Chapter 90: A book hangs on the doorknob
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"Confused and degenerate, looking for change, enlightenment and salvation. ”
Lying on the bed, Liu Jingting thought of the Hollywood movie again, and remembered their classic syllogism: the protagonist starts with not being on the road, or indulging or depraved or mixed with the world, and then encounters a person or something that touches his heart, and finally awakens and makes the right choice.
Hollywood is popular all over the world, in addition to advanced film technology, this return to the original values of human nature is the root.
"Enemy of Love" The role played by Wellsmith in China is a dating expert, using years of experience in the love field, creating his own dating three killer tricks, trying all kinds of tricks, matching hundreds of couples in New York, and then helping a fat accountant pursue a beautiful female star, by mistake, he finally realized that his so-called dating tricks did not play a decisive role, and in the process of pursuing the beautiful reporter later, he realized more deeply that his pickling tricks were completely useless, and finally understood that love is not a game that can be played at will, it requires the body to do it, and it needs to be sincerely paid。
Liu Jingting's spoof confession plan for Yu Xiaoshu has a vague meaning in this regard, but his main purpose is not to let Yu Xiaoshu understand the true meaning of love in the process, but to ...... Spoof.
Just at this time, Yu Xiaoshu sighed, turned over, Liu Jingting smiled silently, although this roommate did not show how sad and heartbroken in front of everyone, and still maintained his daily indifference, but he was as witty as Liu Jingting, and he could still see the unhappiness in his heart, but compared to the previous stand-alone game alone, he finally had an interaction with Ye Chi, if Yu Xiaoshu could have the consciousness of "can't let you like me, then let you hate me", this result is not too bad.
"I hope Ye Chi is really Yi Shui'an's brainless fan. Liu Jingting thought secretly in his heart.
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The sun has just given its first rays in early winter. The cold streets are already squirming with people who get up early to go to work, like a quick-cut shot in a movie, someone is holding buns and soy milk, someone is looking at the newspaper, someone is looking at the mobile phone, someone is constantly standing on the side of the road to hail a taxi, and someone is looking sideways in the direction of the bus coming......
At this time, Xue Muliang, chairman of Dingjie Culture Company, editor-in-chief of "Ding Novel" magazine, and a new generation of best-selling kings, also hurried towards a brand-new building. Because his home is only a six-minute walk from the company.
A smart person once concluded that a person who walks to work for ten minutes a day has a 99% chance of being more successful than someone who takes the subway for an hour to work, and the success here is naturally a promotion, a raise, a CEO, a headhunter, and a CEO of a larger company......
Regardless of whether this sentence is true or not, squeezing the subway and bus every day is indeed a nightmare for many office workers.
Xue Muliang just walked to the door of the building. Suddenly, several junior high school girls with school bags on their backs jumped out, carrying milk and hamburgers in their hands. looked at Xue Muliang excitedly. said: "Xiaoliang, give you breakfast." ”
Xue Muliang smiled and said thank you to them, then politely refused their breakfast, and went straight into the revolving door, and several girls shouted at the back of the idol: "Xiaoliang, we will always support you!"
For these junior high school girls. Although he consciously passes by in front of this building every day, there are not many opportunities to meet Xue Muliang like this, so it is inevitable that he will be excited when he sees it "by chance".
And Xue Muliang, who has encountered this kind of thing several times. began to think carefully about how to avoid this point, and as soon as I walked to the door of the company, I saw all kinds of small notes pasted on the door without exception, such as "Come on", "Support you", "Xiaoliang should pay attention to his body", "Does Shen You have a boyfriend", "I like Luo Yan for a long time", "Adam is so cute"......
Xue Muliang once described such a thing affectionately in a column, but in real life, this kind of thing is actually ...... It's still quite troublesome, because it is tantamount to increasing the workload of the cleaning aunt.
No one in the company has come to work yet, Xue Muliang entered the office, made a cup of coffee by himself, and then began to review the text handed over by his subordinates yesterday, which needs to be signed, needs to make a decision, and needs to be redone.
This qiē has to be last night before the real work time, because when the assistant arrives, he will start the day's itinerary, interviews, announcements, manuscript appointments, and talk about a series of things about cooperation.
The new book "Sad Forest" is about to be released, and the next month will be very busy, the early warm-up, the press conference before the release of the book, the later release, etc., all have to be done by themselves, in fact, as early as the release of the first book, Xue Muliang was trying to understand the distribution process of the whole book, and now his hand has reached out to various large bookstores, including the placement of the book, the position of the poster must be reviewed by him.
