“Because, time and time again, I caught a glimpse of her free spirit beyond the plot.”
[The entire cast of NPCs awakens and defies fate] [Cruel Cannon-Fodder Villainess vs. Devoted, Cold-Faced Emperor]
An Zhao was once a spirited female general, but an imperial decree made her empress.
From then on, her life was no longer under her control.
Though she didn't love Xie Wen, she couldn't stop herself from competing for his favor and getting jealous.
Then one day, she suddenly awakened to her own consciousness and realized that all of them were no more than nameless characters in a book.
She wanted to change her own fate and that of the General's Estate, but she was powerless to alter the plot.
That was, until she met Jiang Wei.
Jiang Wei said she came from a higher-dimensional world, and that she'd come to save her.
At first, Jiang Wei hadn't cared what happened to the people in the book.
But when she saw innocent people die because of a predetermined plot, and the NPCs she had dismissed as cardboard cutouts each striving to live their lives,
she regretted it.
The education she'd received in her own era wouldn't let her treat human lives as worthless.
She also believed those people wouldn't want to be nameless characters in someone else's story. They all deserved to become a chapter in that book so extraordinary it would shock the world.
She would always remember asking Xie Wen why, when he knew he shouldn't fall in love with An Zhao, he still loved her through countless cycles of the plot.
Xie Wen said:
“Because, time and time again, I caught a glimpse of her free spirit beyond the plot.”
Only then did Jiang Wei understand that beyond the plot, everyone was trying to nourish the free spirit within them until it broke through.
Since the plot was already beyond anyone's control, then let everyone go wild and do as they pleased!
You say someone has set my fate?
To hell with that! I decide my own fate!
“Girls, what's our slogan?”
“Take down the Main God! Long live freedom!”
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