Kill the Male Lead to Become the Villainess - Ch. 100 - Memory is a Gilded Cage
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Ah ok I see now
lin lingyao is dead 😭😭😭😭
wtf
She should’ve listened that bro was gonna be a problem
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Tysm for the TL!!! Take as much time as you need. These scanlations are good quality, so they’re worth the wait!!
And oh my god. News of Lingyao’s death gave me chills 😭. My girl, noooo 💔
And oh my god. News of Lingyao’s death gave me chills 😭. My girl, noooo 💔
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Yes we’ve finally caught up! Thanks to the team for all the effort translating this! Also I can only see this blowing up in the shadow guys face, Jiu Qianqui was strongest when she was shunned from society originally, and while it was obviously because of the power she no longer has. She now has way more knowledge then she previously had, she now has all the ingredients she needs to reclaim the power she once had, and now she has 2 allies that will be there to help her. I’ll be pretty shocked if Yue Kongming doesn’t show up to help, and if they find a way to save Lingyao. That’s now another powerful person who knows about the Shadow man and may end up getting their past memories and awareness to the system they live in.
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Thank you for the chapters! I really love the feel of this series, and your translations keep the tangled conflicts and emotions clear. It's all very refreshing. tysm
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A, um, pretty comprehensive look at the current plots given we'll be pausing at this chapter for weeks...
I don't feel that Lin Lingyao is permanently dead, because she's amidst too many changes and this isn't a series axe point. The cost to resurrect a "party member" is probably twisted to be high. Hopefully not Blood Spirit Flower high, probably is tho... that's fine but so plot-backtracking convenient.
At worst, Lin Lingyao could be dead for years before rising. But she's at least still in the cast. Lingyao's mortal or godly aspects are probably going to come out of this worse for wear though... putting backlash on Qianqiu... because as relieving as it is to see Jiu Qianqiu relatively at peace and unmasked, a core of her villainess role is carrying burdens. I just hope Lingyao isn't totally reset to a girl beholden to canon route, or crushed by taking on so much godliness she's diluted. I expect some of both though. This feels like the coming of age, end of childhood, irrevocable trauma threshold for her.
Also I don't trust Qi Liu. Maybe this is obvious? His caution and self-preservation instinct is liable to make him collaborate with any System-level entity. Qi Liu could want to cause Qianqiu to burn up a limited item to bring Lingyao back, the ambush timing is suspiciously close to attaining a Blood Spirit Flower, but I don't think things are that simple from Liu's POV.
While I can trust Qi Liu is wary of players / Yue Kongming-kind, and he doesn't see them as separable from the agendas of Video Game Plotline, he's definitely not aiming for the same truth as Jiu Qianqiu. Telling her to kill the system-exploit jellyfish that corresponds to Qianqiu's powers is as good as tricking her into no longer challenging the simulation.
If current Kongming thought the jellyfish sounded beautiful, even with an aesthetic of corruption, akin to Qianqiu in a sense, I'm betting jelly is not a foe. I think it's pretty too. Even if it is a tumorous form in comparison to the canon system. And jelly vanished while Qianqiu is getting a system update? That cinched it. Which cinched Qi Liu being devious.
Thus the undocumented shadow jelly boss is consistent with purging an unwanted exploit or externality of the canon System. It's better for whatever controllers that the jelly is hard to get details on, and is wiped out. ...Though I guess that part may be heavily foreshadowed, and less guesswork than most of this post.
Back to angst for Qianqiu I guess. "Temporary murder" would still paint her as a villain.
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A, um, pretty comprehensive look at the current plots given we'll be pausing at this chapter for weeks...
I don't feel that Lin Lingyao is permanently dead, because she's amidst too many changes and this isn't a series axe point. The cost to resurrect a "party member" is probably twisted to be high. Hopefully not Blood Spirit Flower high, probably is tho... that's fine but so plot-backtracking convenient.
