Chapter 439 (1/2)

Self Contradicting Mentality

Of course, Lady Zhao was too liberal to bring out the Mythical River Crab. It was true that she maintained a good relationship with the “Five Gods” that owned Qidian online novel platform.[1] It was not by her luxurious spending on that platform, but with her true identity as Zhao Family member.

With a snap of their fingers, Qidian officials could easily “pacify” any novel they disliked. Why not do Lady Zhao a huge favor by “pacifying” the novel that incriminated and encroached upon her reputation?

After all, it was an insignificant and ordinary novel. Things would be different for novels that had a massive count of views, or tens of thousands of followers. In that case they would have to approach the author and drop a fair warning.

Generally, authors were intrepid with the nature of their content, especially when it concerned iconic characters. They were willing to step into the fire by creating iconic replicas and disgrace them in every way they wanted. They had a voice, and the law said nothing about forbidding them from exercising those free speech rights. But, which fool would actually condemn those influential individuals in the real world

On the contrary, most authors did not have the moxie to say no to an editor’s demands. Most of them wrote for a living. They would stand to lose much, if those millions of words they wrote got stopped in their tracks!

If “I Love to Eat Pumpkin Pie” was aware of how close Ah Yu, the female broadcaster was with Qi Dian high ranked directors, he would not have written anything bad about her!

The Orphan Author “I Love to Eat Pumpkin Pie” was not an actual orphan. It was a malicious nickname that had been given to him. The protagonist of “God Level Leader” was an orphan, though. Hence it was logical to name him an Orphan Author.

“I Love to Eat Pumpkin Pie’s” real name was Xu Liang Ming. He was a civil servant. Twenty-seven years of age, stationed at a rural area. As his daily, mundane work drained him of life, he grew disillusioned and morose.

It was a cruel fact. Civil servants with no support of their own, were nothing more than coolies. Being promoted to an administrative position was considered a great achievement. The protagonist in the novel was the embodiment of his own dreams. How could one climb up the stairs of bureaucracy with such ease?

Xu Liangming had complied to the requests of his family elders. They had egged him on to join the government service industry. He had been born in a family of farmers. In the eyes of those oblivious elders, a government job was stable and convincing.

Pressure from the elders aside, his wife had pushed him into this as well. Their love story began in the university in which they studied and graduated together. Later on, they had been forced into marriage due to an unplanned pregnancy. Both of them came from families that had nothing much to offer. It was a simple wedding, and also his biggest regret. Regret that he had been incapable of giving her more.

His university had been mediocre. Every job he took ended with angry words from his superiors. Hence, he swore to be better and managed to get himself a civil servant’s job. His wife became a nurse, and they improved their living conditions progressively.

There was a reason why Xu Liangming started writing. He sought for an outlet to release his resentment of the world, and the self-hatred that traced back to his helpless insignificance. It was his identity as a nobody that had armed him with the knowledge of what ordinary people would love to read.

He littered profanities, depravity and the most perverse orgies ever within the upper echelons of society. Only such simple crudeness would draw outrage from the masses.

In Chinese, there was an old saying, “One highly ranked superior would crush all who were inferior.” Unfortunately, it is no longer applicable in modern office politics. Managers had no right to interfere in the matters of other departments.

However, Zeng Dawei, the unscrupulous protagonist of Xu Liangming’s novel “God Level Leader” was not bound by such restrictions. He promoted the ideology of “unity by one hall,” and suppressed all inferior beings and subordinates with his iron authority. When he finally sat in the mayor’s desk, he abused the power of his influence over the national security department to defile the culprits behind all incidents of insubordinations