[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-player-reboot":3,"chapter-player-reboot-player-reboot-chapter-100":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Player Reboot",{"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},2272065,4438,"Chapter 100: Deceiving Heaven, Altering Fate (5)","player-reboot-chapter-100",100,"\u003Cp>Feng Youyun? Old Feng?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Anjian lightly brushed his sword, Bai Zhi squinted, straining to grasp a faint thread of insight, yet unable to pierce the paper and see the full truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Pi Fu, what are you talking about?” Xiao Feng’s voice trembled. “My father’s still alive, isn’t he?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Calm down.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng smiled. “During my exploration of the villa, I formed many hypotheses based on the clues and intelligence gathered. The first—and most obvious—was that the person speaking to him back then was Feng Youyun.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In Old Feng’s own account, he was cursed by Zhao Xinglang’s father, who died cursing his entire family due to a business conflict. Soon after, his wife and son fell gravely ill. To prevent the curse from taking effect, he adopted Zhao Xinglang on the advice of a wandering Daoist, hoping to neutralize the curse.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why, even as a baby under a year old, Xiao Feng mysteriously bore palm-shaped bruises; why the corpse of his wife, dead for years, could ‘revive’ into a blood corpse and launch a bloody massacre against the Feng family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet he insisted on spending a fortune to hire players for so-called protection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued, speaking to himself: “But even under this assumption, many things don’t add up. For instance, why was there a coffin in the second-floor secret chamber? And why did the yellow paper in the study bear Xiao Feng’s wife’s birth chart and destiny pattern?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Feng looked dazed. As a highly educated materialist, he didn’t believe in destiny patterns, and couldn’t imagine his father—the brilliant, shrewd tycoon he knew—ever buying into such nonsense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While You Anjian, Bai Zhi, and the others were still stunned, Li Cheng’s serious expression suddenly cracked into a grin. “Of course, like the first hypothesis, this one has plenty of flaws too.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This alternate personality remained hidden until Zhao Xinglang reached adulthood and gained independent agency, then began his revenge against Old Feng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Correct,” Li Cheng nodded. “Under this hypothesis, Old Feng used the *Supreme Grotto Altering Destiny Scripture* to swap Zhao Xinglang’s destiny pattern with Xiao Feng’s, evading the curse. But the process went awry—no one knew Zhao Xinglang had secretly split off a second personality.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Anjian’s eyelid twitched. He couldn’t help blurting out: “This is insane. Could this even work?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So what did he use this book for? The answer: swapping destinies.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this reminder, You Anjian recalled: back in Wudun Town, Xiao Feng’s family had mentioned this very thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second step: swap destinies. Since Old Feng swapped his own destiny with Xiao Feng’s, he then swapped the destiny of Xiao Feng’s infant son, Little Feng, onto the corpse of his own long-dead wife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even I was fooled—I bought a pineapple from a shady fruit stall, took it home, cut it open, and found nothing but furniture, a sponge, and a snail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng smiled. “I believe long before Little Feng was born, Old Feng had already planned everything: guiding Xiao Feng to find a childhood sweetheart with a specific destiny pattern, then pushing them to marry and have children under the pretext of ‘wanting grandchildren as soon as possible.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Human cognition, knowledge boundaries, and social experience are limited. Under the right conditions, even university professors, top lawyers, corporate owners, and senior bureaucrats can be deceived—and manipulated—by crude lies. This has been common throughout history.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Calm down. The process of unraveling the truth is the process of eliminating all other plausible explanations until only one remains. And isn’t this exactly what I’m doing—drawing conclusions from this hypothesis?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dissociative identity?” Bai Zhi blinked, then immediately understood. “You mean Zhao Xinglang?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, if Old Feng had once obtained the *Supreme Grotto Altering Destiny Scripture*, why didn’t he connect the palm-shaped bruises on Little Feng to that ancient text? Why didn’t he suspect someone had swapped his grandson’s destiny?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng shrugged, ignoring the others’ exasperated expressions and You Anjian’s mutter: “The guy who ruined the later seasons of *SpongeBob* found @Big Pi Fu.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>???\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is fascinating: Xiao Feng married his wife very early—barely legal age—and they had a child via IVF.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First step: obtain the *Supreme Grotto Altering Destiny Scripture*, renovate the villa, and secretly hide his wife’s coffin in the secret chamber. The Feng family rarely returned to Wudun Town. As Old Feng’s adopted son and villa caretaker, he had ample time and resources to carry out the renovations. To avoid suspicion, he could simply give the maid and gardener a few days off with any excuse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng said calmly: “The Feng family invested in a private hospital. Under Old Feng’s orders, the hospital fabricated a reason—say, one of the couple had a medical issue—and encouraged them to try IVF. Afterwards, the hospital could manipulate premature birth to control Little Feng’s exact time of birth, ensuring he possessed a special destiny pattern.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This leads to the second hypothesis: dissociative identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Feng and his wife had the Ten-Thousand Blessings Longevity Destiny and the Pearl-and-Jade Radiance Destiny respectively; their son’s destiny was likewise extraordinary—capable of deceiving heaven, altering fate, refining the corpse into yin form, shedding the body, and transforming the physical vessel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng grinned. “Downstairs, my dog Huang had parents who divorced. His adoptive father raised him. Later, the adoptive father went bankrupt in business, but Huang caught the wave of the times and made a fortune. To repay his adoptive father’s care, he now adopted him as his own son. Truly, filial piety in action.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Got it. Forwarded immediately to the family WeChat groups: *Spring Warms, Flowers Bloom*, *A Loving Family*, *Harmony Brings Prosperity*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, given Xiao Feng’s looks and his status as a rich second-generation, he could’ve played the field for years before even considering marriage. No need to rush so desperately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell? You’re flipping heaven and earth now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Xinglang only now realized what his second personality had done—hence his conversation with it in the study, asking: “How could you sacrifice such a little child?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng spoke without a trace of personal emotion. Through his narration, one could almost see how Zhao Xinglang methodically walked the path of revenge, coldly and relentlessly advancing his plan—even treating himself as a sacrifice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Remember what Zhao Xinglang said in the study?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sacrificing such a little child isn’t enough? You had to orchestrate all of this deliberately?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhi opened her mouth, then closed it again. You Anjian clicked his tongue. “Can you stop dragging this out? You’re driving me crazy!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At the time, Old Feng didn’t know that *no high-level transcendent power exists before the Arrival of the Killing Ground*. He truly believed the Daoist’s lies—especially that so-called *Supreme Grotto Altering Destiny Scripture*.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Casual fabrication was second nature to Li Cheng. He turned right back to his serious tone: “This leads to the third explanation: everything was within Old Feng’s calculations.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Whether it’s plausible or not, Old Feng believed it. Remember what was written on the yellow paper in the study? It listed Xiao Feng and his wife’s birth charts.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng snapped his fingers. “This leads to the first hypothesis: he swapped Zhao Xinglang’s destiny pattern with his own son Xiao Feng’s, tricking the curse. From Old Feng’s perspective, everything made perfect sense—his son recovered from fever, but his personality changed drastically: from cheerful and outgoing, he became shy and withdrawn. Old Feng’s wife knew this too, which is why, two years before her death, she treated Zhao Xinglang like her own son.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Old Feng’s motive, just as it had been ten years ago, was to extend his wife’s life—at any cost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including his son’s life, his grandson’s life, even his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1277,"2026-06-19T22:31:22.154Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","9fa2231bac7612314f3b77c58e3364f1c7439e7365e46556cf1bb639b843bdd5","player-reboot-chapter-101","player-reboot-chapter-99",612,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fplayer-reboot-cover.jpg"]