Dangerous forbidden knowledge was hidden within the book's title... Klein instinctively paid attention to that piece of information, then felt that it seemed normal enough.
After all, the book's contents didn't sound very safe either.
They fell silent for a while. Klein suddenly remembered Leonard's remarks about the protagonist and asked curiously, "Then do you remember who the protagonist of that book was?"
Alice suddenly choked up. She looked at the ceiling, then at Klein, then at the table, then at the floor. Watching her behavior, Klein finally couldn't help asking, "Is there something you can't say?"
Alice opened her mouth. After hesitating again and again, she swallowed back words like, "This book tells the love story between you and Amon," and said with a sincere expression, "You."
"What?" Klein asked instinctively.
Alice looked at Klein sincerely and answered, "You were the protagonist of that book."
Klein looked at Alice's expression and recalled her earlier behavior. He always felt that things weren't so simple. He pressed on, "Then why did you make that expression just now?"
Alice suddenly wanted to find some tape and seal Klein's mouth shut.
That was a somewhat difficult idea to put into practice. Alice quickly gave up and provided an answer that was true, but not entirely true: "Because I always feel that being the protagonist in this kind of book doesn't sound like a good thing."
Klein nodded in deep agreement, then asked curiously, "What about you? What was your identity in the book?"
Alice's smile suddenly vanished. She could be certain that there definitely wasn't a transmigrator originally named Shen Yinghuan in that book—otherwise, Song Shu's judgment of her back then wouldn't have been "a naturally born monster."
Or rather, perhaps that sentence would have begun without an "if."
That's right! Song Shu