NOVEL WEB Ch. 43
Chapter 43: You and I have no grudge, so why stab me!
2L
Good question, how is this guy so Ge Li Ge Qi?
3L
No way? Don’t scare me!
The most hated and second-most hated need to be ranked, okay!
Yue Shan and Heige being the same person is way too terrifying!
4L
To the one above, I think OP means the later Yue Shan is a different person.
Oh no, I’m also getting Ge Li Ge Qi vibes, and that humming guy at the start has to be Heige, no one else would pull that off.
He really showed up at Twinborn.
…No way!
5L
Chilling thought!
Can’t it just be the artist mixing things up?
What if they drew Heige too long, so now all villains are starting to feel Ge Li Ge Qi?
It’s not impossible, right?
6L
To the one above, not all villains are this Heige, trust me.
Only Heige would dare to waltz in humming and wreck the place like that! Who else would be so brazen?
7L
I thought Heige got killed by Yue Shan, my bad for jumping the gun.
Heige’s bigshot status remains unshaken, villains come and go, but Heige’s the constant.
8L
Friends, no one, absolutely no one, is as Heige as him!
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‘Heige’ has become an adjective?!
Li Li stared at that line on the screen, blinking.
For a moment, it felt off, but then it seemed fine.
Finally, she touched her forehead and muttered, “It really is Ge Li Ge Qi.”
The adjective was surprisingly fitting.
But since she’d deliberately leaned into Heige’s personality when impersonating Yue Shan, it wasn’t surprising to be found out.
With Heige himself showing up, the confrontation scene with Yue Shan was so thrilling even she found it exciting.
The manga artist would definitely draw it after the disguise reveal.
What a perfect plot to flesh out Heige’s character—she didn’t believe the artist would pass it up.
That meant Yue Shan’s death behind the scenes couldn’t stay hidden, and Heige’s impersonation of Yue Shan would definitely be exposed.
Sooner or later, the disguise would drop, so might as well pick the most advantageous moment.
The artist’s choices weren’t too far from Li Li’s expectations; in fact, they aligned perfectly with her plans for what came next.
Just right.
Next, Li Li checked the forum post summarizing the main storyline.
[Let’s sort out the plot progression of the Four-Way arc so far.]
1L Original Poster
Cutting out minor details and foreshadowing, the plot so far goes like this:
The Four-Way arc starts with the twins Momo and Youyou asking Little Corgi for help.
Then they arrive at Four-Way City and encounter bounty hunters.
While evading the bounty hunters, Momo, Tang, Youyou, Yiming, and Yu Xiao split into three groups and get separated.
Youyou goes missing from this point.
Tang and Momo’s group runs into Yue Shan and gets trapped in Twinborn early on.
Yiming and Yu Xiao’s group later finds a warning left by Tang.
Yiming and Yu Xiao get separated, and Yiming reaches Twinborn alone.
Yue Shan appears, explaining his research goals while targeting Yiming and Momo.
Midway, Heige shows up, drawing Yue Shan’s attention.
Yiming tries to escape with Momo, but Momo leaves on her own.
Yiming is recaptured by Yue Shan and subjected to experiments.
Meanwhile, Tang finds the long-missing Youyou, who asks Tang to kill him.
That’s it.
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[Momo and Youyou’s relationship analysis]
1L Original Poster
It’s me again, the OP from the plot summary post.
The last post didn’t get much traction, so starting a new one.
At the start of the Four-Way arc, the manga states Momo and Youyou’s abilities are mimicry-type [Puppet] and mimicry-type [Enhancement], respectively.
But later plot points conflict with the initial setup.
1. Yue Shan mentions Momo has already undergone one experiment and now has two abilities.
2. Momo is set up as blind, but in Twinborn, she uses a mimicry-type [Pupil Technique] ability.
3. The discovered Youyou has no eyes.
4. It was never mentioned that Youyou’s ability was [Pupil Technique].
So, I have two theories:
1. Between Tang and Momo getting captured and Yiming reaching Twinborn, Yue Shan experimented and gave Youyou’s eyes to Momo.
But point 4 still raises doubts, unless Youyou originally had two abilities.
2. The Youyou found by Tang isn’t actually Youyou, but someone who looks very similar, possibly an android, clone, or twin. The real Youyou’s ability is [Enhancement], and he wasn’t captured by Yue Shan. The discovered ‘Youyou’ has the [Pupil Technique] ability, and his eyes were already gouged out before.
As long as the two Youyous are separated, the manga’s setup has no contradictions.
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Li Li carefully read through both of the original poster’s analysis posts, and their analysis was already very close to the truth.
However, the manga hadn’t yet revealed the nutrient tank setting.
Besides that, Li Li also checked out some other analysis posts, but none were as detailed as this poster’s.
It was getting late.
Having just eaten a late-night snack, Li Li wasn’t sleepy, so she scrolled through the forum and suddenly spotted a title.
[Dare I ask, when has Heige ever shown up without causing a scene?]
Li Li thought it did seem to be the case.
So she reflected on herself for a moment and decided she’d do it again next time.
After all, she couldn’t recall a single time she didn’t cause a scene.
[My wife is so hot!]
1L Original Poster
[Silhouette standing high above, on the cross-section of an open ceiling.jpg]
Look at those long legs, look at that figure, look at how hot my wife is!
2L
OP, how bold, what are you planning to do with someone else’s wife!