At worst, Lin Lingyao could be dead for years before rising. But she's at least still in the cast. Lingyao's mortal or godly aspects are probably going to come out of this worse for wear though... putting backlash on Qianqiu... because as relieving as it is to see Jiu Qianqiu relatively at peace and unmasked, a core of her villainess role is carrying burdens. I just hope Lingyao isn't totally reset to a girl beholden to canon route, or crushed by taking on so much godliness she's diluted. I expect some of both though. This feels like the coming of age, end of childhood, irrevocable trauma threshold for her.
Also I don't trust Qi Liu. Maybe this is obvious? His caution and self-preservation instinct is liable to make him collaborate with any System-level entity. Qi Liu could want to cause Qianqiu to burn up a limited item to bring Lingyao back, the ambush timing is suspiciously close to attaining a Blood Spirit Flower, but I don't think things are that simple from Liu's POV.
While I can trust Qi Liu is wary of players / Yue Kongming-kind, and he doesn't see them as separable from the agendas of Video Game Plotline, he's definitely not aiming for the same truth as Jiu Qianqiu. Telling her to kill the system-exploit jellyfish that corresponds to Qianqiu's powers is as good as tricking her into no longer challenging the simulation.
If current Kongming thought the jellyfish sounded beautiful, even with an aesthetic of corruption, akin to Qianqiu in a sense, I'm betting jelly is not a foe. I think it's pretty too. Even if it is a tumorous form in comparison to the canon system. And jelly vanished while Qianqiu is getting a system update? That cinched it. Which cinched Qi Liu being devious.
Thus the undocumented shadow jelly boss is consistent with purging an unwanted exploit or externality of the canon System. It's better for whatever controllers that the jelly is hard to get details on, and is wiped out. ...Though I guess that part may be heavily foreshadowed, and less guesswork than most of this post.
Back to angst for Qianqiu I guess. "Temporary murder" would still paint her as a villain.
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Inky needs the vacation, Inky seems to have gone haywire
10-20 days for a chapter seems perfectly fine for this quality of work.
Thank you for all the great translations you guys do.
As for the chapter.... I'm not sure I can add anything more that someone else hasn't already said.
It's really fishy and weird that the other guy is so anti-jellyfish when it seemed to support her powers and the new, nicer MC like it. The FMC is also going against her feelings because he made her paranoid to trust that she's actually okay with who the MC is now.
Thank you for all the great translations you guys do.
As for the chapter.... I'm not sure I can add anything more that someone else hasn't already said.
It's really fishy and weird that the other guy is so anti-jellyfish when it seemed to support her powers and the new, nicer MC like it. The FMC is also going against her feelings because he made her paranoid to trust that she's actually okay with who the MC is now.
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Where my guy Kongming go?
Qi Liu is sus and he may know more than he show.
And i guess it would turn to some system conflict with virus plot, but it need a purpose so maybe, this world is real or follow some rule of a real world and the creator of this world try to get some thing philosophical or try to extract some thing from this world, with how importance some character is maybe our main is the one making this world.
(Recently finish hsr amphorius and the concept of some one or something hijacked a simulated systems and change it to use for him self cross my mind reading this)
Qi Liu is sus and he may know more than he show.
And i guess it would turn to some system conflict with virus plot, but it need a purpose so maybe, this world is real or follow some rule of a real world and the creator of this world try to get some thing philosophical or try to extract some thing from this world, with how importance some character is maybe our main is the one making this world.
(Recently finish hsr amphorius and the concept of some one or something hijacked a simulated systems and change it to use for him self cross my mind reading this)
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I have this peculiar sense that the recent update Qianqiu received is, in fact, an alteration to her backstory.
This could potentially explain why many aspects of her memories are being overwritten, and why some details in her memories are becoming more unclear or distorted, while others are beginning to emerge clearer.
This could potentially explain why many aspects of her memories are being overwritten, and why some details in her memories are becoming more unclear or distorted, while others are beginning to emerge clearer.
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