After breakfast, Jiang Ning decided to take a good look around this world. She grabbed an umbrella and went out.
As soon as Jiang Ning left, Jiang Shu immediately pulled out his phone and searched for Jiang Ning’s pen name, but Baidu returned a “User Not Found.”
Jiang Shu felt annoyed and humiliated. Did Jiang Ning deliberately give him a fake name to play him?
Jiang Liu saw Jiang Shu’s expression and knew what he was thinking without even needing to guess. “It’s hard to find new authors on Baidu. If you want to read her novel, you should search for her pen name on the literature website she mentioned.”
Jiang Shu curled his lip. “True. Not everyone can be as famous as Sister, appearing right away on a Baidu search.”
Jiang Shu wasn’t good at studying and had always envied Jiang Yu, who could write.
He immediately typed in “Sky Dream Literature Network” and searched for “Elder of Urban Legends” within the site.
Jiang Shu himself was a reader of Sky Dream Literature Network. Usually, he only read novels by “Jiang Seeing No Moon” (Jiang Yu’s pen name) and was even ranked third on her donation list, so he knew his way around the site.
Elder of Urban Legends was indeed a new account. The latest chapter was published at 9 PM last night. There were only six thousand words in total, zero comments, zero favorites, and only three clicks. Dead as a doornail.
Jiang Shu snickered to himself. He exited Jiang Ning’s novel page and found Jiang Yu’s new book on the homepage.
Jiang Yu’s new book had fewer than a hundred thousand words but already had over fifty thousand favorites.
The comment section was filled with “Rainbow Coins” (tips) and readers discussing the plot.
Jiang Shu felt incredibly proud.
That’s my sister!
He first added Jiang Yu’s novel to his favorites, then went back to favorite Jiang Ning’s novel.
He didn’t do this out of kindness.
Imagine this: when Jiang Ning opens her backend dashboard and sees she has exactly one favorite, she will feel a mix of joy and disappointment. And right at that moment, he will tell her that this sole favorite was a charity handout from him. She will inevitably be devastated and shocked, then completely dispirited.
Thinking of that scene, Jiang Shu couldn’t wait to open Jiang Ning’s novel.
Just looking at the title, he knew it would flop. Only Jiang Ning could come up with something like this.
He prepared to mock Jiang Ning’s novel first, then to properly enjoy his sister Jiang Yu’s novel.
Unexpectedly, the novel was written in the first person.
Sure enough, she’s an idiot. What future is there for a first-person novel?
[A few days ago, my grandmother, who raised me, passed away. I felt very sad. I buried her alone and became truly solitary.
My parents died when I was very young, and Grandma was my only relative. But not long after Grandma died, my “dead” parents suddenly showed up at my door, claiming I was their biological daughter and that there had been a switch at birth.
I was a bit puzzled. We lived so far apart; how did the switch happen?
However, since I was all alone anyway, it didn’t matter where I went. Plus, I actually wanted to be with family, so I decided to go with them.
Just like that, I followed these biological parents back to the Jiang family.
But I discovered that the parents who had been so enthusiastic about bringing me home turned cold as soon as I arrived. They also claimed I was always wrongly accusing and bullying the Fake Heiress.
The atmosphere at home became more unbearable by the day, depressing enough to make one suicidal. I felt like this wasn’t a home at all, but some strange place.
I always suspected… that these two-faced people I saw weren’t human, and I was afraid they would turn into ghosts in the middle of the night and eat me.
But as time went on, I realized everyone in the house was indeed alive. Still, I was a bit scared, and various speculations often flashed through my mind.
I couldn’t figure out why they brought me back if they clearly didn’t like me.
Could it be that someone in the Jiang family was critically ill and needed a bone marrow transplant, so they found me?
I was very worried. I’d rather suffer a bit more hardship than have my kidney harvested.
I heard that when rich people go bad, ordinary people don’t stand a chance.]
Jiang Shu laughed in anger.
The subtext was too obvious. But this was clearly turning black into white!
When had Sister ever bullied her? It was clearly Jiang Ning who had been bullying Sister!
And she even said rich people were bad.
Jiang Shu felt Jiang Ning really had a loose tongue.
As expected of a country bumpkin, she always speculates about others based on her own wild imagination.
Who wants her crappy kidney?
What use is a malnourished kidney? We’d be better off buying an artificial one from the hospital.
He suppressed the urge to curse out loud and continued reading.
Fortunately, the insinuations about Jiang Yu seemed to end there.
[The Fake Heiress went on a business trip. Everyone seemed to think it was my fault, suspecting I had secretly said something to her to make her leave home.
I felt extremely wronged. Last time, the Fake Heiress framed me for pushing her down the stairs, and I hadn’t even spoken up yet.
Although… even if I did speak, no one would believe me, so I chose not to.
After finishing dinner in silence, I noticed that the youngest son of the family—my younger brother—was surrounded by black gas.
This black gas was very eerie, occasionally turning into a human shape to lick my brother’s face.
It made one’s skin crawl.
I stared at him for a while. My brother smiled at me sinisterly and said that if I kept looking, he’d make me pay.
God, I knew he was telling the truth. The leg he broke when he pushed me down the stairs still hurts.
I shivered and didn’t dare look anymore. I finished my meal hurriedly and went to the living room to watch TV alone.
I just thought to myself, what does it have to do with me anyway?
