Before retirement, Li Xiangyou was the vice-station master of Yibin TV Station. Recently, he published on a well-known forum in Yibin a 200,000 word realistic fiction novel that he had written called "Gourmet Lover". Due to the novel's very straightforward descriptions of sexual relations, it has caused a great reaction among Yibin Internet users. Some Internet users have posted replies questioning it, calling it "a pornographic novel".
Yesterday, Li Xiangyou responded to netizen doubts by saying: "It is indeed written relatively directly, but everyone actually knows what's going on with 'sex'. In order to make the novel more vivid, and also in order to dispel everyone's curious psychology, I've just unveiled the mysterious veil covering 'sex', but what I've written absolutely isn't a pornographic novel." Li Xiangyou said that he wrote this novel wanting to analyze for society the causes of lovers and response measures, wanting to educate everyone, absolutely not intending to write a pornographic novel.