Little Pink Starfish

Ever since transmigrating, the stallion male lead had never felt so stifled, and very soon, just from that person’s figure, he recognized the other’s identity.
After all, he had a photographic memory!
And right now Gu Bai was still wearing sunglasses, so he didn’t see that explosively handsome face.

After giving a disdainful cold snort in his heart, the stallion male lead feigned sincerity and spoke: “You’re Meng Chuan, right? I heard you treated Yuwei very well? What I hate most are men like you who act all protective of women. From now on, I’ll treat Yuwei well, so you better not go looking for her again!” After saying this, he sneered again, “Good thing I didn’t give that role to you. Someone like you—how can you play a great hero like Guo Jing? Your character alone disqualifies you!”

This whole speech felt very on point to the stallion male lead. After he finished, he even continued to look at Gu Bai with contempt, preparing to sneer again.
Unfortunately… after he finished feeling satisfied, he suddenly realized—
Eh? Where’s the person?
That guy he just looked down on hadn’t even listened to him finish talking—he was already gone!

The stallion male lead felt he had been ignored and instantly flew into a rage, wanting to “teach that guy a lesson”!
But just then, the delicate female N lead came running out of the café, eyes red with tears, throwing herself into the stallion male lead’s arms, acting all cutesy… Her pride had also taken a big hit!

The stallion male lead was softened by the girl’s clinginess and quickly forgot all about that “clueless brute” Gu Bai. He immediately started sweet-talking her with a basket full of honeyed words.
And the girl gradually stopped crying and started smiling again.
The stallion male lead instantly became even more smug.

On the other side, Gu Bai had indeed walked away, but with his powerful spiritual sense, you think he didn’t hear what the stallion male lead said? Nope, he heard every word!
And afterward, in Gu Bai’s heart, a faint, faint sense of displeasure arose.

Back when Gu Bai still wrote stallion novels himself, he was the god-tier shut-in, but he never believed in the idea of “true love” in stallion novels. His male leads always pursued pure physical desire, not love. And though as a writer of such novels, he didn’t particularly like stallion male leads, he didn’t feel too hostile either.
But—just because he didn’t have strong hostility didn’t mean he’d let someone bounce around in front of his face, okay!

Especially! This stallion male lead wasn’t even the kind who relied on his strength and golden finger to level up—he rose to power in the entertainment world entirely by copying!
Maybe some had forgotten…
But maybe some still remembered…

Gu Bai was the one who originally wrote the “Stallion Novel” prompt. He was that writer.
As a writer, he still had basic professional ethics.
But now someone had completely discarded all professional ethics, shamelessly plagiarizing, and even using plagiarized work to slap his face—how was that tolerable?!
Absolutely not!

After that, a cold light flashed in Gu Bai’s eyes.
That pure writer’s fire in his heart—was blazing furiously!!!

And so, Gu Bai made a decision.
Even though he didn’t know where the psycho currently was, he believed that guy would definitely come find him when he showed up… So for now, maybe he could do something.
Anyway, everyone knew “Meng Chuan” was currently in low spirits, so him not working was totally reasonable.

Gu Bai shut himself in at home, turned on the computer, found a forum that had already been collecting the stallion male lead’s serialized works, and registered an ID.
The profile for this ID was as follows—

Nickname: I Love Guo Jing’s Smooth Skin
Gender: Female (…whatever, I’ll go all out)
Age: 18
Hobbies: Reading novels, writing novels, currently a huge fan of Glorious Dada’s books, all of them!
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Note: “Glorious Dada” was the pen name of the stallion male lead, real name “This Life Is Glorious.”

Then, Gu Bai opened a document.

Faster than you could blink, his fingers moved like the wind, clattering across the keyboard—very quickly, the document was filled with dense text, instantly covering the screen!
It was literally typing at 180 words per second!
Five minutes later, a rough word count of the document showed—omg, already over 18,000 words!

Gu Bai paused slightly.
After switching bodies, his typing speed had indeed dropped. If it were still the City Lord shell, how could it be only this fast!
But compared to when he was just a shut-in back in the day, this was already insanely fast.
…Though, using a body full of martial power and immense spiritual force to do this really felt like overkill.

So what was he writing in this document?
The opening line, large bold text—
“The Return of the Condor Heroes”

That’s right, in five minutes, Gu Bai had already “relocated” the second book in the Condor Trilogy!
And what he was about to do could not be more obvious.

