After the empress transmigrated, she became the judge of the entertainment industry.

Chapter 259 So this is what it means to be trapped in one's own web.

This diary is just like any other ordinary middle school girl's diary, recording some trivial things in life.

However, her wording is very concise. For example, she would record an event like "I have two extra math papers today. My classmate asked me to go out and play, but I have to finish them before I can go" as "Math papers: +2, completed. Went out in the afternoon to play".

At first glance, it may not seem particularly special.

But when Ye Sanqing and Xiaochong saw this thing... wasn't this Ye Sanqing's own tone?

Rather than a diary that expresses personal feelings, it is more like a log that simply records events.

Moreover, it wasn't just an occasional occurrence; most of the diary entries were in this format.

Xiao Chong felt even more deeply for him, and Ye Sanqing felt that using even one more word was too much.

Ye Sanqing had something strange about her: this so-called main operating character looked very similar to her in her childhood, and now even the way she recorded things was the same?

Has the Empire database ever been leaked?

[Your Majesty, no, but... your public activity record is enough for others to build a personal database of you.]

When Xiaochong heard her use the word "empire," he naturally changed his address to the formal "Your Majesty."

Ye Sanqing thought about it and realized it made sense. As the emperor of the empire, many of her activities were public and required to be recorded. If someone wanted to study them and analyze her behavior patterns, it wouldn't be too difficult with the technology of the interstellar era.

She probably struggled with this issue a hundred years ago, and then chose not to deal with it.

Does it matter if you know what I'm going to do and how I'm going to do it?

A true open conspiracy is one where everything is laid out on the table, everyone knows what will happen next, but there's no room for resistance.

"Did you find something?" Ye Yifan asked when she stopped flipping through her fingers.

“I have my doubts. She looks a little too much like me.” Ye Sanqing put it in a way that’s easier to understand here. “I mean, the character of hers was basically created based on me.”

"??" Ye Yifan was very shocked.

Her thinking was quick; this statement overturned her previous understanding. Was that damned creator god mocking her?

No wonder so many tokens are needed to summon him. Could it be that this world was originally created to trap Ye Sanqing?

"I'm sorry." After thinking it over, Ye Yifan apologized immediately.

She suspected she was being used; as an NPC, she might have had "resistance" and "looping" code pre-programmed into her, and the creator god was waiting for this moment, making her believe it was a rebellion of self-awareness, but in reality...

“There’s no need to be so pessimistic,” Ye Sanqing said, knowing exactly what Ye Yifan was thinking. “First of all, my starship definitely encountered a wormhole. No matter how advanced his technology is, he couldn’t have placed a wormhole in my path.”

It's a wormhole! This machine can confirm it!

The little insect suddenly made a sound on Ye Sanqing's watch, strongly expressing its affirmation.

If wormholes weren't inherently unavoidable, there would be ways to provide assistance.

"Oh, I almost forgot about this little thing."

After his initial shock subsided, Ye Yifan calmed down upon hearing what Ye Sanqing said.

Indeed, the so-called summoning kept going wrong from the beginning, which means that the prerequisite for this is that Ye Sanqing's original body must die.

If you can forcibly pull the soul over regardless of its original state, then you should succeed on the first try.

At least she wasn't the murderer of Ye Sanqing... Ye Yifan felt a little comforted by this thought.

"Secondly, I don't think you were designed this way. If you were designed this way, why wait 99 times? You could have just rebelled from the beginning. Look at Sheng Hanyu, just one rebirth was enough to change his behavior."

Ye Sanqing's original intention was to eliminate Ye Yifan's self-doubt.

At times like these, we must absolutely avoid an existential crisis.

"Whether it's for games or real-world operations, doing it this way is too easy to create redundancy and erosion. So I think your awakening was also an accident, and He could only go with the flow."

Ye Sanqing felt somewhat annoyed when she thought that this game developer might just be an ordinary person in her world, yet she still had to address him respectfully as "He".

However, this is more in line with the logic of how the world works, so for safety's sake, let's leave it at that for now.

"After all, He probably never imagined that your way of rebelling would be to repeatedly kill the characters He created, right? I guess He couldn't stand it anymore later on, so He started negotiating with you."

Ye Sanqing smiled.

Ye Yifan's move to resist was undeniably brilliant.

If her repeated suicide attempts only caused the game to restart, Ye Sanqing estimated that the game author would directly rewrite the plot, such as "the eldest sister who died young inherited her estate by Ye Wanyin" or something like that. If that were the case, it would be unbearable.

As for why the eldest sister character wasn't removed in this situation, it's probably because after multiple reincarnations, she has become an integral part of the stable operation of this world.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be any "important character dies, game restarts" scenario.

So, the eldest sister's actions stemmed from a rebellion driven by her own self-awareness. An NPC who has undergone 99 reincarnations has become integrated into this world—this is definitely not something the original author intended to see.

In other words, it doesn't have that much freedom. Some things are still pre-set, such as "the Ye family siblings must survive until a certain day" or "Ye Sanqing must be found and brought home before a certain day".

Moreover, things have now spiraled out of the original author's control.

So, isn't that something they can exploit?

"Third, I believe you've also noticed that others basically just rationalize my behavior, but you can see my problems. That's your self-awareness."

Ye Sanqing concluded.

It was obvious that Ye Kening, Ye Hongsheng, Yu Huiwan, and even Shao Yuxuan, who had lived with her for many years, did not feel that she had changed much.

This could only be a protective measure set up by the game. After all, every player has a different personality, so the game character who is originally a family member certainly cannot raise any objections.

Otherwise, how can we play the game?

Ye Sanqing could only say that this setup had to be made so complicated, and in the end, they were trapped. It's a classic case of self-inflicted misfortune!

"Indeed."

Ye Yifan nodded in agreement.

She quickly recovered. After all, Ye Sanqing was already here, so all they could do was move forward based on the current situation; dwelling on what had already happened was pointless.

Ye Sanqing flipped through the diary again, and the last date was—

The day she traveled through time.