"The Last Non-Drug Addict" will be a short story, with a total of about 50,000 to 60,000 words. Although the content is short, Le Jing has to be more careful with the sentences, and the difficulty of writing it is much higher than that of "Dynasty Rise".

After all, he set the direction of "Dynasty Rise" as popular literature, and its audience is the lower-middle class people. Therefore, in order to fit the knowledge level of the general audience, Le Jing does not need to consider the sentences too much. The more elementary school students write, the better, so that the work can be spread among the market. Moreover, the content of "Dynasty Rise" is a simple and rough refreshing route. There are countless such routines in later generations. Le Jing only needs to put some "private goods" in it.

Le Jing also does not intend to use any superb writing skills or fancy words in "The Last Man Who Doesn't Take Drugs". The content of this article must be down-to-earth enough to be widely spread among the people and make them truly aware of the harm of opium.

But the reason why Le Jing found "The Last Person Who Doesn't Take Drugs" difficult to write is that this article requires a higher level of writing skills. He had to think about how to make the satire in the article humorous and easy to understand, while also making the readers think. If the article ends up being just a joke for the readers to laugh at, then this article is a failure.

Le Jing thought a lot and listed several versions of the outline. However, he considered everything except the poor physical condition of this body.

He currently has two serials on hand, one is the weekly serial "Rat Eyes Look Down on People" written under the pen name Night Watchman, and the other is Lin Zhongqi's daily serial "Dynasty Rise". The former needs to write 4,000 to 5,000 words a week (this is because he reduced the number of words updated in order to serialize "Dynasty Rise"), and the latter needs at least 3,000 words a day, which means he has to write almost 30,000 words a week.

Under such heavy pressure of updating, Le Jing started writing a new novel, "The Last Person Who Doesn't Take Drugs", which is a short story, but it would take at least 30,000 to 50,000 words to finish. Such an intense updating task is a bit strenuous for a healthy person, not to mention that Le Jing is still a heavy smoker whose body is hollowed out by alcohol and sex.

So after Le Jing worked all night twice to finish the manuscript, he fell ill unsurprisingly.

He lay in bed during the hottest days of summer, covered with a quilt, wrapped up like a woman in confinement, his face flushed red and his whole body sweating.

The doctor they invited was the old Chinese doctor who had said that Le Jing's "extreme wisdom will lead to harm." He couldn't help but sigh as soon as he finished taking Le Jing's pulse, and said bluntly: "I don't know where you get so many worries at such a young age. If you continue like this, I'm afraid it will affect your life span." He shook his head and sighed: "You got sick this time because of the stagnation of qi in your heart, which dried up your essence and blood, causing the wind demon to enter your body, and you got this heat cold. This time I gave you a prescription to calm your mind, but it's just treating the disease, not the root cause. Doctors don't treat the heart, so it still depends on you to think it through."

Le Jing: ...

Okay, now he has really become Qingwen in Dream of the Red Chamber, who has “a heart higher than the sky, but a life thinner than paper”.

I didn't expect that when he traveled through time, he got not the script of Long Aotian, but Qingwen's script. It's really frustrating.

Although he was unwilling, Le Jing had to stop all the serials and began his recovery. A certain big shot once said that health is the capital of revolution. He still had a lot of things he wanted to do, and he didn't want to die early.

Fortunately, he still had some manuscripts saved to support "The Rise of Dynasties", but he had to put "The Rat's Eyes Look Down on People" on hold for the time being.

So when Yang Jinglun, the editor of the Astronomical Journal, came to collect the manuscripts as usual, he saw Mr. Li lying on the bed covered with a quilt and looking sick. He was shocked and asked, "Are you sick? Have you seen a doctor? What did the doctor say?"

Le Jing coughed and tried to sit up but was stopped by Yang Jinglun, "Sir, lie down quickly and don't get up. Your health is more important right now."

