99. Regarding the Matter of My Being Falsely Accused of Plagiarism

Regarding the accusations of plagiarism against me

I wanted to say a few things. Originally, I didn't want to bother any of you readers, thinking it would be best if you just quietly enjoyed the book.

In the past few days, someone reported me for plagiarism. It was later discovered that both of their books involved plagiarism and have since been taken down.

The comment section was affected earlier, and perhaps some readers have seen discussions elsewhere claiming this book is plagiarized. Many people in author and reader circles are talking about this.

But perhaps they don't know the full story.

Now that the matter has come to a close, here, Zishu wants to clarify and give a general overview of the story.

The whole affair started when the author of "Superman's Younger Brother, But I Became Homelander" accused me of plagiarism and reported my book to the editor to have it taken down. However, the editor reviewed his so-called color palette (which was supposed to be a comparison of plagiarism between the two books) and did not believe I had plagiarized.

He also posted in author groups and on a web novel forum to accuse me, sharing the color palette and trying to rally other authors and readers to use public opinion as a weapon, calling me a plagiarism dog who would never succeed.

In fact, some authors and his friends who were unaware of the full picture and were misled did indeed flood this book's comment section. Some were genuinely spectating, while others were being sarcastic or even directly accusing me of plagiarism and "zhong yi zhong" (translating Chinese into Chinese, a form of plagiarism accusation).

During this time, I had to limit the comments, adjusting the threshold from one point to one hundred, then to two hundred, and finally to the highest setting of five hundred. Yet, many passersby and authors chose to make donations just to post in my comment section.

(Regarding those comments, I've deleted most of them after the situation reached a conclusion and came to a close.)

After being affected, I and the author friends who believed I was wronged had to post evidence to prove my innocence and help me.

All of the so-called plagiarism was plot that was already in the original script.

When writing fanfiction for the same series and using the original plot, it's hard not to have overlapping parts. To give some well-known examples, it's like the North Darkness Divine Skill being found at the bottom of a cliff in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, or Iron Man being trapped in a cave in Marvel.

You can't just say because you wrote it, I can't. It's unreasonable to treat the original plot as your own patent as a fanfiction author.

His color palette was refuted point by point. At the same time, my author friends and I unexpectedly discovered something: the Homelander author, who kept shouting about my plagiarism, had actually plagiarized himself.

Both an old book and a new book were plagiarized. His old book had chapters that plagiarized his previous work, "My Superhero Can't Be So Asshole," essentially copying and pasting the same content to sell again, which undoubtedly violated website rules and deceived readers.

His new book, "Gwen Spider: I Come From Prototype," was even worse. He plagiarized another author, Bai Zhan Tang's book, "An Anti-hero of Some American Comics," also by copy-pasting chapters. Because this incident caused a bit of a stir, it came to the attention of Qidian's official staff, who stepped in to investigate both parties.

The result now is that both of his books have been sealed and taken down, while this book remains.

Finally, I want to clarify something specific.

The other party initially posted on Tieba calling me a "little fairy" who was good at socializing and had gathered a group of male authors to support me, attempting to create a gender conflict.

Regarding this, I am male, a bona fide male... I don't have that kind of charm.

Furthermore, the other party claimed on a certain platform that my author friends and I were a studio, and that our involvement was affecting his studio's interests, leading them all to come down and smear him.

For some reason, my updates have not been very consistent.

Have you ever seen a studio that updates four to five thousand words a day, almost reaching the minimum output? What studio would hire such a writer? They'd starve to death...

Actually, at first, I was content to let things play out. I found the whole situation baffling and thought that the truth would come out on its own.

Among the passersby, there are always discerning individuals who can see that his so-called color palette consists entirely of original plot points. However, perhaps most people enjoy gossip, and the situation unfolded differently than I expected.

At first, my author friends were almost enraged. Others were directly confronting the issue, yet I still felt it was okay to not respond, hoping that some discerning passersby would come along and help set things right?

They thought my thought process was quite strange.

In hindsight, they were right, and I was foolish. If it weren't for my group of righteous and supportive author friends, Zishu's reputation would probably be ruined by now.

So, Zishu is very grateful to the just and upright Qidian officials, my editor, and my dear author friends...

That's all. I hope this doesn't disturb your reading.

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