What Lin Yuan doesn’t know is.
Just as Water Margin is blowing up worldwide, certain discussions about Chu Kuang have started to change in tone.
The initial buzz originated from the Geek Tribe.
Back then, Tribe’s Crown Prince Ling Kong suddenly posted a lengthy article:
"Recently, after reading Water Margin, I felt some emotions stirring. Chu Kuang is as prolific as a sow, so I couldn’t help but ask a friend with an insanely fast typing speed, whether he could keep up with Chu Kuang’s writing pace if he wrote novels?
This friend laughed and said:
If it’s just typing, he can barely manage, but if it involves planning and other aspects, it’s almost impossible unless someone had prepared the content for him to copy.
So the question arises, does Chu Kuang not need to plan out his work?
I think everyone has had similar doubts before, it’s just that the success of those works has overshadowed many details that should have been discussed.
Seeing this, someone is going to flame me.
Saying I’m envious, jealous, and vindictive, or something like that.
After all, everyone knows there is a bit of bad blood between me and Chu Kuang, this move clearly seems like an intentional smear."
Hold on before you start flaming, finish reading this.
As a writer, Chu Kuang’s writing speed is too unreasonable. He writes books as if he doesn’t need to plan, as if the content has been written by others and he just needs to copy —
That’s my friend’s exact words.
This friend’s words enlightened me.
Of course, I don’t suspect that Chu Kuang plagiarized these works from somewhere; in fact, my thought is even bolder:
Rather than saying Chu Kuang plagiarized, I lean more toward another terrifying guess, that the so-called old rascal Chu Kuang actually doesn’t exist; he is likely a virtual character created by a team!
Why does he write so fast?
Because he has a team behind him, and this team includes more than one outstanding writer creating. In the end, all their works are attributed to Chu Kuang. Isn’t that why his writing speed can be understood to be so fast?
Chu Kuang’s fans will surely say I’m talking nonsense.
Then I’ll ask again, if I’m talking nonsense, how do you explain why the style of Chu Kuang’s novels is so different?
Because he’s a genius?
If he’s a genius, then how do you explain why, if Chu Kuang exists, he never publicly appears? For a writer, it shouldn’t be that difficult, right?
Because Chu Kuang doesn’t exist.
That’s why Chu Kuang doesn’t show up.
This is the only explanation I can think of. After all, Chu Kuang doesn’t exist, so rather than creating a fake Chu Kuang, it’s better to give him a mysterious persona.
This inspiration should come from the real Shadow who doesn’t like showing up, right?
But it’s tough for Chu Kuang and Shadow, having to cooperate in acting out a nonexistent character.
What Three Bros and all.
It’s all just marketing ploys.
The truly existing Xian Yu and Shadow have always been covering for the virtual character of Chu Kuang, which is why no one dared to doubt .
After all, who would want to believe:
That the gods-like existence of Xian Yu and Shadow would actually cooperate with a nonexistent Chu Kuang to tell such a huge lie?"
Chu! Kuang! Is! Fake!
The wild speculation reaches alarming levels, and yet the one firing shots is Ling Kong, a big figure from Geek Tribe, causing a surge in reads for the blog post in a short time!
Soon someone shared it on their blog!
In just a short time, the industry was shaken, the whole network was shaken, the whole country was shaken, is old rascal Chu Kuang a virtual character created by a team? ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ Nov3lFɪre.ɴet
This theory sounds too ridiculous —
And yet, the evidence presented by Ling Kong seems to make a certain amount of sense?
ps: The inspiration for this segment comes from the Fang Zhouzi and Han Han event many years ago.