Chapter 125: 125. Chapter 125 The Truth: You Were Always a Person from a Book World

125. Chapter 125 The Truth: You Were Always a Person from a Book World

【Host!! Please watch the content of your conversation!!!】

At this moment, the Baby System came online and desperately warned Luo Xixi: 【The content of your current conversation is frantically testing the edge of violating the rules. If you talk directly about matters related to the system, it will be judged as a violation, and you will be logged out of this world immediately!!】

【Ah???】

Hearing the Baby System speak so gravely, Luo Xixi's heart skipped a beat, and she said: 【Sheng Tinglan must know about this kind of thing too, right? He should be wanting to talk about the misunderstandings from my previous life; he probably won't mention anything related to the system.】

【Better be!!!】

The Baby System said solemnly: 【Don't get dragged down by the male lead! The situation is not good, Host, you should hurry and slip away!】

【Don't worry, if I sense something is wrong, I'll cover my ears and retreat immediately!】

【Mm-hmm.】

"..."

Sheng Tinglan, however, fell silent at this moment.

He seemed to be pondering how to tell Luo Xixi this truth.

She had no idea that even their original world was not a real world at all!

That was also a story in a book!

He was the male lead in that story, the target the female lead needed to capture, while Xixi was a female Cannon Fodder who needed to be slapped in the face. Even though he had awakened his Self-Awareness in the later stages, as long as the female lead used her items, he was completely unable to resist and could only watch helplessly as he hurt the person he truly loved.

And what made Xixi's situation even more tragic was that she was a double Cannon Fodder in that second story.

The first half of her life was spent as a substitute for the real daughter, an object for experiments. She had tried her best to meet the experimental requirements, wanting to live with her foster parents, but the other party was merely using the data obtained from her experiments to save their own daughter.

Because the first story was interrupted for unknown reasons, she seamlessly transitioned into the second story, met him, and then was constantly slapped in the face. After the breakup, she was also destined to be hit by a truck and die.

It was only after learning of Luo Xixi's death that Sheng Tinglan completely broke free from the female lead's restraints and control, and then tried his best to make amends. After that, the system appeared due to his intense remorse, telling him that as long as he completed the tasks, he could gain the chance to resurrect Xixi.

However.

Because this truth involved the system, the "Help You Reach the Peak of Life System" had once told him that once he discussed topics related to the system with others, he would be suspected of violating the rules and be completely logged out of this Book World.

He could not leave this world just to clear up a misunderstanding; otherwise, not only would the task remain unfinished, but he would also never be able to see Xixi again.

However.

Rules are rigid, but people are flexible.

If he couldn't directly mention topics related to the system—especially since detecting the word "system" would lead to an immediate violation—then he just needed to avoid these sensitive points.

After thinking for a while, Sheng Tinglan organized his words and said to Luo Xixi: "I can't tell you the specifics too clearly, but Xixi, you should have realized something about Luo Xichuan's situation, right? And back then, I was in the same situation as your eldest brother."

"What do you mean?"

Hearing Sheng Tinglan say this, Luo Xixi's heart thumped. She stared fixedly at the man, "You are in the same situation as my eldest brother? Explain yourself clearly!"

Her eldest brother's current situation was that he had lost his Self-Awareness.

But Sheng Tinglan clearly had not lost his Self-Awareness.

Then what was Sheng Tinglan referring to?

Could it be that he, too, had once had his Self-Awareness controlled by someone, just like her eldest brother?

Once this thought emerged, Luo Xixi suddenly felt a chill run through her entire body.

Seeing that Luo Xixi seemed to have realized it, Sheng Tinglan chuckled and said: "I can't tell you the very specific reasons, but you also know that we both have a common taboo, right?"

"..."

Luo Xixi bit her lip tightly.

The common taboo of Transmigrators—did he mean they couldn't talk about topics related to the "system"?

