Chapter 72 Seeing the Light of Day and Correcting Everything

"Fu Yanli and Xu Wenci now believe that there are no villains in the script I wrote," Gu Pei yawned and continued, "How is that possible? If there are no villains, their relationship is too smooth, how could I possibly continue writing it?"

Grandpa Qiao stopped stroking his cane, looked up, and asked with a hint of excitement, "I'm the villain?"

"Not just you." Me too.

“But Mr. Qiao, your recent actions shouldn’t just involve investigating my identity, right…” Gu Pei raised an eyebrow, his deep brown eyes carrying a hint of cold mockery.

"Su Anlan thought her father would support her unconditionally, but how could anyone refuse benefits? The downfall of the Fu family would only benefit other families. Moreover, Su Anlan only cares about her sister. As long as Fu Yanli is spared, she can explain to the Ye family."

Gu Pei frowned: "Ye Qingdai cares a lot about Fu Yanli..."

Grandpa Qiao laughed heartily instead: "Gu Pei, as a creator, how could you not know that Ye Qingdai didn't want Fu Yanli to stay in the Fu family at all... What exactly is her purpose in targeting the Fu family so many times in secret?"

"The Fu family has long been gnawed away by parasites, and is only held up by Fu Yanli alone. If the Ye family makes any move, and Fu Yanli has no time to deal with it, the Fu family will surely collapse."

Gu Pei fidgeted with his fingers and squinted.

He did not write these plot points.

The plot is now completely out of control.

He wanted to tell Xu Wenci.

After casually dismissing Old Master Qiao with a few words, Gu Pei absentmindedly instructed the system to conceal his whereabouts and secretly sought out Xu Wenci.

Xu Wenci's afternoon movie trip seemed to have been unpleasant, as he had a gloomy face.

Before he could even see who was in front of him, the person grabbed his arm and pulled him upstairs.

Xu Wenci instinctively frowned and was about to punch the person in front of him, but Gu Pei nimbly dodged it and said seriously, "I have something important to say, so don't speak yet."

Xu Wenci remained silent.

Sitting in the rocking chair on the second floor, Gu Pei finally calmed down, but still spoke very quickly: "Old Master Qiao told me that the Fu family will soon be unable to hold on."

"How could Fu Yanli not deal with the parasites in the Fu family, unless he simply doesn't want to deal with them at all?"

Or perhaps he foresaw his death and realized there was no need for him to protect the Fu family.

"Moreover, how could Ye Qingdai possibly touch everything that her son has painstakingly built up, unless Fu Yanli asks her for help?"

This is completely different from what he wrote.

He had thought that everything would change the moment the plagiarist's control dissipated.

It turns out that's not the case.

Fu Yanli had already begun his scheme long before the plagiarist's script began to permeate this world.

Do you know what Fu Yanli is really thinking?

"Since he was already prepared to die, why is he still arguing with you?" Gu Pei's tone became even more anxious, and he even gripped Xu Wenci's arm tightly, refusing to let go.

"So, all of Old Master Qiao's actions were secretly supported by Fu Yanli, who even helped Old Master Qiao negotiate?" Xu Wenci narrowed his eyes, finally extracting important information from the unclear words.

No wonder Fu Yanli was busy from morning till night and didn't do anything; it turns out he was planning to play the villain and kill himself.

"Aren't you curious?" Gu Pei was surprised by Xu Wenci's calmness.

“I guessed it.” Xu Wenci said expressionlessly, “but I didn’t expect him to act so quickly… I’ve witnessed Fu Yanli’s methods before. If it was only targeting Old Master Qiao, it wouldn’t have taken this long…”

"You two teamed up to trick me?" Gu Pei jumped up and down in anger.

“Fu Yanli’s true purpose is to turn everyone into villains in this world.” Xu Wenci’s amber eyes gleamed slightly. “You think you’re becoming a villain so that the novel world won’t collapse, but you don’t know that becoming a villain is also part of Fu Yanli’s plan.”

Gu Pei snapped out of his daze and realized that his hands were trembling. He clenched his teeth so tightly that his gums ached, and his eyelids twitched uncontrollably.

It's all a setup...

"What..." Gu Pei opened his mouth, but no sound came out. He licked his lips and finally spoke, "What...does it mean..."

"You came into this world suddenly, so Fu Yanli included you in his plans. Moreover, your appearance is very beneficial to his plans." Xu Wenci seemed to be just narrating a very normal thing, something he considered very ordinary.

In this world, the author is the creator.

However, authors can also become trapped in the worlds they create.

Therefore, Fu Yanli came up with a plan.

“Everything he did before was a setup… So what about his amnesia…” Gu Pei grabbed his trembling hand and put it behind his back.

"You want to know why Fu Yanli lost his memory even though you clearly didn't intend to, and you also want to know why I didn't lose my memory at this point in time, right?" Xu Wenci sat on another rocking chair, fiddling with the plush dinosaur on the armrest, his voice steady, "I can tell you."

Gu Pei looked away and swallowed hard. "I guessed it."

Xu Wenci shook his head: "Fu Yanli's amnesia was his own plan; he knew he would lose his memory."

Why did Fu Yanli do this?

Gu Pei suddenly stood up, causing the rocking chair to sway and bump against his knees.

“You said I wouldn’t lose my memory, but you wrote that I would lose my memory in the original plot. You can’t control this plot. So, you came to see me this morning specifically to prevent this kind of melodramatic plot from happening. You want to use your identity as the author to change it.”

"But have you ever thought that the reason I haven't lost my memory isn't because of you, but because of Fu Yanli?"

Xu Wenci's eyes were burning hot, so hot that Gu Pei couldn't help but lower his head.

