Plagiarist

Bai Jian lived in a family that was a little richer than others. His parents had a little property, but their family could only be called rich, not powerful.

When Bai Jian was young, it was the time when the contradictions between the same-sex marriage law and the surrogacy law were the most serious. At that time, the older generation in the country hated this kind of law that was contrary to the behavior of passing down the line from their ancestors, so a domestic fire broke out. To resist the tide of foreign culture.

Although this wave only lasted for less than two years, it did have a great impact on many industries in China. First of all, under the voice of resisting foreign culture, domestic online novels developed rapidly. How long have online novels and online dramas entered thousands of households, and even old people think that novels written by people from their own country will always be better than those from foreign countries. At least this is written from the perspective of Chinese people. People in their own country should not be influenced by the thoughts of people in their own country and they should not be influenced by the culture and laws of foreigners, so I no longer have any dissatisfaction with grandchildren who always read novels,

The author has something to say: In their opinion, watching things from their own country is better than watching things from other countries. During the most troubled period, they would rather the juniors read novels with their mobile phones than watch them read the news.

The young generation themselves like to read novels and online dramas. In the past, their parents thought that watching these "things" would affect their studies and work, so they often avoided their family members. When the attitude of the older generation eased, they would have nothing to fear up.This led to a higher degree of acceptance of Internet literature by the Chinese people after Bai Jian entered junior high school. Even people who did not mix in the Internet literature circle would not feel that writing articles on the Internet was an unprofessional thing. In that era, students Our after-school topic gradually became the content of the novel I read recently.

Bai Jian, who was in the rebellious period of junior high school, was also influenced by various martial arts dramas on the Internet or novels about ordinary people saving the world. She fantasized about what she could do to let others know herself, and even worship herself.

It is a pity that the ideal is very full, but the reality is very skinny.

In real life, he is just an ordinary child whose parents have small assets. In this first-tier city, there are many families who are richer and more powerful than his family. He can't think of any way to make himself remembered. .

When he was a freshman in high school, he went to a dinner with his parents. It was a charity dinner. Those who could get invitations to this dinner were either rich or expensive. Originally, his family should not be able to come in, but his father left for a while. Relationship, somehow can enter with here.

This was a turning point in Bai Jian's life. For the next ten years, he was extremely grateful that he came to this dinner party.

At this dinner party, he happened to overhear such a conversation.

"Oh, I heard that your daughter got a pass for early admission to S University with a light novel?"

"This girl likes to write things that we can't understand." The man smiled, "I don't understand these things, but my wife supports her very much. I didn't expect that the mother and daughter have been tossing around for so many years, and she can rely on it." With these being admitted in advance.”

"My disappointing son is in the same class as your daughter. He told me that there is no one in school who doesn't know your daughter. He has good academic performance and the articles he writes are touching. We don't know how attractive these novels are. But young people like it."

Yes, young people like to be here. Bai Jian has dozens of novels in her own study.

Why didn't he think of it.

Isn't the novel the most popular among their younger generation now?

After returning home from that banquet, Bai Jian started her own writing journey. Unfortunately, reading novels is different from writing novels. When reading novels, she can point fingers at the novels, thinking that the author should write so and so, but It was only when I started writing that I realized that it was actually very difficult. Bai Jian wrote more than a dozen short stories, with a word count of about [-] words, and submitted them to a popular magazine at the time. Unfortunately, none of the stories were accepted, but He was not discouraged, but became more and more courageous. Finally, in his third year of high school, he won the championship in the "New Creative Fiction" competition with "Rain Weaved by Clouds", which caused a sensation all over the country.

He opened a new genre of novels and influenced the mainstream of novel themes.

For at least five or six years since then, both online novels and physical novels have focused on the theme of youth pain, and the lives of high school students have become rich and colorful. They are no longer simply devoting energy to studying and fighting for the college entrance examination. Their focus has changed. Became in love.

Love triangles, polygamy, etc. occupy the themes of juvenile literature. The protagonists must love very hard, and even the parents of one party must dislike the other. School violence has become the most common stalk in this type of novel, and school rules and regulations and teachers have become The existence of decorations, it seems that everything is making way for love.

When teenagers affected by this type of novel enter high school, people realize the seriousness of the problem.

After the rebellious second stage of junior high school, when they arrived in high school, the children who should have calmed down and studied did not follow the expectations of their parents and teachers. They took fights and falling in love as commonplace, and felt that the teachers who talked to them wanted to tear themselves apart. Wicked people feel that their parents don't understand them, and they feel that they are in love with each other, so it should last a lifetime.

