I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

Then, as if remembering something, he said with a grim face:

"But what if I don't say anything, and someone tries to steal the woman he likes away, and he runs off to America in a fit of anger? Wouldn't I become an even bigger sinner? He's always been a womanizer, and he protects his women like treasures."

Lu Yu pressed on, "So, you mean that García Borges is Ruyan's teacher, and that he is Chinese?"

Zhao Taidou said, "García Borges? That's more than that!"

He pointed at Liu Ruyan and said, "Look at the certificate in her hand, which names are on it?"

Xi Wendian grabbed his arm and said, "Teacher Zhao, please stop..."

Zhao Taidou rolled his eyes and glared at him, saying, "You think the Nobel Prize committee is so easy to fool? They've been watching me all along; they should have known by now!"

Lu Yu walked up to Liu Ruyan, examined the certificate in her hand, and tried to identify the name on it.

"He...mingway?"

Liu Ruyan said softly, "No need to look. These three people are Hemingway Faulkner, Kawabata Haruki, and Tolstoy."

Lu Yu looked blank. She had vaguely heard these names, but she didn't know much about what they had done.

In the studio, Gao Xiaobo's chair tipped over, and he plopped down on the floor.

Yu Hua smiled wryly: "This century has captured all the best literature."

Chapter 42 Shocks the Entire United States

Upon hearing Zhao Taidou finally reveal the truth, Xi Wendian covered his face in exhaustion.

"Professor Zhao, in this way, China's Nobel Prize..."

He hesitated.

Zhao Taidou patted him on the shoulder.

it is more than words.

The Nobel Prize awarding rules are extremely strict.

In two situations, they will not award prizes.

Firstly, awards are not given to people who are already dead.

Secondly, those who have already won the Nobel Prize will not win it again.

For example, Einstein never won a prize for his theory of relativity.

He won the award because of the photoelectric effect.

Subsequently, even as the theory of relativity was gradually proven to be correct, the Nobel Prize was not awarded to him again.

The Nobel Prize is a lifetime honor, and it is absolutely impossible to award it twice to the same person.

That's why he had been stopping Zhao Taidou from revealing the truth.

What would happen if the Nobel Prize committee found out the truth?

Thinking about this, Xi Wendian felt like cursing.

Liu Chenmin and his gang had no idea how big a mess he had made!

In the studio, Gao Xiaobo, his chubby body just getting up from the floor, straightened his chair, and said, covered in sweat:

"This floor is really slippery."

Jupiter asked curiously, "Professor Yu, Professor Gao, do you recognize the people on these three new Nobel Prize certificates?"

Yu Hua smiled wryly: "It's more than just knowing each other. Haven't you read 'Norwegian Wood'? Haven't you read 'The Catcher in the Rye'?"

Jupiter exclaimed, "Oh dear, I've read it, but I usually don't look at the author's name when I read books..."

Yu Hua explained, “Norwegian Wood is a work by Haruki Kawabata, while The Catcher in the Rye is a work by Ernest Hemingway Faulkner.”

Jupiter said, "Now that you mention it, I know. And there's another one? The one called... Tolstoy."

Yu Hua said, "That one, that one is even more heavyweight."

Yu Hua didn't say much, seemingly still immersed in the shock, so Jupiter turned to ask Gao Xiaobo:

"Teacher Gao, could you... introduce me as well as the audience?"

Gao Xiaobai wiped the sweat from his brow and said, "Okay, I'll give a brief introduction. Actually, these people are all very famous; I'm just providing some background information for those who don't know them."

"Who should we start with? Let's start with Hemingway Faulkner, who was associated with García Borges."

"When we were talking about Gabriel García Borges earlier, we mentioned that he pioneered magical realism, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a great book of magical realism."

"Actually, he has predecessors. This lineage is very obvious. In literary history, many literary researchers have discussed where García Borges' inspiration came from. It came from Hemingway Faulkner."

