The night before Yang Lilu's birthday, Liu Jingting made a transatlantic call to Hu Xiaomi and asked the same question as Yang Lilu.

"If none of this exists, what would you think of me?"

Hu Xiaomi laughed first, and then said: "I didn't expect Gu Yongsheng to ask such a hypocritical question." ”

Liu Jingting smiled bitterly and said "um", nodded and admitted, just because of some reasons that were not obvious to outsiders, Liu Jingting still wouldn't explain too much, and continued to wait for Hu Xiaomi's answer.

"First of all, let me ask you a question, if it's not writing, how do we know each other?"

"Makes sense. ”

"Secondly, I don't think the question itself has any meaning, writing is originally a part of you, why don't you assume that zài, two people get along, whether they are lovers or friends, it must be because they have each other's favorite strengths and traits, such as a sense of humor, such as being educated, such as being able to sing, if this hypothesis is true, these connections themselves are not valid, a girl likes a boy who plays basketball well, but you let that boy stop playing basketball, it is logically unreasonable, so what is the point of your assumption？”

Liu Jingting couldn't answer this question, so he had to remain silent.

Hu Xiaomi paused for a while and said, "Why don't you speak, you won't feel uncomfortable, right?"

"No, I'm thinking about what you're saying. ”

Hu Xiaomi's tone was slightly hesitant, and said: "In the past, when you wrote a new novel, you always wrote a chapter to show me, and that feeling was very good, I felt very lucky and happy at that time, I could read a story that became popular so long in advance." When I first arrived in the U.S., I missed those days. ”

"If you want to see it, you can do that now. ”

"Nope. I still like to read the novels you wrote, but now my mentality is different from before, I used to want to read them in advance because I felt that I had a special sense of superiority, I felt that I knew you well, I was my own person, but now, I would rather wait for the serialization or the whole book to come out. ”

"Because it's not as ripe as it used to be?"

"It's not. Hu Xiaomi thought for a while and continued: "No need, and in fact, it doesn't prove anything." ”

Liu Jingting nodded. Then he thought that the other person couldn't see it at all, and said, "That's just as well." ”

"By the way, why did you suddenly remember to ask that question? ”

"It's hypocritical. ”

Hu Xiaomi, and then said, "Since you asked so." I'm still going to be honest with you. If you don't know how to write and we happen to know each other, I think we can still be good friends. ”

Liu Jingting was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Yes." ”

"By the way, well, that roommate's name is Yang Lilu, right?"

"Huh?"

"Don't, when I saw her on Broadway that day, I knew that you had a cat between you, and then I went to your apartment. She dragged us to play the game for so long, for fear that the two of us would go out and do something. Haha, what a lovely girl, isn't it?"

“……”

Both of them stopped talking, and were silent for half a minute, Hu Xiaomi said: "Liu Jingting, I miss the days when we first met, pure good friends, like girlfriends, can talk about everything, and don't think about some messy things, and then ...... It's a little messy, and it's a little weird. ”

"I think so too. ”

"That'...... Shall we try again?"

"Okay. ”

……

After Hu Xiaomi hung up the phone, a teardrop from the corner of her left eye slowly slipped down her face, she didn't tell Liu Jingting just now, she was just watching the second "Legend of the Condor Heroes", and happened to see the twenty-sixth "New Alliance Old Testament", Guo Jing said categorically that he was going to Huazheng as his wife, Huang Rong was more and more sad, and said:

[Brother Jing, I understand, she and you are all the way. You two are a pair of white eagles in the desert, and I'm just a swallow under the willow branches in the south of the Yangtze River. 】

A long time ago, at that time, Liu Jingting was still writing "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain", and his fame was not as big as it is now, that day, he came to his rented room to eat, praised the delicious food he made, and said that he would write a novel in the future, and the heroine in it was a master of cooking.

Therefore, when Hu Xiaomi saw the role of Huang Rong, her mood was complicated and indescribable.

It wasn't until Liu Jingting suddenly asked this question, and then that he hesitated between his words to make him understand one thing, Huang Rong in the story may not have anything to do with him, and even he may be the unpleasant Hua Zheng.

It seems that he and Gu Yongsheng knew each other the earliest and experienced a lot of turmoil together, but now that I recall it, the connection between the two is almost all related to novels.

And Liu Jingting's question made her suddenly realize that she had invested too much in the virtual world, so much that she couldn't answer his question clearly.

So this time, is he, like Guo Jing, has found the little swallow under the willow tree, but because of some kind of morality, he has to continue to compete with his white eagle?

Hu Mi couldn't accept this inference, so she offered to try again, which was the best implication before Liu Jingting said anything.

……

"Not every beautiful sentence represents the truth, Guo Jing and Huang Rong are a match made in heaven. ”

After the birthday party ended, Xu Qing entered Yang Lilu's room and analyzed with her why Liu Jingting asked that question.

"Guo Jing wants to marry Huang Rong just because he wants to be trustworthy and fulfills his promise, and it has nothing to do with love, that kid is the lyrical borrowing of the setting of Tong Guò, the girl in the United States is Hua Zheng, and you are Huang Rong, you are the little swallow under the willow tree, Huang Rong's sad complaint is the best hint, think about it, why willows, why not plane trees, peach trees, pine trees?"

Xu Qing had already grasped the mystery, patted her eldest niece on the shoulder and taught earnestly: "Because the willow tree is his own metaphor." ”

He asked that question......

"Isn't that the most common question between young lovers? If I had nothing, would you have done the same to me, and the answer you answered without hesitation was the perfect answer of all the similar questions I have ever heard. ”

Yang Lilu shook her head and said, "I didn't think about it that much. ”

"That's the most precious thing. ”

……

When everyone thought that the story of Yang Lilu and Liu Jingting was finally about to turn around, the two parties tacitly kept their troops still.

Yiqiē seems to have returned to the state when he was doing dramas, Liu Jingting and Yang Lilu soaked in the study hall of the apartment all day long, sitting side by side, writing and translating one by one, occasionally exchanging two sentences, and completely maintaining a suitable distance.

Lin Xun ran to peek several times, but he didn't find any intimate behavior between the two of them, and he couldn't help but be discouraged and disappointed.

In November, it slowly ended in this unscientific atmosphere, and the second issue of "Craftsman's Record" was launched as scheduled.

In the last questionnaire survey, everyone's expectations for "Journey to the West" have been infinitely close to "Lu Xiaofeng", and the second and third episodes of the latest magazine serialization are even more exciting, which amazes readers with disgust.

These two times wrote that Sun Wukong returned from school, stepped on the demon king of the mixed world, and then brushed the copy of the Dragon Palace, and got the Ruyi golden hoop stick, golden crown, golden armor, cloud shoes and other equipment, and then brushed the copy of the underworld, completed the task of modifying the book of life and death, and finally left a Tai Bai Xing to pass on the decree of heaven, claiming to confer the suspense of the official knight.

From a certain point of view, "Journey to the West" is the originator of later generations of online literature, but once it is serialized, the author has to bear the criticism of readers as "out of context".

……

In a professor's office at Yan University, Wu Qiguang closed the "Craftsman's Record" and frowned. (To be continued......)