TLSOTMTKOGAYWHTDI Chapter 120

Chapter 120 Extra 5: Parallel Timelines + New Character Cameo

Chapter 120 Extra 5: Parallel Timelines + New Character Cameo

The media is widely reporting that Xingyue Media is unusually filming a light comedy this year.

When Zhuo Huaimo slapped the script on the table, Qi Yanwang’s coffee cup shook.

“《999 Heartbeats》?”

Qi Yanwang laughed out loud while flipping through the script, “Reborn 999 times just to chase a man? What kind of silly setting is this?”

Zhuo Huaimo pushed up his glasses: “Market data shows that the hit rate for rebirth + danmei + silly elements this year is 87.3%.”

“Come on.”

Qi Yanwang snatched his pen away, “Since when have you, Director Zhuo, cared about data?”

The pen drew a silver arc in the light. Zhuo Huaimo reached out to grab it but was pulled into his arms.

Qi Yanwang’s thumb caressed the red mole on his wrist: “Tell me the truth.”

“Commercial secret,” Zhuo Huaimo blinked.

Qi Yanwang flipped through the script, his brow furrowed slightly: “So… Su Morran is reborn 999 times just to chase Zhen Yanxia, who doesn’t love him at all?”

Zhuo Huaimo nodded: “Every time he fails, the world will restart, and all NPCs’ memories will be reset.”

“Then this Hao Xinlei…”

Qi Yanwang pointed to the awakened NPC character in the script, “Why does he suddenly have his own consciousness?”

Zhuo Huaimo smiled slightly: “Because Su Morran’s stupidity woke him up.”

Qi Yanwang: “…”

He continued to flip through the pages and saw that in the script, Su Morran failed his 999th confession, and Zhen Yanxia jumped from a high-rise building with a sneer, and the world restarted again.

And this time, Hao Xinlei, the NPC who had been silently assisting Su Morran, suddenly shouted at him –

“Remember to come find me in the next life! I’ll teach you how to chase men!”

Qi Yanwang raised his eyebrows: “What kind of development is this?”

Zhuo Huaimo rested his chin on his hand and looked at him with a smile: “What do you think?”

Qi Yanwang closed the script, deep in thought: “So… Hao Xinlei is the real male lead?”

“Bingo.”

Zhuo Huaimo snapped his fingers, “Su Morran is obsessed with capturing someone who doesn’t love him at all, but ignores the person who really cares about him.”

Zhuo Huaimo stared at him for a few seconds and suddenly asked: “Do you believe in parallel universes?”

Qi Yanwang’s smile paused slightly, then he said softly, “…I believe.”

Zhuo Huaimo was silent for a moment before finally sighing: “This script… is adapted from a true story.”

Qi Yanwang: “???”

“Do you remember I told you before why I always feel like I’m cursed and have to keep having relationships?”

Qi Yanwang nodded: “You said it was because of a silly System.”

Zhuo Huaimo smiled wryly: “That System… the person it was originally going to bind with was Su Morran. But he’s a hopeless romantic.”

Qi Yanwang’s pupils shrank slightly: “…What do you mean?”

“I mean—”

Zhuo Huaimo took a deep breath, “In a certain parallel universe, Su Morran really was reborn 999 times, and I…”

“And you were mistakenly bound by the System, taking on the ‘must have a relationship’ curse for him?” Qi Yanwang finished his sentence.

Zhuo Huaimo smiled and nodded: “Thanks to him, I became a scumbag, but fortunately, the System found him. I wonder which rebirth he’s on now?”

Qi Yanwang was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly laughed: “So… you’re making this movie to tell Su Morran in a parallel universe—don’t be obsessed with people who don’t love him, look back at Hao Xinlei who truly loves him?”

Zhuo Huaimo gave a soft “hmm.”

Qi Yanwang stared at him, suddenly reaching out and pinching his face: “Zhuo Huaimo, you’re not trying to tell me…”

“…Tell you what?”

“You’re also my ‘Hao Xinlei’?”

Qi Yanwang chuckled, “Silently staying by my side while I’m obsessed with things I shouldn’t be?”

Zhuo Huaimo’s earlobes turned slightly red as he slapped his hand away: “Don’t be narcissistic! This is a commercial film!”

Qi Yanwang suddenly leaned closer and whispered in his ear: “Then, Director Zhuo, would you like to try…”

“…Try what?”

“Try to see if we’re like this in a parallel universe too?”

Zhuo Huaimo’s heart skipped a beat. Before he could react, Qi Yanwang had already kissed him.

The sun was shining brightly outside the window, and the script was blown to the last page by the wind—

“The 1000th rebirth, Su Morran finally turned around and said to Hao Xinlei: ‘Why don’t… you try chasing me?'”

