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Chapter 1808: Imitating Guan and Zhang
The plot of Zhao Jingniang made "Stealing Song" directly usher in the first Waterloo in the ratings, and the score dropped from a high of 1 to 9.6 in one breath. Although it only dropped by 9.1 points, this is already a very scary drop for a novel by Yuanshi Tianzun.

After all, Yuanshi Tianzun is now a legendary figure of his generation. In a few decades, he will be a character in textbooks. At the same time, no official media dares to say bad things about Yuanshi Tianzun, and many deliberately bad reviews will be deleted from the rating list.

For example, those readers who gave zero points out of anger will have their scores deleted and will not be counted in the total score.

The ranking list even directly released an explanation for this. They stated that the novel ranking list pursues the most fair score, and giving a widely recognized novel a score of 0 is obviously a malicious score given in a moment of anger, and cannot represent the true quality of the novel, so such scores will not be included in the total score.

This reason seems to be very reasonable, because Liu Xu’s novel cannot be so bad as to get only 0 points, but why doesn’t the ranking list restrict other novels to zero points?
In fact, it's not just 0 points. All scores below 6 points were directly deleted. Under such circumstances, "Stealing Song" dropped 0.5 points in one go, which is considered a very serious drop in points.

In fact, the score had dropped to 8.6 points at one point, but later many readers spontaneously explained in reader groups and various forums that the rubbish author was not trying to write a novel with a perfect protagonist, but to deduce the story of the Chinese world. Then, no matter what the protagonist does, it should not be a reason for a bad review of the novel, but rather whether such a plot is logical, whether it is just for the purpose of disgusting readers, and whether there is a deeper meaning behind it.

and exposing the absurdity of the society in which they live, etc.

After saying this, readers instantly felt that this plot seemed acceptable. The rubbish author wrote this plot clearly to tell us how stupid it is to be in love!

And there was actually nothing wrong with what Zhao Kuangyin did. He always fulfilled his duty towards a beautiful girl and did what a gentleman should do. He did not have any chivalrous ambitions. He just did not love her. Is there anything wrong with that?

The only ones to blame are Zhao Jingniang and her parents.

Therefore, under such comments, Zhao Kuangyin's reputation improved a bit, and Zhao Jingniang's death actually touched Zhao Kuangyin a lot. He felt that the reason why Zhao Jingniang died was because she was abducted by bandits, and this was because the world was in chaos and bandits were everywhere. If the world could be pacified as soon as possible and all those so-called underworld martial arts masters were wiped out, there would be no more tragedies like Zhao Jingniang.

No matter how high his reputation is in the underworld, he can't influence world affairs, nor can he wipe out all the bandits in the world. If he wants to make the world peaceful, the best way is to join the army and unify the world.

So Zhao Kuangyin once again had the idea of ​​joining the army, and he returned to Luoyang alone. He originally planned to seek refuge with his father's good friend. However, when he passed by Yecheng halfway, he saw the governor of Yedu, the governor of Tianxiong Army, and the Privy Councilor providing relief to the victims.

This surprised Zhao Kuangyin very much, because he had seen too many military governors who exploited the people and drained the pond to catch fish during his travels, but this was the first time Zhao Kuangyin had seen a military governor like Guo Wei who took the initiative to provide relief to the people.

Zhao Kuangyin had naturally heard of Guo Wei's reputation a long time ago, so he stayed and observed carefully. After observing many details, Zhao Kuangyin had his own ideas, but before he had time to act, he suddenly met an old friend.

This friend was the date merchant who had a drink with him after he beat up Wang Yanchao's guards. The two met again in Yecheng and felt a great affinity, so they sat down to drink again. The two talked about their recent situation, and the merchant realized that the person sitting opposite him was actually a famous master in the martial arts world: Zhao Kuangyin, and he couldn't help but look at him differently.

When Zhao Kuangyin mentioned that he wanted to join the army again and observed Guo Wei carefully, the merchant asked curiously, "I wonder what you think of Guo Wei, my dear brother?"

"This is the best hero in the world!" Zhao Kuangyin said confidently, "The hero who will reunite the world, assist the holy dynasty, unify the north and the south, and drive out the Khitan in the future must be Guo Wei. I am planning to go to him, but I don't know if he is willing to accept me!"

The businessman was overjoyed and revealed his identity. It turned out that Guo Wei was his uncle. His parents died of war when he was young and his family fell into poverty. He went alone to live with his aunt Chai, who married Guo Wei.

Chai was unable to give birth to a child, so after discussing with Guo Wei, she adopted Chai Rong as her adopted son. Chai Rong then changed his name to Guo Rong, and became Guo Wei's closest adopted son. Until now, Guo Wei still had no biological children of his own.

As for his identity as a businessman, he was not actually deceiving Zhao Kuangyin, because he had indeed done business for Guo Wei before and often traveled between the south and north of the Yangtze River. The entire Guo family's economic power was actually in the hands of Guo Rong.

However, Guo Wei recently felt that there was no one around him he could trust, so he asked Guo Rong to give up business and join the army. He is currently serving as the commander of Tianxiong Yamen by his side, and concurrently serves as the governor of Guizhou and the inspector of You Pushe.

Finally, Guo Rong hugged Zhao Kuangyin's arm and begged him to stay and help him as his deputy. Because he had just ascended to a high position and had no confidants around him, he naturally wanted to win over talents like Zhao Kuangyin.

Zhao Kuangyin naturally would not refuse, so Guo Rong excitedly took Zhao Kuangyin directly to see Guo Wei. Guo Wei was quite dismissive of Zhao Kuangyin at first, thinking that he was just a gangster.

However, when he learned that Zhao Kuangyin was actually the son of Zhao Hongyin, his attitude towards him changed immediately. Because Zhao Hongyin was once a fierce general under his command and had a good relationship with him, but was later transferred by the emperor, but Guo Wei always remembered Zhao Hongyin.

Now that he knew that Zhao Hongyin's son was going to join his army, he was naturally overjoyed. At the same time, he did not hesitate to recruit Zhao Kuangyin into his army and appointed him as a town commander, directly under Guo Rong.

Guo Rong was overjoyed when he heard about it. He hugged Zhao Kuangyin again and said, "The world has been in chaos for a long time. It depends on us young people to cheer it up. I got your help today, Xianghai, just like Liu Bei got brothers like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. It's a pity that we don't have Taoyuan around us, otherwise we must follow the example of Liu, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and have a Peach Garden Oath!"

(End of this chapter)