So Le Jing lay on the bed, and replied with a hoarse voice and a bitter smile: "The doctor said it was a cold and asked me to take good care of myself. I'm really sorry that you made a wasted trip. I'm afraid that "Rat Eyes Look Down on People" will have to be suspended for the time being."

Yang Jinglun said quickly, "Sir, what are you talking about? Your health is more important than your article. For now, please don't worry about your novel. You must take good care of your health."

After returning to the editorial office, Yang Jinglun went to the editor-in-chief's office and told the editor-in-chief that the night watchman had to leave the newspaper due to sick leave. The editor-in-chief was not unreasonable and said, "You should let Mr. Li take good care of his illness. It won't be too late to put the serialization aside for now. You can write a note for leave and put it in the next issue of the newspaper."

Yang Jinglun nodded, and couldn't help but think of Mr. Li's pale sick face, and sighed in his heart. His health is so poor at such a young age, could it be that God is jealous of his talent? Bah, bah, bah, what is he thinking! A man as talented as Mr. Li will definitely live a hundred years!

So the next day, many readers who followed the serialization of "Rat Eyes Look Down on People" found the leave note in the "Literary Newspaper". The note said that Mr. Night Watchman was ill, so the recent serialization had to be suspended. This leave note of only a few dozen words caused a nuclear and bomb-level shock among the readers. At that time, countless readers wrote to the editorial department.

"What's wrong with you, sir? Is it serious?"

"I know a famous doctor and can introduce him to you, sir!"

"Please tell me the address of your home. I have a secret recipe passed down from my ancestors that can cure you!"

These letters were relatively reasonable and merely expressed concern for the night watchmen's health. However, Yang Jinglun had also received some unreasonable letters from readers that left him speechless.

"It must be your newspaper that bullied my husband!"

"You unscrupulous newspaper company, you enslaved me to write articles for money. It's all your fault that I fell ill!"

"Where did your newspaper hide Mr. Night Watchman? I tell you, it is illegal to put the author under house arrest! You must give me the address of Mr. Night Watchman. I want to personally confirm whether he is safe now!"

Yang Jinglun was choked by these letters. Did the readers who said that their newspaper was bullying the Night Watchman forget how Mr. Night Watchman wrote an article to criticize Nantang a few days ago?

And their newspaper enslaves the night watchman to write articles for people... Yang Jinglun twitched his mouth, almost wanting to grab the reader's collar to make him sober up. Look carefully, your master updates every week! And he only writes 4,000 to 5,000 words each time. If this is called writing desperately, how can you embarrass those diligent authors who update every day!

As for the accusation that they put the author under house arrest, Yang Jinglun said that the Literary Newspaper should not be blamed for this! It is obvious that Mr. Li is a low-key person who does not like fame, and the newspaper is also doing things according to Mr. Li's instructions. How can this reader think that they are putting the author under house arrest for ulterior motives? They are really more wronged than Dou E!

Yang Jinglun didn’t know that in later generations there is a special term to describe the “blind” behavior of these readers, called “fan filter”.

Under the "fan filter", fans see their idols as the last pure white lotus in the universe, a weak and innocent little cutie. With idols, they have both armor and soft spots. They can fight for their idols and use dozens of fake accounts to build forums and fight with each other. Compared with the fans of later generations, the behavior of readers in the Republic of China who just sent a few threatening letters is not worthy of having a name.

What Yang Jinglun, the young boy, also didn't know was that many prostitutes in the Eight Great Hutongs were crying bitterly because of the news that the night watchman was sick.

Although many men say "whores are heartless and actors are disloyal." Have those men ever thought about why whores are heartless to them? It's just because they are equally heartless to whores. The famous prostitute Sai Jinhua was affectionate and righteous, but she died in poverty in the Eight Great Hutongs. Xiao Fengxian was affectionate and righteous, but why did she have a miserable fate and wander around for half her life?

