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Summary:

There's a single ironclad rule for all of Meng Yao, penname Lianfang-zun's, webnovels: don't read the comments.

Notes:

phew, okay, so the background to this takes some explaining.

this is set in the same universe as phatic communion, a modern highschool au where Meng Yao is a xianxia webnovelist ala MXTX. he has been banned multiple times for DDoSing rival popular webnovelists with Xue Yang's help (this au's very small-scale version of his own guanyin temple). he always comes back, and if not for some fans very dedicated to his work and to ferreting him out, maybe he'd even succeed at staying anonymous. really, can a tiger change its stripes?

other background reading: the life and banning of one Meng Yao; the curious incident of the two dollar pornography.

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#1 Infinite Monkeys Still Mostly Fail [OP]:
Haha, finally after 106 chapters the honourable Lianfang-zun got lazy and showed his true colours. I admire his persistence, showing his face after he was banned. Of course Beiji Immortal is just the same character as Zewu-jun, this too-good-to-be-true, honourable, kind type who can’t confess his feelings to Jia Feng. If anything I’m only surprised that our noble author took this long to introduce the ML. I’m lighting a candle for all the FengJiang shippers.


#2 Pearl Buried In The Muddy Banks:
Who cares if it’s Lianfang-zun or not? You’ve read 106 chapters and you still have the audacity to complain about the author? You Lianfang-zun haters are so tiring, can’t you just enjoy a good novel?


#3 Shining Unicorn Disoriented By Malice:
There’s no way it can be Lianfang-zun. Since when would Beiji Immortal be a bottom?


#4 That Green Tea Sister:
2333333333333 unicorn sis hasn’t read the Autumn Bloom M*ZS extra


#5 Infinite Monkeys Still Mostly Fail:
Who’s complaining? I’m only telling people what to expect, especially if Lianfang-zun hasn’t fully ‘repented’ and gets banned again. I’m also interested to see how he bends the story to have the MC end up with Beiji Immortal, especially after Guo Jiang risked his standing with the Heavenly Emperor to save Jia Feng from annihilation. Maybe this means the curse really will claim Guo Jiang’s life? Poor brother Jiang just has the worst luck.


#6 Shipping Anyone But Mains:
BeiFeng, FengJiang, who cares? Lianfang-zun, who cares? As long as the noble author gives us one scene where Liang Wei and Hui Zhang interact, I’ll be happy. I’m tired of cooking my own food! I want to go to a restaurant!!!


#7 Shining Unicorn Disoriented By Malice:
Hey, green tea sister, what are you talking about? Don’t just say things without evidence.


#8 You Can You Up:
this fan wrote a 17-chapter story about the most important character, Guo Ming!!! please, i worked hard ∠( :3 」∠)_ [link]


#9 Constantly Getting Headaches:
Hold on, is the friend on floor 6 saying Liang Wei and Hui Zhang should XXX? That doesn’t feel good...Liang Wei used to be Hui Zhang’s shidi before he renounced Flying Silk Sect...


#10 That Green Tea Sister:
23333333333 some people haven’t been studying enough… [link]


#11 Wandering In The North Pole:
Ah, I came to the comments section to see if anyone is excited about Beiji Immortal, and all I see is Lianfang-zun discourse again.


#12 I’m Just Here For The Free Food:
Guo Ming fan on floor 8, you’re my hero!! d(´∀`)b I thought no one else cares about this low-key Ming-ge. Is it just me, or this novel wastes too much time on describing the battles, when really the most interesting part is Jia Feng’s past in the Northern Mansions? Jia Feng was there for 17 years as the Wuxing Sage’s retainer and it only gets 4 paragraphs in Guo Ming’s introduction but we spend 3 chapters just on Jia Feng solving the problems between General Wu and General Liu, who vanished now and nobody cares about them?? If Lianfang-zun really has been resurrected then I expected better from him! In fact, [click to expand post]


#14 Shipping Anyone But Mains:
Aaaa!! But WuLiu is such good food also!! Those two are really like fire and water ヾ(´ε`*)ゝ


#15 Pearl Buried In The Muddy Banks:
Bro/sis in the floor above me, you really go to every length to earn your name.


#16 You Can You Up:
thank you to floor #12, i always count on food sis/bro to have good opinions on guo ming! all the rest of you, i hope you’ll soon be educated to how good a character ming-ge really is, and how so much of what he says is actually true. one of lianfang-zun’s best characters across all his novels, including M*ZS, don’t flame me because i’m right


#16 Shining Unicorn Disoriented By Malice:
I can’t believe what I’m reading, that Lianfang-zun would betray his characters like this. Zewu-jun is 18cm taller, as if he would ever be the bottom! I can’t believe Lianfang-zun wrote so much about Zewu-jun’s high cultivation and strong leadership only to turn him into a bottom in these cheap extras!!!!


