Gu Xun replied to someone in the distance, then his voice became clear again. “It’s time for me to go back to work. You can let Lawyer Jin and Zhao Zhenxun deal with the Wu Heng situation. Don’t look at the bad content on the Internet, everything will be alright.”

Qi Cong responded again.

Gu Xun said another few words and was about ready to hang up the phone.

Qi Cong clenched his fingers and quickly called out, “Gu Xun.”

“Hmm?”

“Thank you.” With that he hung up the phone first.

The weather was so hot that Qi Cong didn’t realize until this moment that the back of his clothes were wet with sweat. He moved his neck uncomfortably, calmed down, then opened the map software to search for the nearest stationery store and walked out of the shade to run toward the subway station.

 

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While Qi Cong carefully selected paper and pens, Weibo was making a lot of noise.

In fact, from the time when Lin Xiaozhi made noise, Weibo was very lively, but the hustle and bustle reached its peak that morning.

Public opinion was like a roller coaster ride these days.

Yesterday, before Lin Xiaozhi made her move, there was a lot of online scolding of Wu Heng as a plagiarizing dog. Wu Heng fans were like rats crossing the street, and they didn’t dare to show their heads at all.

After Lin Xiaozhi’s move, Wu Heng fans finally found a way to fight back. Under the leadership of a water army, they rose up bravely, and followed the water army’s lead to scold Murmuring Water for cheating money and being a white eyed wolf. They even justifiably said they would boycott Murmuring Water’s version of “Chivalrous Bones”.

Many netizens were influenced by the analysis of the water army and the so-called “industry professionals”, and also had a negative impression of Murmuring Water, thinking that he didn’t appear to defend his rights but for the money and that he was a person with a despicable character.

Then at midnight, Murmuring Water issued the first three chapters of his “Chivalrous Bones” with a statement that he wouldn’t charge readers, which directly contradicted Lin Xiaozhi’s statement that Murmuring Water was rewriting “Chivalrous Bones” for money. Then he issued three questions to Wu Heng, which made most people notice some contradictions and blind spots in Lin Xiaozhi’s words. So public opinion changed again, and Weibo started the topics #Is Wu Heng plagiarizing or not# and #Should Murmuring Water’s “Chivalrous Bones” be boycotted or not#

The netizens who stood on Murmuring Water’s side thought that regardless if Murmuring Water swindled money, showed off his wealth, was being a white eyed wolf or marketing, he was plagiarized! The situation can’t be changed and he was a victim. Also, many of Lin Xiaozhi’s claims were doubtful, and they were suspicious of the rhythm, so it wasn’t credible. “Chivalrous Bones” belonged to Murmuring Water, and if he wanted to write it, of course he could!

Wu Heng’s fans and some netizens believed that Wu Heng didn’t commit “malicious” plagiarism. He didn’t copy, he just used some of the plot from the original “Chivalrous Bones”. Each word was typed out by him, and it was true that all the novel’s popularity was thanks to him. Murmuring Water first wanted to cheat money, secondly he was a white eyed wolf and his character was worrying. Wu Heng wrote “Chivalrous Bones” and Murmuring Water can defend his rights but he shouldn’t step on Wu Heng to make money! Murmuring Water’s statement that his “Chivalrous Bones” will not charge money gave the impression of acting after the fact, giving people a very poor impression.

Both sides quarreled in the dark, becoming more and more excited. Wu Heng fans also ran together to write negative comments under Murmuring Water’s “Chivalrous Bones” which made the comment area impossible to read.

The netizens who supported Murmuring Water were infuriated at the brain-dead logic of Wu Heng fans, but because of the water army stirring it up they couldn’t scold them. In the end, the netizens who supported Murmuring Water decisively retreated, deciding to wait until Wu Heng answered the three questions asked by Murmuring Water.

Then, this morning, the answers to the three questions were given during the time when most of the netizens woke up to start a new day of gossip, by someone who was not Wu Heng with the following hashtag # Wu Heng real face# with screenshots of a chat with shocking content.

Netizens were first shocked and then exploded with anger after reading this scoop!

The Sky and the Water are the Same:  What did I see? Ha, smiling angry. Lin Xiaozhi insisted that Murmuring Water bought marketing, but in fact it was her who bought marketing? “They promised that they could force Murmuring Water to put down his pen, so he won’t dare mention “Chivalrous Bones”again.”? Lin Xiaozhi, how can you be so rubbish! You’re so fucking unworthy of being a human!

