Chapter 99 - Chapter 99: Chapter 98 Defamation! Blatant Defamation! (2/2)
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[What old friend?]
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Su Qianqian took out her phone, opened the Sailing Novel app with a smile, and said, “Do you guys still remember ‘This Assassin Is Too Professional’?]
[Assassin, professional?]
[Wow! After I finished that book, I couldn’t eat for a week!]
[When I do the killing… ah spit, I mean when I kill chickens, I do it very cleanly!]
[Is the suspected criminal Mr. Lin writing a new book?]
[So thrilling! I admit I’m excited!]
Su Qianqian continued, “This time, he’s brought a scams-themed novel called ‘All-In’ for the Anti-Fraud writing competition.”
Then, Su Qianqian and the novel page of ‘All-In’ appeared on the live broadcast screen, side by side.
‘Ten years ago, I entered the KK factory area.’
‘Ten years later, I finally escaped to see the sky again.’
‘There, there were no dreams of overnight wealth, nor were there any visions of paradise on earth.’
‘On the contrary, it was hell, a cage, a gathering place for sin.’
‘…’
The audience followed Su Qianqian’s reading progress and together stepped into the novel world of ‘All-In’.
The content of chapter 15 was not much.
Just 20 minutes passed, and they had already reached the latest chapter.
[That’s it? The author’s writing is too short, right?]
[I wanted to see how he would scam that fish!]
[Qianqian my wife, are you sure this is an anti-fraud novel, why do I feel like it’s the author’s autobiography?]
[Agree with the brother above!]
[First-person narrative + Fraud Salesman’s perspective + Autobiography, why do I feel like this is Ming’s book?]
[Which one is Ming’s book?]
[‘The Years I Was Tricked into the Factory Area’.]
At this moment.
The author Ming was also live streaming on the Kuai Dou video platform.
The video he posted today for attracting viewers had already reached 2 million views.
Therefore, he decided to go live.
Typing while answering readers’ questions, he sought to maintain the popularity.
In Ming’s live broadcast room, the real online viewer count: 4000+.
[Author, is your book ‘The Years I Was Tricked into the Factory Area’ really your autobiography?]
[That book is so realistic!]
[Author, how did you return to the country?]
[Author, you’re awesome, I feel like I’m the one scammed in the story.]
[Author, please update, I can’t sleep at night.]
[Love it! The author goes deep into the fray, a tough cookie!]
[Your depiction of fraud is so real, author, should I call the police?]
Ming, wearing a black T-shirt and using face effects, laughed, “Thanks for the support, brothers. I’ve published some of these scam cases before, all based on real events. I hope you can take them as a warning to avoid making my mistakes and avoid being scammed.]
[Just for what the author said, I have to give a good review!]
[Author, won’t your book get banned for writing like this?]
[If this gets reported, wouldn’t it be 404’d?]
[I don’t think so, I just saw a similar one next door.]
[Similar?]
[Yes, it’s called ‘All-In’, also written in first-person about being tricked into the factory area to scam, very realistic and immersive to read.]
The viewers in Ming’s live broadcast room were taken aback.
Another scam salesman who escaped from the factory area?
Suddenly.
The viewers became curious and flocked into Lin Chuan’s ‘All-In’ to skim through it.
The more they saw, the more similar it seemed.
The beginnings of the two novels were the same, being scammed into the factory area, witnessing the boss beating the escapee, warning the newcomers…]
[Isn’t this too similar?]
[I strongly suspect that Lin is also someone who ran out of the scams factory area!]
[Both escaping from the scam factory area, both starting to write novels, could it be such a coincidence?]
[What does the brother above mean?]
[Take a look at the novels written by author Lin.]
[‘Swindler,’ ‘This Assassin Is Too Professional,’ ‘Hacker Kingdom,’ ‘All-In,’ his earlier works had pretty good results, what’s up with them?]
[Just look at the timing of their release. Four books from March to now, totaling up to four million words!]
[Another doubt is the wide range of professions: swindler + assassin + hacker + fraud salesman, doesn’t he need to do research?]
[Geez, what are you trying to imply?]
[This is a clear case of plagiarism!]
[Ah! Lin and Ming published on the same day, it would be pretty hard to plagiarize, right?]
[You underestimate the plagiarism monster, Ming just said he had previously published some related cases.]
[No, no, you can say ‘All-In’ is plagiarized, there’s a basis for plagiarism there, but what about Lin’s earlier books, which are they plagiarizing?]
[Well, I don’t know about that, only the plagiarist himself knows.]
[Spreading rumors just like that, huh???]
In the live broadcast room, rumor-mongers quickly appeared, and some even went to the Anti-Fraud Center website and clicked the report button.
Logic?
In the virtual world of the internet, one can see the diversity of species, and they, they don’t need logic at all!
Just blurt it out!
Behind the scenes, there might be a hidden hand at play.
“Don’t spread rumors! Everything must be based on evidence!”
Youyou the editor was also in the live broadcast room, fingers on the keyboard, rapidly typing rebuttals, but they were quickly drowned in the vast sea of comments.
There’s a suspicion of plagiarism.
Even the word ‘suspicion’ has a powerful destructive force.
Most passersby who eat melons won’t see the follow-up clarifications, they’ll just remember, this author is like some kind of plagiarist.
An earnest author, willing to accept criticisms like ‘poor writing,’ ‘messy plot,’ ‘brain-dead character design,’ and the like.
But the one thing he cannot accept is the word ‘plagiarism.’
Plagiarism is the biggest defamation you can give an earnest author.
Defamation!
Bare-faced defamation!