Hao Xinlei smiled: “It should have been like this a long time ago.”

—

The two had just pushed open the door when they heard a sob.

“Teacher Zhuo!”

A figure pounced over, and Zhuo Huaimo subconsciously caught it, and suddenly there was a teary-eyed boy in his arms.

Qi Yanwang reflexively wanted to pull the person away, but was stunned when he saw the other person’s face—

Porcelain-white skin that was almost transparent in the moonlight, amber pupils filled with diamond-like tears, and chestnut-colored hair with a slight curl and a few cherry blossom petals stuck to it.

He looked like a beautiful boy straight out of a manga.

“Su Morran?!” Zhuo Huaimo blurted out.

The boy nodded, sobbing, and pearl-like tears fell patteringly.

Qi Yanwang gasped: “Damn, a parallel universe delivery to the door?”

Half an hour later, the living room was a mess.

“The 87th time I blocked a bullet for him, he said I was meddling!” Su Morran’s cheeks were puffed up like a hamster, with tiramisu in his left hand and fried chicken in his right, “The 233rd time I transmigrated to become his childhood sweetheart, he transferred to Antarctica to feed penguins!”

Qi Yanwang looked at the empty third takeout box and silently placed another rush order for the restaurant.

“The most outrageous was the 521st time!”

Su Morran stabbed the strawberry cake full of holes, “I spent ten years building him an amusement park, and he actually sold the land to the rival to build a garbage dump!” Saying that, he was about to shed tears again.

Zhuo Huaimo’s hand handing him a tissue trembled slightly—this familiar feeling of suffocation must be from the host brought out by that idiot System.

“So…”

Qi Yanwang looked at his watch, “You’ve been talking for four hours, what’s the point?”

Su Morran suddenly put down the pig’s trotter he was halfway through gnawing on, and grabbed Zhuo Huaimo’s sleeve with his greasy hand: “The System said you’re the only host in history who has completed all the credits! Teach me how to chase Zhen Yanxia!”

Zhuo Huaimo & Qi Yanwang: “……”

The stars filled the sky outside the window. Zhuo Huaimo rubbed his temples: “In your world… is there an NPC named Hao Xinlei?”

“Who?”

When Su Morran tilted his head, the cherry blossom petals in his hair rustled down, “The uncle who sells takoyaki?”

The two looked at each other—crap, the plot line hasn’t been triggered yet.

“Listen,”

Qi Yanwang put on his coaxing Qi Xiaoman demeanor, “You go back and continue to follow the plot, and wait until the 999th time—”

“I won’t!”

Su Morran suddenly pounced on the mango pudding on the coffee table, “It’s too painful to die again every time I restart!”

He said vaguely with a pudding spoon in his mouth: “I’m going to learn here!”

Zhuo Huaimo tried to reason with him: “But the rules are different in each world…”

“Wah—”

Su Morran pouted, and tears came as he said, “You guys just think I’m stupid! The System thought I was stupid too and ran away!”

Qi Yanwang suddenly found a key point: “Wait, how did you get here…”

“I smashed the System’s charging treasure!”

Su Morran raised his head proudly, with cream still on the tip of his nose, “It can only maintain basic operations now and can’t control me!”

Zhuo Huaimo’s eyes went dark—this brat disassembled the Space-Time Administration’s equipment?!

“Fine.”

Qi Yanwang suddenly grabbed Su Morran by the back of his collar, “First lesson, clean yourself up before chasing someone.”

Saying that, he stuffed the person into the bathroom.

“Wait!”

Su Morran fluttered his legs, “Zhen Yanxia likes me when I’m sloppy!”

“That’s why he jumped off the building,” Zhuo Huaimo added accurately.

A shocking struggle came from the bathroom. Half an hour later, a refreshed Su Morran reluctantly walked out.

Qi Yanwang whistled—this child looked like a BJD doll in a shop window after he cleaned up.

“Second lesson,”

Zhuo Huaimo turned on the projector, “Give up on Zhen Yanxia.”

“What?!” Su Morran almost knocked over his milk tea.

Qi Yanwang pulled up the script from the afternoon: “According to data from 327 parallel worlds, the probability of you and Zhen Yanxia having a happy ending is 0.003%.”

“But the System said—”

“That broken System can even lose the charging treasure!”

Zhuo Huaimo couldn’t bear it any longer, “It bound the wrong person back then and made me have twenty relationships!”

Su Morran was stunned and suddenly started counting his fingers: “Is twenty times a lot? I’ve had nine hundred and ninety-nine…”

“The point isn’t the number of times!”

Zhuo Huaimo was going crazy, “It’s that you have to see clearly who is worth it!”

The air suddenly became quiet.

