"On the first day of the Hunger Games, sales were mediocre!"

"Bantam Press has overhyped it this time, and it has praised new books and hit the streets gorgeously."

"If it weren't for the Chinese American cheers, I'm afraid the sales of this book would be zero!"

On the second day of The Hunger Games' release, countless tabloids published the dismal news of the first sale of The Hunger Games, which was extremely ridiculous.

The reason why there are so many tabloids with this as the headline is because the gimmick of a 14-year-old Chinese publishing a book was very popular some time ago, and many people are very curious about this book, although they may not necessarily read it, but they are very concerned about the sales of this book.

The second is that the dismal results of this book written by the Chinese will give the American people a strong sense of superiority. Although this sense of superiority comes from very unreasonable. But they just think that the Chinese really hit the streets, which is reasonable, and only Americans can succeed if they write books.

With the help of countless tabloids, the book "The Hunger Games", although the sales are mediocre and even a little bleak, but the popularity is not small.

Many Americans will joke when they meet, "Have you heard of it?" That book written by a Chinese child sold badly! ”

"I knew it would be like this for a long time, and only people with their brains in water would read this book."

I have to say that this kind of brainless black makes people very helpless.

Bantam Press, Jack has been keeping an eye on the sales of The Hunger Games. However, when the first day's sales came back to the publisher, he was completely dumbfounded. Sitting in his office chair dejectedly.

Pete, a colleague on the side, looked at him with a dejected look on his face, and a gloating smile rose on his face.

"This stupid rookie actually believes that a novel written by a Chinese can sell well. And the editor-in-chief is also confused, and he actually sent this rookie to China to sign a contract with someone. Dumbfounded, right? ”

Secretly happy, Pete triumphantly took his latest favorite submissions and came to the office of the editor-in-chief John......

"Editor-in-chief, I have seen several good submissions in the past few days, which must be better than the Chinese book signed by Jack. I wonder if it's time to hurry up and sign it, and then replace Jack's book from the shelves as much as possible? ”

The editor-in-chief, John, said without raising his head: "The manuscript is here, and I will give you the news when I finish reading it." ”

Pete was stiffened by the editor-in-chief's lukewarm attitude. With a flash of resentment and embarrassment on his face, he turned and walked out of the office.

After he left, John raised his head, looked at his back, and whispered, "Mouse eyes!" ”——

Jiang Lan left the bookstore in a hurry after buying "The Hunger Games", and she came out to buy the book before going to work in the morning. After buying the books, she had to rush back to prepare breakfast for her daughter before she went to school.

Her rebellious adolescent girl would never have eaten breakfast without her watching her finish breakfast at home. It seems fashionable to skip breakfast. It's just that although she is a little rebellious, she is a beautiful girl who dares to love and hate. Except for being slightly avant-garde in dressing. Overall, Jiang Lan is still proud of her.

Jianglan Road hurried slowly, and it was still a little late to come back.

When she pushed open the door, her daughter had already gotten up and was wearing a coat, and it could be seen that if Jiang Lan came back one step later, she would definitely skip breakfast and slip away.

Jiang Lan didn't care about blaming her eccentric daughter, hurriedly put down the book in her hand, and went into the kitchen.

Jiang Lan's daughter Mu Jiahe kicked her feet with some annoyance, and secretly blamed herself for why she didn't go out faster, so that she didn't have to eat breakfast with her mother and listen to her rambling a lot.

Now that he can't run, Mu Jiahe sat on the sofa bored. Suddenly, she saw the book her mother had just placed on the table.

The cover of the book is a girl with a flame on her body and a longbow on her back. The title of the book is also strange - "The Hunger Games"

Mu Jiahe instantly judged that this should not be a very strict book. And seeing the hurried way of her mother when she came back, could it be that she went out to buy this book? Didn't even have time to prepare her daily indispensable breakfast of family love?

Thinking like this, Mu Jiahe suddenly became interested. She took the book on the table and flipped through it.

In the future, only one country called Panham remained in abandoned North America, and the whole country was divided into 13 administrative districts, and the center of the country, Capit, dominated a qiē.

In the history of Panham, there was a rebellion that was razed to the ground in order to quell the rebellion. Since then, the Panham Nation has hosted an annual "Hunger Games".

A magnificent narrative with a strong dystopian overtone, the first person's female perspective. is a completely alternative girl, and the world in the book immediately firmly attracted all of Mu Jiahe's mind.

Even at breakfast, she was reluctant to put down her book.