They are obsessed with youth pain novels, and while weeping for the protagonist in it, they believe that they will not suffer as much as the protagonist in it. They also like Mary Su Tianwen, a heartthrob, because the love in it is so sweet without a trace of bitterness, and the people in it love it so much. There is no reason, because as long as the protagonists fall in love, they will stay by each other's side desperately.

People began to condemn such illogical novels, and at the same time, Bai Jian's plagiarism was finally exposed.

But at that time, Bai Jian had established her own contacts, and his parents had changed from rich people to powerful people. Although this "power" was not high, it was enough for Bai Jian to know that Zhou Zhen was actually just When I was an ordinary person, I had the confidence to refuse to admit it.

In the end, Bai Jian made the right bet. After a few years, people have forgotten about his plagiarism, or because his career is getting bigger and bigger, and he has a girlfriend with a rich family, even if people know that he is plagiarizing, they will Don't accuse him of doing something wrong.

Bai Jian felt that what she had been longing for since she was a child has come true. Now everyone knows that he is a young writer, and his novels have influenced tens of thousands of teenagers.

However, no matter how brilliant the legend is, there will be an end, not to mention that Bai Jian is not a legend, he just stole other people's gems to decorate his own history, it sounds like a transcendent legend, when others come to get back their own things , all the ugliness will be exposed to the sun with nowhere to hide.

It's not that he hasn't experienced the wave of anti-plagiarism. For so many years, no matter how big and small the waves of anti-plagiarism in the circle are, they have not been able to splash so much on him. He didn't do anything, and persuaded her to calm down, because he was someone who had experienced it. He thought he knew how to do it the best way, but he didn't expect this wave of anti-plagiarism to last for so many years. The whirlwind that blew up expanded its range before he even knew it, and finally hit him.

The glamorous appearance of more than ten years has finally been ripped off. This time, it is no longer something he can get over without apologizing. Although the nationality is different, the other party has a tough attitude. In the past, he was the most protective fan. It became the catalyst for this incident. In the end, an "unimportant" plagiarism incident raised national conflicts and social conflicts. The judgment in this case caused him to lose almost all the money he earned from writing articles in the past ten years.

Amidst the cheers, he completely left the Internet literature circle, but at this time he no longer needed the identity of a writer. He and Wu Yingying had their own company, and the money the company made was unmatched by him publishing a book. After the Internet, who will pay attention to other people's lives?In his view, the life of a writer for more than ten years is just a stepping stone for him, and the rest of his life after thirty years is to work hard for power.

He always felt that he would no longer collude with the novel world.

A few years later, one afternoon, his son's class teacher called to say that his son was fighting with others, and that the husband and wife had better go to school.

It just so happened that both he and Wu Yingying were free that day, and they really planned to pick up their son that night, but the family had dinner together, so he hurried to school with his wife.

The child entered the first grade in September last year. The teacher often praised the child for being very smart and playing well with his classmates. The two of them really couldn't figure out how the fight started.

When we arrived at the kindergarten, the child was sitting on a chair and crying. There was a boy standing next to him. The boy was wearing a white school uniform issued by the school not long ago. The school uniform had been stained in the fight, and the child had several marks on his face Scratch marks, some wounds on his hands, and blood oozing out, but the child stood aside without crying, but quietly took a step back when he saw the two adults coming in.

"What's going on here?" Wu Yingying panicked when she saw the child crying, "What's wrong with you baby?"

Trembling, the child pointed at the boy who was obviously more seriously injured than him, and threw himself into his mother's arms and just cried.

Wu Yingying was about to hit her, but Bai Jian stopped him. In the past two years, he has become more and more like a gentleman. In order to show his quality, he stopped his wife who wanted to hit her, and then calmly but severely Ask the class teacher what happened to this matter.

There are two teachers in the class, one is helping the child with the wound, and the other is the head teacher who called them. When Bai Jian asked the question, the head teacher answered the phone, and the conversation seemed to be asking when the other party would arrive. Bai Jian guessed It should be the child's parents on the other end of the phone.

The head teacher didn't hang up the phone, so he didn't have to explain it twice.

It turned out that the school is preparing for the activities of June [-]st. On the day of June [-]st, the school plans to hold parent-child activities-Bai Jian knew about this, and the "invitation letter" had been sent out a few days ago. He told his son that on June [-]st, he and his wife The children are so happy when they have time to go - recently, the topics of the children in their spare time are what they do when they are with their parents, and some show off their parents' careers, but these are not big problems, the children actually They don’t have a deep understanding of many occupations. In their view, as long as their parents are doing it, it is the most sacred occupation in the world. The teacher is also happy to explain to them what some occupations are after class. Although the children I don't necessarily understand, but at least there is a vague outline.

