"It's all high school students buying that stuff," says Liang. Romance novels are written by "craftsman" authors, who must meet strict publisher requirements about the ratio of sex scenes, the types of characters, etc. These formulaic novels are too divorced from reality, however, and the market naturally has taken a jolt now that online love stories have come along with more realistic story lines and language.
「都是高中生在買，」梁永華說，「羅曼史」是出版社的「寫手」所作，對情色場面的比例、角色鋪陳的安排等細節都有嚴格規範，離現實太遠，所以當題材、語言、媒介都更貼近生活的網路愛情故事出現時，「羅曼史」市場當然受到衝擊。