After a long silence, the God spoke again to Jiang Tian: "I apologize for everything I said to you before. Now I hope you will accept the commission and return to the Female Lead's Department."
"Why?" Jiang Tian interrupted him. "You have to give me a reason—do you think I have to obey you? Is there no sense of contract between us?"
The Supreme God's expression shifted, as if he were suppressing his emotions: "As an older, supporting character, your radiance as the female lead has already overflowed the world timelines. There's no need for you to conquer so many worlds now—don't you humans say it's like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut? If this continues, the world's anchor will collapse. You know better than anyone that your personal charm is too strong; the male leads and supporting characters are going crazy for you, which is distorting the world's pillars."
"So this is the loophole in your algorithm?" Jiang Tian sneered. "You told me to harvest their emotional energy, and now you're saying I was wrong?"
"Our algorithm is faulty!" The Supreme God was unusually impatient. "The female lead's faction is currently lacking successors, and the new host's world absorption rate exceeds 70%, while you're in a small world... it's a complete waste of your advantages! I need to rebalance the energy chain to allow your abilities to be fully utilized—"
Jiang Tian suddenly burst out laughing: "So what? Will you still be like a madman, forcing me to date you? You're always trying to cross species boundaries, how can I trust you?"
A pained expression appeared on the Supreme God's face. After a long silence, he said, "Right now, all you need to do is switch back to the main system. As for the future—we'll talk about that later."
As her system partner who had worked with her through a hundred small worlds, the main god knew all too well why Jiang Tian was angry.
Long ago, it was he who personally threw her, who was at the top of the leaderboard, into the least popular department in the entire system, on the grounds that her "task style was too aggressive".
The real reason he told Jiang Tian was that he experienced what humans call "jealousy" for the first time in a certain world's instance.
He increasingly realized that his feelings for Jiang Tian were very strange.
Everyone in this world knows that human hosts are just hosts; they are the dominant natives, and they cannot have any interaction with humans other than work.
But in fact, no one knows better than him that once a living being develops feelings, everything can change unexpectedly.
They were the perfect duo in the eyes of others, the creators of the top spot on the leaderboard, and later he accumulated enough points to become the main god because of Jiang Tian.
“I called you back not just because of your world, because your energy is too powerful and has shown some kind of twisted tendency, but more importantly,” the main god forced his voice to steady, “the female protagonists’ mission failure rate has increased too quickly without your presence. Most of those small worlds evolved from books, and their authors are all the same person, so their protagonists have the same taste as the author. You created many myths, and the male protagonists of those worlds have also vaguely sensed it—those worlds are rejecting new hosts, and their male protagonists…” He paused, “…maybe influenced by the author, they only recognize you.”
"What nonsense are you spouting? Does saying all this rubbish make you happy?"
Jiang Tian clearly didn't believe a single word of it.
The Supreme God gazed intently into her eyes: "You can take what I said above as my speculation. I've calculated it with an algorithm, and only your success rate is the highest. I can show you the accurate data for this part."
"So, when you sent the new host to conquer the area, didn't you consider this problem? Your system has been running for so many years, and suddenly a vulnerability appears, requiring me to go back and patch it? Do you think I would trust you?"
Jiang Tian gave a cold laugh.
"I have no cheat codes now, no system assistance, and even my points have been deducted. Are you planning to give me a back door if you let me go back, or do you want to watch me be dismantled into data streams and disappear forever? You know better than me that as the female lead, the risk factor is much higher. Without cheat codes, it's like having no weapons."
"But in fact, even if you don't have weapons, you can still complete the mission smoothly. You are the real top, and your abilities are far superior to those of the other hosts."
"Also, once you return to the female protagonist's department, your cheat ability will be restored. I will apply to restore your highest level of privileges." The main god suddenly spoke, "Reset your points record, remove the restrictions on the tool department, and even..." His Adam's apple bobbed, "Your hibernation in the real world can even be temporarily ended for a minute or two, so you can take a look at your world... In short, I can restore any privileges that can be granted, as long as you can come back and stop being angry with me."
Jiang Tian's expression changed.
The real world—a concept she had almost forgotten.
She remembers the smell of disinfectant and the regular ticking of the monitor, but she can't remember why she came into this world.
This offer is indeed very tempting...
But--
"Finished?" She suddenly curled her lips. "Sorry, your conditions didn't sway me. Rather than going back to the female lead department, I'd like to know—what are your true thoughts? You went to all this trouble to bring me back just to have me work in another department? Don't take me for a fool. We've been partners for years. You know me, and I know you."
The supreme god remained silent, simply gazing intently at the woman before him.
He learned what love truly is from this woman.
He truly loved her, even though that love sometimes carried a destructive urge, he still didn't want to destroy her.
She has always been outstanding.
Those characters who should have been "cannon fodder" became variables in their own little worlds because of her performance, and even changed the fate of many worlds.
She is a remarkable person, and she should continue to improve.
"Because...they've got their eyes on you..." The Supreme God suddenly lowered his voice, "As the top-ranked one, you should have been our partner, but you're too powerful. You've rewritten the course of many smaller worlds. If this continues, you'll definitely become overwhelmed with energy. This is a threat to them, because those worlds, having recognized you, have all channeled their energy into you. Under the laws of nature, they can't compete with you for it. So they came up with a new idea: to format your data, turning you into a data stream, with the energy belonging to us. At that time, they wanted to tamper with things within the Female Lead's Department, to cause you to have some problems and be eliminated. I didn't want to do that. I love you, so I used my administrative authority to buy a buffer period..."
He finally said it all.
Jiang Tian stared at him intently, without saying a word.
The reason why the missions of the "tools" department always coincidentally avoid the core timeline has suddenly become clear.
It turns out that all of this was not punishment, but protection.
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