Chapter 100 (1/2)
The Complete Guide to the Use and Care of a Personal Assistant
Translator: Jury
Editor: NomNom
First Published on Chaleuria
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Chapter One Hundred
When Ling Miao heard Tofu say that someone on the forum was exposing Su Yuyang for plagiarizing, his first reaction was of course, “Who the fuck is this green-eyed person trying to drag Su Yuyang to their level.” Tofu said that the other party had proof, but Ling Miao just wanted to throw it in their face.
Ling Miao had been on the forums for four or five years and had seen many callout threads and fight threads. The evidence in these threads was usually embellished to some degree, so even though Tofu said the evidence was very, very reliable, Ling Miao didn’t believe it.
He clicked on the thread. The first thing he looked at was the OP’s ID—IAmCallingOut—Ling Miao wasn’t familiar with this ID. The second thing he looked at was the account registration date—three days ago. Ling Miao clicked into the account profile and found that the person had only started one thread. He had made many replies, but they had all been made in the last three days and they were all replies to comments on Su Yuyang’s plagiarism thread.
A new account, which had only posted the one Callout: Shu Yang’s ‘Heavenly Domain’ plagiarized the abandoned book ‘Destruction of Heaven!’ thread, and the replies were suspicious too…
All in all, it was very likely that this person was trying to ruin Shu Yang’s reputation.
Ling Miao began to read the thread with the attitude he would take to reading a joke, and also the attitude of someone ready to fight 300 rounds with his opponent.
But when Ling Miao saw the evidence posted in the thread, his heart immediately jumped. The contents were very disadvantageous to Su Yuyang, and they didn’t look exaggerated. In fact, Ling Miao couldn’t find evidence of tampering at all.
Su Yuyang had really plagiarized?
Ling Miao’s own suspicions began to rise, but he quickly denied them. Firstly, Su Yuyang’s talent obviously showed in Demonic Song Defying Heaven and Massacre of the Nine Heavens. Secondly, Ling Miao didn’t believe Su Yuyang would plagiarize.
But the evidence was laid out before him and he had to be careful.
Ling Miao rolled the scroll wheel downward and saw the name of the first replier to the thread. He slapped the bed: “Fuck, it’s this guy!”
The first reply to the thread was from ProfessionalHoleDigger.
Ling Miao had a strong impression of this guy. It could be said that the two were enemies. When Ling Miao saw a post from this guy, he would look for content in it he could refute. If he couldn’t find anything, he would pretend he hadn’t seen the post. If he did find something… anyone in the forum who had been there a while knew that if the moderators didn’t close the thread, it would explode.
ProfessionalHoleDigger was a dedicated Shu Yang hater. He had said in a previous thread that he read the official versions of all novels except Shu Yang’s, which he pirated. Just on that comment alone Ling Miao had had a 300-post argument with him which had only stopped when the moderators stepped in.
The moment Ling Miao saw that the first reply was this guy, and the time between the thread being posted and the first reply was only a few seconds, he let out a cold laugh. “Heh—he’s green-eyed again.”
Ling Miao DMed a friend and asked for two IP cards. On investigation, IAmCallingOut had the same IP as ProfessionalHoleDigger.
“I was right!”
452# ZeroSecondsAgo: The IPs of the OP and the first reply are the same and they were posted only a few seconds apart. Clearly, the thread was posted by the first replier. Shu Yang’s hater posted a callout thread saying Shu Yang plagiarized. This implies Shu Yang didn’t plagiarize.
Very quickly, Ling Miao’s assessment got a reply.
456# IAmCallingOut: “The IPs of the OP and the first reply are the same…”