Chapter 2#

World 1: The Tragic Supporting Male Lead Changes the Script Online#

One person and one cat strolled through the pitch-black tunnel. Above their heads, countless shooting stars dragged long and bright tails, streaking across like arrows.

Qin Qing looked up at the sky full of shooting stars, his pitch-black eyes filled with fragmented light.

996 turned to glance at him, vaguely thinking it was the glint of tears.

“If you save enough points to repair your body and soul, you can stay and become a Divine Envoy. Divine Envoys have eternal life, you know?” 996 probed.

“No, I want to go back.” Qin Qing lowered his eyes to look at the boundless and dark road beneath his feet.

“Why must you go back? Staying is the better choice.”

“Because I want to go back to see someone and ask a question.” Qin Qing blinked, a wet gleam flashing slightly on his long eyelashes.

“See who? Ask what?” 996 asked curiously.

However, Qin Qing just curled his lips into a smile, unwilling to answer.

“Even if you don’t say it, I know! The person you want to see must be someone you love, and the question is nothing more than that one sentence—do you love me? Did I guess right?” 996 wagged its tail triumphantly.

The wet gleam on his eyelashes evaporated. Qin Qing looked down at the chubby cat, his voice a bit hoarse: “Right and wrong.”

“What do you mean right and wrong? Guessed right is guessed right, don’t be shy!” 996 teased even more proudly, and finally warned: “I’m telling you in advance, doing tasks is very hard work. You may need to experience death countless times, but you won’t really die, only the body in the small world dies.”

Qin Qing nodded calmly: “I know, I’m not afraid of death.”

996 looked at his scar-covered body and felt that this guarantee was very convincing.

“Besides death, you might also be tortured, insulted, trampled on, used, deceived… In short, all bad things may happen to you, and you absolutely cannot resist. Whatever role the script gives you, you can only act accordingly.” 996 further admonished.

“Script?” Qin Qing frowned.

“Oh, in the words of your cultivation world, it’s the fate track. The fate track arranged by the Heavenly Dao.”

“I understand.” Qin Qing frowned and nodded slightly: “The arrangement of the Heavenly Dao, the established fate. I think in the face of such vast power, anyone is powerless to resist.”

996 snorted and said: “It’s good that you understand. So when you go to the small world, you must listen to me! Oh, we’re almost there!”

As soon as the voice fell, a ball of white light suddenly erupted in the pitch-black tunnel, swallowing the person and the cat off guard.

After being tossed around in the turbulent flow for a while, Qin Qing knelt on the ground dizzily. 996 lay on top of his head, suppressing the feeling of nausea to look up and around, and then let out a desperate scream!

“Meow! Qin Qing, we’re done for! We’ve entered the world of the Heartless Monster! This world has fallen into a dead loop! We can’t get out!”

Qin Qing had no time to pay attention to 996, who had fallen into extreme panic.

Clutching his burning stomach, he knelt in the filthy and smelly toilet, leaning over the toilet bowl and vomiting violently. It was currently scorching summer, and the high temperature fermented in this cramped space.

Sticky sweat, the heavy smell of alcohol, and the sour stench of vomit made Qin Qing feel even more nauseous and dizzy.

However, an even more uncomfortable headache surged. Many memory fragments flooded into Qin Qing’s mind, allowing him to quickly understand his situation. He was currently promoting liquor at the largest night market stall in Hai City. To please customers, he was often forced to drink excessive amounts of alcohol, so being dead drunk had become the norm.

The burning sensation in his stomach was a sign of a gastric ulcer attack.

“I think I need to go to the hospital immediately.” Qin Qing spat out a mouthful of bile and said with weak breath.

“No! There is an important plot point here that you need to walk through!” 996 jumped from Qin Qing’s head onto the washstand not far away and said condescendingly: “You can only go to the hospital after finishing the plot. If you don’t follow the plot, we won’t be able to break the loop and leave here.”

“What loop?” Qin Qing retched a few more times, his breath becoming weaker.

“Something went wrong with this world. The destined couple can never get together, and one of them always dies of a terminal illness. As soon as he dies, the whole world reboots, and then everything starts all over again, like an abyss that one can never walk out of!

“If you can push the plot forward smoothly, everyone’s fate will return to the right track, and the world will not reboot. Only then can we leave, otherwise we will die. Because every reboot consumes the power of our souls, and our souls will eventually be consumed one day.”

996 said worriedly.

“So I am the glimmer of hope for this world?” Qin Qing stopped vomiting and gasped for breath with difficulty.

