Webnovel/17

## Chapter 17

* Main

The **17th chapter** of the web novel is titled 《拿错剧本 2》 which translates to *"Took the Wrong Script 2"*. It was first published in Chinese on JJWXC, July 2015.

## English Novel Location

This chapter starts on the line

> However, the terrifying thing about Meng Mo was that he specialized in summoning the human heart’s deepest terror, rage, and misery in order to destroy a person’s psychological defenses.
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Of the English Novel volume 1, chapter 3: Favor Points, and ends on the line

> Was the System…laying all the emotional labor associated with the female lead’s role…on Shen Qingqiu?
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Of the English Novel volume 1, chapter 3: Favor Points.

## Recap

Before Luo Binghe can escape the grips of the first illusion, the scene changes to that of Luo Binghe’s Unnamed Washerwoman mother. She’s a haggard old woman lying on a bed, sick, who Luo Binghe urges to lay down and rests until he can give her medicine. She mentions how her appetite is waning, but how she wishes she had a taste of the white congee that the house’s young master threw out. Dream reflection Luo Binghe promises to get some and runs off, while actual Luo Binghe gets dragged further into his own inner demons.

At this point, Shen Qingqiu notes how important it is to not attack figments of the dream realm, since it’d be like attacking your own brain. Attacking too many of them could send the person whose mind it is into a coma.

The dreamscape changed erratically around them, flashing images of Luo Binghe’s traumatic memories around them without pause. The only way to pause the nightmares would be to untangle the problems in one's heart, but Luo Binghe wasn’t able to do that on his own. When Shen Qingqiu tried to snap him out of it, Luo Binghe unconsciously blasted him with an incredibly powerful spiritual blast to the lower abdomen. After hitting Shen Qingqiu, Luo Binghe’s mind cleared, and he questioned why Shen Qingqiu didn’t reflect it back.

Shen Qingqiu calls him foolish and insists that the point is to ensure that he is not injured. Luo Binghe wallowed in self blame and misery, and Shen Qingqiu insisted that his cultivation is strong enough to tank multiple blows from Luo Binghe. After insisting that the demon was the one at fault, not Luo Binghe, the boy’s thoughts shift, and his spirit is full of resolute conviction. He insists that he definitely won’t let this thing happen again, and he says it with enough conviction (while ignoring their social barriers and not referring to himself as “this disciple”) that Shen Qingqiu feels a sense of safety. At that, he is filled with complex emotions, remembering that this man will kill him one day, and how this conviction should be fueled by a female lead and not him.

> “Was the System…laying all the emotional labor associated with the female lead’s role…on Shen Qingqiu?”
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## Changes Between Versions

### The Faelicy/Lily Translation (January 2020 version)

#### Larger Changes

* After Shen Qingqiu gets hit with the spiritual blast, there is a paragraph in the Seven Seas translation that is not in the Faelicy translation:

> It seemed that ever since he’d unlocked the OOC function, not only had he not accomplished any grand achievements, the only thing he’d done aside from blocking blows was block more blows—and also block some blows. He was doing just grand as a self-sacrificial meatshield, wasn’t he?!
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#### Smaller Changes

* In the Faelicy translation, the disordered traumatic scenes from Luo Binghe’s childhood are described as “scattered” while they’re described as a “maelstrom” in the Seven Seas translation.
* When Shen Qingqiu throws himself in front of Luo Binghe’s spiritual blast, the Faelicy translation describes his actions as “no matter how painful, his body still reacted and rushed over, putting himself before the illusions'' While the Seven Seas translation describes it as “No matter how painful, his body still understood its duties. He rushed over, throwing himself before the illusions.”

### The (CNovelLuv) WorshipperA Translation (July 2017 version)

#### Larger Changes

* The Seven Seas translation starts off the chapter by editing one paragraph and removing three paragraphs that were in the WorshipperA translation. The Seven Seas translation starts off with:

> However, the terrifying thing about Meng Mo was that he specialized in summoning the human heart’s deepest terror, rage, and misery in order to destroy a person’s psychological defenses.
> To a Luo Binghe who had already activated his god-mode cheats,
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While that same section in the WorshipperA translation is:

