Chapter 13 (2/2)

She conceived a sudden daring idea – could she initiate herself to make trouble, and turn the hero of “Pure Romance”, ‘Yang Ming’ into a scumbag hero who slept with everyone else? Causing him to be murdered by one of the harem members at the end, wouldn’t that be great?

As the thought of this daring idea arisen, her heart that yearned to mess about became eager for action.

Oh no, she lost the mood to complete her homework and put down her black gel pen right at that moment. She then took out her newly bought eighth-generation Fruit Phone and searched over the internet whether a manga called “School Days” existed online. In other words, she was checking if there has already been an appearance of such an iconic plot in this world where the hero of the harem was chopped up and murdered. If there was already one, then she felt that there is no need to cause anymore disturbance since the readers have already been shocked once by the plot. There is not much point in creating another similar storyline.

Although this was a parallel universe, of course, certain creations still existed. For example, familiar old songs were being heard as well. By chance, she even saw a mangaka from the vassal state of Japan named ‘Masashi Kishimoto’ while browsing Qidian manga website in the recent days. He appeared in Qidian manga website’s Sanjiang [3] Interview to announce that his new work will be based on a ninja theme. It will be premiered on Qidian manga website and “Shonen Jump” magazine. This manga magazine is extraordinary as it was said to be the best-selling manga magazine in the entire East Asia. Regardless of whether it is from China, or vassal states like Japan and Korea, mangkas will beam with pride when they are able to serialize their manga on a certain magazine. Upon publishing every new issue, the magazine will be translated into different languages and sold all over the world.

If Zhao Youyue was to live as a main character whose primary task was to copy, she might run into troubles. Who knows whether the work that she has conceived to copy will suddenly appear…

However, Zhao Youyue did not have to worry about these things. On the contrary, she was full of anticipation for Masashi Kishimoto’s “Naruto”. Perhaps when the manga started serializing, she can enter the manga world through the Dimensional Gate and start messing around. Will she play the role of Hinata Hyuga, or Naruto’s mother Kushina Uzumaki? Or she could pay off Masashi Kishimoto in real life straight away and have him create a female side character with only a name. She will then shift into that side character and place the settings for an overpowered bloodline limit or something like The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. Hmm, how about messing around after that?

Unfortunately, “Naruto” happens to be a higher energy level work. For her to enter and mess around, she needed to amass more willpower.

This is way too off-topic. What she wanted to figure out right now was whether any literary work with the plot of “scumbag hero sleeping around and getting chopped” ever appeared. After she learnt that the plot has indeed never appeared, her face lit up with a joyful grin. Perhaps, she can turn the regular school harem manga “Pure Romance” into iconic manga unforgettable by many readers.

She was in no hurry, however. She is more concerned that her abnormal behaviors in the manga would be discovered by the mangaka. As such, everything has to happen in a natural way. Even if she did not succeed in causing “Pure Romance” to turn into “School days”, she will not suffer any loss, for her original intention was only to be a side-character that is obsessed with learning anyway. If one day the mangaka suddenly has any strange ideas to assigned the hero to go after her and affect her learning progress, then she will have no choice but to have a big go at it… Urgh, that will definitely turn out to be a tragedy caused by learning!

Translation note:

[1]”Caring for the retarded” is a popular messenger sticker among Chinese netizens.

[2]Herbivorous – original text “草食”. [Insult] In Chinese language context, to describe a man/boy as herbivorous is to denote that he is soft and shy and does not have the guts to go after the opposite sex.

[3]Sanjiang – original text “三江” – The name of an editor group in Qidian. They are in charge of discovering and recommending new books that exhibit smooth writing flow, creativity and promising future. Sanjiang Interview is a program that features elite authors as guests and is also a platform for these authors to interact with their readers.