The topic post was simple and clear, striking and eye-catching. In the short time that itâd appeared, it attracted a group of book friends with the use of ellipses.
And the original poster lived up to expectations, making a series of attacks on the post.
OP: âThe day has finally come. Eunuch has bent.â
#1: âSo a serious question. Is Sister Qian the male or female lead, and is Cunxing the female or male lead.â
#2: âWhy does it have to be a female lead and a male lead? Canât this story be #stories of me and my overbearing pet#?â
#3: âThe one above is sharp. Same question. Whoâs the owner and whoâs the cute pet [doge]â
#4: âYou guys are so boring. Now nine out of ten authors at Terminal are gay, and the remaining one male becomes female [despise][despise]. Whatâs so strange about Eunuchâs bending, itâs just going with the crowd, not worth mentioning. Be like me, I just care about how handsome Cunxing is today.â
#5: âAnd what creature Cunxing is.â
#6: âAnd whether Eunuch will update extra today.â
The posts were crooked all the way. Although the male readers smelled the smell of gay, they didnât care. On the contrary, they took it as a joke and bantered about it. The bantering didnât end there. They even began to play with the character column.
In addition to tags, character relationships could also be edited in the character column.
Su Mingqianâs character relationships had been added.
<ol>Lovers</ol>
Su Mingqian Ă Cunxing
<ol>Master and Servant</ol>
Su Mingqian Ă Cunxing
<ol>Besties</ol>
Su Mingqian Ă Cunxing
Not coicidentally, Cunxingâs character relationships had also been added, and there were many similarities with Su Mingqianâs added relationships.
<ol>Husband and Wife</ol>
Cunxing Ă Su Mingqian
<ol>Pet</ol>
Cunxing Ă Su Mingqian
<ol>Unrequited Love</ol>
Cunxing Ă Su Mingqian
Three relationships, two orderings, every word seemingly full of indescribable deep meaning.
Li Shuoxing was watching the novel page. In fact, when he just finished writing the chapter for todayâs update, he felt something wrong. Nothing else was too strange, mainly the line âyouâre mineâ was a little strange.
But considering that the cub was really his own, he still kept the line and waited for the readersâ reactions.
If the readersâ reactions were too strongâŚ
Li Shuoxing hadnât yet thought about what to do if the reactions were too strong. He just decided to take it one step at a time.
With this look, he saw them bringing up all kinds of relationships for the two protagonists.
Forget the pet, master and servant, and besties in front. Whatâs the meaning of the unrequited love, lovers, and husband and wife behind?
Li Shuoxing: ââŚâ
Are these readers a little strong?
In all honesty, I really didnât mean that!
Li Shuoxing kind of wanted to delete these relationships. He thought that these things might cause discomfort to a group of readers. However, out of caution, he went to the book review forum for a visit before deleting them.
Then he found that no one was uncomfortable.
The book friend who added the relationships burst with complacency.
Other book friends were replying to this book friendâs topic post, and they did so extremely happily.
He clicked in one by one.
He found that the original poster was a man. And the ones replying were also men.
In the nearly one hundred gay-spirited replies, there were a mere two or three female readers. The ones playing were all male.
Li Shuoxing: ââŚâ
He conceded defeat.
I lost. These readers are really strong. The strongest ones are you animals!
The animals were indeed strong.
But the female readers of Nine Crossings werenât as calm as Li Shuoxing thought.
They were just not based in the discussion forum.
On Weibo, which Li Shuoxing didnât pay attention to, Moonlight Happinessâs Nine Crossings fanart had nearly a hundred forwards and comments in the several hours after it was posted.
Among the comments, there was a hot comment that overtook the crowd with overwhelming likes.
âToday, not only did the official do foul play, but the discussion forum too⌠I almost died laughing at them. Do male authors really know what theyâre writing these days? Do male readers really know what theyâre talking about these days? What magical changes have they undergone!â
Further down from the hot comment was a friend of Moonlight Happiness, Sunny, who was also an artist expert.
Sunny: âIs Nine Crossings a novel from the male channel? Why did you suddenly draw a picture from the male channel?â
Moonlight Happiness: âThis bookâs really good. Letâs read it together!â
Sunny: âI donât read from the male channelâŚâ
Moonlight Happiness: âRead it, read it, itâs really super pokey. If itâs not good, Iâll cut my head off and vomit blood on QQ. Thatâs how confident I am!â
ThenâŚ
This Weibo post was forwarded to the home page of Deer Over Fragrant Grassâs alt.
Deer Over Fragrant Grass had just finished reading the latest chapter, and her heart was filled with ellipses. After she consumed it more visually with this exquisitely drawn fanart, the ellipses in her heart turned into tildes.
Eunuch.
Iâm sorry.
Itâs just everyone for themself.
The devil takes the hindmost.
And I just want to eat some food.
She confessed to Li Shuoxing in her heart for three seconds.
Three seconds later, she went down to call upon a fanfiction writer she played with well and hooked her.
âI donât know what novel this is, but this masterâs drawing is really super good-looking! Want to get to know it [heart] @Deep Deep Deep Forestâ
***
Today was the last day of November.
In the game, the little personâs favourability points had accumulated to 930.
Li Shuoxing got on the game at the regular time and planned to sprint today to break through 1000 favourability points before December arrived. However, before that, he sent screenshots of the novel to the little person as usual.
