Shadow Weaver

Chapter 151 is a microcosm

Xu Yichi raised his head and uttered an extremely sad sigh: "She knew that she was destined to have a hard time having a good ending. She knew that she was destined to fall on that road and become an inconspicuous step for those who come after her to continue to climb up -"

"Everything that happened afterwards was just as the girl had expected from the beginning."

"After the storm, those people began to settle accounts with the people and things that had embarrassed them and made them lose face - and the girl, because of her outstanding performance in this movement and her weak background compared to her writings, was undoubtedly and unsurprisingly used as a background and was arrested as a typical example."

"The articles she published in magazines and newspapers, which shocked and inspired countless people, have finally become the biggest weapon for the world to criticize her. They are the most direct and powerful evidence that she 'really' 'made a mistake.'"

The little girl raised her fingers and tapped on the narrow windowsill. The stone surface made a dense, half-crisp sound, which made people think of the continuous rain on the Qinhuai River.

——Like the smoke that cannot be blown away in Shanghai.

"Some people also sympathized with the girl's article, and out of some subtle 'cherishing talent', they secretly gave her a chance."

"--If she is willing to declare in the newspaper that everything she did before was misled, that she only sympathized with those students and had no intention of really opposing them... I hope that her pen, which has won the hearts of many people, can be used by them in the future to write the 'brilliant articles' they need."

"Then they are willing to 'generously' forgive the girl and make her the next rising star in the literary world, clearing her of her background as a prostitute, giving her freedom, allowing her to truly enter the literary world and become their undisputed face."

"In other words, they were attracted by her knowledge and beauty, and by her identity as the founder of the 'Qinglou Salvation Association'."

"They wanted to carefully transform her into their puppet, a beautiful puppet who could speak for them, stand in front of the people to deceive them, fool the people, and socialize for them."

"Beauty is indeed a trump card." Xu Yichi put his hand heavily on the windowsill as if to make a conclusion, "A beautiful woman who is well-read and has a deep understanding of human nature, is good at observing people's words and expressions, and can move freely among the crowd is even more of a trump card."

"But the girl is a tough guy. She won't bend her spine to the evildoers, and she won't admit her mistakes to the enemies."

"Perhaps the most perfect ending for an idealist is to die generously for his or her ideal when one is full of enthusiasm. The girl rejected their proposal without hesitation and angrily denounced them as 'traitors' who would be nailed to the pillar of shame in history sooner or later."

"The wrathful villains brutally executed her. The blood washed the ground and turned into flowers like dry bones in the deserted place."

"The news of the girl's death spread quickly, and her body was thrown into a corner of the cemetery like garbage... When the craftsman found it, it was already damaged."

"The craftsman went to the brothel in the guise of an 'old friend from the girl's hometown'. In the secluded shadows, the brothel owner stuffed the girl's few remaining belongings into the craftsman's arms, saying 'bad luck' while ordering someone to secretly open a secret passage that could lead to their exit."

"After the craftsman left, he opened the bundle and found that besides a few silver coins and two pieces of jewelry, the only thing left was a small purple clay teapot that he was familiar with and whose workmanship was crude and immature."

"——This is the one he made when he first learned to make purple clay pottery. Over the years, the girl has regarded it as her only memory of her youth and has carefully carried it with her."

After saying this, Xu Yichi fell silent uncontrollably. When she spoke again, her voice became hoarse unconsciously.

"...Later, the craftsman put the girl's ashes into the pot, and the girl's ghost, full of resentment, began to parasitize on the pot." "Okay, that's about it for the previous settings. The following will be some side plots with different directions. Xiaobai Qingqing, take a look, do you still have any questions about this setting?"

After finally finishing her narration of the huge setting of Xu Da Production, she let out a long sigh, then smiled at Bai Miaomiao and the other person.

Bai Miaomiao and the other two looked at each other with trembling brows. After a while, An Qing was the first to speak, holding his head and saying, "Uh... there's nothing I don't understand."

"Just a little bit, Xiaoyi."

"If we follow your idea completely... then it would be better if we don't give the girl a specific historical prototype, right?"

Lord An hesitated, and Bai Miaomiao nodded in agreement: "Yes, that's what I meant - that's what I wanted to say."

"Xiaoyi, I think that the female character in your setting is not suitable for a historical prototype - or rather, she should not have a specific historical prototype that can be found. She is more like a microcosm of countless women who have awakened or not awakened but are struggling and have a tendency to awaken in that era and background."

"That is to say, 'she' may not even necessarily be a flower girl - of course, we chose a flower girl for the sake of the contrast and tragic tone of the story, there is nothing wrong with that - it's just that the thousands of women who will experience this painful awakening are not necessarily of any identity or age. No matter how beautiful or ugly they are, or how high or low their family background is, as long as they awaken, they will inevitably face these things."

——The self-awakening of a woman who has fallen into the world of prostitution is naturally more shocking than the awakening of those young ladies who have been born into scholarly families and have the opportunity to access a more advanced and complete knowledge system.

It’s like... the flowers blooming on the bare rocks on the cliffs always look wilder and more full of vitality than the gorgeous flowers in the greenhouse.

In order to make the game plot seem more moving and powerful, they of course write it as complicatedly as possible.

But... at least for this character, they really didn't want to limit her to a specific known historical prototype.

She really is the epitome of a certain type of woman of that era - or even a certain type of person.

"So, in this case, it seems more reasonable not to set up a historical prototype... Xiaoyi, what do you think?" Bai Miaomiao said carefully. Xu Yichi nodded without hesitation: "No problem."

"Everyone thinks she's not suitable for a prototype, so why not have a prototype?"

“In fact, when I first started changing the setting, I thought it would be better to have a prototype. This way, our game would be a bit like writing a biography for the woman who has disappeared in history.”

"But after I just said that, I suddenly felt that it would be more appropriate to have no prototype."

"In this way, she no longer represents a single chosen person, but countless 'she's' - or countless 'ta's'."

"That's great. This is much better than what we thought before - let's make it this way!"