[Fortune-Telling] + [Lighthearted Comedy] + [System] + [Daoist Descends the Mountain] + [Livestream Fortune-Telling] + [An Author with a Sense of Humor]
Zhuge Huan was a young Daoist who was supposed to hone the fortune-telling skills his master had taught him in the bustling mortal world. But the moment he descended the mountain, he awakened a System:
“Ding! Congratulations, you’ve activated the Ultimate Reverse Fortune-Telling System!
Host, you must do everything in your power to swindle and deceive people. Once you successfully reverse their fortunes, the System will provide you with all kinds of luxurious rewards!”
Elixirs, extra years of life, cultivation techniques, martial arts…
After hesitating for 0.0000001 seconds, Zhuge Huan made a decision that went against his ancestors’ teachings.
“Must obey my master? What master? This Daoist has no master! I’m laying it out right now: I’m going to swindle and deceive my way to the pinnacle of life!”
Why does a young man with nothing going for him, tormented by love, visit the lottery shop every day?
Why would a millionaire fall in love with Auntie Wang from the neighboring complex?
Why are pig squeals repeatedly coming from beneath a seventy-year-old man’s bed?
Shocking! The secret behind a top student’s comeback is…
“Ah! I can’t take this anymore! Why do you believe everything I say?!”
My thoughts on writing this book are: *Main plot line (core selling point): The protagonist's golden finger desperately tries to trick the protagonist into deceiving others, but everyone who comes to him for fortune telling accidentally finds their own happy life under the protagonist's abstract manipulation. *Plot design: Integrate some outrageous memes, people, and things from the Internet or around me. *In addition, I also hope to pursue something that I think is more advanced through slow-paced narrative: Combined with some elements of traditional Chinese Taoist or Buddhist philosophy and psychology. Let every branch character have flesh and blood, and make their experiences have realistic significance that leads to reflection. Of course, I also know that my pursuit is likely to fail, because I am not a person who is good at expressing my views on things to others. In addition, every reader's life is exciting enough, and there is no need for me to add too much extraneous content to the novel. This degree is very difficult to control. If the text is too long, it will look like preaching and boring. If I only use a few words, it will be difficult to clearly explain the inner thoughts and needs of the characters I created. I believe that readers who are willing to click on the book review must have read the first few chapters of the novel. So everyone can definitely tell that the pace of this book is slow, the language description is single, and even as a comedy article, there are no funny plots or jokes in the first few chapters. When I showed the first ten chapters to my friends, their reactions to me were that the language was too slobbery and the plot was too bland. This made me feel frustrated and even a little shaken about the idea of this book. But I also heard a saying: "For grapes that cannot be picked, we not only imagine them to be sour, but also probably imagine them to be exceptionally sweet." - Qian Zhongshu's Preface to "The Besieged City" The same is true for my new book. Based on my humble experience as a junior in college, there are three ways to write funny articles: ①The language style of the novel is funny ②The character plot design is funny ③ Integrated Internet hot memes Most of these three methods of comedy can perfectly reproduce the second of them, and some excellent ones can cover all three aspects. My requirement for my novel is that the pace is slower, the language is more witty, and the plot is a little deeper. It is worthy of readers' taste and thinking, and they can feel even a little bit of my intentions and little ingenuity buried in it as the author. But when I made up my mind to continue writing today, I felt relieved. There is a process for human growth. Maybe many years later when I look at this sentence I wrote, I will feel that I am extremely naive and even a little stupid. But for me right now, "doing" is more important than "thinking", and "writing" is more important than "reading". So I will write slowly, keep writing, and see what it will look like in the end. I hope readers will not think that I am a sentimental person because of this. This book review is only used as a personal record of my writing of this novel. If you find it ugly or can't stand it, I happily accept it. Everyone has the freedom to choose what to waste their time on. There are more and more exciting contents in the world waiting for you to experience. But if you can have the patience to read my novel, and are willing to leave me an objective or subjective evaluation and improvement suggestions after reading it. So to me, you are an indispensable noble person in my writing career. I will also do my best to leave traces under every piece of writing. Just like how I treat every character I create, my attitude will always be "it's an honor"!