My anime/manga fandom can't be that lazy.

There was a person who looked like a seasoned reader, who would probably be a content creator on Bilibili in China. He completely analyzed the plot of 'Fate', making his points logically and clearly, and he received quite a few likes.

However, this detailed analysis by the "Emperor Brother" disappeared not long after it was posted. Dongfang Bai was certain that the long comment he had painstakingly written would not have been deleted by itself.

So it's highly likely that the administrator of this post deleted it... That's really pathetic.

"Just ignore it, Xiaobai. The product is going to be released tomorrow anyway. No matter how much they criticize it now, they can't affect the release. They're just venting their anger online."

Kagurazaka Ayame noticed that Dongfang Bai seemed a little silent, and thought he was feeling down, so she quickly spoke up to comfort him.

"It's alright, have some tea, it'll probably be resolved in a bit."

Dongfang Bai put away his phone. The waitress, Zhi Nai, brought over a small cake, quietly placed it on Dongfang Bai's table, and then quickly ran away.

……

"really……"

Dongfang Bai sighed slightly. When he opened his phone again and refreshed the page, the post had been deleted and he had been punished.

The user's post is suspected of defamation and slander; the user has been banned for 30 days.

It's perfectly normal for people to smear other authors and throw mud at them on Tieba. Even though "The Dark Fairy of Blazing Flames" has sold 220 million copies, there are still people who dare to recklessly criticize the book on Tieba and say that the fairy is poorly written.

So Baidu Tieba usually doesn't care about these kinds of things at all, but today it's very unusual. Not only did they delete the post, they also banned the user...

Upon closer inspection, Dongfang Bai noticed that the other posts had also been deleted. The milder ones were banned for 30 days, while those who made outrageous and unrestrained rants were banned for at least a year...

Furthermore, several new posts have appeared, targeting the authors' dark past misdeeds, such as smearing others, and a series of other things have been listed.

Moreover, the information was quite detailed, revealing not only the author's pen name but also their home address, real name, and a whole host of other details, clearly indicating that they had been doxxed.

The level of detail in this information is as if they've checked his household registration; they practically found out his birth date and time.

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"How could this be... Where did this deity come from?"

Kagurazaka Ayame was also dumbfounded. Just two or three hours ago, several Dengeki Bunko authors were jumping around on Tieba, but suddenly all of them had their dirty secrets exposed. Now, even changing their pen names is useless for them. Those who use their real names as pen names are in an even worse situation.

My career as a light novel author has come to an end...

"I knew it……"

Dongfang Bai had long suspected that his family was monitoring him all the time, even watching his online activities. No wonder he felt a chill down his spine when the fairy came to his house before.

There must have been someone watching this area at the time who mistook her for a thief, right?

……

A large number of creators believe that their books and works are excellent, that no other work can compare to theirs, and that their works have simply not been discovered yet and will become popular sooner or later.

Fallen Angel Black Cat is the online name of Gokou Ruri. She has been trying to write light novels for a long time and has submitted them to various websites, but without exception, they have all been rejected.

She felt that her writing was not bad... and she really couldn't see where her shortcomings were. Although people always said that her settings were too complicated, she believed that they were all necessary and that not a single detail could be removed.

"Tsk."

Ruri Gokou clicked her tongue. She stared intently at the computer screen, her expression seemingly unwell. Her beautiful, wine-red eyes remained fixed, intently watching the various pieces of information that flashed by.

Recently, while playing games, she stumbled upon an online game. To be honest, that guy was incredibly skilled, completely on par with her. Suddenly, while they were playing, he said he had to log off due to work...?

Having a job? I remember that player with the ID 'Yakumo Shiro', who clearly said he was only 16 years old, but then said he had a job to do. At this moment, Black Cat even suspected that this guy was a middle-aged man pretending to be a high school student.

However, the other party gave me a completely unexpected answer: he actually said that he was a 'light novelist'?

Becoming a popular light novel author has always been one of Kuroneko's dreams. Because her family's financial situation is not very good, she also wants to earn royalties by writing light novels to ease the burden on her family.

