Chapter 337: Chapter 316: Literary Duel (Extra Episode from Little Dio who loves to read books)

This was not the first time Lin Yuan had made such a blunder, he had messed up before with the couplets affair.

After that incident, Lin Yuan had become very careful.

One could not be too careless, one slip and it’s like dropping the ball.

Why did he slip up again this time?

The main reason revolves around Lin Yuan getting ahead of himself. Just thinking about his “The Fall of Dondon Bridge” forcibly ranked second by readers of the anti-unreliable narrator makes his heart fill with resentment.

As a result, when he logged into the tribe, he forgot to even check if the account was correct and started furiously challenging others.

“It’s over.”

So thought Lin Yuan.

Jin Mu, however, had already taken up his phone and started scrolling through the comments on Xian Yu’s tribe page, he couldn’t help but start laughing.

“Why are you laughing?” Lin Yuan asked, displeased.

“Read for yourself, boss,” Jin Mu said, laughing even louder.

Lin Yuan was taken aback, then he understood what Jin Mu found so hilarious.

Because he logged into the wrong account and posted the wrong status, but in the eyes of netizens, there was absolutely no incongruity!

“Hahaha, Leng Guang pissed off Xian Yu even before pissing off Chu Kuang!”

“Public knowledge: if you don’t give face to Chu Kuang, it means you don’t give face to Xian Yu.”

“Is Xian Yu going to replace Chu Kuang in the duel with Leng Guang?”

“It seems Xian Yu has a lot of confidence in his detective abilities.”

“Xian Yu: No one can bully Chu Kuang on my watch!”

“Teacher Leng Guang must be dumbstruck, what does a composer have to do with all this fuss?”

“Remembering the couplets incident, I’m tearing up, Xian Yu is really standing up for Chu Kuang!”

“Chu Kuang also defends Xian Yu intensely.”

“Overbearing CEO’s little sweet wife?”

“Sure, I can really picture that.”

“…”

Lin Yuan was rather taken aback.

Who would have thought that his account mix-up, in the eyes of netizens, was merely another display and testament of their friendship?

The relationship between Chu Kuang and Xian Yu has deep roots in people’s hearts, no one even thought about the possibility that someone had made a blunder.

Even Lin Yuan would think there were no discrepancies in this scenario just from looking at the comments.

What a beautiful misunderstanding this has turned out to be.

Only that Leng Guang was somewhat puzzled after being mentioned.

Who is Xian Yu?

Forgive Leng Guang for being an extreme lover of detective stories, his world is filled with detective stories, but they must be traditional detective stories.

It’s what he’s most passionate about.

He can’t even name a few popular stars.

Luckily, his fans in the comments section explained to him the relationship between Xian Yu and Chu Kuang.

“Good friends, huh?”

Leng Guang squinted his eyes, mentioned Xian Yu back and politely wrote: “So you mean, Chu Kuang is taking up the challenge?”

It couldn’t be a case of offering to take a spear for him, could it?

Lin Yuan didn’t dare to reply using Xian Yu’s account this time, but switched to Chu Kuang’s account, mentioned Leng Guang, replying with three words:

“I accept.”

Leng Guang became serious: “In the next detective work piece, we will see who is the superior one!”

He wanted to defend the glory of traditional detective stories!

Narrative Trickery was blasphemy!

What Leng Guang absolutely could not have imagined was that Lin Yuan did not plan to continue writing a narrative trickery style detective story in his next work.

The experience with “The Fall of Dondon Bridge” made Lin Yuan realize that sometimes overdoing it is not a good thing.

At a time when the narrative trickery is not fully developing, writing such novel might be a bit presumptuous ideologically.

…

With Chu Kuang’s response, the comments section became lively again, of course, it was inevitable there would be some teasing about Xian Yu:

“Seems like he was forced to agree?”

“Chu Kuang: There’s no helping it, Xian Yu already accepted in advance, I can’t let my brother lose face.”

