809: Actually serving as a background for others?
Zhou Ziheng said:
"I noticed it before, but I didn't think much about it. I didn't expect that after all these years, you are still so afraid of him. This doesn't make sense. Your parents and you, such arrogant people, actually get scared sometimes. And the person they are afraid of is not someone else, but a little Li Xinchun. Can you tell me why?"
Yu Xiaoye thought for a moment, then turned to look at Zhou Ziheng, who was driving seriously.
"You really want to know"
Zhou Ziheng also turned around and looked at Yu Xiaoye:
"Tell me, why are you so afraid of him?"
Yu Xiaoye thought about it and decided to tell Zhou Ziheng about the book:
"Actually, we're not afraid of Li Xinchun, but his aura as the protagonist."
Zhou Ziheng didn't understand:
"Tell me more—"
"You know that our family came here from another time, right?"
"Um."
"Actually, we didn't simply go back to the past, we traveled into a book."
"Hmm!" Zhou Ziheng said he didn't quite understand because the statement was too outrageous.
"The world we live in now is actually a book, and we are in the world inside the book."
“——”
"I didn't tell you before because I was afraid of scaring you. Everyone in this world, including my family, are actually characters in a book."
"What about me?"
"Of course you do too."
Zhou Ziheng: I am really questioning my life.
No, this is no longer called doubting life, he simply has no life!
He's just a guy in a book!
"What does Li Xinchun have to do with this book?"
"It's a big deal. He's the protagonist of this book."
"----Why did the protagonist accomplish such remarkable feats?"
"No, he's not a hero. He's just the protagonist in a romance novel, the kind where the delicate, soft-spoken educated youth who went to the countryside falls in love with the rough local guys."
"If you can write a book about love, then can we write a book about our relationship? It should be more exciting than theirs, right?"
"I'm not a delicate educated youth, and you're not a rough guy. We're not typical of each other, and we don't have any selling points. If I write about you, no one will read it."
"Okay, then let me guess, is Li Xinchun in love with Chen Ci in this book?"
"Brother Heng, you are amazing! You can draw inferences from one example to another!"
"What about your eldest brother? Is your eldest brother the third person between them?"
"No, no, there wasn't a third party between them. My eldest brother was a villain in the original novel, constantly opposing the hero, Li Xinchun. In the end, he was brought to justice as Li Xinchun, sentenced, and executed."
"There is such a thing, but judging from your eldest brother's previous actions, he really seems like a villain. Then what about your family? Are you all villains?"
"No, not everyone can be a villain. My eldest brother is the most promising one in our family. He is the only villain, and the others are just cannon fodder."
"Cannon fodder?" Zhou Ziheng, who had been to the battlefield, could guess the meaning of cannon fodder. "Are you also cannon fodder?"
"No, I'm an exception. I'm not even cannon fodder."
"What's the meaning"
"I was actually dead before I even appeared on the stage."
These words made Zhou Ziheng feel very uncomfortable and annoyed, but he did not show it.
Yu Xiaoye continued:
"Let me tell you about this book. In this book, my family and Li Xinchun's family are sworn enemies. As for why the two families are sworn enemies, it's because of me.
The parents in my book couldn't make ends meet in their hometown because they were too poor. They had no choice but to sell me to Li Dasong of the Ninth Company through letters and asked me to marry Li Dasong's youngest son, Li Xinchun's stupid brother.
You seem to have read those letters before and should have an impression of them.
In short, in the book, I followed my parents, older brothers and came to the Great Northern Wilderness to find them jobs.
The result was contrary to my expectations. In the book, I was deprived of oxygen due to being stuck in the airtight carriage for a long time. When I got off the train, I fainted on the ground and was trampled to death.
Now that I'm gone, Li Xinchun's younger brother can't get married, and Li Xinchun's parents are unhappy. They originally said they would arrange a job for my father, but in the end they only arranged a job for him to scrape toilets. My eldest brother and second brother are both unemployed.
The feud between the two families began.
From then on, the two families were at loggerheads with each other, fighting each other and neither would give in. My second brother was sentenced to labor camp for theft, and my eldest brother was sentenced to death by firing squad because he offended Li Xinchun and was caught by Li Xinchun.
Because both of his sons had a bad ending, my father got drunk and took an axe to seek revenge on Li Xinchun's family. However, he was killed by their family and was sentenced to be shot.
My mother was the only one left in our family, but she didn’t have a good ending either. Because of stealing, she was beaten and crippled by the people from the Ninth Company—"
“So miserable?!”
Yu Xiaoye explained indignantly:
"Actually, before we transmigrated into the book, my biological parents' personalities were completely different. My own mother was really young, gentle, and beautiful in modern times. She was the kind of happy woman who was spoiled by her family when she was young, loved by her husband after marriage, and then had obedient and ambitious children. She was also a simple person. Even at forty years old, she was simpler than me—"
Zhou Ziheng: I dare not think about it-----
"My dad is the same. He was a top student at a prestigious university. When he was young, he was multi-talented and the school idol. He also had a good personality. But, in the book, my dad is the complete opposite. He's a selfish, short-sighted, confused old man. My mom in the book is an unreasonable, arrogant, and indifferent country woman. In short, they are both as bad as they can be.
After my biological parents traveled through time, they were completely influenced by the characters in the book and became what they are now."
"What about you? Your unwillingness to suffer any loss is also influenced by the characters in the book?"
"No, I have this personality originally. Maybe it's because I don't appear in the book, which means there is no prototype for the character, so it is almost unaffected."
"I see," Zhou Ziheng suddenly thought of himself, "What about me? What image do I have in the book?"
"You're a background character like me, never appearing in the book. The description of you in the book is just that of a farm manager, with a bit of background and a bit of mystery."
Zhou Ziheng was a little disappointed. He actually served as a background for others?
That doesn't make sense!
With his status, he should be the protagonist, no reason for him to be a background player? — Men's strange desire to win.
Yu Xiaoye continued:
"Now you know what our relationship with Li Xinchun is, right?"
"I know, this is fate."
"Yes, in other words, it's fate. So we're not simply afraid of him, but we're worried that we won't be able to escape the plot of the book.
Originally, my parents and I traveled through time and space to escape the fate described in the book.
It just so happened that our family got separated at that time. My eldest and second brothers couldn't find my parents, so they had no choice but to go to Li Dasong's house.
At that time, our family had nothing and had not yet established a foothold on the farm, so we did not dare to expose ourselves or bring them back, for fear of being associated with their family again.
However, my eldest brother inevitably got to know Li Xinchun, but fortunately, he didn't have a direct conflict with Li Xinchun."
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