Nine years ago, a novel that caused a sensation in the literary world was born. The name of this book is "The Sound and the Fury".

Jupiter's expression seemed to say that she had never heard of this book.

Gao Xiaobo said, "It's normal not to have heard of it. This book is extremely obscure to the average person, but its narrative style shocked writers all over the world—you can write like this?! That was basically everyone's thought at the time."

Jupiter wondered, "What's so special about the narrative technique?"

Gao Xiaobai said, "I won't presume to teach you this; let Teacher Yu Hua explain it."

Jupiter turned its head towards Yu Hua, who then slowly said:

"Didn't I say before that I have two teachers, one of whom is Gabriel García Borges?"

“The other one is Hemingway Faulkner?” Jupiter asked.

“Yes,” Yu Hua said with a smile, “the other one is Hemingway Faulkner.”

He crossed his arms and said, "Actually, literature is something that rises spirally by stepping on the shoulders of predecessors. No one is born knowing how to write; everyone learns by imitating others."

"First imitate others, then forge your own path, and then try to surpass them. This process of surpassing is like fighting with your teacher."

“Some people win the battle and forge their own path. Others keep fighting,” Yu Hua said. “You’re like Mo Yu, who has been fighting with Gabriel García Borges. And me, I’ve been fighting with Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.”

Jupiter understood and asked, "You and Professor Mo are already top figures in Chinese literature, are you still unable to escape the shadow of your predecessors?"

Yu Hua said with a smile, "If you don't write books, you can't understand the fear of being controlled by them."

After saying that, he suddenly realized something was wrong and corrected himself, "I misspoke, it wasn't 'they,' it was 'he'!"

Jupiter was momentarily lost in thought.

After listening to them talk so much, she just couldn't believe that all these amazing people were actually the same person.

Gao Xiaobo opened his fan and said from the side, "Hemingway, Faulkner, and another book that's very popular among niche literary youth—The Great Gatsby."

Jupiter nodded: "Yes, yes, I've heard of it. Did he write this too?"

"It was him. Many people know this book from 'Norwegian Wood,' but they didn't expect that it was written by the same person."

At this point, he shook his head and continued, "He also wrote a book that most junior high and high school students in recent years probably know, 'The Old Man and the Sea'."

Jupiter clapped her hands and said, "Oh! I know that too, it's in the textbook!"

Yu Hua interjected, "This one book alone is enough for him to win a Nobel Prize."

Jupiter's eyes widened: "This book is that amazing?"

On the screen, comments scrolled by:

"I cried while reading 'The Old Man and the Sea'..."

"Yes, yes, I think it's quite good. During Chinese class, the teacher was going over other texts, and I flipped to the section on 'The Old Man and the Sea' first, and ended up reading the whole thing by accident..."

"I didn't feel anything while reading 'The Old Man and the Sea,' but I cried while reading 'The Catcher in the Rye.'"

"I cried while watching 'The Catcher in the Rye' +1"

……

After expressing his amazement, Gao Xiaobai continued with his explanation:

"As I just said, Gabriel García Borges is a cultural phenomenon in the United States. If you don't know him, you'd be embarrassed to call yourself a member of the cultural world."

"Actually, it's a bit of an exaggeration. In the United States, you might still have a chance of survival if you don't know García Borges, but if you say you don't know Hemingway Faulkner, that's a big deal. You could be stripped of your citizenship on the spot."

For a long time, Hemingway Faulkner was assumed to be American because he mostly told American stories.

"In the United States, whether in the literary world or among the general public, he stirred up a huge wave—no exaggeration, only the word 'huge wave' can describe it."

"Half of America's youth are holding his 'The Catcher in the Rye,' imitating the protagonist's speech and attitude towards life."

"This book is also listed as 'essential reading for all American high school students.' It is recommended by all schools and parents, and all American youth know about it and have read it. It covers everything."

"Okay, half of the young people are holding 'The Catcher in the Rye', and the other half are holding 'On the Road'."

