Have you ever been a celebrity? Why are you writing about entertainment?

"Someone actually guessed right."

During the meal, Qi Luoan browsed the comments on the Spring Festival Gala documentary posted by netizens. The most discussed topic was the contest between Yu Wei and Chen Ping.

The term "transition of eras" has once again become a trending topic, inevitably accompanied by another round of praise for Yu Wei, which Qi Luo'an enjoys watching...

Yes, yes, Yu Wei from their family is just that good.

It is easy to surpass a living person, but it is extremely difficult to surpass a spiritual symbol. Even so, Yu Wei still shattered the filter of favoring the past over the present.

Besides acknowledging his abilities, netizens are also discussing Yu Wei's motives, with various speculations emerging.

Some say he's an ambitious person using his seniors as stepping stones, while others say he's belligerent and challenges the strong. Some people actually guessed correctly, saying he wanted to get Zhong Qing and Ye Shengyu to sing together, but not many people believed it.

In order to compete with Chen Ping, he did something as risky as changing the song at the last minute. If he were just playing matchmaker, would he have that much free time?
There really is one. Qi Luoan smiled and remained silent. To be honest, no one would believe the classic truth.

"Are they creating a god-like figure for Yu Wei again?"

Chen Jinyi, who was standing next to her, glanced at her screen with great interest. There's nothing new under the sun; netizens love to do this.

Being praised is a good thing, but creating gods is definitely a bad thing. It's easy to lose sight of reality when people praise each other. If someone is really treated as a god, even the smallest mistake can be magnified infinitely.

This kind of thing is hard to avoid. After all, Yu Wei is indeed at the height of his fame right now. In fact, the creation of a god-like figure had already begun after the Spring Festival Gala. It's just that today's documentary brought these opinions to a head.

He defeated the previous "god" in everyone's mind, so he should take over and become the current "god".

"Isn't this a good thing?"

Qi Yuan wanted to see Yu Wei inherit his grandfather's mantle, and now he has done it, isn't that good?
“Silly son, the higher you stand, the harder you fall, especially in an era of increasingly acute contradictions.”

Chen Jinyi stopped there. Such flattery is of no benefit; on the contrary, it puts people under intense scrutiny. Who wants to live under a microscope?
The atmosphere at the dinner table became somewhat somber. This kind of internet idolization is extremely dangerous, yet unavoidable. Even if they were worried about Yu Wei, there was nothing they could do.

"How did he say?"

Qi Yunming simply asked Yu Wei for his opinion. This kid was quite cunning and shouldn't just sit and wait to die.

He was destined to become a true god sooner or later by taking one step at a time, but suddenly a group of people jumped out and insisted that he become the god of incense offerings. Who could stand that?
"He's writing, he probably doesn't even know about this."

Qi Luoan was fully aware of Yu Wei's schedule. He went into seclusion to write after work and didn't reply to any messages.

Qi Yunming and Chen Jinyi exchanged a glance. The entire internet was praising him, but the person in question was completely unaware. They didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

……

After Yu Wei defeated Chen Ping for the second time, netizens went to great lengths to praise Yu Wei, with some even saying that "Chen Ping was just born in an era without Yu Wei," which is so incoherent that it's hard to even connect the dots.

Many of those who claim Yu Wei is stronger than Chen Ping are even minors who have never experienced the era of Chen Ping's rule.

They didn't care about anything else, they just kept bragging. If their boasting backfired, it would be Yu Wei's fault, what did it have to do with them...

Among those who praise Yu and criticize Chen, there are quite a few who once lauded Chen Ping, even more so than others, but that doesn't stop them from praising someone else today.

The creation and destruction of gods is like a cycle; they personally create one idol after another, and then personally overthrow it, repeating the cycle endlessly, enjoying it immensely.

Just as the praise for Yu Wei was getting more and more intense and was about to become an internet spectacle, several veteran fans exclaimed: Yu Wei has updated!

At first, no one realized what was so surprising about Yu Wei updating; he updates daily, after all.

But the belated update notification quickly revealed the seriousness of the problem: he wasn't updating an entertainment novel, but a suspense novel.

The author has finally decided to update "The Devotion of Suspect X," and eagerly awaiting readers clicked on it with great anticipation.

This prosperous era is just as they wished. Yu Wei has made a big contribution; he wrote the entire book in one go.

As Yukawa's investigation deepened, some details began to surface.

Ishigami's purchase of bicycles and the theft of motorcycles seem unrelated to the case, yet they are intricately woven into his alibi.

Yukawa began to doubt: "Would someone really go to such lengths for their neighbor?"

This question also resonates in the minds of readers.

When Ishigami suddenly confessed and admitted that he was the murderer of Togashi, they were even more confused.

What are you doing? Taking the blame for love?

This kind of plot isn't exactly common, but it's not exactly new either; there are many similar melodramatic scenes in sentimental romance novels...

Playing this kind of thing in a suspense novel is a bit outrageous. Is Yu Wei so serious about preparing for the Spring Festival Gala that he ran out of inspiration and started making shoddy stuff?
People patiently continued reading, and thankfully, the character's persona didn't collapse. Ishigami's confession was logically sound and could almost close all the doubts in the case.

The police are inclined to believe that Yasuko was also relieved.

