I Don't Like The World, I Only Like You

Chapter16.2: Kill All Those Mary-Sues

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When Dorm Leader was still schooling in the past, she often borrowed romance novels from the book rental shop in order to pass the time. In the past, there would always be a book rental shop located near every school compound with innumerable Taiwanese romance novels stacked on the shelves. Subsequently, when we entered University, owning a computer became the norm. Thus, Dorm Leader transited to downloading novels from the Internet, and successfully accumulated 2GB worth of txt files in her computer, all kept in a folder called Txt Library.

One day, I accidentally discovered that our Dorm Leader had started writing novels as well! When I asked her why she had started writing novels, she replied, "I left a message on the Internet for an author whose book I was reading, telling her that the second male lead shouldn't have done what he did. I even offered my input with regard to how the second male lead should be like, how the male and female lead should be like, how their daughter should be like......In the end, the author didn't appreciate my input, and simply told me to 'shut up', and 'you can you up'. I was so mad, I thought that that's precisely what I would do - I would 'up' for her to see!"

That's how Dorm Leader embarked on her journey to become a successful Internet novelist. Being such tight knit friends, our entire dorm expressed our full support for her. On the first day she was due to begin drafting the first chapter, our Dorm Leader requested for the entire dorm to pitch in and treat her to an extravagant meal. When we returned to our dorm after the meal, our Dorm Leader bathed changed into a comfortable set of clothes, and sat in front of her computer. The rest of us became extremely quiet, as we were worried about interrupting the author's thought process.

Before long, we discovered that this fellow was watching variety shows.

Angered, I chided her, "Dorm Leader! I thought you were supposed to be writing your very first chapter?!"

"I'm looking for inspiration, I'll definitely start writing after I finish watching the first episode."

Alright then.

After she finished her variety show, she started surfing TaoBao.

"Dorm Leader! I thought you were supposed to be writing your very first chapter?!"

"I decided to finish spending all the money I have left in my bank account before writing my first chapter - I'm burning my bridges so I have no retreat!"

Alright then.

After she finished shopping on TaoBao, she crawled onto her bed and prepared to sleep.

"Dorm Leader! I thought you were supposed to be writing your very first chapter?!"

"I'll sleep earlier tonight, so that I would be able to wake up early in the morning and start writing my novel."

Of course, our dear Dorm Leader slept in till noon the very next day.

During the entire four years when we were in University, our Dorm Leader didn't manage to produce a single book. That said, word somehow stillbmanaged to spread to our Dorm Leader's mum, who then began telling every single person she met that her daughter was majoring in Chinese Language and was presently an author.

People would then answer by praising her daughter and inquiring which books her daughter had written so that they would be able to purchase those books. In response to their queries, our Dorm Leader's mum would reply in a secretive tone, "My daughter's extremely low-key, and refused to tell me which books she had written. Thus, although I told you about this secret, don't go around spreading it either. I'm worried she would be unhappy about it."