Two weeks later, I went missing.
Ah correction, I was enthralled.
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Since I started the novel [How to find the female lead], I realized what a nerd I was.
I read the novel whenever I could, and as I read further I soon had a favorite character, which was the hidden saintess, who was probably the actual female lead, Anya.
As the title suggested, the novel has no clear female lead, but the ladies who stood out the most was the villainess Valeria, the fake saintess Miranda, the princess Patricia and the hidden saintess, Anya!
While the probable Male leads were the first prince, Tate, The third prince Tobias, the only sons of the grand duke, Alexander and Alexavier, and some of the sons of the four main ducal families.
And just as the female lead was undetermined, so were the male leads, but some particularly stood out including, the aforementioned royal princes, the twin sons of the grand duke and the two sons of the Aisen Household.
I particularly disliked the Villainess Valeria whom I rarely paid attention to.
In fact anytime she comes up, I skim through her scenes and most times, I just skip the chapters she appears in. She'd never win against Anya, and I don't understand why she keeps trying, or why she bothers Anya in the first place.
Anya belongs to the temple, so I doubt they'd let her be tied down by one empire. Plus Anya is not interested in any of the princes. She values her position as saintess and healer, and even mentioned earlier on, that her goal is to save as many people as she can, while she can.
Her speech was so awe-inspiring, it moved the priest, first prince and me to tears!
As for Miranda, she's just a meh character who once disliked Valeria, but teamed up with her against Anya. I'm pretty sure she's going to meet her end soon, the previous chapters have raised a death flag for her.
While the princess Patricia was a very pitiful and innocent character. She was the only daughter of the emperor but she had to be sold off into a political marriage. She had no biological siblings and was her mother's only child, but for some reason she asked the third prince for help instead of the practical first prince.
Unfortunately for her, he was one of the people secretly urging the marriage on. Fortunately, he didn't pretend to help her and didn't give her false hope. He only gave her one advice, and that was to run away.
But she didn't take his advice, since she didn't trust him, because she thought the only thing he cared about was the empire. He even broke off the engagement between himself and Miranda in an attempt to marry Anya, as if Valeria would ever let that happen.
The first prince is not bad, he's extremely favored by the people, and the emperor. He's also friendly with Anya and has never made any advances towards her, so he's not such a bad character.
But the two brothers are extremely dumb, they're already so powerful but they can't take care of their only sister, Valeria!
The book was extremely interesting and intensely captivating. It was the usual stereotype, with many twists and few cliches, but what would this first time reader know about it.
In his eyes they were good, and that was good enough.
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Due to the novel he recently discovered, Sil lessened the hours he wasted in the lab.
However, he decided to attend Physics classes one day and found out classes had been cancelled because of their absent professor.
There were no students around the lecture hall and he guessed he was the only one that hadn't been informed. Despite his surprise, he still intended to study that Tuesday as he had spent too much time reading How To Find The Female Lead.
With that goal in mind, he decided to go to the robotics workshop instead. But on his way there, he found out from an acquaintance, why the physics professor was absent.
And It turned out the professor's sister had fallen prey to the mysterious plague and was even in the late stage. The unyielding slumber.
'Poor professor…'
I thanked the course mate and continued on my way to the robotics workshop.
"It's the unyielding slumber again…!"
It was a case where the victim would enter a coma which could extend for as long as a lifetime or could be as short as two or three years. The case with the shortest comatose period was two years and one day, since they were determined to have fallen unconscious.
They say those who enter the late stage know when they're going to fall into a coma they could possibly never wake up from. Simply because of the position they're discovered in. Only rare cases are ever discovered in an uncomfortable position.
Many families held the hope that their child might just be a miracle patient who woke up, because the results from hospitals showed that there was nothing wrong with their vitals, or health. And it appeared as though they were just sleeping.
There had been many cases of the unyielding slumber over the past few decades, and only few of the victims had never woken up. With that said, most of them woke up, no longer how long it took, while some never did, and none of them had ever died in their comatose state.
When the survivors of the unyielding slumber were asked by the media what had happened to them or why they fell into the coma, they all replied they had no idea.
And it was such a unanimous answer amongst the survivors from everywhere around the world, almost as if they had decided on that answer together before they woke up.
However, that wasn't the only strange thing that was common amongst the survivors. The most noticeable similarity amongst all of them was their changed personalities, and how most of them had become completely different people.
Some of them showed signs of being affected by the mysterious plague again, which was their partial memory loss, another symptom of the mysterious plague.
While others re-entered their comatose state again, and a select few disappeared completely and had been rumoured to have wandered off after experiencing complete memory loss.
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My Aunt Louis had once been affected by the mysterious plague, but was only in the first stage which was partial memory loss. And after that first case there were three other times she was affected, and those times were periods of worry for me, who worried my aunt would enter a coma and leave me all alone.
Thankfully after the fourth case, and a check up at the hospital she was all better and remained in the second stage, never advancing or displaying any of it's symptoms, only side effects.
"Poor professor…", I muttered thoughtfully, hoping a cure for this mysterious disease would be discovered soon. But that could be difficult it's cause is also unknown.
'Come to think of it, it's been a while since I spoke to aunty'
With that thought in mind I called my aunt.
And that call was going through.