Her final voice lingered in the air: “No matter what method you use, you are absolutely forbidden from continuing to write any emotional entanglements between me and that Ryan Carter. I may come out at any time, and if you keep writing nonsense... then you’ll never write again.”

The voice faded away, and she was gone.

Brian Carter looked at the empty room, truly feeling as if he were dreaming.

Chapter Four: If You’re Going to Change It, Change It Like This

Brian Carter was just a half-baked, struggling writer, not an immortal, and had never imagined that his work could construct a real world. Yet the lingering fragrance in the air proved that none of this was an illusion.

Thinking back, he felt a wave of fear.

In his own setting, Henry Clark was by no means a gentle or kind person. Cultivators vie with the heavens for longevity and with others for supremacy, ruthless and decisive in killing. Although not from a demonic sect, she clearly had plenty of lives on her hands.

Given her situation and personality, the most likely outcome would have been to kill this “creator god,” letting the book’s trajectory run on its own from then on. Wouldn’t that be a boundless world for her to roam?

For the first time, Brian Carter felt so close to death.

Maybe she was worried that if the “creator god” perished, it might cause the world to collapse... After all, this was a work whose worldview hadn’t fully unfolded yet. Not to mention anything else, even the post-ascension immortal realm hadn’t been conceived in Brian Carter’s outline. Henry Clark was a top figure in the world, so she probably had some vague sense—this “creator god” couldn’t die.

That’s why she once said, “Even if it means the world collapses, I’ll kill you.”

That’s the logic... but it’s even more bizarre.

Speaking of the “one book, one world” concept, it’s not that hard to understand. Others have had characters like Huang Rong or Wanwan come out of books into the modern world, so of course it could happen in other stories too. Maybe it doesn’t even matter how well the work is written; as long as it’s a book, it’s a world—even a terrible book.

Others often have all sorts of novel worlds crossing over, with characters from different worlds making appearances... That’s what the so-called “myriad worlds” is all about.

So, having his own female lead come out doesn’t seem that strange. Maybe it doesn’t require wild imagination, nor does he need to be an immortal himself—it’s just the common “breaking the fourth wall” trope.

But the problem is, at least in other cases, those worlds are already complete, and the characters’ fates are set. What’s going on with his? The world isn’t even fully built, the plot has just started, and the female lead has already come out to force the author to revise the manuscript?

Fortunately, for some reason, Henry Clark couldn’t stay long. She didn’t have time to think about how to weave a development that fit the world’s logic before she had to go back. In the end, the mess still landed in Brian Carter’s hands.

It still seemed controllable...

But it was still a pain in the ass!

The outline for the human world before Henry Clark’s ascension was still very complete, but now, with the main female lead and male lead suddenly having no connection, wouldn’t the entire human world storyline collapse?

How was he supposed to change it?

Even if he downplayed Henry Clark’s role and transferred her original scenes to other female characters, he could barely keep the story going, but there would be a lot of inconsistencies. And for readers, having a perfectly good, stunning sect leader suddenly sidelined—wouldn’t that be considered “losing the female lead”?

A surefire way to flop.

But not changing it wasn’t an option either. If the book flopped, he’d just lose money, but if he didn’t change it as she wanted, he’d lose his life!

Brian Carter sat in front of the computer with a constipated expression, dazed for a full half hour, unable to write a single word.

Unconsciously, the clock pointed to 11:30.

“Damn!” Brian Carter glanced at the time and suddenly snapped out of it.

He’d written more than half of this chapter but hadn’t finished it yet. If he kept dawdling, he’d really miss an update!

The frustration in Brian Carter’s heart was beyond words. Missing an update during a book’s growth period was a real blow to one’s reputation. Even when he’d been a little sick before, he’d been reluctant to take a day off, and now he was about to be forced to miss an update by such a bizarre event.

The prospects for this book looked bleaker than ever.

“What the hell did I do to deserve this...” Brian Carter was full of alpacas. Other people’s adventures were always good things, but his was... beyond words.

“So as long as she’s not with the protagonist, right? Who’s afraid of who when it comes to writing? If I’m going to die, so be it!” Brian Carter gritted his teeth, straightened the keyboard, and started typing furiously:

“Henry Clark stood by the window for a while, collecting her thoughts. How could she have thought of that Ryan Carter? Ridiculous... In this world, what man could possibly be worthy of her? Let alone a mere disciple. Even if yin cannot exist alone and thus brings loneliness, if she truly needed a man, it should be the creator god himself!”

Manuscript finished, published!

...

Inside the world of the book.

Henry Clark was not standing by the window, but cultivating in seclusion in a secret chamber.

Her actions were not synchronized with what the author wrote; everyone’s timelines were different. Besides, characters naturally had their own things to do outside of their scripted scenes—they weren’t just waiting around to be written.

In the secret chamber, a phantom figure descended out of nowhere and merged with her body.

It turned out that the one who had crossed worlds to meet Brian Carter earlier was just her divine sense, not her physical body.

She had not yet met the conditions for ascension; breaking through the world’s barrier with a single thought was triggered by extreme anger, unleashing her potential, but it couldn’t last. Forcing herself to stay in the outside world could cause her body and soul to become disconnected, leading to serious problems. Sensing her limit, she had no choice but to return.