The little person was really unexpectedly dedicated to looking at the novel data.
He not only looked at it every day, but also took notes every day, analysing it very attentively from lists to words, from bar charts to pie charts.
Li Shuoxing saw it once by chance and couldnât help respecting him. Although he didnât know how the little person analysed so many things, he had since remembered the task of sending screenshots to the little person every day.
But todayâs screenshots seemed to have a lot to process.
Li Shuoxing was speechless as he looked at all the obscenities in the discussion forum.
He first screenshotted the first half of the chapter and the data for the little person, and then began sifting through the discussions below.
But there were a lot of discussions and a lot of obscenities.
Li Shuoxing carefully sifted for five minutes and was tired.
He didnât spend much attention on the rest. Anyway, there was nothing too explicit.
The screenshots were sent to the light screen, and then from the light screen into the little personâs hands.
As usual, Su Mingqian skimmed over the comments. As he looked at them, he suddenly noticed something wrong.
In todayâs discussion forum, why were many people saying that his relationship with Cunxing was as close as lovers?
Wasnât the character Cunxing male?
Su Mingqian thought about it carefully and realised that he really didnât know whether Cunxing was male or female.
The reason for the impression that âCunxing is maleâ was only based on some comments about Cunxing being âawesomeâ and âbadâ.
But who said women couldnât be awesome and bad?
In fact, in Ximuâs mainstream novels, the relationship of lovers would only appear between a man and a woman.
Having learned his lesson from the last time he mistook Ximu as a female, this time, Su Mingqian promptly corrected his wrong thinking and defined Cunxing as a female.
Then he was a little torn.
He didnât really want to date a female so early in the novel.
Even if he was going to date, he didnât want it to be a female with a bad personality.
If it was possible, heâd rather⌠well, date a female with a personality he preferred.
Su Mingqian wanted to give advice to Ximu.
But he also understood that writing was a personal matter, and most authors didnât like their works being interfered with.
As it happened, his reason for interfering was also full of selfishness.
Su Mingqian decided to be tactful.
He first confirmed. âXimu, is this Cunxing a very important character?â
Li Shuoxing: âYeah.â
Su Mingqian: âWill always be with the protagonist?â
Li Shuoxing: âDefinitely.â
Su Mingqian got it.
It seemed like this really was the first female lead who would be bound to the male lead until the end.
In that case, if he didnât ask now, itâd be harder to ask later.
He quickly probed, âThen can I say my thoughts on them?â
Li Shuoxing generously said, âGo ahead, say whatever you want.â
Su Mingqian: âIn fact, I prefer those with a gentle personality who will quietly accompany me and always stand by my side to give me support when I need itâŚâ
As he spoke his thoughts, he watched the position where Ximuâs voice came from.
He continued, âTheir personality has a bit of a bad taste, but itâs a very cute kind of bad taste that you canât help but indulge in. Theyâre also very emotional and need to be taken care of carefully. Theyâre strong, probably stronger than me for the time being, but Iâm still willing⌠to take good care of them.â
As Su Mingqian said that, he got regretful.
If Ximu is femaleâŚ
Alas.
Since dreams canât be fulfilled in reality.
Then letâs look forward to fulfilling dreams in the novel.
After he finished, Su Mingqian asked a little apprehensively, âIs that okay? Would I be asking too much?â
Li Shuoxing was thinking. He didnât know where to begin making complaints about the cubâs ancient taste.
Li Shuoxing: âWell, itâs a bit muchâŚâ
Su Mingqian fought quickly. âBut I like it.â
Li Shuoxingâs tone softened. âReally? Then let me think about itâŚâ
Su Mingqian steadily gained ground. He made persistent efforts, softly pleading, âI especially want to spend time with a Cunxing with this personality. Ximu, will you satisfy me?â
Li Shuoxing instantly gave in. âI see. Iâll adjust the personality later.â
Isnât it just adding a little personality?
Super easy.
Itâs a matter of adding a couple strokes.
But the personality the cub talked about is a little too soft.
This is my incarnation after all. I canât be that soft. I still have to be a bit more alphaâŚ
The moment Li Shuoxing agreed.
Su Mingqian seemed to see the image of himself hugging the soft girl Ximu.
He suddenly felt like his wish had been fulfilled.
A big +100 appeared on his head.
He was extremely happy.
Even his voice was unconsciously filled with laughter.
âXimu, youâre so good! Itâs snowing outside. Letâs build a snowman together when the snow gets thicker.â
The strong emotion from his voice instantly surrounded Li Shuoxing.
Li Shuoxing was infected by the little person and unconsciously looked out the window.
It really was snowing outside.
The first snow drifted down slowly, as light as a feather and pure white, just like the voice ringing in the air at that moment.
Li Shuoxing listened to the voice and looked at the winter landscape, momentarily a little confused between reality and virtual.
Until the systemâs prompt sound effects rang out again in the game.
He took a look and saw the following text.
[System: Your favourability with Su Mingqian has exceeded 1000, achieving the systemâs hidden task [Holding Hands].]
[System: You receive the following reward: Plane Ticket Ă 1]
[System: You have achieved one of the conditions of use for [Outward Opening Window]. Please continue to work hard to achieve the remaining conditions of use.]
[System: The game will undergo maintenance tomorrow morning at 03:00â05:00.]
[System: After the maintenance, the system will start a series of Christmas activities.]