Recount of a Cannon Fodder’s Counterattack (1)
Jun Yu had long since coveted his nephew. Seeing how cute Xiao Li was, his heart couldn’t help but itch. He asked Lu Shijin to give him a child everyday, making Lu Shijin quite annoyed.
Thankfully, Shen Shao and Jun Li made up and both meters had reached 100%. He was finally done with this world’s tasks, so Lu Shijin and Jun Yu could leave the world.
Knowing that he would definitely meet Jun Yu in the next world, Lu Shijin wasn’t that unwilling to part. He just hoped that there wouldn’t be any weird things in the next world.
The merpeople’s world slowly retreated into a bubble in Lu Shijin’s consciousness. The next time he opened his eyes, he was in another world.
And the story for this world flowed into his head like water.
This was a modern workplace drama, focused on the rising popularity of webnovels. The main character was a student named Wang Lizhi at a specialized high school who felt unmotivated and couldn’t find a job without a diploma. He stumbled upon webnovels and found his talent in writing such stories.
Wang Lizhi became famous with one stroke of a pen. He went from an ordinary student into a famous Internet god. He owned countless film rights and television copyrights, as well as countless novel fans who cheered for him on multiple platforms. Essentially, he became a winner in life.
The story sounded very stereotypical, but clearly, this kind of mindless rot was what the audience liked.
But what the audience saw was just the tip of the iceberg that the director wanted them to see. There were far more dirty things beneath the water’s surface.
Lu Shijin’s character was Wang Lizhi’s mentor when he just got into webnovels.
Lu Shijin was also a webnovel author. He was a very simple person. While his classmates were dating and playing games in university, he was only focused on reading and writing novels.
After he graduated, he didn’t want a job where he had to interact with people because of his social anxiety, so he decided to write online.
He had been writing since his first year in university. Although he wasn’t that impressive, he was hardworking.
Lu Shijin set a goal for himself to write at least ten thousand characters per day, and never took a break. He got a small group of fans with his effort.
Wang Lizhi met Lu Shijin on a literature forum.
Wang Lizhi had not read anything after graduating high school. As an only child who was coddled by his parents, he didn’t have a job either. He just stayed home and felt bored all day.
One time, he stumbled across news that said someone’s story had been noticed by a film company and they used hundreds of millions of yuan to buy the copyright. This instantly made the author into a millionaire.
Seeing this, Wang Lizhi felt inspired. It was just writing some story. If someone else could do it, then so could he. If they could earn millions, then why can’t he?
It was just typing stuff online, and he would get a lot of money simply and easily, wasn’t this the perfect job for him?
Although Wang Lizhi had a low level of education, his brain was flexible.
It was his first time going into this field, so he didn’t know how it worked. He wanted to find someone to show him around to avoid unnecessary detours.
Lu Shijin didn’t have many friends. Other than interacting with his readers, he spent his time browsing through various forums. One time, he accidentally elaborated on his writing process when he posted, and the post was found by Wang Lizhi.
Lu Shijin was just a nobody amongst the other writers posting on the same platform as himself, but even nobodies were gods in Wang Lizhi’s point of view.
Wang Lizhi found who he was looking for, but he never told Lu Shijin about his actual purpose.
He began following Lu Shijin’s actions. Whenever he saw that Lu Shijin posted something on a forum, he would immediately reply, complimenting him on his deep writing and saying that he must be a big god.
Other than readers who liked his writing, Lu Shijin had never received so many compliments, especially since the other person didn’t know who he was.
Everyone was vain. Under Wang Lizhi’s daily praise, Lu Shijin became muddleheaded and began having good impressions of this online friend and gradually began to interact more with him.
Wang Lizhi thought that he should’ve been doing it for long enough now, so he casually brought up to Lu Shijin one day that he also wanted to try writing.
By this time, Lu Shijin had already treated Wang Lizhi as his friend. Since a friend wanted to try it out, he naturally had to do his best to help.
Lu Shijin told Wang Lizhi all the tips and tricks he learnt about webnovel writing and publishing online.
But Wang Lizhi had never written webnovels before, and his writing from school could just barely get his points across.
And he was young, so his social and life experiences weren’t enough to offer insights to the world.
Wang Lizhi couldn’t really understand everything Lu Shijin told him, and he began realizing that writing a webnovel wasn’t as easy as he thought.
After half a month, Wang Lizhi wrote a thirty thousand draft of the introduction of a novel according to Lu Shijin’s process and showed it to Lu Shijin, asking him if it was plausible.
After reading it, Lu Shijin felt like Wang Lizhi was trying to write out of his depth. He was trying to provide deep insights using some obscure metaphors, but it seemed more like he was trying to dress a dog as a tiger.
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