Chapter 143: It’s hard to be moved by old men!
“Wow, that’s amazing!”
"I didn't expect that you, Old Shen, could write novels!"
"I often read novels, but usually those for women. I had a roommate who also wrote online novels, but her novels didn't make much money..."
Liu Qingwu's voice was faintly heard from the room. She must have deliberately raised her voice in order to create an emotion of shock and admiration.
If it is a normal chat, the sound will most likely not be transmitted.
That was exactly what happened next. Lin Xiamo stood at the door for almost two minutes and didn't hear anything else. She didn't know what the two people were talking about in the room.
Hesitated for a moment.
Lin Xiamo knocked on the door directly.
In the living room.
Shen Qiushan and Liu Qingwu were startled when they heard the knock on the door, although they did not do anything shameful.
But it was already past 9 o'clock in the evening, who would suddenly knock on the door?
"Old Shen, do I need to hide for a while?"
Liu Qingwu pointed to the bedroom with a slightly teasing tone.
She said this jokingly, but mainly to test Shen Qiushan's attitude.
If Shen Qiushan acted very nervous and really asked her to hide, it meant that Shen Qiushan was most likely not single and was worried about being discovered that there was a woman in his room or that someone would suddenly come to check on him.
"Need not!"
"If you hide, people will think there's something wrong with you."
Shen Qiushan waved his hand and asked as he walked towards the door: "Who is it?"
"It's me."
Lin Xiamo, who was standing outside the door, responded.
"What's wrong?"
Shen Qiushan opened the door and cast a questioning look at Lin Xiamo.
"I want you to do me a favor."
As smart as Lin Xiamo was, she had naturally thought of an excuse, but she seemed to have suddenly seen Liu Qingwu and said in surprise, "It's so late, and Teacher Liu is here too!"
"I'm here to ask Lao Shen how to write an online novel."
"Secretary Lin, you guys talk about business, I'm going back first!"
Liu Qingwu is also sensible.
Although she didn't know what Lin Xiamo was thinking, it would be a bad idea for her to compete with her leader for the "right to use" of Shen Qiushan under such circumstances.
What’s more, the leader has already reminded us, “It’s so late!”
It was indeed inappropriate for me to stay in Shen Qiushan's room at this time.
After all, Liu Qingwu is just an intern, and it is hard to say whether she can stay in school in the end.
Right now, her relationship with Shen Qiushan has not even started, so it would be a bad idea to offend Lin Xiamo, the deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee who has a powerful background, because of this matter.
"Old Shen, let's talk again tomorrow!"
As Liu Qingwu left, she waved to Shen Qiushan again.
"What happened?"
After Liu Qingwu returned to the room, Shen Qiushan asked.
"Well, the shower in my room's bathroom doesn't work."
This was the reason Lin Xiamo had just thought of.
"oh!"
"Then I'll go take a look."
Shen Qiushan followed Lin Xiamo to her room.
next door.
After Liu Qingwu entered her room, she didn't move at all. She leaned against the door and listened to the conversation outside.
After hearing the door close, she changed into slippers and sat back on the sofa in the living room.
I wonder if Secretary Lin has also set his sights on Old Shen?
The two came back together.
I had just arrived at Shen Qiushan's room for a while when she came over.
Is that intentional?
Liu Qingwu was still very sensitive. She felt that something was wrong with Lin Xiamo, but she had no evidence at the moment.
The other side.
Shen Qiushan unscrewed the shower head and examined it carefully.
"There's too much rust inside. It should be fine after cleaning."
"However, there shouldn't be no water in this situation. At most, the amount of water will be a little less."
Shen Qiushan said as he carefully cleaned the unscrewed shower head.
Lin Xiamo stood at the bathroom door, looking at Shen Qiushan silently. She didn't care about the shower head at all. After all, it was something she had made up.
"Why did Teacher Liu come to you so late?"
Lin Xiamo suddenly asked.
"She saw the news online and wanted to talk to me about writing online novels."
"Is that all?"
"What else?"
Shen Qiushan asked back.
"Don't you think she's too attentive to you?"
Lin Xiamo said with a tight face, "Liu Qingwu should be around 25 years old, not much older than Yanran and Xiaoxiao."
"I don't think you're a good match!"
Lin Xiamo is a decisive person and expresses her attitude directly.
