"But Qiu Qiu... have you ever thought..." As Chu Ge kept looking, his expression grew thoughtful. "Deleting this line is no big deal, but what if we deleted the next one?"
The next line...
If she were to find a man, it would have to be the Creator Father God?
Qiu Wuji turned to look at Chu Ge's profile.
If they deleted that line, would it affect... what they had now?
Chu Ge looked at the screen without speaking, and Qiu Wuji looked at Chu Ge without speaking.
That line was still in the script.
Previously, Chu Ge certainly hadn't thought of deleting something so important, and Qiu Wuji hadn't given it much thought either. She had drawn it as written.
But now that they had reached this point in their examination, they could still feel that such an abrupt line, with no cause or consequence, remained a flaw in the world.
It ought to be deleted or revised.
But should they delete it, or keep it and find some other way to revise it, making it fit more smoothly?
Several seconds passed before Qiu Wuji suddenly smiled. "If you feel you don't want to delete it... then don't. We'll revise it."
"No." Chu Ge said calmly, "Delete it."
Qiu Wuji's smile faded, but she still watched him quietly. "If you delete that line, I might not even want to find a man, never mind whether that man is you."
Yes, the key to that line was actually not its second half, but its first.
It established that Qiu Wuji, with her Ten-Thousand-Year Cultivation, "would seek a man." The second half merely reinforced and defined that premise, specifying what sort of man she should seek.
Without that line, she would not even have the inclination to find a man.
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