“Yes, you are the only variable and the only hope. You are very important.” 996 nodded firmly.

Qin Qing covered his increasingly cramping stomach with his cold hand, his breathing gradually becoming rapid.

996 knew what kind of torture he was suffering now. A gastric ulcer attack was really painful as hell, but the plot was arranged this way. Qin Qing had to suffer this pain whether he wanted to or not. Who told him to be the supporting male lead? Moreover, the plot that was about to happen would put Qin Qing in an even more tragic situation.

“Do you still want to go back and see that person? Do you still want to ask him a question?” 996 deliberately poked Qin Qing’s weak spot.

Qin Qing, whose pupils had slowly lost focus as if he would faint in the next second, suddenly gritted his teeth.

“What is my first plot point?” He asked in a hoarse voice while wiping away the bitter bile from the corner of his lips.

“Your first plot point is selling liquor. Hurry up and get up, go sell out the liquor in the inventory. If you don’t sell it out, there will be no money for your sister’s tutoring fees.” 996 looked at the smart brain and said seriously.

In fact, the first plot point was not selling liquor, but a series of disasters triggered by selling liquor. The reason for not telling Qin Qing the truth was that after the disaster, he would become a disabled person.

996 was afraid Qin Qing would rebel.

But Qin Qing probably wouldn’t rebel; he had an obsession in his heart. For people in the cultivation world, obsession was a heart demon. How could a heart demon be broken so easily?

“If you were given a chance to return to your original world alive, but there was a one percent chance that you would pay the price of being crushed to pieces and your soul scattered, would you be willing?” 996 probed again.

“I am willing! I have long been crushed to pieces and had my soul scattered for him.” Qin Qing wiped his sweat-drenched hair back and laughed softly.

996 immediately thought of Qin Qing’s scar-covered body and his long-shattered heart. So, he was really willing to give everything for the obsession in his heart.

996 completely relaxed and urged, “Then what are you still dazing for? Hurry out and sell out the liquor in the inventory.”

Qin Qing clutched his violently cramping stomach and staggered to stand up, but the toilet door was kicked open by a middle-aged burly man, who said viciously: “Qin Qing, you’re fucking drunk again! You haven’t sold as much liquor as you’ve drunk. If this goes on, I’ll go bankrupt because of you sooner or later! I’m telling you, today you must sell out the liquor in the warehouse, otherwise don’t even think about getting a penny!”

“See, the plot point is here. Go sell liquor quickly.” 996, squatting on the washstand, chimed in, and then warned: “Just talk to me in your heart, I can hear you. When I speak, these mortals can’t hear me. If I don’t want to, they can’t see me either.”

Qin Qing had just stood up when his legs went soft and he knelt back down. Holding his violently cramping stomach with both hands, he turned his head to look at the middle-aged burly man and said in a weak voice: “Sorry Brother Jiang, it’s my incompetence that delayed your business. I’ll go sell liquor right away.”

At this moment, he was already dead drunk. His misty eyes were covered with wet watery light, the tails of his narrow and long eyes carried a touch of flush. His smooth forehead and high nose bridge were covered with fine beads of sweat. His originally dry and cracked lips were now suffused with a sickly dark red.

He was very weak and very decadent, but because of this weakness and decadence, he appeared even more bewitchingly handsome, like a flower that had bloomed to the extreme and would soon wither, emitting a decaying yet strong fragrance.

The middle-aged burly man, who was banging on the door with a fierce look on his face, suddenly froze in place.

Qin Qing… Did Qin Qing originally look like this? He thought in a trance.

996, standing on the washstand, saw Qin Qing’s appearance clearly, and its tone suddenly became astonished: “Qin Qing, what’s going on with your face?”

Qin Qing was a soul transmigrator possessing the original host. He should be using the original host’s plain and cold face. However, the Qin Qing at this moment was still his original appearance.

“This is my racial talent.” Qin Qing stood up unsteadily and walked to the washstand to wash his face.

When he held a handful of water and poured it on his face, in a hidden place, Qin Qing smiled very strangely. This result was obviously something he had long anticipated.

“I’ve never heard of such a racial talent! Aren’t you a rose flower?” 996 asked urgently.

However, Qin Qing had already walked out of the toilet without saying a word, and said slowly to the burly man: “Brother Jiang, the clothes on me are too dirty. I’ll go to the street opposite to buy a new set of clothes and then come over to sell liquor.”

