Xu Wen had transmigrated into a book, but he was going to die.
At the bottom of a cliff, a figure lying in a strange and bizarre posture moved its fingers, a pool of sticky blood spilling out from underneath, looking just like a murder scene where a body was being dumped, except that the corpse had supposedly come back to life.
He felt like he had just met his great-grandmother.
Xu Wen regained consciousness in a daze, a jumble of miscellaneous memories crammed into his brain, and very soon, he figured out his current situation.
Good grief, he had simply been angered by a shady real estate agent while buying a house, and after talking back to him, the guy had pulled out a gun and rushed out onto the street to exact revenge on society.
The shady real estate agent was subdued, and he himself had gotten dragged into the police station as well.
While waiting for his motherland to fish him out of the police station, he had dozed off for a little while.
As a result, the moment he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated into a cannon fodder character with the exact same name?
“The Supreme Emperor” was a grand protagonist-centric novel, and just as the title suggested, the male protagonist was an emperor who had suffered bullying in his youth, endured humiliation and bided his time in the early stages, and successfully seized power to ascend the throne later on, only to end up becoming a deranged tyrant who wildly expanded his territory and ultimately unified the entire continent, becoming the supreme ruler of all under heaven.
The male protagonist was a genuine workaholic madman, and countless cannon fodder villains had become stepping stones on his path to the top.
The original body was a super-duper minor cannon fodder whose sole purpose was that a few months later, the male protagonist’s deputy general would encounter the person who pushed the original body down the cliff, thereby obtaining news of the male protagonist. As for what kind of news it was… Xu Wen had somewhat forgotten.
His memory was quite good, but listening to storytelling was all about going with the flow and pleasing oneself, so whatever he heard, he immediately forgot.
As for what the final ending was, Xu Wen did not know either, because before he could finish listening to the story, he received a call from the shady real estate agent and went to view a house.
Had he known that taking a nap would result in transmigrating into a book, Xu Wen would have beaten himself to death rather than fail to finish listening to this book.
Not for any other reason, but just to see whether, based on that male protagonist’s maniacal demeanor, he should plan to move his entire family to another country.
“Clack…”
Xu Wen propped up his battered body, shifting from a prone position to a semi-prone one, while his hand inadvertently brushed against a hard object, making a faint sound.
He moved his hand away to take a look, and it was a jade pendant that was entirely translucent and white, looking like the very expensive kind. However, blood stains smeared across it ruined the perfection of the pendant.
Just as Xu Wen was wondering where this jade pendant had come from, his expression suddenly shifted with a jolt the very next moment.
The blood stains he had accidentally touched earlier were now being slowly absorbed by the jade pendant, and the strange sensations rising from his body made the surprise and shock in Xu Wen’s eyes grow even more intense.
The pain from the bone fractures, the dizziness from excessive blood loss… all of them vanished, and his bodily functions rapidly recovered to an almost healthy state!
Xu Wen gazed up at the sky, wondering if this… was the transmigration cheat provided by the heavens?
With this jade pendant, it was equivalent to having an extra means of saving his life.
It seemed the heavens were not treating him too poorly after all, at least comforting him for losing hundreds of houses in modern times along with a nine-figure savings balance, and coming to this impoverished and straitened environment here.
Xu Wen stood up effortlessly, wanting to find the way back to the village according to the memories in his head, but the moment he turned his head, he caught sight of a black-robed youth whose life or death was unknown, lying just a few meters away…
A dead person?
Xu Wen tentatively stepped forward, yet his gaze paused on a certain spot.
Draped in black robes, with a crescent-shaped scar two fingers wide on his wrist bone… why did this look so much like the description of the male protagonist??
Xu Wen hurriedly squatted down and lifted the person’s face. The moment the true appearance was revealed, he sucked in a sharp breath of cold air.
No way, it really was f***ing the male protagonist!
His face was as white as jade, and although stained with blood and dust, it could not conceal his peerlessly handsome foundation. His eyes were tightly closed, his brows furrowed tightly, looking as though he were deeply immersed in agony.
However, Xu Wen’s gaze was drawn entirely to the lower part of his jaw, where there was also a scar, about the size of a pinky fingernail and shaped like a pebble.
Everything really matched up!
In a flash of lightning and flint, Xu Wen finally dug out the memories related to this scene from the corners of his mind.
Why was the male protagonist’s deputy general able to get news of the male protagonist? It was because the male protagonist had also fallen to the bottom of the cliff! And then he was supposed to be healed of his injuries by his own jade pendant, just like what had happened to him a moment ago.
Then… didn’t he disrupt the plot and steal the male protagonist’s cheat?
Holy sht, holy sht, holy sh*t!
Xu Wen had fortunately gained a second life, and according to his memories, he also possessed family members he had never had before. Although their home was bare of furnishings, at least he would be able to carve out a path for himself in this world and support his family.
As for the protagonist’s plot line, all that killing, fighting, and scheming he really did not want to get involved in it at all.
Yet, how did he manage to carelessly block the male protagonist’s path forward?
It was simply a case of fearing whatever came one’s way.
He was speechless.
The heavens: Hehe, the cheat wasn’t given for free.
Only a single path lay before Xu Wen, and that was to save the person.
As for why he didn’t just run away? Xu Wen recalled from the original book that the male protagonist killed gods when meeting gods and slaughtered demons when meeting demons, and all those villains or busybodies who stood in his way were skewered like candied haws by his sword.
Actually, he had also wanted to return the jade pendant, but the pendant had already undergone a blood-recognition bond and was now only useful to him. This foolproof idea was something he could only dream about.
Therefore, whether out of a sense of gratitude or compensation, Xu Wen had no choice but to save the male protagonist.
Xu Wen made up his mind and reached out to pick the person up, when the other party suddenly opened his eyes. A flash of coldness crossed them, and the youth bit down hard onto the palm of his hand, clamping down so tightly that blood welled up instantly.
“Hisss…”
Xu Wen hissed in pain, lowered his gaze to look, and met a pair of gloomy and ruthless eyes that looked just like a wolf cub, scaring people quite a bit.
His expression remained unchanged. Using his other, uninjured hand, he gripped the youth’s jaw and squeezed hard. The other party was forced to open his mouth, and he withdrew his hand, which was still stained with some saliva and traces of blood.
He stared at it for two seconds, met the youth’s vicious glare once more, and sighed softly, “You…”