Omg this is a little late but in the story arc about the plagiarist author - it’s apparently based on real life y’all!!! I’m pretty sure Tang Mengji is based on Tang Qi a really famous author in China. I know that she’s taken at least two BL novels written by an author named Windy and plagiarized while republishing them as normal heterosexual stories. One of them is 100 miles of peach blossoms which was made into a popular Cdrama. It was actually taken from Windy’s Peach Blossom Debt!
@everlastingice_277, omg you're right. I've heard of that plagiarist when I was really big into Danmei. It really angers me how plagiarists in China aren't punished but are rewarded, since copyright laws aren't exactly there. I really hope those plagiarists get whats coming for them, its disgusting how tang qi made so much money from turning BL stories into hetero stories.