Mary Sue Reversal System

As if driven by a mysterious force, the originally two-person team inevitably turned into a three-person group. It was especially prevalent when the unlovable Female Lead, who liked clinging onto Fu Yichen, kept showing her presence all the time. Not only was Su Zhan feelin upset, but so was Fu Yichen.

But as the aloof and reticent National Teacher, Fu Yichen was able to use the National Teacher’s personality to build an invisible wall between himself and the Female Lead. No matter how shamelessly the Female Lead stuck to him, her enthusiastic approach was met with a cold wall of ice. It was inevitable that Su Zhan, who thought that the Female Lead wasn’t pleasing to the eye, would feel miserable.

Especially when the Female Lead, who was formerly the ‘Princess of the Underworld’, was chattering on, Su Zhan, who chose to be silent most of the time, felt his head grow as if it was about to explode.

The Female Lead was shamlessly clinging to the National Teacher, making him feel unhappy, depressed and irritated. When the Female Lead had nothing else to do, she would turn to tease him, this made him feel even more depressed. But his response to her actions would only be to ignore her completely. After all, he was a man in his mid-twenties. Not to mention that he was used to being alone and didn’t like talking to others. It would be naive for him to fight back.

So, the only thing that was in Su Zhan’s mind at the moment was how to get rid of the Female Lead.

After escaping from the assassin’s encirclement the night before, the three of them left Nanyang overnight. It was then that Su Zhan finally had the time to accept the new plot. Probably because he had just escaped from an assassination attempt and also due to the unexpected appearance of the Female Lead, the embarrassing actions he did back at the inn were naturally forgotten.

The new plot was not much different from what Su Zhan had guessed. Although, 70 to 80 chapters were basically just fillers. Especially the naive daily routines of the two leads just bickering with each other all the way, accounting for 70% – 80% of the pages. But overall, it only took one sentence to solve the bandit case in Jiangnan.

Of course, in addition to the naive daily interactions of the Male and Female Leads, it also included the hardships that they faced on the road from the capital to Jiangnan, the dangers they faced in the process of solving the bandit problem, cleaning up the cancerous officials and gaining a firm foothold in the dynasty, etc.

But what made Su Zhan feel depressed was that in the original plot, there were too few appearances of the Second Male in this volume. But the Female Lead could be found everywhere with her child body. This made Su Zhan feel anxious while he thought of ways to get rid of the Female Lead. Especially when the system would pop up from time to time with the sentence of [Get rid of the Female Lead! Get rid of the Female Lead!]

[The Second Male’s the one true pair! The Second Male’s the one true pair!]

[Our goal is: To get rid of the Mary Sue and overthrow the Second Male!]

[Our slogan is: Get rid of~ Get rid of ~ Overthrow~ Overthrow!]

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[Get rid of~ Get rid of~ Overthrow~ Overthrow~]

Su Zhan’s mind was full of the uncontrolled mechanical sound of the system. The sentences were very strangely rhythmic, like hiphop. But it was similar to a recorder with a malfunctioning switch that couldn’t be turned off and could only just repeat, repeat and repeat… Su Zhan’s head was about to explode.

But in reality, Su Zhan couldn’t do such a barbaric act where he, as an adult, would throw a nine-year-old girl into the mountains. Although the National Teacher made him feel relieved because he didn’t pay much attention to the Female Lead, it was also impossible for the National Teacher to do such a shameless thing as well.

Therefore, no matter how depressed Su Zhan felt, he could only keep a sullen face and say nothing. On the other hand, a certain National Teacher, from the beginning to the end, held the posture of wanting to watch a play. From time to time, he would give Su Zhan a meaningful look which made the latter shudder. Probably because of the sequelae of being frightened as he was a ‘thief with a guilty conscience1’, as long as Su Zhan looked at the National Teahcer, he would think of the muddled things he did that night. Then he would unconsciously dare not look at him again, feeling so guilty that he wouldn’t even notice when the Female Lead made any noise.

