Chapter 107 - Abstinence of Cliche (2/2)
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”Xin Meng! I will kill you this day and make your family suffer! How dare you cheat on my sister with my uncle! SHAMELESS BASTARD!!!”
Simon and Blue peeked from behind a bush, eyeing the scene closely.
”F**k.” Simon placed his palm on his face.
”What is it, Grey?”
”Welcome to Warring Immortals. This is the opening scene. Young master Xin Meng cheats on Zhao Ye's younger sister with their uncle. Now this is the scene unfolding.” Simon looked really annoyed.
”Why with the uncle?” Blue seemed concerned.
”The uncle paid Xin Meng 100 gold coins. That is a lot of money in this world.”
”And what do you mean we are in Warring Immortals? Wasn't that the book you just read?” Blue rubbed his chin and gave a confused expression. He was thinking if Simon had already gone through this scenario once.
”Yes, this has happened before.”
”You read my thoughts…”
”Shush.” Simon placed his hands over Blue's mouth, gagging him to silence the noise they were generating.
”My sister loved you!”
”100 gold is 100 gold!”
”Is my sister's affection worth less than 100 gold?” Zhao Ye gritted his teeth in anger.
”Um… Yes.” Xin Meng quickly calculated in his head and nodded.
”You sc.u.m!”
From behind the bushes:
”Ugh… I hate glare.” Blue w.h.i.n.ed.
”Then become blind.” Simon started looking through his book.
”So who here is the protagonist?” Blue asked.
”Neither, both of them die for the sake of ill.u.s.trating the point of 'Warring Immortals'. Mutual destruction.”
”That's not fair, that Xin Meng guy is obviously a sc.u.mbag who broke Zhao Ye's sister's heart. The uncle is probably the worst one, but Xin Meng is definitely in the wrong.”
”Do whatever you want. They're both at the 2nd layer of Qi Condensation. Go kill them with just the pressure of your damn vocal cords. They are that weak.” Simon shook his head.
”Zhao Ye isn't any good either, you know? He seduced Xin Meng's mother.”
”Does Xin Meng know that?”
”Nope.”
”Anyways, let's take our leave.” Simon got up and left towards the west, followed by a confused Blue.
”Why are we heading over here? All of the action was back there!” Blue shouted somewhat childishly, feeling wronged.
”You asked about the protagonist right? Well we are going to find him.”
”And we are going to find him with what? Your very amazing map descriptions?” Blue dismisses Simon's claim.
”No, I wrote that he can be found west of the last scene within the next 10 minutes. This will be the part when he gets beaten up by some disciples and realise that he can't just wait for a rare treasure to come into his life. This is not one of those stories of a protagonist that gets an OP treasure and becomes the strongest by just relying on it. This protagonist worked hard.”
”Let me guess… he found the correct combination of techniques and crushed everyone else by having good foundations.” Blue plainly spoke.
”Yes. Since the other disciples tended to favour overbearing techniques and neglect their foundations.”
He simply wrote his objection to standard Xianxia tropes of protagonists collecting overbearing techniques and treasure to defy the heavens. He decided to create a barely above average protagonist that only had one card, his iron will.
”So does the main character end up with a huge harem, like in all of those other Xianxia novels?” Blue seemed interested now.
”No, he marries a woman that he met while he was concealing himself as an average cultivator. She was the only one that showed interest in him despite his apparent mediocrity, therefore he married her and had 100 children.”
”Do you think my protagonist would be so shallow as to have a harem of people that only like him for his power?” Simon glared at Blue seriously.
”No… it's just I've read a lot of these novels, and I know a fair bit about the tropes. Main character finds treasure, then collects a huge harem of beautiful women. Along the way, he fights a bunch of young masters and their families. Basically a sh*tshow.”
”Well haven't you heard? People have started to write unique stories now. The standard formula no longer works when attracting readers. Even if this book will never be published, I will not write a cookie cutter story. Abstinence of cliche is the new cliche.”
”And I like it.”