Blue Checkerboard

In this chapter, we learn that the protagonist's name is Linquan, and that he is the brother of the protagonist, zheng huayan. Linquan is a young man who has fallen in love with his crush, but he does not know how to respond to the crush's offer to help him. Worried that his brother will fall in love as well, the protagonist asks the author of the novel if falling in love is stupid. The author replies that it is not stupid, but a foolish man trapped by his emotions. The protagonist then asks if the protagonist will go out with him on a date, and the author responds that he will not. Believing that the author is trying to pray, he asks the protagonist if he is praying or something, like going on a prayer walk. He replies that he has a real-life example right beside him. He tells the author that his own brother is an introvert, but that his crush has helped him in the past, but has not yet taken the opportunity to help the protagonist. Intrigued, the author tells the protagonist that if his brother is bold, then his crush must be bold too. Echoing the author's words, the reader will kill him if he writes a slow love story like this one. . The reader will not kill the author if he wrote a slow-burn love story, he says, because the protagonist is quiet and will not take the initiative to help his brother. He also says that the reader would kill him even if he did 10,000 push-ups, because he would not be able to create a strong character like his brother, who will never take up the challenge. The narrator then tells the reader that his previous novels may have been too idealized, because his characters were too mild-tempered. He adds that his novels may not have been as good as