"Dude? Are you alright? ”

"Huh? it! ”

Bustling city, on the edge of the flower bed in front of the bookstore.

Ye Linhan was holding the book and reading it intently, and the clerk who was off work in the bookstore next to him looked at Ye Linhan who was sitting here motionless.

After hesitating, he came over and asked.

and then Ye Linhan, who had watched the plot of "Shadow Empire", was very nervous,

The whole person was frightened, his mouth subconsciously exploded, and the whole person bounced up from the edge of the flower bed.

The "Shadow Empire" in his hand was almost thrown out, but he reacted dangerously and took it back at the last moment.

Otherwise, "Shadow Empire" fell to the ground and was stained with dust, and he should be distressed again.

"That...... Nabs? ”

The clerk was frightened by Ye Linhan's series of actions, and he was still stunned in place.

Waiting to see Ye Linhan completely come back to his senses, he took two steps back, and shouted again tentatively,

"I'm sorry, I'm overreacting, and I'm a little absorbed in reading."

Ye Linhan looked at this person being frightened like this by him, and apologized with some embarrassment,

"What's the matter with you?"

"No, it's fine."

The clerk waved his hand,

"It's just that I came out of here, and I saw you sitting there motionless alone, and it was dark, and I thought something was wrong with you, so I came over to take a look."

At this time, Ye Linhan turned his head and realized that

At noon he wanted to look at it a little longer, and so on and so on and on and on

At this moment, the sky above his head was dark, that is, the light at the door of the bookstore was still on, reflecting on the "Shadow Empire" spread out in his hand.

He could keep watching.

At this time, he completely came back to his senses, and Ye Linhan felt that his stomach was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back.

"Gollum ......"

"Excuse me...... I'm scared of you, I'm fine, I'm just sitting here reading a book and watching it. ”

His stomach rumbled unseasonably, and Ye Linhan apologized again with some embarrassment,

"It's okay, it's okay. You're watching Shadow Empire, right? That's a good handwriting...... No, I should say it's very good, if I didn't have to watch the store, and from time to time someone would call me to check out, I would have been able to see the afternoon from the morning to the afternoon, from the day to the night. ”

As he spoke, the clerk lifted the bag he was carrying.

I touched the bag, and I also found a brand new copy of "Shadow Empire".

Ye Linhan followed the clerk, and both of them smiled again.

Watching the clerk leave and walk away,

Ye Linhan rubbed his somewhat hungry stomach, turned his head and looked at the "Shadow Empire" that had not yet closed in his hand, and his eyes were still a little reluctant.

I'm looking at the critical time of the plot,

Want to stop looking at it for a while?

A little moved, followed by Ye Linhan and shook his head again,

No way

It's going to be dawn again!

After noting down the number of pages, Ye Linhan still closed the book with difficulty,

Then, urged by the rumbling of his stomach, he hurried to the noodle restaurant he frequented.

……

"Boss? Let's have a bowl of beef noodles, and I'll have three taels today! ”

"Boss?"

Hurriedly walked to the door of the noodle shop, fortunately the noodle shop is not closed,

Ye Linhan breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that after entering the noodle restaurant, there are no other customers in the noodle restaurant.

I saw the noodle shop owner and his son sitting at a table with their shoulders leaning against their shoulders.

Holding a book in front of him, from time to time the noodle shop owner stretched out his hand to turn the pages of the book, one large and one small, and the two looked at it fascinatedly,

I don't know that the guests are coming,

Ye Linhan shouted twice in a row, and the noodle shop owner came back to his senses,

"Huh? Eat noodles? Or is it the same as usual? ”

"No, I'll come three or two today."

The noodle shop owner hurriedly stood up and responded,

Ye Linhan said it again, and sat down next to him,

One more glance at the noodle shop owner and the book the boy was holding,

Just look at the cover of the book, Ye Linhan can see that this is the "Shadow Empire" he watched for an afternoon.

ABC: Look at it, how 'harmful' your books are?

I can see that people forget to sleep and eat so much.

One forgot to eat, the other forgot to look at the restaurant.

'Gollum ......'

Just thinking about it, Ye Linhan's stomach rang two more times.

"Okay, you wait, I'll give it to you right away."

The owner of the noodle shop answered again, and did not go to the kitchen immediately.

Instead, he turned his head and spoke to his son, whose gaze was still on the page, and did not lift it.

"Don't keep watching yet, let's continue watching together when I get back."

"Uh-huh......"

"You've watched it now, you'll have to come back and watch it again with me later......"

"Uh-huh......"

“……”

The boy responded in a daze, and his eyes didn't even lift his eyes from the pages of "Shadow Empire",

His father, the owner of the noodle shop said twice, probably too lazy to say,

He turned and went into the kitchen.

The boy waited for his father to leave, turned his head and looked into the back kitchen,

Then he quickly turned his head back, and sneakily, without waiting for his father to come out, and continued to look down.

Immediately after, I was fascinated by it again and immersed in the story.

This scene,

Ye Linhan, who saw the noodles eating here, only sighed,

Then he also glanced at the "Shadow Empire" in his hand,

Do you want to take another look and take a look before the noodles are served?

No, go back and see!

Have a good time, watch all night!

Just take a look now?

Nothing else is going on here......

Ye Linhan was entangled back and forth.

……

"...... 'shadow' is not without a trace, the shadow is a shadow in the sun, a symbol of the dark side, and after reading some of the content, I found that the title of the book and the content of the story are so compatible.

Looking at what happened to Hu Yan Changmo, the things that the 'shadow' did were all dark and unsightly things, but the shadow announced these things in a grand manner, and carried out the ...... without concealment."

It's already night,

Ji Zhuo, who just went to the bookstore in the afternoon, sat in the pile of books in the house at this time.

With his phone in his hand, he flipped through some news about "Shadow Empire" on the Internet.

It's been some time since the first readers got "Shadow Empire",

On the Internet, there are already some comments from readers who have either read it thoroughly, or read part of the content.

Silently praised the reader comments of this praise ABC and praise "Shadow Empire", and Ji Zhuo continued to look at it.

"There is no doubt that "Shadow Empire" is a good book, although there are some horror elements, but in fact it is still a realistic work that belongs to ABC, and it is a masterpiece of magical realism! However, when I saw "Shadow Empire", I also remembered a recent work with an equally excellent magical realism theme, "Ordinary and Great", although the popularity is not as high as "Shadow Empire", but it is also an excellent work.

In my opinion, these are the two best realistic works of the year! ”

Seeing this comment, Ji Zhuo put a question mark in his mind.

What does this mean, the popularity of I's new book on ABC?

Is this appropriate?

Is this reasonable?

Ji Zhuo directly ignored this comment, went straight down, and continued to flip through some other comments,

It's just that even the news about "Shadow Empire" is overwhelming,

But Ji Zhuo can still see the occasional commentary and news mentioning "Ordinary and Great",

There is even a tendency to juxtapose "Ordinary and Great" and "Shadow Empire",

The more Ji Zhuo looks at it, the more numb he becomes,

In the end, I broke the defense a little bit and slipped away directly.

The phone was thrown to the side, and I didn't want to continue looking,

Pulled over a stack of books next to him, and continued to sign his name with some sadness and indignation.

However, on the Internet at home and abroad, it is still becoming more and more lively, and it is not transferred to the idea of discipline.