"After the book 'On the Road' was published, it boosted sales of jeans and coffee machines by hundreds of millions, and tricked countless American youths into starting a life of wandering and roaming all over the United States."

"That's right, this book was also written by Hemingway Faulkner."

"The books 'On the Road' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' together shaped the hippie culture, which is still popular in the United States today."

Yu Hua said, "He also wrote 'The Sound and the Fury,' 'On My Dying,' 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro,' 'Absalom! Absalom!'... These books have a literary impact comparable to a nuclear bomb."

Gao Xiaobo counted on his fingers and concluded: "Young people admire him, the literary world praises him, and the cultural world reveres him. In the United States, Hemingway Faulkner's status can only be described as 'unparalleled'!"

After he finished speaking, he wiped his sweat again.

In his opinion, someone who "shocked the entire United States" could not possibly be Chinese.

But after being so thoroughly humiliated by García Borges's actions, he dared not draw any conclusions now.

Jupiter took a deep breath: "So... what would happen if we revealed that he is actually Chinese?"

Gao Xiaobo was still chuckling awkwardly, while Yu Hua revealed a sly smile: "Who knows, it'll probably shock the whole of America again."

Gao Xiaobo didn't really want to talk about this topic, so he changed the subject and said, "Putting aside what the United States is like, now that this has been exposed, the Japanese and Russians are definitely even more devastated."

Jupiter asked, "How so?"

Chapter 43 Paying Tribute to You

Gao Xiaobo said: "Russia and Japan are both nations with very distinctive personalities."

"Russia's geographical location is cold and frigid, so its people are particularly militant; Japan's land is narrow and prone to volcanoes and earthquakes, so its people are very delicate and admire the pathos of things."

"Both of these ethnic groups are very unique in their art. So unique that you can tell at a glance that their works were written by people from their own country."

"And Tolstoy and Kawabata Haruki took their national character to the extreme."

Jupiter asked, "What books did they write?"

Gao Xiaobo said, "Haruki Kawabata wrote 'Snow Country,' 'The Old Capital,' 'Thousand Cranes,' 'Norwegian Wood,' 'Kafka on the Shore,' 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,' um... and..."

Yu Hua said, "There are also 'The Dancing Girl of Izu' (a collection of short stories), 'Dance! Dance! Dance!' and 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'."

Gao Xiaobai nodded: "Yes, Teacher Yu remembers it better."

Yu Hua continued, "Tolstäfsky, as I just mentioned, is even more important because he wrote: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Resurrection, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov."

He continued, "As Russian President Pushkin said: 'You don't know Russia if you don't know Tolstoy.' His status in Russia is higher than that of Hemingway Faulkner in America."

Jupiter asked, "What about Haruki Kawabata?"

"Opinions are mixed," Yu Hua said. "Haruki Kawabata's early and later works have completely different styles. Works like 'Snow Country' are very 'Japanese' and extremely traditional, while his later works are more bourgeois, leaning towards an American style, and less Japanese."

"Oh." Jupiter didn't quite understand.

Yu Hua said, "In addition, the reason why he is viewed differently in Japan is that he strongly opposes Japan's war of aggression. In the novel, he criticizes the unjust war many times, which arouses widespread resentment among Japanese right-wing people."

Then he smiled and said, "However, his later novels sold exceptionally well; they were bestsellers."

Jupiter suddenly realized: "No wonder! It's because he's Chinese that he criticizes war in his book."

"Maybe."

Gao Xiaobo put away his fan and said, "Actually, I should have realized long ago that these four writers are the same person."

Jupiter turned its head toward him.

“You see, Gabriel García Borges’ style is remarkably similar to that of Ernest Hemingway and Faulkner, and Haruki Kawabata often mentions Hemingway and Faulkner’s books in his own writings, and they all bear the mark of Tolstoy.”

Jupiter nodded: "No wonder!"

Gao Xiaobo paused, then said, "The only thing that's hard to explain is why he created so many aliases? Why didn't he just write it himself?"