"Besides receiving funding, the biggest significance of the 'Research on Novels in the New Century's Twenty Years' project is to tell people that contemporary literature in Dong is clinging to the past and losing vitality. It is dead, contemporary literary research is meaningless, and online literature might be the only way out. Whether it leads to another dead end, only time will tell in twenty years."
Li Peifeng asked this question to fill the silence, but subconsciously expected Zhao Qingge to give him a metaphysical or somewhat encouraging and motivating answer. He didn't expect the response to be so bleak and hopeless,
"Sometimes, I think your decision not to teach in a university is the right one."