But I don't know if I have any talent. I've submitted my work dozens, even hundreds of times, but I haven't succeeded once. In the end, it was always rejected without my consent.

I was quite curious about this netizen who called himself a 'light novelist', so I looked up his light novel through his author ID. It was a light novel called 'Fate'.

To be honest, when I first saw it, this book had just been put into the Newcomer Awards, ranked very low, and almost no one paid attention to it. Even Black Cat, who has read all kinds of bad works, frowned a little when it was ranked in such a place.

The title is very long and in English. Nowadays, there are very few works in English. Most of them are light novels with the isekai (another world) adventure theme, such as "xxx's Otherworld Adventure" or "Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World-".

However, the black cat, who had been holding back her temper and ready to be sarcastic, was completely captivated and couldn't escape this bizarre and fantastical world.

For the first time, she realized that even with a lot of complicated settings, it was still possible to write an interesting and engaging work. She had always been criticized for having too many and too messy settings, but this time she saw hope in this work.

“Da da da da…~”…

Typing away on the keyboard, Gokou Ruri tried to contact Dongfang Bai on Line, but each time she typed out a long string of words, she didn't dare to send it, and could only silently delete them one by one...

She planned to buy a copy of "Fate" as soon as it went on sale, read it, and then ask Yakumo Shiro for advice. She never expected that such a troublesome thing would happen the day before the release.

She was already a little worried about the previous 'vote-rigging incident,' but this time it was even worse. It involved hiring online trolls to smear the other party's work, which was a disgusting act.

Those authors who were originally ranked higher but were pushed down by Fate are doing the most common and most annoying thing in the industry: hiring online trolls to smear them.

Da da da da...

The keyboard clicked at a speed like a machine gun. Don't let Gokou Ruri's seemingly weak and timid appearance fool you; her sharp tongue and scathing remarks are absolutely top-notch.

Because she is a typical 'otaku,' meaning someone who loves ACG products, she is even influenced by anime in her daily life, saying cringey things and fantasizing about having special powers.

Ruri Gokou has honed her strong online skills long ago due to the factional wars between anime fans, especially when fans of two anime with completely different styles were arguing.

[Hmph? Someone like you dares to read light novels? Five years of light novel reading experience? Did five years of elementary school exams really make you stupid? Sorry, even elementary school questions are too difficult for you; you probably won't understand what I'm saying. Negative]

[I'm so sorry, I never expected there to be an ape like you who can't even understand Japanese! I never imagined technology was so advanced these days, even monkeys can use the internet.]

[You keep calling everyone "Dad," are you infertile because you're constantly claiming sons everywhere? If not, don't go out and wander around, I'm afraid you'll scare away other girls.]

Ruri Gokou types incredibly fast. If Higashikata were there, he would be quite amazed by her typing speed. Even the other person's ability to delete comments is slower than Ruri Gokou's ability to type.

She is a fighting force of an entire squad by herself. She can hold her own against a dozen online trolls who attack and insult her, and she can even fight back. Moreover, she can insult people without using any swear words, and she can even make sense by reasoning.

Next, not only she joined in, but also other readers of Dongfang Bai's book joined the flame war, which lasted for about two hours. On this day, everyone on the forum, whether they knew about it or not, joined the battle.

What started as a mere online smear campaign against a book has escalated into a massive, epic war of words, with the number of posts on the forum increasing almost every time it was refreshed.

Moreover, the posts that are refreshed immediately start attracting insults from people. Even though the book hasn't even been released yet, this kind of exaggerated insult war has already inexplicably started.

As a result, Fate's popularity was not tarnished; on the contrary, more and more people came "by name" because of the online feud, and its popularity soared.

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Just as the two-hour-long flame war reached its climax, a large number of accounts were suddenly banned and comments were deleted, instantly turning the tide of the battle and leaving the readers who supported "Fate" completely bewildered.

If those who support Fate are called the 'Fate Army', then this group of Fate fans is completely bewildered.

