When An Angst Writer Meets A Doting Writer Chapter 0: Preface

Recently, the X website had signed a contract with a new writer. His pen name was Short-Tailed Cat and nickname Shortie. In the writer's column, one could find that the number of his fans was 1/100000 of his words. As the page moved down, one could find that all his works were centered around torturing romantic relations. Common topics included amnesia, car accidents, cheating, subst.i.tutes and bad endings. The writer said that he would surely combine 7 campy bridge plots in one story one day. Then fortune would smile on him and he could gain popularity overnight.   

Short-Tailed Cat's real name was Xu Chi.

This year marked the third year in the writing career of Short-Tailed Cat. Over the 3 years, he had been focusing on only one thing—getting by with what he had. He even had to rely on a reader to get a contract with the X website. Writers as such were too few to be seen. This reader once said that a good writer must have the desire to gain popularity. Thanks to the help of this reader, Xu Chi had managed to sign a contract and finally seen some hope of getting popular after writing for 3 years long. But popularity also brought him a lot of trouble. 

The X website had its own pillar—Tang Yanzhi. His pen name is Guineas Pig and nickname Piggy.

Guinea Pig started writing about 3 years ago. When his first sweet story came to an end, it was reviewed and reposted hectically by various major promotion accounts. The story A Little Spicy ranked top among the stories on the home page of the X website. Then Guinea Pig remained quite popular for a long time.

Guinea Pig had written for 3 years and formed his own style, writing sweet stories alone. A promotion account had commented on this: Guinea Pig's ability lies in not writing well every sweet story but making full use of the details to present warmth between the lines.

Guinea Pig had soon won the support of a group of diehard fans. As he wrote more words, the number of his fans was increasing exponentially. In the term of groupies, Guinea Pig had already become the traffic guarantee of the X website.

Every writer would have some fans no matter how long or how badly they had written. This was lucky for both the writers and the readers. Luckily for the writers, they had met someone who loved their works. Luckily for the readers, they had read a great many stories and finally decided to follow one particular writer.

In stark contrast with the group of fans following Guinea Pig, only one special reader had been following Short-Tailed Cat all along.

Tingting was the diehard reader of Short-Tailed Cat. Her ID was Poor Wretch. The word of diehard was worth explaining. Tingting showed her full support 3 years ago. After reading Short-Tailed Cat's story for the first time, she ranked him first among all the writers. Now, Short-Tailed Cat had released a lot more stories. Besides writing, he was also posting comments on Weibo and killing time by broadcasting live on the Q website. Wherever he could be found, Tingting was always in the same place. She was one of the few readers who were always asking for more releases.

Some things should be done alone while others with someone else. In the eyes of the poor writer Short-Tailed Cat, it was quite lucky for him to meet such a reader as Tingting.

Ah, another thing must be mentioned! The X website was a serious website on boys' love stories, and the writings of Guinea Pig and Short-Tailed Cat were serious works on boys' love. In this field, female writers accounted for a dominantly large part. Hence, the two male writers were treated as rare animals and needed more protection.

Terribly enough, the two rare animals met each other one day.