From the very beginning, the Youth Newspaper had been selling malice and anxiety.
It was not just "Echoes of the Future," "Knowledge Discussion Zone," "Bizarre Anecdotes," "Inspirational Stories," and "Discussion Board"—even "Erotic Covers" carried an inexplicable malice.
That malice was directed not only at the upper echelons of the Silver Blood Society, but at all ordinary people.
It mocked all the poor, asking why they still dared to have children when they could neither raise nor educate them properly. What was the point of giving birth? Just to repeat the life of servants and slaves they had lived? To be born so the powerful could trample them?
It mocked all the workers, encouraging them to keep working hard. Then the women they liked would enter the bosses' rooms, allowing the bosses to open more factories and take more concubines.
It cheered for the rich. A wealthy man's single meal cost as much as an ordinary person's food for an entire lifetime, while the fabric worn by Silver Blood nobles was something the poor could not even touch in their entire lives. The upper class all lived in the clean and tidy Inner City, while people from the outer city were not even qualified to enter and touch its floor tiles.
Mu Qingmei had once been furious whenever she read it, wishing the Youth Newspaper would go bankrupt at once. Unfortunately, its sales kept climbing, and it even sold well within the Silver Blood Society.
As one wealthy young master in the Discussion Board put it: "Look at that person. He's so angry reading the newspaper, just like a dog."
Back then, Mu Qingmei had also thought the Youth Newspaper's selling point was mocking the poor. But as time passed, her opinion gradually changed.
She heard workers beginning to skillfully use