34. Chapter 034
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Faced with Mike's more solemn question, Ji Cheng thought seriously for a while.
"Actually, I've been planning to have a boyfriend lately, but, you know, Chinese girls are more cautious about this kind of thing, so I can't just get out of the single, and we've only known each other for less than twenty-four hours. So, even though you're my type, I can't give you an answer right now. โ
"Oh my god, I forgot." Mike gave a look of realisation and patted his head, "I'm sorry, I was abrupt." โ
He looked around, found the restaurant's sticky notes, and wrote a string of numbers on it: "Maybe you'd like to make friends with me first?" โ
"Putting aside the possibility of the future, I'd love to have your friendship." Ji Cheng took the piece of paper, "Do you need my number?" โ
"Uh, no." Mike scratched his head embarrassedly, "Olivia has already given it to me before. โ
โโฆโฆ Well, now let's hurry up and finish this buffet, and then I'm going to settle accounts with my close friends. Ji Cheng sighed.
When Ji Cheng returned to school, Olivia was on the phone with Jenson to report the results: "I think this time will be successful, didn't you see the way Mike looked at Orange, and the atmosphere between the two of them, oh, I think we will probably have a chance to have a foursome date soon." โ
Ji Cheng leaned against the door frame and silently looked at Olivia, who was very excited about making a phone call, and the other party didn't find her until half a minute later.
"Oh, that's kind of." Olivia looked at her slightly embarrassed, then hung up Jenson's phone, was silent for a moment, and opened her arms to Ji Cheng, "Do you want a loving hug?" Today I can let you rub your breasts as much as you want."
"Don't try to change the subject." Ji Cheng looked at Olivia with a stern expression, and then walked over and hugged her and rubbed her, "Even if you let me rub, you can't escape the obligation to explain, you actually gave my number to others." โ
"Don't worry, Mike is a reliable man, his parents and Jenson's parents are old friends, and Jenson also guarantees his character."
"Oh, Olivia, Olivia." Ji Cheng repeated his best friend's name a little helplessly, "Do you just want me to have a boyfriend and go on a foursome date with you?" โ
"No, that's not what I care about." Olivia's expression became serious, "You need a reliable boyfriend to watch you, I mean really." โ
"I know, but I don't know if I'll like him, you throw me an innocent little boy so directly, okay, his biological age is older than me, but ......"
Ji Cheng stopped talking and talked, as if he was a little annoyed, and finally turned a thousand words into one sentence: "It's really troublesome to fall in love." โ
"If you're really in love with Mike, you don't feel that way, you think love is the most wonderful thing in the world."
"No, it won't." Ji Cheng did not agree with Olivia's opinion, correcting her: "For me, the most beautiful thing in the world is to watch someone realize their dreams and be happy. โ
"Wait, what do you mean?" Olivia was a little confused by her words, "Who is [someone]?" Do you already have someone you like? โ
"Nope." Ji Cheng said the word again, trying to explain to Olivia, "This kind of liking and expectation is not based on the love between men and women, sweetheart, you must know that life is not only about love, there is also a thing called faith." โ
"Faith?" Olivia was stunned for a few seconds, still confused, "Okay, I still don't understand, maybe I should ask Jenson's mother, she's a devout Christian." โ
"Not that kind of faith." Ji Cheng stretched out his hands and grabbed in the air, a little crazy, "Forget it, you don't have to figure it out, because I can't explain QWQ myself"
"If you can't explain it clearly, why are you sure it's not love?" Olivia suddenly ran out with such a sharp question.
"It's simple." Ji Cheng thought about it for a while and came up with the answer, "For example, do you remember the seascape photos of Moorea Island that we saw before, it was one of the most beautiful seascapes in the world, it was beautiful, right?" We have said that it is a gift from the Creator, a being that human beings can touch on the surface but never be able to delve into their souls. Me and you, we both love that view, but would you want to fall in love with the sea? Do you have a relationship with the seascape? โ
Today's Olivia is probably the most stunned by her since she met Ji Cheng, and she was stunned for a few seconds: "What you said seems to be very reasonable, but isn't that [someone] a real human being?" What's so strange about humans having love for humans. โ
โโฆโฆ What you say seems to make sense. โ
A vague strange thought about this sentence suddenly flashed in Ji Cheng's mind, but this thought was only thrown out of her mind for a moment.