Just as they were getting into a heated argument with the opposing team's online trolls, suddenly the entire opposing team was blocked, leaving only a large group of Fate soldiers standing there at a loss. Halfway through the battle, all the enemies vanished into thin air.

【what happens……?】

I wonder where those disgusting guys are?

Wait, their accounts have all been banned, and many of their posts have been deleted!

[Holy crap, Baidu Tieba never gets involved in these kinds of flame wars, but this time they banned so many people all at once!?]

The group looked at each other in dismay. Usually, it would take a dozen people reporting one online troll to have a chance to get the account banned by the forum. But this time, a large number of accounts were all wiped out and banned without exception.

[447 has a new post!]

[This is dirt on them. These are authors from the Dengeki Bunko Newcomer Award contest, right? Were they doxxed?]

I don't know, but if I'm not mistaken, those rabid trolls who spewed insults at everyone they met were probably hired by them.

[Pah! And I even supported that guy before!]

This battle was abruptly and abruptly ended. This time, it really dealt a heavy blow to the online trolls. Originally, online trolls were rampant in the forums, and they could stir up trouble without any consequences just because they had a lot of people.

"This is……"

A man with an extremely lewd appearance sat in a dark room, staring at a brightly lit computer screen, his expression completely frozen, as if he were about to stop breathing.

His name is Fukai Shogo. He was originally the number one in the Dengeki Grand Prix, but after being dethroned by Touhou Haku's "Fate," he has been harboring resentment ever since. This is his new work, which he has been preparing for half a year. How could he just fall out of the competition?

Fukai Shogo's face turned ashen, and his already messy hair looked even more like a bird's nest. He stared in disbelief at the three large, bright red characters on his account.

[Under Ban]

I've tried several times already, appealing to the forum multiple times, but I haven't been able to succeed at all. Every time I get the vague reason that 'you violated the forum rules,' and I've been rejected multiple times.

"Where...where are the people I hired?"

He hurriedly scanned the forum and found that almost all the online trolls he had hired had disappeared. He had just been happy that his hiring of trolls had worked, but now he looked as if he had eaten something disgusting.

His impression of "Fate" was that the plot was complicated and there were too many settings, making it not as good as his own novels. Moreover, the data was too fake, even though it was initially ranked last and no one read it.

As a result, the number of votes suddenly soared, and in just one night, it jumped from last place to overtake itself and seize the publishing rights that should have been its own.

He believes the book is completely uninteresting and is nothing but a fabrication, a result achieved by paying money.

Fukai was extremely depressed. He was so unwilling to be pushed down by such a guy, so he decided to follow his example and try to boost his votes as well. He was about to surpass him...

In the last half hour, the opponent gained a whopping 2 votes, taking first place with an overwhelming advantage. This made Fukai Jiangwu so angry that he almost fainted.

Next, he went on a rampage of provocations on Tieba and repeatedly tagged Yakumo Shiro's author account on Twitter, trying to provoke him and then smear him.

But he never expected that 'Yakumo Shiro' was a weirdo who never used Twitter. He would only post something when there was something particularly important, and otherwise he wouldn't post anything at all.

So he teamed up with a few other guys to mock and sarcastically curse him, but it had no effect, because 'Yakumo Shiro' himself was immersed in the game world and had no time to go on Twitter.

His Twitter account has been registered for so long, yet he has only posted one tweet.

I am Shiro Yakumo, the author of the light novel series "Fate". Nice to meet you.

That's all.

Even readers who really like 'Fate' left comments below, but didn't see any replies. This guy was completely invisible. If it weren't for the account still being displayed, some people would have suspected that he had forgotten his account password.

After suffering repeated setbacks, Shogo Fukai finally couldn't hold back any longer. He joined forces with several other authors and planned to hire online trolls to spread rumors about Dongfang Bai's "bad deeds" on Tieba the day before the book's release, so that people would not buy it.

I never expected this to happen...

"What is this...?! No way!"

On the computer screen, all his personal information was displayed. It felt like the information on the computer was more detailed than he himself knew, almost as if it included his childhood memories of peeping at the older girl next door taking a bath.