A Different Killing Move in a Millennium-Old Literary Realm

A new literary form?

What?

All four were stunned...

"I call it news!" Lin Su said. "Go your separate ways. You'll soon understand where its power lies!"

The four left the tavern, carrying a shattered worldview, but also their respective missions.

Lin Su slowly walked to the window and gazed into the starry sky stretching ten thousand miles...

News—everyone in this world knew about it.

They also knew what kind of impact news could have on those in power.

But in this other world, there was no news, only Official Gazettes. So-called Official Gazettes were government bulletins, thick with the will of higher officials. What could be reported and what could not—and only officials could see them.

Ordinary people had no way of reading them. Even if chance allowed them a glimpse, they would only see the parts the authorities wished them to see.

Thus, they had no opportunity to understand officialdom.

Perhaps some remembered one exposure of officialdom—Lin Su's "Hundred Crimes of Zhang." He had the disabled guards plaster Hundred Crimes of Zhang across the streets. Overnight, Zhang Wenyuan became infamous, and the lofty Minister of War was dismissed from office, step by step falling into the trap Lin Su had dug long ago.

That Hundred Crimes of Zhang had carried a trace of news.

But it had not been true news.

Because the identity of its publisher was questionable, its methods somewhat underhanded, and its credibility not especially high. It could not grace the halls of elegance.

Though it had all sorts of flaws, its power had still chilled the backs of Lu Tiancong and the other high officials. For the first time, they had witnessed the power of this Public Opinion War. For the first time, they had learned that trivial matters they normally would not even