After being expelled from the mansion, I changed the dynasty by writing novels.

Ye Yuwu stepped forward and saw Zhang Rouyan being pulled along, glaring angrily at a refined-looking man with a beard. Ye Yuwu recognized the man; he was Manager Bao of the Moxiang Bookstore.

Meanwhile, Manager Bao was being dragged along, and the atmosphere was tense.

They hadn't noticed her arrival and were still hurling insults at each other.

"Your Moxiang Bookstore are thieves!" Zhang Rouyan glared angrily at Manager Bao. If someone hadn't stopped her, she would have kicked him.

"What did we steal?!" Manager Bao looked at her with a sneer.

Ye Yuwu was shocked; this was the first time she had ever seen Zhang Rouyan so... well, so fiery.

Seemingly noticing Ye Yuwu's arrival, Zhang Rouyan turned to look at Ye Yuwu.

The change of expression happened in an instant. Zhang Rouyan's angry face instantly returned to her usual ladylike appearance the moment she saw Ye Yuwu. The speed of the change left Ye Yuwu speechless.

At this moment, Zhang Rouyan frowned. "Manager Ye, what brings you here? I can handle these matters."

Zhang Rouyan knew that Ye Yuwu had recently begun writing in seclusion. She trusted Ye Yuwu, which was why she entrusted the management of the bookstore to Zhang Rouyan for the time being. Zhang Rouyan did not want to bother Ye Yuwu with such troublesome matters.

"If I hadn't come, and you had actually started fighting, the government officials would have been alerted."

Wan Niang, standing to the side, touched her nose sullenly. "The government officials have already been alerted."

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of guards carrying knives walked over.

Upon seeing their attire, Manager Bao immediately feigned pitifulness, "Sir, it was them who caused trouble outside my bookstore!"

"Bah! Manager Bao, you dare to do it but not admit it! You confiscated our books and you still have the nerve to call the government."

Hua Ping caught up at this moment and explained the whole story to Ye Yuwu.

It turns out that the shopkeeper of the Moxiang Bookstore across the street saw that their Zhiyu Bookstore was selling well recently, sometimes even with long queues, and felt that their bookstore was stealing customers.

Not only did it steal customers, but it also caused writers who wanted to submit their manuscripts to stop coming and instead all went to Zhiyu Bookstore to submit them. In the long run, this would be very detrimental to his bookstore.

Unwilling to give up, Manager Bao secretly sent someone to find out that the reason for their booming business was their newly launched books and magazines, as well as that elegant dessert room.

The business was in full swing, and Manager Bao was envious. He hatched a plan and sent a spy to infiltrate the group and learn about their methods.

They perfectly imitated the Zhiyu Bookstore model, and started selling sweet soup in Moxiang Bookstore as well, at a price even lower than Zhiyu Bookstore. Whenever the bookstore lowered its prices, they would follow suit, and their prices were always lower than Zhiyu Bookstore's.

Moreover, Moxiang Bookstore also launched a book magazine, imitating Zhiyu Bookstore. In order to attract more people to submit their work, Manager Bao directly doubled the manuscript fees for those who submitted their work. Anyway, Manager Bao had money and wasn't afraid at all.

This directly led to a large number of writers submitting their work to the Ink Fragrance Bookstore, but the bookstore could not publish new issues because no one was submitting their work.

More importantly, they also published a serialized storybook.

They directly copied the novel "The Overbearing Prince Falls in Love with His Little Maid," only changing the name and some other parts. It's blatant plagiarism!

That wasn't enough. He seemed to realize that this type of storybook was profitable, so he found a ghostwriter to directly copy multiple copies, but the storylines were almost identical.

As he continued to plagiarize, Manager Bao began to reap the benefits, selling at least twice as many books as before. In particular, he attracted more money from women, as it used to be men who bought books. Who would have thought that women would be more willing to spend money than men?

The people hired by Manager Bao to infiltrate the Zhiyu Bookstore were discovered by Zhang Rouyan. She then discovered Manager Bao's actions, mainly his blatant attempts to undermine others.

Manager Bao even went so far as to loudly proclaim at the entrance of his bookstore that he was drawing all the customers who would otherwise stop at the bookstore to his Moxiang Bookstore.

Zhang Rouyan was furious and stormed to the Moxiang Bookstore to demand an explanation. But Manager Bao was not afraid at all. He claimed that he had not plagiarized, but that the plot just happened to be similar. He mocked them for being too autocratic, allowing only them to write and forbidding others from writing this type of story.

Finally, he mocked Ye Yuwu, saying that a woman like her was shameless to come out and do business in public, and that she would never be able to get married!

Zhang Rouyan was not as angry as he was about plagiarism as he was about slandering Ye Yuwu.

Because of his last words, Zhang Rouyan was instantly enraged and, disregarding her own image, started punching Manager Bao.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Rouyan, blinded by anger, was so strong that she pinned the defenseless shopkeeper to the ground and beat him without any chance to fight back.

Shopkeeper Bao shouted for the authorities, and his shop assistant, seeing this, ran off to the government office to "file a complaint."

And so the situation has become what it is now.

The shopkeeper on the other end was still stubbornly insisting that he hadn't plagiarized.

Uncle Li has already made the evidence public.

In his hands, he held books from Zhiyu Bookstore in his right hand and books from Moxiang Bookstore in his left. He turned to a page of a serialized story, where there were large sections of similar text, some of which had not even been changed.

The evidence was laid bare before everyone, leaving no room for denial. Ye Yuwu glanced at the two books but didn't look at them again, instead giving Manager Bao a cold laugh.

"Manager Bao! The evidence is conclusive. Do you have anything else to explain?" Ye Yuwu said to Manager Bao.

"What do I need to explain? I said there was no plagiarism, and that's it. Even if there was plagiarism, so what? Do you know who's behind Moxiang Bookstore? You people will never be able to reach them in your entire lives!" This is why Manager Bao is so fearless.

"My lord, this man is arrogant and dares to challenge the laws of our Jin Dynasty. He is spouting nonsense and is utterly lawless!"

Ye Yuwu's subtext was to tell the government officials: Take him away quickly. This man is as stupid as a pig. He actually shouted in the street that he has someone backing him. If we wait any longer, he will reveal who is backing him. No matter who it is, if it is revealed, his reputation will be ruined.

But the people in the government office didn't understand, or perhaps they did understand but were just pretending to be stupid. They even sided with Manager Bao, which made Manager Bao so proud that he was practically strutting around. "Hmph! Who is it that's spouting nonsense here?"

The shopkeeper was shameless enough to have the government arrest Zhang Rouyan and imprison her on the grounds of causing trouble.

Those who stayed at the bookstore naturally wouldn't stand idly by and watch Zhang Rouyan be taken away.

"Is there no law under the emperor's nose?!" Uncle Li said angrily, his neck stiff.

Manager Bao chuckled dismissively, seemingly finding Li Bo's words a joke. He looked around, enjoying their anger: "If you ask me, who knows who plagiarized whom! Our Moxiang Bookstore had its manuscript stolen, and who knows, maybe you stole it!"

Wow, Ye Yuwu was stunned by this shameless and treacherous act of turning the tables!