Chapter 7
Xia Zhiyi of individual heroism, so when faced with difficulties, he never feels that he has to shoulder them all by himself.
Xia Zhiyi's guiding principle is to utilize all available resources and connections, unite all forces he can, and achieve his goals while minimizing harm to others.
If necessary, and if it is necessary to protect the majority by harming a minority, as long as no one he values is among that minority, even if Xia Zhiyi himself is one of the minority, he can make what he believes to be the right decision without hesitation.
Therefore, Xia Zhiyi never considered herself a good person.
However, many people think Xia Zhiyi is a good person, a very good person.
For example, Fu Yunyi and Old Master Fu, or Gu Miaomiao who met Xia Zhiyi before Li Jing, her boss.
Speaking of Gu Miaomiao's meeting with Xia Zhiyi, it has to be said that if the so-called plot hadn't been unable to directly interfere with Gu Miaomiao's brain, when it realized that its female lead was about to meet with the virus Xia Zhiyi, its first thought would probably have been to make Gu Miaomiao forget about Xia Zhiyi.
Here we must mention that in story worlds like the one where Xia Zhiyi live, the things that the Power of the Plot can intervene in are different depending on the background setting of each world.
If we were to categorize them, we could do so according to the genre of the novel, such as modern romance, historical romance, fantasy romance, and so on.
In addition, there are world levels: low martial arts, medium martial arts, high martial arts, low magic, medium magic, etc., and Xia Zhiyi's world is a modern romance world with low martial arts and no magic.
The Power of the Plot relies on this world. Therefore, in this ordinary modern world without any fantasy elements, he cannot directly allow someone to possess Xia Zhiyi, the virus, like in some fantasy novels.
Similarly, it cannot use any unscientific means to cause strange phenomena to appear on Gu Miaomiao so that she cannot see Xia Zhiyi.
In short, the Power of the Plot of this world is very weak.
However, the points of reference are those fantasy worlds with high combat power, or medium-level martial arts worlds with certain limitations on combat power. For the vast majority of people living in these worlds, the Power of the Plot is insurmountable.
However, Xia Zhiyi was someone who had once fought against the Power of the Plot of the high-martial world, which was almost like the Heavenly Dao, so this Power of the Plot was not strong for him.
His concern was never whether the Power of the Plot was troublesome, but rather the others affected by the plot.
This could be attributed to a habit he developed from past missions, or it could be seen as a reflection of his inherent nature as someone who doesn't enjoy achieving his goals by harming others.
When doing missions in other worlds, no matter what status or Xia Zhiyi is replacing, or how tragic and unsatisfying the future plot may be, he will first confirm what kind of person the real protagonist is in the main storyline of that world.
Hearing is believing, seeing is believing—this is a step Xia Zhiyi never misses.
Here, Xia Zhiyi was doing the same thing. Even though he had a storyline about Fu Yunyi and Gu Miaomiao in his mind, Xia Zhiyi didn't rashly believe what was described in the story.
After all, the existence of a plot doesn't mean that every aspect of these characters is written in detail. Sometimes, there is a surprising amount of hidden information in places that the plot doesn't reveal, which might even turn a seemingly gentle and kind person into a living devil.
Fu Yunyi himself is a perfect example, isn't he?
In the story, Fu Yunyi won't be like what Xia Zhiyi saw. He might appear cool to outsiders, but he'll have two different faces at home.
As for Gu Miaomiao, Xia Zhiyi had investigated in her own way and had also looked at some of the information that Fu Yunyi had found. She had learned quite a bit about this female lead from written materials, but to truly understand what the core of this person was, she needed to get to know her more accurately by spending time with her.
but...
Xia Zhiyi is a virus.
Clearly, the Power of the Plot doesn't want its most important core to come into contact with this virus.
Therefore, Xia Zhiyi arranged several meetings with Gu Miaomiao. Whenever Xia Zhiyi implied that she wanted to meet Gu Miaomiao in person, sooner or later, various unexpected events would occur on Gu Miaomiao's side, preventing Gu Miaomiao from keeping the appointment.
Gu Miaomiao: "..."
Gu Miaomiao apologized many times, changing the date again and again, her guilt towards Xia Zhiyi growing stronger every day. But Xia Zhiyi always said gently that it was okay, he wasn't in a hurry, and there was plenty of time recently, so he could change the date.
Then, Gu Miaomiao's affection for Xia Zhiyi naturally kept increasing.
Gu Miaomiao herself was also unlucky; in order to prevent her from meeting Xia Zhiyi, the Power of the Plot used every means possible.
An assignment suddenly given by the tutor, a friend having an accident and needing help, encountering a minor car accident that caused a traffic jam that lasted for hours, accidentally being bumped into and spraining the ankle so one can't walk...
Gu Miaomiao was so unlucky that she began to wonder if she had been possessed by the god of bad luck lately.
But as long as she doesn't leave the school, nothing happens.
So, for the last time, Gu Miaomiao relied on her sixth sense as the female lead and arranged to meet Xia Zhiyi at her school.
Xia Zhiyi: "No problem."
This time, the two finally managed to meet at the school library.
Actually, if Xia Zhiyi hadn't pulled some strings this time, successfully diverting the Power of the Plot so that she couldn't focus on Gu Miaomiao for a moment, their meeting might have still turned out to be somewhat unexpected.
As for what Xia Zhiyi did this time... it can't really be said that Xia Zhiyi did anything, but rather that Fu Chi used his nephew to do something.
Fu Chi had some evidence collected that would cause Huanyu a lot of trouble for a while, and then, through Fu Yunyi, delivered it to the right people.
Of course, before this, Fu Chi had also tried to have someone deliver it directly, but the document was cursed or something, and no matter how many people sent it, it would eventually be destroyed for various reasons.
This made Fu Chi, who originally didn't want his foolish nephew to get too involved in his life, close his eyes and directly include his nephew in his plan, making use of him.
Then, the results were outstanding.
After learning what had happened, Xia Zhiyi couldn't help but laugh, "It seems that for a while now, Yunyi will have to play the role of this tool."
Unfortunately, although the Power of the Plot is not the same as world consciousness, it still has an influence now that the plot should have started but has been messed up before it even fully began.