After the big news about Chen Baozhu and Yang Caiqian, the first week of separation between Li Changle and Wang Siyi was uneventful. He would occasionally chat with Wang Siyi during the day.
Most of the time, Li Changle was sharing the interesting stories he saw from the silly book friends in the book club, or some company was looking for him to discuss the publication and adaptation of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
In the evening, if Li Changle and Wang Siyi have time, they will start a video chat, and then Wang Siyi will start talking about where she went today, what strange artists and celebrities she met, etc. This makes Li Changle, an outsider, eat a lot of big gossips.
Apart from not being able to see Wang Siyi, Li Changle's life was ordinary yet fulfilling. This was mainly because Wang Siyi had been very busy lately. Otherwise, Li Changle would have even planned to go to Shanghai to find Wang Siyi to ease her longing for her.
It's another day of missing Wang Siyi. I don't know what Wang Siyi is doing. She hasn't called me via video yet at this late hour.
Li Changle sat at his computer desk, typing away in boredom. Feeling the more he wrote, the less interesting it became, he simply turned off the Writer's Assistant. He planned to open the book club and check out what other book lovers were sharing.
Before Li Changle had time to join the group chat, he received a call from Li Xuexin.
Before Li Changle could ask what was going on, Li Xuexin got straight to the point and said, "Changle, the national poetry competition is already soliciting submissions online. How come I haven't seen your submission?"
"Ah, has it started yet? I didn't know."
Li Changle was not very concerned about this poetry conference. Although Wang Siyi's song "Lovesickness" had done a good job in warming up the atmosphere, Li Changle only paid attention to how good Wang Siyi's song was, and did not pay any attention to how the subsequent poetry conference went.
"You, the poetry competition starts in early October, and it's already mid-October. The submission period is two weeks, and the deadline is approaching. Haven't you started preparing yet?"
When Li Xuexin heard that Li Changle didn't care about the poetry competition, he was immediately furious. This was the hope of their Cantonese competition area. Anyone who could write about lovesickness would definitely have good works in the future. Maybe their Cantonese competition area would stand out this time.
"Sorry, Uncle Li, I've been busy lately. I'll take a look at it and study it later. I'll post it before the deadline."
Li Changle has been very busy recently, busy with her love affair with Wang Siyi. She is oblivious to what is happening outside and only has Wang Siyi in her eyes. She has long forgotten about the poetry conference.
"Hey, you're quite talented, but why are you so careless? What can I say to you?"
"Well, the theme of this national competition is beauty. You should study it carefully. This year's rules remain the same as in previous years. The top ten in each region will directly pass the preliminary draft. In addition, the poetry competition will also collect poems online. These poems will need to be preliminarily reviewed before determining whether they can enter the next round of evaluation. The judges only look at the literary talent, so it should be relatively fair and just."
Although Li Xuexin felt sorry for Li Changle, he still said everything he needed to say, and then told Li Changle to study it carefully. If there was anything she didn't understand, she could just call him or Wang Weimin and ask. It was obvious that he was very nice to Li Changle.
Li Changle nodded repeatedly and began to ponder after hanging up the phone with Li Xuexin. Although the prize money of the poetry competition was no longer a big deal for Li Changle, who would complain about having too much money these days?
So we should treat this matter seriously. As I said before, he can make a lot of money from this for the rest of his life.
"Beauty..." Li Changle muttered to himself. He hadn't come across many poems about beauties. The main reason was that all of his ancient poems came from primary and secondary school textbooks, and he occasionally came across some amazing poems online.
It took Li Changle a while to find a poem that was relevant and could amaze everyone. It seemed that it was not so easy to fleece the sheep for a lifetime, Li Changle thought with a toothache.
"Sometimes, sometimes, I always believe that there is an end to our relationship~"
The cell phone rang, and Li Changle subconsciously took it out and answered the video call. This voice call was specially set by Li Changle and would only ring when Wang Siyi called.
"What are you doing?"
Wang Siyi saw that Li Changle in the video seemed a little depressed, so she took the initiative to ask.
"The theme of this poetry competition is beauty, but I haven't thought of a good poem yet."
Li Changle answered in a somewhat depressed tone, and then saw that Wang Siyi was wearing an ancient palace costume, and the background seemed to be the backstage of the stage, and she couldn't help but be stunned.
"Why are you dressed like this? What are you doing?"
"It's a performance. There's a cultural event going on in Dongdu City. I came here to warm up the crowd. It's fun, isn't it~"
Wang Siyi didn't stop there. She handed the phone to Xiuxiu, asked her to face it, and then she turned around in her palace dress on the backstage.
This action made Li Changle think that the Queen Mother of the West had come down to earth.
"This event is really big enough to have top singers come to liven up the atmosphere." In Li Changle's opinion, generally speaking, the government rarely invites celebrities to cultural events.
"Yes, it's a government-led event. They hope to let everyone appreciate the beauty of ancient women through this event. The song you wrote, "Lovesickness," fits the theme of this event better. They adapted it a little bit, from Cantonese opera to Henan opera, so they came to me."
Wang Siyi nodded. She had participated in many government-related activities during this period, and she almost understood that it was probably her father who arranged it.
"I'm getting ready to go on stage, hanging up~" Wang Siyi said, then clicked her tongue at the screen. Li Changle hung up before she could respond.
Li Changle couldn't help but smile, but when she thought of Wang Siyi's ancient palace costume, which looked like the goddess of the sky descending to the earth, a poem flashed through her mind.
Three songs to be exact, which fits the theme of this time. It seems that Wang Siyi is indeed his lucky star. It seems that Wang Siyi also caused his longing for love last time.
Well, this woman looks like she will bring good luck to her husband.
"It looks like I'm a sure thing for this poetry competition. I submitted three poems, so one of them should win, right?"
Li Changle chose to play it safe. After all, the prize money for first place in this national competition was still considerable. Besides, he was now a member of the Poetry Association.
Even if he didn't care much about this status, it was obtained through the connections of his cheap father-in-law, and he couldn't lose face. If he didn't have some strength, others would talk about him, so Li Changle decided to play it safe.
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