The Arts: From the Start, One Book Saved an Entire Website

Years later, at the Blue Star Literary Awards ceremony.

The host asked,

"Teacher Beifeng, there's a saying that's been making the rounds in literary circles: Beifeng has kept half the authors in the literary world fed. Have you heard it?"

Xia Tian smiled faintly. "I've heard a little about it."

"All right, Teacher Beifeng. Here's the question: Many people have borrowed ideas from your books, inspiring a huge number of fanfics. This is especially true of your Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Do you remember how, just after both books finished serializing, fanfics based on your work made up more than half the rankings on nearly every literary website? Your fans hated this. What do you think about it?"

Xia Tian replied,

"I'm very grateful to the authors who write fanfiction. Every fanfic brings something new, and every author has their own spirit and ideas. There's no end to the paths one can take as a writer. Isn't that exactly the spirit literary creation needs?"

The host looked on with reverence. "As expected of Teacher Beifeng, a true grandmaster of his generation."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.