On the other hand, Fu Yichen also felt his head ache due to this Female Lead. There were three people present who were the heavy-weights of this country. The nine-year-old Empress Dowager with a supreme status, the newly appointed Emperor, and he, the National Teacher who was admired by thousands, was in third place. Besides that, among the other two, one was just a ‘nine-year-old girl’ while the other ‘had no knowledge of martial arts’. So it was only natural for Fu Yichen to feel as if he was the head of the family. Not only was he supposed to take care of them and assure their safety, but he also had to stop their conflicts from time to time.

Coupled with the task of preventing the Female Lead from getting too close to the Male Lead, Fu Yichen and Su Zhan had a common goal——get rid of the Female Lead.

Furthermore, Fu Yichen also held doubts about the punishments that Laji mentioned at the beginning. He remembered that Laji said that if he wasn’t able to complete the task, he would be punished. Although this punishment never happened, Fu Yichen believed that Laji wouldn’t just talk nonsense.

But what surprised Fu Yichen was the fact that the system had sensed and judged the scenario accurately. In Laji’s view, although the Female Lead tagged along with them, it was Fu Yichen who the Female Lead kept approaching. She didn’t even want to approach the Male Lead, so it didn’t count as a failure for him to stop them.

Fu Yichen felt relieved by this. But this didn’t give the Female Lead an excuse to hang around them all the time. After all, this was completely in line with the settings at the beginning of the novel. Maybe after getting along for a few days, the Female Lead would follow along the original plot and fall in love with the Male Lead. This would then be troublesome.

But what Fu Yichen didn’t expect was something that was yet to come. That is, on the third day, when the Female Lead was walking with them, Su Zhan suddenly fell ill. A vigorous man with strong martial arts and profound skills suddenly fell ill when the weather was neither hot nor cold. He was very sick.

At first, Fu Yichen thought that Su Zhan was just jealous of the female Lead as at that time, the Female Lead was acting cute with him, trying to ride the same horse as him under the pretext of being young. Fu Yichen habitually turned his sights to watch Su Zhan’s reaction but found that his face looked a little strange.

Fu Yichen didn’t have the habit of using the Female Lead to stimulate Su Zhan all the time, he wasn’t such a boring person. But he would occasionally stimulate him. After all, his reactions would always add some color to the journey that was ruined by the Female Lead. But what surprised Fu Yichen was when he turned around, he saw that Su Zhan’s face looked a little pale and his brows were tightly knit together. It was completely different from when he would dodge his sight when he turned to face him. This time, Su Zhan acted really low-key with his head down. He was obviously someone tough. But at this moment, sitting on the back of the horse, he seemed to be a little precarious.

After Fu Yichen snapped out from his initial feeling of surprise, a trace of worry inexplicably flashed in his heart. He ignored the Female Lead’s pestering and asked her to explore the road ahead while he held the reins to slow down his pace. It wasn’t until the moment that his horse was walking side by side with Su Zhan’s that he finally noticed that Su Zhan’s face was pale and full of pain. There were even beads of sweat on his forehead and it seemed as if Su Zhan’s whole body was crumbling.

Fu Yichen was startled, “What’s wrong? Where are you feeling uncomfortable?” The coldness in his tone subconsciously disappeared. Instead, it was replaced with his worry and tenderness.

Su Zhan, who was feeling dizzy and aching all over, felt as if his strength was taken away from him. Truthfully, even Su Zhan himself didn’t know what was going on with him. At first, he just felt a little uncomfortable, so he didn’t pay much attention to it. When he finally realized that something was wrong, he had been completely exhausted and his whole body felt sore, as if he had a high fever. Not only was it an inexplicable fever, but it was also quite serious.

Feeling dazed, he heard the gentle voice of the National Teacher. When he finally looked up with difficulty, he saw the man frowning at him in worry. Su Zhan immediately felt a burst of heat in his heart as grievance spread throughout his body. Being cared for when you’re feeling extremely uncomfortable can easily make people vulnerable no matter how strong they are. This was the case for Su Zhan right now.

