After a moment's thought, Xia Zhiyi Fu Chi said, "I've also vaguely sensed something about that, but I don't want what happened before to happen again."
"Your injury hasn't fully healed yet."
Upon hearing this, Fu Chi understood Xia Zhiyi's meaning.
He sighed softly. "Yes, caution is never wrong."
"But after this attempt, I discovered that the invisible force became... weaker after each attempt to correct Gu Miaomiao's fate?"
"I'm not sure if this feeling is just my imagination. After all, it has no physical form, no identity, and even its existence isn't real. It can't be touched or seen, so its true state can't be confirmed."
"This is just my judgment, or you could call it intuition."
"Would you like to try it yourself? Miss Gu doesn't understand why I'm asking her to do those things, but she seems quite willing to cooperate."
The act of trying sounds simple, but it's not something just anyone can do.
Fu Chi entrusted Gu Miaomiao's affairs to his assistant, while he only had a little free time to find out about Gu Miaomiao's situation through his Assistant Li or other insiders while handling his work.
Fu Chi had already prepared for the possibility of some unexpected events or being distracted by sudden work, which would prevent him from paying attention to Gu Miaomiao's affairs.
However, he soon realized that the reality was much simpler than he had anticipated.
These past few days, Gu Miaomiao seems to have a real connection with Huanyu. Whenever she goes out, she seems to accidentally run into people or things related to Huanyu in various situations. And each time, Gu Miaomiao herself is completely unaware that she has been transferred away by Assistant Li or others through remote contact.
In the past few times, Gu Miaomiao would run into or pass by those people due to some unavoidable circumstances. However, Gu Miaomiao was in a hurry to help Fu Chi and had no intention of stopping to interact with strangers, so those people did not leave any trace in Gu Miaomiao's mind.
However, the chances of encountering them decreased significantly in later encounters.
It's as if the power of the manipulator of fate, hidden in a space unseen by anyone, is being weakened by these repeated breaks in the "connection."
"It's a strange feeling. If I hadn't had people record the time, place, distance, and even the number of people involved each time, I probably wouldn't have been able to discover the pattern so quickly." Fu Chi was lying intimately with Xia Zhiyi at this moment. He held the boy in his arms with one hand, gently stroking his hair and feeling his body temperature. His expression was incredibly gentle.
Xia Zhiyi seemed thoughtful. "If the other party were human, I might consider whether this was also an act, deliberately feigning weakness to lure me in before striking back... But, should I be thankful that it's not human, so it doesn't have the cunning of humans?"
"If what you say is true, then it may be very weak right now."
"That's really great news!"
"However," Xia Zhiyi changed the subject, "A temporary weakness doesn't mean anything for such a being. If it can't be completely defeated, it could resurface at any time due to some so-called protagonist role."
"I don't want to really interfere in Fu Yunyi's or Gu Miaomiao's lives."
If Fu Yunyi and Gu Miaomiao's life choices were truly controlled by Xia Zhiyi's wishes, the plot might remain weak indefinitely, but... in that case, wouldn't Xia Zhiyi be doing the same thing?
Xia Zhiyi in defeating it is, in essence, to ensure that everyone has the right to choose the life they want, free from control and in accordance with their own will.
He certainly didn't want the scenario of the dragon slayer becoming the dragon himself to play out in his own life.
Even though he is now guiding Gu Miaomiao down a career path that is completely different from the one in the story, it is a choice made based on Gu Miaomiao's personal wishes as previously expressed. Moreover, his guidance is only temporary.
After everything is over, even if Gu Miaomiao suddenly wants to go back to being an actress and a star, Xia Zhiyi will not interfere with her in the slightest.
That was Gu Miaomiao's own life.
Even parents shouldn't interfere in the lives of their blood-related children, especially since Xia Zhiyi and Gu Miaomiao were strangers not long ago.
This is Xia Zhiyi's philosophy of life. Even though he had interfered with other people's choices many times for the sake of his mission and to return to the world where his family was, after everything was over, he never did anything more that he thought was unnecessary or should not have done.
Xia Zhiyi gently grasped Fu Chi's hand, lowering her gaze to the lines on his palm. Her fingertips lightly traced the line that was said to represent the lifeline, and she whispered, "Unfortunately, if we want to completely destroy it..."
Three methods.
One possibility is that the central female lead, Gu Miaomiao, dies. Without a central female lead, the plot becomes meaningless.
One method involves stealing the protagonist's luck, whether for oneself or for someone else, to prevent her from being the protagonist and thus crumble the plot, because the core is an unchangeable entity.
One possibility is what Xia Zhiyi is already doing: interfering with the female lead Gu Miaomiao's choices, causing her to choose a path that deviates from the fate planned by the plot. Once the plot deviates to a certain extent, the so-called Power of the Plot will collapse and lose its effect.
The third option is the friendliest one for Gu Miaomiao.
The first two approaches, while relatively mild, are not favorable to the essence of the name " Gu Miaomiao ".
Death doesn't necessarily have to be real, but to reach the point of shattering the Power of the Plot, Gu Miaomiao Gu Miaomiao's " life.
Only when the female protagonist's luck is completely plundered will it reach the point of being defeated.
But everything in this world is affected by fortune. Even though this thing is invisible, intangible, and ethereal, it is real in Xia Zhiyi's eyes.
If Gu Miaomiao were to become someone devoid of luck, she would inevitably be plagued by misfortune. At that point, her so-called "bad luck" would not be a minor matter; she might actually choke to death while drinking water.
Being chosen as the female lead in a storyline, unknowingly gaining the Protagonist Halo and the destiny of becoming the female lead, seems like a good thing.
However, in Xia Zhiyi, Gu Miaomiao's selection as a tool couldn't really be considered lucky.
After all, some people want to be the protagonist in a novel, while others just want to live a peaceful life, and Gu Miaomiao is clearly the latter.