195: Diary crisis! My resource library has exploded!

As soon as this thought popped into his head, Su Chen's entire mood soured.

He froze in place, the smile on his face not yet fully faded, but the pleasure in his eyes had receded, leaving only an inexpressible void.

He felt like a web novel author who had painstakingly ground out hundreds of thousands of words, only to see the story about to go premium and lead him to the Peak of his life.

Then, waking up to find that his draft folder had been completely ransacked by hackers!

That massive sense of falling directly from the clouds into the abyss made his whole body go cold and his scalp tingle.

[I'm screwed!]

[I'm completely and utterly screwed this time!]

In Su Chen's inner world, one second it was a champagne party, and the next, the highest-level disaster alarm was blaring.

[Qin Feng is dead! Wang Teng blew up too! My two biggest material libraries were just demolished by my own hands!]

[Without them, what am I going to write in my diary from now on?]

[Do I have to start writing about a real cultivation daily life?]

In Su Chen's mind, the future style of his diary involuntarily flashed before his eyes.

[Month X, Day X, Weather: Sunny. Another day full of Origin Qi. I meditated for six hours, and my cultivation seems to have improved just a tiny bit. So happy.]

[Month X, Day X, Weather: Overcast. Not in a good mood today. Hit a Bottleneck while contemplating the Dao and couldn't figure it out. So annoying.]

[Month X, Day X, Weather: Rainy. Nothing happened today. Spent the whole day watching the rain on the back mountain. Life really feels as lonely as snow.]

"Pfft—"

Su Chen almost spat out a mouthful of blood, his face turning green.

[No! Absolutely not!]

[Is this a fucking diary? This is clearly an elderly person's health log! It's too boring! So boring that even I can't keep writing it!]

[If I churn out this kind of filler every day, the rewards from the System will definitely take a nosedive! How am I supposed to happily lie flat and become a god?]

[My grand salted fish plan! My dream life of slacking off! Is it going to be declared bankrupt today?!]

In an instant, a massive sense of crisis, like an invisible mountain, slammed heavily onto Su Chen's heart.

The expression on his face instantly shifted from "disinterested" to solemn, his brows tightly locked together as he fell into unprecedented contemplation.

His abrupt change immediately caught the attention of Ling Qingzhu and Liu Ruyan.

Liu Ruyan pulled back her seductive smile, a hint of curiosity flashing in her alluring phoenix eyes.

[What's wrong with this Little Man now?]

[Wasn't he quite happy just a moment ago? Why did his face suddenly turn dark, like he's been constipated for half a month?]

[Could it be... because those two idiots died too quickly, and it wasn't satisfying enough for him?]

She nodded thoughtfully.

[True, opponents of that level are indeed a bit underwhelming. It seems I'll have to find him a more durable toy next time.]

Liu Ruyan began to silently calculate in her mind which other blind Prodigies on the Xuanyuan Continent she could snatch up to serve as Su Chen's "new toy."

On the other side, Ling Qingzhu was feeling distressed beyond measure.

Looking at Su Chen's furrowed brows and the "heaviness" emanating from his deep eyes, her heart almost broke.

[He really is... still worrying about the future of the continent.]

[Though Qin Feng and Wang Teng were hypocrites, they were also among the rare top-tier combatants of this era. Now that they've fallen, a gap has appeared in the continent's Peak power. If something like a Dark Turmoil occurs in the Xuanyuan Continent in the future, the consequences will be unimaginable.]

[He must be thinking about how to deal with this potential crisis.]

Ling Qingzhu's gaze unconsciously became incredibly soft.

Su Chen had no idea that while he was simply worrying about his "KPI," in the minds of the two women, it had already been automatically sublimated into "lacking toys" and "caring for the world."

His mind was currently a total mess.

[What should I do? What should I do? What on earth should I write in my diary?]

[Without the original plot of the protagonists, I'm like a driver who lost his GPS, streaking down a completely unfamiliar road. The future is pitch black!]

[Is this really going to force a salted fish like me to personally go out and cause trouble, just to create my own material?]

[No, no, that's too tiring, and the risk is too high. It seriously violates my fundamental principle of being a 'salted fish'!]

Su Chen irritably scratched his hair, feeling like his social battery was about to run out.

Just as he was about to sink into a dead end of despair.

A flash of inspiration suddenly exploded in his mind!

[Wait...]

[Why do I have to fixate on those two dead guys, Qin Feng and Wang Teng?]

[In the original work, besides the male protagonists, there are... there are also female protagonists!]

Su Chen's eyes instantly lit up, shining like two thousand-watt light bulbs!

[Right! Female protagonists! And there are fucking dozens of them!]

[Aren't these two living examples right in front of me perfect ready-made material?!]

[The secrets they carry, their unknown sides, their strange thoughts about me... if I write this out, the authenticity would be through the roof!]

[Besides, roasting them is way more interesting than roasting those two idiots!]

[Perfect!]

[It's simply too perfect!]

Su Chen slapped his thigh hard, the gloom in his heart swept away as he suddenly saw the light!

He found it!

He had found a brand new direction for his future diary!

It was also a broad highway leading to more rewards and more fun!

He had even already thought of the title for the next diary entry—"On My Three Eccentric Fiancées."

Thinking of this, Su Chen's mood instantly became incredibly pleasant.

He looked at Ling Qingzhu and Liu Ruyan beside him, and the way he looked at them had changed.

It was no longer looking at two troublesome women.

Instead, it was like a starving author scrutinizing two treasure troves of infinite, inexhaustible inspiration!

From today on, you two are my new protagonists!