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Chapter 8 Transition

"That person?" Caiyue frowned and thought for a moment, then said uncertainly, "I can't read, so the young master's page read it to me. I think his name was something like... Jing'an. Oh, what's wrong with you?" Caiyue was startled when Caihua almost dropped the laundry basket. She put the basket down with some concern and reached out to touch Caihua's pale face.

Lu Renkui's unease was confirmed. She took a few deep breaths and then forced a smile at Caiyue: "I...I'm fine, I was just a little scared."

"Are you really alright? You've been sickly since you were little, and you're always ill. You even almost died once. If it weren't for the medicine that Madam gave to Granny Li, you might not have lived past the age of six." Caiyue touched "Caihua's" face again, and only after watching "Caihua's" face gradually regain its color did she take her hand away from "Caihua's" face and pick up her own laundry basket that was on the ground.

On the surface, Lu Renkui was calmly washing clothes with Caiyue, but in reality, in the space of her consciousness, her screams were like fingernails scraping against glass.

"System! System!! The male lead is dead!!! What do I do?! ...

"Um, you, you calm down first. My head is starting to hurt from you calling me like that." System WQBYRZM was also quite troubled—these systems have an unwritten rule: try to minimize the number of deaths. They didn't know if it would affect the mission, since they were the ones who delivered the medicine to Jing'an.

The system rubbed its head, adjusted its beret, opened the mission interface, and said, "The main system hasn't sent any messages yet. If we find someone to replace the male lead before then, we can deceive everyone."

"Replace the male lead? Can this be replaced?" Lu Renkui asked, somewhat puzzled.

System WQBYRZM thought for a moment and said to Lu Renkui, "The reason why protagonists are identified as protagonists is because they have done many things that have a significant impact on their world, making them easier to be recorded by the recording factor, become inspiration, and travel to various worlds. If we find someone who can also do things that have a significant impact on this world, then they can also become protagonists."

"Then how do we find this person?" Lu Renkui asked anxiously.

“I’ve found one, but it’s a girl,” said the system WQBYRZM.

"Can't girls do it?"

"It's possible, but that would greatly increase the chances of us being discovered by the main system and the Heavenly Dao of this world," the system said, frowning.

Lu Renkui thought about it and finally decided to give it a try: "She's the one. What should we do now?"

"Hmm, let me see." System WQBYRZM said, flipping through their original script. "First, you need to have Miss Wang take a gender-swap pill. After Miss Wang takes it, have her go to the back mountain to find a python—the thicker and bigger the better. Let that python bite Miss Wang—preferably on her lower body. Then have Miss Wang cut the snake in two. Finally, boil the upper half of the snake into a soup and drink it, and apply the lower half directly to the wound. That way, she can replace the male lead."

Lu Renkui was stunned and didn't react for a long time.

What a brutal and inexplicable method.

"I can understand her going up the mountain to find a snake to solve the problem of her turning into a man. I can also barely make sense that she killed the snake and ate the snake meat to detoxify. But what kind of nonsense is it to press the rest of the snake's body onto the wound?"

"Don't question it, that's how the original plot goes—after Jing'an stabbed Caihua to death with a sword, he went up the mountain and encountered this python. Following the method described above, he made it easier for himself to absorb spiritual energy and advance in rank." System WQBYRZM shrugged and replied helplessly, "Nonsense, I think so too. But he really did it. And he succeeded."

Lu Renkui opened his mouth several times, but in the end he swallowed his words.

Just as Yizhitong was pondering how to obtain the gender-swap pill and make the eldest daughter of the Wang family take it, while also preventing Caihua from being expelled from the Wang family, the main system sent a message.

System WQBYRZM gasped, mentally bracing himself before nervously opening the main system's message. The message read:

System WQBYRZM, a major upheaval has occurred in your world. According to the central authorities, the primary cause is that Systems 0814 and 0733 failed to properly put key figures into a state of dormancy, revealing the most likely future of this world to them, leading to the death of the protagonist, Jing'an. The central system determines that your involvement in this event is 0%.

System WQBYRZM stared into thought upon seeing the message—it seemed the two of them had been tricked! According to the central system's judgment method, unintentionally acting as a facilitator without knowledge of the situation was considered unrelated to the incident.

After reading the main system message, Lu Renkui's expression changed, and he asked worriedly, "What did that message say? Did we mess up?"

"No, quite the opposite, this matter has nothing to do with us."

Lu Renkui: "Huh?"