The Devoted Second Male Lead Decided to Favor Someone Else - Chapter 73.1

Recount of a Cannon Fodder’s Counterattack (22)

At first, people simply noticed that Wang Lizhi’s current novels changed.

The original sophisticated writing style changed. Not only that, there were typos, grammatical errors, plot holes, and out of character actions all over the place.

Many readers had been chasing Wang Lizhi’s works for a long time. They were very familiar with the author’s style, so of course they noticed such a large change.

It was first a couple comments saying how Wang Lizhi’s updates have been getting worse, wanting the author to give them an explanation.

But Wang Lizhi didn’t, so people slowly started suspecting that the person writing changed.

Wang Lizhi still didn’t explain, and even dropped the current novel.

This kind of avoidance attitude angered the readers. They started insulting him with as much energy as they used to support him before.

Wang Lizhi’s Weibo also had a lot of comments. The problem became bigger and bigger until some readers even sent complaints about Wang Lizhi to the Platinum website.

The person in charge of responding to complaints could only contact Wang Lizhi personally and ask him what was going on. With his current irresponsible attitude, it would destroy all the honor and popularity he accumulated over the years.

Wang Lizhi just brushed it off, saying that he got sick recently and wasn’t in a good state. He would personally explain to his readers when he got better.

After dealing with the call about complaints, Wang Lizhi threw his phone down, burying his face in his hands.

After tearing faces with Lu Shijin, Lu Shijin was naturally not going to keep writing updates for him, so all the recent chapters were written by Wang Lizhi himself.

But ever since he got Lu Shijin to write for him, Wang Lizhi stopped writing. To write seven to eight thousand characters per update was harder than turning a needle into a steel pole.

Not only did he feel his brain cells dying, he also lost a lot of hair.

He could barely hit the minimum character count for each update if he sat in front of the computer all day.

But after posting it, the readers would still pick at faults.

Wang Lizhi was angry and anxious. He even got a bunch of bumps on his lips, which hurt so much he could barely eat.

Wang Lizhi recognized that he couldn’t continue going on this way and picked up his phone to call Jin Jingyao.

When the call connected, he asked anxiously, “How is it? Has Lu Shijin still not given a definite answer?”

Jin Jingyao said calmly, “Don’t worry, I’m still discussing with him. He hasn’t exposed anything yet, so it’s fine.”

Wang wasn’t nervous just because he was afraid of Lu Shijin exposing him. The most urgent thing right now was that he couldn’t write new updates himself.

If Lu Shijin didn’t keep writing for him, with his skill level, he would be exposed sooner or later.

So he needed to deal with Lu Shijin and get another ghostwriter.

“Tell him that I don’t care how much money he wants as long as he promises not to tell anyone about it.”

“How can you say that, it’s clearly his fault, what kind of victim apologizes to the perpetrator?” Jin Jingyao pretended to feel indignant on behalf of Wang Lizhi. “Don’t worry, I’ll definitely help you deal with him, he definitely won’t bother you in the future.”

Wang Lizhi was afraid that Jin Jingyao would push Lu Shijin too far and make him do a last ditch effort.

He hurriedly said, “Don’t! He helped me before, so I don’t wanna be too harsh. You should be nice, don’t make him angry.”

“Fine, I will. You’re too softhearted. Oh right, the person in charge of complaints told me a lot of readers have been complaining about you.”

Wang Lizhi said, “Too many things have happened recently and affected my performance. Don’t worry, I’ll be fine once I adjust myself.”

“Okay, then just wait for good news.”

After calling Jin Jingyao, Wang Lizhi didn’t feel assured. Instead, he felt even more nervous.

Back when he was still unknown, he could use those pictures to blackmail Lu Shijin without fearing any retaliation.

But that wasn’t the case anymore. He was already a famous author. How could he risk his hard-won status and riches just because of Lu Shijin?

Wang Lizhi couldn’t sit still. He couldn’t just wait for Jin Jingyao’s results, he needed to talk with Lu Shijin personally.

But would Lu Shijin be willing?

Wang Lizhi called Lu Shijin, not expecting him to actually pick up.

“Uh… You…” Wang Lizhi had a lot of things he wanted to say to Lu Shijin, but when he was actually talking with him, Wang Lizhi found that he didn’t know where to start. He hesitated for a long time before finally saying, “I didn’t expect that you’d still be willing to pick up.”

Lu Shijin didn’t beat around the bush. “Why’d you call?”

“I- I wanna talk to you about something, but it’s inconvenient through a call, can we meet somewhere?”

Lu Shijin was silent for a bit. “Sure, three o’clock at the coffee shop.”

Lu Shijin’s agreement made Wang Lizhi let out a breath of relief. He had a chance as long as Lu Shijin was still willing to meet.

It was already one in the afternoon, two hours before the meeting.

Wang Lizhi hurriedly took out all the money he could and even borrowed five million from Wang Jinqu to get a total of thirty million, which he then put in a single card.

Thirty million was an amount of money that many people couldn’t even think about earning, enough for someone to live their life without needing any more money.

With this card, Wang Lizhi had the backing he needed to convince Lu Shijin.

Wang Lizhi arrived at the coffee shop first. After a while, Lu Shijin came.

While Wang Lizhi had eyebags so dark they couldn’t be covered up by his makeup, Lu Shijin seemed exceptionally energetic and glowing.

“You’re here, sit, I ordered your favorite latte.” Wang Lizhi eagerly put the coffee in front of Lu Shijin, a big smile on his face.

Lu Shijin didn’t touch the coffee. “I don’t have much time, just say whatever you want to say.”

Wang Lizhi awkwardly returned to his own seat, “I just… wanted you to keep our secret.”

“Secret?” Lu Shijin pretended to not understand, “What secret?”

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