In the writer industry, most of them are obscure otaku who are only willing to type on the keyboard, they are either high-minded, or not good at interpersonal communication, or they just want to be alone, write their own books, and read other people's books.
But there is also a small group of people in this group who not only write good stories, but are also very good at managing themselves and their own works, trying to get rid of every copyright in order to maximize the profits.
In an interview, Xue Muliang pointed out very clearly that when their company signs a work, in addition to looking at the characteristics and recognition of the work, the second is to judge whether the work has the potential to be adapted, such as comics, film and television.
As a result, these people become the people who stand tallest or the most obvious in the industry, and in layman's terms, they are the ones who make the most money.
In this country, those who give speeches, summarize the laws of success, and write autobiographies usually make a lot of money.
After Xue Muliang finished processing a stack of texts, he opened the micro-blog, browsed the latest information, paid attention to the dynamics of his opponents, focused on the direction of Qianhong, and then saw a few messages that made his brows frown slightly:
Yi Shui'an and Gu Yongsheng will jointly release the book at Christmas;
Han Shuo, the new editor-in-chief of the magazine and a youth microphone who has been dormant for a whole year, will launch his latest essay collection "Being a Teenager" on the first day of the next New Year;
In fact, for the shrewd Xue Muliang, this time, Yi Shui'an and Han Shuo's new book did not have much impact on him, because the sales of prose and essays have never been comparable to novels, and it has been proved that it has been proven. Han Shuo's essay sales can't even compare to the sales of novels by first-line authors in the Dingjie, and Yi Shui'an's "Half Petal Lotus" is the same.
What really gave Xue Muliang a headache was the recent rapid rise of Gu Yongsheng, after the impact of "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" and "White Horse Howling West Wind", the publishing industry has basically determined Gu Yongsheng's status as a best-selling upstart.
This time, Qianhong played an advertisement of "The ending of the white-haired witch will be warmly revealed in "Seven Swords", which is very inflammatory, so that she can't help but figure out the relationship between guò and take a copy in advance, not to mention the majority of readers?
Even more headaches are still to come, because at this time, Lu Yichou updated an update of the latest status: "Since Christmas is a double reed." Then New Year's Day can't let Han Shuo be lonely, after three days and nights of soft grinding and hard bubbles by the company's beautiful girl editorial team, the great Gu Yongsheng will publish a new martial arts short story in the near future, and the sad "Yue Nu Sword" and the heartbreaking "White Horse Howling West Wind" form an iron triangle novel collection, tenderly log in to the New Year's Day file - please call our conscience in the industry. Please call Gu Yongsheng a model worker in the industry!"
Xue Muliang snorted lightly, and his right hand subconsciously knocked on the table. Qianhong did so. The intention is too obvious, but it is aimed at itself.
"Novel collection, New Year's Day file, do you really think I'm afraid of you as a newcomer?" Xue Muliang muttered disdainfully.
At this time, his chief assistant carried a yellow bag into the office.
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Half an hour before Lu Yichou posted the microblog, he had been chatting with Gu Yongsheng, and he made certain predictions based on his own experience and sensitivity to the market. I hope that Gu Yongsheng's third short story is best a comedy, and for readers, sad stories can certainly baptize the soul and satisfy the deep inner demand for melancholy. But this is not to say that they blindly hope for tragedy.
This is the same as listening to songs and watching movies, sometimes people will inexplicably want to listen to a sad song and watch a sad movie, but this is only "sometimes".
Liu Jingting had to promise again that he would definitely write a comedy, and said directly to Lu Yichou: "You can confess to the readers, this time it must be a comedy, and the story is already there." ”
Even so, Lu Yichou still did not make any guarantees when he did the first warm-up, he had similar experience and knew the rules of novel creation, once a story formed its own rhythm, it was possible to get out of the author's control and embark on a completely different path from the original setting.
"Anyone who has had deep experience in writing knows that the story is often uncontrollable later, it seems that it is not the author who is writing the story, but the story is pulling the author forward. ”
Gu Yongsheng, who was sitting in the classroom, looked down at his mobile phone, suddenly laughed silently, and was about to press the keyboard to reply to the message, when he was suddenly slightly stunned, his eyes blinked quickly a few times, and the smile on his face became weird, and then replied: "Since you are not sure, it is better to do an activity to guess the ending this time." ”
"How?"
