[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio":3,"chapter-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-87":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I, the System Protagonist, Joined a Cross-Dimensional Chat Group",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2292747,4485,"Chapter 87: Drunk to the Point of Ruin","i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-87",87,"\u003Cp>Su Lin is still alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course I’m still alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Shengying turned her head and saw a transparent figure standing before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why are you silent? Say something,” Su Lin asked, puzzled, glancing around the room: “Heh heh heh, so this was your old kawaii style.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why are you here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How should I know?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin wore an expression of utter certainty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t you return to your past body?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No… Your parents came, so I hid…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin slipped inside the blue chubby doll.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knock knock knock—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can Mom and Dad come in?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The door isn’t locked, come in…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Shengying’s parents had come out of concern for their daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After triple-checking that their daughter was unharmed, Luo Chenglin returned with his wife to the living room to watch the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If anything comes up, tell Mom and Dad.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm-hmm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Shengying nodded obediently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the sound of the game resumed, Luo Shengying shook the doll in front of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, talk!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What should I say?” Su Lin emerged from the blue chubby doll. “That I’m here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t you say you could merge with your past self?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I think I got bounced out,” Su Lin said, uncertain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most astonishing of all, his past and future had both been utterly transcended along with his system points—so why did this version of his past self still exist?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let me see the pocket watch.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Shengying handed Su Lin the pocket watch from the bedside table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With my current state, I probably can’t understand this thing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zuo Kete… He had met Fa La, and other figures tied to artifacts—what exactly was Zuo Kete’s origin?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While his Dao transformation remained incomplete and still in a state of transcendence, he felt that the moment he pressed the pocket watch, reversal began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though only for an instant, he saw himself sitting in a valley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was I in a valley six hundred years ago, picnicking? I don’t remember.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait—I burned away my past entirely! There’s no trace of me left on the timeline—so why does my past self still exist?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To shatter the ambitions of those Cosmic Emperors and reduce unnecessary casualties, this was the best choice he could conceive. Since 223 years ago, since acquiring the skill of Ultimate Transcendence, he had been planning it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He burned himself—and with him, the imprints those Cosmic Emperors had left across all temporal nodes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others no longer needed to fear the return of those Cosmic Emperors, for he would become the dam of the River of Time, dragging them all into the Eternal Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone could live, without risk, without struggle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, just as he was about to merge with his past self, for a fleeting instant, he even had the script ready.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merge with this past version of himself, alter the future of this timeline, then use the pocket watch to return to his original worldline and face his own ending.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hoped to persuade Luo Shengying to return and take the Hermit Immortal’s Zhongmiao Lingdan, so she wouldn’t have to accompany him in Dao transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t want to usurp another version of his own life path, nor did he wish for Luo Shengying to vanish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carrying this magnanimous, sovereign mindset, he was suddenly blasted out—and woke up again in Luo Shengying’s room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But I seem to have stopped my Dao transformation,” Su Lin said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come,” Luo Shengying grabbed Su Lin’s hand. “Let’s find your past self.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why find him?” Su Lin asked, confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Merge with him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sorry, Fa La—this woman is even crazier than you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You don’t want to stay with me, do you?” Luo Shengying noticed Su Lin’s hesitation. “I already took over my past body—why keep his?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But that’s still me…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Isn’t that perfect?” Luo Shengying looked utterly reasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'm sixteen, you're twenty-three—this is the prime age; we can start filming another teenage romantic comedy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, this time it’s single heroine.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Affection level is maxed out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin froze, then shook his head violently: “No way, no way!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xiao Ying, listen to me—this isn’t our worldline after all…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zuo Kete’s linear pocket watch stopped spinning counterclockwise—it had been crushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tick tock—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood dripped down fingers like jade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What did you just say?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin realized he had never truly understood Luo Shengying—on some level, she was even more insane than Fa La.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“N-nothing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I need to stall—my past self, just head to the construction site early, film some videos, and skip this year’s homecoming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin pondered how to warn his past self at this time point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He certainly wouldn’t take over his past body—it felt too wrong. But how to extract future Luo Shengying from his past body? Fine, he’d just stay in the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his current state, he couldn’t do it—he needed a way to recover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin thought for a moment—only one option remained: you, System of Manifesting Divinity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—————————\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good wine!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin roared, smashing a wine cup forged from rock element onto the table, his face flushed, eyes glazed, a faint smile curling at his lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin, hic. I… hic… reached Dou Qi Stage Three.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re too generous… hic… giving away something this good… hic…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That stuff from the earth’s core—take it… don’t be polite with your brother,” Xiao Yan mumbled, pulling a bottle of Snake Lust Fruit-derived aphrodisiac from his storage ring and shoving it into Su Lin’s hand. “Come on, drink up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Lao covered his face nearby, thinking: Xiao Yan’s just drunk, this is just drunken behavior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t want to project anymore… head hurts…” Wei Gong Shirou lay sprawled on the floor, muttering incessantly: “Holiday, holiday, holiday, holiday, holiday, holiday, holiday, holiday, holiday…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No! I must grow stronger—make everyone happy!” he suddenly shouted like he’d been injected with stimulants—but the effect lasted less than a second: “But I really just want a holiday…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I am the Heavenly Emperor—I shall suppress all enemies in the world!” Ye Fan roared to the heavens. “Even if you’re my future self, you’ll still bow before me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No sooner had he spoken than his left hand slapped himself uncontrollably—he spiraled into the lake of Water Mirror Peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shattered the moon in the water; droplets sprayed through moonlight, and the spirit grass on the shore received a light rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I really want a harem… honestly,” Lu Mingfei, face crimson, confessed to Kleine as he hugged him. “But I don’t deserve it—why does everyone still force others to open harems?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wahhh, coach, I wanna play esports!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kleine paid no attention to what Lu Mingfei was babbling—he knew his Faceless One was drunk beyond control, transparent tendrils on his face shifting: now Zhongli, now Lu Mingfei, now a two-and-a-half-year trainee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His alcohol tolerance was just… a little… better than theirs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thump…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His head crashed onto the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wake up!” Lu Mingfei shook Kleine. “Oh right… remember to give me the potion…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nan Gong Wan, you’re here again,” Han Li leaned against a tree, his hand fumbling aimlessly through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhongli glanced at the Straw Hat Kid, munching grass and muttering about pirates, meat, meat, meat, then sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The liquor’s strength had risen—he felt his body growing soft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Fan had just crawled out of the lake, slightly sobered, but sensing his body’s enhancement and accumulated spiritual energy, he immediately poured himself another cup from a jade bottle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pang Bo, come on—let’s eat dog meat!” Ye Fan dragged the sighing Zhongli up, walked to Su Lin, and said: “Old Su, open a portal to Yulin!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin casually opened a portal; Ye Fan stepped in—and immediately stepped out the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xun Er, I miss you so much,” Xiao Yan hugged the limp Su Lin and cried: “Listen to me, I’ll explain… I didn’t mean it with Yun Yun, Ya Fei, Xiao Yixian…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This scene is pure psychological torture,” Yao Lao sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By universal reason, indeed.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1309,"2026-06-20T04:17:29.700Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","7244cca0a572fe3ca5f11835f386829e7c4303fc80e18a39edaaa84251351735","i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-88","i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-86",720,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-cover.jpg"]