Chapter 141: Sold Out
If most of the previous part of "The Dragon's Head" made the readers who read it enthusiastic, as if they had completed their growth as a man and the boss of the dragon head in the world, then the incomparably real and cold ending at the end made readers wake up directly from their dreams and let them understand how cruel the underworld in reality is!
After Zhang Jinrong closed the second volume of this work, his heart couldn't be calm for a long time, and all the enthusiasm and passion when he read most of the first half of the work were completely consumed by the plot that made him depressed and sadistic at the end......
After all, even such a fascinating perfect heroine died, which is too tragic!
But then again, in Wang Defu's world, there are many underworld works, what brothers betray and beloved women die in the end, all of which are basic operations, if you don't write like this, how can you reflect the cruelty of the underworld?
Zhang Jinrong actually almost scolded his mother when he saw such an ending, but it was really because this ending was too special to fuck up, it was simply cheating the reader!
The dream woven in front of it attracts and indulges all readers, and finally wakes up readers with their own hands, so that they can wake up from the dream and see how cruel reality is!
It took Zhang Jinrong a long time to recover from that depressed state, and then after he broke free from the world, he realized how ridiculous the blood he had been aroused before!
Although the underground world portrayed in this "Dragon's Head" is extremely realistic, it is different from reality after all, if you really want to learn from this popular protagonist, then he probably doesn't know how to die.
And if you look back at this "Dragon's Head", you will find that the creator of the pen name "Mo Xian" does not have any beautification and yearning for the underworld at all, and of course there is no subjective criticism, he just presents this underground world as truly as possible in front of all readers.
And such a naked presentation undoubtedly represents the author's attitude towards the underworld, which is definitely not a positive attitude, the existence of the underworld is purely because of the government's dereliction of duty, if the government can fully control the grassroots, then there will be no room for the underworld.
As soon as the underworld appears, it will be an illegal organization and will be directly dealt with by the grassroots forces of the government, because the government will not allow the underworld to steal its authority.
Therefore, the deepest meaning of "The Dragon's Head" is that the author believes that there is no need for the underground world to exist at all, but it exists there like this, shouldn't everyone reflect on why such a problem occurs?
The most important thing to reflect on is, of course, the upper class of this country, who don't bother to pay attention to the grassroots at all, if the underworld is useful to them, then they can let the underworld exist, and then at a critical time, they can directly push the underworld out as a scapegoat.
The ending of "Dragon's Head" is so miserable, not because the protagonist has suffered from the plots of other underworld forces, but because he has been crushed by political forces from the top.
In the eyes of those big people, the underworld is always a rag, when you need it, you can use it to clean up something, and when you finish cleaning it, of course the rag can be thrown away, and you can just change it next time.
For most readers, they may not be able to see the author's criticism of the top class of the country through this book, because their attention is attracted by the most dazzling protagonist, and even if they reread it in the future, they are only willing to reread the first half of it, because this part is really cool and wonderful.
But Zhang Jinrong, a figure on the road, finally saw the author's vaguely revealed criticism of the upper class in this country, because he is also a son of the underworld, and he can occasionally come into contact with some big people, of course, not directly with the big man himself, but with the big man's subordinates, and then he can feel the disdain of those big people for the underworld from the attitude of those people.
Even from the many themes involved, you can see how unpopular the underworld is, after all, before "Dragon Head", there was no literati to create with this theme!
A very important reason given by the award committee for the "Magic Capital Popular Awards" to win the gold medal is that the work "Dragon's Head" groundbreaks a vivid underground world, which can greatly broaden the reader's horizons.
No matter what era it is, the influence of the pioneering work will always be there, of course, the premise is that this pioneering work can become popular, not to mention popular, at least it must be a small fire, otherwise, such a theme is written by other creators, and it is estimated that many readers will think that the more popular work is the pioneering work.
Of course, there is no need to worry about this problem in this "Dragon's Head", just because its quality is there, and there is no doubt about the attraction of its previous content to readers!
And after "Dragon's Head" won the gold medal of the "Magic Capital Popular Award", two weeks later, "Mo Yi", a "rookie writer", won the "Zhang Yuanji Rookie Writer Award" with this "Dragon Head"!
So far, the name of "Mo Xian" has simply resounded throughout the popular circle.
In the future, it is probably equivalent to the "newcomer" of "Mo Xian", who has just entered the online literature circle, and with his debut novel, he not only became the newcomer king of this year, but also won the first prize of a blockbuster essay by beating the two god-level senior popular creators!
It's just because the sales statistics of "The Dragon" haven't come out yet, so the entire popular circle feels that something is definitely wrong!
There is no way, the biggest question about "Dragon Head" is that it has not been tested by serialization, and its influence has not yet spread, but it won the award, why can it beat "Love and Magic City" and "Falling Beauty" in sales?
And there are many insiders who have never watched "The Dragon's Head" at all, after hearing that the ending of "The Dragon's Head" is quite inconsistent with the popular and consistent set of Great Perfection, they directly and arbitrarily said-
A work like "The Dragon's Head", which does not consider the reader's experience at all, and plays all kinds of pure literature, is absolutely impossible to sell!
Therefore, it is a huge mistake for "Dragon Head" to win the gold medal of the "Magic Capital Popular Awards"!
But what made many insiders confused was that the first printing of 50,000 copies of the ordinary edition and 5,000 hardcover editions of "Dragon Head" was sold out in less than a week!
All of a sudden, many readers of the magic capital wanted a copy of "Dragon Head" but couldn't get it!
The sales of "Love and Magic City" in the first week were less than 20,000 copies, and "The Beauty of the Country" was even less, less than 10,000 copies......