So this may be a little premature, since I can’t read simplified Chinese and I’ve only been looking at fan translation, but I am 90% certain the System is lying about nearly everything in the new extra.
I love the idea of Bingzu and want to believe he’s real… but I don’t think he is. I think the System invented him to tug at Shen Yuan’s heartstrings, because it KNOWS Shen Yuan couldn’t bear to let the last remnant of a Binghe’s soul be destroyed, and therefore it has guaranteed itself protection from Bingmei’s (justified) wrath against it for the harm it has done to Shen Yuan, to Xiang Fei, and yes—to Bingmei as well.
The evidence I present to the Jury is thus:
The system interaction begins in response to Shen Yuan thinking about talking with Binghe about it. The system’s opening message is it begging Shen Yuan not to dismantle it. This is punctuated with a crying emoji for maximum emotional manipulation.
Shen Yuan askes – if he helps the System, what does he get? The system has to come up with something it thinks Shen Yuan will value.
Shen Yuan says that all he has to do is speak to Binghe on behalf of the system – that communication can fail and he might not convince him. The system KNOWS it needs to come up with some airtight reason for Shen Yuan to not just follow through with his agreement, but to really WANT it to persist.
The original information the System presents to SY is a MOUNTAIN OF SCROLLS that he could never read in a human lifetime. I propose that it is stalling for time here while it gets its story straight.
Luo Bingzu’s world supposedly came to an end, so it’s not like they can visit it to collect evidence to verify the system’s story…
If Bingzu was unsatisfied with his life, but believed it could be changed, why end it at all? Putting spirits out there to save some alternate universe version of yourself doesn’t sound like it would really help you at all. Even if the system is telling the truth about everything else, I would say it’s definitely lying about Bingzu creating it on purpose for the purpose of “a better ending” for other Binghes. Primarily because the system never ONCE acts in a way that brings any Luo Binghe happiness! Not ONCE! But it sure does act to cause him pain on SEVERAL occasions!
The story the System gives for Shang Qinghua doesn’t make sense at face value either. What do you MEAN a normal mortal man just randomly sensed fragments of another world that had been long destroyed? And he was the ONLY guy who sensed them? In the whole MULTIVERSE? When people who have been cultivating sensory powers for many lifetimes exist out there? When Actual Seer Madam Meiyin exists in multiple worlds??? And so the System latched onto HIM? WHAT???? Lies. Shang Qinghua is PIDWs creator god, and the System doesn’t want him to know the power he has, because he might use it to avenge himself against the System!
The system brought up the trading bodies thing to keep Shen Yuan from believing it is a killer. I know it brought a lot of people peace to think that SJ willingly gave up his body, but think about it for ONE SECOND. Would this man, who has fought tooth and NAIL for what he has, and is FAMOUSLY distrusting… really trust this unknown entity for his second chance? NO! He’d rather claw his second chance from the world himself! He was trained by a demonic cultivator! He can snatch a new body on his own and disappear if he wants to, thank you very much!
It claims to have placed Shang Qinghua in the world to alter the plot to make Binghe’s life better… but DID IT THOUGH???? It gave him absolutely no motivation to do so – and in fact it gave him an incentive at times to NOT do so!
But it knows that blaming Airplane is something Shen Yuan will be on board with, so
The thing closest to truth in the System’s whole explanation, I think, is its selection of Shen Yuan as the second Transmigrator. I think it really did see Shen Yuan and go “Wow, what a weird little dedicated guy! He’s perfect for putting in Situations UwU”
So the System expects us to believe that the time in the plot and the character SY transmigrated into were random? That it had so much control over everything else, but not that? Why would that be the case? If the System knew its limits in that regard, wasn’t bringing in ANY Transmigrator a huge gamble? Wouldn’t it be likely they’d be transmigrated into a dying person too late into the story to change anything?
And of course the System then goes on to flatter SY for his “efficiency” lol. Really?
At the end of the explanation, SY pretty much asks the system: “So your task is over? Then why don’t you get out of me.”
And the system goes “Well you’re pretty much my energy farm sooooooo” (Which I have a whole OTHER theory about why systems may be powered by Heavenly Demons, but we won’t get into that in this post…) Suffice to say, I think the System wants to reside in SQQ specifically because of his frequent access to Heavenly Demon jizz, which is probably a huge power boost for the System it couldn’t get otherwise.
*People might call me Cucumber-bro for this rant, idec XD
*Note: I’m gonna enjoy the hell out of Bingzu fic, tho <3 so pls still write it!
EDIT: Addition to say! Why the hell would the System mention or care about readers or reader satisfaction if it was just trying to make a happy ending for Binghe? Why is it even a System to begin with and not just presenting itself as a spirit?
((Personally, my answer is because it was created unintentionally by Xiang Fei - but that's only my speculation.))
