CH 66

Different from the other times, when Fu Yichen woke up this time, he only felt a splitting headache. His whole head was groggy, so in the first tens of seconds, Fu Yichen was in a complete state of confusion. It wasn’t until he felt a burst of numbing pain that Fu Yichen’s mushy mind began to clear up little by little. He then woke up from his chaotic state bit by bit.

However, the moment he opened his eyes, the picture that entered his sight made Fu Yichen feel as if he had fallen into a dream. It wasn’t because the picture in front of him was too strange, no, on the contrary, it was the kind of strangeness that made him feel familiar. He seemed to have seen this place somewhere, but he was not very familiar with the surroundings.

Fu Yichen shook his numb arm and found that he was laying on a bed. His neck was so stiff to the point that it hurt when he breathed in. His arm was bent on the pillow before he woke up so it was no wonder that he felt numb. Looking around habitually, there was no doubt that he was in a hotel room.

A familiar backpack on the bedside table came into view and shocked Fu Yichen. Then there was the suitcase that accompanied him for two years standing in the corner… His eyes widened suddenly as an unrealistic idea popped up in his mind uncontrollably. Then Fu Yichen jumped up from his bed.

It was his backpack, his suitcase and the room that felt vaguely familiar. Was he… back?

He was back! The realization made Fu Yichen unable to restrain his feelings of ecstasy for a moment. From the moment he decided to help Su Zhan and take on the risk himself, he had never thought about the possibility of being able to come back. The unexpected death of the Female Lead at the end had also indicated that he wouldn’t be able to succeed in his mission. So before falling into darkness, Fu Yichen had prepared himself to enter the next Mary Sue world. But he didn’t expect to wake up in the real world after opening his eyes!

Fu Yichen’s tense body completely relaxed in an instant. He laid back on his bed in the most relaxed posture.

He was back, he was back at last. The feeling felt worlds away. Although he had always believed that he could return, the constant failures and multiple attempts inevitably made him physically and mentally exhausted. He didn’t have much expectations of being able to return. So to suddenly return at this point was really an unexpected matter to Fu Yichen.

But soon the relaxed Fu Yichen suddenly got excited. He was back, so what about Su Zhan?

Fu Yichen’s heart skipped a beat for no reason. If his previous speculations were right and Su Zhan could return after he completed the Male Lead’s plot in the novel’s ending, wouldn’t Su Zhan have failed at that time?

Thinking of this, Fu Yichen tensed up instantly. It could be said that his heart jumped into his throat. Su Zhan had been playing the role of the Male Lead according to the plot, just like how he had been trying to change the ending of the plot. Their only purpose was to leave the world of the Mary Sue and return to reality. But since he came back, that is to say, did Su Zhan fail? So what will the ending look like? Will he disappear with the Mary Sue world?

This thought made Fu Yichen feel uneasy. But he soon thought about another question. He remembered that Laji once said that from the moment he entered the Mary Sue world, time in the real wrld would stop for him. If this was right, then the same should also apply to Su Zhan.

Su Zhan and Fu Yichen didn’t really belong to the Mary Sue world, they belonged to the real world. Now that Fu Yichen was in the real world, time was no longer static for him. That is to say, the time resumed flowing in this world. So for Su Zhan, the time in reality was also not static anymore. Otherwise this wouldn’t conform to the principle of the same space and time.

That is to say, either Su Zhan had also come back or that someone else has been living in Su Zhan’s shell this time. There was also another possibility that Fu Yichen didn’t want to believe, that Su Zhan was no longer alive at this point.

Thinking of this, Fu Yichen’s heart felt so painful that he had a hard time breathing. He was eager to find Su Zhan to confirm. But he suddenly found that he had no way to contact him in the real world. Not only did he not have Su Zhan’s contact information, they hadn’t even seen each other face to face in real life.

Fu Yichen impatiently picked up his mobile phone on the bed, originally intent on finding Su Zhan’s contact information from his manager. But after unlocking it, he found that the screen showed the post that had inexplicably made him enter the Mary Sue world. He didn’t have time to look into the details. Fu Yichen hastily called his agent.

But fortunately, his manager, who was usually contactable 24 hours a day, had his phone turned off at the moment. Fu Yichen immediately felt helpless and could only leave him a message on WeChat, hoping that the other party would call him when he saw the message.

Sitting back on his bed, Fu Yichen took a deep breath and his sanity returned little by little. Now that he had returned, no matter which one of his guesses were right, it was a foregone conclusion. No matter whether he confirms these facts early or late, he couldn’t change the result. All he could do now was hope that Su Zhan could return to reality just like he did.

