Chapter 184: Chapter 152: Luring the Snake out of its Hole, Did I End Up Luring Myself Out? (Please Subscribe)_2

By now, there were five or six trending searches about this event on the list.

>A national treasure has been accidentally damaged! (Hot)

>Irreparable, the Qing dynasty Chinese tangled branch pattern thin-walled jade vase destroyed! (Hot)

>Modu overseas cultural relics repatriation handover ceremony (Hot)

>Security issues at Modu Museum (New)

>Temporary electrician at Modu Museum (New)

>Mr. Lin’s Antique from last week (New)

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It was still noon at this time.

The intense sunlight shone on the bustling city, the air filled with a faint scent of flowers mixed with a whiff of car exhaust, somewhat irritating to the nose.

Lin Chuan and Youyou left the police station and walked into a crab roe noodle shop named ‘Crab Family Courtyard’, where they ordered, picked up their meals, and sat in a corner.

After coming out of the meeting room, Youyou was back to her appearance when Lin Chuan first saw her.

Today she wasn’t dressed up, just wearing a simple white T-shirt paired with light blue skinny jeans, but with her pretty face, she was still picture-perfect and radiant.

“Lin Chuan, you look really handsome today!”

Youyou’s face revealed a bright smile.

Lin Chuan stirred the crab roe noodles in his bowl and glanced at Youyou, laughing, “Don’t flatter me, I’ll get proud.”

“Especially when you were looking at the shadows on that vase, your profile was so cool.”

Youyou’s lips were pursed with a smiling expression.

“Then you have to treat me to dinner tonight,” Lin Chuan laughed.

“Of course.”

Youyou raised her delicate eyebrows with a hint of proud charm, then also stirred the crab roe noodles a few times before starting to eat.

After a while.

Youyou’s phone rang.

Message from: Mingyue.

Message: Youyou, you better check the trending searches now!

Having only taken a couple of bites, Youyou opened the Kuaidou app immediately after seeing Mingyue’s message and checked the trending list.

Upon seeing it, her expression faltered.

She looked at Lin Chuan, who was still eating, and muttered with a somewhat somber tone, “By the way, there are quite a number of trending topics today.”

“What trending searches?”

Lin Chuan asked while continuing to eat his crab roe noodles.

“The ones about us accidentally damaging the cultural relic,” Youyou replied with a sip of her lips.

“That’s fine, I saw that trending topic last night. Once the case is solved, the truth comes out, and our names will be cleared,” Lin Chuan was unaffected and continued to enjoy his meal earnestly.

“There are also ones denouncing you.”

“A minor issue, the masses don’t know the truth. They let off some steam, curse at me a bit, and I’ll just pretend I didn’t see it.”

“You really have a good attitude.”

“Of course, is there anything else?”

“Nothing much, oh, there is a petition going around to boycott your novel.”

“What!?”

Lin Chuan’s hand holding the chopsticks suddenly stiffened, and his brows furrowed deeply, “Someone wants to boycott my novel?”

“Yes.”

Youyou pursed her lips, nodded, and then sat next to Lin Chuan, placing her phone in front of him and opening the list of trending topics.

Immediately, Lin Chuan’s attention was caught by one of the trending searches.

——Mr. Lin’s Antique from last week

Lin Chuan clicked to enter.

An overwhelming number of comments flooded before his eyes.

[I saw his photo being taken away in a police car, he’s that web novel writer, Lin Chuan!]

[I dug up his novel, Last Week’s Antique!]

[Turns out to be a web novel writer who writes about antiques, so careless with a national treasure!]

[Just asking, do you trip over and knock down a national treasure inside a museum just because the lights go out?]

[How significant is the loss of a national treasure?]

[Even if he writes a hundred books, he can’t compensate for this loss!]

[The more I see, the angrier I get. A national treasure level artifact in the hands of such a careless web novel writer!]

[Thanks for the invite! I’m a web novel writer too, don’t take it out on the community, we’re not all bad.]

[Boycott! I’m going to report it right now!]

[Mr. Lin, you finally went in!]

[…]

After reading, Lin Chuan’s mouth twitched and he muttered, “Denouncing me is one thing, but don’t boycott my novel! I might be at fault, but my novel is innocent!”

Wuu——

“Last Week’s Antique” needed 20,000 Popularity Value (Average Subscription) to unlock the next experience occupation.

Now with my novel being boycotted, when will that ever happen!

No way!

I need to figure out a way to crack this case, to clear my name!

Otherwise, with the whole internet boycotting my novel, how could I possibly reach 20,000 Average Subscriptions?

“It seems like we can’t really prove anything about the incident now,” Youyou pursed her lips and consoled, “There’s a saying, ‘My conscience is clear,’ so when the case is cracked, everything will be cleared up!”

“Our novel won’t get banned, right?”

Lin Chuan was concerned about his novel.

Youyou pondered for a moment, “It shouldn’t be.”

Lin Chuan let out a slight sigh of relief and continued with his meal, “This whole situation, it’s really troubling.”

At this moment.

He summoned the system panel in his mind.

[Work: “Last Week’s Antique”.]

[Status: Launched.]

[Current Popularity Value (Average Subscription): 5287/20000.]

“Last Week’s Antique” was published on June 10th.

Now it’s June 14th, having banked on the anti-fraud traffic, it had rapidly reached almost five thousand average subscriptions in the first three days, but today it faced boycotts, and the growth in average subscriptions was extremely sluggish.

The growth rate had plummeted from ‘high-speed train’ to ‘local slow train’.

No, it wasn’t even a local slow train anymore, it had turned into a bicycle pedaled by feet.

Hmph…

Lin Chuan sighed softly and continued eating his crab roe noodles, resolved to look for clues after finishing his meal, to see if there was anyone wanting to repair the ‘Qing dynasty Chinese tangled branch pattern thin-walled jade vase’.

At this moment.

Lin Chuan was even more eager to solve the case than the police comrades at the Modu police station.