There were many clothing wholesale stores across the street. It would only take ten minutes to buy a new set of clothes and come back. Brother Jiang looked at Qin Qing’s handsome face stained with flush, and nodded with a rather gentle expression.

Qin Qing tried his best to steady his pace and slowly walked towards the opposite side of the street.

996 chased after him, its tone very worried: “I have a premonition that this face of yours will cause us big trouble!”

Qin Qing laughed in a low voice, and the cramps in his stomach seemed to have lessened a bit.

“Yes, this face has always caused trouble.” He gently stroked his slightly hot and flushed cheek, his voice low and husky: “But it can’t be covered no matter what, what do you say we should do?”

“You are a soul transmigrator, it’s impossible not to cover it! Are you really a flower demon? You aren’t lying to me, are you?” 996 began to doubt.

It originally thought Qin Qing had a very gentle personality and was easy to deceive, and would become the most useful tool in its hands. But the changes appearing now made it less sure.

Qin Qing, who finally walked to the opposite side of the street, stood by the roadside, lowered his eyes to look at the chubby cat, and asked in a low voice: “Do you know what the mission of a flower is?”

“To bear fruit?” 996 was confused. It didn’t understand why the topic jumped to this place.

Qin Qing gently shook his slender index finger, his voice low and slow: “No, it’s to bloom beautifully.” As he spoke, he hooked his dark red thin lips into a slight smile, his handsome face emitting a fatal attraction.

996 watched in a daze, and after a long while, it cursed in a low voice out of exasperation: “Meow the kitty! So that’s it! Flower demons are really troublesome, why be so vain!”

When the chubby cat was jumping with anger, Qin Qing had already walked to the front of the only clothing store that was still open. It was twelve o’clock at night, the time when the night market stalls were most lively, but other stores had already closed.

The proprietress of this clothing store turned off the lights and walked out of the store with a big padlock.

Qin Qing supported himself with one hand on the glass door and said in a low voice: “Sorry, can I buy a set of clothes from you? It will only delay you for ten minutes.”

The proprietress, standing with her back to Qin Qing, answered impatiently while putting on the lock: “No! Didn’t you see I’ve already locked the door?”

“Ah, sorry, then I’ll go check other places.”

The man’s disappointed voice was deep and husky, like a violin slowly played in the night.

The proprietress’s eardrums suddenly began to itch, and then she turned her head hurriedly to look at Qin Qing.

Their eyes met.

A pair of drunken, misty, wet eyes, with fine and gentle light flickering in them. The bewitching face covered in blush was smiling bitterly, emitting a decadent and broken temperament…

Does this man really exist?

The proprietress was stunned. After a long while, she realized that the man’s arm was supporting the glass door, and she was standing close to the glass door, as if she was half-embraced in his arms.

The proprietress felt dizzy, and her chubby body uncontrollably fell softly towards Qin Qing.

However, Qin Qing withdrew the arm supporting the glass door at this time, took a polite step back, and then gently supported the proprietress. After she stood firm, he immediately withdrew his hand and asked gently: “May I buy a set of clothes here? I’m very sorry to disturb you, but I really look too wretched right now.”

Qin Qing lowered his head with a bitter smile, looking at the T-shirt and jeans on his body that had been soaked with cold sweat.

At this moment, he was very wretched, but this wretchedness was not annoying; instead, it could arouse a strong sense of pity.

The proprietress blushed, and then hurriedly opened the lock she had just put on, saying hurriedly: “Yes, yes! I’ll open the door for you right away!”

Ten minutes later, Qin Qing, wearing a brand-new white shirt and a pair of straight black suit pants, slowly walked towards the night market stall across the street.

The proprietress stood at the door of the clothing store, waving at him in a daze, her voice floating: “Qin Qing, I’ll have new arrivals tomorrow, you must come! I’ll give you a few sets of new clothes! You look good in anything!”

Qin Qing turned back and waved to the proprietress, with a gentle smile like water on his face.

The proprietress covered her burning face, completely infatuated.

996 looked at Qin Qing worriedly while walking.

Can someone so handsome really be a supporting male lead?

Qin Qing seemed completely unaware of the chubby cat’s worries. Looking at the lively and noisy night market stall ahead, he smiled slightly: “See, there are times when this face doesn’t cause trouble.”

996 ground the concrete floor anxiously with its short, chubby paws. With such a change, the original script wouldn’t be disrupted, right?

Not cause trouble? How can that be! What it wanted was for Qin Qing to cause endless trouble!