"At the end of the month, I will hand you the manuscript or An Beauty, you can serialize it on "Dajianghu" first, but I will hold the end of this story, and then I can call on everyone to guess the ending together, which is also a publicity, as for the novel collection, you can move it back, after all, "Seven Swords" is only on Christmas, and there must always be some time in between, otherwise it will be too dense. ”
"What do you mean, we editors should also guess together?"
"Okay?"
After a pause, Lu Yichou replied decisively: "It's been a long time since I've talked about the plot and pushed the plot with the author, this time I'll do as you say, I just took the opportunity to check the quality of the company's editors, and then I just said a good news, the sales of "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" will break through 2.2 million copies by the end of the year, breaking the record of 2.15 million for Xue Muliang's single book, and locking the first place of the year in advance, congratulations." ”
Gu Yongsheng replied modestly: "Unexpectedly, who else can it!"
"Haha, as for the serialization you mentioned, and then push the novel collection, I will think about it carefully, and then discuss it with Lao Wei and An, it shouldn't be a big problem. ”
Gu Yongsheng seemed to think of something interesting, the expression on his face was a little excited, and he was about to reply to Mr. Lu's message, when he suddenly heard the English teacher on the podium call his name: "Liu Jingting, you come to answer this question." ”
"Huh?" Liu Jingting looked up blankly and quickly stuffed his phone into the crack in the desk.
"Hmm, what are you doing, get up and answer the question. ”
Liu Jingting instinctively squinted his eyes and glanced at his tablemate, but saw that his tablemate lowered his head, looked at the book motionless, and completely ignored his request for help.
"Teacher, that, I didn't hear your question clearly. ”
"You shouldn't even know what class this is, right?" The middle-aged female teacher walked up to Liu Jingting with a calm face and asked, "Were you reading a novel just now, and you kept laughing and laughing, didn't you?"
Liu Jingting took out the prepared "scapegoat" magazine, and the female teacher was about to have a seizure, when she glanced at the magazine and saw that it was "English Square".
"Are you reading this magazine?"
Liu Jingting nodded sincerely, although today's high school English classes are all teaching everyone how to do questions, and after a class, no one says a few complete sentences of English, but Liu Jingting is still not stupid enough not to know what class this is.
"Tell me what you were looking at?"
"In English?" asked Liu Jingting, seemingly cautious.
The middle-aged English teacher naturally knew the strength of her class representative, hesitated slightly, waved her hand and said: "Forget it, I'll look at it when I get out of class in the future, and translate 'facts speak louder than words'." ”
Today's English class is mainly to teach everyone to translate the famous sayings in English, and a few have been taught on the blackboard, but this sentence has not yet been spoken, obviously deliberately embarrassing Liu Jingting, other students heard this question, and lowered their heads, for fear that the teacher would call themselves, and even the fierce girl who wanted to rob Liu Jingting's English class representative, also frowned, trying to write her answer on paper.
The English teacher looked at Liu Jingting, with a bit of smugness in his eyes, and was about to open his mouth to give a prompt, but he heard Liu Jingting say the answer without hesitation: "factsspeaklouderthanwords!"
The English teacher was stunned for a moment, looked down at the magazine again, the expression on his face changed several times, and finally said lightly: "Sit down." ”
Liu Jingting sat down quietly and didn't touch the phone again, the fierce woman glanced at Liu Jingting, then looked at her answer, and made a few strokes with a pen depressedly.
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Yu Xiaoshu has not taken any actual action since she scolded Ye Chi on the spot, and every time she sees Ye Chi on campus, she will stay away, and the relationship between Ye Chi and her delicate little boy has finally been reconciled.
At eleven o'clock at noon on December 20, Yi Shui'an's signed new book "Half-petal Lotus" was sent to Liu Jingting of Yuehe No. 1 Middle School as scheduled, and Liu Jingting handed it over to Yu Xiaoshu, who was stunned.
That night, Ye Chi invited his classmates to sing, naturally he didn't invite Yu Xiaoshu, but all the roommates in a 302 dormitory plus Sun Xinyang's girlfriend Sunan red enveloped the private room next door, and then, Yu Xiaoshu took the opportunity to go to the toilet and hung the plastic bag containing Yi Shui'an's new book on the doorknob of Ye Chi's private room, in addition to a book, there was also a note that said "Happy Birthday".
After Yu Xiaoshu finished this qiē, he entered his private room, first bowed in Liu Jingting's ear and sincerely said thank you, and then brazenly ordered a song "Love When You Die".
As soon as the song entered the chorus, the birthday girl happened to go out to answer the phone and found the plastic bag.
(To be continued)