Although she cannot express her feelings now, the "little goblins" around Shen Qiushan still need to be persuaded to retreat.
Even if there is just a sign of it, it must be nipped in the bud.
"Well??"
Shen Qiushan, who originally didn't take this topic seriously, looked up in confusion: "Momo, what are you thinking about?"
"Teacher Liu and I have only known each other for two days!"
"How could the situation you described happen?"
In fact, Shen Qiushan was pretending to be confused even though he knew the truth.
When he met Liu Qingwu yesterday, he really didn't think much about it, but today this beautiful counselor came to him again, still talking about the novel selling film and television copyrights for tens of millions.
And she was wearing silk pajamas that showed off her figure!
After all, Shen Qiushan is an old man who has lived for 38 years.
He is quite sensitive about this kind of thing. If a woman has no interest in him, she would not come to his room dressed like that late at night to chat with him.
And Shen Qiushan could probably guess what Liu Qingwu was thinking. This beautiful counselor was probably attracted by his 10 million!
But in front of Lin Xiamo, he still had to pretend to know nothing.
“There is no best.”
"I'm just reminding you."
Lin Xiamo replied in a cold voice.
"I'll tell you the truth."
"I'm not even thinking about personal issues right now."
"I probably won't remarry."
Shen Qiushan said sincerely.
"No more marriage?"
"Why?"
Lin Xiamo raised her eyebrows slightly, silently complaining in her heart: I don't allow you to date those little fairies, but I didn't say I don't allow you to remarry!
"Aren't Yanran and Xiaoxiao here?"
"I don't want to find a stepmother for them. What if she's not nice to them?"
Shen Qiushan shrugged, then added seriously: "Also, I haven't met a woman who can make my heart beat faster."
"Maybe, I won't meet him again!"
"After all, it's hard to be moved by old men."
Shen Qiushan laughed at himself again.
After listening to his explanation, Lin Xiamo said nothing more, but felt a little secretly happy in her heart.
From Shen Qiushan's words, she could get two important messages.
First, Shen Qiushan’s first consideration for remarriage was the two children, Shen Yanran and Shen Yixiao.
He was worried that other women would treat their two children badly.
Well, at this point, I have an innate advantage!
Second, Shen Qiushan, like himself, pursues that heart-pounding feeling.
Lin Xiamo thought that she was still very charming. Besides, now that they were both at Sanjiang University and lived across the street, the opportunities for them to interact would naturally increase.
Lin Xiamo didn't believe that her brother-in-law could always look blankly in the face of her!
In her mind, the best situation would be to let Chen Qiushan break through this layer of window paper.
She is a girl after all.
What's more, the relationship between the two is quite special.
In this case, Shen Qiushan took the initiative to propose something more appropriate.
“Fixed!”
Shen Qiushan screwed the removed shower head back on.
Then I tried it and water gushed out immediately.
"OK!"
Shen Qiushan clapped his hands. It was a great sense of accomplishment to repair something.
However, what he didn't know was that the shower head was not broken in the first place.
"Well, go to bed early."
"We still have military training tomorrow!"
Lin Xiamo's goal has been achieved, and she has even "exceeded her goal."
She originally just wanted to interrupt the communication between Shen Qiushan and Liu Qingwu, but now she not only interrupted their communication, but also revealed Shen Qiushan's "standards for choosing a partner".
"If you can't take it anymore, just tell me."
When sending Chen Qiushan out, Lin Xiamo gave another reminder.
"I told you there's nothing wrong with my body!"
Chen Qiushan shrugged, but couldn't help but silently complain in his heart: You are just not familiar with Xiangyu, otherwise you would have to ask your old lover to prove it for you!
This second sister-in-law obviously has no confidence in her physical condition!
Return to the room.
Shen Qiushan lay on the bed and browsed the news about himself for a while.
When seeing various media reports, Shen Qiushan actually didn't have any special feelings. After all, when he became the top scorer in the imperial examination, even the CCTV reported his news, which was a much bigger scene than it is now.
However, after seeing the video released by Wang Zhixin, Shen Qiushan couldn't help laughing.
This "old friend" really won't give up, and will jump out to discredit himself whenever he gets the chance.
But this time, Wang Zhixin was really attentive and even read his novel carefully. It can be said that he had good intentions!
It makes no difference!
Wang Zhixin didn't know that the person he was facing was using cheats!
