Making A Better Protagonist

Chapter 1

1:46 am
The laptop light dims with a notification saying 'low battery'.

"Ah..", Xu Jian's dark eyes lost focus owing to the sudden appearance of the notification. Sighing he stands up and stretches his muscles. He has been reading non-stop for 6 hours and has forgotten to have dinner. The room's dark. Sitting down once again, he takes off his glasses and rubs his eyes.

He has become addicted to light novels since he started high school. No matter how much he hates it, when the dumb protagonist is turned super strong and the clever villians are turned super stupid, just at the crucial point, so that the hero could win, he is still addicted. All his favorite characters are either turned Cannon fodder or sacrificed. Pity him, since he still remains addicted.

"Why do all the smart guys turn dumb once they encounter the protagonist? Damn protagonist halos! Silly authors! ", He curses and sighs as naturally as if he has been speaking of the weather.

Standing up once again, he puts away his laptop for charging and lumbers to the kitchen for coffee. While the milk boils, he stares out of the window. The cold wind blows in making him shiver and he remembers a scene from the novel that had him seething with anger.

'Wu Bi stares down at the dying boy before him. He has heard the boy whispering to himself about the con's of choosing a weak body.

Hearing him, Wu Bi was shocked to the core. His dear friend has been ruthlessly killed by an evil soul. Rage and guilt engulfed Wu Bi as he attacked the boy. Seeing life ebbing away from his eyes, Wu Bi hopes his friend's soul gets peace.'

Xu Jian glares at his cup of coffee ,"What dark soul? Wasn't the dark soul inside the body since the begining.? To show how loyal and righteous the protagonist is, the author just let him kill a godly necromancer.... I hate this story"

"Yes... I have the same opinion.", a voice interrupts Xu Jian's cursing remarks.

It takes Xu Jian a while to realise that someone else is there too. With eyes bulging out in shock , he turns around to find a red haired man sitting on the kitchen stool . Dressed like a businessman, the man seems to be reading a book. A book with no text, no image, just plain white sheets and he's even turning the pages calmly and elegantly as if the book were a precious treasure.

Adjusting his specs, the man turns to Xu.

"Don't you think the novel should be rewritten?"

"E...h w..ho? Who are you?!", Xu Jian splutters in bewilderment.

"Ah Me? I am the spirit of literature. I came to bestow upon you a gift."

"What??", Xu Jian stares at the man in shock wondering if lack of sleep has made him delusory or is there really a handsome looking lunatic in his house.

"Hey I am 100% real and sane. I am here to give you a rare chance to live in your dream world."

"What chance?",Xu Jian scrutinizes him suspiciously.

Smiling the man comes near him,"I want you to change this novel's course."

"Eh??", Xu Jian blanks out.

Smiling the man explains ," It's like turning the novel's end to a new path."

"Hey I don't have time to rewrite this novel for you."

"Ah.. you got me wrong. I want you to change the novel as in real life. You can even choose someone you want to become the next supreme king. I want to send you into this novel. This fictionous world which in fact is quite real if you ask me."

"Don't be stupid. Even if i believe you and your words are real, who would want to go there?",Xu Jian stares down at the man as if he is the biggest idiot in the world.

"??"

"A place I would need to stick to the thigh of the 'oh so great protagonist'!! I would rather stick to my dear laptop.", Jian sips his coffee leisurely thinking of how he should describe this. A fancy little dream like the Alice in the Wonderland or a glimpse of reality.

"Oh don't worry . If you ever die in the novel, I will send you back here. All in one piece without a single scratch on your self.",the man seems to be trying to sound persuasive.

"Don't want to",Jian can't help but feel uneasy so he declines at once without hesitation.

" What reason do you have to not want to? ", the man's eyes turn a deeper shade of yellow as if giving a warning. He seemed wild and dangerous.
" Do you want to stay hauled in this small world of yours? Frightened to step out, lest you end up taking a wrong turn? Your parents are dead, you have no siblings, your friends left you, your relatives took away all your parent's savings yet demand more. What are you afraid of? Don't you think it will be a far better idea to do something else than suffer for a while? After all either way you seem way too replaceable. An existence whose presence was never needed. Don't you think?", the man whispers in Jian's ears and pushes him back as his eyes glaze over remembering the harsh days he's been trying to forget, harsh peoples he's trying to avoid, harsh truths that he has learnt to ignore and then everything blacks out.

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I am late. Sorry ~
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