"Stop talking," Gu Pei suddenly said, still with his head down. "Everyone's scheming against each other, why are you pretending to be a good person?"

Gu Pei finally raised his eyes, looked directly at Xu Wenci, and said, pausing between each sentence, "Marriage, divorce, do you really believe it?"

"You knew all along, so why did you cooperate?" Gu Pei tilted his head, his eyes narrowing slightly.

Xu Wenci smiled, pursing his lips. "Why should I cooperate? This is part of my plan. There's no question of cooperation or non-cooperation."

"Your plan is to destroy the world?"

Gu Pei suddenly laughed.

yes.

If Xu Wenci's only thought is to kill Fu Yanli, then the connection between them can never be severed.

Only by destroying this world can they completely sever their destined connection within it and escape being trapped in the script.

"But you and Fu Yanli should both know the price, right?" Gu Pei frowned seriously.

Xu Wenci remained silent.

"Fu Yanli wants to unite everyone, whether they are willing or manipulated, to enter his plan and join him in resisting the entire script, except for you."

"Why?" Gu Pei gritted his teeth. "Why? Why are you and he natural allies, but he won't ally with you..."

Xu Wenci lifted his eyelids and smiled, "Why are you dwelling on this kind of question..."

Gu Pei jumped up and down: "Can't you two have a proper talk about your relationship...?"

Xu Wenci frowned: "What do you mean?"

Gu Pei: "What do you mean? Don't you know that the whole world is actually designed so that you two can fall in love? Fall in love!"

Xu Wenci frowned even more deeply, stood up, and began to approach Gu Pei step by step, "Dating... what about that? Everyone in this world has their own ideas now, Fu Yanli and I don't have time to date..."

Gu Pei didn't move, letting Xu Wenci approach him step by step. With his neck stiff, Xu Wenci's words became increasingly ruthless, "No time for romance? Let me tell you, your feelings for each other were overflowing from the very beginning..."

He chuckled again, tilted his head, stared at the ceiling, and said with wide eyes, "I can sense your mutual attraction. I was initially surprised that you two, having just met, already had such a strong liking for each other..."

"Gu Pei!" Fu Yanli's voice suddenly came.

Gu Pei smiled and turned his head. He knew that Fu Yanli would definitely come.

When Xu Wenci spoke so frankly about his and Fu Yanli's plans, he knew that Fu Yanli would definitely come looking for him.

The two men's similar but uninterrupted plans are finally about to see the light of day.

Fu Yanli seemed to have run there; he was still panting, his hand on the stairs, half-bent over, and his words were somewhat stammering: "Gu Pei... I... want to talk to you."

OK.

Gu Pei smiled.

"Let's talk here." Xu Wenci said expressionlessly.

He stepped forward and stood beside Fu Yanli.

“Okay,” Gu Pei continued.

"What good would it do you to let the other three families devour the Fu family and cause the world to collapse...?" Gu Pei asked directly without waiting for Fu Yanli to nod.

Fu Yanli pursed his lips: "Isn't it a good thing that the world is collapsing?"

"Fu Yanli, do you not know what the collapse of the world signifies?"

It means that everyone and everything in this world will disappear.

This means that even the protagonist's halo couldn't protect them.

Does Fu Yanli have a way to protect Xu Wenci?

impossible.

In this world, only he, the creator, can survive peacefully.

Fu Yanli: "I know."

A dry, unambiguous "I know" completely ignited Gu Pei's anger.

"What can you do to protect Xu Wenci? What can you do to protect yourself? What about your family? What about your friends? Have you thought about them? This is my novel, I typed it out word by word... What right do you have to change it? What right do you have to destroy it..."

Gu Pei grabbed Fu Yanli by the collar, but not very hard, just a loose tug, though he was extremely angry.

Fu Yanli simply stared at him with his deep purple eyes, saying nothing.

Xu Wenci cleared his throat and explained, "What I want to do is not to destroy this world, but to rebuild everything after the world is destroyed."

Fix everything?

Gu Pei blinked, the anger in his eyes still hadn't subsided in the slightest. He paused for a moment because of Xu Wenci's words, but then it reignited in the next instant.

“The real script should be returned to you.” Xu Wenci sighed. “The script tells us that these characters in the game are meaningless, so it’s better to return it to the real creator.”

Gu Pei's chest heaved violently.

He never imagined things would turn out this way.

"Gu Pei, I don't want to enter the next world anymore. Whether it's death or disappearance, I can accept it."

Author's note: I made myself cry again in the middle of the night [crying emoji]

I regret not having a detailed outline, only a brief outline of 500 words. I spent more than one or two hours a day typing away at the computer, and the result made me cry.

I don't know why, but I've felt like crying these past few days. My writing is terrible, I'm too busy with life, and there are too many things to do. This afternoon I was dealing with all sorts of trivial matters and got so angry that my chest hurt.

Although I can guarantee that it will be finished on November 22, I am so afraid that I will not be able to successfully resolve the foreshadowing. In fact, I am very aware that I have a big problem with the narrative pacing in the past few days, but because the setting is too complicated, I don't know how to correct it. I plan to finish the main text first, take a two-day break, see the specific problems, and then start the next book, "My Husband Wants to Go to Bed Early Again."

I may revise the text when updating the next book, or I may finish revising it within the two-day break.

I'm crying while typing this; I'm so angry I can't sleep. I have a piano exam the day after tomorrow. [crying emoji]

If this book can be completed perfectly, I will definitely reward myself with a few extra days of rest.

The outline for the next book is under construction, but progress is slow. After all, the foreshadowing in this book needs to be resolved gradually, and I need to keep an eye on the world to see if there are any foreshadowing elements that I haven't taken care of yet.