinary person.
And even if everything is true—Jiang Xingni also said that this world is a comic book, and the ending and direction of a comic book are uncertain, and everything can be changed.
As long as it's plausible and readers believe it, Lin Hongguang could truly become a former superhuman who lost his powers for some unknown reason.
As for his current rebuttal? It can easily be explained as amnesia or something similar.
As long as the future can be explained, the current embarrassment is not just Jiang Xingni's problem, but rather a foreshadowing of the upcoming plot!
The system followed Jiang Xingni's line of thought and was successfully led astray.
"How could this be considered being led astray?" Jiang Xing chuckled to himself, then looked up, staring intently and silently at Lin Hongguang. "I'm clearly making a well-reasoned deduction, okay?"
"You can't slander me," Jiang Xingni said to the system in her mind, but her face still held a gentle smile as she stared at Lin Hongguang.
Lin Hongguang remained silent for a while, looking at Jiang Xingni, neither admitting nor denying that he had once been a superhuman.
He glanced at Jiang Xing for a moment, then calmly changed the subject: "If you do it again, you'll have to write a three-thousand-word self-criticism."
Jiang Xingni seemed oblivious to the other person's attempt to change the subject, and continued the conversation casually, saying, "Okay, okay."
"I'll give you the 3,000-word self-criticism soon," Jiang Xingni said obediently.
Lin Hongguang stared at Jiang Xingni suspiciously, and received a well-behaved smile from Jiang Xingni.
—That's hilarious. She was the kind of person who frequently wrote self-criticisms in high school.
Lin Hongguang didn't say anything more.
The sequel to the wordless book had little to do with Jiang Xingni. She exchanged contact information with the main characters and then bought tickets to go home.
Even after returning home, Jiang Xingni still felt a sense of disorientation, as if she were in a dream.
It's still the same familiar room I casually rented near the school, decorated by myself during the Lunar New Year.
Jiang Xingni sat at home for a while and only realized that everything she had experienced before was not a dream when she heard the voice in her mind.
"So what are you going to do next?" The system couldn't help but ask, seeing Jiang Xingni sitting on the sofa as if in a daze.
"Tsk." Jiang Xingnian couldn't help but click his tongue when he heard the familiar mechanical voice in his mind.
She thought that as long as the system remained silent, she could pretend that it was all a hallucination she was hearing.
"...Stop thinking about it." The system sensed her thoughts and silently muttered a complaint. "Stop slacking off."
Jiang Xingni sighed, pulling himself out of the familiar, brief moment of tranquility.
If there's one thing her life in the lower city taught her most, it's definitely the ability to adapt to any situation.
She calmly began to analyze the information she knew and started planning her next course of action.
—Asking whether Lin Hongguang is a superhuman provides readers with enough information.
Regardless of whether this will be revealed in the future, Jiang Xingni will not lose her presence in the eyes of readers because of her short absence. Jiang Xingni is confident in this.
Just as Jiang Xingni took out paper and pen, the system broadcast the news of the release of the new issue of the comic in her mind.
It should be now, I suppose.
There wasn't anything particularly noteworthy in the latest issue of the comic; it was a very smooth transitional chapter.
"So, we're definitely going to start causing trouble next time," Jiang Xingni analyzed calmly. "I just don't know how much free time the writers will leave us."
Even the readers' reactions were not much different from what Jiang Xingni had expected.
On one hand, people are marveling at the coincidence between Jiang Xingni and Xiao Jiming, and on the other hand, many readers have even started writing fanfiction about what if Jiang Xingni and Xiao Jiming grew up together.
Jiang Xingni didn't even dare to glance at the title, and quickly swiped past the post as soon as she saw that it might be true.
"Didn't you say you wanted to create a CP (couple pairing)?!" the system yelled in Jiang Xingni's mind. "Why are you backing down now that we're actually going to do it?!"
Jiang Xingni was silent for a moment, her face unusually devoid of its almost ever-present smile, as she simply looked at her phone: "...Ah, this is different."
Her voice was so low it was almost a sigh.
This is different, Jiang Xing thought to himself.
She does sometimes think about this, wondering how wonderful it would have been if she had had such a friend back in the Lower City when she was young.
But Jiang Xingni had long since learned to stop fantasizing.
Looking at those fanfictions now, I feel a sense of nakedness, as if old wounds have been ripped open again.
The comic written by the screenwriter has become the world Jiang Xingni is in now, so... will those fanfiction works also be able to generate a world?
Create a world where she and Xiao Jiming grew up together, where neither of them is alone.
Jiang Xingni's fingertips trembled slightly, then he calmly swiped across the phone screen.
She hated the "self" that possessed what she wanted, but wasn't truly her own.
Aside from the pairing of Jiang Xingni and Xiao Jiming, the only other thing we can see is speculation about whether Lin Hongguang is a superhuman.
As Jiang Xingni had predicted, most people tended to believe that he had once been a superhuman.
Just as Jiang Xingni was about to continue browsing the forum, a call notification suddenly popped up at the top of the screen.
Xu Niannian.
Jiang Xingni was a friend he could talk to during high school.
As soon as he pressed the answer button, the little girl's cries reached Jiang Xingni's ears.
"Stars..." Xu Niannian choked back tears. "Our school is haunted!!"
Jiang Xingni: ...
Damn it, this wave is coming for her.