He Shou Copycat, you've disappointed me so badly!

Before today, I had never imagined anyone could be shameless to this extent. Yet you showed me it was possible.

I had already gone to bed, but when I woke up, I saw the chat logs from your WeChat group. After that, I tossed and turned, unable to get back to sleep. Because I, Angry Cuttlefish, was genuinely angry now.

"I can understand the Sword Emerges from Great Tang issue. The first chapters really did overlap."

Those were your exact words in the WeChat group.

"Overlap."

Such a breezy little word, as though it could brush everything aside.

Could it really?

Then let me go through this with you from the beginning.

Before your First Sage blew up, readers had already told me it "borrowed" heavily from the plot of Path to Immortality. I read it, and I let it go.

Because back then, your results were nowhere near mine. We were all writing webnovels to put food on the table. If a new author could borrow ideas from my book and do well with them, I was happy to see it.

Later, because of my health, my writing went steadily downhill. Eventually, I was even hospitalized and stopped updating for a while.

Meanwhile, your book exploded.

One of the Twelve Heavenly Kings, a hundred thousand average subscriptions, and even Great God status within reach.

I lost count of how many times people teased me: Yangguang Manman, how did you get this bad? Even a book that plagiarized yours could do so well.

I didn't mind that either.

Because even then, I still believed you were "borrowing."

If you could write a book with a hundred thousand subscriptions, you surely had a few tricks of your own.

Until you released your new book.

I clicked on its first chapter, finished