Webnovel/16

## Chapter 16

* Main

The **16th chapter** of the web novel is titled 《拿错剧本》 which translates to *"Took the Wrong Script"*. It was first published in Chinese on JJWXC, July 2015.

## English Novel Location

This chapter starts on the line

> “Mine?” Luo Binghe startled and backed up a step, looking at the endless, desolate land and sky. “My dream realm, actually…looks like this?”
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Of the English Novel volume 1, chapter 3: Favor Points, and ends on the line

> “Pull yourself together,” Shen Qingqiu said lowly. “It’s only an illusion.”
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Of the English Novel volume 1, chapter 3: Favor Points.

## Recap

Shen Qingqiu explains to Luo Binghe that the dream realm is being affected by a demon, as evidenced by the borders churning with demonic qi. Luo Binghe curses how demons are poisonous, and Shen Qingqiu smiles and says that perhaps their intentions are the opposite. Luo Binghe thinks he might be teasing, but Shen Qingqiu is being honest. He’s aware that Sha Hualing is the one tampering with things due to her yearning for love. He notes that demons are inclined to viciously bully their crushes, and would only accept them if they failed to die. Shen Qingqiu states they must devise a solution and dispel the barrier so they don’t get trapped here forever.

They start to walk, and Shen Qingqiu starts to argue with the System. The System announces that this is the “The ‘Dream Demon’ Meng Mo’s Barrier'' mission, and Shen Qingqiu will lose 1000 points if he fails. After complaining about the potential point loss, he asks if the System is having a bug. He notes that it’s supposed to be Ning Yingying, as Luo Binghe’s most trusted confidant, here to cozy up to him, unravel his complexes, and use love to help him defeat his inner demons. The System affirms it does not have a bug

As he inwardly panics about this new honor, Luo Binghe asks what’s wrong, and they have a short exchange that ends in Luo Binghe insisting he won’t drag Shen Qingqiu down again. Shen Qingqiu inwardly complains about this situation, not warning to confront the terrifying Meng Mo, protect Luo Binghe, and offer free therapy. While he complains, they keep walking through the eerie landscapes. Suddenly, buildings emerge from within the cloud layers, where there aren’t guards and where the people are faceless.

Upon seeing this, Luo Binghe asks what’s going on, and Shen Qingqiu ignores his panicking terror to take up “the duty of being an expository encyclopedia.” He explains how the dream realm is illusory, and how the people there are illusions. With how complex these illusions are, he reveals that this can only be the work of Meng Mo, the Dream Demon and “Portable Grandfather” mentor to Luo Binghe in the original novel.

After that reveal, Luo Binghe spots some illusions that have faces, and they follow them to a group of youths harassing a figure on the ground. Shen Qingqiu reveals that they can see their faces since Meng Mo awakened the memories of their faces from Luo Binghe’s memories. At this, Luo Binghe stops listening, his inner demons having struck. He watches the figures hit and abuse a reflection of his child self, his head feeling like it was splitting open. He finds himself unable to look away, so Shen Qingqiu steps in to say:

> “Pull yourself together,” Shen Qingqiu said lowly. “It’s only an illusion.”
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## Changes Between Versions

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

#### Smaller Changes

* In the Faelicy translation, Shen Qingqiu refers to the demonic tampering of the dream realm as “lowborn methods” where the Seven Seas translation refers to it as “crude techniques.”
* In the Faelicy translation, Luo Binghe thinks that Shen Qingqiu’s tone shows he’s being “frivolous” while in the Seven Seas translation, he thinks that he’s “teasing.”
* In both translations, Sha Hualing is noted to have harmful intentions, but only the Seven Seas translation notes that she only has “some '' harmful intentions.
* In the Faelicy translation, Shen Qingqiu claims that no “ordinary demon technique” could trap him, while in the Seven Seas translation, the wording is changed to “ordinary nightmare technique.”