From time to time, the mechanical sound of the system would sound in his head. But in his daze, the contents of the sound seemed to have been blurred. At this time, Su Zhan obviously had no time to care about such things. He was indescribably uncomfortable. Seeing the concerned face of the National Teacher, Su Zhan inexplicably felt that his nose was sore. His body that had been struggling to stay strong, softened without any scruples.

Fu Yichen saw that Su Zhan’s complexion was pale and his eyes that were looking at him, were completely in a daze. But the undisguised grievance in his eyes made his heart skip a beat. Fu Yichen’s expression immediately darkened as he repeated, “What’s wrong?” He tried to not aggravate the situation so he controlled his tone.

But what he didn’t expect was that as soon as he finished speaking, Su Zhan’s body suddenly tilted to the side in the next second and was about to fall off the horse in the blink of an eye.

Fu Yichen was immediately startled. Without thinking, he stretched out his long arms to wrap them around Su Zhan’s body. At the same time, he jumped from his horse’s back, turned and sat down neatly behind Su Zhan, embracing him while asking him anxiously, “What’s going on with you?”

Su Zhan felt his sore and weak body being supported in an instant. His nose felt sore again. Probably because the body that was surrounding him felt too comfortable, the feeling of grievance that was originally not too big, magnified infinitely and overflowed in the warm embrace.

“Uncomfortable.” Su Zhan allowed his body to be tightly wrapped by this man’s arms. The words coming out of his mouth unconsciously became weak. He didn’t even notice his own dependence on the man, “I have no strength.”

Before this, he didn’t know if it was his illusion, but Su Zhan had even felt that he didn’t have the strength to breathe. He always felt that after leaning into the arms of the National Teacher, his body became unexpectedly more comfortable. He didn’t know if it was his own psychology that held a role in this, but right now, all he wanted to do was to lean in his arms.

Fu Yichen was also feeling puzzled by this matter. Because the moment he held Su Zhan, he noticed that his body was unusually hot. Sure enough, once he stretched out his hand to place it on Su Zhan’s forehead, he could feel that the other person was horribly hot, “Do you have a fever?”

The weather was good at the moment, it wasn’t raining or cold. The Male Lead’s martial arts were superb along with his profound internal strength. His physical strength was definitely incomparable to those of ordinary people. Such a vigorous man could also get a fever? Fu Yichen was extremely confused by this, but it didn’t stop him from feeling distressed for the man in his arms.

Fu Yichen’s first thought was that he was poisoned. Along the way, there were multiple assassination attempts and some of them used poisonous concealed weapons. But Fu Yichen denied this guess. One was because Su Zhan’s body was perfectly intact and whenever danger approached, Fu Yichen would protect Su Zhan by his side immediately. If Su Zhan was injured, it was impossible for him to not know. Even if he was besieged, it was impossible for him to let Su Zhan get hurt.

But if they were poisoned while on the route, it was even more impossible. Among the three of them, the Female Lead was the worst in martial arts, but Su Zhan was the most powerful one. So this made no sense.

But with such a fever, Fu Yichen felt even more skeptical about it as there was no such thing as illness or fever in the original text. Truthfully speaking, he and Su Zhan existed in these worlds in the form of souls. Their bodies were part of this Mary Sue world. They only had complete control over these two bodies. In other words, if there was no plot of being sick, Su Zhan wouldn’t be sick.

A thought flashed in Fu Yichen’s mind as he put his arms around Su Zhan, trying to keep him in his arms while holding onto the reins with the other hand to control the horse’s speed and trying to make the horse’s pace stable. He fed Su Zhan some water and asked softly, “Do you feel any better?”

“Hm.” Su Zhan hummed weakly, but he definitely didn’t agree to it casually. He really did feel much better.

At this time, Laji sounded an increase of 1 favorability point in Fu Yichen’s mind. At this moment, Fu Yichen suddenly had an idea. In his opinion, Su Zhan’s sudden illness was very strange. If it wasn’t the plot, maybe Laji would know something about it.

