Professor Yuan and Ling Xin alternated small talk that didn't sound very important, and together they calmed Chen Wen down and made him adjust to their voices in a blank mind.

Chen Wen closed his eyes and let himself imagine what Ye Xiaoying looked like six years ago.

It was a girl who was very similar to Ye Xingtong, but there were slight differences in the contour of her face and eyebrows.

She is Ye Xiaoying.

After a short stint of Chinese Science Fiction Literature, where her father Ye Xingshu was the editor-in-chief, she found a job in Shanghai as an editor of an online literature platform. This job allowed her to return to the city where she lived as a child, and she was able to enjoy a free and independent life.

In fact, the half year of working in Beijing was the half year that Ye Xingshu took back the Shanghai house that he had rented for many years for renovation.

When Ye Xiaoying came to Shanghai and pushed open the door and entered the renovated house, she fully felt her father's favor. Brand new renovation, brand new furniture and appliances, bedrooms with pink walls, and plenty of food reserves.

She took a lot of photos to show off to her friends, and she was also full of longing for her new job.

In fact, Ye Xiaoying six years ago was very much like Ye Xingtong when she first met Chen Wen. The conservative style of dressing, and even the color combination of light yellow, light gray, and black spots on a white background, the two sisters who have never met very much are so similar.

Similarly, there is also a sense of insignificance when you first enter the workplace.

Just like Ye Xingtong, who has just debuted, is so beautiful, so hard to cover and record, but always tepid, Ye Xiaoying, a newcomer in the workplace, can be called the most high-profile little beauty in the department, but she has been stumbling at work and cannot make progress.

As long as there are people, it is a small society. People always like to talk about beautiful girls, and they are limited to discussing her beauty. The more praised Ye Xiaoying is in terms of appearance and temperament, the more difficult it is to be recognized for her efforts at work.

The only senior who always defends her is named Zhang Chen. Tall and thin, he looks polite with his eyes. He has helped Ye Xiaoying many times at work, and often deliberately drives her to and from work under the pretext of stopping by the road. Although it is not tempting, Ye Xiaoying is very grateful for his help.

He even encouraged Ye Xiaoying to try her hand at creation, and recommended several of his successful published books to her as references.

In fact, Ye Xiaoying prepared a story very early, and even the title of the book had been thought of, called "Silence".

One night, she sat down at her desk and turned on the lamp, prepared her laptop, put on headphones and played a little love song of a domestic male and female group. She likes to craft stories and capture inspiration in this way, and she wants to keep her own style of story in this fixed environment.

It is a fresh love story against the backdrop of science fiction, and it is also the story of two small young people who choose to hide or rise to the challenge surrounded by high-tech, cloning technology, mega-corporations, and business struggles.

But today, Ye Xiaoying has a few more books on her desk, which are Zhang Chen's works. Ye Xiaoying, who didn't want to interrupt her train of thought, couldn't help but pick it up and flipped through it.

"The Divine Soldier of the Great Power", "The Rise of the Century" and "Amazing Weapon". Zhang Chen's works are all marked in the science fiction category and have won many science fiction literary awards. But his style is completely different from what Ye Xiaoying, who has been influenced by Ye Xingshu since childhood, wants to write. Ye Xiaoying, who has made up for the knowledge of physics, mathematics and medicine for the sake of science fiction, is the same as her father, with awe and cautious optimism about the future. She even thinks that science fiction literature itself should have a warning nature, which is completely different from the ideas conveyed by Zhang Chen's works.

Of course, Ye Xiaoying knew that Zhang Chen had a good impression of her. But the difference in concept has long been doomed to her unmotivated. She felt that she had been waiting for someone, someone who had a common language in literary creation. If it's a girl, they'll be best friends; If it's a boy...... She is even willing to take the first step on her own initiative.

"There's a new project to discover a new group of science fiction writers. You're the most familiar with science fiction in our group besides me, so I'd like to leave it to you. When you are ready, you can join me at the end of the year to participate in the sci-fi conventions in Sichuan and Mandan. Zhang Chen suddenly sent a text message, which made Ye Xiaoying interested all of a sudden.

Over the next two days, she browsed through thousands of works by new writers in the science fiction category.

She saw a comment more than once: "The current sci-fi zone has everything but sci-fi". This sentence made her feel deeply. Just by excluding non-science fiction, she excluded nearly ninety percent of her works.

finally selected ten novels for hard science fiction and soft science fiction, and Ye Xiaoying still felt a lot of regrets.

She didn't find a work that was in line with her heart.

She sent a message to her father, Ye Xingshu, about the current situation of science fiction online articles and her regrets.

Ye Xingshu was very busy that day, but he still took the time to reply: "For many years, science fiction literature has no independent living space. But they strive to grow in all corners in the form of life literature, popular science literature and even children's literature. ”

Ye Xiaoying suddenly understood. Science fiction doesn't have to be in the science fiction category. Especially soft sci-fi, in order to catch readers, it may be thrown into any category, it may be urban, it may also be a youth campus.

There is even a possibility that the author will not reveal that this is a work of science fiction until the end. If you choose the sci-fi category, you will lose readers in the previous long foreshadowing and misleading. So it has to hide in other categories, such as suspense detectives.

Ye Xiaoying, who has been prompted, is no longer limited to categories or titles. She used the editor's management tools to conduct full-text searches of many scientific terms.

The harvest is huge, and Ye Xiaoying has found a large number of works worth reading, which has also greatly increased her workload.

When she first entered the workplace, she was not afraid of hard work. She can watch it for eight hours a day at work and another five or six hours after work.

But after three days of hard work, Ye Xiaoying had a careful thought.

Since you have full-text search permissions, why don't you try to find out if anyone has written a work that is exactly the same as your own?

Math, Physics, Computers, Cloning, Brain Science, Time and Space, Students, Mega-Corporations, Missing Parents. Ye Xiaoying greedily typed in all the elements she had designed for "Silence", which made the search very slow, and in the end, she still did not find a work that met the requirements.

After adjusting the keywords several times, there is a work that is only 50,000 words that is still being updated.

"Milk and Chocolate"? This soft science fiction novel with a children's literature name, but in the suspense category, suddenly amused Ye Xiaoying.

It was a twenty-six-year-old male author whose name was ...... Chen Wen!