In the end, Shen Jin said nothing and fled back to her room.
Yun Xiaoran watched her retreating figure, his tired eyes filled with helplessness.
He picked up the cat and returned to his own room, and the house fell silent again.
After opening his writing assistant app, Yun Xiaoran realized he had not posted an update today, so he uploaded a chapter from his backlog. It was far too late to write anything else tonight.
Luckily, he had a habit of keeping chapters in reserve. Without them, he had no idea how he would answer to his readers while putting out a chapter a day.
"Lone Cloud, people are trashing your song. They're all saying you plagiarized it."
Audrey Cat had sent him that message in the afternoon.
After opening VA Site, Yun Xiaoran stared at those words, stunned.
He immediately refreshed VA Site and discovered that five of the top twenty trending videos were supposedly exposing him.
Every one of them had over eight hundred thousand views.
"Hard evidence: original musician Lone Cloud, with 500,000 followers, suspected of plagiarism."
"What kind of song is Preface to the Orchid Pavilion, really?"
"An embarrassment beyond our platform: what kind of person is Lone Cloud?"
"Lone Cloud, that music blogger who acts so impressive, should've been exposed ages ago."
"Is there anyone who hasn't listened to Lone Cloud's music or watched Audrey Cat's videos?"
"This is the first time I've seen an original musician get called out by five or six music creators on VA Site."
"I stand with Lone Cloud. I only listen to his songs."
All sorts of self-proclaimed rational analysts, haters, and loyal fans had flooded the comment sections of those five videos. Overall, more fans supported Yun Xiaoran, even though it was already eleven at night.