Today, the topic of children is still about themselves and their parents. For children, the topic of parents is endless.

The child who was scratched was called Zhou Ziming. He was a very quiet boy on weekdays. He belonged to the kind of boy who was not mischievous and very smart, but his popularity in the class was not very good, because he had no The other children are lively and playful, so today they noticed that Zhou Ziming hadn't said what his parents did, so they crowded around him wanting to hear something new.

No matter how silent a child is, once he talks about his parents, he will inevitably want to show off. Zhou Ziming's eyes lit up, and he said proudly: "My father is a writer. It became a TV series.” Then he counted the novels written by his father and the novels that were made into TV series. He hadn’t read those things, but he remembered all the names of those novels—the head teacher was not there at the time, and later I came here in a hurry after the fight happened, so when I recounted it, I just said, "The children said that he listed the names of many novels."

Of course, there are a lot of people who write novels in this era, so there are actually several young students in the class who are not convinced. When they were about to show off their parents' achievements, Bai Xinzhi said loudly: "What is this, I Not only dad is a writer, but so is my mom, and they have written a lot of novels."

He also listed the names of the novels written by Bai Jian and Wu Yingying one by one. After he finished speaking, he was waiting for the students to praise him proudly. Who knew that everyone's expressions were not quite right.

Zhou Ziming said directly: "My mother said that these novels are plagiarized, and the people who wrote these novels are all thieves."

Six or seven-year-old children hate others scolding their parents the most. Bai Xinzhi became angry immediately, and soon got into a scuffle with Zhou Ziming.

After listening to the process, Bai Jian's expression was a little bad. This is a past event that he tried his best not to mention. Anyone who is labeled as plagiarism will be ridiculed. The name Bai Jian is no longer a representative of new trends in the Internet literature circle, but a typical example of plagiarism. He can still say cheekily, "Although I copied it, but I have been popular for more than ten years", now he just wants to bury all the black history.

Wu Yingying pushed the child behind Bai Jian, and raised her hand to hit the child: "Who the hell told you that these are plagiarisms? How did your parents teach your plagiarists to talk nonsense."

In the end, before hitting the child behind her, someone kicked her hard. The stiletto heel kicked her calf like a heart-piercing pain, and she staggered and almost fell to her knees.

"Do you need me to take the court judgment and read it to you word by word?" A woman walked up to her arrogantly and looked at her condescendingly, "A thief is a thief, plagiarism is plagiarism, even if you deceive yourself and tell your children that It is your labor success, but others will not teach their children according to your three views, you can ask the children in this class, how many people think those books are your originals. "

Bai Jian supported Wu Yingying to look at the woman, but unexpectedly saw the disgusted expressions of the children of her companions - as if to say, look, there are plagiarists and thieves there.

The woman walked up to her child and examined her child's wounds.

"Mom." The child yelled softly, as if he was a little afraid that his mother would be dissatisfied with his hands on his classmates, but his mother's gentle touch made him very attached, and he leaned gently towards his mother, a little frustrated, "I'm sorry, I just had a conflict with a classmate."

The woman kissed the wound on his face and said very softly: "Mom always taught you to get along with your friends and not to fight, but this time you did the right thing." He just took off the thorns all over his body and acted like a baby to tell his mother that it hurts.

"It's you." Bai Jian looked at the woman and gritted her teeth.

Lu Mingxi raised her chin slightly, and smiled coldly. Compared with Bai Jian, who was pretending to be a high-class person, Lu Mingxi, who was born in Lu's family and was made things difficult by her grandmother, had learned all kinds of etiquette. More than a little bit, even if she stands there without saying anything, it can make people feel oppressed. That kind of cold stare makes people feel uncomfortable like being regarded as an ant by her.

However, she was very polite and gentle to the two teachers in the class. Although she told Zhou Ziming that he did nothing wrong, she also apologized to the class teacher. Compared with Wu Yingying, who beat the child as soon as she came in, the teacher obviously liked Lu Mingxi better. .

"What you have done will not be forgotten because you don't mention it, and the truth will not be changed because of what you said," Lu Mingxi said to Bai Jian and Wu Yingying, "You can tell this child that you are from the novel world Legend, but he will always see the truth one day, and do you think this is still an era where you can influence speech?"

The faces of the two turned green and pale, and finally the fight between the children ended hastily. The relationship between the two children, which was not good at first, was completely frozen, and neither of them existed as the other, but fortunately The two ignored each other, neither took the initiative to provoke anyone, and they lived in peace with each other.

