My System Forces Me to Live off Women

Chapter 604: Chapter 367: Release and Impact

Li Peifeng used to have a bad temper. In real life, he was fairly normal, but online he was more prone to revealing his true nature, especially during his undergraduate years before his journey as an online writer was successful.

At that time, Li Peifeng habitually used his genuine temperament to criticize the distorted aesthetics and twisted values on various video and social platforms. He would mercilessly critique the pretentious and pandering social media and internet phenomena. With sharp language and a cunning perspective, he exposed the absurdity behind the sycophantic talks of various demons and monsters. He empathized with the truly suffering people, as he was one of them, aspiring to and encouraging those who genuinely longed for life... Simply put, at the time, Li Peifeng was a big troll, a denizen of the internet underworld.

But on one occasion, he was in a trolling battle with netizens when Li Qiyuan accidentally saw it and rationally asked, "What’s the point of saying all this to him? Don’t you know how much each word you type is worth?"

Li Peifeng suddenly realized, and afterward, he didn’t spend any more energy on this, not even a bit.

Indeed, there was no point. He could make money writing and typing, but trolling online didn’t earn him anything.

Being a keyboard warrior = losing money.

Since then, Li Peifeng changed his disposition and didn’t waste extra time in the virtual online world anymore, except when he’s deliberately looking for trouble!

[Just swiped through the recently hot "Sword and Magic" trailer. The music sounds nice, but the visuals and plot only came across as cheap and awkward to me. The author personally plays the main character from his novel and even mimics movie releases by making a trailer... It always gave me a sense of being neither here nor there, definitely a case of drawing a tiger resembling a dog.]

[And I’m really curious, isn’t this video’s popularity ridiculously high? Big stars on Weibo are naming and urging updates, it’s dominating certain forums, and even Zhihu is filled with its discussion threads.]

[It’s just a web novel, yet it manages to create such a sensation across the entire internet? Out of curiosity, I glanced at this book, retreated after two Chapters. Looking at the results, my goodness... over two hundred thousand words, 2.6 million recommendation votes, averaging 52,000 recommendation votes per day, and the book isn’t even on the shelves yet but is already in fourth place on the site’s monthly ticket list, forcing the top three to collectively update and ask for votes. Isn’t this obviously fake? Do other authors have no objections?]

[How much money did "A Couple of Breezes in the Human World" spend on operations? With this, forget about being the favored child of the site, it’s practically the site’s favored parent. Moreover, the review section of "Sword and Magic" is full of positive feedback, and I guess at least half of this book’s readership are female readers, with strong combat ability and high aggressiveness.]

[I posted a comment under the review section saying ’An excellent student from North China Normal University writes this kind of thing? Bye bye~’ and got chased and scolded; ’Who are you to talk about my dear giegie like that? If you’re so capable, write your own!’ ’If you don’t like it, just leave, no need to specifically post, who cares about a little punk like you?’ ’May I ask what your academic qualification is? How many works have you produced? If not, why are you spouting nonsense?’]

[It’s quite funny, a writer who doesn’t rely on their work to speak for them, uses looks to attract fans, leverages short videos to draw traffic, and sifts out a large batch of brainless fans. Writing poorly, and yet I can’t even criticize it? Playing these crooked tricks and yet achieving such high results, it’s no wonder the quality of online literature today is deteriorating.]

"One look to see the truth, a fighting capability of five scums!"

After reading the detailed description from the questioner, Li Peifeng snorted in disdain. Then he glanced at the answers under the question and found quite a few colleagues speaking up for him...

Among them, the top-ranked and most liked answer was published by a famous web novelist, "The Frog at Home."

An old master author, skilled in the fantasy genre, with an outstanding position in the circle. Besides, he holds a significant influence as a distinguished user on Zhihu, possessing hundreds of thousands of followers. Whether it’s web literature, current affairs, or celebrity gossip, you can spot his presence across various topics on Zhihu. Many newcomers and aspiring writers even show off their novel openings, inviting him to provide consultation.

Yet possibly because the frog focused too much on shooting the breeze on Zhihu, it led him to become somewhat negligent in his main job of writing, sparking dissatisfaction among many readers and teasing from peers.

Nevertheless, this person is also an industry senior of "A Couple of Breezes in the Human World," with whom he had dealt before, and his response undoubtedly caught Li Peifeng’s attention.

["The Frog at Home": The topic initiator invited me, but I don’t want to answer his question, and immediately blocked him... But since I’m here, let’s just say a few words.]

[I met Peifeng at the year-end party before the Spring Festival. All authors had a meetup on the first day after arriving in Shanghai, and Peifeng was there. Seeing him enter the meeting room, I really thought he was an actor or a star who had walked into the wrong place, but then I heard the introductions from others; he’s a fellow author, his works span both male and female genres, twenty-three years old, the youngest platinum author at Endpoint... My feelings at that moment were like ten thousand alpacas running across my heart.]

[Industry competition is a common phenomenon these days, and I thought the most in the web literature circle was just competing on update speed and work quality. Never did I expect the competition to extend to the authors’ appearances, and suddenly reach the ceiling. But then I thought, so what if you look like that? Aren’t you still writing web novels like me? I instantly felt much better internally.]

[Good looks certainly provide an advantage in most industries, such as the acting and modeling industries, where the better your appearance, the better. But in the profession of a web novelist, the impact of good looks is minimal enough to be ignored. However, I must admit, being good-looking offers many conveniences in various matters. For instance, during the meeting, Peifeng was always sitting with the female authors, engaging happily with those older and younger sisters...]