Gao Qiling opened his eyes and discovered that he'd become an insignificant side character in the world of "Pursuit of Jade".
He knew the script and understood the plot, but those stirring scenes felt completely different when they happened to him. He had no golden finger, no System prompts, just an ordinary person who had crossed into this world, clinging to what little he remembered of the story and doing his best to survive.
He'd considered sitting back and watching. Keeping his distance, looking out for himself, and scraping by until the end in this brutal on-screen world would have been so much easier.
But he just couldn't help being softhearted.
When he watched spirited young people follow the original plot straight toward ruin, he couldn't stop himself from reaching out to hold them back. When he saw the little people whom fate had tormented struggling in the shadows, he found himself handing them a rope.
Starting with "Pursuit of Jade", then venturing across the vast world of television dramas, he'd crossed powerful figures and walked the path of a top student. In the worlds of fan fiction, he smoothed away the regrets that had left readers aching, one by one.
Some called him a meddler and laughed that he could barely save himself.
Gao Qiling just smiled, brushed off his sleeves, and kept walking.
He wasn't a hero, and he didn't want to be anyone's savior.
He just... remembered how those stories originally ended, and felt they deserved a different ending.
As he made his way through the Myriad Worlds, the thing he left behind wasn't some earth-shattering legend.
It was someone turning back to look at him and saying, “Thanks, brother.”
That was enough.
