Chapter 445 (1/2)

Self-cultivation of a Hollow Literature Writer

When the clouds cleared from Xu Liangming’s head, he found another eight chapter-fuls of extra manuscripts in his computer. It depicted the male protagonist going on a wild rampage, killing everything in his path as he sought for his vengeance. He conducted a crackdown operation on the gangsters. He was headed straight for the “Gangster Emperor”!

Intoxication was a godsent. His pen would fly across the paper, carving worlds with mind of its own!

Even though Xu Liangming wrote with a switched-off brain for some extra earnings, it was not always enough. He had to key negative values into his IQ. One thing he learned from writing web novel was —— to underestimate the readers’ IQ as much as possible, going so far as to even to insult their IQ. This way, he would write with minimal brainpower, as his readers would.

As for his critics on Longkong forums, their thoughts be damned. Some people criticized him for being a writer who had never studied in a university, that he was a total retard. He only replied with a smile.

He was deliberately writing in such a manner. Did they really think that he knew nothing about politics?

Clearly, that was not the case. If he had started off strong and eloquently, he would have burned out, or even dropped out in the middle of things. Therefore, he went full retard. It was for the good of the future. He had anticipated, and planned this!

Go ahead and ridicule his book. You can never ridicule him. He was too clever. His market target had always been those hollow literature readers, and he knew what would be a precise fit to their palate!

Based on Qidian statistics alone, his subscription count was rather mediocre, but traffic in other channels was overwhelming. Time-starved office workers had to read his book at night, in their sleep. It was their mental refuge, their relief from the stress at work. This male protagonist was their idea of living the life in office!

As an officer, things like calling shots for the people and building one’s wealth were all secondary. Officers mainly lived for the mistresses and harem. That’s life!

It was ridiculous to think that officers lived to serve the people. Why be an officer, then? People would rather raise pigs at home!

Officers never served the people. They stood over the people, dangling their dilly dongs about, doing whatever they wanted!

China had always been driven by the learned and capable. It was true that they had scholars, peasants, workers, businessmen. But scholars always remained up top. The only thing that changed about the modern world was that businessmen now closely followed after scholars.

Xu Liangming wrote based on the idea of the addictive, seductive superiority complex, and wrote such a “life-reflecting” work about politicians. On the one hand,his work was heavily criticized by veterans web novel readers and those who had some knowledge the subject. They all said the same things. This story had no lower limit in terms of IQ, and was utterly irrational. On the other hand, hollow literature readers welcomed the book with open arms. They even shouted the slogan – “The officials serves only Zeng Dawei and no one else!”

Xu Liangming was a mediocre writer. At most, he could only write things with acceptable fluency. But he knew how to rile up the teenager in every grown man’s heart. Professional writers could learn from him!

Still, prideful professional writers would never lower themselves, even if their lives demanded it. It was true that they wanted easy money, but they would get caught up in their own prideful hipster-itis. They may not all be geniuses, but they would insist on writing like one. They should have done the opposite like Xu Liangming remove the lower limiter on their IQs. If the protagonist had an IQ of 50 while the supported characters had IQs of 30, the contrast would make it seem like the protagonist was a genius.

Sometimes, flexibility brought you a long way. Sacrifice your pride for easy cash, or write according to your heart and curl up in your lonely, niche corner.

Xu Liangming had never once been “intoxicated” in the past, as he had to constantly lower his own IQ to write. He had to keep a clear mind. This time, he realized that he had truly become mentally retarded when he was “intoxicated”. How could he have been so foolish to write something so interesting!

Something in his manuscript caught his attention. The protagonist was a municipal leader. After An Youyou died, he started acting like a true idiot. He almost hid his face in embarrassment when he saw that he had even written a passage that showed the male protagonist wanting to have a fistfight with the “Gangster Emperor” Ye Wudao.