[Quick Transmigration] Killing the Novelist

"I am a novelist, the creator of worlds. To alter a novel is to slay a god. Judgment awaits at the executioner's block, where blood will be shed for the sin of repentance. The Creator God shall carry out the sentence."

This was the ending left in the final work of Xu Shixu, a novelist renowned throughout the literary world.

Twenty-nine minutes after the book was published, Xu Shixu announced his retirement from writing and said he would devote himself entirely to the journalism he loved. He thanked his readers for their support.

Readers around the world felt as though they had lost their faith, and flooded Xu Shixu's personal account with pleas for him to stay. No one considered what his ending meant, and no one knew that the second after making his announcement, Xu Shixu had entered another world.

He was going to carry out an execution.

On someone in another world who dared to alter his story.

[Name: Xu Shixu]

[Application to become a world transmigrator]

[Requested world: The world of Xu Shixu's novels]

[Mission: Correct the novel's plot]

[Abnormal status: Novelist killer]

*

Yan Tingli had always been casual by nature, even about becoming a transmigrator and transmigrating into a book.

He carelessly gathered the affection of the characters in the novel worlds, changed the plot as he pleased, and turned entire worlds into a chaotic mess. He reveled in the delightful disorder until he met someone.

The first time they met, that person plunged a knife into his heart.

In the misty rain of the Republican era, Yan Tingli leaned against the stone corridor along the long street. Blood stained half his body and dripped from his fingertips.

Though he was on the brink of death, his usually careless eyes gradually lit up. With a bloodied finger, he lifted the other man's baseball cap and saw his face.

Those features were etched into his heart, every last detail.

His gaze was cold and indifferent, his dark eyes filled with bone-deep hatred.

Yan Tingli remembered that this wasn't the first time he had seen this person.

In his original world, long ago, he had created a character in earnest for the one and only time, giving him every quality he was obsessed with.

His name was Xu Shixu.

He was a novelist.

[Name: Yan Tingli]

[Mission: Modify the novel's plot]

[Abnormal status: Lovesick and murdered]

*

Little scene:

"Shixu. What are we? Lovers entwined until death, or enemies locked in a war of words?"

"No."

Xu Shixu pushed him away, panting, his lips glistening. He pulled the trigger and aimed at Yan Tingli's heart.

"Enemies," Xu Shixu said coldly, his eyes icy. "We're enemies until death."

With a bang, he fired.

*

First world: News rivalry in the Republican era

"At the meeting of light and darkness, I am a butterfly lover drunk on a chaotic age, and the sword that breaks through the masks to reveal the truth."

Second world: Maritime Venice in Central Europe

"Even gods must listen to the news, and priests must buy tabloids. In this land of wealth, I am the uncrowned king."

Third world: The imperial court of ancient times

"A jack-of-all-trades in intelligence and espionage? Better to hear the heavens and visit the nine provinces. What? You ask who Hear the Heavens is? Guess."

The fourth world is yet to be added.

[Rule-abiding, indifferent bottom who loves stories, not characters x Neurotic, capricious top who loves characters, not stories]

* The top is the bottom's author

* The bottom is the top's dream lover

* The bottom is hostile toward the top, but is instinctively attached to his creator

* They are each other's readers, and the protagonists of each other's stories

* Do you get it? I really love this kind of character setup

* Blurb captured on 2023.11.6

Theme: The world's love knows no bounds