The backdrop can also be propped up.

As Heledi roared in anger, a bolt of lightning struck straight down.

Boris's face remained calm and composed.

Just as the lightning was about to strike Borest, it suddenly split into five bolts, each perfectly grazing Borest's body.

Then, a colorful magic circle appeared beneath Borest's feet.

The lightning bolts that Heledi attracted all struck the core of the magic circle, providing it with energy.

"I deserve to die, but it's not your place to kill me." After saying this calmly, the multicolored orb that had been gathering in front of Borist's wand was finally launched, heading straight for Heledi.

Heledi hurriedly raised his wand, trying to dispel the attack, but he suddenly noticed that a magic circle had appeared beneath his feet, and the lightning he had attracted was coming from the center of the magic circle.

Heledi was paralyzed by the lightning he had attracted. As he was forced to drop his wand, Borist's multicolored orb of light flew over and struck him squarely on the forehead.

In the brief moments before Heledi lost consciousness, he saw Borest's eyes, which reminded him of his past life.

In her past life, Evangeline had the same look in her eyes when she killed him, only Boris's eyes weren't as ruthless, and they even carried a hint of weariness.

As soon as the teacher spoke, the audience erupted into a cacophony of noise, like a hot oil pan that had been doused with water. Most of the discussion revolved around why Borist, who always won in the last 10 seconds of any match, was able to defeat Hyledy, the rising star of the academy, in the final game.

Lu Renkui breathed a sigh of relief as he watched Boruist win the match, but at the same time he was lamenting that the mission had failed.

Forget it, let's just try it in another world. Who can have a 100% success rate?

As Lu Renkui waited for the system WQBYRZM to take her to the next world, she suddenly felt herself being forcefully pulled forward by a powerful hand.

Lu Renkui habitually closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he found that he had regained control of Borist's body.

To celebrate the birth of the first academy, colorful confetti was scattered in the air, fluttering and falling. Amid the noisy surroundings, Lu Renkui clenched his fist in a daze, then relaxed it.

Looking at Heledy lying on the open ground opposite the ring, Lu Renkui realized that Borist seemed to have done her a not-so-good favor.

"Damn it, they stole the male lead's thunder! Aaaaaaah!" Lu Renkui let out a wail in his heart that was even louder than if the mission had failed.

Lu Renkui accepted the award like a block of wood, listening blankly to the congratulations from his two younger sisters and Evangeline.

Then Lu Renkui returned home in a daze, then collapsed onto a recliner, emptying his mind and pondering why things had turned out this way.

She had to come up with a reason, so that Lu Renkui could have an explanation to the system WQBYRZM, which had just woken up from hibernation, for stealing the male lead's thunder.

Let me recall the general outline of the final battle—Helledy attacked me first, each attack more ferocious than the last, and then I couldn't dodge the final attack. At that moment, Borist temporarily regained control of the body, defeated Heledy, and then returned control to me. Lu Renkui sorted out his thoughts and realized that Borist was actually fully capable of directly taking control of the body.

Judging from his condition, he'd probably been awake for a while. The feeling that someone was watching me before might have been him watching me from within his consciousness, manipulating his body. Lu Renkui finally understood why she'd felt like someone was watching her for the past few days.

But why wasn't he in a hurry to take his body back? Lu Renkui thought of the previous world, where Maria Elisa asked him to return her body as soon as she woke up.

In the previous world, Ayaka woke up, and her first reaction upon seeing her and the system WQBYRZM was one of tension and fear.

Although the two reacted differently, they ultimately regained control of their bodies. Lu Renkui and the system WQBYRZM were merely tools, watching the task progress bar.

Borist's reaction was far too strange compared to Maria, Elisa, and Ayaka's—if he just wanted to toy with us, he should have taken back control of the body this time. But he didn't; instead, he gave control of the body back to me.

A thought suddenly popped into Lu Renkui's mind: Could it be that Borist just wants to give her his body?

Lu Renkui smacked his head hard with his hand to make sure he was thinking clearly.

But it doesn't seem impossible. Borist said "I deserve to die" in the ring before, which is probably why he chose to hand over control of his body to me. Lu Renkui frowned, closed his eyes, and entered his consciousness space, intending to go and talk to Borist.

After entering the consciousness space, Lu Renkui saw the system WQBYRZM lying on the floor of the Boruist consciousness space.

Lu Renkui walked over, squatted down, and slapped the system WQBYRZM's cheeks hard with both hands.

When System WQBYRZM was patted by Lu Renkui, its two golden eyes snapped open.

"What's gotten into you all of a sudden?" After realizing that the person slapping his face was Lu Renkui, the system WQBYRZM posed this soul-searching question.

"Stop hibernating. I know who that person who's been watching you all this time is," Lu Renkui said with a serious expression.

"Huh? Who is it?" System WQBYRZM was still a little confused after Lu Renkui slapped his face.

Then the system WQBYRZM remembered that besides itself and Lu Renkui, there was only one other person in this consciousness space who might be awake and watching them—that was Boruist.

"No?! You're awake again?!" System WQBYRZM was completely startled awake. Without using her hands, she sprang up from the ground, almost bumping into Lu Renkui's head.