But readers who see this, like Yukawa, feel an indescribable sense of unease.

It's like solving a math problem and finding that while the result is correct, the derivation process was based on an assumption that was never explicitly stated.

As Ishigami's old friend, Yukawa was the first to notice the anomaly not because of a logical flaw, but because of a change in Ishigami's emotions.

The once unkempt and math-obsessed Ishigami has started to notice his thinning hair and pay attention to his appearance...

He would take a long detour just to catch a glimpse of Yasuko at the bento shop where she worked, and even when he saw Yasuko's suitors, an undisguised look of jealousy would flash across his face. Yukawa realized that someone with such a burning love in their heart could never simply be a cold, indifferent outsider.

Ishigami's logic was impeccable, but his emotions betrayed him.

The real ending has only just begun. Yukawa visits Yasuko and asks her a simple yet fatal question.

"What did you feed Togashi when he came to your apartment on March 10th?"

Yasuko answered naturally, "I made some food and also went to the convenience store to buy a bento box and sake."

Time froze at that moment.

The food found in the stomach contents of Togashi's body was a completely different kind of bento box.

This detail, which had been mentioned only briefly before, now exploded in the minds of readers like a thunderclap.

If the food in the deceased's stomach does not match what Yasuko provided, there are only two possibilities: either Yasuko is lying, or the deceased was not killed on March 10th at all.

But Yasuko had no reason to lie about such details, and Ishigami's entire alibi was based on the date of death, March 10.

If the time of death is incorrect, what does that mean?
Yukawa ultimately revealed the suffocating truth to Yasuko and to the readers.

Ishigami did not kill Shinji Togashi at all.

The truth of the case is this: On the evening of March 9, Togashi did go to Yasuko's apartment, and a conflict occurred.

What actually happened was that the next day, March 10, Ishigami murdered a homeless man of similar age and build to Togashi and replaced Togashi's body with this unidentified man's corpse.

Ishigami disguised the homeless man's body as Togashi, meticulously arranged all the evidence, and convinced the police that the deceased was indeed Togashi and that the time of death was March 10.

The real Togashi had already been dealt with by Ishigami.

what does this mean?
This means that Ishigami committed another completely separate murder in order to protect Yasuko and her daughter, killing a completely innocent stranger.

He not only covered up the crimes of his loved ones, but also deliberately committed even more serious crimes, using the life of a stranger as a price to build that unbreakable logical barrier.

Upon seeing this, the reader's blood seemed to freeze.

They recalled the novel's opening description of the vagrants, though at the time they had only thought it was a few brief strokes introducing the local culture.

There were even hints later that the homeless man had disappeared, but how could they, engrossed in their brilliant battle of wits, possibly notice that?
Ishigami's statement, "It looks like a geometry problem, but it's actually a function problem," suddenly took on a chilling meaning.

He replaced the real corpse with an unfamiliar one, much like introducing an auxiliary function in a mathematical proof to transform the original problem into another problem to be solved.

Therefore, the seemingly meticulously designed alibi of Yasuko and her mother on the night of March 10th was entirely based on what they actually did that day.

No matter how the police investigate, the evidence is irrefutable because they did not commit the murder on March 10.

Ishigami covered up the old case that happened yesterday with a brand new, real murder case, replacing Togashi's body with the body of an "unknown person".

All the police's painstaking investigations pointed in the wrong direction and to the wrong victim from the very beginning...

Readers who think of this feel a surge of excitement. It's ingenious; this suspense technique of introducing new variables is extremely clever and closely tied to the protagonist's identity.

As a mathematical genius, he truly succeeded in using mathematical methods to confuse the public and introduce an unknown variable "X".

What shocked them even more was Ishigami's logic in confessing: he admitted to killing "Togashi," thus making Yasuko and her daughter no longer the murderers.

Even if Togashi's real body is discovered in the future, it will be impossible to connect it with Yasuko and her daughter, because everyone "knows" that Togashi is already dead, and it will only be considered another body.

Ishigami completely sacrificed himself, not only taking the blame for murdering the homeless man, but also deliberately acting in his confession like a stalker driven by love turned to hate.

This not only gave him a reason to commit the crime, but also allowed Yasuko to completely sever ties with him and start a new life without any burden.

Ishigami's plan was flawless, but the only thing he overlooked was the uncontrollability of human emotions.

His seemingly minor, outward-focused action became his only mistake, and it was this tiny mistake that led to the collapse of the entire magnificent edifice.

This writing style was completely unexpected...

In other suspense novels, the ending twist is always "the murderer is someone else," using the unexpected murderer to complete the loop.

But this book is quite the opposite; its twist is not cliché, but a complete subversion of the idea that "the victim is someone else."

Yu Wei reconstructed the basic paradigm of detective novels, changing not only "who did it" but also "to whom it was done".

Throughout the novel, everyone shares Ishigami's perspective but never truly understands his thought process.

They saw his actions and understood his plans, but only at the very last moment did they realize the true meaning behind them.

This reversal of the reading experience is itself a brilliant design in terms of literature and psychology.

While netizens were busy creating idols and engaging in back-and-forth criticism, Yu Wei defused everything with a nonchalant attitude and moved on to another path.

I'm not playing with you guys anymore.

What music scene? I've always been the author... (End of Chapter)