Su Morran’s eyelashes trembled: “But… but I only know how to chase him… If I’m not with him, the character fails, and the System will restart again…”

Qi Yanwang sighed and suddenly pulled Zhuo Huaimo into his arms: “See? This kind of natural state of being together is—”

“Wow!”

Su Morran suddenly jumped up, “You guys are really a couple? Then quickly teach me kissing techniques!”

“……”

At three in the morning, Qi Yanwang carried the sleeping Zhuo Huaimo into the bedroom and came back to find Su Morran writing “Eighteen Styles of Husband-Chasing” on the mirror with lipstick.

When the morning sun shone into the living room, Su Morran was lying on the coffee table, sound asleep, with cream still on his face.

Qi Yanwang came back with breakfast, saw this scene, and couldn’t help but take out his phone to take a picture—if this was sent to Zhen Yanxia in a parallel universe, he wondered if the other person would regret jumping off the building.

“Wake up.”

Qi Yanwang gently kicked him with his toe, “Time for class.”

Su Morran sat up dazedly, his hair sticking up like a cat with exploded fur: “…Morning class?”

“First class on chasing people with reverse psychology.”

Zhuo Huaimo walked over with a cup of coffee and pushed the tablet in front of him, “Watch carefully.”

A video was playing on the screen—

“Zhen Yanxia likes cold types? Then you be passionately fiery.”

In the video, when Su Morran was reborn for the 521st time, Zhen Yanxia said with a cold face: “Stay away from me.” But Su Morran suddenly smiled brightly and directly pounced on him and hugged him: “No! I just want to stick to you!”

Zhen Yanxia was petrified on the spot.

Su Morran widened his eyes: “This… this will work?”

“Of course it will.”

Qi Yanwang took a bite of his sandwich, “You chased him 998 times, he’s long used to your humble simping. If you suddenly change your style, he definitely won’t adapt.”

Zhuo Huaimo nodded: “This is called breaking expectations.”

Su Morran was thoughtful and suddenly raised his hand: “What if he tells me to get lost?”

“Second lesson.”

Zhuo Huaimo swiped to the next video, “Retreating as an advance.”

On the screen, when Su Morran was reborn for the 699th time, Zhen Yanxia said impatiently: “Don’t appear in front of me again.”

But Su Morran smiled and nodded: “Okay.”

Then he turned around and left, without looking back.

As a result, the next day, Zhen Yanxia took the initiative to come to his door, asking with a cold face: “Why didn’t you pester me yesterday?”

Su Morran: “…”

Qi Yanwang raised his eyebrows: “See? People are just cheap, the more you stick to them, the more annoyed they get, but if you don’t stick to them, they start thinking about you.”

Su Morran suddenly understood and immediately took out his notebook to take notes.

“Third lesson.”

Zhuo Huaimo continued teaching, “Create a sense of crisis.”

In the video, when Su Morran was reborn for the 777th time, he deliberately chatted and laughed with another boy in front of Zhen Yanxia.

Zhen Yanxia pretended to be disdainful, but his eyes kept glancing over here.

“Does this trick work?” Su Morran was skeptical.

“Of course.”

Qi Yanwang scoffed, “You chased him so everyone in the world knows, and he suddenly realizes that you can actually smile at other people, he’ll definitely feel unbalanced.”

Su Morran wrote it down seriously and suddenly raised his head: “What if he still ignores me?”

Zhuo Huaimo and Qi Yanwang looked at each other and said in unison: “Change people!”

Su Morran: “…”

“Listen,”

Zhuo Huaimo said seriously, “Chasing people isn’t an exam, there’s no standard answer. If a person doesn’t fall in love with you after you’ve chased them 999 times, that only means—”

“It means he’s blind!” Qi Yanwang finished his sentence.

Su Morran pouted and muttered softly: “But the System said he’s my destined person…”

“The System also said I should be bound to you, but it bound the wrong person.”

Zhuo Huaimo rolled his eyes, “It’s better to believe Qi Yanwang’s cooking than to believe it.”

Qi Yanwang: “…” Is that a compliment or a criticism?

“In short,”

Zhuo Huaimo concluded, “Starting today, you try our methods three times. If Zhen Yanxia is still the same deadpan—”

“Then you go find Hao Xinlei.”

Qi Yanwang patted his shoulder, “I bet five mao that you two definitely have a chance.”

Su Morran was dubious, but he still nodded obediently.

That night, the three of them sat in the living room waiting for the results.

“First experiment,”

Zhuo Huaimo looked at the message Su Morran sent, “The passionate fiery method—Zhen Yanxia was stunned on the spot, but he didn’t push him away.”

Qi Yanwang whistled: “There’s hope.”

“Second experiment, retreating as an advance—Zhen Yanxia took the initiative to send a message asking where he was.”