Oranges are Delicious: “He is dead! Just think he’s dead!” , “Besides, you aren’t copying it word-for-word. Even if he tries to sue you, he won’t win.” You can see the greatest ill-will a plagiarist can have toward an original. Lin Xiaozhi, you’re a dog that just looks like a human.

Wang Zi Milk Jelly: “let him pay you a visit and bring a signed red envelope.” Where is the face of Wu Heng and Lin Xiaozhi? Face! You really make me sick, and the one who gave Wu Heng a whitewash yesterday, Meizu, you did a good job hiring a person who collected the money while pretending to be innocent. Good Job!

Qianqiu Suxi: One second you were still cursing because of the “fake” skin care products, and the next, when you heard that you can use him to your advantage, you shut up and asked Wu Heng to find Murmuring Water to book you a hotel. This kind of two-faced action really dumbfounded me. Murmuring Water what did you do in your previous life, that in this life you met these couple of jackals?!

Preserved Egg Xiaozhou:  The reasoning of the things that Lin Xiaozhi posted yesterday, except for the “fake goods” point and deleting friends for no reason, were a bit bad and I really didn’t have a problem with Murmuring Water deleting them. Now that I’ve seen these, if I was Murmuring Water, I wouldn’t only delete you, but also go to your hometown and kill you! What total shit!  And, Murmuring Water doesn’t sound like a liar, thank you! Please, blind Wu Heng fans, check the update time of the new three chapters of “Chivalrous Bones”, it clearly shows that Murmuring Water saved the  manuscript before Lin Xiaozhi started randomly biting people! It’s well written!! He decided from the beginning that his “Chivalrous Bones” wouldn’t charge money! Don’t insult people with your dirty thoughts!

Feng Gui: It was said that it was too difficult for the original creators to defend their rights. I used to think it shouldn’t be that dramatic. Now I just think I was too young before. All I have to do is think that without these records, Murmuring Water might actually be forced to lay down his pen and disappear after giving his work to others. I wish I could kill Water Without a Trace! Crawl you plagiarizing dog!!!!

 

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Just as the crowd was getting excited, a Well-Intentioned Whistleblower posted again.

Well-Intentioned Whistleblower: Lin Xiaozhi, don’t go crazy in your circle of friends and guess who I am. I’ll tell you directly: I was the “closest” person to you before Wu Heng sold the copyright. But, will you dare to come at me?  Aren’t you afraid that I will reveal that you hated poor people and loved the rich and that thing you did behind Wu Heng’s back? You think those are all the screenshots I have? You’re looking to kill Murmuring Water like a fish and I am looking to kill you like a fish, so don’t even dare try. Lin Xiaozhi, it was my kindness that I didn’t post the chat records of you and Wu Heng dissing other writers on jiangwang.com together. I am already being generous. The rabbit bites when it’s in a hurry. Besides, I’m not even a rabbit.

Well-Intentioned Whistleblower: By the way, I know you’re all wondering why Murmuring Water would suddenly delete Wu Heng. Just now I went over to check Lin Xiaozhi’s posting history on the old website of Jiangwang.com. Guess what I saw? The 2017 post entitled “Complaining about my boyfriend’s weird apprentice” in the anonymous mocking section of the guide forum. I was very pleasantly surprised. Now I think that if Murmuring Water saw that post at that time, his decision to delete Wu Heng wasn’t only not rude, but also a good idea. For those who are still questioning the authenticity of skin care products, I suggest you take a look at the personal Weibo posted by supermodel ZZ in February 2017. She posted a picture in this post and there is a set of skin care products that have exactly the same packaging as these stamped as fake by Lin Xiaozhi. So does the famous model ZZ also use fake products?

Many netizens smelled the aroma of melons and hurriedly went to find the posts in the anonymous complaining area of the forum and ZZ’s personal blog according to the guidelines.

Their search soon came to fruition.

The picture in the blog was found and the details were exactly what the whistleblower said, and the post ….   Everyone searched out the corresponding posts and with only a glance, everyone not only got angry but also exploded directly.

In the post, the anonymous ID complained about the new apprentice of her “very powerful and kind” author boyfriend in the forum. In her words, the apprentice liked to brag and show off. If he couldn’t write, he would reach out for his master’s writing experience, and even ask his master to help him rewrite the beginning directly.