> However, this was the Dream Demon’s illusion. It was the best at using the feelings in the depths of people’s hearts. Bringing out their most ancient terrors or rages or bitterness, it could then break down their psychological defenses. Therefore, all these countless hundreds of years, there had been no one (known) to break free.
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> Shen Qingqiu always wanted to tsukkomi this point in the original work. It was said very plainly, yet for Luo Binghe and Ning Yingying these two medium-sized children to pull around bitterly for a while and break through; Great God Airplane Towards The Sky, please give the demon Elder more face!
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> Luo Binghe suddenly charged forward, seeming to want to beat aside the people who beat him in his younger self’s beggar days, but his fists went through their bodies. There was completely no way to dispel the illusion. Fists and feet continued to rain down on that small body.
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> Shen Qingqiu quickly caught Luo Binghe’s fist and stabilized his body. Calmly, he said: “See? You can’t touch them. This is only the Dream Demon’s trap.”
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> If it were the Luo Binghe after activating his cheats,
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* The paragraph describing Luo Binghe’s reaction to the continuous illusions is expanded upon in the Seven Seas translation. In the WorshipperA translation, his reaction is:

> This dream was the collection of ups and downs of this young boy’s short ten years of life. Luo Binghe already completely entered into it! His breathing was unsteady and his two eyes were unnaturally red.
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With “ten years” likely being a mistranslation that the Seven Seas version translated slightly earlier as “ his short decade-plus years of life.” The Seven Seas translation of this paragraph is split across two paragraphs, in different areas:

> The scenery around them shifted erratically. This nightmare was a collection of Luo Binghe’s misfortunes and traumas from his short decade-plus years of life.
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And then, in a later paragraph, the line “his eyes turned an unnatural red.”

* Between Luo Binghe hitting him in the abdomen and him complaining about it, there is a line in the WorshipperA translation that mentions why his abdomen got hit specifically:

> At this time, Luo Binghe was shorter than him by only a little and coincidentally hit him in the lower abdomen.
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* After hearing how weak Shen Qingqiu was after his accidental attack, Luo Binghe says two different things across the translations. In the WorshipperA translation, he thinks and says:

> Luo Binghe listened to Shifu’s weak voice and even thought of taking a palm to his own chest and killing himself, “But the one hurt right now is Shizun…… this disciple should be dead ten thousand times over!”
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And in the Seven Seas translation, he thinks and says:

> That frail voice made Luo Binghe want to strike his own heart and kill himself. “But now the one injured is Shizun!”
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* After Luo Binghe declares everything is his fault, while Shen Qingqiu has a similar reaction across the translations, the wording is different and could lead to different interpretations. In the WorshipperA translation, he thinks:

> N-n-n-n-no, it’s not your fault. Truly at this early stage you are walking the route of the crippled, adorable, warm and soft little white flower. How can you be blamed?
> Shen Qingqiu thought Luo Binghe had fallen into a tangle of self-reflection and taken the matter to heart.
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And in the Seven Seas translation, he thinks:

> The early Luo Binghe indeed walked the path of a brainless moe white lotus. Shen Qingqiu figured he’d once again fallen into the self-flagellating pattern of an anxious people-pleaser.
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* After Luo Binghe promises, with conviction and ignoring social barriers, to not let this happen again, there is a line in the WorshipperA translation that is not in the Seven Seas translation:

> Becoming the protagonist’s life teacher was a Max vanity that Shen Qingqiu was very satisfied with, though it wasn’t quite right in flavor.
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#### Smaller Changes

* When young Luo Binghe is trying to get his mother to lay down, In the WorshipperA translation, he mentions how she said she’d get better if she rested. In the Seven Seas translation, he mentions how “we” said it was fine to rest.
* In the WorshipperA translation, Luo Binghe begs the wealthy young master for a bowl of congee for his mother. In the Seven Seas translation, he instead begs the house chef, and is then ridiculed by the young master.
* In both translations, when he sees Luo Binghe try to attack the illusions, Shen Qingqiu cries out in his heart. However, in the WorshipperA translation, it specifies that the cry is for himself.
* The wording of Shen Qingqiu’s reaction to Luo Binghe’s self hatred is slightly different across translations. In the WorshipperA translation, he “softened for a rare moment, comforting,” and in the Seven Seas translation, he saw and “unable to stand it, he said consolingly”

## Appearances

Shen Qingqiu

Luo Binghe

Washerwoman

M.Meng Mo

M.OG Qingqiu

M.The System