While asking Xi Yue, Ye Qing picked up the sample magazine that Xi Yue had just put aside. Based on her knowledge of magazines, she quickly spotted Jiang Xinya's name in the places where the editor-in-chief's name was required. After glancing at it briefly, she looked away from the magazine and asked Xi Yue, "Is there a problem with her byline?"
Then Ye Qing looked down at the magazine in her hand again. It was the title page of the magazine. Usually, this is where the editor-in-chief would write a message or say something. No matter what this section is called, it is the editor-in-chief's job.
Even if the editor-in-chief of a monthly magazine doesn't do anything else, he/she still has to write an article to put on the title page. This article might be about the theme of the issue or his/her own thoughts, and what he/she writes usually depends on his/her preferences.
Ye Qing couldn't discern anything from it.
Although it was a sample copy of the inaugural issue, there weren't many places in the magazine that particularly highlighted the editor-in-chief. Apart from the title page and the interview with the cover person, the person who interviewed Ye Qing was listed as the editor-in-chief, Jiang Xinya, and the transcript of the interview was also written by Jiang Xinya.
After flipping through it again, Ye Qing still didn't see anything wrong, so he looked at Xi Yue and waited for her answer.
Xi Yue had already looked through the pages, so of course she knew which places required Jiang Xinya's signature. Even if she hadn't looked through them, Xi Yue had worked at a magazine for a while before, so she probably knew where they were.
She asked Ye Qing, "Do you really think Jiang Xinya wrote this editor's message?"
Ye Qing looked at Xi Yue with a puzzled expression, then looked down at the magazine again.
Xi Yue said, "No need to look. Jiang Xinya can't write such good words. Apart from the few words in the editor's signature, which are written by Jiang Xinya, the rest of this editor's message should not have been written by her. She compiled your interview and there should have been a recording or something, otherwise she couldn't have done it herself."
It's truly breathtaking.
Ye Qing never expected that Jiang Xinya, as an editor-in-chief, would have someone else write the article!
She looked at Xi Yue in surprise. Xi Yue didn't seem to be joking, but was Jiang Xinya really that bold?
Previously, Ye Qing felt that Jiang Xinya seemed unsuitable for the position of editor-in-chief, referring to her interpersonal skills and personality, etc. However, in Ye Qing's view, handwriting was a basic skill, the bare minimum for an editor.
Moreover, Jiang Xinya has always been an editor. Even if her writing skills aren't top-notch, she wouldn't have resorted to having someone else write for her.
To be honest, the editor's message doesn't require much writing skill. After all, it's just a fashion magazine, not a literary magazine. As long as the sentences are fluent, that's fine. Even if you don't have any feelings about it, just writing about the theme of this month's magazine or the cover person will get you to 800 words.
Even less than 800 words is fine. Nobody asked for a long article. Besides, fashion magazines have a lot of pictures, so if there are few words, you can just add a picture.
However, Xi Yue's words gave Ye Qing a completely new understanding of Jiang Xinya.
"You don't believe me?" Xi Yue asked, looking at Ye Qing's surprised expression.
Ye Qing shook her head, but then nodded after a moment: "It's not that I don't believe it, it's just that I wonder what kind of person Jiang Xinya is. Since she's not capable and she's not short of money, there's no need for her to occupy a position like editor-in-chief. Besides, she should be able to support herself even if she doesn't go to work."
"That was also my question when I first found out she had someone else write it for her," Xi Yue said.
Although Ye Qing didn't intend to help Dalson, because Jiang Xinya still harbored resentment towards her, Ye Qing felt she needed to "know herself and her enemy" from a self-preservation perspective or any other angle. So she followed Xi Yue's lead and asked, "So many people know that the editor-in-chief's words and such signed by Jiang Xinya were all ghostwritten?"
“I don’t know. I found out by accident when I was working at the magazine. As for whether others know, I don’t think they do. After all, if they did know, not everyone could keep it a secret. If they had told others, this matter would have been exposed long ago,” Xi Yue analyzed calmly.
Ye Qing agreed with Xi Yue's analysis. After a moment of silence, Ye Qing said, "But Jiang Xinya is really amazing. She is clearly not very capable and is not very old. She has no experience or anything like that, but she has become the editor-in-chief of the Nancheng branch of an international fashion magazine. That's impressive."
"There's nothing I can do. Even though I was born into a good family, with powerful parents, especially my mother," Xi Yue said calmly.
When Ye Qing first returned to Nancheng from abroad, almost no one knew about her relationship with Xi Quan except for herself and Xi Quan. At that time, Jiang Xinya considered herself Xi Quan's fiancée, and Xi Quan's maternal grandfather also tacitly approved of Jiang Xinya's actions.
The conflict between Ye Qing and Jiang Xinya also stemmed from this.
Later, regarding the matter of borrowing, the reason why Ye Qing went to such lengths, making Jiang Xinya apologize directly at the magazine, stemmed from a woman's mentality of defending her feelings. To be honest, Ye Qing was jealous at that time, jealous that Jiang Xinya had been eyeing Xi Quan's fiancée's title for a long time.
However, Ye Qing didn't want to know anything about Jiang Xinya's parents; she just thought they were alright, otherwise Xi Quan's maternal grandfather wouldn't have been so satisfied with Jiang Xinya.
Hearing Xi Yue's words, Ye Qing could tell that Xi Yue knew something, so she asked Xi Yue, "What does Jiang Xinya's mother do?"
"It seems she's also in the fashion industry, from the magazine group you shot the cover for. I think she's a high-level executive or something, and she married a high-level executive. When I was abroad, I met Jiang Xinya's mother with Ye Shuwei, but it was so long ago that I forgot. At that time, I didn't know that person was Jiang Xinya's biological mother. Later, when I worked at the magazine, I gradually learned a little bit about her." Xi Yue said that she had told him everything she knew.
She didn't realize there was anything wrong with it, and it was because she knew this that Xi Yue wasn't so surprised when she learned that Jiang Xinya had returned as editor-in-chief.
"I remember she has a mother here, doesn't she?" Ye Qing asked Xi Yue.
"That's her stepmother, the one her father remarried later. It's no secret that she's not her biological mother; it's just that many people don't know who her biological mother is."
Ye Qing truly hadn't expected there to be so much going on.
However, from the perspective of knowing oneself and one's enemy, these things may seem like mere gossip, but Ye Qing felt that they might be of great help to him at crucial moments.
Since the magazine is about to be released, Ye Qing believes that Jiang Xinya has a lot of dissatisfaction with her. She should wait and see. Maybe she really doesn't have the ability, but she should know that she can't make any mistakes at this time. Ye Qing thinks that Jiang Xinya still has this much foresight.
He simply found out and kept it in mind, thinking he would deal with it if Jiang Xinya caused him trouble.
However, at this moment, Jiang Xinya unexpectedly called Li Yeming.
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