Does This Count as an NPC Giving Us a Main Quest?

"...In the end, that poor kid sank to the bottom of the sea, leaving Rose all alone."

Sitting on the sofa and watching the movie screen before him gradually fade to black, Fang Zheng curled his lip. Seeing his expression, Little Black blinked curiously.

"Wasn't it a beautiful, tragic love story?"

"It only became a beautiful, tragic love story because the ship sank."

Fang Zheng shrugged dismissively.

"What kind of person was Jack? Didn't you see it? He won his ticket by gambling, then rushed like mad to catch the ship because he wanted to go to the New World. He had an adventurous spirit and a romantic spirit, sure, but not a shred of planning. The only reason he and Rose got together was because he was handsome and smooth-talking, while Rose was being pushed by her parents into a marriage arrangement and was in her rebellious phase. So the two of them just happened to hit it off. But what would reality have been like?"

As he spoke, Fang Zheng spread his hands.

"Put them in a different environment, and they definitely wouldn't have ended up together. The Titanic was supposedly a luxury liner, but the gap between the cabins and the upper decks wasn't actually that great. That was why that young lady thought dancing on tables and drinking with a handsome guy in a crowded crowd was romantic. Put her somewhere else and make her try rock-hard black bread and sausages crawling with maggots, and she definitely wouldn't think that was romantic."

At that, Fang Zheng snorted.

"Thank goodness the Titanic sank. Do you know what would've happened if it hadn't? At best, Rose would've run off with Jack and begun a journey she thought was 'romantic.' Then she'd discover that the man beside her couldn't