The Devoted Second Male Lead Decided to Favor Someone Else - Chapter 74.1

Recount of a Cannon Fodder’s Counterattack (25)

After seeing “Jin Shilu”’s post, Wang Lizhi hurriedly checked the chapter and found that the netizen spoke the truth.

The words “I’m Jin Shi Lu, I Wrote This Novel” was like a curse to Wang Lizhi, making his back cold.

After sending that short post, Lu Shijin sent out a longer post he had prepared beforehand.

It detailed how he helped Wang Lizhi become a writer, and was fooled into ghostwriting for him.

He only exposed this to prevent more people from being fooled by him, not because he wanted forgiveness.

Lu Shijin said that he was going to stop writing and leave the webnovel circle. He also wanted Wang Lizhi to apologize again and admit his actual wrongs.

After not even a minute, the post got thousands of comments.

[I can’t believe there are such shameless people in the world!]

[I used to be An Ordinary Pen’s loyal fan and bought multiple volumes of his novels, and now you’re saying that it wasn’t written by him? Okay, time for them to be used as firewood!]

[I feel like Jin Shilu isn’t a good person, they’re just attacking each other. It might really be as An Ordinary Pen said, they had a fight over breaking up, and decided to publicize it online. Heh.]

There were mixed reactions in the comments. Some people sympathize with Wang Lizhi while others mocked him. Some people even suspected that Lu Shijin was using Wang Lizhi to publicize himself.

At this time, there were a couple voices who stood up for Lu Shijin. One was the big god Lu Shijin was friends with before, as well as the three people he had recently helped; Zhang Hao, the businessman, and the housewife.

The big god expressed that they believed in Lu Shijin’s nature and praised him for being dedicated to his works. He would never ghostwrite for someone willingly.

The other three people also publicly announced their gratitude to Lu Shijin. If it wasn’t for his encouragement, they wouldn’t be as well off as they were. They all believed that such a warm and kind author would definitely not deliberately lie to readers. They didn’t want netizens to attack Lu Shijin, because he was a victim as well.

With these people swaying the comments, public opinion began to drift towards Lu Shijin. In comparison, for Wang Lizhi, who had been part of the circle for so long, no one came up to speak for him.

The authors who were friendly with him decided to stay quiet and out of the drama. Wang Lizhi’s loyal readers were even worse, they felt like their dedication over all those years had been wasted, and only swore at Wang Lizhi online.

Wang Lizhi finally realized that everything was planned by Lu Shijin that snake!

Lu Shijin first deliberately gave him the recording, predicting that he would repeat what he said in the recording and confess that Lu Shijin wrote for him once three years ago.

Then, after he said that, Lu Shijin would bring out evidence to slap his face.

The readers might forgive a couple mistakes made by their favorite author, but not if the author treated them like idiots to fool.

Lu Shijin’s plot made the readers completely lose their trust in Wang Lizhi.

Afterwards, no matter how Wang Lizhi explained, no one would believe him!

This was Lu Shijin’s goal. He wanted everyone to stand against Wang Lizhi, and let him experience what it’s like to fall from great heights!

“Now what?” Wang Jinqu didn’t understand what was happening and kept on urging Wang Lizhi to do something, “Where is this Jin Shilu from? Didn’t you only have Lu Shijin? When did he write for you?”

“Dumbass! Can’t you tell?” Wang Lizhi kicked his cousin. “Jin Shilu, Lu Shijin, they’re the same person! He had long thought of how to deal with me!”

“Don’t worry.” Wang Jinqu had a head full of nervous sweat, “I’ll contact the water armies right now and get them to sway public opinion! These people forget easily, so as long as we don’t say anything, they’ll probably forget about everything soon!”

Wang Jinqu shakily grabbed his phone to call the water army, but their response made him very angry.

“What do you mean you can’t take it? Don’t you understand that he deliberately slandered us? Who do you think is paying you? Do you want more money? Fine, you guys are just a bunch of greedy people who are too scared to go against the flow, even if you guys don’t take it, I’ll just find some other water armies!”

The person on the phone laughed upon hearing this. “Boss, let me be honest. It’s not because of the money. The evidence the other side provided is harder than steel, why are you still trying to prove your innocence? Do you think all other people are dumb? Since you have the time to argue with me, why not spend it on thinking about how to clean up after your own mess!”

Wang Jinqu still wanted to swear, but the other side directly hung up, making Wang Jinqu’s eyes pop from anger.

“No problem.” Wang Jinqu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, but he still had to comfort Wang Lizhi, “We need to think of another way, there must be another way…”

Wang Lizhi looked at a couple comments. The comments that were originally supporting him and comforting him had long been covered by new comments, which were full of mockery.

[Aren’t you coming out to explain, Mr. Pen? Does your face hurt? Pretending to be dead?]

[Did you forget to write an outline when you sent the post? Oh right, I forgot, you probably also got someone to write the post for you!]

[I was so dedicated to your work, but it turns out you’re just a piece of shit, what the hell! I must have been blind!]

[An Ordinary Pen? More like A Trash Person!]

[No wonder the recent updates seemed like they were written by an elementary schooler, heh, that’s your actual level?]

[Was it good living off our money while depending on a ghostwriter? You must have no shame!]

Wang Lizhi couldn’t bring himself to toggle on the function to prevent comments. All the mocking comments stabbed into his heart like needles, slowly killing him.

He smashed his phone on the ground, causing it to crack. Wang Lizhi also sat on his chair brokenly, his face pale and his eyes hollow.

He was really past the point of no return.

Of course, not only did Wang Lizhi have to face mockery online, he also had to deal with Platinum terminating his contract and the deletion of all his previous works.

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