Chapter 155-The Manga Pariah's Guide to Self-Salvation
[#1 I can't help but speak up: Ye Zheng's golden finger is so large it will only lead to the collapse of the manga's power scaling! Creator, look at this, is the new plot even logical?]
[#2 First of all, Ye Zheng's ability is only the Stream, right? This ability cannot explain at all how Ye Zheng contacted the Wu Shus of multiple worldlines. There was no prior explanation that she had related items. I can only assume it's a bug the creator used to forcibly boost Ye Zheng.]
[#3 Also, Wen Xiaoxing said that the collapse of Fate Singularity wouldn't bring Ye Zheng back but would drag her into a more chaotic world. Then, right after Wen Xiaoxing finished speaking, Ye Zheng appeared in the very next panel. So how did she get back? Because of luck?]
[#4 I have no problem with the creator wanting to shape a high-spec female villain. But you create a powerful character, blow him up to the heavens upon his debut to give readers infinite expectations, and then ignore logic to use him as a stepping stone for Ye Zheng. Such behavior is irresponsible both to the character and the plot (unless subsequent plots can fill the hole, then just ignore me).]
[#5 I know that "Strong Female Lead" characters are a PC (political correctness) trend now. But Ye Zheng's breakthrough this time relied entirely on the help of teammates, the abilities of other characters, and luck. I really don't see how she is powerful or impressive. Maybe it's because I've seen too many well-written strong female leads; the ones in neighboring titles like XX, XXX, and XXXX all crush Ye Zheng, right?]
[#6 Is the OP saying this in Zheng-Army territory? Do you want to die?]
[#7 Mmhmm, OP spoke my mind. Last time I questioned Ye Zheng for being too cold-blooded and ruthless, I was cursed at by Zheng-stans for having gender stereotypes. I even began to wonder if I was truly a misogynist. Now I understand that I just dislike people whose virtue and ability do not match their status. This has nothing to do with gender.]
[#8 Zheng-stans say they love women on the surface, but they only love Ye Zheng. This time Ye Zheng's breakthrough relied entirely on Wu Shu. Zheng-stans completely snatched Wu Shu's highlight to "gild" (add fake prestige to) their girl...]
[#9 Wu Shu has completely become Ye Zheng's tool. Why don't the Zheng-mom fans feel pained for other girls?]
[#10 Girl-moms are like this. They love to brandish the flag of loving women to attack women. In reality, they'll jump in anger if any other woman touches their girl's interests.]
[#11 I'm tired of this world where feeling a bit pained for a male character gets you labeled as a boy-mom. Percy was killed so many times; who cares about this little boy who is repeatedly used as a rewind tool?]
[#12 Percy didn't even do anything... even if Ye Zheng is a villain, she shouldn't use an innocent person like this to break a situation, right?]
[#13 Wen Xiaoxing is also very pitiful. A perfectly good fate-type ability was broken by Ye Zheng exploiting loopholes. The moment his eye shattered was simply like a wet, bristling cat—pitiful, cute, and with a bit of "good-to-momo" sexiness...]
[#14 Wu Shu, Percy, and Wen Xiaoxing are a trio of victims. For the sake of sculpting a golden body for Ye Zheng, their characterizations and abilities have been shattered. I'm asking you, is this okay?]
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Tang Mingxi laughed at the top comments of this post. She hadn't forgotten that when Wu Shu previously seized Percy's points in the blood-flower demonic domain, any post on the forum would have people cursing Wu Shu, calling her despicable, saying her ability was inferior to Percy's and she only used petty tricks, and feeling pained for Percy.
To deal with Ye Zheng, these people actually activated the two major skills of rewriting history (distorting past facts) and wearing skins (pretending to be fans of one character to attack another)!
How similar were the comments cursing Wu Shu back then to the comments cursing Ye Zheng now? Tang Mingxi suspected they were the same group of people. To hit Ye Zheng, they flexibly used Wu Shu as a banner for the flame war, while the one protected behind the banner remained their beloved boy-babies.