“I suspect that Xian Yu must have agreed to it first, forcing Chu Kuang to comply. Otherwise, why didn’t Chu Kuang respond directly, but instead waited for Xian Yu to speak up?”

“I smell some gay bromance.”

“I suggest that we get another one like ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’!”

The change in tone comes just in time.

Compared to pinky jokes, a Literary Duel is definitely more exciting.

Yan Continent has got some tricks up its sleeve, knowing what the masses want, hence the format of the Literary Duel.

Some people believe that there should be more Literary Duels!

They’re exciting enough!

Some Internet users are eagerly waiting for Yan Continent to join the merger, so that the format of the Literary Duel will become popular.

After all, the literati from Yan Continent possess an inherent “warrior gene”!

“The ending of ‘The Heiress Falling From Dondon Bridge’ is just too tricky. It’s not like the previous narrative trickery, which was full of subversions!”

“Yes, narrative trickery can be a word play, but ultimately, it should be based on reasoning.”

“Let the narrative trickery come more violently! No more narrative ghosts!”

“…”

According to these netizens, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ represents narrative trickery.

And ‘The Heiress Falling From Dondon Bridge’ can only be termed as narrative ghost.

Things are really heating up now.

The whole world of detective fiction is watching closely!

“Leng Guang vs Chu Kuang… It’s been a while since we saw such a high-profile Literary Duel!”

“Why not Chu Kuang vs Leng Guang… If Chu Kuang can produce another work at the level of ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’, he has a high chance of winning!”

One is the backbone of the detective fiction realm, a truly senior detective writer.

The other is a rising talent in the detective world, a genius newbie who can handle any subject matter.

To those inside the circle, this Literary Duel seems more like a battle between tradition and narrative trickery!

That’s the beauty of keeping it under wraps in advance.

While reading ‘The Heiress Falling From Dondon Bridge’, readers were initially misled into thinking it was traditional detective fiction, until the end when it was revealed that Chu Kuang was still playing with narrative trickery.

And now, everyone is expecting Chu Kuang’s new work to pit narrative trickery against Leng Guang.

Few people would think that Chu Kuang is planning to play with traditional detective fiction this time!

Also known as orthodox detective fiction!

When people open Chu Kuang’s traditional detective fiction expecting narrative trickery, they’ll certainly be confused for a while, and the surprise when it all comes together will be even bigger.

You think I’m doing narrative trickery when I’m actually doing orthodox, you think I’m doing orthodox when I’m actually doing narrative trickery.

In fact, the opening style of many detective novels on Earth is like this.

Without reading to the end, you can’t guess whether or not they’ve used narrative trickery.

Such a spectacle is something even the media wouldn’t want to miss.

Not long after Chu Kuang’s response, news started reporting the start of this Literary Duel.

[Leng Guang initiates Literary Duel, Chu Kuang fights back!]

[Showdown between masters in the detective literature field, who do you favor more?]

[Narrative trickery and tradition, new vs. old – who will take the King’s Path?]

[Chu Kuang accepts Leng Guang’s Literary Duel invitation, backed by his best buddy Xian Yu!]

[Leng Guang and Chu Kuang kick off detective duel, Literary Duel attracts wide attention inside and outside the circle!]

Some netizens have nicknamed it ”The encounter between the big mouth and the old rascal who likes to tease the reader”.

It’s really lively!

On many novel forums, netizens have started discussions, arguing constantly about who will win the Literary Duel between Leng Guang and Chu Kuang!

At this moment,

Lin Yuan began to ponder which work to use for the duel. This time, Lin Yuan dared not let the system randomize it, he needed to choose a piece he could have full confidence in!

His choices had narrowed down.

Poirot!

Or perhaps…

Sherlock Holmes!

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ps: This time, it’s seriously the cute central character, cute and brainless~ This refers to Polluted White, and we have also chatted a lot in the group, haha, thank you for the constant support from classmate Xiao Diao~ Lin Yuan would feel that this is the combination of Diga and Leo Ultraman o(*￣▽￣*)o