In June, the weather has turned hot. T-shirts, black silk and parasols have begun to flow on the road. The landmark building of the river and sea is still standing tall. It is solemnly overlooking the old friend Chengpu River, who has been rushing all year round. One tower and one river can occupy five points of the scenery of the river and sea.

However, for those who "want to come to the rivers and seas to achieve great things but are helpless and unsuccessful", the flowing water and the high tower seem particularly cold.

Of course, there are also some people who have had a glorious resume of overturning rivers, but they still have a cold face, such as Xue Muliang in the office opposite Dongfang Liangzhu.

In the spacious and luxurious office, Mr. Xue looked gloomy and terrifying. He sat silently in the black boss chair, with his right fist habitually supporting his chin and looking out the window motionlessly.

On the carpet in front of the desk, a precious glass cup was broken, and the overflowing coffee dyed the carpet dull brown.

After a while, Xue Muliang lifted the phone on his desk and said expressionlessly: "Let the cleaning staff come in and clean it up, at 3:00 pm... that's it."

He originally wanted to hold a meeting at 3:00 p.m., but after hesitation, he canceled this idea. He prepared such a well-prepared June 1st special issue. He was stepped on by the ugly rural "Children's Literature" and had no power to fight back. What's even more annoying is that the defeated player "The Great Jianghu" is now chasing behind him. What's the point of holding it now?

It has been five years since his debut. In the past five years, he has never been ranked among the top. Even the early books are now repackaged and sold, and writing a speech can still make it to the top ten best-selling list. Why are he so powerless when facing those two annoying mice?

"Ding thud" three cautious knocks on the door, and then the cleaning voice came in from outside the door, "Mr. Xue, cleaner."

Xue Muliang exhaled, stood up and said, "Come in." Then he walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and stood with his hands behind his back.

Cleaner entered the door carefully, quickly cleaned up the broken glass and coffee, and reported to Mr. Xue softly, and tiptoed out. Xue Muliang did not return to China any time from beginning to end. In Mr. Xue's concept, a cleaning work is not worth his turn.

After the cleaning industry left, Xue Muliang returned to his seat. At this time, his mood had recovered. After all, he has become famous for so many years, and he still has this psychological quality. Now he wants to go online to read the praise of his new book "Sad Forest".

Douya's comments on his new book have always been mean and ridiculed. This irreconcilable situation has started since Xue Muliang published his first novel, so he has long been accustomed to it, and he is occasionally sad and angry, and is quickly replaced by the crazy praise of fans. The reason why he keeps logged in Douya is because other authors under his jurisdiction are quite popular here, and the other, no matter how others criticize his books, the popularity of the book will always remain at the forefront.

Xue Muliang has always managed himself in the way of managing artists. He needs exposure and topics, and his idol burden is very heavy.

However, when he entered the Douya Reading Page today, what caught his eye was not his new book "Sad Forest", but the martial arts novel called "Seven Swords Under Tianshan", with a rating of 8.5, and both long and short reviews exceeded his new book.

Out of professional instinct, he clicked "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains" with hatred. The first page was almost eighth, and some hateful netizens praised this book while also mocking "Sad Forest". One of the posts was enlightened and the title was:

"Compared with "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains", "Sad Forest" is simply a dream-loving thing."

Xue Muliang snorted coldly and continued to pull down. He saw more and more posts comparing the two books, and he was full of words and favored each other.

Xue Muliang closed Douya angrily and logged into the micro blog. The first content was actually a post by Han Shuo forwarded by an acquaintance. The content of the post was roughly a self-deprecating the difficulty of reviewing the cover of the magazine. Xue Muliang's eyes flashed across the post coldly, and his eyes fell on today's hot topics. The first one was the content of netizens talking about buns in various places, the second one was the trick to prevent heatstroke in summer, and the third one was the news that a star was about to get married. It was not until the fourth one that familiar words finally appeared: #Xue Muliang's new book "Sad Forest"#.

Finally, Xue Muliang's eyebrows were slightly relaxed, and he continued to look back. He found that this topic #沪日本語 can be written like this#. When he clicked it, he was a post from "Seven Swords Under Tianshan". What made him even more unpleasant was that the first micro blog below the topic was posted by the famous freelance writer Luo Bu Head. This id is well-known on the Internet. Because of its sharp, humorous and profound writing style, netizens called it affectionately "Divine-like Luo Bu Head".

The divine radish wrote a commentary article of three or four thousand words with the title "Different to the World of War" and enthusiastically praised "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains", with almost exaggerated words such as "a grand event in the martial arts world" and "a carnival for readers" often appear.

Smart people know that if you want to make a name for yourself on the Internet, a clear view is a must-have magic weapon. If you scold, you will be happy and you will be praised thoroughly. If you are a middle-aged person, you will not be able to attract a lot of attention on the Internet.

