Jiang Ning retorted neither lightly nor heavily. Not wanting to talk to a person who was about to die, she left him there and went upstairs to update today’s chapter.
This time, Jiang Ning wrote six thousand words directly. After updating, she reached the word count required for a contract and applied for one in the backend.
A day passed. Jiang Ning’s novel appeared on Sky Dream Literature Network’s “New Arrivals” list.
At the same time, because Jiang Shu—a “leg hair” (fan) of Jiang Seeing No Moon—had bullied a new author, the incident fermented in the book circles of Sky Dream Literature Network, attracting many readers who were there for the drama.
Some of these bored readers were curious about Jiang Ning’s novel and opened it to take a look.
Jiang Ning’s achievement points rose at a slow but steady pace.
Cotton Diabetes: [First-person POV. Hmm, it’s just average. A bit weird.]
Must Have Male Virtue: [Is there a male lead? Does he have male virtue?]
I Am Your Mom: [Although the writing is a bit immature, the trope is quite interesting.]
Tortoise and Hare: [Pity the author, targeted by Jiang Seeing No Moon‘s famous brain-dead fan.]
…
Jiang Shu clicked on Jiang Ning’s comment section. Seeing that few people were saying good things, his mood finally improved a little. He could even ignore the comments calling him brain-dead and telling him to get his head checked.
These people finally realized that what Jiang Ning writes is trash.
He wanted to post something, but after typing a line, he was reminded again that he was banned.
Jiang Shu: “…”
The feeling of having something to say but being unable to say it was truly stifling.
Jiang Shu quickly thought of a way. He opened an alt account and bound it to his ID card to continue commenting.
Carp Crossing the River: [Writing is truly garbage!]
A similar exclamation mark appeared on the phone screen, but this time the warning content was different.
The account under your ID card has been banned for three days. Please do not comment repeatedly!
Jiang Shu: “…”
He had a flash of inspiration, remembering he had a friend who also liked reading novels. He immediately had an idea.
He forwarded Jiang Ning’s novel to her with a message: “This person writes terrible novels and has a bad character. Help me leave a comment saying ‘The author writes like dog shit’.”
Thinking it over, Jiang Shu felt it wasn’t enough. He forwarded Jiang Ning’s novel to Jiang Yu as well. He fiercely belittled Jiang Ning’s novel to Jiang Yu, then praised Jiang Yu’s writing, calling Jiang Ning’s attempt a humiliation to herself.
Only then was Jiang Shu satisfied. Just as he was about to put down his phone, a trending topic popped up on his screen: #Xiao Ning Village Urban Legend Suspected Upgrade, Ning City Residents in Danger#.
“Tch, what is this?”
Jiang Shu muttered after seeing it, “The media always exaggerates. Urban Legends can’t move. At most, it just gets fatter sitting there. What danger is there? Just don’t get close to it.”
The Earth was huge. It didn’t matter if Urban Legends took up some space.
There weren’t that many people anyway; plenty of land was sitting empty.
He tapped his phone and entered his “brothers” group chat. They were arranging to go drag racing on the winding mountain road. Jiang Shu felt an itch and signed up too.
He had been in a bad mood recently; drag racing would be a good way to blow off steam.
This thought made the black gas on Jiang Shu snuggle even closer to him, like a lover in a one-sided passionate romance. But Jiang Shu remained completely oblivious.
The black gas enveloped nearly half of his body, foreshadowing ill omens.
Xu Si stood by the window, gazing at the pitch-black night outside, and sighed heavily.
Her mother sat on the sofa, her face also unable to hide her sorrow.
Xu Si’s father was the mayor of Ning City.
A few days ago, he went to Xiao Ning Village to investigate the situation of the Urban Legend.
He was swallowed by the suddenly expanding Urban Legend and never came out.
The Urban Legend in Xiao Ning Village was originally D-rank.
After that expansion, it had likely upgraded to C-rank.
A C-rank Urban Legend… meant nine deaths out of ten, and the survivor would be half-dead.
People who went in were unlikely to come back.
These days, people who knew about her father’s accident had begun to show their fangs, wanting to swallow the Xu family whole.
The usually carefree Xu Si was forced to grow up overnight, having to face these swords and shadows with her mother.
At this moment, seeing a message from Jiang Shu, whom she hadn’t contacted in a long time, Xu Si didn’t even want to click it open.
Just a fair-weather friend.
Xu Si’s mother saw her daughter’s phone light up and forced a smile. “See what your friend sent you.”
Xu Si said, “It’s from Jiang Shu of the Jiang family. He’s not my friend.”
Xu Mother’s eyes curved slightly. “You don’t like him? I remember you used to play together often.”
Xu Si fell silent. “…I just find these rich people annoying now. Besides, I haven’t spoken to him in a long time.”
But since the conversation had reached this point, Xu Si knew her mother was worried about her and wanted her to be happier. She opened the chat with Jiang Shu and found he had sent a link to a novel.
At a time like this, who has the mood to read novels…
Xu Si’s mother looked at her gently.
Xu Si sighed helplessly and clicked on the novel Jiang Shu recommended.
It was a relatively rare “Rules Urban Legend” novel. The full text was only ten thousand words so far. She didn’t know how Jiang Shu had found it.
Xu Si turned to the second page and happened to see Jiang Ning’s latest update.
Everyone knew that Guayi were aggregates of rules.
No one could kill a Guayi. Humans could only strive to find the rules of those Guayi and try their best to avoid violating them to survive one Urban Legend after another.
However, since the birth of Urban Legends, humans hadn’t mastered many rules because too few people came out of them alive.
People died at the hands of Urban Legends without even knowing how they died.
How could they master the rules? Let alone understand the Guayi?
Xu Si was surprised by the detailed description of the Guayi in Jiang Ning’s writing.
With such detailed descriptions, could the author have actually experienced some Urban Legends?
Xu Si couldn’t help but smile and shake her head.
Even if she had experienced them, it’s impossible to be so clear about the rules of an Urban Legend.
Not even the Awakened of Ning City know this much.
Xu Si clicked favorite. Regardless, this novel did have its merits.
The System suddenly exclaimed in surprise: [ Ningning, your Heartbeat Points suddenly rose by five hundred! But the article only gained one more favorite. ]
Knowing someone appreciated Jiang Ning’s novel, the System seemed happier than Jiang Ning herself.
However, the System’s happiness didn’t last long because someone left a negative review for Jiang Ning.
Song of Feiyu: [I advise the author to go home and farm. The writing is terrible.]
After this comment appeared, the number of people clicking to read Jiang Ning’s novel noticeably decreased.