Chapter 303 - The IronFans (1/2)

“Did Meng Fan really reward himself? Maybe it’s an impersonator?”

“Impersonator, my ass! Take a look for yourself, it is the author’s account!”

“Rewarding himself with a hundred million! That bastard has no shame!”

“And for a manga without a contract!”

“Come on, it doesn’t even have content!”

“I despise such shameless acts, even those online web writers don’t behave like that! Even if the money had been converted by a sockpuppet, how much boldness and confidence would it take!”

“Hahahahaha, I guess such a shameful thing could have been done only by Meng Fatty!”

“Why is it that Meng Fan is always doing only positive stuff, and yet I still think this kind of behavior is exactly his style?”

“Because Meng Fatty is trouble!”

“I don’t care how much the reward is, I just want to know when the content will be uploaded.”

“I can’t wait for Meng Fatty’s original work!”

“Can’t wait +1!”

Dozens of fan groups were all discussing this matter, and it was indeed because rewarding yourself with 100 million Penguin Coins was a shameless and extremely peculiar thing to do. In addition, the fans’ expectations for “Legend of the Mountains and Seas” were very high, too.

Meng Fan already mentioned his manga to fans a few times before. He also showed some character design and drawings of scenes during his live streams, and all the paintings were as breathtaking as they were refined. Of course, it was seen as teasing them now and then, but this time it was too much.

“Damn, guys! Quick, look at that!”

In one of the groups, a fan shared a screenshot. The screenshot was showing a list of fans of “Legend of the Mountains and Seas.” The comic’s page shows only the top ten places on such a list. Except for the dazzling 100,000,000 fan points “Donated by Meng Fan” at the top of the list, the following nine places were vacant. All of the fans got the “Leader” title.

“What the, someone rewarded again!”

“There are more than nine. Look.”

Someone has posted a complete fan list, on which there were already more than a hundred people. The first thirty places got awarded with the “Leader” title, and about 100,000 Penguin Coins in rewards have been transferred.

“What the hell are these?”

“Look at the discussions of the nouveau riche!”

A few more screenshots have been sent to that fan group. These were all screenshots of a chatroom for people considered “new money”. At the beginning, they were also discussing Meng Fatty’s shamelessness and expressing their excitement about his manga, but later the atmosphere changed, as one of the magnates said he was going to take the opportunity. After a while, he shared a screenshot of himself being awarded the “Leader” title.

As soon as this screenshot came out, other magnates in the group could not stay calm. Commenting LOL and LMAO, this group has contributed at least a dozen “Leader” titles and a number of other rewards.

In the screenshot, one could see a few messages stating that apart from just losing their heads and spending money for the hell of it, some people also felt that they actually owed Meng Fan a reward. The reason for that was the fact that Meng Fan’s two previous manga series — of which one was a known short story, already finished, and the other one was an adaptation of a novel — got few rewards and little appreciation.

To put it simply, for die-hard IronFans — both manga fans and live stream fans — it was as if they rewarded “There’s a Spirit Underground.”