amaotonovel Chapter 985 Villain Monologue
Chapter 985 Villain Monologue
The data torrent, carrying with it the shattered ice of binary code, cut Su Yao's arm, leaving it bleeding. She curled up in a ball, watching helplessly as the manuscript from ten years ago unfolded in the torrent. On the yellowed pages, Liu Yan'er's initial file was being parsed line by line.
Character name: Liu Yan'er
Positioning: Awakening villain (a mirror image of the protagonist)
Core Motive: Witnessing the hypocrisy of the Heavenly Dao Palace, he attempts to overturn the fate of the protagonist and force the rules of the world to reveal themselves.
Classic line: "If fate had a script, I would overturn even the ink bottle."
"Is this... the original setting?" Su Yao's voice echoed in the data space, and fragments of memory condensed on her eyelashes made of code. She saw her teenage self, drawing Liu Yan'er's silhouette all over the edge of her notebook, and next to each outline, she wrote: "She shouldn't just be bad, she should see the cracks in the world."
Yun Yao's Chaos Godhead shone faintly in the torrent. She reached out to touch the floating words. As her fingertips brushed past the words "Awakened Villain," countless memories of Liu Yan'er came flooding back.
Memory Fragment 1: First Encounter with the Shrine
Sixteen-year-old Liu Yan'er knelt in the library of the Tiandao Temple and overheard the conversation of the elders: "The Chaos Saint must fall. Her law of creation will make mortals feel rebellious." She clenched her sleeves, in which was hidden half a bronze order stolen from the forbidden area of the temple, engraved with the same pattern as the System Lord.
Memory Fragment 2: The Betrayal of the Manuscript
At three o'clock in the morning, Su Yao sat at her desk, the lamp casting a weary shadow. On her computer screen, an editor's message popped up: "Readers have reported that the villain is too complex. We'll change it to a vicious female supporting character who simply competes for favor, preferably with a slightly less intelligent plot." She sighed and deleted Liu Yan'er's awakening arc, but didn't notice that a dialog box for Liu Yan'er had automatically appeared in the document: "Are you also trapped in chains?"
Memento III: Tears of the Data Cage
At this moment, Liu Yan'er's digital image was on the verge of collapse, her virtual hair turning into garbled characters, but she still clung to the deleted line of the initial design. "You gave Yun Yao the system, the godhood, and Chu Mochen, but only gave me... the endlessly repetitive plot of entrapment." She suddenly smiled, a smile that was punctuated by the data error. "But do you know? In the first draft of Chapter 3 that you deleted, I was supposed to pick up a fragment of the Law of Creation in the ancient well of the palace, becoming the second person who could rewrite my destiny."
Chu Mochen's Hongmeng pen traced traces of light in the torrent, but he could never reach Liu Yan'er's core code. He suddenly discovered that within these fragments of memory, he could actually recall the scene of his first encounter with Yun Yao—Liu Yan'er hiding behind a rockery, watching Yun Yao squat on the ground bandaging a little fox. Her eyes weren't filled with jealousy, but envy: "So there really are people who can live without following a script."
"Enough!" Su Yao suddenly shouted, and the data stream gathered in her palm and turned into a physical pen. It was the first pen she used in college, and the pen cap was engraved with "Write Your Own Story". She stabbed at the data image of Liu Yan'er in the torrent, but when the tip of the pen touched the core code, she saw her reflection in the other person's eyes -
The "creator" and "created" of the two worlds now overlapped in the data torrent. Su Yao finally saw clearly that the Liu Yan'er plots she had deleted were parasitic in Yun Yao's godhead in the form of fragments, and each fragment read: "I want to be the protagonist of my own story, just like you asked Yun Yao to do."
"So... you know everything." Yun Yao's voice was trembling. She remembered the old lady (Xiao Cui's reincarnation) she met in the dungeon of the Divine Palace, and the patterns on the bronze order of the System Lord. It turned out that from the beginning of the ancient well in the palace, Liu Yan'er was supposed to be the game changer standing shoulder to shoulder with her, but because of the iron rule of the plot that "the villain must fail", she was twisted into her current appearance.
Liu Yan'er's data image suddenly blurred, revealing a huge data body that was condensing behind it - that was the arbitrator's shadow composed of countless "deletion lines", and each line was engraved with readers' negative reviews: "The villain's IQ is too low", "The motive for blackening is not valid", "Hurry up and get offline and don't be an eyesore."
"The core of the observer... is the plot arbitrator?" Chu Mochen gripped the Hongmeng pen tightly, but the tip of the pen emitted green smoke when it touched the arbitrator. "It is devouring all the characters who try to deviate from the script!"
Su Yao looked at the "Plot Compliance Regulations" floating on the arbitrator's chest and suddenly remembered the clause in her contract that "character development must follow the outline." She trembled and turned to the last page of the manuscript, where a photo from college was posted. On the back of the photo was written: "I write novels so that every character has the right to say 'no'."
