Chapter 1: Wedges

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If you rank full-time writers as the most feared people, the role of landlord can probably be ranked in the top three.

But not necessarily, after all, there are not many people who are full-time online novel writers, and most of them who can't do it have changed careers, and the authors on the same site who have been persevering have a net worth of millions if they write well, not to mention the income from adapting film and television dramas and games. In the past two years, Xianxia Xiuzhenwen has been very popular, a little diligent, the writing is smooth, and I am not afraid of running out of food.

Probably only Lin Han is poorer, so poor that even the landlord is afraid, the landlord is a short and fat woman, living in a building next to him, he likes to play mahjong the most, and soaks in the mahjong hall all the year round, Lin Han owes her three months of rent, and he doesn't dare to go downstairs to buy food to eat. He has rarely taken care of their business recently, and he is a little reluctant to even deliver food from restaurants, and he says sideways: "Everyone else calls for three servings." ”

The wallet is drying up day by day, he is looking for part-time jobs on the Internet, brushing reviews for people, being a water army, a few cents a comment, it has reached this point, and he still insists on going his own way.

The editor couldn't find him on the Internet, and when he called, he didn't answer, and gradually stopped calling. There are many authors in the editor's hands, but they value him as a good seedling, and now this good seedling doesn't know the current affairs, and no one can save him.

The editor was kind to him, and when they met, it happened to be when he was just showing signs of becoming popular - that book should be the main reason why he fell to where he is today, as many readers have commented that he is "rebellious in success and rebellious in failure".

It is a fantasy book, written for three whole years, and the amount of effort has been countless, and it has also gained countless readers and loyal fans for him, he was still in college when he first wrote this book, and now he has graduated a year ago. It stands to reason that his fame is not small, and even if he is full-time, he will not fall to this point.

But Lin Han's character is his weakness. His pen name on the Internet is Ling Han, this pen name is more in line with his personality than his real name, he usually looks quite kind, and he has no frame for readers, but when it comes to matters of principle, he will not back down even a centimeter. As early as in college, when he first had a conflict with readers over a book, the editor-in-chief of his website told his editor: "Ling Han, the author, writes well, but unfortunately he can't be a man, and he won't go far in the future." At that time, he had just entered V, and the atmosphere in the comment area was gradually not very harmonious, some people probably held the attitude of "I paid for it, I am the uncle", and commented on the female characters in the book, and some people spent money to give him gifts, and he must get a heroine for the protagonist, and even named a female character into the harem and wrote bed scenes.

Lin Han was still full of edges and corners at that time, and directly replied a few words in a very hard tone in the comment area, and was hung up afterwards, his position, everything he said was wrong, not to mention that his tone was still very polite, it was simply sarcastic.

Fortunately, that incident had little impact, but occasionally someone would turn it out later and take it as his black history. It's really getting to this point, it's still three feet freezing, not a day's cold.

Lin Han's style of writing is too extreme, although there are many fantasy on the Internet nowadays, although there are people in the harem of stallions, and some people write about a heroine joining hands with the rivers and lakes, but there is no heroine like him, it is really rare. And he doesn't sell corruption, which is simply offended by both male and female readers. has really relied on the plot and the personal charm of the protagonist for so many years.

His protagonist is called Ji Biao, no different from the popular male protagonist, poor at an early age, climbing up step by step, cultivating hard, cold and arrogant, and the relationship with those family forces of the "righteous path" is not very good. In fact, Lin Han himself is a typical male protagonist mold, his parents died in a car accident in junior high school, the other party was a big truck driver, all his belongings just bought a car, and he had a big accident just on the road, and he couldn't even give a fraction of the compensation. When he was a child, he followed his grandmother to several uncles' houses, and he could be regarded as seeing the world in the hot and cold state, so it was very real to write about the protagonist's dilemma. Some readers said that after reading his article, they felt as if there was really a person named Ji Biao.

He writes completely freely, writing wherever he wants, and the author of the same station as him is spelling more than 10,000 words a day, but he often doesn't update it for a few days in order to make a plot difficult, and his lifestyle is too casual, so his income has not been very good. In addition, there was this incident in the second half - Lin Han is not hard-hearted after all, under the repeated requests of readers, plus his own plot did encounter bottlenecks, and finally the editor pushed it and made a "professional construction". So he added a heroine.

This heroine, even the name was pieced together by him using naming software, because his impression of this character is completely vague, but it was written for all kinds of messy reasons. He thought that he would be able to push the plot to some extent, but in the 30,000 words after writing this character, he was completely stuck.