“Tsk,” Qi Yanwang shook his head, “He’s starting to care.”

“Third experiment, creating a sense of crisis…” Zhuo Huaimo suddenly paused, his expression subtle.

Qi Yanwang leaned over to take a look and laughed—

Su Morran: “I was eating with someone else, and Zhen Yanxia actually rushed into the restaurant and dragged me away! He also said ‘Who allowed you to go on a date with someone else’! What does this mean??”

Zhuo Huaimo replied calmly: “It means he’s jealous.”

Su Morran sent a string of exclamation marks, followed by another message: “But he’s locking me in the office now, saying he wants to talk… What should I do?!”

Qi Yanwang snatched the phone and quickly typed: “Turn the tables and kiss him directly.”

Zhuo Huaimo: “…Teach something good!”

Five minutes later, Su Morran sent a voice message, and when it was opened, his stammering voice came: “I, I kissed him as you said… He, he, he, he actually kissed me back!!”

Zhuo Huaimo and Qi Yanwang high-fived in celebration.

“See,” Qi Yanwang said smugly, “Reverse psychology is king.”

Zhuo Huaimo smiled and shook his head. Just as he was about to reply, Su Morran sent another message—

“But the System suddenly popped up a prompt, saying it detected abnormal behavior and is going to force a restart of the world!! What to do??”

The two’s faces changed drastically.

“Damn!”

Qi Yanwang jumped up, “How does this broken System even have emergency plans?”

Zhuo Huaimo thought quickly and suddenly had a flash of inspiration: “Su Morran! Go find Hao Xinlei right now!”

“Why??”

“Because—”

Zhuo Huaimo said decisively, “He’s a System loophole!”

——

At the moment the System reset, Su Morran stood on the terrace of the Zhen family mansion, watching Zhen Yanxia shout that classic line at him for the 999th time—

“I would rather die than marry you! There’s only my white moonlight in my heart!”

Father Zhen stood aside with a stern face, saying in a cold voice: “The marriage has been decided, and you can’t mess around!”

Zhen Yanxia pointed at Su Morran with tears streaming down his face, accusing him: “Dad! I won’t marry him, I would rather die than marry him!!”

Su Morran: “??? Here we go again!”

Before he could react, Zhen Yanxia had already climbed onto the railing in grief and anger, turning back to give Su Morran a tragic and beautiful smile:

“You can only get my corpse, you can’t get my heart!”

Then he jumped!

“Bang—”

The world began to collapse, the sky cracked like pixelated fragments, and the ground gradually disappeared as if being erased by an eraser.

Su Morran stood there, dumbfounded.

——That’s not right! This time, I clearly followed the reverse psychology Zhuo Huaimo taught! How did it still end in a bad ending?!

Just as the entire world was about to disappear completely, Father Zhen suddenly rushed forward, grabbed Su Morran’s collar, and roared—

“I can’t take it anymore!!!”

Su Morran: “…???”

Father Zhen (Raging Version): “I’ve been reborn with you 999 times! You can’t even chase a man! Useless!”

Su Morran (Shocked): “Dad… no, Uncle… you’ve also awakened?!”

Father Zhen (Frustrated): “Nonsense! Who do you think has been handing you the ring at the wedding every time?! Who has been handing you the handkerchief before you jump off the building?! Who has been heating up milk for you after you get rejected?!”

Su Morran (Dazed): “…So, so you’ve been helping me?”

Father Zhen (Rolling his eyes): “Otherwise?! I’m just an NPC, but you forced me to develop my own consciousness! Do you know how painful it is for me to watch you chase my son every time?!”

Su Morran (Aggrieved): “But Zhen Yanxia just doesn’t like me…”

Father Zhen (Roaring): “Bullshit! He secretly saved your photos when he was reborn for the 521st time! He got up in the middle of the night to cover you with a blanket when he was reborn for the 699th time! He even learned to cook for you when he was reborn for the 888th time!”

Su Morran (Pupils shaking): “…Then why does he have to jump off the building every time?!”

Father Zhen (Sneering): “Because he’s also an idiot!”

Before the world completely collapsed, Father Zhen grabbed Su Morran and shouted in his ear—

“Remember to come find me next time you’re reborn! I’ll teach you how to chase men!”

Su Morran: “…???”

——Wait! What’s the situation with this family?!

(System prompt: The world has been reset, loading the 1000th rebirth…)

(Su Morran’s love counseling class has a new instructor—NPC Hao Xinlei!)

Babies, this book is finished. Su Morran and Hao Xinlei are the male protagonists of my next book. I’m pulling them out here in advance to show them off. The general plot of the next book is also in this chapter. It mainly focuses on silly + hilarious. Thank you for your continued support and companionship. See you in the next world!

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