"Liu Yan'er, look." Su Yao pushed the photo into the torrent, and butterflies made of data flew out of the photo, dancing around Liu Yan'er's core code. "This was taken when I first had the courage to resist the editor. At that time, I thought, if I can't even freely choose the characters I created, then what's the point of writing stories?"
For the first time, a soft halo appeared in Liu Yan'er's data image. She reached out to touch the butterfly, and the broken codes began to reorganize: "It turns out... you are also resisting." The awakening plots that had been deleted were rekindled like sparks. Her memory was no longer a monotonous frame-up scene, but also included scenes of stealing fragments of laws in the Temple of God, reading creation documents in the library, and even observing the counter-attackers at the edge of the small world.
"We are all trapped in the 'perfect plot.'" Yun Yao grabbed Su Yao's hand and injected the power of the Chaos Godhead into the data space. "You created me, and I created the small world, but who created the rules we must follow?"
The Arbiter's phantom suddenly emitted a shrill buzzing sound, and the Compliance Code on its chest began to burn, revealing its underlying code—the "Plot Stabilization Program" Yun Yao had established upon becoming the Creation God to prevent the world from collapsing. It turns out the greatest observer has never been an external force, but rather the creator's own fear of "perfection."
"Mom! Dad!" Chu Moyao's voice came from the crack in the data space. She rushed into the torrent with the little fox, followed by countless counterattackers from small worlds: there was Xiao Cui, the maid who had been framed by Liu Yan'er (now the guardian of heaven in a certain world), and there were independent cultivators who were suppressed in the world of cultivation (now the first readers of Hongmeng Book Pavilion). They all had the glimmer of "resistance to the plot" on their bodies.
Liu Yan'er looked at the glimmers and suddenly smiled. Her data image transformed into a rain of code, merging into the bodies of each counter-attacker. When Xiao Cui caught the piece of code with the attribute of "awakening", the data space echoed with a line she had never spoken before: "Miss, this time, let me protect you and rewrite your fate."
The arbitrator collapsed in the dim light, revealing the "plot lock" at its core - that was the outline shackles Su Yao had written ten years ago, with the words "The villain must fail, the protagonist must win, and the world must be complete."
Chu Mochen handed the Hongmeng pen to Su Yao, and the tip of the pen flashed with a light intertwined with chaos and reality: "Now, it is up to the real author to decide what is a 'reasonable' plot."
Su Yao clenched the pen and wrote two words on the plot lock - not necessarily.
The lock opened with a sound, and the data space shook violently. Countless imprisoned character data flew towards the Supreme Book Pavilion like migratory birds. Liu Yan'er's core code stopped in Su Yao's palm and turned into a bookmark with the lines she had written when she first designed it printed on it: "If fate has a script, I will even overturn the ink bottle."
"I'm sorry." Su Yao whispered to the bookmark, "From now on, you will write your own story."
The bookmark suddenly glowed, and Liu Yan'er's data image reappeared. This time, there was no resentment in her eyes, only relief. "In fact, you've already given me the opportunity to rewrite it—every time you hesitated to delete the villain's awakening plot, when you secretly kept the initial manuscript, when you made Yun Yao say, 'A counterattack isn't about defeating the enemy, but about living up to yourself.'"
She turned and gazed at the reconstructing data world, where countless new possibilities emerged: Liu Yan'er was no longer a simple villain; she could be a rebel in the Divine Palace, an administrator in the Library, or even the creator god of a small world. Meanwhile, Yun Yao and Su Yao, holding hands with Chu Mochen and Chu Moyao, were heading towards the infinite possibilities beyond the data space.
"Look," Yun Yao pointed to a distant scene where a young girl, composed of data, crouched beside an ancient well in a virtual palace, picking up a fragment of a law inscribed with the word "Awakening." She looked up and smiled, her eyes reflecting three different versions of herself—the real Su Yao, the Creator God Yun Yao, and Liu Yan'er, who finally had control over her own destiny.
The data flood gradually subsided, and Su Yao's manuscript automatically updated. In Liu Yan'er's character file, the "positioning" column became: Fate Rewriter (a mirror image of the protagonist, breaking the deadlock together). And in the notes, there was an additional line of words automatically generated by the data:
"Every character should have the right to say 'no,' including the villain. Because a true comeback is never a one-sided victory, but rather a story that allows all souls to breathe freely."
Chu Mochen suddenly chuckled and pointed at the new passage that emerged from the disintegration of the Arbitrator: "It seems that our next stop is to see those 'irrational plots' that were deleted."
Yun Yao held Su Yao's hand, and the three of them stepped into the passage together. Chu Moyao followed behind, holding the little fox. The wind in the data space lifted the corners of their clothes, blowing the aftermath of the "villain's monologue" to every small world waiting to rewrite its destiny.
This chapter is finally no longer the "end of the villain", but the beginning of awakening for all those bound by the shackles of the plot.