Chapter 58: Pleased Heaven Xiao
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

“This novel is a good one. Its number of views and recommendations have increased quite rapidly compared with other new novels!” There was a huge increase in the stats today. Angel Wings went to the novel’s page to see how many views and recommendations it had. He was free anyway, so he kept refreshing the page…

“F*ck! A leader!” He was stunned by what he saw! There’s a leader! What’s going on?!

Normally speaking, a new novel with only 20,000 words wasn’t even regarded as a seedling. It would still make sense if somebody rewarded it one coin, two coins, or even a hundred coins, but a leader out of nowhere…

He immediately sent Wang Hao a message. “Boss! Look! A leader! Your novel has a leader!”

Half an hour later…

Angel Wings: “Boss, are you sleeping? When you wake up, send me a reply! Your novel has a leader!”

…

The unlucky day finally ended!

The next morning, Wang Hao stared at the Fortune Dice and swallowed hard.

I already got “Unlucky” yesterday, so today should be fine, right? Hm, the worst I can get is “Normal,” and there’s a higher chance of getting “Lucky.” Hehe, after being so miserable yesterday, I must turn everything around today!

Let’s go, Fortune Dice!

“Rattle.” The Fortune Dice spun on the table and eventually stopped…

Wang Hao was speechless.

F*ck, it’s “Unlucky” again!!!

What a blow, damn it!

…

“I fought it out with the assh*le, but ended up promoting his novel for him.” Heaven Xiao woke up in the morning feeling out of sorts. Not only couldn’t he get the title and book number, he had also lost the battle and even helped his rival promote his novel for two days. People on Longshan Forum were still talking about it.

Heaven Xiao opened Fengyun and went to the page for “Battle Through the Heavens” as usual to have a look at the data. He was immediately shocked!

A leader!

The new 20,000-word novel, “Battle Through the Heavens,” has a leader!

F*ck, are you trying to surpass me?!

“Damn it, how is that possible? F*ck!” Heaven Xiao was completely enraged!

It was no wonder that he was so surprised.

A 20,000-word debut novel by a new author had already gained nearly 200 bookmarks and 400 recommendations after all the hype in the last two days; now, it even had a leader!

This Flying Bean is definitely a rookie, so how is that possible?

“It’s impossible. It’s absolutely impossible!” Heaven Xiao mumbled as he rubbed his temples, “My new novel has been released for just as long, but still hasn’t gotten a leader. Why would a newbie have one? Why? There has to be something going on.”

Jealousy! There was only jealousy in Heaven Xiao’s mind at that moment!

It’s fine if that assh*le wastes such a good title, but getting a leader when his novel just reached 20,000 words…

I still haven’t gotten a leader as a real guru, but you have? Do you really think that people are fools?

Heaven Xiao went to the personal page of the leader, Haochen, and looked through it carefully. He then opened Longshan Forum, pondered for a while, then put up a post.

“My dearest netizens, I’m Heaven Xiao. Here’s an explanation of what happened and of the few questionable points in the title incident.”

The body of the text was as followed —

“Hello, my dear netizens. I’m Heaven Xiao. I heard that there’s been a lot of discussion about the title of my new novel. Originally, I wasn’t planning to tell the public anything, but all of my readers who know about this urged me to speak up for myself, so here I am.

“Indeed, the whole incident is a real shame, but it’s only a title, after all. Although a title is an important part of a novel for sure, it can’t actually affect the results. Since the title was taken, I didn’t mind changing it, as I knew it wouldn’t have much of an impact on the outcome. What shocks me and makes me furious is that the newbie did something so cheeky in order to stick out as a frontrunner! Please take a look. The truth is in the following pictures!”

He attached a screenshot which showed the reward section for “Battle Through the Heavens.” The red words “Haochen gave Flying Bean 100,000 Fengyun coins” were so shiny that they almost blinded people.

“As a new author and a complete newbie without any popularity base, a leader has surprisingly given his 15,000-word new novel so much reward! I believe all of you are smart people; you should know what’s happening here, right? Now, let’s dig deeper —”

The second screenshot he posted was of Haochen’s personal page. It was empty, and there was only one novel in the “Honors” column — “Battle Through the Heavens!”

“This is a completely new account. The user has never read any other novels before, and he suddenly became a leader for this new novel on the day he registered! The only reason for this is that Haochen is the author’s other account! The purpose of doing this is simple: to draw people’s attention!”

Lastly, Heaven Xiao concluded, “This author stole my title, forged our conversation record, and is now disguising himself as a leader to reward his own novel. We can endure behavior like this once, or maybe twice, but definitely not three times! We can’t just let him be! So, I’m calling for your help here to boycott such an author who doesn’t have any boundaries! We can’t ask the website to delete his data, but we can stop bookmarking and recommending his novel, and let it run its course!”

As soon as Heaven Xiao’s post was published, it instantly swayed the discussion on Longshan to his side.

Heaven Xiao was without doubt an experienced guru. He had made his point very clear.

He attacked the author of “Battle Through the Heavens” based on the fact that the latter was only a newbie and didn’t have a foundation. Heaven Xiao was hoping to make use of the smallest detail, which was the appearance of a leader, as a counterattack after their draw in their last battle.

His strategy was definitely effective — the netizens on Longshan soon changed their stance.

“I told you, this guy must be shameless. We have to boycott such an author!”

“Yeah, how good can he be if he steals someone else’s title? I’ll blacklist this author forever!”

“I thought it was the guru suppressing the newbie, but looks like it’s the newbie who’s shameless. We must blacklist him!”

Looking at the netizens’ comments, Heaven Xiao burst into laughter. “F*ck, since you’re going against me, I’ll make you suffer!”