All-rounder Artist-Chapter 839 - 796: King of Short Stories

Blog.

Literature Department.

A group of editors were frowning in worry.

Someone sighed, "I guess our Literature Department is going to get scolded by the higher-ups again."

The Tribe and the blog had always been old rivals.

Every now and then, the Tribe would hold short story events to attract traffic to their platform.

The blog, too, had been imitating such events, striving to compete with the Tribe.

However, with its more influential status, the Tribe's lineup of short story authors was stronger, hence their short story events were consistently more popular than those of the blog.

Because of this, the editors from the blog's Literature Department had been reprimanded by the company's leaders more than a few times.

Despite not being able to defeat the Tribe, the blog had managed to hold its own and had not completely collapsed, so the higher-ups, even when they scolded, were not too harsh.

But this time, the blog was really struggling to hold on.

Who could have expected the Tribe to enlist Feihong to take part!

That was Feihong!

After Chang Qin stopped writing, Feihong became the number one figure in the Qin Continent short story circle!

The leader of the short story trio!

With such a person boosting the event, the Tribe's latest short story competition was bound to be explosively popular!

The blog side, fearing that it couldn't even manage a feeble resistance as before, might be facing a complete collapse!

Keep in mind,

the Tribe's short story events had always overshadowed those of the blog. Now, with Feihong, the leader of the trio, strengthening their writer lineup, they were outright crushing the blog!

"How can we even compete?"

"We're not in the same league at all; we're going to get utterly trounced."

"Unless we can get a short story author ranked higher than Chang Qin to help out."

"There are only four authors ranked higher than Chang Qin on the short story authors leaderboard."

"The chief editor tried contacting those four authors, but none of them had suitable works ready for release. You can't just produce a short story whenever you want; it requires inspiration. Plus, those four are very conscious about their own status. Unless they're sure they can beat Feihong, they won't act rashly. Losing could potentially affect their rankings."

"Eh."

"Let's wait for the chief editor. He said he's going to find a solution. Maybe there's still hope."

"..."

Everyone sighed.

Just then, the chief editor arrived at the editorial department.

Swipe, swipe, swipe!

All eyes quickly turned to the chief editor.

"Boss, did you find a way out?"

"What's the panic? The sky isn't falling yet!"

The chief editor was irritated to see his editors looking so downcast, but he understood the pressure they were under; he felt it too. He sighed inwardly and softened his tone:

"No big problem. I just contacted Teacher Chu Kuang, and he has agreed to intervene."

At these words, the editors were all surprised and excited!

"Teacher Chu Kuang is willing to help out?"

"Right, how could we forget about Teacher Chu Kuang? He's now with our blog!"

"When Teacher Chu Kuang was with the Tribe, he helped them defeat us many times. We've all seen his strength!"

"The blog is saved!"

"Teacher Chu Kuang really is always ready with his works!"

"Short stories are so hard to write, yet he agreed with just one phone call. Competing against someone like him before was really tough."

"Now it's the Tribe's turn to worry about how to handle Chu Kuang!"

"Wait a minute."

"Chu Kuang is ranked tenth among short story authors, while Chang Qin is fifth. Can he really win?"

"..."

Beyond the surprise, concern was voiced.

Yet the chief editor just gave a slight smile and said, "Whether we can win is a different matter; our goal isn't to defeat the Tribe. As long as we can ensure that one of us can stand up, preventing the Tribe from monopolizing as usual, do you really think Chu Kuang can't even manage to hold them off?"

That indeed reminded everyone.

Indeed.

The blog only needed to ensure that the Tribe didn't monopolize the situation.

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That was already much better than the outcome of being directly crushed by the opponent!

Moreover, who dared to say for sure that Teacher Chu Kuang wasn't a match for Feihong?

While Chu Kuang's ranking wasn't as high as Feihong's, don't forget the years Feihong has been in the field, how many works he has!

How long has Chu Kuang been writing short stories?

He's the short story author with the fewest works in the top ten of the rankings!

This indicated that Chu Kuang's position in the top ten was not based on the quantity of works, but purely on quality!

With this thought, the editors breathed a sigh of relief.

And just as they were no longer downcast, the chief editor's phone suddenly rang.

"Let me take this call."

The chief editor asked everyone to be quiet, then picked up the call.

Whatever was said on the other end, it caused the chief editor's face to darken rapidly.

After hanging up,

the chief editor was even more distressed than the editors had been earlier, his fists clenched tightly.

A lump formed in everyone's throat.

"Chief editor..."

He lifted his head and looked at his anxious staff, and sighed:

"Besides Feihong, they've also enlisted other top-ranked short story authors including Feng Hua, Zhou Yu, Huang Yaoqing, and even Zou Ge. With such an extensive lineup, one that's the biggest in their history of events, they must've guessed we'd call on Chu Kuang."

Faces turned pale with the news.

"Is this for real?"

"One of the short story trio, Feng Hua?"

"After Chang Qin's retirement, only Feng Hua and Feihong remained from the trio, and the Tribe has invited both at once?"

"And other high-ranking authors too?"

"What can we do now? We only have Chu Kuang, and the rest of our short story authors are rather average in ranking!"