3L
Can’t you guys just include Heige’s name? Is setting a filter word that hard?
I don’t want to know anything about this lunatic! Why can’t I block him completely even after filtering!
4L
That said, if the analysis next door is correct, the one teasing Little Corgi later is also Heige!
I’ve been waiting for his appearance forever, wuwuwu, why does Heige get so little screentime!
He’s so cool, isn’t he!
5L
Wow, the guy above broke the vibe, haha.
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[Ge Li Ge Qi Yue Shan, sorry, I’m already smitten]
1L Original Poster
If the later Yue Shan is really Heige…
[Wearing a white lab coat, holding documents, gold-rimmed glasses, long legs propped on the coffee table, smirking Heige.jpg]
2L
Super!!!!
This Heige has me going wild!
3L
Pirate’s home, Ge’s wardrobe.
4L
How is he so handsome! Such a show-off! A heartthrob arsonist!
Doctor Ge, I’m sick, I’ve got a disease where I’ll die if I don’t marry you!
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[I keep having this illusion]
1L Original Poster
Sorry, everyone’s upset about Youyou and cursing Yue Shan in the latest chapter, but I’m really heartbroken for Yiming.
When he was thinking to himself that Li wasn’t by his side this time and he needed to stay calm.
The one who ended up saving him was Heige, who killed Li.
Yiming couldn’t avenge Li and ended up being toyed with by his enemy.
It’s too dramatic, really too dramatic.
Sorry, I just want to cry. Ahoge Knife Li, why are you still stabbing me even now!
2L
Oh no, I’m crying too.
Is this Li watching over Little Corgi from the heavens? Even though it’s Heige who came…
3L
Stop, Li fans are completely shattered today.
Li’s only been gone for how long, and Heige’s already this popular?
After reading the manga, I was wondering if Yue Shan killed Heige—I was thrilled, overjoyed—but then the analysis next door hit, and good lord, Heige might still be alive and well, bullying Little Corgi on the side.
Why does a scumbag who tramples on others’ efforts get to live so well! Why!
4L
I feel like a dog kicked out of nowhere on the street. I have no grudge with you, so why stab me!
I thought I’d moved on from Li, but now I’m crying like a dog.
Wuwuwu, Ahoge Li, my Ahoge Li, he was supposed to have a bright future.
…
45L Dog Head Rose
Sorry, I got emotional reading the main post and drew this.
[Chibi Little Corgi tied to an operating table, with a ghostly chibi Li nearby saying coldly, ‘I can’t help you’.jpg]
[Chibi Yue Shan leaves, Little Corgi is saved, and ghostly Li disappears.jpg]
[Little Corgi, unsuspecting, runs out joyfully, thinking Li came to save him despite his words.jpg]
[Little Corgi, on the verge of tears, looks ahead because the person off-screen isn’t Li but Heige.jpg]
46L
Wuwuwu, how is this cute art style delivering such a brutal knife!
I won’t sleep tonight! Heige! I’ll fight you!
47L
Heige and I are mortal enemies!
Yue Shan needs to die, Heige needs to die, let them both die!
48L
Poor Little Corgi, wuwuwu, Ahoge Li can’t walk with you anymore, never again.
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The forum readers’ self-inflicted pain was something else.
By the time she reached that last post, even Li Li felt the sting.
She let out a quiet sigh, but she had gone to help, so her conscience was clear.
Not only did she help, she even gave Yiming extra training—her conscience was completely clear!
But as she was about to sleep, the screenwriter from the group she’d recently joined was wailing and losing it in the chat, spamming messages like crazy.
Poor Li fans.
Li Li skimmed the screenwriter’s meltdown, shamelessly thinking to herself.
Then she turned off her phone to sleep.
She had class tomorrow.
Goodnight, Li fans, your idol is sleeping soundly.
Hope you all sleep well tonight, amen.
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The next night, the system channel opened again.
[Preparing for traversal.]
[Channel opened. Wishing you to become a highly popular character, bringing new vitality to the manga.]
This time, Li Li didn’t change her position.
When she closed her eyes and opened them again, she was already disguised as Yue Shan, sitting leisurely in a chair, watching Yiming’s extreme challenge.
The round trip didn’t take much time; it was almost instantaneous.
To Yiming and the blue-robed people, this Yue Shan had merely blinked.
Li Li pushed her gold-rimmed glasses, the smile still lingering on her lips, hardly bothering to conceal her ‘ Ge Li Ge Qi aura’ anymore.
Anyway, Yiming was fully occupied dealing with those ability users, with no chance to spare attention here.
At the same time, Li Li swiftly shifted her vision to the phantom, continuing to observe Tang and Youyou’s situation.
The developments followed closely from when she left.
Tang still stood there, while Youyou floated among the thin tubes inside the nutrient tank in front of her.
Youyou had just mouthed his request to Tang, asking her to kill him.
But the black-haired girl standing before the nutrient tank fell silent for a moment.
After a long pause, Tang raised her head, the ends of her long, straight black hair swaying with the motion.
She said: “The person who came to Jiao Huang with Momo wasn’t you, and the one who asked Yiming to save someone wasn’t you either. I won’t agree to your condition. Go ask Yiming if he’s willing.”
“Of course, he won’t be willing either.” Tang’s emerald-green eyes held seriousness and certainty. “You can only make Momo willing.”