During the parent-child activity on June [-]st, Lu Mingxi and Zhou Zhen accompanied Zhou Ziming, Wu Yingying and Bai Jian accompanied Bai Xinzhi, and the four adults didn't even bother to say hello when they met at school.

After the outdoor activities, there will be small indoor activities. The two families sit far away, without any communication during the whole process.

At that time, the conversation between the children and their parents was easy to hear in this small classroom. When the children introduced their friends to their parents, they would add the sentence "His parents are/are also doing XXX, The teacher said that the profession of XXX is XXXX", children are innocent, although they can remember the teacher's words, they may not be able to repeat them. They often fail to pick the key points and put the words in front and behind together, which can make a lot of trouble. joke.

Amidst all the laughter, Bai Jian obviously heard a child say to his parents: "I used to like playing with him, but his parents wrote XXX. Mom, didn't you say it was a plagiarized novel?"

It probably involved himself, so after the child's voice fell, he always felt that the surrounding voices seemed to be much less, and for a moment, there seemed to be a lot of eyes on him. He turned his head and looked around the classroom, and found that it was not his own illusion. , There are really many people looking at him with disgust.

In an instant, the sentence that Lu Mingxi said not long ago, "What you have done will not be forgotten because you don't mention it" suddenly echoed in his mind.

Zhou Zhen gradually surrounded many people. These people were either Zhou Zhen’s book fans or the authors of the website. Many people had a good chat with Zhou Zhen. Their looks are sweet when they talk, and their complaints are actually more like showing off how caring their readers are. They are both authors, and they can chat too much.

Bai Jian had no way to intervene among them, because he had never bothered to write novels, and the speed of creation that he was once proud of was "easy to read" and now it was worthless.

That was the first time in his life that he asked himself what kind of struggle he had left over the past ten years that he could recall and talk about with others, but he couldn't find the answer.

Many years later, when Bai Xinzhi entered adolescence and no longer regarded his parents as the most sacred existence in the world, one day he came back from school sullenly, and asked at the dinner table: "Why can someone else's parents be the same author? What about my parents who insist on being original but are well-known plagiarists?"

At that time, the couple felt as if they had been slapped by their son, and looked at their son tremblingly while holding chopsticks in both hands.

"They said that the money you started your company was from copying novels, and the money I went to school was from your copying novels. I always feel that I use this money, like drinking other people's blood, which is disgusting." Ten A few years old is the time when the sense of justice is overwhelming. Children of this age are most likely to be influenced by the people around them. The environment in which Bai Xinzhi grew up is no longer an environment where everyone ignores plagiarism. Many people have been raised by their parents to hate plagiarism since they were young. It's not that Bai Xinzhi didn't hear other people say these things when he was a child, but when he was a child, he felt that his parents were right, and it was only after he grew up that he no longer believed in his parents, he began to have his own ideas.

Wu Yingying threw the bowl and chopsticks at her son and scolded: "You are so patient, you dare to say such a thing."

It was the first time that Bai Xinzhi questioned his parents, and he was coaxed by Wu Yingying's scolding. He shut up and ran upstairs, and went back to school that day. Since then, he seldom went home.

When Bai Xinzhi was in high school, there was a happy event in their school. Zhou Ziming, a sophomore in high school, won the laurel of a national high school original novel competition held by the Writers Association in response to the country's rectification of the field of fiction in recent years. Bai Xinzhi won No.3. The fact that the first No.3 in a large-scale competition was in the same high school was a sensation in their city. The TV stations came to interview, not only the first, second and third place, but even the encouragement award Students were also interviewed.

National competitions can be recorded in student files. At that time, the parents of many winners had written essays on the Internet. They had been exposed to it since they were young, so their thinking was relatively open. In addition, they were taught by teachers after school, so the students who won the encouragement award were among them. Everyone who was interviewed seemed to say a few words to thank his parents and teachers. Only Bai Xinzhi declined the interview because of his poor health. Although everyone had regrets, but No.1 was in the same school, and soon his limelight was overshadowed. Zhou Ziming was replaced, and he was basically not mentioned when the TV station reported.

Wu Yingying sent someone to pick him up from school on weekends and asked about it. He was silent for a while before he said: "There is a girl in our class who has always been good at Chinese, but because she has a mother who plagiarized, many people I doubt whether what she wrote was copied, I... dare not mention my parents."