[Long live the host. I can finally see the light of day once more!] Laji chattered on as usual. But also as usual, in the next second, it was all about Su Zhan once more. 

[Ah, Male god Zhanzhan. H-host, you’re so powerful! Hugging the Male god. Ah, host! Ah! Ah! Ah! It’s so exciting, it’s so exciting…]

‘Shut it.’ The anxious Fu Yichen didn’t notice that there was something different with this guy’s reaction at this time, ‘Quickly see what’s wrong with him.’

[Huh? What happened to the Male god?] Laji only noticed the key matter at this time and felt a little puzzled. But soon it exclaimed, [This is a punishment. A system punishment.]

Fu Yichen only felt his brows twitch as his face darkened immediately, even his voice became lower, ‘What are you punishing him for?!’

[It’s a misunderstanding! You’ve misunderstood me again host.] Laji hurriedly complained, [This is the punishment given to the Male god by his system. I can feel the same type of power as myself in the Male god. This is the power of the Male god’s own system.]

Hearing this, Fu Yichen was taken aback, ‘Why is it so?’ What was Su Zhan punished for? According to Laji’s rules, you’ll be punished if you don’t complete the task. So what was Su Zhan’s task?

[I… I don’t know ah.]

‘Then how to make the punishment disappear?’ If it really was punishment from the sytem, then external remedies would be completely ineffective.

[Complete the system’s task.] Laji said it as a matter of course. It then finished speaking with a tone of feeling sorry for its Male god, [Ying, ying, ying. The Male god is so pitiful. Host, please help the Male god.]

Fu Yichen didn’t bother to deal with the system anymore. After blocking Laji, he fell into deep thought once more. He then suddenly realized a problem. Neither he nor Laji could get in touch with Su Zhan’s system. Only he could do it himself. In other words, Su Zhan should know that he was being punished and why he was being punished. He would even know what to do to remove the punishment.

Feeling his heart move, Fu Yichen put his arms around Su Zhan and asked him softly, “Tell me, how can I help you?” At this moment, Su Zhan leaned into Fu Yichen’s arms with his eyes closed. His complexion seemed to be a little better than before. Fu Yichen believed that even if Su Zhan was unable to understand his hidden meaning, he would still be able to express his needs.

Sure enough, Su Zhan tilted his head slightly and pressed his face against Fu Yichen’s chest, unconsciously embracing his arm with both hands. He then said a sentence with some difficulty, “I don’t want to see her.”

After feeling slightly stunned, who the ‘her’ referred to came into Fu Yichen’s mind almost instantly. This was the first time that Su Zhan clearly expressed his rejection of the Female Lead from his own mouth. It was also the first time that he indirectly expressed his system’s rejection towards the Female Lead.

This directly affirmed Fu Yichen’s previous speculation about Su Zhan’s system. Especially Su Zhan’s various behaviour along the way. It was undoubtedly repelling the Female Lead from approaching him. Could it be that this was his system’s task?

Fu Yichen had a rough guess in his heart while his mind was still spinning. But he couldn’t allow himself to think about this for now. His main priority at the moment was to relieve Su Zhan from the system’s ‘punishment’.

But he didn’t expect that the Female Lead who had gone ahead had now returned on horseback. Immediately, Fu Yichen could feel the body in his arms tremble slightly. The hand that was holding his arm tightened.

“I don’t want to see her.” Su Zhan murmured in his arms while frowning in pain, talking with a childish tone that Fu Yichen had never heard before, “I want to ride with you.” Just as Fu Yichen was feeling slightly stunned, the person in his arms continued to murmur unconsciously, “You should hug me, don’t hug her.”

Immediately, Fu Yichen’s heart skipped a beat as an inexplicable and extremely pleasant feeling instantly spread all over his body.

Su Zhan, he… wasn’t trying to act coquettish with him, was he?