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In fact, "The Legend of Wukong" is only over a hundred thousand words long.

Given Lin Yuan's typing speed, it could be completed in a few days.

Taking into account that "The Legend of Wukong," a novel that uses dialogue to drive the plot and leans towards the stream of consciousness, is not suitable for continuous updates and is better read in one go, Lin Yuan didn't immediately upload the main text after setting up the piece, he planned for it to be serialized over several days.

He only first decided on the book title and pen name to reserve a spot.

The novel was actually completed a few days later.

As he typed the last five words "How can one forget the Journey to the West" on the computer, "The Legend of Wukong" was finally finished by Lin Yuan.

Then

the main text, consisting of just over ten chapters, was uploaded by Lin Yuan onto a fanfiction website.

The fanfiction website has a simple and crude name.

It's simply called "Fanfiction Library".

Although the name of the "Fanfiction Library" website is simple and crude, the website's traffic is genuinely substantial.

The review sections of many novels are bustling with activity.

After all, it is based on the crowd of netizens who love Qin, Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, and Wuzhou's fan works.

In Blue Star where piracy is almost non-existent, the actual influence of this website should not be underestimated.

Five minutes after the novel was uploaded.

Lin Yuan checked the data for "The Legend of Wukong".

Views: 0

Collections: 0

Recommendations: 0

Lin Yuan was stunned.

This was not what he had imagined.

Wasn't it supposed to be that once "The Legend of Wukong" was released, the netizens would be shocked?

A few seconds later, Lin Yuan finally realized.

He was accustomed to the previous pattern, where any work he published could attract netizens' attention immediately.

But now he is neither Shadow, nor Xian Yu, nor Chu Kuang.

Now, he is under a new pseudonym called "Yi An".

Who knows who Yi An is?

So, it's normal that there would be a disparity.

Many readers might see "The Legend of Wukong" on the website but not necessarily click on it.

Objectively speaking, "The Legend of Wukong" is not exactly an appealing book title.

Should he think of some ways to attract traffic and promote it later?

If either Shadow, Chu Kuang, or Xian Yu gives him a little shout-out, it will definitely be effective.

But wouldn't that risk exposing his new pseudonym?

Lin Yuan does not want Yi An to have any connection with his previous three pseudonyms.

Three Bros are Three Bros.

Yi An must shine by himself.

Therefore, Lin Yuan decided to continue to wait.

Giving the website's traffic volume, there will definitely be readers who will notice this novel.

Once the first reader clicks on "The Legend of Wukong", the second one will follow; this novel will definitely get noticed.

With this in mind, Lin Yuan continued his wait. Read exclusive content at My Virtual Library Empire

After waiting for a good while, he finally got a few views, but what dismayed Lin Yuan was that these views did not translate into collections…

This meant that some people clicked on "The Legend of Wukong", but were not attracted by the content and left after taking a glimpse.

This probably had to do with the opening of "The Legend of Wukong".

If you only look at the beginning of "The Legend of Wukong", you'd just see it as a spoof.

"Every beginning is difficult."

Lin Yuan cheered himself on and had his assistant Gu Dong peel a dragon fruit that Sun YaoHuo had sent for him.

After eating the dragon fruit, Lin Yuan refreshed the page for the third time and "The Legend of Wukong" finally got its first collection!

"Someone is reading my book?"

Lin Yuan felt invigorated, this was the first time he felt joyful because there was a reader for his novel!

Simple and pure!

If Chu Kuang was here, he would likely flash a supportive smile at Yi An-

From the outer atmosphere or even outer space, flashing such an encouraging smile.

...

The first reader on Blue Star who dedicated a collection to "The Legend of Wukong" was named Li Zhenghui.

With over a decade of reading experience, Li Zhenghui was a hardcore bookworm. When he particularly liked a novel, he would always feel not quite satisfied even after finishing it, then he'd specifically pop over to the "Fanfiction Library" to look for some derivative fan works.

Recently, Li Zhenghui was fond of "Journey to the West".

To be precise, Chu Kuang's version of "Journey to the West", which could be said to be Li Zhenghui's most engrossing novel of late, even over the past few years.

Even the classical Chinese version of "Journey to the West" was not missed by Li Zhenghui.

Heaven knows how much effort it took Li Zhenghui to read the classical Chinese version of Journey to the West.

