"Since you're giving up on this, why the hell did you even write the book in the first place!"
On the other end of the phone, the woman's cursing flooded into Luo Ning's ears.
"I'm sorry, Sister Xue. I guess that's the end of the book."
Luo Ning never expected that half a year after he stopped updating his book, he would actually receive a 'friendly' reminder from the editor.
During this half year, Luo Ning had thought about picking up the book again, but ultimately gave up.
The disproportionately low income, the increasingly busy schedule of the final semester of his senior year, and the dramatic changes in his family and surrounding environment... These were all reasons for Luo Ning giving up in the end.
Now that he had graduated from high school, Luo Ning might even have to face the possibility of getting a job to maintain his livelihood.
Pursuing dreams is not a bad thing, but reality is always cruel.
"All the signed books on our site must be completed! For those like you who leave their books unfinished, we can only take them off the shelf!" the woman said angrily.
Being taken off the shelf means that the book will disappear from the Internet, as if it had never existed.
Luo Ning tightened his grip on his phone, hesitated for a moment, and then moved his lips.
"Alright, I got it, Sister Xue."
"You!" The editor choked, she had intended to threaten Luo Ning, but didn't expect him to agree decisively.
"Fine! Goodbye!"
The phone hung up, and the cold beeping sound followed.
Luo Ning's hand gradually lowered, finally throwing the phone aside.
He lay on the clean sheets and sighed helplessly.
After a long time, Luo Ning turned over, picked up the discarded phone, and looked at the situation on the website.
His book had already been deleted.
It was so fast... When he previously asked her to help edit the typos, she managed to delay it for over ten days.
In the empty room, only the ticking of the wall clock could be heard.
Now that he had nothing to distract him emotionally, Luo Ning felt both a sense of relief and emptiness.
Looking up at the ceiling full of cobwebs, his eyes gradually lost focus.
He felt sleepy, his head dull.
His eyes narrowed slightly, and he could glimpse a corner of the bustling city's night scene through the glass window.
The more prosperous the place, the more lonely he felt...
Drowsiness made his eyelids slowly close.
Luo Ning hoped that when he wakes up, he can be a sunny, hardworking person.
.
'Crackle, crackle'
The sound of fire burning all around.
High temperature blowing on the face, wave after wave of heat.
The air inhaled into the nostrils felt hot.
All of this was extremely unfamiliar to Luo Ning.
In such an environment, his senses felt uncomfortable. Luo Ning slowly opened his eyes.
Hands, feet, body... all unable to move.
He was shocked to find that he was tied to a black cross!
His body suspended in midair, below his feet was the unbelievably realistic, rolling magma. Luo Ning even saw the slippers on his feet.
"Ah, you're here."
Someone close by was talking, a delicate, soft female voice.
Luo Ning was startled, looked up, and followed the voice's owner with his eyes.
He saw a young girl dressed in peculiar clothes.
A small vest, shorts with hollow patterns. And a pair of white ponytails, dangling softly on her flat chest.
Higher up, she had red bows tied to the ends of her ponytails.
Her blood-red pupils were smiling, and her immature round face was full of murderous intent that did not match her appearance.
" Hehehe~ So you finally came over from the other world, huh?" In her sweet and delicate voice, the malice in her eyes couldn't be concealed.
Luo Ning widened his eyes, incredulously staring at the girl for several seconds.To be honest, it was a bit difficult to lift one's head while being nailed to the cross. He persisted for a while and then dropped his head. His pupils trembled slightly, and a wave of emotion stirred in his heart.
"Silver hair, red eyes, sharp fangs, round demon horns on the head... Ears composed of bat wings on both sides... and the demon wings behind." Luo Ning murmured to himself.
What he recited was a scene he had once described. In the first few chapters before the novel was banned, he wrote about the appearance of the ultimate BOSS...which was exactly the person he described.
"Huh? Stupid? No...My magic is perfect!" The girl stood in the void in front of Luo Ning, her strange smile on her face not diminishing, staring at Luo Ning with her terrifying blood-red eyes.
The pitch-black whip in her hand was waving, making a crisp 'snap' sound in mid-air. The hot wind swept across Luo Ning's face, he closed his eyes and then opened them again.
Something was not right. If it was really a dream, the feeling was too realistic...
"Lilulu?" Luo Ning tentatively called out the name of the girl in front of him - a character from his novel.
The delicate body wrapped in wings trembled slightly. She walked gracefully through the air, her snow-white legs moving gently. As she approached, Luo Ning became more and more convinced...
This person was the ultimate BOSS in his novel, Lilulu Yushi Bamilis. Don't ask why the name is so long, if asked, it was just filling up the word count when writing the setting.
The girl's red blood pupils narrowed slightly, her eyes darkened, she let go of the whip, and a curved scythe made of dark mist formed in her hand. The scythe was pointed straight at Luo Ning's head, full of murderous intent.
Luo Ning swallowed with difficulty, a feeling of unease gripping him. She was going to kill him... This was the message he had read from this murderous intent.
"Although I want to kill you now, as the one who summoned you here using dark magic, I have to fulfill one of your wishes before I behead you..." Lilulu held the scythe with one hand and reached over with her other hand. Her delicate fingers were not only slender but also cold.
She lifted Luo Ning's chin with her fingertips, her tone strangely ambiguous: "Welcome to my world. My dear, Creator God 'Father'..."
Luo Ning's back was covered in cold sweat. Creator God...?
Luo Ning stared blankly, pondering the events that had taken place in the past few minutes. The only thing he could be sure of now was...
He had been summoned into the book by this great demon that he had once written about!!
"So, please tell me, what is your wish?" Even though the person was using an honorific, Luo Ning didn't feel respected at all. On the contrary, he could see the malice in the demon's eyes.
His brain worked fast. 'After the magic circle for summoning demons is activated, the summoner must fulfill one wish of the summoned person and then harvest their soul.' This was the setting in Luo Ning's book.
Of course, the magic to summon demons is not necessarily summoned by people, it can also be initiated by demons to actively summon humans. This setting was originally used to promote the plot, but Luo Ning never thought that it would apply to himself.
One wish... Now all he needed to do was mention that one wish, and the scythe above his head would swing down without fail.
Demons are cunning. In most cases, they will not fulfill human wishes normally. They will take shortcuts, deceive, and use the simplest and most crude methods to fulfill human wishes.
But one thing is beyond doubt...They must fulfill the desires of a human.
At the moment of summoning, the demon and the human soul have already formed a binding. The binding can only be unlocked when both parties' objectives are achieved.
Luo Ning looked at the black symbol on his left hand. There was still a burning sensation on that piece of skin, which was the contract magic circle with the demon that had just been engraved.
Although Luo Ning didn't quite understand the current situation, the precarious scythe above his head didn't allow for him to speak rashly.
The urgency was already pressing. He had no choice but to think of a life-saving desire.
"So, tell me... what is your wish?"
The demon laughed wildly, her white hair dancing in the heatwave.
She raised one foot and stepped on the edge of the cross next to Luo Ning's shoulder, grasping the huge scythe with both hands, raising it up high.
This angle… was a bit unfavorable…
Where could Luo Ning focus his attention now? The burning and anxiety stimulated Luo Ning's senses, and large beads of sweat slid down his forehead.
"My wish is…"
He raised his head and looked at the demon. In his black eyes was the calm and composure after finding the answer.
"Be my wife."
"… Huh?!"
The girl was astonished and stopped in place, and the huge scythe in her hand clattered to the ground.
