nucmednet Chapter 635 - 224: Club Recruitment, Someone Showing Off in Front of Me?_4
Chapter 635 - 224: Club Recruitment, Someone Showing Off in Front of Me?_4
"Novels like *Battle Starry Sky* are just tasteless face-slapping fantasies with no literary value. Anyone in our Literature Club could easily write something better if they wanted to..."
Gao Xin, Li Lanrong, and Xia Zhijin all frowned at the bespectacled man’s response. Wasn’t he looking down on web novels a bit too much? He had just dismissed Li Yuan’s *Battle Starry Sky* as completely worthless.
The girls instinctively glanced at Li Yuan, who was checking out the nearby club booths. The author of *Battle Starry Sky* that he’s talking about is right next to us.
Xia Zhijin, usually good-tempered, frowned deeply at the man in glasses and couldn’t help but rebut him. "Web novels are the future of literature. They provide spiritual value to countless people and are in no way inferior to traditional works."
Seeing this fairy-like girl speak up, the bespectacled man was secretly overjoyed. He tossed his head, adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, and struck what he thought was a handsome pose. Fixing his fervent gaze on Xia Zhijin, he began to flaunt his knowledge.
"My dear junior, the value of literature lies in its text and spirit. It must provide spiritual enjoyment and convey the power of the soul through words. The novels of Lu Xun and Lao She, for example, reflect the state of society and can save a nation’s soul...
"That is true literary value. Web literature, on the other hand, is like poison. Aside from its vulgar tropes, fast-food plots, and lowbrow content, it has absolutely no literary value whatsoever..."
As the bespectacled man was speaking, a voice suddenly cut in from the side. "Oh, is that so?"
The man turned and saw a tall boy walk up and take the hand of the very girl who had just made his heart pound.
Li Yuan looked at the man with a smirk. He had been at the neighboring basketball club booth when he heard Xia Zhijin’s voice, seemingly in an argument. He rushed over just in time to hear the bespectacled man’s grand speech belittling web literature.
Someone is actually trying to show off in front of me by bad-mouthing web novels? Li Yuan found it hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. It had been a long time since he’d stumbled into a situation practically begging for a face-slapping at school.
With a cold sneer and an overwhelming presence, Li Yuan looked at the man and said playfully, "Since you look down on web literature and *Battle Starry Sky* so much, you must have some famous masterpiece of your own, right? Which great literary work would that be? Do tell, I’d love to go and read it."
Hearing the sarcasm in Li Yuan’s words, the man’s expression faltered. Then, seeing Xia Zhijin standing adoringly by Li Yuan’s side, a wave of jealousy washed over him. "Junior, you think you know anything about literature?"
Li Yuan replied nonchalantly, "I know a thing or two."
Hearing Li Yuan’s response, Gao Xin and Li Lanrong couldn’t help but burst out laughing. If Li Yuan didn’t understand literature, then almost no one in Huaxia did. He was now one of the leading figures in the world of web literature.
The laughter from Gao Xin and Li Lanrong was a grating sound in the bespectacled man’s ears.
He turned to Li Yuan and boasted, "I’ve had more than ten articles published in magazines like *Youth Digest* and *Readers*, as well as in the *Modu Times*... Oh, and I’m also a member of the Modu Puyuan District Writers Association. Heh. The Writers Association—you know what that is, don’t you?"
Li Yuan chuckled and took a small red booklet from his pocket, one he had just received over the weekend.
"You’re a member of the Writers Association? Huh. What a coincidence. So am I."