However, unbeknownst to Yu Mian, a mysterious forum had quietly been created, with its logo being the amusingly crude sketch he had drawn earlier in the day. The design was oddly captivating.
In the study, Yu Mian skimmed through the previous chapters of “Eternal Night Rose”, pondered for a moment, and began typing rapidly.
The last time the new chapter was released, it was announced that the book would be updated weekly. The reason why this caused such a big reaction was probably because of the slightly soul-stirring plot points.
The previous week’s plot cliffhanger—where Su Yan’s finger was kissed by the mysterious, handsome “relic” in the museum—had caused quite a stir.
Leaving interstellar readers hanging at this pivotal moment for an entire week had perhaps been a bit cruel.
Now was the perfect time to push the plot forward!
At exactly 10 PM, the readers eagerly waiting beneath the “Eternal Night Rose” chapter list were ecstatic to find that the author had indeed dropped a massive update!
Even Lu Wei, who had been silently watching the Rising Star Project event, immediately clicked into the main story, his mental sea expanding in excitement.
After all, even he was curious about what happened after Su Yan’s finger was kissed.
The key question lingered: could the awakened “relic” truly be the tyrant from ancient history?
But neither Lu Wei nor the readers anticipated that the new chapter would open with the protagonist officially traveling through time!
[[The moment the intense light pierced his eyes, Su Yan instinctively closed them.
As a result, the sensation of the man’s cold lips brushing against the wound on his fingertip became impossibly vivid.
Having never experienced anything like this before, Su Yan’s face flushed as he tried to struggle, only to find his strength mysteriously drained.
In the next instant, it felt as though his body was falling into a weightless, infinite starry sky!
He vaguely heard the man’s final sigh-like murmuring.
‘What was he saying to me…?’
“Hey, Su Yan, there’s a big assessment today and you’re slacking off and napping again.”
A bright voice sounded in his ear. Su Yan gasped abruptly, clutching his chest as he opened his eyes.
Before him stood a handsome young man with sharp features, dressed in a sleek and efficient combat uniform, motioning for Su Yan to hurry and join him.
‘Wasn’t I in the museum?’
Su Yan looked around blankly, only to realize his fingertip was perfectly intact, as if it had never been cut.
However, his glasses were gone—likely left behind and shattered on the museum floor.
“…Huh? You’re not wearing those bottle-bottoms today. You actually look quite good.”
*”Bottle-bottoms” are extremely thick lensed glasses that look like umm… the bottom of bottles.😅
The young man named Xiao looked at Su Yan’s appearance after he woke up, and couldn’t help but hesitate in his tone.
It was only after he took off those ugly glasses that he suddenly discovered that Su Yan, who was usually inconspicuous, actually had extremely delicate and beautiful features—especially his green eyes, which sparkled like gemstones.
“Sorry, I seem a little dizzy. Could you tell me what time it is now?”
Su Yan quickly realized he was in an entirely unfamiliar place.
Without his glasses, everything in the pitch-black surroundings was blurred, which was an uncomfortable sensation.
Even the scent of the night carried an indescribable sense of silent danger.
“You didn’t really hit your head yesterday, did you? It’s Blood Moon 1392…”
As Xiao explained incredulously, the dazed and lost Su Yan followed him to what he called the assessment field.
‘Blood Moon 1392?’
With Su Yan’s extensive knowledge of interstellar history, he immediately recognized the date—it was the very year the tyrant from the museum had just ascended to power!
‘But how did I end up hundreds of years in the past?!’]]
Outside the story, Lu Wei couldn’t help but feel a spark of excitement as he read to this point. This bold, novel setup was a first for him.
So this is what it means to time-travel?
The protagonist had returned to the past, hundreds of years ago!
And all of it seemed intricately linked to the awakened tyrant in the museum.
What had that tyrant tried to say before the protagonist disappeared?
Could it be that the protagonist’s blood revived the terrible Dreven D. Elpine Gural, and the tyrant intended to repay him?
But would such a dangerous and unpredictable villain really act out of gratitude?
As these thoughts swirled in Lu Wei’s mind, he found himself even more engrossed, sensing a mysterious world and plot gradually unfolding.
Immersing himself further, Lu Wei continued to read the latest update with full attention.
It turned out that Su Yan had not only accidentally time-traveled to Blood Moon 1392 but had also assumed a new identity.
In this era of perpetual darkness under the Bart Clan’s rule, the entire planet had been forced into an extended great night.
Without stable sunlight, countless plants and animals faced extinction. But to the long-lived Bart Clan, who thrived in darkness, all this was as insignificant as the death of livestock.
It was also because of this that while under their tyrannical rule, humanity’s armed resistance never ceased, and the so-called “Blood Hunters” were a key part of it.
Vampires—a derogatory term for the bloodthirsty Bart Clan—became the target of the Blood Hunters, whose purpose was self-evident: to eliminate them.
[[“So, our existence is for…?”
Su Yan looked at Xiao with disbelief.
