[The hell is the author writing? Building up a powerful beastkin tribe, and in the end they lose to the protagonist just because the entire race starves to death during their first winter after appearing on the continent? Where's the logic, where's the logic?!!!]
[calm down, calm down, didn't the author already say the logic got eaten by the author themselves, hahaha]
[finally someone feels the same as me, seriously, the whole continent belongs to the beastkin, and in the end they become stepping stones for a male lead from a continent that never even appeared in the plot. I'm furious!!!]
[if that's the case then don't write about the beastkin in the first place. More than 1,000 chapters all about the beastkin tribe and a tsundere fox girl, I'm sending the author 100 knives!]
[can someone refund my money? I hate the author, I hate the author, I hate the author!!!]
[that's right, refund it, bastard. I feel completely scammed!]
Ethan skimmed through all kinds of comments, frantically tapping like, like, like.
He was a customer service employee, the kind of job where no matter how unreasonable the complaints were, no matter how much anger boiled inside you, the only thing you could do was keep a smile on your face.
Ethan had been doing this job for three years. His emotions had long since gone numb, paired with perfect control over his facial muscles. Now, even when facing customers' curses, he could only put on a flawless, emotionless PR smile. But that did not mean he wasn't tired. In fact, he was extremely tired. Every night when he went to sleep, it felt as if the customers' scolding still echoed in his ears.
Many times, he asked himself whether he really needed this job that badly. But of course he did. With what he had, this was the best job he could find.
His only comfort was probably opening his phone every night and entering that familiar blue app to read novels.
Some time ago, he had accidentally fallen into a novel by an author called "bottom of the world". The novel was titled "Dark Magus Rise".
There was no summary, only a paragraph describing the beautiful appearance of a fox girl, which was enough to make countless readers click in, Ethan included.
He swore that he was just curious about what kind of novel would be written by an author with such a peculiar name.
And in the end, the author did not disappoint. The writing was smooth, the wording elegant, telling the story of the future empress of the beastkin as she gradually led her people to develop and grow.
Although the author never officially confirmed that the fox girl was the future Empress, readers had already made the judgment themselves. Every day, the moment they saw the fox girl, they screamed about how cute she was and shouted for the author to upload a hundred chapters a day!
Ethan was not the type of reader who commented often, but every time he read "Dark Magus Rise", he could not help biting his fingers and rolling around in excitement.
The Empress was too strong, too cute. The entire tribe was adorable. It was pure healing. This was exactly what he needed after a day of struggling in society.
As the plot entered its conflict phase, Ethan thought the Empress was holding an OP script and would crush every obstacle in her path. Who would have thought the author would use the excuse that the beastkin were backward, and in the end let some random nobody suddenly jump out and handle everything. Worse still, it was not only the fox girl's tribe. Other tribes also froze to death during their very first winter on the continent.
That's right, the first winter. Before that, there had never even been winter in that world.
And just like that, everything was buried within a single 2,000-word chapter. From the scene of the beastkin army collapsing, to the complete extinction of all beastkin, ushering in a new era of darkness. That was also when the male protagonist truly appeared.
The author jumped out to explain that he wanted to write this story like a history book of a parallel world.
No. More like the author had gone crazy. More like the author wanted to murder the readers' joy!
At first, when Ethan saw the 2,000 words, he thought the author was being generous. After finishing it, he realized it was actually a pile of crap!
Damn it!
And of course, there were plenty of dissatisfied people like Ethan. In the end, it turned into a mass of readers screaming about dropping the novel, knife icons flooding the comment section.
Ethan, who never commented, finally could not hold back anymore and followed the wave of events, demanding justice for his Empress.
[Stupid author, stupid plot. I don't want a refund. Give my Empress back to me!!!]
Amid the countless ugly, abusive comments, Ethan's comment seemed so ordinary that it could not have been more ordinary.
Yet just as Ethan coldly finished posting his comment, a notification suddenly popped up.
"Bottom of the world" actually replied to his comment!
[If you want the Empress so badly, then save her yourself.]
That single reply from the author immediately triggered another wave of outrage. Without waiting for the original commenter, Ethan, to say anything, other readers flooded in, saying the author was talking nonsense, accusing the author of refusing to properly respond to readers and instead trying to deflect the issue, even claiming the author was shifting the blame onto the readers. All kinds of voices erupted.
Watching the author's avatar flicker before his eyes, Ethan suddenly felt that the others were going a bit too far.
After all, it was they who had rushed in to read because of a summary that had nothing to do with the actual story. They had enjoyed themselves day after day, and the author had never promised them anything. Of course, from a reader's standpoint, Ethan also felt that what the author did was really too much. But these curses and vicious attacks also felt somewhat excessive… he would not admit that, for a fleeting moment, he thought of himself and his own daily life.
But just now… hadn't he also joined in cursing the author?
Ethan pushed up his glasses and prepared to type an apology to the author. Maybe a lot of people would mock him after he did that…
But just as he was about to hit send, a wave of dizziness suddenly washed over him.
Everything happened far too fast, so fast that Ethan barely had time to react. He died suddenly.
No way. Could it be that the author's chapter had made him so angry that he dropped dead?! Damn it, no way?!
For a moment, Ethan actually wished that the author had posted this chapter a day later. Let the Empress shine a little today. That way, even if Ethan died, at least he would have died in the happy moments of the world the author had created…
"Thud!"
The young man collapsed onto the desk, his head pressing down on the keyboard. The chat box instantly filled with garbled characters, accidentally sending out the line Ethan had not yet had time to hit send on.
[I'm truly sorry. The author isn't stupid, but please love the world you created a little more.]
Burying more than a thousand chapters with a single 2,000-word chapter made it obvious that the author simply wanted to end everything.
The comment section fell silent. Aside from readers' curses, there was no response from the author at all. More than six hours later, as dawn broke, a notification suddenly appeared on Ethan's lock screen.
[bottom of the world liked your comment]
But Ethan would never see any of this again.
Because at this very moment… Ethan was furiously cursing.
He was clearly dead already, so what the hell was going on now?!
All around him were layers upon layers of clouds, while his body was in free fall. When he looked down, all he could see was a vast expanse of white, without the slightest trace of land.
Ethan shut his eyes directly, a faint smile blooming on his face. He looked like the calm, handsome guy who stayed composed even if the sky collapsed. In truth, if anyone could read his thoughts, they would know he was nowhere near that calm.
Bottom of the world, I'll curse your whole damn family, eighteen generations of your ancestors included!
As a hardcore novel addict, the situation he was in was both absurdly unreal and painfully familiar to Ethan.
Accidentally cursing the author, then getting a special reply from the author, being "assigned" the mission of saving a character in the novel, then suddenly dying, and opening his eyes in a strange world. A plot so familiar it could not be more familiar.
He… he had transmigrated!
But please, could it not be the world of Dark Magus Rise?!
Or if it really had to be the world of Dark Magus Rise, then at least let it be the human continent. He did not want to die yet!