Gu Bai’s fingers flew again, his finger wind almost forming afterimages.
That forum suddenly had a brand new post:

[A Deep Love for Condor Heroes – A Tribute to the Sequel]

Opening the first page of the post, the main thread read:
“Chapter One: Ruthless Wind and Moon”

He posted Return of the Condor Heroes under the name of a hardcore fan of Legend of the Condor Heroes, directly on the stallion male lead’s personal forum.
Gu Bai remembered very clearly that so far, the stallion male lead had only copied Legend of the Condor Heroes, and hadn’t yet copied Return of the Condor Heroes—but Gu Bai had the entire trilogy memorized, so of course there would be follow-up content!

Now that Gu Bai had written it, what would the stallion male lead do for the second book in the trilogy?
Eheheh.
Block his road—leave him with no way forward!

A strange glint appeared in Gu Bai’s eyes.
Right now, the stallion male lead should be having a hot time with Liu Yuwei, plus with the massive success of Legend of the Condor Heroes and the rights already sold for a drama—which, by the way, was the same drama where the original Meng Chuan had tried out for Guo Jing but was rejected by a single word from the stallion male lead—he probably had no time to visit the forum.

So as long as Gu Bai posted Return of the Condor Heroes within the next few days, once the stallion male lead discovered it… his expression would be priceless.

Thinking of this, Gu Bai felt very motivated.
And so, his fingers clattered wildly on the keyboard again.
Another five minutes, another 18,000 characters—talk about rhythmic!

Meanwhile, on the forum, his post gradually gained traction, and due to its high quality and accurate imitation of the original author’s style, it was stickied by the mod! Below the post was a flood of endless praise!

Gu Bai: Quite satisfying.
Then he uploaded Chapter 2, Chapter 3… all the way to Chapter 9!
He posted all the stock chapters he’d just written!

Right after, Gu Bai added a comment under the post:

[Last month I read Legend of the Condor Heroes, and my emotions surged. It felt like meeting my dream lover. So many thoughts burst forth I couldn’t hold them back. Thus, I wrote this fan sequel Return of the Condor Heroes, hoping Dada likes it, and hoping to get support from the forum members. This past month I’ve written without sleep or rest. I finally completed the story in my heart—one million words—and will post it all today to share with everyone! Thank you all!]

After writing this, Gu Bai felt very pleased with himself, but not too melodramatic.
If the stallion male lead saw this message…
Mm, Gu Bai really looked forward to his expression—how could he help it?

Typing now was basically nothing to Gu Bai—it was like a light drizzle. He effortlessly spent a little over an hour typing out all of Return of the Condor Heroes, then breezily edited it and posted it all into the thread. After that, he could sip a cup of hot water and joyfully watch the storm brew on the forum.

An original work was still an original.
Return of the Condor Heroes was the official sequel to Legend of the Condor Heroes, written by the same author—how could anyone pick out flaws? They couldn’t! So Gu Bai’s post became the literary treasure of the forum, and many readers commented that they no longer knew what the next book by “Glorious Dada” could even be now!

The stallion male lead’s Condor Trilogy—his gateway into traditional wuxia and a key step in entering the entertainment world—was completely cut off by Gu Bai here.

But did Gu Bai feel that was enough?
Of course not.
Maybe it was because he’d hung out with the psycho for too long—Gu Bai felt like he was getting more and more twisted.

And so, the stallion male lead’s next planned project…
That “Those Things of Dynasty X” he was working on—meant to break into the traditional publishing market and slowly rebrand himself (and also why he hadn’t written Return of the Condor Heroes yet; half the time he was flirting with girls)… Gu Bai figured—yeah, that could be cut off too!

So, Gu Bai started typing again.
This time, using the pen name “I Am Not Mingyue From Back Then,” he quickly wrote out that draft, then quickly found someone Meng Chuan knew with publishing connections, and submitted the manuscript right away!

Naturally, the other party gave him face, and since the book was indeed excellent, they immediately decided to push it hard with top-tier recommendations, even hyping it with a “mystery writer” gimmick… but that had nothing to do with the stallion male lead anymore.

After doing both these things, Gu Bai finally felt at ease.
Since the typing speed was so fast, the keyboard was basically busted beyond use, so he didn’t keep harassing the stallion male lead.
Anyway… he had already made a satisfying decision:

—No matter what the stallion male lead copied in the future, Gu Bai would “enthusiastically lend a hand” and help him write the first volume/next installment/sequel for free and post it online.
Who knows how long people would continue to praise the stallion male lead’s “talent” after that?

Maybe one day he’d see the guy sitting there, constipated, trying and failing to come up with a follow-up chapter…
Thinking about it—it felt awesome!

Gu Bai: I’m just this kind of willful sweetheart! Bwahahaha!