After figuring this out, Fu Yichen picked up his phone once more. He wanted to see the post that trapped him. It was at this time that Fu Yichen realized that it was already half past two in the morning.

#MarySueShouldAllGoDie#

Seeing the title of this post once more, Fu Yichen was no longer as angered with it as he was in the beginning. Probably because he had experienced a lot, or because of Su Zhan, Fu Yichen felt incredulous and yet he also felt complicated towards what he experienced at that time.

But no matter how one looked at it, it was still a very common post. It was really impossible to imagine that those posts could condense into such a powerful force and form such a strange and unscientific illusory world.

Looking at the tens of thousands of replies, Fu Yichen slid his fingers on the screen in a bored manner. Most of the replies he saw were of those from the anti-Mary Sue who couldn’t finish complaining and scolding Mary Sue. But no matter whether these words were all mild or harsh, they were all just complaining about it in a foolish manner.

Fu Yichen read several replies in a row like this, then he skipped directly to more than twenty replies out of boredom until a reply with too many threads made him take a second look. He couldn’t help but discover something new.

In particular, the ID of the poster was quite eye-catching, ‘Long live Mary Sue’ and looking at the thread description, ‘With all due respect, those people who oppose the Mary Sue alliance are a bunch of trash.’

The internet platform is considered the most important publicity for a public figure. Online platforms, especially social platforms such as Tieba and Weibo, were the ones where the influence of public figures were the most obvious. As an actor who had been in the entertainment industry, Fu YIchen had an absolutely keen sense of smell. In the shortest possible time, his brain would react to things that ordinary people might not notice.

Sure enough, thousands of replies from this thread were already bloody. But to Fu Yichen’s surprise, this Mary Sue lover who appeared in the post of the anti-Mary Sue alliance just appeared as if the poster didn’t fear death. The Mary Sue supporter that was being sprayed by the group made him doubt life because the poster wasn’t the only one supporting Mary Sue.

Not only the replies that were on this floor, but from what Fu Yichen could see from scanning dozens of pages, countless Mary Sue supporters popped up from behind like soldiers coming to support.

The corner of Fu Yichen’s mouth twitched. It was clearly a battle to tear apart each other. From the general direction of the post, it could be seen that the Mary Sue supporters were unilaterally crushed by the anti-Mary Sue alliance at the beginning, but then more and more supporters appeared. The two were eventually evenly matched and there was a tendency for one side to overwhelm the other.

Probably because of his young age, Fu Yichen felt a little speechless looking at the screen that was full of tears, swearing, vicious cursing, cursing each other’s fathers, mothers and ancestors were all there. It was all unreasonable scolding. Fu Yichen had always felt that this kind of childish and unqualified behaviour was very shameless.

The more Fu Yichen looked at it, the more his brows became tighter and tighter. It was still the same when he jumped to more than two hundred pages. Fu Yichen just didn’t want to read anymore.

But at this moment, Fu Yichen suddenly thought of a question. He remembered that Laji once said that it was interdependent on the Mary Sue world. So at the beginning he was able to forcibly change the main plot without any impact. But when the system became more and more weak due to the destruction of multiple worlds, the Mary Sue world that was held up by the plot became stronger and stronger. As a result, in Li Hao’s world, his movements were more restricted by the plot at the time and it was even hard to obtain a little bit of real information.

But after reading this post, Fu Yichen suddenly came up with an idea. Perhaps the reason why the power of the Mary Sue became stronger was not only because the system had weakened. Fu Yichen had an intuition that everything was all related to this post. It was also even possible that the main reason why the Mary Sue world became stronger was because more Mary Sue lovers gathered in this post. They might have changed the strength of the Mary Sue world and the plot.

If the system was the incarnation of the anti-Mary Sue alliance. Then the power of the plot was the spokesperson of the Mary Sue fans. According to the rate of their tearing, the Mary Sue fans that had initially been crushed, had turned evenly matched, then later reached the point where it had the tendency to overwhelm the anti-Mary Sue alliance. This happens to be exactly the same as the change in strength of the plot.

Fu Yichen suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment. Such an eye-opening and coincidental event made Fu Yichen’s hairs unconsciously stand on end. To be honest, for him, it was really one of the wonders of the world. But fortunately, he returned and these things were now meaningless to him.

But there was one thing that made Fu Yichen feel slightly relieved and that was the fact that if the power of the plot represents the power of those that love Mary Sue, then Su Zhan, who was the favourite of their YY imaginations, would be protected by the power of the plot, just like how he was protected by the system.

