Liu Ruying asked, "What's wrong?"
After a moment of distraction, Lu Qianzi spread out the catalogue for Liu Ruying to see in a hollow voice.
Liu Ruying looked over and saw that the simple catalog of "Weiming" magazine was arranged like this -
Table of contents:
Foreword - Ishikawa Atsushi
poetry
"Moonlight Night on the Spring River" - Bai Yujing
"Song of the Immortal" - Baiyujing
The Difficult Road to Shu——Baiyujing
Dreaming of Chanting Tianmu and Chanting a Farewell Song - Baiyujing
Climbing High - Baiyujing
"Brocade Zither" - Baiyujing
arts
Hometown - Baiyujing
The Chess King - Bai Yujing
Metamorphosis - Bai Yujing
"Hearing the Truth in the Morning" - Baiyujing
Scattered
Moonlight over the Lotus Pond - Baiyujing
Autumn in the Ancient Capital - Baiyujing
I and the Earthen Altar——Baiyujing
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Throughout the entire catalog, in the author's column, the three words "Bai Yujing" are arranged from top to bottom in an eerie order, like a military parade, as if their existence is inevitable.
This Bai Yujing quietly and naturally occupied all the pages of "Weiming" magazine, including poetry, novels, essays, miscellaneous articles, all categories, every block, all with the flag belonging to Bai Yujing.
"What is this? If I remember correctly, "Weiming" should be the school magazine of Kyoto University, not someone's personal column, right?" Lu Qianzi grinned.
She was just marveling at the coincidence when she casually flipped through the book and came across a work by Bai Yujing.
Unexpectedly, the entire magazine was Bai Yujing's work.
Wu Zun snatched the magazine from her hand, placed it on the table, and stared at it intently, scanning through the table of contents. The more he read, the more his hands shook.
"'Moonlit Night on a Spring River' became a huge hit online, 'The Road to Shu' was even on the college entrance exam, and 'Ascending the Heights' is included in the new edition of the Chinese language extracurricular reading material..."
Wu Zun stared at the small magazine with such eagerness that he wanted to stare a hole in it.
Nearly half of the articles in this magazine had appeared before his eyes at some point in time.
But it was not until today that he found out that the author of these articles was the same person.
Moreover, all of this was concentrated in the small magazine in his hand.
"How is this possible?" Wu Zun flipped through the magazine in his hand, his disbelief growing. "So... these were all written by the same person? Is this magazine really not pieced together?"
Xia Yingji had a serious expression. He held the magazine and looked at it for a while before saying:
"I'm sure they weren't spliced together, and I know why you only just realized they were written by the same person. First, the styles of the articles are so different, and second, they were written separately."
"Yes, 'Jinse' became popular only three years ago, and 'Climbing the Heights' seems to have been on the college entrance examination paper five years ago. I even did the reading test," Lu Qianzi said. "And these short stories that followed have been popular intermittently. I had no idea they existed before they became popular."
Si Chaoliang said: "I knew that 'Song of the Immortal', 'The Difficult Road to Shu' and 'Dream of the Heavenly Mother and Sing a Farewell Song' were written by the same person. They were all popular in the national style circle at the time, and many people confused them. But I didn't know that 'Brocade Zither' and 'Ascending the Heights' were also written by him."
"Yes, yes, I remember now," Lu Qianzi slapped her head. "These three poems are really popular. Many middle school students like to post one or two lines on their social media. At first, I thought they were some kind of internet celebrity quotes in the Jianghu style, but who knew these three poems are actually serious classical poems."
Liu Ruying's impression was a bit vague at first, but now she recalled that a few years ago, three poems including "Song of the Wine" were broadcast on TV. A group of experts collectively criticized the poems for their poor aesthetic taste and Jianghu style, saying that the poet was too arrogant and needed to correct his world view.
As a result, those experts were criticized by a group of literary masters at the time, especially some professors from Kyoto University, who published countless articles to justify the reputation of those three poems, which even had a bit of a polemical flavor.
At that time, she only regarded this matter as an insignificant topic in her life. She did not pay much attention to the author himself or who the author was.
Not only did she not pay attention, the media also didn't care about the author's identity. Many online media outlets, while fanning the flames, simply claimed that the poems were written by "folk masters" and "ordinary netizens," using headlines like "Shocking! Folk Masters Overthrow Literary Experts" as a gimmick to generate a lot of traffic.
It turns out that this "folk master" is actually Chen Ya.
Wu Zun continued browsing the magazine in his hand and said, "So, what's the purpose? Why does this issue of Weiming magazine publish so many articles by Chen Ya? Are they trying to make him famous?"
"No," Xia Yingji shook his head. "How could our school magazine do such a thing? Even if the students of the school magazine wanted to make a big news like this, the reviewers would not approve it."
"Think of it another way. It's not Weiming magazine that wants to promote Chen Ya, it's Chen Ya himself who wants to promote himself," Si Chaoliang pushed his glasses. "He prepared a lot of good articles first, and when a certain issue of the school magazine came out, he submitted them all at once, hoping to make a big news story and make himself famous."
"In the end, it failed? In the end, the fire was still separated." said Wu Zun.
Thinking of this, Wu Zun felt a little relieved. Fortunately, not every one of these articles became popular, only some of them did. If every one of them was popular and every one of them was excellent, it would really make people want to die.
Lu Qianzi rolled her eyes and glared at Si Chaoliang, "What are you talking about? How could Chen Ya want to promote himself? If he wanted to promote himself, why did he use a pen name? Why didn't he reveal his real name even after he became famous?"
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