Shen Qiushan is very confident about the book "The Three-Body Civilization" after it is published.
The harder you scold him today, the more painful it will be when you slap him in the face in the future!
The next day.
Chinese Publishing House.
The morning meeting was held as scheduled.
"Boss, there's a book I think we need to discuss again!"
The meeting was almost over when Zhou Gang, deputy editor-in-chief of the publishing house, suddenly spoke.
"Which book?"
The president of the publishing house, Cao Zizhou, glanced at Zhou Gang.
"It's the book 'The Three-Body Civilization'!"
"Editor-in-Chief Chen actually offered a royalty share of up to 30%!"
"And the author is actually a new writer. Isn't this royalties a bit too high?"
Zhou Gang directly attacked Chen Min.
He is the deputy editor-in-chief and Chen Min is the editor-in-chief. They got to the position by stepping on Zhou Gang.
Therefore, Zhou Gang has never been convinced and continues to compete with Chen Min secretly!
"Hasn't this been discussed?"
Cao Zizhou asked back with a frown.
"Boss, there is a new situation."
"I don't know if you've seen the news, but Shen Qiushan, the author of The Three-Body Civilization, wrote an online novel a while ago."
"This novel is currently very controversial and has distorted values. Many internet celebrities have already denounced him!"
“If we insist on working with such an author, will it affect the reputation of the publishing house?”
Zhou Gang raised his own questions.
"Is there anything else?"
Cao Zizhou hadn't read the news on the Internet yet, and didn't know that Shen Qiushan, the top scorer in the college entrance examination, had once again sparked heated discussions.
"yes!"
"Netizens are calling him an old scumbag!"
"Old rogue or something!"
Zhou Gang added fuel to the fire.
Although there are people praising Shen Qiushan on the Internet, they are actually only a minority, and more people are saying that he is "awesome."
He won the top spot in the college entrance examination at the age of 38!
The novels and film and television copyrights written by him are worth tens of millions!
This is positive energy!
He has the story of an older loser's counterattack, so praise and admiration are actually the mainstream.
But Zhou Gang of course picked out the remarks that were unfavorable to Shen Qiushan!
This is the only way to strike a blow against Chen Min.
"Editor-in-Chief Chen, what do you say?"
Cao Zizhou looked at Chen Min. He also knew that his editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief had been fighting openly and secretly.
As the president and boss, Cao Zizhou is actually willing to see this situation.
Managing such a large enterprise actually has many similarities with a king managing a country.
The first thing is to know how to let your subordinates check and balance each other. Power cannot be completely concentrated in one person.
Because this would pose a huge threat to the "imperial power", the best model is to let the subordinates fight each other, compete with each other, and check and balance each other.
"What Deputy Editor-in-Chief Zhou said is true."
"Chen Qiushan did write an online novel, but the film and television rights of that novel alone sold for 10 million."
"Based on my understanding of Penguin Novels, the electronic royalties from that book should have earned several million!"
"It can be said that this book has made Shen Qiushan directly achieve financial freedom!"
"We are clearly taking advantage of this author. Although he has only written online novels, he has been tested by the market!"
"Because Shen Qiushan is a celebrity, when the book is officially released for sale, it will save a lot of publicity costs!"
Chen Min expounded his views with reason and evidence.
Then, she added, "The Nebula Award is currently in the final stage of soliciting entries, and I plan to submit The Three-Body Civilization today."
“If we win the award, it will be a great help to our official launch later!”
After Chen Min finished speaking, Zhou Gang, who was sitting opposite her, couldn't help but laugh: "Editor-in-Chief Chen, you are not dreaming!"
"Nebula Award?"
"You mean, a novel that hasn't been officially released yet has a chance to win the Nebula Award?"
“Is it so easy to win an award as a foreigner?”
Chen Min rolled her eyes at the other person and replied coldly, "Whether you can win the award or not is not up to you or me."
"I just think this novel has a chance to win an award, so why not sign up and give it a try!"
"Even if we don't win the award, it won't be a big loss for us."
"If we win the prize, it will be a windfall, and sales will increase by at least 100,000 copies!"
Zhou Gang snorted coldly: "100,000 copies! I think you are just daydreaming!"
"No science fiction novel in China has ever won the Nebula Award. How can Shen Qiushan, who writes online novels, write a masterpiece that wins the Nebula Award?"
“What a joke!!”
(End of this chapter)
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