Chapter 175 - The Substitute Female Lead (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

After returning to the Floating Peak for their rest break, Lonemoon immediately pulled Yi Qing into the house. He looked more serious than usual.

“Tell me what you think about that Green… Hui Ling?”

“What?” asked a baffled Shen Ying. “What’s there to think?”

“Don’t you feel there’s something strange about her?” Lonemoon said, “She’s Chen Ge’s disciple and came from the Lower Realm. The fact that Chen Ge always lets her have her way. He treats her differently from his other disciples.” This was no way to treat a disciple.

“You are saying…” Winking, Shen Ying answered gravely, “They’re lovers.”

Lonemoon: “…”

Yi Qing: “…”

Although it was put a little crudely, but… that summed it up.

“Don’t you find her a little familiar?” Lonemoon asked a little anxiously, “Isn’t it obvious that she’s the character setup of the female lead?”

Now that she mentioned it… it did resemble her.

“Isn’t Xuan Dan still in our sect?” asked Yi Qing, frowning.

“Yes, that’s why I find it strange.” Lonemoon explained somberly, “By right Xuan Dan is the female lead. The one called Hui Ling doesn’t appear at all in the original story, and from what I’ve gathered, this person was brought back four years ago by Che Ge to Heavens beyond Heaven. It was also the same time that Shen Ying brought Xuan Dan back. Moreover, this Hui Ling, apart from having a different character from the female lead in the original story, fits the part of the female lead exactly in terms of how Chen Ge takes her in as a disciple and the way he treats her. It’s exactly as if… the female lead has been changed!”

This led him to surmise that the deviation in the script was because of their interference. The female lead had disappeared, so the script auto-corrected by replacing her with another female lead?

“You’re saying… Hui Ling is the substitute for Xuan Dan’s role?” asked Yi Qing. “But Xuan Dan was created from his mental demons. How can Chen Ge not recognize himself in her?”

“I don’t mean that Chen Ge got the wrong person. Maybe she’s only a substitute for Xuan Dan’s role in the story.” That girl Xuan Dan was a real jinx in the novel, her body seemed to be possessed by Conan 1 . The more Lonemoon thought about it, the more likely this seemed. Nudging the person by his side, he asked, “What do you think, say something will you?”

“Er, I think…” Shen Ying answered lazily, “That… Salted Fish Boy didn’t have the chance to fall in love with Little Shortie, so he turned his attention to another girl. This is quite normal.” You can’t let him stay single his whole life. “Even if the girl he likes is a little wret-… there’s nothing wrong. You shouldn’t be prejudiced against her.”

“…” You were going to call her a wretch, weren’t you. Who’s the prejudiced one?

Frowning, Lonemoon said, “You mean that there’s nothing wrong with the script?” Had he read too much into this matter?

“There’s something wrong!” Shen Ying nodded her head. After some thought, she added, “From the time we were in the Lower Realm.” Everything went wrong from then on.

Yi Qing: “…”

Lonemoon: “…”

“Holy shit! What do you mean? Can’t you tell us everything in one breath!”

“It’s the Chef.” Shen Ying pointed to Yi Qing.

The two men were baffled.

After a while, Lonemoon thought of something. “What you mean is … the script started to deviate ever since Yi Qing came into the story?”

“Yes.”

Lonemoon recalled that there were two characters in the script, one was Yi Qing, the other was Bai Zhe.

Yi Qing was the sword immortal character who appeared at the end of the novel. As an itinerant Immortal in the Lower Realm, it would have been very hard for him to ascend to the immortal realm. But because of Shen Ying, he had a few epiphanies which boosted his cultivation so much that he reached the level of ascension.