Chapter 687: Chapter 687: Holy Shit, This Author Continuing the Story is Awesome! Chapter 687: Chapter 687: Holy Shit, This Author Continuing the Story is Awesome! Even Liu Guansheng, the venerable elder, wouldn’t have dared to be so bold in his continuation.
Li Jie looked at the new book without even a cover and a cold smile crept across his lips.
He was a die-hard reader of the Yuewen Academy app, so he left a comment under the title of VIP8.
[Li Jie Isn’t Your Sister: Author, wake up. When writing a fanfic, please choose the ‘derivative’ tag instead of ‘original’. Also, could you not mimic Mr. Bai’s pen name exactly? Show some reverence for our ancestors, thank you.]
Li Jie, feeling satisfied with his snide comment, thought that the author had it coming for being so brazen.
Adhering to the principle of at least reading before criticizing, and having nothing better to do, Li Jie got up, washed a bunch of fruit for himself, took a bright red apple in hand, lay on the sofa with his phone, and opened the first chapter, ah no, it read “The Twenty-fifth Chapter.”
Just a glance at the , and Li Jie’s eyes widened with bemusement.
Next to each chapter in the Yuewen Academy app was the word count, and this lone chapter boasted ten thousand words.
Nowadays, online novel chapters usually run a thousand or two thousand words.
This author dropped one chapter, ten thousand words.
The corner of Li Jie’s mouth twitched, he took a bite of the apple, thinking this was quite the imitation; “Records of the Mountain Moon” originally had only twenty-two chapters, and chapters twenty-three and twenty-four were uncovered more than a month before the college entrance examination this year.
Don’t be fooled by the small number of chapters, each one had at least ten thousand words. Mr. Bai was rather capricious; sometimes there would be twenty thousand words in a chapter, sometimes only ten thousand.
Li Jie sneered inwardly, noting that this fanfic author had superficially mimicked the style rather well.
With a critical mind, Li Jie clicked in and upon seeing the first line, his brows arched involuntarily.
Li Jie considered himself a literature enthusiast and had read many fanfics and continuations of “Records of the Mountain Moon,” but the majority of them were written in vernacular Chinese for easy reading.
However, this author chose a different path, using refined classical Chinese with strong classical atmosphere, each word polished–making Li Jie feel as if he were reading the original text of “Records of the Mountain Moon.”
This work showed profound literary skill!
Li Jie praised the opening paragraphs in silence. For original chapters go to novel(ꜰ)ire.net
Normally, Li Jie could read ten thousand words in less than ten minutes, but this time, it took him a full twenty minutes!
To his own surprise, he became completely engrossed in the content; by the time he reached the end, the apple in his hand, now oxidized and yellow, tumbled down and splattered juice across the floor with a “plop.”
Li Jie, clutching his phone, stared dumbfounded: “This… these last few lines are revealing the foreshadowing from the second chapter??”
Li Jie slapped his thigh in amazement: “Shit, this fanfic writer’s got some real skills!”
“Records of the Mountain Moon,” this eunuch-penned novel, has been extensively studied by many experts, who’ve concluded that Mr. Bai was a master stylist–every sentence was meticulously crafted, and every chapter was intricately weaving and connecting foreshadows.
None of the continuations, including those penned by the renowned Liu Guansheng, had managed to unveil the foreshadows originally set by Mr. Bai, but… this fanfic by an unknown author did?
Shit, that’s some high-level stuff!
Li Jie suddenly regretted being sarcastic in the comment section.
When he exited the main text, only twenty minutes had passed, and he found dozens of critical comments had been added…