so china has a very large pirated books industry, and what a lot of them do is that they'll print and bind webnovels and sell them for a very cheap price. this is how a lot of straight men get tricked into reading danmei, bc the covers look like 男频小说 / novels written for male readers or from male povs, like this mdzs one:

i call this witcherified!wwx

(also bc mdzs does sound like the title of a 男频小说 lmfaoo and it starts with some classic tropes in those novels too i.e. revenge, sacrificial rituals, some long-dead villain coming back to wreak havoc upon the world, etc etc. so a lot of them apparently didn't notice anything amiss until lwj got drunk LOL)

it gets worse, bc sometimes they'll also change the names and genders of one of the main characters so it turns into a "het" romance. idk how they do that bc i can't think of a single danmei that would make sense if one of the main characters was a girl, but like wtv 😂😂 anyway yes that's how many straight men in china end up reading danmei LMAO

"When it came to outrageous behaviour, Wei Wuxian was an expert."

he's a professional ragebaiter 😭😂