He Lin, the web-novel male-audience genre's top author, Gu Zhou, writes wonderfully satisfying stories in the early stages, but he's a BE fanatic.
By chance, He Lin tries a recently popular game: collaborative storytelling. He picks a sweet campus romance, and it ends in a perfectly reasonable BE. The unexpected development makes the story a hit. Countless readers enter out of curiosity, then run out in tears.
Xie An, the web-novel female-audience genre's top author, Chao Yang, loves showering readers with sweetness and is a steadfast defender of HE.
Lately, he especially enjoys collaborative storytelling. No matter how wildly the netizens take the plot, he can always bring it around to a well-earned HE. One day, he sees a recently viral campus "sweet romance," only to be nearly choked to death by its BE ending. A sweet-romance writer never admits defeat. He rolls up his sleeves and steps in, successfully turning it into an HE.
He Lin frowns: "This ending won't do. It's too idealistic, not realistic."
Xie An is fired up: "A sweet romance must never have a BE! Make it sweet!"
The ending keeps jumping back and forth between BE and HE
He Lin and Xie An: "Fine, it's on. :)"
Little skit:
On a novel-lovers' forum:
[Who wants to guess the ending of "Glimmer"?]
Post 1: I bet Master Gu Zhou wins and it ends in a BE. I'll bet ten cents!
Post 2: Then I'll bet on Master Chao Yang and an HE. I'll wager a bag of spicy strips!
Post 3: The two masters battling it out. Love to see it. [eating-melon-and-watching.jpg]
Post 199: Shh! Keep it down. Don't summon the two masters. What if they realize their identities have been exposed and run away?
Much later, the thread gets bumped again
Post 233: Am I still dreaming? Or did I just see the two masters announce their relationship?!
Post 1314: Hahaha, victory for the HE camp! Who can blame Master Gu Zhou for spoiling his wife? Hehe~
Theme: Becoming a better version of yourself