#18 That Green Tea Sister:
Cheap extras 233 spoken like someone who paid to read it. It’s so funny to find new, fresh outrage. Just be grateful we got to read papapa in the first place!


#19 shuoyue1994 [Expert]:
I agree with my upstairs neighbour. Lianfang-zun is such a great writer, it doesn’t matter who bottoms or whatever happens. I would happily read anything Lianfang-zun writes because I trust him to do an interesting and compelling job with all these complex characters.


#20 That Green Tea Sister:
Shuoyue-bro, you’ve reappeared!


#21 Infinite Monkeys Still Mostly Fail:
Haha, if Shuoyue-bro is here, you all know what that means.


#22 Shining Unicorn Disoriented By Malice:
Shuoyue-bro!!!!!! You know Lianfang-zun offline, don’t you???? How could he do this to us!!!!!


#23 Got Lost And Ended Up Here:
How can you all support this disgusting, problematic trash? Ghost/human romance, incest, infidelity, abuse, cannibalism, graverobbing. The author’s list of crimes keeps getting longer with each chapter.


#24 Collecting Dead Faves:
Hey, Shuoyue-bro, can you please tell Lianfang-zun not to k*ll my pairing so aggressively this time, thank you ‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )‧º·˚


#25 Constantly Getting Headaches:
I don’t think ghost/human romance is a problem because Ji Xian is a wood spirit, not really a ghost, but I agree with my upstairs neighbour, these works have a lot of perverted sexual content. I really don’t want to keep reading.


#26 Shipping Anyone But Mains:
Yes sure, #23 neighbour! That’s why WeiZhang is the ideal pairing! They’re not related, they’re the same status, the same height, they never meet in the novel so how can they be abusive to each other? It’s perfect!


#27 shuoyue1994 [Expert]:
I really don’t think that’s a fair criticism, Got Lost, and it suggests that you’ve certainly gotten lost staring at trees for the forest. First of all, the Heavenly Domain has a very rich social fabric and you’re ignoring the extensive cultural history the author has drawn upon, including extensive research from the Warring States period and the multiple references to Song Dynasty poetry. I’m not saying that these characters don’t act in immoral ways sometimes, but I think that’s part of what makes them so compelling – that they are forced to act in those ways because of their circumstances. For example, the reason why Jia Feng resorts to graverobbing in Chapter 14 is [click to expand post]


#28 Silver Sun:
How did he type that so fast…


#29 Pearl Buried In The Muddy Banks:
Shuoyue-bro, you’re really too amazing. It makes it obvious why Lianfang-zun keeps writing these types of characters.


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Meng Yao paused from browsing his comments inbox to glance at his phone. He sighed. He hit accept.

“He’s laying it on a bit thick, isn’t he?” Xue Yang said acidly.

“Why are you stalking my webnovel?” Meng Yao said calmly, stirring his tea.

“Ha! So you really are sitting at home reading comments. I can’t believe you turned down watching my robodome match for this shit. I took first place,” Xue Yang said gleefully. “But they wouldn’t let me complete the matches because Jiangzai turned my opponent to scrap metal and started hurling it around the arena. Fucking cowards.”

“I was studying for my advanced model-building exam, if you must know. I’m on my mandated five-minute break. It encourages memory consolidation,” Meng Yao said in his most saccharine, helpful tone. And then, because for as much as Xue Yang pretended that he was beyond influence, he lapped up positive reinforcement like candy: “Well done on your robodome win, by the way. I’m sorry I couldn’t make it, but let’s have lunch to celebrate your victory.”

“Model-building,” Xue Yang said. Meng Yao could hear the gears turning.

“For economics,” Meng Yao clarified.

“Oh, yeah, that shit. You know those models aren’t worth fuck all once bitcoin becomes the dominant mode of currency, right?”

“Let’s not start this again,” Meng Yao said distractedly. A new WeChat notification. A-Yao, how are you this evening? Are you doing ok? No reason, I was just wondering about you.

“I know that tone of voice,” Xue Yang said, sounding disgusted. “As if you’re going to-” Meng Yao hung up on him. He opened up WeChat. He closed his several JJ*XC alts, just in case.

Hi, Lan Huan. I’m doing well. How are you?

 

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