“Of course, it’s to overthrow the Bart Clan’s tyranny and assassinate the hated Dreven D. Elpine Gural!”
As expected, Xiao’s serious response left Su Yan at a loss as they arrived at the Blood Hunters’ assessment field.
If history followed its known course…
Wouldn’t everyone here ultimately die?
After all, the Dreven in history books had successfully ascended to the throne and ruled for an exceptionally long time.
If not for his eventual self-destruction, no one could have predicted how long his dark reign would last!]]
“Huh… so they’re opposing factions.”
When Lu Wei read to this point, he muttered his surprise aloud.
Had everyone online been wrong?
Was the tyrant who awakened in the museum, kissed the protagonist, and was seemingly connected to him actually the main villain of the book and not a protagonist?
At present, Xiao, the young man dubbed “the most promising Blood Hunter of his generation,” seemed to care deeply for Su Yan. His character setup was nearly perfect, making him appear more like the other male protagonist.
Considering the two opposing factions, how could a human possibly fall in love with a member of the Bart Clan?
It seemed inconceivable.
This revelation left Lu Wei feeling as if all his earlier assumptions had been upended.
Unlike “Contract Marriage”, where Caesar and Gu Bai’s mutual affection was apparent from the beginning, “Eternal Night Rose” constantly introduced twists and surprises.
The book’s unpredictable developments gave readers the thrill of exploring a completely unfamiliar historical realm alongside the protagonist.
As Lu Wei anticipated, Su Yan soon began integrating himself into the human resistance.
And from this chapter onward, the classic tropes of time-travel novels—the protagonist’s newfound gold fingers—began to emerge!
Previously frail and dependent on Xiao’s protection, Su Yan had only been allowed to stay in the human settlement due to this childhood friend.
As a result, this history of weakness had led to considerable discrimination.
However, although Su Yan, who had crossed over, was still a university student with no strength to even tie up a chicken, he was extremely proficient in the study of interstellar history!
Thus, Su Yan not only used his vague memory of several major disasters recorded in history books to successfully help the humans of this settlement reduce significant losses, but also, because he knew the basic methods and principles behind the production of nutrient solution in the future, he promoted this food preservation model—developed by future technologies—early in the settlement.
This directly solved the major survival problem of food scarcity and difficulty in long-term storage that people had previously faced.
What was even more refreshing was that, as the only person in the settlement with the highest literacy rate, Su Yan even knew a little about the ancient characters of the Bart clan.
Therefore, after assisting others in deciphering important document clues in a thrilling scene, Su Yan was directly regarded as a prophet and gained the protection of the settlement’s armed forces!
Just like the three treasures in time-travel novels—penicillin, soap, and gunpowder—this classic “golden finger” plot, though no longer considered unique in Earth-based novels, was an absolute marvel to the interstellar readers who encountered this kind of “precognitive” thrill for the first time!
Especially since when writing, Yu Mian had thoughtfully replaced items like penicillin, soap, and gunpowder with black technologies like nutrient solution, which interstellar readers could recognize, and then had the protagonist, Su Yan, take them to the old interstellar era.
So, when the interstellar readers read this part of the book, they felt it was so refreshing and exciting and the sense of immersion was so smooth that it seemed to fit in seamlessly.
It was as if they themselves had crossed into the old interstellar era, casually pulled out countless future technologies and enjoyed the amazement and attention from those around them!
[This part made me so nervous I couldn’t help but jump out of bed in the middle of the night to flip through the basic tutorial on making outdoor nutrient solution from my textbook and memorize it… Damn it, I didn’t it study for the exam, but Fish Soup Noodles made me memorize it!]
[Yeah, the key is that I think the protagonist Su Yan is really awesome. If it were me, a poor student of interstellar history, crossing over, I wouldn’t know anything! I wouldn’t be able to remember any historical details!?? [Losing my mind]]
[I’m panicking, I’m really panicking, this year I have to take interstellar history as an elective, but you mean it might save my life at a critical moment!?]
And just like countless readers of time-travel novels on Earth who, in their spare time, studied cement and glass-making techniques, interstellar readers, after reading this, quickly realized a serious issue.
That is, opportunities are always given to those who are prepared!
Even if one day everyone has the chance to travel through time, if their minds are blank, and they know nothing, wouldn’t that be a waste?
And just as everyone was feeling excited by this golden finger ascension plot, a new twist quickly appeared in the latest update.
The legendary tyrant, Dreven D. Elpein Gural, actually appeared again.
It even seemed as if he was deliberately searching for Su Yan!
Haha, I was among those who started cramming things after my first time travel story 😆. It was set in the pre-historic era so I even studied different herbs, how to make bows, earthen houses etc 😆😆 good times…
After my first time reading time travel novels…I learned that I’ll be completely useless. And in fact, I also skipped the parts where they explained how they made it (ex: how they made gunpowder)…bc I was too lazy to read it 💀
Idk any farming techniques bc I grew up in cities. If I were to be put in an era without spices, I’d be dead