Inevitably, Luo Butou also mentioned another famous new book of the same period, "Sad Forest", which was sarcastic, he wrote: "The pretentiousness of young people and the bloody romance dramas will be deeply reflected in this book. Such novels that forcefully say sadness to composing new lyrics (novel, sorry), can only be used to deceive underage girls."

In the eyes of these freelance writers who criticize current problems, Xue Muliang's love and beauty have never received much praise. Xue Muliang never had any expectations for this and classified them as grape psychology.

After browsing some blogs and forums, Xue Muliang roughly figured out some situations. "The Great Rivers and Lakes" paved the way for "Dragon and Tiger Fighting in Beijing" and promoted his serialized novel "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains". Their banner is "opening up a new situation in martial arts."

After thinking for a few minutes, Xue Muliang pulled a cold smile from the corner of his mouth, then he picked up the phone and started giving public relations orders.

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After the book "Dragon and Tiger Fight against Jinghua", Liu Jingting has been paying attention to the trends of the book. He had told Mi Hu before that every book had to start his own destiny. He hoped that at that time he could simply be a reader to witness the growth of the certificate.

Mr. Liang created "Dragon and Tiger" back then, and the dispute between Tai Chi and Bai He of two major sects in Nangang. The two factions first fought a pen and ink battle. After finding that the problem could not be solved, they finally made an appointment with the new garden arena in Macau to compete to determine the male and female. After this incident was exaggerated by the media, it caused a great sensation in Nangang. The keen newspapers immediately realized the huge business opportunities hidden in it, so Mr. Liang took the opportunity to write "Dragon and Tiger Fight in Jinghua", which laid the foundation for the prototype of a new martial arts.

In 1954, Master Liang wrote "Dragon and Tiger", which deserves to be the founder of the new martial arts. The best-selling of that newspaper at that time also proved that "Dragon and Tiger Fight in Jinghua" indeed made the carnival of that generation.

Although time and space are no longer the same, the background that urgently requires a large number of new stories is the same. Liu Jingting firmly believes that "Dragon and Tiger" will also achieve its due status in this world.

The key statements about "Dragon and Tiger" on the Internet are nothing more than "The overall story gives people a sharp feeling, and has not yet escaped from the barriers of old martial arts. The ring match at the beginning and the end is exciting, and there is no particularly intense place in other places..."

"The novel reveals a sense of historical vicissitudes..."

"Love scenes make people feel a little awkward and infuriating..."

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In fact, Liu Jingting always felt that the most eye-catching thing about "Dragon and Tiger" was precisely the description of love descriptions. In that tangled love triangle, the wonderful descriptions of the three of them were rarely seen again even in later novels. However, as a martial arts novel, readers cannot see the pleasure of grudges and love and hate, and naturally feel dissatisfied. This is understandable.

As for another newly-serialized book "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains", the evaluation is obviously one-sided, Liu Jingting himself has to admit that Liang Shi's martial arts novels have always been wonderful at the beginning and have suspense, but at the end, they are often a little powerless and come to an abrupt end, which cannot make people enjoy it.

In summary, the protagonists in the Liang School of Martial Arts often bear too much, blindly orthodox, wander back and forth in terms of family, country and personal freedom, and the heroes they created eventually seem too scholarly. A typical representative, such as Zhuo Yihang in "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", is rationally understandable, but he can never have a good impression of his feelings.

Comments from the Internet and media were generally satisfied with Liu Jingting. As for the arrogant performance of "Shuke and Beta", it was unexpected. Thinking of some publishers and editors of some magazines watching "Children's Literature" leading the way, Liu Jingting felt quite satisfied and accomplished.

However, this overall benign comment did not last long. On June 10, the night before Liu Jingting asked Mi Hu to go out for dinner, a wave of large-scale criticism of "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua" and "Seven Swords Under Tianshan" suddenly started online. This wave first emerged in a certain post bar, and then spread to Douya Reading, and then to the microblog, Jianghu People Forum...

It is said to be criticism, but some posts have already involved warm-up attacks, such as "author's idiot", "author's brain is in the air", "author's brain is squeezed by the door" and other remarks are emerging one after another.

Others with slightly higher levels are aimed at the story itself, similar to "written just like a piece of shit, with no sense of substitution at all."

"Love triangles and other things are too bloody. Does the author know how to write a love scene?"

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The higher level is: "It's just following the trend and plagiarism of old-style martial arts, and pretending to be bullshit new-style martial arts."

"I can't stand it all. I have to have a writing style but no writing style, and no plot."

"Does the author sell dogs? Can he be more traumatic?"

Then some celebrities or second- and third-tier writers who entered V named and criticized these two novels. They criticized "Seven Swords" and "Dragon and Tiger" from various aspects such as novel skills and novel sentiment. It is reasonable and evidence-based and seems to be truthful.

This large-scale critical movement set off a climax with the joining of the well-known writer Zhou Zaidao. Zhou Zaidao published a commentary article "The Point of Dog Meat", which compared martial arts novels with extremely high posture to dog meat that cannot be put to the table.
Chapter completed!