I Just Wanted To Live but I Somehow Became Better Than the Protagonist

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Just Want to Live Well but Surpassed the Protagonist – 04 Triggering the Legendary Event

The world of the New Emperor, Middle Emperor isn’t much different from other cultivation novels, not to mention the various small and large countries, just the continents. Here, there are the Central Continent, Southern Wilderness Continent, Northern Snow Continent, Eastern Forest Continent, and Western Sea Continent, also known as the Five Continents.

Each continent is vast, how vast exactly, Ye Yong wouldn’t know?

In cultivation novels, characters often travel thousands of miles in no time, and powerful cultivators can run several miles in seconds, faster than the speed of sound. The lazy author didn’t specify the exact size of each continent, only mentioning that the Central Continent has the most resources and is the largest among the Five Continents. Ye Yong currently resides in the Eastern State, second only to the Central Continent in size.

Besides the five basic continents, there are other planes, like the Demon Realm and the Immortal Realm, which are even more incredible. Their vastness is beyond words, and here, a strong person who can travel several kilometers in a second would need to fly non-stop for several years to go from south to north in the Demon or Immortal Realm.

Ridiculous, right? That’s what Ye Yong thought too. But is there anything more ridiculous than actually traversing to reality? No, so Ye Yong could only silently accept all of this.

‘System, I ask you, is this a real world?’ Because initially, it was just a novel, and he didn’t have too profound a feeling about it, but now he was truly living in a fantasy world and had become the young master of a cultivation family, so Ye Yong was a bit afraid that all of this was fake.

‘According to the memories in the host’s mind, there is a story called “Monkeys and Typewriters”: Given infinite time, countless monkeys and countless typewriters, letting the monkeys type at will, at some point, they could produce an article identical to the masterpieces of the human world.’

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“Uh, you mean, the dog author is one of the monkeys?”

“It can be understood that way. The host is not [knocked unconscious by a cellphone, lying in the ICU for emergency treatment, all of this is just a fantasy], this world is real, so please don’t court death, and cherish your life.”

“God damn it, lying in the ICU for emergency treatment, do I look like a man who would be knocked out by a cellphone?” Ye Yong cursed and then asked, “Then why choose ‘Ye Yong’? Just because my name is the same as his?”

“This is a random descent incident. The host should feel lucky that he didn’t become a small bandit who provokes the protagonist at the start.”

“Damn… That said, I really should feel lucky.” Like those small bandits, what kind of status and talent do they have? But ‘Ye Yong’ is definitely a tall, rich, and handsome guy, the kind that lives for many chapters, has everything he wants. It’s just that his character is too petty and courting death, provoking the Son of the Plane, otherwise, life would definitely be smooth sailing.

“Can’t I go back to the world I came from?” Ye Yong asked again.

To be honest, in the world he came from, he wasn’t without concerns, like his family. Although Ye Yong was the second child, with a very successful older brother, but having been raised by a single mother with so many children, he still wanted to repay her. His older brother was also good to him, providing for his college expenses, and the amount was not small.

“Going back is impossible, you will never be able to return in this lifetime, the host might as well honestly sabotage the protagonist and rewrite his own fate.”

“Wait, according to what you’re saying, even if I don’t provoke him, there’s still a high chance I’ll confront the protagonist?”

“The arrangement of the world’s consciousness is just so.”

“???” Ye Yong was speechless, he thought that by staying on the fringes he could avoid trouble, but it turns out the general direction is still to become nourishment for the protagonist?

Although the protagonist Long Tian is vengeful, he is also righteous. If Ye Yong doesn’t provoke him, Long Tian wouldn’t inexplicably come to kill him.

If the problem doesn’t arise from himself, then it must be from someone else? Like other members of the family provoking the protagonist or… his fiancée?

Right! Qin Shimei!

Ye Yong had read the novel “New Emperor in the Middle of Emperors” many times, after all, it was the first novel of his life. Even after becoming an old bookworm with pickier tastes, re-reading the first novel he started with still had a special flavor. So, he might remember the plot even better than the dog author.

According to the timeline, two weeks after Wu Xue became Ye Yong’s personal maid, Qin Shimei would meet the protagonist.

Since “New Emperor in the Middle of Emperors” was an earlier novel, the plot seen now seems a bit outdated and not withstand scrutiny.

After all, the young miss of a prestigious cultivation family, running out with a bunch of weaklings to find some spiritual herbs to enhance cultivation, isn’t that a joke? Couldn’t she just order the servants to do it?

Of course, if she ordered the servants to do it, Qin Shimei wouldn’t meet the protagonist Long Tian, but for the sake of the plot, it’s understandable.

And it can’t be said to completely not withstand scrutiny, upon closer examination, you’ll find that Qin Shimei’s character in the novel is quite independent, and being forced by her family to marry ‘Ye Yong’, she didn’t want to rely on her family, so she went out to find cultivation resources herself.

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After all, it was just that what-do-you-call-it spiritual herb, guarded by a late-stage crystalline spirit beast. Qin Shimeng’s underlings, a bunch of weaklings, were either dead or injured. It just so happened that they ran into the protagonist who was gathering herbs in the mountains. With the protagonist’s ‘extraordinary wisdom’, Qin Shimeng and her people successfully defeated the spirit beast and obtained the spiritual herb.

Qin Shimeng, after all, is a young miss from a family of immortals; she wouldn’t simply fall for the protagonist so easily. But it was this encounter that led to further developments. The plot is quite cliché, with the young miss eventually seeing the protagonist as a talent worth nurturing, watching him silently. As the protagonist grew more and more exceptional, helping her immensely, she inevitably fell in love.

At this point, according to the original plot, ‘Ye Yong’ should have come out and met his demise. But Ye Yong wouldn’t!

“I must find a way to distance myself from Long Tian as much as possible.” Ye Yong furrowed his brows, recalling all sorts of novels he had read, but couldn’t find any solution. Then something struck him: “That’s right! I can break off the engagement!”

Yes, trigger the legendary engagement-breaking event!

Of course, the breaking off of the engagement wasn’t happening to him, but to Qin Shimeng.

It’s not that Ye Yong didn’t want Qin Shimeng; it’s just that she was a rose with thorns, and moreover, Ye Yong couldn’t interfere with her actions. So Qin Shimeng’s encounter with the protagonist was inevitable.

If that’s the case, then severing ties with her first would surely also cut off any early contact with Long Tian.

Initially, ‘Ye Yong’ wanted to get rid of Long Tian because his lackeys around Qin Shimeng reported back, saying that after going out, the young miss took a liking to some wild boy. This sparked the jealousy of the petty ‘Ye Yong’, who arranged for someone to kill Long Tian.

The more he thought about it, the more resolute Ye Yong became about breaking off the engagement. There were plenty of female leads, but he only had one life.

Goodbye, Qin Shimeng.

Ye Yong immediately headed towards the council hall. However, he hadn’t inherited ‘Ye Yong’s memories and the novel didn’t detail the route, so he had no idea how to get there. He randomly grabbed a servant who was not too busy and asked for directions.

After getting the directions, Ye Yong arrived at the council hall.

The council hall was usually guarded by a single elder, as not everything needed to be discussed. Only matters of great importance would summon the other elders and the family head to the council hall for a meeting.

But Ye Yong’s intention to break off the engagement was, of course, a matter of great importance.

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