Of course whores are also affectionate, but they only give their affection to the right person, and the night watchman is undoubtedly such a suitable person.

As a man, he did not despise these prostitutes for their lowliness and dirty nature. Instead, he wrote articles in newspapers many times to speak up for these bitches and speak for them.

Although many of them are illiterate, they have ears and their hearts can read! They know who is truly good to them and who makes decisions for them!

Every word in Mr. Night Watchman's article contains his concern and sympathy for them. His article is emotional! This emotion is so pure, gentle and beautiful that it makes these women living in the cold hell feel the warmth of being cared for for the first time.

The night watchman let them know that the men in this world are not hypocritical, cold, lustful, and there are still gentle, kind, and upright good men like Mr. Night Watchman! How can they not worship and love the night watchman crazily?

Now, when they heard the news that the only good man in the world was sick, the prostitutes cried so hard that their handkerchiefs were wet. Many of them cursed the God in their hearts for being blind. There were so many healthy bad people in the world, but the night watchman, a great gentleman and a good man, was the only one who got sick!

So one of the prostitutes wrote to Ms. Bai Shaoyao, a former famous prostitute who had successfully redeemed herself and now a head prostitute, and asked this sister, who had had a brief correspondence with Mr. Night Watchman, to send a letter to the Night Watchman to inquire about his current health condition.

Without the sisters telling her, Bai Shaoyao had already sent a letter to the editorial department. Because she had corresponded with Le Jing many times before, Editor Yang specially forwarded the letter to Le Jing.

Because of his illness, Le Jing could only lie in bed every day with his mind empty and bored. The letter from Bai Shaoyao immediately cheered him up. At least he had something to do.

He opened the letter and found that Bai Shaoyao had again asked someone to write this letter for him.

Le Jing stared at the large cursive characters, and an incredible guess slowly emerged in his mind - could this letter have been written by Marshal Xue?

Perhaps because the life of recuperation was too boring, Le Jing actually began to think irrelevantly that if this was really Marshal Xue's calligraphy, it could be passed down as a family heirloom to future generations. Then he himself shook his head in amusement.

Not to mention that he himself was asexual, it was unclear whether his shabby body could live long enough for Li Shuran to marry and have children! There was even less hope of having descendants.

He withdrew his thoughts and began to concentrate on reading Bai Shaoyao's letter. In the letter, Bai Shaoyao first spent a lot of time and space to ask about his physical condition, and earnestly expressed that she could find famous doctors and precious medicines for Le Jing, and he would definitely be able to cure his illness. Then, at the end of the letter, she asked Le Jing hesitantly if she could adapt "Memoirs of a Famous Courtesan" into a play, in which she and some of her sisters would participate?

Le Jing blinked and smiled. He would welcome the adaptation into a play.

Many prostitutes are illiterate nowadays, which undoubtedly creates an obstacle to the dissemination of his article. However, if it is adapted into a play, even illiterate people can understand the plot, because this plot is their life.

Why did those prostitutes who refused to be reformed after the founding of the People's Republic of China burst into tears and became new people after watching Cao Da Lao's play "Sunrise"? Why was Hong Da Lao's play "The Thawing of the Thousand-Year Glacier" sold out every time? Isn't it because these plays truly reflect the hardships of prostitutes' lives?

So he immediately wrote a letter to Bai Shaoyao agreeing to her request. In the letter, he only asked for two things: first, the drama must strictly follow the plot of his novel; second, the actors must all be prostitutes.

The cast is composed entirely of prostitutes. Firstly, it will bring a lot of attention to the drama itself (regardless of praise or curse, are there not many TV dramas and actors in the entertainment industry that become more popular the more they are cursed?). Secondly, this drama will set a positive example for the liberation of prostitutes. Thirdly, he also hopes to use this drama to let prostitutes know that there is more than one way to live in this world.

Even if they come from humble backgrounds, they can still stand on the stage where everyone is paying attention, shining brightly and impressing everyone.