"So even if they discover the truth now, the final outcome won't change?"

As night fell, Mingmei noticed that there was a ten-minute countdown before the game ended.

Mingmei had just witnessed the departure of Li Que and a lawyer who was handling Shuchuan's estate. The fact that the hundreds of millions of assets had somehow ended up in the hands of Li Que, who had no relation to Shuchuan, made Mingmei's mind inexplicably conjure up the image of the deceased being "cuckolded."

Ouch! Mingmei couldn't help but lean back tactically.

You can't just make things up!

At this moment, Mu Chen was using the small kitchen in the game's apartment to cook food for Mingmei online.

Hearing Mingmei suddenly say something so abrupt, he was still able to pick up on it immediately, saying, "When they failed to catch the murderer during the investigation, the outcome of this case was already decided. Even if they discover the truth later... that truth will never be known to anyone else."

Mu Chen uttered such a cruel truth, as if foreshadowing the final fate of their characters.

A rich, milky aroma wafted over. Mingmei looked at the bowl of steamed cheese in front of her, then turned to Mu Chen: "The Arbiter?"

"Hmm." Mu Chen nodded, sat down next to Mingmei, and praised, "You really can't hide anything from me."

"Come on, if I couldn't see the live stream comments, I wouldn't know that your character has such a powerful-sounding identity."

Mingmei picked up the bowl of steamed cheese, the rich aroma of milk filling her nostrils. As she savored it, she listened to Mu Chen's "confession."

"Actually, you can think of this as the world of a novel. The life trajectories of each character in the novel have already been set."

Some people are born at the center of the world, chosen by destiny. Even if their background is unremarkable, miracles always seem to happen to them from childhood to adulthood.

"Like Li Yuan, no, like Li Que?"

After Mingmei finished speaking, Mu Chen did not refute her.

"If things continue to go smoothly, a novel with such a protagonist would be seen by outsiders as a standard 'feel-good' novel male lead."

"Hmm." Mingmei nodded, recalling the records on Mu Chen's computer, and said, "But it seems their good luck was cut short halfway through?"

“That’s right.” Mu Chen nodded. “Because there was a transmigrator who knew in advance about the male protagonist’s impending rise to power, so he took the initiative and seized all the opportunities from the original male protagonist.”

"The car accident that killed Li Que's parents...was also caused by him?" Mingmei remembered what Lu Xiaoyao and Lou Jia had discovered in the live stream earlier.

"Yes, in the original book, Li Que won the first prize in the lottery after his college entrance examination, which was also the first large sum of money he made when he started his business. But this time, his parents had an accident in the middle of the process, which dealt a fatal blow to Li Que, who had always had a smooth life."

"But the transmigrator had the ability to orchestrate the accident involving the other party's parents, yet they couldn't even find a way to locate that lottery ticket. It's really..."

"No, he won the lottery, but it was a different kind of lottery. In the original book, when this part of the story was mentioned, it was just a casual mention of the lottery numbers next door. But this transmigrator was clearly familiar with the plot. His idea at the time was very simple: not to be discovered by the male lead, and to secretly make a fortune."

"So... he also has a sum of money to prepare for the various projects the male protagonist will invest in later?" Mingmei remembered the things related to Cha Sheng. Obviously, the factory project in Cha Sheng's hometown was also seized by the transmigrator in advance.

"But—what about Cha Sheng? Could he also be a transmigrator?"

"No, he is not. He is a reborn person."

Mingmei: Good heavens!

This tiny book features all sorts of characters!

"Because in the original book, he was just a nameless character who appeared only because the male protagonist wanted to take over the coal mine completely and was one of the victims in the struggle against the original coal mine owner. However, the other party unexpectedly awakened and wanted to resist his fate, so he was reborn."

"However, after being reborn, if he stays away from the male lead or the transmigrator and away from the plot, he can live outside the story as a rich second-generation heir with no name but a house."

When Mu Chen said this, he sighed softly: "In the original book, Li Que was very low-key when he invested in this company. He didn't ask anyone to investigate. He just thought it was okay. After investing a sum of money in the early stage, he ignored it."

The boss used the money to discover a coal mine, but he was unwilling to share the profits, so he started operating an illegal coal mine. In the original story, Cha Sheng's family were honest and law-abiding people.

Honest people are often bullied. Although his family was involved in a land expropriation project, they didn't receive any compensation or benefits, so they struggled to make ends meet. To make a living, his parents went to work as miners in illegal coal mines, where they eventually died in a mine collapse.

Later, Li Que realized that there was something fishy about the company he had invested in, and he used this incident as leverage when he clashed with the coal boss.

At the time, Lin Lique was experiencing a career boom, and these kinds of business events happened one after another. He didn't have time to show any humanitarian concern for these people afterward. In fact, he didn't even tell the people here his name when he got involved.

As far as Cha Sheng was concerned, the male protagonist he knew was someone who invested in this company and was a well-known rising star in the business world of M City.

"Unexpectedly, he was reborn. While his family profited from the demolition compensation, his parents, greedy for small gains, went back to that old sand and gravel company. He still couldn't prevent their deaths, and it was the same company. So, who do you think is to blame for this?"

After Mu Chen finished speaking, Mingmei nodded thoughtfully, indicating her understanding.

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