After making his plans, Li Wei stayed in Green Shade Town for the time being. Although the second stage of [Shadow of the Blue Dragon] had begun, tasking him with finding the invaders' lair, discovering why they attacked, and eliminating the evil threatening humanity.
Li Wei did not act immediately. A craftsman needed sharp tools to do good work, and he intended to check his own "tool" first, to see whether it really was as useful as he imagined.
Then Li Wei sent Katie off to play nearby with the three little ones, while he used [Shifting Positions] to return to Fog City and visit the editorial office to check on the new comic.
The results were pretty good.
According to the editors, Li Wei's new comic had generated considerable discussion. Many people called it a "filthy," "degenerate work," claiming that Three Fools and the Mysterious Creatures lacked the dignity and quality of his earlier works.
Of course, what fucking good did talk do? If they were so capable, they should stop it from topping the most popular comic rankings three times in a row.
Their bodies were honest. What their mouths said hardly mattered.
After checking the rankings and vote counts for "most popular comic" and "most popular heroine," Li Wei knew where things stood.
Before this fanservice comic appeared, Imperial Comics' unshakable number one had been Betty the Puppy, followed by Iron Legion in second and Matilda and Helen's Unforgiven Love in third.
That was easy enough to understand. Betty the Puppy was aimed at a general audience of all ages, while Iron Legion leaned toward teenage boys. By the classifications of Li Wei's world, Unforgiven Love was a girls' comic.
Compared with Betty the Puppy, which appealed to young and old alike, the other two naturally had