Chapter 446 (1/2)

Come to an end

Numbers did not lie. The subscription count of “God Level Leader” by “I Love to Eat Pumpkin Pie” had not yet crumbled due to the death of “An Youyou.” On the contrary, the novel actually gained more readers!

The reason wasn’t so clear-cut. Some nosy folk had “promoted” this novel elsewhere. Or, in plain terms, they were out to blacken the name of such hollow literature. They went on board book-reading forums for the opposite purpose, to vilify this novel —- —-

“I was reading this hollow novel. It was okay up till now. The author actually followed the footsteps of those hipster writers and stirred up an unnecessary fuss. He directly killed his female character! He’s simply paving his own way to hell!”

“Has anyone read the book “God Level Leader”? Miss Ah Youyou is just another archetypical female character in it, and he killed her. How terrible!”

“Another hollow novel falling to the overrated hipster author trend. That’s depressing. I’m abandoning it!”

“I just can’t understand the idea behind hollow novels that take a heel turn like that. It was supposed to be a leisurely read. What’s the point of killing a female character who was pretty well-created for once?”

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Undoubtedly, the death of An Youyou had been highly controversial. After An Youyou’s true identity was revealed, everyone started to get attracted to her. However, before she even became popular, she died, just like that. Was it necessary to mess around with the readers like this?

As people got busy denouncing the novel, they had also pointed out that the inspiration behind An Youyou was the “Douyu Top Girl,””Douyu Pigeon Queen” Ah Yu. Unsurprisingly, it piqued the interests of those who knew Ah Yu.

This included many of Ah Yu’s fans. They were not able to interact more intimately with Ah Yu in reality. At least, through the novel, they could satisfy the fantasies hidden deep in their hearts.

Hence, many people fell into the pit, even though they had never heard of “God Level Leader” before. Some of them had never even read web novels before.

Undoubtedly, fresh, inexperienced readers starting digging a special place in their heart for this hollow novel. Come to think of it, was there anyone who did not start off with hollow literature as their first read, ever?

The wild fantasies within “God Level Leader” vividly portrayed the twisted values of how “officials could do whatever they wanted.” Everyone knew that reality could not be any further away. However, when it came to reading novels, people would get so hooked into it that they would end up only being able to feel that it was “great, cool, awesome”! Why would they care about anything else?

Those readers who wanted to see how the author fantasized about Miss Ah Yu in the story were not happy. “An Youyou” was finally starting to take solid form. She was livelier and much more attractive, compared to all the other female characters. Why did she have to die, all of a sudden?

The death scene had been most satisfying, but that was also why it was so heartbreaking

“An Youyou’s” death propelled “God Level Leader” to modest fame. It was modest, but it was fame, nevertheless. Still, for the author – “I Love to Eat Pumpkin Pie” Xu Liangming, the increased royalties were very real!

Of course, Xu Liangming was pleasantly surprised. Thus, he decided to continue writing like this. There was no need to add any more characters like a twin sister to the story. The value of her death had to be respected.

This incident also gave Xu Liangming great cause for self-reflection. He had always thought that writing while brain dead would be easy money. It was easy to write, and the readers also found it easy to read. The readers of hollow literature were always happy to pull money out of their pockets.