Wu Yingying's face was pale at the time, and there is nothing more embarrassing for a child not to mention herself to others. This is equivalent to the child telling you: You are my shame, and I don't want to mention you.

That was the first time she had a very deep understanding of Lu Mingxi's phrase "What you have done will not be forgotten by others just because you don't mention it".

Many years later, Bai Xinzhi got married and had a child, and Bai Jian and others were getting closer to their ears.

At that time, online novels were truly integrated into thousands of households, and countless people regarded it as a profession. After the rectification of major websites, the entire novel world showed a warmth that Bai Jian's generation could not even imagine. Bai Jian's company did a great job. The family is big, the family has no worries about food and clothing, and they live a lot better than most people in the whole country. However, they failed to squeeze into the upper class after all, because when the younger generation grows up and enters the society to take power/work, their impression of Bai Jian and Wu Yingying It has affected the previous generation and the next generation. Except for those who only care about benefits and not character, few people are willing to cooperate with them, so the Bai family can only say that they are rich, that's all.

One year, Bai Xinzhi and his wife were too busy, so they asked Bai Jian and Wu Yingying to attend their son's parents' meeting. Young people are discussing the recent plagiarism incidents on the Internet. Now plagiarism incidents are no more rampant than in the past. Over the years, there have been very few plagiarisms on the Internet, and the plagiarists who have been picked out basically have no good end.

As they talked, they talked about all kinds of strange things that happened in the era of rampant plagiarism that they heard from their elders. Just like their previous generation never dared to hope that plagiarism would disappear, people of this generation could not imagine it. Why did plagiarism run rampant in the novel circle for more than ten years?

As we talked, we talked about Bai Jian, the culprit of plagiarism, about the battle that ignited the anti-plagiarism into a prairie fire, and about Bai Jian who was still holding on to Bai Jian even though he was laughed at by others. Zhou Zhen, so many years have passed, it is still something that is talked about from the previous generation to the next.

Bai Jian saw the well-maintained Zhou Zhen and his wife. The scene more than 20 years ago seemed to be repeated. Many people surrounded Zhou Zhen and wanted to chat with Zhou Zhen and ask for autographs. After so many years, he is still one of the most admired authors. one.

Bai Jian suddenly remembered what happened many years ago.

It was at that time that he had the worst legal battle with Zhou Zhen after he was exposed for plagiarism. He once asked someone to persuade Zhou Zhen that the national law was really lacking in terms of intellectual property rights. Zhou Zhen had such a persistent attitude. It's not good for him and Bai Jian, so let's just forget it.

He memorized Zhou Zhen's answer for many years, but he didn't understand the meaning of that passage until now.

"There will be a day when the law will be perfected, and there will be a day when these shady habits will be banned, but before that, everyone needs to do something, instead of waiting for others to do something for us."

"I insist on going to court with Bai Jian, not because I want him to lose money. I don't even want him to apologize. I just want to label him, that's all."

"You don't have to pick up a pen to become an author, and you don't have to write a book to become a great writer."

"Ten years or decades later, when people mention me, Zhou Zhen, they will say that I am an author who wants to protect rights even if he loses everything. They will remember what I wrote and what happened to me, but when they mention Bai Jian will say that he is a shameless thief who has made a lot of money by plagiarizing, and what he does will be cast aside by people."

"That's the difference between an author and a plagiarist."

"It doesn't matter if he apologizes or not, and it doesn't matter if he pays or not. My purpose is just to let people know that I am an author and he is a plagiarist, that's all."

"When the law is perfect, you will understand how important the difference between the two really is."

Later, he was quiet for a while, and the fans' welcome after he returned with his new work made him laugh at Zhou Zhen's thankless things, but until today he finally understood the meaning of Zhou Zhen's original words.

It's a pity that some things will not be forgotten once they have been done. Zhou Zhen's original goal has been achieved.

The label of "plagiarism" could never be erased from Bai Jian.

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Thank you for your continued support. The full text of "Plagiarism" is over here. If you see an update reminder in the next few days, then the author is just catching a bug.

When I wrote this article, I was filled with too much negative energy on Weibo, so I thought about it. I didn’t expect to get the support of so many people. Thank you very much. Although plagiarism is frequent now, many people We all feel that we can't win against these moths, we can only wait for the law to be perfected, but many times the author thinks in his heart that he doesn't know when it will wait, maybe the good news will come after the original dies for a while, but I don't want to If one day the originality really dies, I look at a bunch of plagiarized works and regret that I didn't do anything for the originality, so this article was born to speak out for the originality and to alert myself.

May the originality never die, and may the original intention remain unchanged.

See you in the next article =W=

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