Thinking of this, Fu Yichen felt full of hope once more. Unconsciously his body relaxed and his phone screen stayed on the post. Fu Yichen couldn’t help but close his eyes and recall his miraculous experience, especially the little things he experienced with Su Zhan. He even thought about Laji and its mechanical tones.

But at this moment, a familiar ‘beep’ suddenly came into Fu Yichen’s mind. He was taken aback for a moment, thinking that he was actually hallucinating. But then he heard another ‘beep’.

Like a spell that drew out souls, Fu Yichen felt his scalp go numb as his body tensed up. He bounced off his bed in the next second.

“Laji?” Fu Yichen blurted out in shock. Truthfully speaking, when he had learnt that he had returned to reality, he thought that it was equivalent to him being unbound from the system. So Fu Yichen subconsciously thought that the system had collapsed and thus he was able to completely return to reality.

As a result, the system’s ‘beeps’ came out so suddenly. Fu Yichen was stunned to the extreme in an instant. What was more terrible was the thought that as the system appeared, did that mean that he had never gone back and all his previous speculations were nonsense? But no, what about that post he just saw?

Fu Yichen was completely confused.

[Ying, ying, ying,] The system sounded weaker than usual. It seemed to be afraid of something with a detectable hint of fear in his tone. 

[Host, ying, ying, ying. I seem to be broken, host.]

Fu Yichen took a deep breath, trying his best to calm himself down.

‘What happened?’ What was going on? He really had to figure out the situation before he could draw a conclusion.

[Ying, ying, ying. I can’t sense any data in this world. I’m like a blank sheet of paper. I seem to have really turned into garbage. I’m broken now, ying, ying, ying. Host, what should I do?]

Fu Yichen was puzzled, could it be that the system had never experienced such a situation before so it didn’t know what to do. But soon Fu Yichen thought of a problem. If the system was originally a product of the anti-Mary Sue alliance in the real world, then what it could sense was the illusory world created by the novels. Thus if this was the real world, it made sense that the system couldn’t sense any data.

In addition to that, this familiar room and his belongings, as well as the post he saw just now. How he could actually contact his manager… All these facts proved that this was the real world, the world that he had lived in for 24 years.

For a moment, Fu Yichen breathed a sigh of relief. Although he hadn’t unbound from the system, he had still returned anyway.

‘What to do?’ Fu Yichen was also upset, ‘Only ghosts know what to do.’

[Ying, ying, ying, who is a ghost?] The system sounded weak, just as soon as its words fell, the system’s voice suddenly had a bit more strength, [Ah! What in the world- Host help…]

From waking up until now, Fu Yichen had always felt his heart going up and down. He was about to go crazy because of this. Just when he was about to ask the system, he suddenly felt dizzy. His ears buzzed as his vision spun, which was exactly the same feeling he had when he just woke up. Just as he got up from the bed, the space in front of him began to distort.

“F*ck me!” Fu Yichen couldn’t help but swear. What kind of dog thing was this?

Before his consciousness became blurred, Fu Yichen had already speculated where he was going to appear. This thing was endless, as if he had bumped into something dirty that couldn’t be shaken off.

That is to say, everything happened in a flash. For people other than Fu Yichen, nothing had happened at all. But Fu Yichen, who was lying on the bed, fell into deep sleep once more. The screen of his mobile phone that was on his hand was still lit and it still showed the post #MarySueShouldAllGoDie#.

In fact, as long as Fu Yichen read a few more posts, or skipped a few more pages, he would have found that the direction of the post changed once more.

There were more replies such as, ‘The Male Lead and the Second Male are the true pair’, ‘The Male Lead belongs to the Second Male’, ‘Same sex love is true love’, ‘Only the Second Male is worthy of the Male Lead’. These posts gradually replaced the previous radical remarks on both sides. Later, suddenly there were a large number of Male Lead to Second Male fanfiction as well as various recommendations of Danmei novels.

These weird posts were absolutely unexpected. In fact, the reason why these posts covered hundreds of pages was because the post hadn’t been deleted yet even with such trashy settings.

What Fu Yichen never expected was that during the period where he felt that his heart was going up and down, in a certain five-star luxury hotel in the same city, Film Emperor Su was sleeping soundly on his bed with a pillow in his arms. It was as if he had dreamt of a peerless good man who flew in front of him while standing on auspicious clouds. With a silly smile at the corner of his mouth, Film Emperor Su rolled on his bed with a pillow in his arms and fell into deep sleep once more.

Everything returned to calm, as if nothing special happened.