Her eyes shook when she saw the note. Wei Xiao Hua looked at the note and thought about what she had done when she was inside the novel. She was both confused, excited, curious, and didn't act like what the original Wei Xiao Hua did. The original Wei Xiao Hua was calm and tried to analyze everything there.

Not long after she entered the novel, she came out and visited a store right on the day of Prince Ji Sheng's return….

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It was then she recalled that Wei Liuying also came out of the carriage and returned back with a sugar painting in her hand. Knowing that most noble would not eat something like that, it was not hard to guess that the sugar painting must have been from Yang Xian…

The two of them met far earlier than the original story.

FAR EARLIER

And the result….

Was a total disaster.

In the original novel, the two of them were a pair that met at the right time yet at the same time also a wrong time. They developed feelings yet things didn't end up well because their trust as comrade and feelings of love developed too late.

But during Wei Xiao Hua's transmigration…

Wei Xiao Hua laughed bitterly and then looked at the ceiling. She felt that the author cheated on her. Other people transmigrated and managed to live happily by using their knowledge from either the modern world or from knowing the storyline. But in her case, she changed the storyline and dug an early grave for herself.

Who in their right mind would create such a powerful villain, ah?

But if she thought about it again, the side story revealed everything that she needed to know. Wei Liuying learned male education because of her brother and that was what helped her at the very end. While she might be scorned by the people in the capital city as a woman, she would be a very successful 'young man.'

And that was the reason why the author made her.

Powerful adversary.

'Well, the author is known to like making troublesome opponents that nearly took the protagonist's life in several of her novels. While it makes the story interesting as an OP protagonist can be tiring, it's difficult when someone else is the one possessing her character.'

Wei Xiao Hua sighed and swiped the page again to the next epilogue. She felt that if she stayed there any longer, she would start lamenting of her mistake that she had done. Her biggest mistake was very simple….

Going out on that accursed day.

Then leaving Wei Liuying on her own during the Lantern Festival…

After that, was the hunt also got affected? Wei Xiao Hua had the feeling that the chance that occurred in the story was also affected by Wei Liuying's coming to the hunt as Wei Hong Zheng.

Everything fell into place now that Wei Xiao Hua understood the reason why the original Wei Xiao Hua was so wary of Wei Liuying. She must have realized that the most dangerous person, not only inside the residence but also outside, was Wei Liuying. Which was why the real Wei Xiao Hua cut off Wei Liuying's wing from the very first moment.

She needed to get rid of that ticking bomb.

And in the novel, Wei Xiao Hua succeeded in doing so.

Unfortunately, Wei Xiao Hua who transmigrated into the novel didn't managed to realize all of this and inevitably walked straight into the bottomless pit. She had sealed her fate from the moment she deviated from the novel.

'The next epilogue…'

'Oh, this time it's about their future.'

Reading about how Ji Shu and Wei Xiao Hua would live happily with their kids only sent tears to Wei Xiao Hua. She wanted that kind of life so much. It was much happier for her if only she could stay with Ji Shu and changed the storyline.

But it was impossible.

She had returned back to the modern world while Ji Shu have died because of the battle with Prince Ji Sheng.

And… there was the cruel truth that Ji Shu was a character inside a novel that she read while she was living in the real world. She felt it was so vexing that she wished that she could repeat everything again.

This time, even if she had to go through the monotone cycle, and suffered, she would bear through it.

She just wished that she could end with Ji Shu.

"In the first place, how did I even enter the novel?" Wei Xiao Hua pondered to herself. She was reading the novel in WN app when she was suddenly sent inside the novel and became the main protagonist. Everything was weird in her opinion.

Was it just a dream?

Or was it a memory?

Memory of an alternate world?

A different life…?

"Xiao Hua, how long do you plan to stay in the office? It's already 4 PM. Have you finished your work?"

"Ah yeah, I have already submitted the work to Manager Yu."

Thinking about her work, Wei Xiao Hua felt cold sweat pouring on her back. She could no longer remembered the detail of her work before her transmigration. While it was supposed to be something she wrote just a few hours ago, it felt as if two years had passed in her memory.

While reading the document once more, Wei Xiao Hua felt that her memory started to return back to normal. Her experience when she was inside the novel turned fuzzy as if it was nothing more than a dream, yet Wei Xiao Hua knew that she could never forget the story.

The warmth she experienced with Ji Shu….

The cold war that she had to face just in order to survive in that world….

Everything left deep impression in her heart. Even if she ended up unable to remember everything, she would not be able to forget the deeply ingrained impression that was carved to her mind and body.

'Well, I guess I should go and visit the author with a dummy account… if I'm not wrong, the author left the discord's group invitation somewhere. Oh, here it is.'

Wei Xiao Hua played with her phone and smiled lightly, yet there was a tinge of sadness from the corner of her eyes. She noticed that there were many other readers who were complaining at the end of the first epilogue because of the sad ending and the fact that there could be a different ending for them at the cost of the main protagonist.

It was truly a cruel setting.

'Let's play a prank to the author~. I should make a dummy account and play a bit~.'

Signing up to the discord using the name Wei Xiao Hua, Wei Xiao Hua entered the chat and saw the author welcomed him. She grinned and started to chat.

"Author, you're so cruel! Why do you create such a setting like that and make the characters have to fight with each other?!"

She could see many other members were commenting the same thing and pointed her nickname was the same as the protagonist's name. Wei Xiao Hua chuckled and played with her phone.

At the very least, she felt a bit better after playing a prank to Sorahana.

Hmm, she would reveal her real account later after she was satisfied with this~

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(End of Epilogue 1)