"Yes, it woke up again, and I estimate the time it woke up wasn't too far off from the day we transmigrated." Lu Renkui touched his forehead with lingering fear, then moved a little further away from the system WQBYRZM.

"Didn't I search the entire consciousness space before? Why didn't I see him?" System WQBYRZM began searching for Borest's whereabouts in the consciousness space again, and then suddenly realized something.

"Wait a minute, I didn't see him when I was looking for him. Could it be that he's been hiding in our blind spot?" The system thought of this possibility and felt like it had been struck by lightning.

Lu Renkui couldn't stand it anymore and quickly comforted him, saying, "Not necessarily. Maybe he used invisibility magic? Anyway, this is a magical world."

Then Lu Renkui saw the system WQBYRZM's expression, as if it had been struck by lightning.

"In short, during the previous match, he took control of the body and... stole the spotlight from the male lead." Lu Renkui said the second half of the sentence with some difficulty.

Upon hearing this, System WQBYRZM gasped, rolled its eyes, and fell straight backward like a tree that had just been cut down.

Then the system WQBYRZM suddenly moved its arms and did a backflip, standing back on the ground.

"Find that guy first! Then add a Sleeping state—!!!" System WQBYRZM vanished in an instant.

Lu Renkui watched the system WQBYRZM disappear like a ghost, and stood in the consciousness space for a while longer.

After looking around, Lu Renkui exited the consciousness space, opened her eyes, and began to cook purple peony soup for her two younger sisters, while also thinking about where to dig up some spinach and the like.

Inside Lepssner Castle, Hu Xiaohai, who was inside Haikar's body, was finally freed from the treatment of more than 200 family doctors.

Watching the housekeeper send off the more than 200 family doctors one by one, and listening to the long list of names that came out of the housekeeper's mouth, Hu Xiaohai felt tired for the housekeeper's mouth.

Afterwards, Hu Xiaohai suggested going downstairs for a walk—because he heard Hailey's voice coming from downstairs.

Remembering how Heledi was defeated by Borist in the last moment, Hu Xiaohai couldn't help but want to go downstairs to see what was going on.

After the servants went downstairs to ask Sam and Catherine, the parents of the original owner, Haikar, Hu Xiaohai was forced to wear a thick coat and slowly walked downstairs.

Sure enough, Hu Xiaohai saw Heledi and his birth mother, Bena, downstairs, with Sam and Catherine sitting opposite them.

“Haier, you’re down here!” Catherine said with a smile—a smug smile. “Come here and sit with your mother. I’ll have the servants make your favorite cookies.”

Hu Xiaohai obediently sat down, then ate his cookies while watching the four people scheming against each other.

What if any of these four people mention Heikal?

Hu Xiaohai nodded while eating cookies, then left everything to Ms. Catherine.

Hu Xiaohai popped another cookie into his mouth and then looked at Hailey.

Heledi's complexion was extremely poor.

Hu Xiaohai was delighted, but he didn't show it on his face; instead, he was overjoyed inside.

But soon, Hu Xiaohai remembered something and asked System 4352: "System, are you there? In the original text, wasn't Heledi basically unstoppable except for the last three chapters? How come she was defeated in an academy competition by a background character who only appeared by name except for the last three chapters?"

"Actually, this background is more impressive than Helena." System 4352, which hadn't appeared for a long time, finally showed up.

This surprised Hu Xiaohai: "Wow, I thought you had abandoned me."

"The reason I'm replying to you this time is because there's a deviation in the plot." System 4352's tone was completely flat. "According to the original text, Heledy was supposed to win first place in this academy competition."

"But it's obvious that Borist took first place this time. Besides, didn't you yourself admit that Borist's abilities are stronger than Heledi's? Wait a minute, if Borist's abilities are stronger than Heledi's, why does the original text say that Heledi took first place, while what I saw was Borist taking first place?" Hu Xiaohai began to wonder.

"So someone changed Borist's choice. In the original text, Borist wouldn't participate in the academy's magic competition—because he was busy searching for medicine to cure his sister Carola's illness." System 4352 tugged at his scarf and tapped his fingers on the keyboard.

“In the original text, Carola should have been on leave from school at this time due to illness, but she went to the magic academy competition with us instead.” System 0733 frowned and turned another page of the book. “Moreover, her condition has obviously improved.”

“Your condition has clearly improved… What do you mean by that?” Melissa asked.

"According to the original text, Carola's illness should be similar to modern scurvy." System 0733 retrieved the meager description of Carola in the original text. "You also noticed those red spots on Carola's body, didn't you? In the last three chapters of Borest's memories, Carola was described as having 'red spots all over her body, each one as large as a drop of blood.'"

"But on that day, the red spots on Carola's body didn't seem as severe as described in the original text," Melissa began to recall.

"Although we're just speculating on the timing, Carola is probably in the middle stage of her illness now, not as severe as the later stage that Borist recalled. But Carola's current condition clearly indicates that someone is treating her."

“So… someone was secretly helping Borist, causing him to make a different decision, thus altering the most likely course of events,” Melissa quickly concluded.