"Qiao Mei, you're finally awake! You've been unconscious for so many days, we almost thought you weren't going to make it. How are you? Is there anything wrong with your body?"

Qiao Mei was still a little dazed.

She recalled her last memory: Qiao Yingying crushed a green stone and poured the powder onto her face.

Then she lost consciousness.

Now........

She raised her hand with the IV drip attached, rubbed her still throbbing head, and asked the nurse.

Where is this place?

"Jiangcheng First People's Hospital, huh? A kind person brought you here. You were hit by a car, but strangely, you didn't have any serious injuries. You just fell into a coma."

"The hospital has been covering your medical expenses for a while now. If everything is in order, go and pay the bill later."

After saying that, the nurse seemed to remember something and handed her a fully charged cell phone.

"Here, this is your phone. I've been charging it for you the whole time."

Qiao Mei reached out and took the phone. The date displayed was August 7, 2027. She clearly remembered that when she transmigrated into the book under the arrangement of that thing, it was March 30 of the same year.

Just then, the nurse's voice rang out again: "Qiao Mei, hurry up and pay the bill. After you finish paying, it's best to do another system check. If everything is confirmed to be fine, you can be officially discharged."

Qiao Mei's body is currently fine; at most, her limbs are a little weak and stiff from lying down for too long.

I nodded to the nurse, sat on the bed for a while, and then went straight to pay the bill and be discharged. No further examinations were done.

As she headed straight back to the home she remembered, she tentatively called out in her mind, "Book of the World? Are you there?"

The Book of the World is the thing that found her and led her into the world within it.

After she had searched for Ao Cang in vain, it found her.

According to it, there was a problem with the world in the book where Ao Cang was. It found her and told her that due to the problem of spacetime distortion, Ao Cang appeared in a spacetime that did not belong to him and saved her life.

Through systematic analysis, she was determined to be the most suitable person to help fix the bugs in the world of the book.

It will create favorable conditions for her to transmigrate into the book, allowing her to assist the Dragon God Ao Cang in preventing the world in the book from collapsing. However, whether she can stay there depends on the accumulation of its energy, and it is said that there is a high probability that it will not succeed.

But at the time, she was so deeply infatuated with Ao Cang that she couldn't extricate herself, so she readily agreed.

The plot of the book is only two-thirds complete, so why was she sent back ahead of schedule?

No one could answer her questions.

The Book of the World was as if it were dead, without making a sound.

After years of hard work, Qiao Mei had saved a considerable amount of money and no longer needed to be a corporate slave. So, after returning from the hospital, she kept thinking of various ways to contact the Book of the World.

But without exception, they all ended in failure.

She didn't know how Ao Cang and Shu Qingqing would react after she left the world in the book, but judging from her own thoughts, she figured it wouldn't be very optimistic.

She had tried every possible method, but none of them could summon the Book of the World.

So, a month after she returned to the real world, she finally decided to try the most extreme method.

When the Book of the World found her and asked her to help with a task, it gave her a progress bar for repairing the world within the book.

And this progress bar is still in her mind, and she can still recall it.

The repair is currently 71% complete, with only a small portion remaining.

Without her, how can the repair process function properly?

She couldn't understand, and didn't know how Qiao Yingying knew that she wasn't the original Qiao Mei.

But this doesn't diminish her eagerness to go back.

Even if she comes back someday, it definitely shouldn't be now.

Lai Tan was not mentioned at all in the original book, yet he possessed power as great as Ao Cang and got entangled with Qiao Yingying.

Who knows, the problems that occurred in the world of the book might be related to Raitan.

She hasn't eliminated all the factors that would prevent Ao Cang from living peacefully, so she can't leave yet, absolutely not!

Qiao Mei took a deep breath, stood atop the thirty-three-story building, and asked the Book of the World one last time:

"Are you still not coming out? If I can't guarantee Cangcang's safety, I feel there's no point in me living. He saved my life back then, and now I have a chance to repay him, but you've forcibly taken it away. What's the point of me living then?"

The girl's emotions seemed a little agitated, but also a little fake.

Because given her personality, she would never say something so impulsive.

But the Book of the World didn't know anything about her. Seeing that she was really going to jump off the building, it was so frightened that it quickly came out and stopped Qiao Mei.

[Don't be impulsive, Qiao Mei, let's talk this out!]

Seeing that this trick had finally forced the Book of the World, which had been feigning death for a month, to come out, Qiao Mei narrowed her eyes and looked at the blue-purple book floating out of her body, and sneered: "Easy to negotiate? If I hadn't used this trick to force you, were you planning to keep quiet all along?"

The Book of the World seemed a little guilty: "[Of course not. It's just that the current situation in the book's world is far too complex, and it's no longer suitable for you to remain there. This marginal character, Letan, has inexplicably taken on a villainous role and discovered that your soul is not right. This is fatal to maintaining order in the book's world.]"

To prevent him from discovering more loopholes, I had no choice but to watch as he had Qiao Yingying banish you from the world of the book.

Qiao Mei did not understand the meaning of the Book of the World.

"What do you mean? Even if he knows I'm not the original Qiao Mei, what difference will it make?"

The Book of the World sighed:

[If things continue like this, he'll eventually discover that the world they live in is a book; it's only a matter of time, you understand? If that day really comes, all our previous efforts will be in vain. This little world within the book will disappear at an extremely fast pace, taking all the characters with it. Do you understand what I'm saying?]

"All the characters disappeared as well...?"

Qiao Mei immediately thought of Xu Hui and Xu Wenfeng, who could bring her warmth and affection, as well as her close friends.

Most importantly, there was Ao Cang, whom she had always loved to the core.

If that's really the case, then it would indeed be best if she came from the world of the book.

But is this really all there is to it? Everything had just gotten back on track; she and Ao Cang hadn't even spent a single New Year together...

In her despondency, Qiao Mei caught a glimpse of the still-present repair progress bar out of the corner of her eye and seized upon a sensitive point.

"Wait, then why is the progress bar still there?"