[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist":3,"chapter-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1380":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist",{"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},1533191,1991,"Chapter 1380 1380: 1380 She Is Not Maple Mu","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1380",1380,"\u003Cp>Someone who could decisively wipe out her entire clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone obsessed with power and achievement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone who had schemed and struggled her way to the very gates of authority, only waiting for the chance to fully spread her wings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, at the exact moment her ambitions burned brightest, she was told:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There would never be war again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only was there no war, there were no dungeons left to grind levels either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If players wanted to grow stronger now, the only remaining methods were learning and personal insight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like playing a game halfway through, only for the monster-killing mechanic to suddenly be deleted. From then on, leveling up could only be done through peaceful side activities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though BS Rita never stated it outright, every player understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These hundred years existed so Divine Game players could strengthen themselves and spend time with their people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The BS Adjudicator hated meaningless war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, every leader, including Maple Syrup, signed a hundred-year ceasefire agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To most players, the message was obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>War would return eventually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just not for another hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For now, it was a time for recovery and rebuilding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For players who preferred peaceful lives, this was wonderful news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for ambitious people like Zoey, it was torture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zoey had already imagined herself one day becoming the supreme owl emperor. She had imagined sitting at the same table as BS Rita, discussing world-level affairs as an equal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, right when her career ambitions were at their peak, someone suddenly announced that it was over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zoey simply could not accept it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Maple Syrup had not revoked her authority, every soldier had already gone home to live normal lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that point, whether the authority remained or not hardly mattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True, Zoey's lifespan had already extended dramatically after becoming an oak owl and raising her level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She did not actually care about waiting a mere hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she absolutely could not endure such boring days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after tasting power, she could no longer settle down and quietly run businesses either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So after spending several leisurely months in Polar Day City, Zoey decided to do something exciting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted Maple Syrup to send people hunting her down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the situation in a nutshell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To summarize in one sentence:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The child had officially entered her rebellious phase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Rita sensed something hidden beneath this reckless behavior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zoey was not remotely worried Maple Syrup would actually kill her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, she was completely certain Maple Syrup would agonize over that letter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only children who were loved could afford to be this willful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita could barely remember how the original Zoey reacted after suffering grievances within The Lopez Family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did she scheme and maneuver against others?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did she shout angrily about her unwillingness to accept her fate?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or did she endure silently while slowly seizing power?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But surely she would never have simply left behind a letter and run away from home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How had she become more childish after finally obtaining the authority she always wanted?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita had wandered through timelines for thousands of years and written countless stories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the faint thread she sensed beneath the surface, she finally uncovered the truth behind it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She said firmly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even though you still call her Maple Mu, neither you nor Maple Cang nor Maple Burn ever truly treated her as Maple Mu, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, Zoey would never have dared flip the table this confidently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because deep down, everyone understood the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They all knew she and Maple Mu were not the same person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Zoey walked through Lania Kaia under the name Maple Mu, her existence resembled an old photograph hanging on a wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She brought emotional comfort to Maple Syrup and Maple Cang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she was never a replacement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, Maple Syrup frowned on the other side of the screen and replied in a tone that sounded both obvious and helpless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because she isn't.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She isn't Maple Mu, and Maple Mu isn't her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita stopped walking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ahead on the street, a woman carrying a bag of vegetables was walking toward her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman's face looked strikingly similar to Zoey's, but her gentle smile and peaceful eyes carried a warmth Zoey would never possess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita did not remember many ordinary people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she remembered this one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because during Zoey's extermination of her clan, this had been the only person she spared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, Eclipse had deliberately kept the woman alive as insurance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just in case Zoey ever turned against BS someday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps this woman would become her weakness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman passed by Rita while chatting happily with someone beside her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Really? My daughter is very well-behaved too... Ah, although she hates when I call her obedient.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice gradually faded into the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita looked back toward Maple Syrup, who already seemed ready to end the call.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When Lania Kaia invaded BS back then, did Zoey ever go to the battlefield?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or take any logistical role?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No,\" Maple Syrup answered directly, clearly disdaining lies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she added with equal parts irritation and amusement,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She suffered an 'accidental severe injury and coma' during that period.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maple Cang used even SSS-rank healing skills and still couldn't cure her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lania Kaia fought BS for however long, and she remained 'comatose' for exactly that long.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If Maple Burn hadn't secretly brought her food, she probably would've starved to death in bed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's enough, then.\" Rita's tone softened slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll send her a pass.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If she's bored out of her mind, she can come visit BS.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Rita deliberately used the word \"visit\" rather than \"return,\" both Maple Syrup and Mistblade sensed the pity hidden within her words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mistblade spoke quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How many World Sighs have you written exactly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You used to become soft-hearted after writing them too, but not like this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It almost felt...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost as though she had gained a trace of divinity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if, so long as nobody crossed a certain line, she could forgive and tolerate nearly anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita smiled faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why not call it saint syndrome instead?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maple Syrup groaned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you praising yourself again using weird terms nobody else understands?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita blanked for a brief moment before blinking and laughing softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is a pretty good term.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After witnessing the vastness of worlds and the helplessness of fate, she naturally developed a kind of compassion toward all living things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her grudge with Zoey had already ended in the fire that burned down the estate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After ending the call with Maple Syrup, Rita sent a BS travel pass to Zoey in distant Lania Kaia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using it, Zoey could freely teleport between BS and Lania Kaia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for whether Zoey still remembered she had family and weakness waiting for her in BS...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or whether she would ever return to see them...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That no longer concerned Rita.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After playing several rounds of mahjong, she left the increasingly addicted Mistblade and Nivalis behind in the mahjong parlor and departed for other timelines herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She decided to grant the beings of those timelines the same hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was not solely about the Adjudicator game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was also about the final confrontation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the enemy intended to prune timelines away, then she would preserve them instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Floating high above Starsea, Rita looked down across the countless worlds below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thought suddenly crossed her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had the one who now controlled that authority once been merely another member of these countless races too?\u003C\u002Fp>",1246,"2026-06-06T06:15:33.929Z",1,"novelbin.me","1f7159f099debb6c896bf7719a9bd30c7b404325cec98faf8a9f29af8d6682e7","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1381","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1379",1404,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-cover.jpg"]