Jiang Lan noticed that her daughter was reading the book she had bought to support her compatriots. This discovery made her happy. Originally, she didn't plan to read this book, after all, in her mind, the age of the compatriot who wrote this book was too young, and not to mention how well it was written, at least it should not meet the preferences of an adult like her.

Now, unexpectedly, my daughter actually likes this book, which shows that this book is at least not useless. This is good!

After breakfast, Jiang Lan sent Mu Jiahe to the school bus. And for this qiē, Mu Jiahe didn't even react at all, she was completely immersed in the world of that book at this moment.

In one day at school, Mu Jiahe never put down this book, as long as the teacher in class was not particularly strict, she would take out the book and read it.

It's a little strange with her familiar friends on weekdays. You must know that a normal Mu Jiahe is not a girl who loves to read.

It took a day and a night, and Mu Jiahe finally finished reading the whole book. Tears welled up when she saw that Katniss and Peetta, the last of the survivors, were unwilling to kill each other and were ready to eat the poisoned fruit as a way to fight the Hunger Games. No matter how much you stop, you can't stop.

Thankfully, in the end, they survived, and this qiē is really good!

The whole book, although she didn't sleep all night, Mu Jiahe really felt full of energy, and she desperately wanted to share this book with others at the moment. She felt that after reading this book, she was baptized spiritually. She felt that she was still too squeamish. She should be more courageous and determined. And this weekend, she should ask her dad to take her to the gym to learn archery. Imagining Katniss shooting a bow and arrow, she can't help but get her blood boiling, that's really cool!

In the morning, after breakfast, Mu Jiahe grabbed her schoolbag and ran out of the house quickly, she was extremely excited at this time, she felt that she was about to explode. She had to do her best to share this super wonderful book with her friends.

Sitting on the school bus and thinking about it for a long time, Mu Jiahe came back to his senses.

At this time, the school bus was not far from the school, and there were several white girls sitting next to her, they were Mu Jiahe's neighbors, but Mu Jiahe didn't like them. And those people didn't like the yellow-skinned girl very much.

It seemed that Mu Jiahe was looking at them. A white man suddenly raised his voice and said: "Have you heard, the Chinese kid who talked big before, his books sold as badly as ****." ”

Mu Jiahe couldn't help frowning when he heard this. She doesn't have as much affection for China as her parents don't have the impression of her at all, but she is still influenced by her parents, and she instinctively dislikes these people to slander her compatriots.

But only a little unhappy.

"What do you mean about the Hunger Games book? Just listening to the title of this book, I feel a sense of poverty and sourness. ”

At this time, Mu Jiahe was stunned.

They just said that Chinese boys wrote a book called "The Hunger Games"? Mu Jiahe couldn't help but dig out the novel he couldn't put down from his schoolbag. For the first time, she paid attention to the author's information column. It is written in three Chinese: Chen Xueqian! And the nationality column is China!

Mu Jiahe raised his head again. She heard the sarcastic words of the white girls continue.

"That book must be written like a ****!" A good-looking white girl with a dirty face.

Mu Jiahe couldn't sit still anymore, before she was just complaining about her compatriots, although she was angry in her heart at that time, she would not take any drastic actions for this.

But this moment is different, she finds that the book that these people abuse is actually her favorite novel, which has become her idol and is insulted.

She couldn't hold back any longer.

I saw her suddenly stand up from her seat. Walk on a pair of long, somewhat unreasonable beautiful legs. A few steps to the group of girls.

Mu Jiahe held "The Hunger Games" in his hand, and said to several white girls in a bad tone: "You are slandering, this book is not what you say, you must apologize to this book!" ”

"Are you a fool?" Several white girls were first startled by Mu Jiahe who came suddenly, and when she finished speaking, several girls laughed at the same time, and shouted mockery of Mu Jiahe.

Mu Jiahe ignored their words and said to them stubbornly: "Apologize." ”

The white girl was immediately annoyed by Mu Jiahe. A girl suddenly stood up and yelled, "Get out of here, you yellow-skinned pig!" ”

In the scolding, Mu Jiahe was pushed out, and the car took a sharp turn at this time. Mu Jiahe stood unsteadily, and fell to the ground with a bang.

The white girl was also stumbled by the sharp turn, and hurriedly held on to the back of the chair, her anger in her heart was even worse, and she was ready to continue to step forward to teach Mu Jiahe a lesson.

However, when she looked at Mu Jiahe, who fell to the ground, a scream came out: "Ah! Dead! ”

Mu Jiahe, who was lying in the car, was motionless at this time, and there was red blood from her head flowing quickly to the ground-

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