Chapter 53

With the same plot, different readers saw completely different things.

The male readers were always good at expressing themselves. After five minutes of reading the new chapter, they occupied an advantageous position in the discussion forum as usual, posting discussions.

“Golden finger has finally upgraded to golden finger plus. I knew that Eunuch’s golden finger setting would be tasty. Does the protagonist get rich overnight by taking Cunxing’s pink light orb?”

“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a simple, straightforward and unpretentious grandfather, sending equipment when he says he will, never stingy or hiding things, all the equipment with a wave of his hand.”

“Let’s discuss. Looking at the way Eunuch wrote this, is Sister Qian going to use the newly acquired equipment arsenal to recruit and start the team route soon?”

“There’s no need for so much equipment all at once to start the team route. It’s reasonable to speculate that Sister Qian will use the equipment in hand as rewards, issuing a large number of bounty quests and then collecting items from these bounty quests that are worth much more than the rewards sent out to continue to enrich his treasure trove, reaching a virtuous cycle.”

Beneath the chattering male readers were the silent female readers.

The female readers smelled a familiar strangeness.

They felt like they’d been poked and teased.

But it was because they’d been poked and teased that they had to be more cautious!

After all, when male authors got gay, that was naturally gay, but when male authors fed shit, that was one foul play after another, relentless.

Out of courtesy and authenticity, the female readers didn’t say anything directly in the comment area, but went to more private places, like their own private Weibos, quietly asking.

“Asking my followers a little worriedly, does this author Caramel Ximu have a harem habit? Or have a track record of writing a male character who turns from male to female in the process of writing?”

When this question appeared on Deer Over Fragrant Grass’s home page, the look of the woman swiping through Weibo became a little subtle.

This was the home page of her female channel account, which followed a group of BL authors and fanfiction creators. She regularly watched TV series and shared fandom content with them, which was very enjoyable.

She was just unprepared to see the familiar main site author on their Weibo.

This made her feel quite strange, giving her an illusion that a wall had broken between the male and female channels and her little vest ¹ 马甲 [mǎ jiǎ] refers to an alternate identity of someone. wasn’t covered firmly.

Deer Over Fragrant Grass opened the post’s comments.

The post had been out for quite some time, and several people had replied to the poster.

“Why did you suddenly ask that? There’s no particularly foul play in my impression of Eunuch. However, he has a very distinctive trait in writing emotional scenes… I don’t know why, but he always writes the feelings between men and women as brotherhood, so whenever I see his female lead enter the scene, my mind always comes up with wonderful tag impressions such as ‘sincerely treating each other’, ‘sacrificing oneself for a friendship’, and ‘brotherly love’.

“It’s actually kinda cute.”

“Kinda cute +1.”

The person who answered the question added, “Is the poster asking about the new character Cunxing today? Personally, I think this character should be male. According to past practice, he really can’t write a female lead with this adulterous feeling at first glance…”

Adulterous.

Deer Over Fragrant Grass captured the keyword.

She opened the Terminal page, tasted the new chapter, and finally confirmed.

It’s a male character.

And really adulterous.

She also felt that she’d been poked, so she opened the character column on the main page of the novel.

This column was opened by the author for readers to freely add impression tags to existing characters in the novel and edit character relationship diagrams and wonderful events.

Cunxing, who came out in the new chapter, kicked out several supporting characters from behind. Right behind the male lead Su Mingqian, readers were adding tag impressions to this new character. It was a mess, with all sorts of things.

#Big shot#

#Sending equipment#

#Simple and straightforward grandfather#

#Don’t disturb the sleeping dragon, there’s a surprise if you do#

#Daunting and difficult responsibility#

Deer Over Fragrant Grass looked at them and felt that none of these tags quite fit her own ideas.

Anyway, she was on her alt now, so she added a character impression from her heart.

#Hand in the capital to the wife once awakened#

***

11am.

Li Shuoxing was still lazily lying in bed.

The aftereffects of staying up late to write these past two days came out, his routine breaking down once again. After waking up at 6:50 and having a look at the cub, he fell back asleep. When he opened his eyes again, it was this time.

Li Shuoxing lazily checked the backend. His data was growing as usual, seeming to have sped up a bit.

He looked at the tags in the character column and was very satisfied to find that the character “Cunxing” was very popular.

Having finished his two daily tasks, Li Shuoxing put his phone in his palm and played with it for a while. Then, suddenly remembering something, he picked it up again and went to the foreign social media site to check if Mary had given a reply.

But it was a short time after all.

So when he checked, Li Shuoxing was prepared for no message.

But when he opened his social media account, he unexpectedly saw a message in his account, which was Mary’s reply!

Li Shuoxing was stunned.

His drowsiness faded like the tide.

His heart started pounding.

Blood rushed to his head along with tension, making his scalp numb.

Li Shuoxing sat upright. He lifted his finger, which paused in mid-air to tangle for a moment before slowly falling onto the screen.

He opened the message from Mary.

“Hello,

I have received your message. I don’t know if George has a friend named Su…”

Li Shuoxing saw this and wasn’t disappointed.

Because that wasn’t the end.

Mary had written a long reply. There was much more content after that sentence.

“But my husband does have a friend with grey eyes by his side. He appears to be Asian. I don’t know if he is the one you know and care for? I understand your concern about your friend’s disappearance and would be happy to pass on the concern for you, but I am very sorry. Firstly, I don’t know enough about this grey-eyed person to give you much information; secondly, my husband is currently involved in a closed scientific research project and is unable to contact the outside world for the time being, which will continue for a month or so. I’m afraid I won’t be able to convey your concern to my husband until then.

I feel extremely sorry for this.

Would you like to give me your contact email address for the convenience of further contact between us?”

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马甲 [mǎ jiǎ] refers to an alternate identity of someone.