NOVEL NEXT Chapter 65: Festival of Words
It must be said that this simulated false memory, created to extract "pain points," clearly overlooks a lot of logical coherence at critical junctures.
In reality, how could it be possible for someone as gentle as he to casually attend a performance and coincidentally encounter such deliberate misunderstandings?
Not to mention if he truly had a close relationship with Xanthia, he would probably have known long ago that she and Dionysius were siblings. It's not a relationship that needs to be hidden.
Or perhaps in reality, if Dionysius knew his "sister" was hanging out with such a clueless person, the doting brother might have intervened long ago. Don't underestimate this sister-lover, who is inherently ruthless.
In reality, everything is interconnected; a slight touch can affect the entire body.
Yet this false memory, as long as there is an opportunity to extract pain, the system spares no effort in creating meticulously arranged "coincidences" and "misunderstandings."
It can even convincingly explain why Xanthia doesn't reveal her true identity.
Obviously, the gentle her is worried about his pressure, a tragic story typical between a lady and a poor boy.
False memories are ultimately not real futures; they can be likened to an "illusionary space." Truly rational and sharp individuals can detect the anomalies.
Unfortunately, Dematero is highly sensitive and currently heartbroken; his "spiritual vulnerabilities" are too great. How could he possibly see through such a realistic "illusion"?
From the bottom of his heart, he believes that everything after his heartbreak and his subsequent life development in the memory are real, perfectly fitting his logical actions.
So much so that he hasn't noticed that the timeline in his memory actually jumps, with many details missing.
But he thinks it's all normal because he has already devoted himself entirely to "writing," where time passes by swiftly, as it should.
After witnessing the interaction between Xanthia and Dionysius, instead of confronting them like a clown, he silently chooses to leave alone, like a loser in life.
Walking alone on the dark, long street, tears silently fall, and the inner resentment and pain have no one to confide in.
Indeed, in the end, the only companionship he has is with words... he thinks bitterly.
Yet after the extreme pain, he deceives himself into believing that perhaps it's a good thing if Xanthia really ends up with Dionysius.
After all, Dionysius went to the same high school as him, and he had heard of this person's great reputation long ago. Now, with outstanding achievements, he has even been accepted into a national university. He is clearly the ideal match in the eyes of many girls.
Taking a step back, he never had the qualification to interfere with Xanthia's feelings; what he should do is wish her well...
One can only say that Dematero's reaction is too real, perfectly in line with his character's deduction.
And due to the stimulation from this incident, he awakens an impressive literary talent — the subsequent scenes of "cuckoldry" he writes become even more adept, capable of making readers scream and itch!
Holding his breath, he writes a novel titled "Festival of Words" — this is his youthful festival.
During the creation of this novel, he is like a madman, venting all his inner darkness. Apart from eating and sleeping, he writes desperately, and in the end, he is completely exhausted after finishing it!
In a short period of time, he pours out all his inner shadows. This is the craziest creation in his life; the overall tone of the book is eerie, oppressive, and despairing...
Its general content goes like this —
The first half of the story is beautiful; although the male lead is poor and penniless, resorting to all sorts of tricks with his friends just to get by, he has a beautiful female lead, an unattainable goddess of purity. There are many heartwarming interactions between them.
The latter half gradually becomes heavier; the male lead starts to lose his mind, but his friends still stand by him, fighting battles that cannot be won. It's the kind where even if you become crazy, I'm your brother and I'll only accompany you in madness. In the end, it's about the helplessness of dying together and living recklessly.
However, in reality, Dematero didn't have such a friend.
The saddest and most oppressive, was the female lead, she was the true love of the male lead.
Dematero, who had already turned into an "old thief," liked to describe this girl as having eyes like an ancient mirror, pure to the extreme.
The female lead and male lead fell in love, but she was forced to marry the prominent antagonist.
On the night of their wedding, the female lead, who was violated by the antagonist, frantically called for the male lead in the palace, wanting him to come save her.
The male lead only stood at the palace gate, listening to the female lead's desperate cries inside, he bit his fist.
At that moment, the male lead went crazy.
Later, the female lead became pregnant, and in front of the antagonist and the male lead, she jumped off the city wall and died by suicide.
The male lead's heart completely died, and he later turned into a metal man, a tin man, dancing crazily in the forest.
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The overall feel of the book is just one word - bleak!
The overall tone is dark and oppressive, no one on the protagonist's side has a good ending, extreme oppression can give the audience a very bad post-viewing experience, easily bringing readers into a sense of loss, the madness in the book is not just madness, but a frenzy ignited by fireworks, very brief and hopeless.
Anyone who reads such a book is likely to be overwhelmed by negative emotions and then pain value to pain points.
The false simulated memories are clearly also intentionally training Dematero's ability to write abusive stories, after all, he is a man who will become a humanoid summoner, in real life, the pain value his works generate are all attributed to Xanthia.
Logically speaking, books written in this deranged state will definitely have a limited audience.
But it must be said, sometimes fate is unpredictable, or rather, Dematero is indeed talented.
After years of continuous writing, he has accumulated a solid foundation, this work of his actually successfully got published, not to mention becoming an overnight sensation, the sales are quite good, enough to support himself comfortably, he no longer needs Xanthia's help to survive.
Obviously, books with strong emotional appeal still have a market, and the talent scout who recognized Dematero's work, his name is Lehman, is a very good book merchant who excels in packaging and marketing.
After learning about Dematero's "legendary" experience of dropping out of high school, he packaged him as a "genius teenager," and since Dematero was also good-looking, he could completely walk the path of an "idol writer."
If it were in the past, Dematero would definitely refuse this kind of packaging, he wanted to rely on the solid strength of his writing to speak for itself, but now, he only has one idea, to become strong as soon as possible, completely independent, so the faster he becomes famous, the better!
He no longer wants to accept any help from Xanthia, he just wants to clear the debts between them.
