This villain is too popular.

Chapter 283 The Reversal of 'Identities'

After their walk on the pedestrian street, Tiandao and the others returned to the hotel.

After waving goodbye to Caroline Jing Liuli, Tiandao returned to his room alone.

The first thing he did after returning to his room was to activate his 'popularity system'.

He wanted to use the popularity system to find out exactly what had happened to Caroline.

And whether he can reverse the fate that originally belonged to Caroline ahead of time.

But achieving these things is not easy.

[Ding! You have spent one million popularity points to redeem some of the 'hidden character' settings related to 'Star Character - Caroline']

[Note: Character designations may vary and are for reference only.]

【Name: Caroline Tianji】

[Star Core: Heavenly Cat]

Star Source: Quantum Ghost

【Personality Traits: Rational, Calm】

[Appearance: Green hair, green eyes, cat ears, cat tail]

[Hobbies: Enjoys drinking green tea, eating sashimi, and items featuring dolphins]

The first thing to appear before the Heavenly Dao was Caroline's initial basic character design.

These settings were established in the original Stellaris novel and will not change due to the appearance of the outsider, the Heavenly Dao.

However, this information is only the most basic information about Caroline, not the 'truth' that Heaven wants to know.

So, after a quick glance, Tiandao opened the hidden settings for 'Character Setting - Caroline'.

[Character: StarCraft No. 4 Caroline]

[Hidden setting: Dr. Dragon's only daughter died a month after birth due to special circumstances. To save his daughter, Dragon risked his life to seize the 'supercomputing core' of the quantum space and forcibly reshaped a quantum soul for her.]

Due to the special nature of the quantum soul and the 'supercomputing core'.

This results in Caroline having extremely high talent in the field of androids, but she is also constantly subject to data pollution from the quantum space.

The more redundant data there is in the quantum space, the more severe the pollution, eventually leading to complete assimilation by the time Caroline is 23, turning her into a mindless android central hub.

[Ending (Draft): At the age of twenty-three, his android personality will be completely assimilated into the quantum space, and he will eventually lose his own consciousness, becoming the new android hub of the quantum space.]

Tiandao frowned as he looked at these initial character designs for Caroline.

A moment later, Tiandao asked the Popularity System some questions he had.

'Would severing Caroline's connection to the quantum realm solve the problem of soul contamination?'

[Unable to achieve this. The 'quantum soul' of the character Caroline requires the quantum space to maintain itself. Severing the connection is equivalent to losing 'soul nourishment,' and she will be completely annihilated within 72 hours.]

Upon receiving this answer, Tiandao's brows furrowed even more deeply.

According to this logic, Caroline's fate is essentially sealed.

After all, the essence of quantum space is the result of the natural convergence of countless 'quantum data'.

It is not subject to anyone's will and can be considered a special 'natural phenomenon' in the star system.

But since Dr. Dragon told Caroline to try to find a 'miracle' within the limited time, it means that there is still a way to save Caroline.

As long as there's a way, that's fine.
Soon, several possibilities for saving Caroline emerged in Tiandao's rapidly processing brain.

The first method is the Miracle Stone, an item unique to the Stellaris world.

Although the Heavenly Dao currently has no way of knowing the full range of types and effects of the 'Twelve Miracle Stones'.

But he was certain that the Miracle Stone that could solve Caroline's problem definitely existed within it. The second method was the Heavenly Dao's Popularity System.

Because in a sense, the existence of the popularity system is itself a kind of 'miracle'.

If some of the popularity system's functions were applied to Caroline, wouldn't that be another kind of 'miracle'?

Thinking of this, Tiandao asked the system another question in his mind.

That is, whether the 'exclusive character story background modification permission' of the current season's most popular character can be applied to other characters.

The popularity system quickly responded to this.

Permissions can be transferred, but the modified settings must meet the 'reasonableness' criteria (such as conforming to the character's personality or having plot development)

With this answer, Tiandao's brows instantly relaxed.

Upon learning the answer, a way to 'save Caroline' immediately came to mind.

At the same time, he also came up with an excellent plan to help him further 'enrich his persona'.

It's important to know that he has now successfully become the 'pinnacle of stars' in the hearts of the audience.

But just as he said in the first season, 'beauty, strength, and tragedy' are the real secrets to generating buzz.

The current Heavenly Dao has basically absorbed most of the popularity of the Stars fans.

If he wants to gain even more popularity in the future.

He either continues to absorb the remaining, limited number of 'Star Fans'.

Either make the 'Stars' anime series break out of its niche and attract many fans who didn't originally watch 'Stars'.

The former is a thankless task, while the latter yields amazing rewards but is extremely difficult.

Before today, Tiandao had not come up with any good way to "break out of the circle".

But now, the Heavenly Dao has not only thought of this, but has also thought of a way to completely save Caroline and further enrich its own 'persona'.

He stood before the floor-to-ceiling window of his hotel room, gazing at the beautiful night view outside, and whispered, "There are still three years left, Caroline. Before, you were always the one 'acting' for me. This time, it's my turn to 'act' for you."

As he pondered this, Tiandao suddenly gave a bitter smile.

Because he suddenly realized that if he followed the script he had set up...

All those memories he gave Caroline in the first season, those memories called 'beautiful,' will all turn into boomerangs and hit him hard.

This situation was something that Heaven had never anticipated.

After all, he was unaware of Caroline's hidden back then, so he couldn't have predicted this situation.

However, as long as it can change Caroline's original fate, I'm willing to be hit by the 'boomerang' myself.

As long as everything goes according to the plan of Heaven, he is 100% confident that he can give Caroline a 'new life'.

However, this might mean a significant blow to themselves and the viewers on all 13 platforms.

After all, there are some things that even Heaven itself knew in advance and foresaw the 'happy' ending behind them.

But he still couldn't help feeling somewhat conflicted.

Who would have thought that in the first season, he faked his death in front of Caroline?

This time, they not only switched roles, but it was also his own design.

It seems that doing too many bad things really does bring retribution.

P.S.: There will be one more update, because I said I would make up for it yesterday.

(End of this chapter)