The Godfather of Literature? I Changed Half an Era's Course

That year, Jia Pingwa wrote China’s first live-in son-in-law novel, The Abandoned Capital; That year, Liu Cixin’s debut was published under the title The Three-Body Problem: One Punch Shatters the Droplet. It depicted how the human race’s great emperor, Ding Yi, overcame the notion that a poor youth could never amount to anything, fought the Returners to the edge of the universe, and obliterated the Great Dao. That year, Shi Tiesheng wrote a preface for the astonishing work Me and the Way of Sitting in Oblivion. He wrote: “I have three friends. One doesn’t treat me like I’m disabled, one doesn’t treat me like a human being, and one doesn’t treat himself like a human being.” This book is also known as I’m Just a Novelist, Why Am I Teaching the Literary Greats?; I Dare to Teach, but You Actually Dare to Copy?; and Back to the Nineties: Teaching Literary Authors How to Write Web Novels.