Chapter 683: Gratifying Truth
"Isn't it, Zhang Chu actually has depression?"
This has a picture and the truth, and Li Xiaotian has to believe this news.
He hugged his phone and couldn't help but wail twice, he hadn't seen enough yet!
I just got into the pit because of "The Da Vinci Code", and I am watching what Zhang Chu wrote before.
Although there is still a large part to finish reading, I definitely don't want to see such a promising writer being knocked down by illness!
Li Xiaotian doesn't know much about depression, he only knows that many celebrities or artists have suffered from this disease, and it seems that they can't manage their emotions well, and even commit suicide like Robin Williams, the lead singer of the Lincoln Band and the world-class comedy master.
"What's wrong with the world? Why do people who are engaged in literary and artistic creation always get this disease? I hope Zhang Chu can recover, I still want to read a few more books he wrote!"
Lu Qi, the roommate who was playing the game, suddenly raised his head, and after controlling his game character to hide in the corner of the room, he asked: "Where did you get the news from, isn't Zhang Chu still in school? ”
Li Xiaotian stood up from the chair, and then handed the phone to Lu Qi, "Well, you can see for yourself." Someone filmed him saying goodbye to the doctor at the door of the office, and it was really a hammer. ”
"Have you ever seen a depressed person talking to a doctor with a smile, aren't they all bitter and hateful? Maybe Zhang Chu is just too stressed, go to a psychiatrist to talk, it is already very common in Europe and the United States to find a psychiatrist!"
"I haven't met anyone who suffers from depression, and I don't know how they usually deal with doctors. Many people are like this, smiling in front of others, and only removing that fake smile when they are alone. ”
Lu Qi still didn't believe that Zhang Chu would get this kind of disease, he secretly speculated in his heart, could it be that Zhang Chu was often worried about new books or worried that no one would like them when they were written, so he was depressed.
In his mind, he has already helped sketch the image of an author who writes diligently and buries his head in coding words all day long!
"It's said on the Internet that this disease is very troublesome, and I don't want to see any tragedy happen. ”
"Let's wait for official news, no matter what, I hope he can write a good book, how can such a good writer not write more books!"
It's not just the people in this dormitory who are discussing Zhang Chu's depression, even the Yanda dormitory, and there are many people who care about Zhang Chu.
An Mi looked at her phone solemnly, completely unexpecting that her friend would go back to Longguan Hospital.
As a person who grew up in Yanjing, the name of Huilongguan Hospital has always been well known to him, and everyone jokes about it occasionally.
How can a person who usually looks sunny and handsome, writes well and likes sports, suffer from this disease?
He couldn't figure it out!
"Do you say we should ask Zhang Chu, what if this is fake news?" Yang Ling said with some hesitation, "It is said that depression is the time when we need friends the most, if we don't help him, can we count on others?"
Sun Ruiqi looked at his mobile phone and said solemnly: "Now I'll call and ask him, instead of believing the news on the Internet, it is better to ask the person directly to come directly." ”
"I'm afraid that this news is true, so aren't we just going to stimulate him?" Anmi was a little hesitant at this time, and sometimes he didn't want to be comforted and encouraged!
"Let's pay more attention to these things in the future, next time we go to his house to watch the ball game together, how about calling him to participate in the school's group activities?"
"Don't leave him alone for a long time. ”
……
Xin Siqi thought it was strange, didn't Zhang Chu come to the hospital to collect materials for the new book?
How did it turn out that Zhang Chu was coming to see a doctor, this is completely a picture at the beginning, and the content is all up to the editor!
When they were in the hospital, their group of nurses took a large stack of books and were looking for Zhang Chu to sign autographs, and many people took photos with him.
As a nurse in the hospital and a fan of Zhang Chu, Xin Siqi crackled and began to type on Weibo, originally her painting style on Weibo was to forward all kinds of things, and it was the first time that she was so formal.