[#56 This enthusiast of "Strong Female Lead" novels thought the OP recommended some good content, but a search revealed two male-frequency novels and one Danmei novel. My eyes went black.]
[#57 OP is making me laugh. At least read a few real "Strong Female Lead" novels before judging if Ye Zheng meets the standard.]
[#58 The evaluation of female characters in the three books recommended by the OP is indeed very high. They are also works that respect women. Many people like the female characters in them; surely that's better than those submissive wife or woman-torturing novels?]
[#59 Female characters who receive high evaluations in male-centered works are usually just "good female supporting characters" who don't touch the male characters' interests. And when I searched the tags, the popularity of the male characters in those books all crushed these female characters. Do you call that many people liking them?]
[#60 I dare say, this type of female character is just a fashion accessory for boy-baby-stans to pretend they love women.]
[#61 Just look at how Ye Zheng is being cursed to know. A female character who truly dares to flip the table (challenge the status quo) on male characters will only be hated to death by male-character-stans...]
[#62 Wu Shu's fandom is "cold" (unpopular), but that doesn't mean no one stans her. Why don't you people try pretending to be Wu Shu stans again? How badly was this woman cursed on the forum back then?]
[#63 Oh, since you Percy-stans and Wen-stans feel so pained for Wu Shu, why don't you give some of your favorite's screen time to Wu Shu? Ye Zheng didn't appear for three whole weeks, so she couldn't give screen time even if she wanted to, but these two have plenty of screen time!]
[#64 My stomach hurts from laughing. I support giving Percy's and Wen Xiaoxing's screen time to Wu Shu!]
[#65 #Percy-stans have signed a commitment to transfer Percy's screen time to Wu Shu# #Wen Xiaoxing-stans have promised to transfer Wen Xiaoxing's highlights for free# #Percy and Wen Xiaoxing are shocked and confused and completely unaware of this#]
[#66 Ye Zheng has dominated this manga both inside and out. If this isn't strong, what about Percy, that useless protagonist?]
[#67 When a man uses networks and resources, it's called strategic planning. When a woman does it, it's called stepping over others. I'm saying that Wu Shu herself has no objection, so what are you people singing and dancing for?]
[#68 If Ye Zheng and Wu Shu were gender-swapped, some people would be shouting about a queen and her loyal dog and shipping them, believe it or not?]
[#69 You really love to engage in internal female competition (pitting women against each other) on behalf of women. Two women cooperating to break a situation can be distorted into an antagonistic relationship. You're just so good at dividing women from within...]
Tang Mingxi felt very comforted seeing this. When the Zheng-stans were few and far between, she had to grit her teeth and charge to the front; she'd have to scroll to the two or three-hundredth floor before finding someone speaking up for Ye Zheng.
But now, many people were charging for Ye Zheng. The environment was very hostile to Ye Zheng, but Ye Zheng was simply too impressive. Even shoddy plot arrangements couldn't stop everyone from being drawn to Ye Zheng's charm.
[#264 Can the Ye Zheng-stans understand the key point? This part of Ye Zheng's plot is just an unreasonable, forced power-up. No matter how loud the Zheng-moms' voices are, it won't change this fact.]
[#265 I'm almost afraid to speak. Stanning male characters seems to be an original sin. What's wrong with female readers wanting more handsome and excellent male characters? The otaku bros in neighboring gacha games already have "no play if there is any man." If you love female characters so much, why don't you go play with the otaku bros?]
[#266 Because the men pushing "no play if there is any man" are truly objectifying and gazing at female characters, while women are mostly enchanting and deifying male characters. If you truly treated male characters as so-called "female-gaze" playthings, you wouldn't have such a big problem with Ye Zheng...]