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

#### Larger Changes

* After Shen Qingiqu notes how the dreamscape is a reflection of the heart, he has a comment about it in the Seven Seas translation that he doesn’t make an equivalent for in the WorshipperA translation: “One couldn’t help feeling sorrow.”
* When describing Sha Hualing’s demonic and vicious courting tendencies, the two translations have notable differences between them. The WorshipperA translation:

> Why else would she not harm others and only harm him? In the eyes of this demon girl, the person she likes should be brought over and viciously bullied ╮(￣▽￣」)╭ . However, this was only in the beginning; wait for her to be brought into the harem by Luo Binghe. She could only be submissive and docile then.
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And the Seven Seas translation:

> Otherwise, she would have directed her aggressions toward others, not specifically Luo Binghe. Demons were compelled to viciously bully the person they liked. Only if the object of their affections failed to die would the demon accept them. If their target died, that meant they were useless and not worth nursing any lingering affections for.
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* Luo Binghe’s reaction to Shen Qingqiu’s positive tone about demons is interpreted differently across the translations. The WorshipperA translation:

> Luo Binghe didn’t understand the meaning of these words he said, but he smiled and thought it was profound. It was flighty and slightly frivolous but was also able to make people feel a bit of adventurousness.
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And the Seven Seas translation:

> Luo Binghe didn’t understand. What did his master mean? But Shen Qingqiu’s smile seemed profound, and the tail of his sentence was inflected lightly upward in a somewhat teasing tone. It was the sort of hint that made people’s imaginations run wild. Luo Binghe stopped there, not daring to think about it further.
> In truth, Shen Qingqiu didn’t intend to tease; he thought himself very straightforward.
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* Luo Binghe worrying about getting trapped in the dream realm is altered between translations. The WorshipperA translation:

> “That is to say, we’ll be forever trapped inside this dream realm?” Luo Binghe apologized: “It’s all this disciple’s fault.”
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And the Seven Seas translation:

> “Even Shizun would be trapped in this dream realm forever?” Luo Binghe asked, anxious.
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> Shen Qingqiu glanced at him. “You will be too.”
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> Luo Binghe’s mind jolted, his face going from red to white. “…It’s all this disciple’s fault.”
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* When thinking of the extra work he’d have to do in this scenario, Shen Qingqiu’s thoughts are different across the translations. The WorshipperA translation:

> Shen Qingqiu didn’t want to block knife and gun for the protagonist and follow him through mountains and seas to face fearful heart demons and dream demons and other big things at all, ah QAQ!
> What kind of muddled luck was it to reach this level……
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And the Seven Seas translation:

> Shen Qingqiu absolutely didn’t want to charge through a mountain of knives or a sea of fire with the male lead to confront the terrifying Master Meng Mo while also blocking knives for him and even providing free psychological therapy…
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* Shen Qingqiu notes that he complains about Airplane in both translations, but the wording leads to different implications of his thoughts on the world. In the WorshipperA translation, he thinks:

> Earlier he’d complained about this world’s god. Thinking it over, God was also very innocent. Wasn’t the person who created this world Airplane Towards The Sky?
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While in the Seven Seas translation, he thinks:

> That said, complaining was useless. In the past, when he’d been faced with this kind of situation, his habit had been to cuss out Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky, but honestly, “Great Master” Airplane was also innocent.
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* When Introducing Meng Mo, there is a line that’s expanded upon in the Seven Seas translation. In the WorshipperA translation, the line is:

> At the same time, he was actually one of the protagonist’s shifus.
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And in the Seven Seas translation, that was expanded into the paragraph of:

> At the same time, he was also one of the protagonist’s teachers on his road to becoming a demon. Thus, we can give him a more direct and intimate nickname: the Portable Grandfather.
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#### Smaller Changes

* When Shen Qingqiu tells Luo Binghe that the dream realm is being tampered with, in the WorshipperA translation, its noted that he “dully said” the exposition, while its noted that he “pretended to ponder for a while” in the Seven Seas translation.
* In the WorshipperA translation, Luo Binghe questions who might tamper with his dream realm in his head. In the Seven Seas translation, he asks this out loud.
* One of the insults the figures in the dream realm lob at child Luo Binghe is “small mixed-breed” in the WorshipperA translation, which is instead “little mongrel” in the Seven Seas translation.

## Appearances

Shen Qingqiu

Luo Binghe

The System

M.Sha Hualing

M.Ning Yingying

M.Meng Mo