I actually hoped something would happen to this guy. Ideally, someone would break his leg just like mine, so he couldn’t bully me anymore, and I could live in peace for a few days.]
Jiang Shu: “…”
After insinuating about my sister, now she’s insinuating about me. This Jiang Ning is really something!
As for the leg, didn’t she deserve that?
Jiang Ning actually has the nerve to write it in the book, acting like she’s so innocent.
What a white lotus!
Jiang Shu curled his lip and turned to the next page.
[Just as I was thinking this, a cloud of black mist suddenly appeared before my eyes.
The mist was mixed with a thick, bloody hue, making one afraid to look closely.
Since it appeared, my brother’s temper became even more explosive. The way he looked at me grew increasingly terrifying, as if he wanted to eat me alive.
I watched as it transformed into something resembling a woman. Her body wrapped around my brother like a snake, kissing and licking him, looking like she wanted to strip his clothes off. She even made wet, smacking sounds that would make anyone blush.
I’m still an innocent girl; I didn’t dare look too much. I immediately looked away, wondering if this pitch-black thing was my brother’s ex-girlfriend or something?
But it was strange. My brother seemed completely oblivious to this girlfriend.
These past few days, I haven’t seen him mourning for any girlfriend either.
Does he not know his girlfriend is already dead?
I sighed secretly. What a scumbag! He doesn’t even know his girlfriend died.]
Jiang Shu: “…”
Since when did I have an ex-girlfriend? And a dead one at that? I haven’t even dated anyone!
She can’t win against me in reality, so she uses fabricated things to insinuate about me in her novel.
Reading this just makes my blood boil.
Jiang Shu left a comment.
Carp Crossing the River: [A trash novel with twisted morals. The switch at birth was an accident. The Fake Heiress treated her so well, yet this village bumpkin still holds grudges.]
After leaving the comment, Jiang Shu still felt unsatisfied.
Jiang Ning actually framed him for having a “non-human” girlfriend.
But he couldn’t explain this matter easily, lest Jiang Ning figure out his true identity right now.
After thinking about it, Jiang Shu left several comments supporting the Fake Heiress in a row until he felt satisfied.
Since Jiang Ning relied on writing novels to insinuate whatever she wanted, he would just curse back at everything.
Thinking about how angry Jiang Ning would be when she saw these comments exposing her tonight, he felt happy.
After a while, Jiang Ning didn’t reply, but a reader with a “Tycoon” badge replied to him.
Yan Yan Fu Ka: [Is the heroine really not a good person? Then I’ll take a look, hehe. I like villains.]
A minute later, Yan Yan Fu Ka’s comment appeared again.
Yan Yan Fu Ka: […It’s different from what I thought. The heroine isn’t exactly a bad person, but not a good one either. She’s a bit strange. Bookmarked. I’ll keep reading. [Gifted 10 Bouquets of Roses]]
One Bouquet of Roses costs fifty yuan on Sky Dream Literature Network.
Jiang Shu: “…”
How did Jiang Ning manage to get a rich reader?!
I’m furious!
Jiang Ning is clearly the trash person here, not forgetting to insinuate about Sister and me, even when writing a novel! What is wrong with this Yan Yan Fu Ka? Such poor taste?
Although five hundred yuan was nothing to him, it was a huge sum for a pauper like Jiang Ning.
Seeing Jiang Ning make money by insinuating about him felt worse than losing fifty thousand yuan himself.
Jiang Shu picked up his keyboard and went to war with Yan Yan Fu Ka for three hundred rounds, building a skyscraper of comments in the section. In the end, he even attracted several other onlookers.
Finally, in a moment of carelessness, Jiang Shu revealed that he was one of Jiang Seeing No Moon‘s top donor readers—a famous rabid fan.
These onlookers, like Yan Yan Fu Ka, started calling him “Jiang Seeing No Moon‘s Simp,” saying Jiang Shu was a lunatic and that Elder of Urban Legends was pitiful for being targeted by this mad dog.
Jiang Shu couldn’t out-argue three people with just one mouth.
Finally, he simply wrote a long paragraph praising Jiang Seeing No Moon‘s virtues.
He clicked send, but a red exclamation mark and two lines of text appeared on the webpage.
Send Failed!
You have been banned for three days for violating comment rules!
What kind of trash website is this!
I typed for so long for nothing!
Jiang Shu’s vision went black, his brain buzzed, and he almost couldn’t catch his breath.
In a fit of rage, he closed the Sky Dream Literature Network directly, even forgetting to read Jiang Yu’s novel.
Jiang Ning walked along the road holding an umbrella.
[ System: Ningning, Jiang Shu has been banned by the system. ]
This was naturally the System’s doing. It had created many alt accounts to report Jiang Shu for abusive language. Sky Dream Literature Network was strict about this, and sure enough, Jiang Shu was banned immediately.
Jiang Ning nodded. She didn’t care much, just found it a bit amusing.
The System added: [ The survival story now has three favorites. We’ve gained fifty Heartbeat Points, which converts to about sixty minutes of lifespan. If we work harder and write a longer novel, we should get more. ]
Sixty minutes wasn’t even as long as the time Jiang Ning spent typing, but both of them remained calm for now.
There was plenty of time anyway.
A milk tea shop with a queue appeared ahead.
Jiang Ning walked over and bought two cups of milk tea.