Chapter 106 Popular Themes

Aunt Liu came to greet someone who had returned home.

Chen Fangyang unbuttoned two buttons on his shirt, plopped down on the sofa, took a swig of water, and asked:

"Aunt Liu, is the guest room I asked you to prepare ready?"

Aunt Liu hurriedly said, "Mr. Chen, the room has been cleaned, and the blankets and covers have been changed. You can move in right away."

Chen Fangyang hummed in agreement and said to Shen Xuewei, "Weiwei, you stay at home for one night. Tomorrow we'll take the train to Greentown for a trip, and then take a plane to Beijing for a visit."

He chuckled, "Speaking of which, your second uncle has never been to the capital before. Let's take the two of you and climb the Great Wall together."

Not only him, but Shen Xuewei, in both her past and present lives combined, had never been to the capital...

They both nodded at the same time.

Shen Xuewei looked around but didn't see Zhao Fang'er, so she asked:

"Isn't my second aunt home?"

Zhao Xiannan happened to find the game console and handed it to Shen Xuewei.

When she asked about his mother, he replied, "My mother went to discuss business and hasn't been home for the past few days."

Shen Xuewei nodded and took the game console he handed her, playing it for a bit.

She wasn't interested in the game console and couldn't figure out how to play it after a few tries.

Chen Fangyang lay on the sofa and watched for a while, then shook his head in disgust and snatched the game console from her hands.

"Fine, let me play. If you don't want to play, go take a nap first, and we can eat later. If you don't want to sleep, there's a computer in your guest room, you can play on it."

Shen Xuewei slept the whole way, but when she arrived at Chen Fangyang's house, she suddenly became energetic.

Her eyes lit up when she heard there was a computer in the guest room.

"Then I'll go to my room and sleep for a while."

Chen Fangyang's eyes remained glued to the game console in his hands, and he nodded casually.

Shen Xuewei pushed open the door. The guest room was more than twice the size of the small single room she used to rent while working.

She stepped into the room and gently closed the door. She was immediately drawn to the computer in the corner and quickly went over to it.

After turning on her computer, she couldn't wait to log on to QQ and check the messages her QQ friends had sent her.

Several editors in her QQ friends list knew that she was a student and usually didn't have time to use QQ during winter and summer vacations, so they didn't send her any messages during that time.

The few classmates who were online were also all offline.

After a brief moment of disappointment, Shen Xuewei skillfully opened Tianya Community and forums to see what popular topics everyone was discussing.

She is currently just a student about to enter the second year of junior high school, and student life is really boring and tedious.

Occasionally, I use these online communication platforms to observe the ever-changing world outside, and I find it quite interesting.

She spent a long time diving in before opening the document and writing down the plot of her novel.

The novel I'm currently writing has been approved, and the royalties have reached an all-time high of 160 per thousand words.

She has written many short stories under the pen name Huayunbi and has gained a little bit of fame.

With her writing skills improving and her plots becoming more captivating than ever before, her royalties rose dramatically, much to her delight, though it was also within expectations.

The novel is still being serialized in a magazine and is expected to be around 120,000 words long.

She had already sent 100,000 words to the editor, and during her summer vacation, she had written the remaining 20,000 words in her notebook.

Although she didn't bring the notebook with her, she had written those 20,000 words by hand in the notebook, so they were practically imprinted in her mind. Typing them into a computer document wouldn't be difficult.

It just takes some time.

Without hesitation, she set to work, her fingers flying across the keyboard, typing away rapidly.

Two hours had passed by the time the knocking came from inside the room.

Shen Xuewei pulled her attention away from the computer and looked at the more than 10,000 words she had already typed, once again thanking herself for the typing speed she had honed over the years as a customer service representative...

She clicked save on the file and closed the window, restoring it to its desktop state.

Chen Fangyang's voice came from outside the door, "Weiwei, get up quickly, come out for breakfast."

Shen Xuewei quickly replied, "Coming, coming right away."

Seeing that she had responded, Chen Fangyang went to the dining table first, and Shen Xuewei followed closely behind and sat down next to him.

The four of them ate and talked, and time flew by.

After dinner, Shen Xuewei was still thinking about the computer in the room, but Chen Fangyang pulled her aside to talk.

She patiently dealt with it for a while, then pretended to doze off.

Seeing this, Chen Fangyang said, "It's still early, why are you dozing off again?"

Shen Xuewei said innocently, "Maybe I was just too tired from the car ride, so I was sleepy."

Chen Fangyang waved his hand, "Then you should go take a shower and go to sleep. Don't stay up late tonight, we have to leave at seven o'clock tomorrow morning."

Shen Xuewei nodded repeatedly, patted her chest, and assured Chen Fangyang, "I know, Second Uncle, I'm not the kind of person who stays up all night playing games."

After taking a shower and changing her clothes, she couldn't wait to slip into the guest room.

Hehehe, she's here again!

It took me almost two hours to type out the remaining nearly 10,000 words.

She checked the manuscript again, corrected the typos, and after confirming that there were no more typos, she sent it to the editor's email address.

After sending it, she opened the chat box with editor Yunli.

Shen Xuewei: Yunli, I just sent you the remaining 20,000+ words of my book "I Secretly Loved You in the Old Days". Please check your email.

Editor Yunli's QQ profile picture is lit up, indicating that she is online on QQ.

Perhaps because she hadn't checked her phone or computer, she didn't reply immediately.

Shen Xuewei wasn't in a hurry. After sending the message, she started thinking about what type of novel she should write next.

To be honest, she has written so many youth romance novels that she's even gotten a little tired of them.

Now that she has calmed down, she suddenly wants to try writing other types of novels.

Of course, she won't write another story like the one that was rejected before, which killed off the entire protagonist's family.

She writes novels now to make money, not for her dreams.

If the editors don't accept her work, she won't earn any money, so what's the point of writing?

She sat in front of the computer, casually clicking through web pages with the mouse, when her gaze suddenly fell on a man in a suit with deep-set eyes.

She clicked on the photo, attracted by the man's outstanding appearance. She zoomed in and stared at it for a while, when a new idea suddenly popped into her head.

How about writing a domineering CEO romance novel?

The "domineering CEO falls in love with me" genre of novels remained a popular novel type even twenty years later.

Looking back on our youth, which girl didn't read a few novels about domineering CEOs falling in love with me when she was in her teens or twenties?

Even if you haven't read the novel, you've probably seen one or two TV shows of this type.

This will be a hot topic going forward.

In Shen Xuewei's eyes, popular topics represent one word—money!