However, even if she sent a photo of herself and an autographed book, no one replied at all, and the amount of reading was no different from usual!
Even if she wants to refute the rumors, the rest of the netizens can't see the content of this Weibo at all.
Similarly, the official website of the hospital in Huilongguan also released photo news earlier, Wei Yongxin did not receive Zhang Chu in vain and introduced and explained, this has become part of the publicity!
[The well-known young writer Zhang Chu came to our institute to collect the style of the new book]
This news is hanging on the homepage of the official website, but no one clicks on its homepage to view it!
Rumors spread more and more widely on the Internet, and occasionally a few skepticists were covered up under the tide.
The news even spread overseas!
With "The Da Vinci Code" gaining worldwide attention, the news of Zhang Chu's depression is well-known in the literary publishing industry and the entertainment industry.
CNN and a number of newspapers reported on it, and the discussion on Twitter was even as hot as Weibo!
[Zhang Chu, the author of "The Da Vinci Code", suffers from depression]
[Booker Prize winner and Chinese writer Zhang Chu was exposed to suffer from depression!]
[The author, who has dominated the global book market for a month, was recently found struggling with depression on social media.] 】
[Another writer who fell into depression]
Domestic and foreign media are the same, they don't care about the truth of the news, but care whether the content is read or not, anyway, it's all reprinted news!
Instead, those overseas readers were deceived by the news content and photos, which seems reasonable.
Even if Zhang Chu is still alive and well now, some readers have already started to brush him with RIP.
……
So it is not surprising that Zhang Chu, who is archiving materials, received a transatlantic call from Blair.
Previously, he only went to Yan University to take two elective courses, and then he returned home non-stop and began to archive the content of today's chat with the doctor, and then selected the main points to record them!
As the saying goes, a good memory is better than a bad pen, and these things may be used later in the writing, but it will be troublesome to find when the time comes, so he put what he summarized in a document.
The sound of tapping on the keyboard in the study was not writing "Norwegian Wood", this writing was more than two hours, and there was no opening of anything on the Internet at all.
As an obsessive-compulsive disorder, his mobile phone messages did not turn on any message push, so he missed the stage of watching his own news.
"Are you okay?"
Zhang Chu was a little confused by Blair's words, and subconsciously replied: "It's not bad." ”
"I read the news that you are struggling with depression, so I will call you this number, if you need it, I will be there for you as a friend at any time!"
"I don't need a man to accompany me, who else said I have depression?" Zhang Chu likes cute girls, it's too dangerous to have a British man by his side, after all, it's a rotten country.
Blair said to himself on the other side of the phone: "I know it's your personal privacy, but now the whole world probably knows about it." Depression is not something to be feared, it is a relatively common thing in our country, if you want to talk to someone, you can call me day or night. ”
In public and private, Blair didn't want to see any accidents for Zhang Chu, a young man who was only twenty years old, and the future was still very good, and he should not fight against this disease.
Zhang Chu rolled his eyes and said truthfully: "I don't know where you got the false news, I did go to the hospital today, but I went for a new book." The heroine of my new book suffers from depression, but I don't know much about it myself, so I went to the doctor!"
"Really?" Blair was a little incredulous, but his focus was instantly shifted, "You started thinking about a new book so quickly?"
"After a month's break, it's time to get back to work. This time, the new book will be about the love story of young people in our country, and it may affect sales in Europe and the United States, so don't have too high expectations!"
He didn't want Blair to wait for the release of his new book with great anticipation, only to find out that this was not the type he was expecting.
It is almost impossible for "Norwegian Wood" to be a big hit in a short period of time, and the book follows the route of word-of-mouth, book reviewers, and awards, and it is estimated that it will not be sold until word-of-mouth slowly ferments.
Fortunately, Blair actually understands Zhang Chu's current situation, with "The Da Vinci Code" breaking the record in the past, no matter what kind of works he writes later, he will be compared.
