[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-only-know-how-to-ride-the-trend":3,"chapter-i-only-know-how-to-ride-the-trend-i-only-know-how-to-ride-the-trend-chapter-52":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Only Know How to Ride the Trend!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2343533,4580,"Chapter 52: I Think I","i-only-know-how-to-ride-the-trend-chapter-52",52,"\u003Cp>\"This lesson...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For me, it was painful and a wake-up call...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Before, I had little legal awareness; I never realized I was already teetering on the edge of crime...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After being criticized and educated by public security authorities, I came to understand what I could and couldn't do...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On July 24th.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The official [Beijing Public Security Department] released a special program.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The program listed a series of real fraud cases and fraud awareness content...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whenever real people appeared, their faces were blurred—except for one young man wearing glasses, sobbing uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the internet was not very developed in 2003 and the [Beijing Public Security Department] website had low traffic, it initially had little impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, the public security department put extraordinary effort into this anti-fraud publicity campaign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only did the original [1819] program air Zhou Yang’s tearful regret footage, but later TV media—Zhejiang Satellite TV’s [888 Golden Eye], Shandong Satellite TV’s [Health and Livelihood Program], and even CCTV’s legal affairs segment—began gradually airing Zhou Yang’s tearful regret scenes at different time slots...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As more and more viewers watched this legal program, Zhou Yang’s information began gradually being posted online by people...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along with it, the film he made—the insane [Sun Wukong vs Superman 2]—was also released...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This guy looks kind of familiar... I feel like I’ve seen him somewhere...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Me too, I also think this guy looks familiar...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, isn’t this guy a filmmaker? Didn’t he show up in entertainment news? Didn’t he make something called [Sun Wukong vs Superman 2]?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait? Holy shit, this guy made that movie? I bought close to three or four DVDs, and all I saw was eye-bleeding garbage—you’re telling me he made this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My god, buddy, please stop making movies. You can’t scam me with fraud, but you scam people with movies like this? Come on, please, don’t ruin society anymore...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this movie really that bad?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This movie isn’t just bad—it’s total dog shit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How is it dog shit?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No plot at all, not even a hint of a plot. The characters are like idiots, the dialogue is awkward, and there's zero acting. The protagonist suddenly gets inspired, then suddenly becomes impotent... It's an epic disaster!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Holy shit, really that bad?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What did you think? I wasted five yuan on it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beijing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Wei, watching TV at home, stared blankly at the figure sobbing on screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he saw the title [Sun Wukong vs Superman 2], he twitched slightly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holy shit, is this movie’s title really that brutal?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately logged onto his computer and opened [Movie Home] to check the rating of this movie!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he froze—he never expected [Movie Home], which usually had so few users, to now be in an uproar, especially under [Sun Wukong vs Superman 2]’s 2.2 rating, where nearly a thousand comments had already piled up...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost everyone was saying the movie was insanely bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many victims even used phrases like “the worst movie I’ve ever seen,” “never seen anything this bad,” and “insanely terrible” to describe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he saw a newly posted hot thread on the forum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thread’s title was...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[China’s Shame: An Epic Disaster of a Movie]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clicked the title and read the post’s content.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【A penniless hooligan, who mooched meals and scammed money everywhere, suddenly went insane and decided to make a movie...】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The movie he made was disgustingly bad, yet he made money by selling fraudulent DVDs...】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Now he wants to keep scamming people and make a sequel?】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【This guy should be locked up!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【...】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire post was filled with insults, viciously attacking Zhou Yang and even declaring [Sun Wukong vs Superman 2] the worst movie in the world...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading that, he saw another thread’s title: 【[Sun Wukong vs Superman 2]? If you’ve never eaten shit, go try it—it’s total shit...】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One after another, every thread was slamming [Sun Wukong vs Superman 2], calling it insanely bad, outrageously terrible...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally just an epic disaster of a movie...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no real reason to watch it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for some reason, seeing so many people call it bad, Ma Wei—who’d never eaten shit—somehow developed a strange urge to go to the cinema and see just how bad this movie really was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human nature is truly strange!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people, like Ma Wei, inexplicably developed a bit of “curiosity”!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He originally planned to dismiss the idea, to click X and avoid this terrible movie...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his curiosity grew stronger and stronger!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced at the cinema ticket price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he saw the ticket cost only five yuan, Ma Wei finally gave in to his curiosity, shut his computer, and headed toward the cinema.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half an hour later, when he arrived at the nearby cinema, he found the [Feihe Cinema] entrance surprisingly crowded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through some audience conversations, he learned that many people shared his thought—they all wanted to see just how bad this movie was, the one rated the lowest in history on [Movie Home]!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw a group of people walking out of the theater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Incredibly bad!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Seriously, don’t go watch it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s insanely terrible. Why am I here watching it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wanted to see just how bad this movie could possibly get...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people walked out with complex expressions, as if they’d swallowed a huge pile of shit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others were excited, enthusiastically agreeing with everyone that the movie was insanely terrible—even worse than online reports claimed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>July 25th.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Muxue, the owner of [Feihe Cinema], watched as audience after audience arrived at the entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t believe it—she thought she was dreaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a scene had only happened on the first day of [Sun Wukong vs Superman 2]’s premiere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after the first day, as criticism mounted, theater attendance dropped sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some screening rooms had almost no one...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet no one expected that over ten days later, attendance suddenly surged—and everyone came specifically to buy tickets for [Sun Wukong vs Superman 2]!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though they all criticized it, these people didn’t carry the rage of those originally tricked on opening day; instead, they came as if exploring a new continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the number of these “new continent explorers” kept growing—even tomorrow’s advance tickets had already sold a few.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This level of popularity was unheard of!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more astonishing to her was that today, all day long...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to this terrible movie, three theaters with over four hundred seats earned her nearly 5,000 yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By nine p.m.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where’s Zhou Zong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The pirated DVDs of [Sun Wukong vs Superman 2] sold out today!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re planning to print another thousand copies...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dedicated DVD pirate supplier rushed over, eager to find Zhou Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Muxue shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t know where Zhou Yang was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhou Zong!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah, hello, hello!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m Li Dachun, a coal mine operator. My daughter saw your news on TV—the one where you cried in that fraud report—and suddenly insisted on coming here... I only have one daughter, so I brought her...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For investment, I’ve got money—twenty thousand yuan? A million is no problem... But I have one request...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What request?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My daughter wants to act—she wants to be the female lead...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"OK, no problem!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And also...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What else?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My daughter made a request over the phone: she wants you to be the male lead in your new movie!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"???\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Xuanshi Entertainment】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a spartan office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yang received a phone call.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shortly after...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A knock came at the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, a portly middle-aged man stood at the door with an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old girl...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, yes, yes, that's him—that photo online next to the Audi A6! That's him... I searched for so long; if I hadn't seen it in the news, I'd have thought that photo wasn't even real... Ah, ah, he's even more handsome in person than in the photo...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Requesting monthly votes, please! Reader count has broken 3,000—sob sob sob—still begging for all kinds of support!)\u003C\u002Fp>",1325,"2026-06-20T23:43:44.409Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ce201473f5f8a16595e31e5598fb4b239d8b8bbf52b0dcb9ab5953f2e21ff3e5","i-only-know-how-to-ride-the-trend-chapter-53","i-only-know-how-to-ride-the-trend-chapter-51",101,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-only-know-how-to-ride-the-trend-cover.jpg"]