The reader was jubilant at first, after all, not everyone took this article as seriously as Lin Han, and did not think about what should fundamentally be a problem in this world. With a heroine to yy, readers are also very happy.

But Lin Han himself was not happy.

He even felt like he couldn't write anymore.

It's hypocritical, but the author is more or less convinced of the world he created, and no one understands what that world should be like better than the author. So when there is an extra person shoehorned into that world out of thin air, or the protagonist, the first person who feels uncomfortable is Lin Han himself.

At first, it's just a break for a while, and occasionally you can piece together a little plot, and you can deceive readers by relying on your writing. Later, it evolved into a large number of interrupted changes, readers lost, comments became fewer and fewer, and the collection did not advance but retreated, and even the editors were alarmed......

But Lin Han still went his own way.

Or in other words, he is a little powerless about whether he can write or not. Even if a reader occasionally writes a long review with sincere words, recalling the time when he was amazed by the article, or expressing a little sympathy for the characters in the article, he will feel that he has nothing to repay except to continue to update, but every time he opens the document and wants to write something, he can't think of a plot. The heroine was there, reminding Lin Han how he ruined the story.

He couldn't avoid her, and he didn't know how to continue writing the following episode. The story just got stuck there. He even thought about deleting the tens of thousands of words she appeared in, but he always shelved it for various reasons, and gradually came to this point.

Although he didn't admit it, he vaguely knew in his heart what he was resisting.

He's resisting the article.

More precisely, he resisted the fact that he had changed his text against his will—if only he had been under pressure from others, but he did it himself, perhaps to make it easier, perhaps to please readers who had been asking for a heroine, or perhaps to climb the list...... He's here for a lot of things, but not for telling the story well.

He resisted such a self.

There are many people in this world who have so-called dreams, and there are also many people who gradually lose their original intentions while walking, and gradually get used to the struggle of a new way of life and a new goal in life.

But only those who have come to their senses are those who suffer.

Like a survivor of an air crash, he woke up and was already in the water, struggling to swim forward, but he couldn't even find the shadow of the shore.

There is no way to do it, and there is no hope.

Lin Han even felt that it was not a very sad thing to encounter any accidents at this time.

It is said that a person can recall his life in the moment before he dies.

However, Lin Han didn't have this time.

It only took a few minutes from the time he walked out of the neighborhood and crossed the road to the supermarket opposite.

And from the corner of his eye to the speeding car, to his body being knocked high and thrown high, and then rolling down the road a few meters away, it was only a few seconds.

The sensation of a huge blow to the body is not pain.

Just like when he was a child, he ran to the stands on the basketball court to pick up a basketball in the afternoon, only to fall on the cement court with one foot in the air when he ran down, the huge impact even made his brain go blank for a moment, and his internal organs seemed to be displaced, and then the pain, from flesh to bones.

Only this time it hurts more.

The bones seemed to be shattered, and the body that fell to the ground seemed to have even the skin wiped off, and it hurt like a fire. The feeling of the impact on the internal organs was faint, as if there was a membrane, and I didn't know what sound was roaring in my ears, and the sounds around me seemed to be withdrawn for a moment—the sound of traffic, the sound of horns, the loud sound of brakes, the screams and chatters of the crowd...... It's like being isolated in another world, and it's blurry in front of you.

For a moment, Lin Han suddenly lost all pain.

He felt like a pebble thrown into the mud, gradually sinking in, and the endless silt enveloped him. His body sank and his consciousness drifted away.

His last thought before he died was, "It's a pity that I can't finish writing Ji Biao."

A long, long time ago, long before he started writing this novel, the character of Ji Biao was just a vague shadow at that time, as if Lin Han had only vaguely glimpsed part of Ji Biao's life and encounters, and he had already seen his ending.

It's not going to be too satisfying, it's not going to be too pretty.

There will probably be a peak, a very high peak, and it doesn't need too many plants, and it doesn't need any birds, just a high peak, a mountain that is difficult to climb. There will probably be perennial snow on the top of the mountain, strange rocks, and he will probably raise a spirit animal, which does not need to be too human, it is a leopard, or some other animal.

He lives on the mountain, and the bottom of the mountain is a thousand feet of red dust, whether it is fireworks in the world, happiness or happiness, there is no part of him. At the beginning of the story, he was an orphan, full of spikes, unruly, and in the end, he couldn't learn the rules of the world, so it was good to leave this distance as a legend or a story for others to sing.

But Lin Han didn't write this ending in the end.

Maybe it's because the story is destined to have a different ending.

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