[#267 Oh, I recognize the OP's ID. You were an original Zhao Mei-stan, constantly summoning the soul (obsessing over a dead character) of Ye Zheng's alt-identity. Recently, you turned into a Wen Xiaoxing toxic solo stan and have dissed Percy quite a bit too. Are the Percy-stans in this thread still charging into battle alongside you?]
[#268 Actually, the Percy-stans know exactly what's going on, but to hit Ye Zheng, what does this little bit of grievance matter?]
[#269 Here we go again. As soon as the OP tells the truth, you bring up fan-identities. Is it because you can't win the argument against the OP?]
Tang Mingxi couldn't help but click her tongue and roll her eyes at such comments.
It was laughable that this OP blamed Ye Zheng for plot holes. Anyone with eyes could see that Wen Xiaoxing was the one who was forcibly buffed at the beginning. After Ye Zheng disappeared, the plot was focused on Percy, so the creator naturally had no time to draw how Ye Zheng broke the situation.
The golden finger claim was even more ridiculous. Where was time-rewind Ye Zheng's golden finger? It was just that Ye Zheng was smart enough to utilize the fact that the protagonist Percy had a bigger "cheat" than the supporting character Wen Xiaoxing.
Even the brilliant content of Ye Zheng killing Yin Kong was released as a side story instead of the main chapter just to prevent her from hyping (suppressing a character's popularity). Doesn't that explain creator Old Uncle's attitude enough? These people still stubbornly claimed Ye Zheng was the favorite daughter.
Tang Mingxi always felt the attitude of the King of the Demonic Domain official team was strange, as if the left and right brains were fighting. Ye Zheng's plot didn't seem like something Old Uncle could write at all. Seeing how perfunctorily he even threw Ye Zheng's side story to an assistant proved it.
But if they truly wanted to suppress Ye Zheng, why even release her side story?
She thought carefully: King of the Demonic Domain can even produce an anime now. Judging by the PV quality, the company has the ambition to build it into a major IP. In this era, as long as the characters are beautiful, the designs are trendy, the marketing points are handsome guys and BL, and the production is refined with decent large scenes and fights, the probability of becoming popular is high.
Therefore, for a work with such high expectations, there must be others involved in the plot creation besides Old Uncle, the main artist. It's not strange for the work to occasionally show diametrically opposite attitudes.
Tang Mingxi thought the people in the company had better be sensible. Ye Zheng is the biggest highlight of this manga, okay? Not to mention her character's highlights, she has broken out of the circle (become popular beyond the core fanbase) multiple times because of various plots. Many people outside the circle only refer to King of the Demonic Domain as "that Ye Zheng manga".
Ye Zheng breaking the situation must be much more exciting than Percy air-fishing (failing to catch anything despite effort). The creator's "small man's perspective" is only this wide, hiding Ye Zheng's plot.
She swiped down angrily. When she reached the very bottom, her eyes suddenly lit up. She opened her mouth in disbelief and quickly switched apps.
[#389 My god, it seems the OP's wish was granted. The new side story is the plot of Ye Zheng breaking the situation!]
[#390 Ahhh, the Zheng-haters wanted it, and the Zheng-haters got it! Hahaha!]
[#391 I won't allow anyone not to see my master's new side story! This woman is so strong she made the OP look like a joke.]
Tang Mingxi clicked into the manga app again. Happiness arrived so suddenly. No one expected Ye Zheng's side story to actually update weekly like the main chapters!
This thread criticizing Ye Zheng for not being independent and strong subsided for a moment because of the sudden update. But after many people finished reading the latest side story, the thread was quickly pushed to the top by readers—a public execution (slang: being humiliated publicly for a bad take)!
[#496 After reading the new side story, I sincerely suggest the OP delete the post. Ye Zheng's perseverance, wisdom, and ability are definitely the top-1 of this manga. I dare say this side story is much better than the main chapters. The OP truly became a clown.]
Author's Note:
One more chapter at around 1 am, you can read after you wake up tomorrow.
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