The baby is a person who has no discipline, so he will not have a serious love and love fantasy for cooking, at most YY pounces on him and then does this and that or something โฎ (โฏโฝโฐ) โญ
"By the way, I just wanted to say that your notebook was closed, and the message beep rang several times since I returned to the dormitory." Olivia suddenly remembered this stubble and reminded Ji Chengdao.
"Oh, I'll go and see." Ji Cheng walked to his desk.
Ten minutes later.
"Olivia."
"Huh?"
"Do you know the RandomHouse group?"
"Well, isn't it a book publisher? I've seen this logo on bookstore books before. โ
"Yes, I know that, because I just checked, but ......"
"But what?" Olivia looked at Ji Cheng a little strangely.
"No, it's nothing, I'm just asking."
Ji Cheng continued to sit at his desk and read the contents of the laptop screen, Olivia sat farther away and would not see what was written on it because of the angle.
Ji Cheng, the mailbox of the girl who previously serialized the English version of the Seven Kingdoms, was left in the computer.,From time to time, I will communicate with the other party about the translation.ใ
This morning, not long after Ji Cheng went out, the girl sent Ji Cheng an email, another one an hour later, and then half an hour after the second one came.
By the time Ji Cheng saw the reminder of the email message, the girl had already sent five emails to Ji Cheng. Although the wording of the email is somewhat different, the meaning is similar.
She told her that an editor claiming to be from RandomHouse's publishing company had found her Facebook address connected to her blog and asked her for the author's contact information.
At first, the girl didn't pay much attention to it, and thought that the other party was joking, but it turned out to be true when she checked the Twitter address of the person who posted the message on Facebook.
"It's just amazing, do you mind if I give her your contact details? Or can I give you her Facebook address? This is the address xxxxxxxx" reads the last sentence of the last email.
Ji Cheng looked at the blue link for a long time and clicked on it.
In a recent new message from that account, the address of the English version of the blog in Seven Countries was listed, and he said that he was looking for the contact information of the author.
Ji Cheng hesitated for a moment and sent a private message.
[I am the author of the book "Seven Kingdoms", do you need my help with anything?] ใ
In the evening, Ji Cheng received a reply, and the other party said that he wanted to sign the book.
Ji Cheng's hand holding the mouse shook: "Please, are you serious?" โ
[Of course.] The other party is obviously on the line, [Don't you know that the number of hits to that translated version of the blog has now soared to hundreds of thousands?] This is still the effect of a few ordinary Chinese students translating and without publicity. And I've read the whole book, I can tell you with a professional eye that it definitely has market value in the American fantasy fiction industry. ใ
Ji Cheng was still looking at the reply and was stunned, and the other party sent another message [However, there are some places that you need to modify well, otherwise it will affect the understanding of readers who do not understand oriental culture on a certain course. As for translation, we look for people who are also professional. ใ
Huh? Wait, why did this editor say as if she had already agreed?
Waitโฆโฆ
Ji Cheng just wanted to weakly type such a word to reply to the past, but she didn't expect to lose the opponent's hand speed, and the word she wanted to type was also typed by the other party first.
[Wait, I just took a look at your Facebook page, you're a sophomore?!!] ใ
Ji Cheng replied with a Yes pass.
[No, this timeline doesn't fit in a bit, doesn't the blog site say that the book's first release date is 03 years?] But now it's '07. ใ
Ji Cheng rolled his eyes at himself in his heart, and continued to reply yes weakly.
[Did you really write this book?] ใ
Ji Cheng felt that he didn't need to say anything now, just reply Yes.
[So you started writing this book when you were in middle school?] ใ
Ji Cheng felt that he was about to lose the three letters yes.
Two minutes later, the editor calmly replied to her message, "I'll send you the publishing contract, and if you have no objections, sign it." ใ
Wow.
A minute later, Ji Cheng looked at the extra email in his Facebook mailbox, and silently sighed at the speed with which the editor did things.
Well, it would have been better if the tone of the speech wasn't so much like asking her to sign a deed of sale.
So, to sign or not to sign?
Ji Cheng carefully browsed the electronic contract aside.
She didn't bother to calculate the remuneration for a while, and only saw the statement of sharing and the words related to the buyout.
No buyout, no buyout, no buyout.
MD, if you don't sign her, she's a salted fish!