Jing Ke: ...
Is this the time to make excuses?
Little Fish's eyes lit up instantly, as if she had met her idol's master and had a great opportunity to see the true face of her idol. She looked at Tang Sanzang with great enthusiasm.
With a disgruntled glance at Tang Sanzang, Su Daji stated decisively, "So, I've already figured it out. This guy named Tang Sanzang is good for nothing but causing trouble."
"Hey, I heard you guys have someone who wrote his famous book? Is he like this in it too?"
Xiaoyu carefully recalled the contents of "Journey to the West," cautiously glanced at Tang Sanzang, and nodded vaguely: "Pretty much..."
Seemingly unable to hold back any longer, Tang Sanzang silently extended his hand and weakly explained, "Well, to avoid any misunderstandings, I haven't dared to tell you... actually, I'm not the Tang Sanzang from the original 'Journey to the West,' but a Tang Sanzang from a derivative literary work..."
Everyone: ?
Little Fish blurted out, "So, you, this Tang Sanzang, are actually a fake?"
Su Daji: "I'm Su Daji from a literary work, fine, but you're actually a character from a fan fiction? How did you even come to be known?"
Jing Ke: "Indeed, the world is full of wonders."
Qin Shi Huang: "Then can your physical body still possess the medicinal properties of immortality?"
Yu Ningning: "Just as I guessed, your personality is quite different from my previous understanding of this character. So, could you tell me which fan fiction of 'Journey to the West' you are?"
"..." Not daring to answer the doubts of others, Tang Seng looked at Qin Shi Huang with fear, but he could not help but answer Yu Ningning's question, "...It's not a famous work, it's just, it's just a very ordinary work."
Yu Ningning decisively said, "Tell me the name of that work."
Tang Sanzang didn't dare to look at the crowd, and timidly lowered his head, saying, "It's...it's called 'Spoof Journey to the West'."
Little Fish: "...And this work, I'll have to get my hands on it and take a look later."
Su Daji: "...The literati of later generations are really getting more and more playful."
Jing Ke: "That sounds quite interesting."
Qin Shi Huang: "So, if I eat your flesh, I can live forever?"
Yu Ningning: "If that's the case, then everything can be explained. But as a character in the 'Spoof Journey to the West' work, can you tell me what obsession led you to this place?"
Tang Sanzang said cautiously, "I...I have no obsessions."
Faced with the increasingly puzzled and suspicious gazes of the crowd, he explained in an even lower voice, "...Unlike your identities, I...I didn't come here because of an obsession, but because the little world I was in was too absurd, and the author couldn't make sense of it, so the world eventually collapsed..."
"As the character who is most criticized by readers and whose insults have become officially recognized as a classic parody character, I don't know how, but I woke up one day to find myself bound to a system and in this world..."
"I'm actually quite confused too."
Having grasped the whole situation, Xiaoyu summarized it simply in the most fashionable terms: "The author abandoned the story and left it unfinished, causing the world of the novel to collapse, the wall between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional worlds to crack, and the classic characters that readers had given life to escaped..."
"If that's the case, will my anime/manga husbands one day come and marry me?"
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