The most important thing was that this apprentice is also a money swindler. In the name of helping to buy a set of brand name products for his teacher’s wife, the apprentice bought a set of fake skin care products for her.

Finally, the post owner asked for help and asked how she could get her “too soft-hearted” boyfriend to sever ties with this apprentice, and if it would be better to first get the money back from this purchase before breaking off the relationship.

The post owner described it so infuriatingly, that many people gave her ideas, but the post owner didn’t take any of them, and finally came out and said, “well, my boyfriend thinks he can reteach this apprentice again. I was so angry that I got this apprentice’s phone number from the express box and found a phone ‘bomb’ platform to blow up the apprentice’s number for a few days. I will give him a little punishment. That’s it.”

The post owner never showed up after that.

All the details of the post could match Lin Xiaozhi’s criticism of Murmuring Water yesterday, and the time was also right. You could see at first glance that it was Lin Xiaozhi who sent it.

Netizens were so angry that they hit their keyboards.

Visitor bvc45: Lin Xiaozhi, you ****! The whistle-blower is right! It was already good that Murmuring Water just deleted you! ! If I were him, I would certainly serve you a national level scolding! First, you wrongly accuse others of buying fake goods and then blow up his phone account. I’ve never seen such a hateful person as you!

Visitor kk876: Motherfucker I’m so angry. I’m so angry! I really have never seen such a dog! If only Murmuring Water never met you! You’re disgusting!

 

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So many netizens left angry messages that the old forum could not bear it and collapsed after a while. Netizens didn’t vent enough anger, and were about to turn to Weibo to continue to scold Wu Heng and Lin Xiaozhi, when they saw line after line of system prompts floating by at the top of Jiangwang.com’s old website.

[Hui Nantian sent 100 black gold tickets to Murmuring Water: There’s nothing to say. I’ll give Murmuring Water some lawyer fees. ]

[Jiuqu Huilang sent 100 black gold tickets to Murmuring Water: Lawyer fee. ]

[ Xuanyuan Jian sent 100 black gold tickets to Murmuring Water: Giving the newcomer some lawyer fees. ]

[Iron Pestle Sharpened into a Big Iron Rod sent 100 black gold tickets to Murmuring Water: Don’t be timid when you encounter a water army, beat them to death with money and send marketing fees. ].

[Mercilessly sent 100 black gold tickets to Murmuring Water: I’m going to do the math, and I think the copycat dog is going to be unlucky and the little newcomer is going to take off. Let’s give some gifts first to rub it in.]

[The Cold Wind sent 100 black gold tickets to Murmuring Water… ]

Jiangwang.com, like all other websites, has a reward mechanism. Jiangwang’s rewards are called tickets and there are: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Purple Gold, and Black Gold. Depending on the amount of each, the corresponding prices were one, five, ten, fifty, and one hundred yuan.

100 black and gold tickets is $10,000.

But it wasn’t the money that made all the users stop and notice this line of system prompts, it was the people who gave money to Murmuring Water – they were all the famous Great God authors of jiangwang.com.

The netizens unconsciously followed the gifting tips of the Gods and entered the novel page of “Chivalrous Bones” written by Murmuring Water. Then they came across the large number of negative comments left by the fans of Wu Heng.

“White eyed wolf, get out of jiangwang!”

“Put down your pen and get out!”

“Do you live up to the guidance of the Water Without a Trace? Liar SM!”

“Resist Murmuring Water! Please don’t defile the best Liu Fengyue in everyone’s heart!!!”

As if a little spark fell into the hot frying pan, after a few seconds of stagnation, Murmuring Water’s “Chivalrous Bones” comments section began to wildly refresh. One smash hit after another flooded the comments section, keeping those negative scores down! All of them were surprisingly unanimous in their votes and messages, all of them were: Sending the newcomer some lawyer fees and make sure to sue that idiot No Trace of Stagnant Water!!!

After Qi Cong spent a whole day writing these two love poems, he finally had time to go to Weibo and the old site of Jiangwang.com to have a look. Then he found that there was a popular topic on Weibo – “Sending lawyer fees to Murmuring Water” and his background page of jiangwang.com old website received….

Qi Cong repeatedly counted the numbers in the background income column of Jiangwang.com, converting them to RMB and became very confused.

More than four hundred thousand.

What’s going on? Why are people suddenly going crazy and smashing tickets at him? What’s going on?

 

Edited by: Antiope1

 

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