It's Heating Up

"Teacher Black-Hearted Wolf."

After reporting this good news to Xia Ping, editor Meng Fei calmed his mood and said, "Please just wait and see. I will definitely ensure that such an excellent work is seen by even more readers."

Having said that, he hung up the video call.

"Over two hundred thousand average subscriptions; this really slightly exceeds my imagination." Xia Ping felt a bit emotional. Even though he knew his hype-building skills were formidable, the level of popularity had somewhat exceeded his own control.

However, this meant he could obtain a large sum of money, providing enough financial resources to purchase various spirit herbs, monster meat, and the like to strengthen his martial arts cultivation.

"But although so many people have subscribed, I wonder what the readers' evaluations are like."

Xia Ping tapped lightly, and with a ding, his phone immediately projected a page onto the table in front of him. This was his novel's page on Penguin.

He could also project this virtual webpage onto his retinas, but such a function was quite harmful to the eyes. Unless it was a private matter, he generally wouldn't do so.

He had just been chatting with editor Meng Fei, and since that content wasn't suitable for others to know, he had activated the hidden function. Now that he was merely browsing a webpage, there was no need for that.

"Eh? There aren't any abusive voices coming out." Xia Ping scanned the novel's comment section. Two days ago, because of the celebrity clout-chasing incident, many readers had rushed over to the comment section to curse, making it a foul and chaotic mess.

But two days had passed, and those readers had long since vented their anger and stopped commenting. Those abusive comments had either been deleted or had vanished like stones into the sea, drowned out by countless other comments.

He looked through them casually. A comment from a reader named Big Sword seemed to have been pinned as a featured comment by the administrator. Opening it, he saw it read: "I was originally a fan of Jia Zhiwei. When I saw this guy's readers actually daring to come and bash Master Jia Zhiwei, I was furious at the time. I grabbed my gear and rallied dozens of brothers to blood-wash this comment section."

"But later, I thought about it carefully. I hadn't read this guy's novel, and wanting to bash him to a pulp without any substantive content wasn't satisfying. So, I decided to spend a little money to take a look. If it wasn't good, I'd just treat it as feeding it to the dogs."

"I didn't expect that once I started reading, I'd be trapped just like playing the stock market. I still can't get out even now. This novel has a kind of magic; it's too terrifying. I'm still trembling a bit even now."

"Isn't that the truth? I was also tricked here by that article on the forum. After reading the first chapter, I felt like I had eaten the ancient spirit herb Maixuan; I simply couldn't stop."

"What a good book. This is the best novel I've read this year. I don't know how many adult films this author has watched or how many women he's toyed with throughout the year to have such deep skills. This is definitely an old veteran; if he isn't, I'll livestream myself eating shit."

"You all are praising him, but I want to curse him. This author is too shameless, too black-hearted—no wonder he's called Black-Hearted Wolf. Writing this kind of article all day long is harming others and himself. My family lives in the slums, and our income is just average."

"Ever since I read this novel, all the Nutri-Express in my house is gone. My nutrition simply can't keep up; I've developed two panda eyes and haven't left the house in three days. My old mother is so angry she wants to kick me out of the house."

"I am one hundred percent certain that this author is a beast. He must have started playing with women at nine, had five or six boats on the go by twelve, and started taking women to hotels by fifteen. Now that he's in his thirties or forties, he's already a veteran in the flower fields with countless experiences, even achieving the glorious feat of a 'ten-thousand-man slayer'."

"Otherwise, he couldn't possibly write such seasoned articles. After all, even an old veteran like me who has seen countless women is obsessed with this novel. You can imagine how terrifying it is."

"Damn it, knowing how to play with women since he was nine? This author is a beast."

"Everyone, don't go off-topic. This is just speculation; don't believe the rumors."

"Tch, even if it's speculation, I think there's a seventy or eighty percent chance it's true."

A group of readers was replying below. This topic alone had at least several thousand comments, and the discussion was extremely heated.

There was also a reader named I Am Potato who wrote a post: "Reading this novel brought a great shock to my soul. Although it is an erotic novel, it exceeds the scope of an erotic novel. If you ask me, it is actually a work of critical realism literature. Let's talk about the protagonist, Bai Rong. She is a glorious people's teacher with a family and a husband, but her husband is extremely spineless and incompetent, and his character is cowardly. At the same time, her professional future is hindered; her husband cannot understand her, nor can he help her, and her friends are not by her side. At this moment, her heart is extremely empty and lonely. She is a lonely woman, and a beautiful one at that."

"Although it is sad, beautiful women will always have many scandals. Whether you like it or not, all kinds of unfavorable rumors will spread about you. This is jealousy; this is the darkness of society, and it also puts even more pressure on the female protagonist. Unfortunately, her incompetent husband cannot help or understand her."

"So, she eventually cheated. This cheating was so logical, so natural. She had a series of emotional scenes with many men—principals, bureau chiefs, colleagues, local hooligans, her first love, and even students. But I don't think this is her fault. This should be the fault of this society; it is the oppression and injustice of this society that made her become like this."

"As everyone knows, even in this era where technology is extremely developed, women still live under all kinds of discrimination and are bound by many traditional rules."

"Because of this, many women suppress their inner needs and compromise, which binds the talent for women's free growth and also causes many tragedies of the era."

"I think the author must have wanted to use this novel and the vivid image of the female protagonist, Bai Rong, to satirize the various injustices in society, criticize current evils, and present a scene that shakes the human heart."

"By the time I read to the end, I was already teary-eyed and couldn't stop for a long time. Now, I don't even care what the female protagonist's future ending will be; just thinking that there are thousands of other women in society living in the same dire straits as Bai Rong makes my heart ache so much that I cannot sleep at night."

"Big brother, this is just a piece of smut; the author didn't actually think that much."

"The original poster is a great talent. To see so much social significance in an erotic novel—please accept my kowtow."

"After reading the original poster's comment, I admire you to the point of prostration. I need to go back to elementary school to review my reading comprehension."

"The original poster is right. There are still many such women in the world living in dire straits. I plan to call a few over tonight and spend some money to save them."

"I feel the same way. Actually, I cried too, just in a different place."

"Are there really emotional scenes? Why do I feel like it's all action scenes?"

A group of readers replied.

Xia Ping looked at these reader replies and felt that his worldview had been refreshed several times over.

"Xia Ping!"

Just as Xia Ping was reading the novel's comments, Jiang Yaru suddenly walked over.