It is difficult to surpass it with commercial works, so it is a good choice to write more literary works in a different genre.
Now Zhang Chu's popularity and the popularity of his adaptations can help him last for at least three to five years, and his popularity and income will not decline significantly in the past few years.
But Blair's concern is that if Zhang Chu is immersed in pure literary creation, it will obviously not be a good thing for Random House!
A large publishing company like Random House would definitely choose between a super-best-selling author and a writer.
"I'm curious, you've written a lot of love elements in it, and now you're going to write a book about love, so have you really been in love?" Blair changed the subject without a trace, he didn't want to blindly verify the depression.
Zhang Chu has a black line, is it difficult to dismantle it!
When an Englishman who wanders through the flowers says this, he is completely mocking.
"Goodbye!"
After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone, what's wrong with the single dog, just enough to be with the single cat at home.
At this time, Zhang Chu suddenly glanced at matcha, shouldn't his own matcha also be off the list?
There must be a cat outside, otherwise why would I want to run out every day!
Putting this resentment away for the time being, he opened the Weibo website and took a look, only to find that the news of his depression was registered in the major media, and netizens were praying worriedly.
"What's the matter, I didn't find out about it, didn't even the people in the company find out?"
Zhang Chu felt a slight dissatisfaction in his heart, he quickly picked up his mobile phone and opened WeChat, found Zhou Kang's name and sent a message to ask: "Uncle Zhou, just now I found out that the whole Internet is talking about my depression, didn't you explain and clarify?"
Zhou Kang seemed to have anticipated this for a long time, and soon sent a long voice explanation: "When the staff of the Propaganda Department found out about the problem, it had already been spread all over the Internet, and those photos and videos looked very convincing. Later, we had a meeting to discuss it, maybe this would be a good opportunity to promote the new book, and in two days we asked Huilongguan Hospital to be interviewed to clarify the truth, and the public will know. ”
To these staff, this is more like pie in the sky, which can get so many readers to pay attention, and when the time comes, it is natural to focus on the new book.
However, Zhang Chu didn't buy it, this rumor of being rumored to be sick was not a good thing at all, and if it was clarified at that time, some people would definitely say that this was selling miserably.
"It's easy to backfire on this kind of marketing, especially since I haven't even written a new book yet. I don't want the whole world to think I'm depressed. ”
As the boss, Zhang Chu's words must be listened to even if it is Ye Shumei, the general manager, although Zhou Kang is a little regretful, he can only agree.
"I'm going to ask Xiaohui of the public relations department to use the company's official WeChat to release the news, and then I will also contact Director Wei Yongxin for an interview, and their hospital will definitely cooperate, this is the best opportunity to promote the hospital!"
After listening to Zhou Kang's voice, Zhang Chu put his mobile phone aside for the time being, and he started Weibo on the Internet, he didn't want his friends to worry, and he didn't want readers around the world to worry.
Although he wanted to call on the world to pay attention to depression, he didn't think about pretending to be sick and sympathetic.
Soon, in the midst of the uproar, the official Weibo of Hanlin Culture Media released new content, this time directly intercepting the news from the official website of Huilongguan Hospital, and the picture said: "I'm sorry to make everyone worried, the news that Zhang Chu was hospitalized for depression circulating on the Internet today is untrue." Zhang Chu is very physically and mentally healthy, and this visit to the hospital is only for the preparation and actual investigation of the content of the new book. Please be rational about Internet rumors, don't believe rumors, don't spread rumors!"
Not only did they issue this notice, but they also updated the relevant content on Zhang Chu's personal official website, listing a new book in the works column, but the title of the book was replaced by five.
In order to turn the situation around in a very short time, the staff of the public relations department can be regarded as busy, they are looking for help in Zhang Chu's hardcore readership, mobilizing the majority of fans to refute the rumors under those fake news.
The power of one person is weak, and the power of so many fans is the most powerful when gathered!