He who once had poor Chinese language grades can now even write classical Chinese from memory.

After reading both the ancient and modern versions of "Journey to the West" and still craving more, Li Zhenghui started a mad search in the Fanfiction Library for fanfics about Journey to the West in order to satisfy his interest in the world of Journey to the West.

The quality of these fanfictions varied, and Li Zhenghui hardly encountered any that met his satisfaction.

However, out of his love for Journey to the West, Li Zhenghui still patiently read through many related fanfictions.

Under such circumstances, Li Zhenghui casually added the new book "The Legend of Wukong" in his Fanfiction Library's search results to his collection and started reading.

"I'll have a look."

When opening this book, Li Zhenghui didn't have high expectations.

He is fond of both Journey to the West and The Primordial Chaos.

These two are not incompatible.

There are quite a few like Li Zhenghui.

Fans of Journey to the West and The Primordial Chaos on the internet are always squabbling, but Li Zhenghui never participates.

For Li Zhenghui, both novels are wonderful and equally significant in his heart.

He is currently torn between watching Journey to the West TV series or The Primordial Chaos in mini TV series in April.

Even before Journey to the West showed up, Li Zhenghui had read novels and TV series related to The Primordial Chaos, including all the exciting fanfictions in the Fanfiction Library.

Compared with The Primordial Chaos, the fanfictions from Journey to the West aren't as interesting.

If it wasn't for his love for the story of Journey to the West, he wouldn't have persisted in reading so many fanfictions, the quality of which were not on par with the original work.

That's also why Li Zhenghui doesn't have high expectations for "The Legend of Wukong".

In fact, as long as this novel could barely pass, Li Zhenghui could grit his teeth and finish reading it.

Who let him love Journey to the West so much!

Just by seeing the original characters from Journey to the West mentioned in the fanfiction awakened Li Zhenghui's interest.

Just like in special circumstances.

Helpless, if the quality is low, then let it be.

However, when the opening plot of "The Legend of Wukong" appeared in front of Li Zhenghui, his brow furrowed quickly!

The opening is a pointless narration and dialogue:

[Four people arrived here, before them was a dense forest with no paths.

"Wukong, I'm hungry, bring me some food." Tang Monk sat on a stone and said most pretentiously.

"I'm busy, can't you find food by yourself? It's not like you don't have legs." Sun Wukong said, leaning on his staff.

"You are busy? Doing what?"

"Don't you think this sunset is beautiful?" Sun Wukong said, his eyes were still looking at the horizon, "The only way for me to keep heading west every day is to observe this."

"You can search while watching, just don't hit a big tree."

"I do nothing other than watch the sunset!"

"Sun Wukong, you can't do this, you can't treat the bald guy so badly, if you starve him to death, we can't find the west heaven, if we can't find the west heaven, the curse on us will never be broken." Said Zhu Bajie.

...]

After reading a few paragraphs.

Li Zhenghui almost burst into swearing!

What the hell is this crap?

In the original, the polite and gentle Tang Monk is as overbearing as ever;

In the original, the respectful Wukong somehow impolitely told Tang Monk to find food by himself;

In the original, Zhu Bajie, who always flatters his master, dares to call Tang Monk bald directly?

Things get even weirder.

Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie start swearing at each other directly!

In the original, although Zhu Bajie does clash with Wukong, he never has such nerve!

The most absurd thing is:

Monk Sha, who is the most good-tempered in the original, is so assertive that he directly asked Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie to go away and fight, so as not to disturb him from sleeping

That's totally spoiling the characters!

Where the hell is this Journey to the West?

This is clearly a group of thugs!

Who's the author?

Yi An?

Stupid author.

The pen name is quite elegant, though.

Li Zhenghui's first reaction was to delete the book and leave, but when his mouse pointer was on the "x", he stopped.

I have to read on!

If this Yi An smeared the protagonists of Journey to the West too much, he would report this author.

Fanfictions, in principle, should not blacken the main characters of the original.

It's not completely forbidden to criticize, but if the criticism is too exaggerated, it's a bit disrespectful to the original.

Just imagine, in some dirty movie, the director lets the female Spiderman get rubbed under the villain?

He decided to report it without hesitation after spending an hour watching that movie.

Fanfiction is not beyond the law.

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