So, was Sheng Tinglan trying to tell her that the things he did to her back then were not what he wanted, but that he had been controlled and influenced by a Transmigrator in that world?

But.

How could this be possible?!

Luo Xixi felt it was too absurd.

She had always thought she was a living person who had transmigrated into this story to complete tasks, but now Sheng Tinglan was telling her that her original world was actually also a Book World, and that she was a Cannon Fodder?

How could it be like this?

【Tong'er, what kind of existence am I? Am I really a person?】

Luo Xixi was becoming confused. The shock she received tonight was ridiculously huge; her brain was almost crashing, and she couldn't distinguish which world was real and which was fake.

Or perhaps, was it all just fucking fake??

【Host, I'm sorry. Because my Permission is too low, I cannot verify whether the world you were originally in was a Book World. However, once a person in a Book World awakens their Self-Awareness, they are considered a living person, and thus can meet the requirements for the system to select a Transmigrator. Now, I cannot rule out that you are a person from a Book World who awakened their Self-Awareness.】

The Baby System explained to Luo Xixi in a low voice.

【...】

Luo Xixi was speechless.

She held her forehead, feeling like her head was about to explode.

So, it was really possible that she had also been a Cannon Fodder before, just one who had awakened her Self-Awareness?

Sheng Tinglan said there was a misunderstanding between them. Ha... this was truly a massive misunderstanding. If he really did those things because he was influenced by a Transmigrator, did she still have any reason to resent him?

After all, he was also a victim.

"Xixi, actually there is one more thing I want to tell you..."

At this moment.

Sheng Tinglan continued to speak.

"There's more?"

Luo Xixi's brain was about to explode. She asked: "Exactly how many things are there that I don't know about? Tell me quickly!"

"..."

Yan Yu's gaze grew increasingly cold; he pressed his lips together in silence, his fingers silently rubbing against the wall of the teacup, as if pondering something.

Sheng Tinglan cast a glance at Yan Yu, a hint of playfulness in his eyes; he knew this man was about to panic, then he looked at Luo Xixi and said, "Back then, you were always staying in a certain organization, right? Do you still remember why you went to that organization?"

"..."

Luo Xixi was silent after hearing this.

The organization Sheng Tinglan was talking about now, could it be the Laboratory she stayed in during her previous life?

She had been sent to the Laboratory when she was very young; originally, she was an orphan without parents, but when she was five, she was adopted by a very kind couple who treated her as their own, looking after her just like a biological daughter.

Later, she learned from them that they actually had another daughter about her age, but that daughter had become a vegetable due to a car accident.

And now there was a revolutionary technology that could allow their daughter to open her eyes again, which was to enter a certain Experimental Institution and become their test subject; those people would capture and record all her life data, then use emerging technology to input that data into their daughter's body, so that their daughter could come back to life, and then they could all live happily together as a family of four.

At the time, Luo Xixi truly believed these words because her foster parents were very good to her, truly very good, and she wanted to repay them, so she agreed to enter that Experimental Institution and accept all kinds of inhuman tests, just to get first place and let her foster parents' daughter come back to life so everyone could live happily together.

But later, Luo Xixi realized that those foster parents never treated her as their daughter at all; all their sweet words were merely hopes that she could achieve good results in the experiments, giving their daughter a greater chance of waking up.

As the signs of the true daughter's recovery became more and more obvious, the number of times her foster parents came to visit her became fewer and fewer, and after the true daughter completely woke up, her foster parents stopped appearing altogether.

Qiyuan told her the truth.

Her foster parents had signed an agreement with the Experimental Institution; in order to pay for the expensive medical costs, they had used her as a bargaining chip, and as long as their daughter could wake up, she would belong entirely to the Laboratory.

At the time, she couldn't accept this truth at all and even wanted to rush out of the Laboratory to kill the true daughter, naively thinking that as long as she did that, her foster parents would return to her side.

But because Qiyuan kept stopping her, in the end, she never carried out that terrible idea of hers.