At that moment, Fang Zheng finally understood the true meaning of this world.
Simply put, this was the difference between Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Records of the Three Kingdoms. The latter was a historical record, while the former was an exhilarating fanfiction novel that ran wild with historical imagination.
Historical records did not care whether readers liked them or not. History was simply what it was; it had been recorded, and whether you wanted to read it was up to you. But exhilarating fanfiction was different. For example, if an author liked Liu Bei, they could write more about how kind, loyal, and virtuous Liu Bei was, and how cruel, cunning, and evil Cao Cao was.
But if the author disliked Liu Bei, they could also write that Liu Bei was actually a big-eared schemer, while Cao Cao was the true hero with an open heart.
Yet such exhilarating fanfiction was ultimately only Fantasy, not the truth.
The Great Tang Twin Dragons was the same. Of course, there had never been Kou Zhong or Xu Ziling in history, nor had there been any Longevity Art. It was merely a fictional fanfiction novel built upon the Sui-Tang era.
The Rokkenjima they were currently on was the same.
Like the supernatural urban Ghost Stories spawned by many cases, perhaps the case itself had been ordinary and boring. For example, a woman underwent cosmetic surgery, the operation failed, and so she demanded compensation from the beauty salon—that was all.
But a case that simple had no dramatic flair and no value for spreading. If you eagerly told others about it, you would probably get nothing more than, "Oh, I see. How pitiful."
That obviously would not do. So what then?
Then the entire story had to be reworked.
For example, the