"Information? What information?"
The witch master at the side came over quietly, wanting to hear what Lu Qingxuan had found out.
"Chen Ya once told me about his childhood. He said his family was very poor and he made some money by writing books. But when I asked him what books he wrote, he refused to tell me."
After Lu Qingxuan finished speaking, Liu Ruying and Wu Zun fell into silence for a few seconds.
"Making money by writing books? Writing books? Is it a novel?" Liu Ruying opened her mouth slightly.
"He didn't say what the subject matter was. It might be a novel. After all, he said he made money from it. It's impossible for a ten-year-old kid to make money from books like success stories, right?" Lu Qingxuan smiled lightly after saying this.
Liu Ruying thought for a moment and said, "This is very important information. A genius boy in his teens making money by publishing novels. This should be reported in the news."
"That's right," Lu Qingxuan said, "so I used a search engine to look it up."
"What was the result?"
"I didn't find any relevant information," Lu Qingxuan shook her head. "I searched for keywords like 'child prodigy' and 'young writer', and all I found was a child who claimed to have written fantasy works at the age of 8, but that child was definitely not him."
Wu Zun beside him interrupted and asked, "How can you be sure?"
Lu Qingxuan said, "That child is from Beijing. First of all, the location doesn't match. Secondly, according to interviews, that child's parents are both highly educated, and the novel they wrote is heavily packaged and hyped. Chen Ya probably doesn't have the conditions."
Wu Zun said thoughtfully, "Could it be that Chen Ya is also trying to package himself? After all, it's a bit shocking that he's writing books to make money at such a young age... Oh, right, Chen Ya is the author of 'Song of the Wine', so that's fine, just ignore what I said."
Both girls ignored Wu Zun and continued their previous discussion.
"If there's no information, there are only two possibilities," Liu Ruying said. "The first is that the books Chen Ya wrote when he was a child weren't well-known, so they can't be found online now."
"Hiss——" Lu Qingxuan felt that this speculation was very rude to Chen Ya.
Wu Zun nodded and said:
"It's very likely. Look, you asked him what book it was, but he didn't answer. It seems he didn't want to lose face... But he wrote 'Song of the Wine' and didn't tell anyone... That's fine, just pretend I didn't say anything."
Lu Qingxuan once again ignored Wu Zun's self-pull and said:
"This speculation is not very reasonable. If there really was a child that young who wrote a novel, the publishing house would definitely spare no effort to package it and hype it up. It wouldn't be so that there wouldn't be any trace left online."
Liu Ruying nodded: "I think so too, so I am more inclined to the second possibility."
"What?"
"No one knew at the time that the author was just a kid. The publisher didn't know, so naturally they didn't package the book. And the readers didn't know, so naturally no one hyped it up."
Lu Qingxuan was silent.
After a while, she said, "But that doesn't make sense. If he wanted to publish, he would have needed an ID card, right? How could the publishing house not know he was a child?"
"There are many ways to circumvent this. For example, he could use his mother's ID."
Lu Qingxuan shook her head. "I don't believe there's no rumor about this at all. The internet is so advanced nowadays, but I can't find any relevant information. It's really weird."
Liu Ruying said, "But sometimes this kind of thing really happens, like with Jin Yong and Gu Long. If it weren't for that accidental exposure, who would have known that these two people were pseudonyms of the same person? And that so many works were written by this person?"
Lu Qingxuan tilted her head and asked, "What happened to Jin Yong and Gu Long? What's this melon?"
Liu Ruying widened her eyes slightly: "You don't know?"
"I was abroad for the past few years, and the news channels in China were not very smooth."
"And do you know García Borges?"
Lu Qingxuan nodded: "I know, what's wrong?"
"He is actually a pseudonym for Jin Yong and Gu Long."
"Ah?" Lu Qingxuan felt for a moment that she was joking with him.
Liu Ruying then asked, "Do you know Hemingway Faulkner, Kawabata Haruki, or Tolstoyevsky?"
Lu Qingxuan smiled and said, "Don't tell me these are all sock puppets."
"Yes, these are all pseudonyms, and they're Jin Yong and Gu Long pseudonyms," Liu Ruying said. "You didn't know? These writers are also very famous abroad, right?"
Lu Qingxuan was stunned: "When did this happen?"
"It's probably been about half a year, less than a year."
"I haven't seen any relevant news abroad... There may be news, but I skipped it." Lu Qingxuan sweated.
"Information cocoon." Wu Zun suddenly said, "This is the information cocoon effect. No matter how popular something is, there will always be people who have never heard of it."
"What is an information cocoon?" Liu Ruying looked at him.
"Information cocoons mean that in an information society with a vast amount of information, people, like silkworms spinning silk cocoons, wrap themselves up in it, only receiving information they prefer, creating a state of semi-isolation."
Wu Zun continued, "For example, School Beauty Liu knows this story very clearly, while Miss Lu knows nothing about it. I'm somewhere in between. I only knew there was a powerful mystery writer, but I didn't know he also used the pseudonyms Jin Yong and Gu Long."
Wu Zun stared at Lu Qingxuan and said, "Maybe this is why we can't find Chen Ya's trace. Everyone is trapped in the cocoon."
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