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He Qiaosheng was also a candidate for this year's college entrance examination, but he applied for an art school. As early as the banner at the gate of No. 1 Middle School read "Congratulations to our student Jiang Xi for being admitted to Beijing University in advance", he decided to apply for the Beijing Conservatory of Music.
In his senior year of high school, Jiang Xi was locked up in the training team for various training competitions, and he also put his mind on studying. His parents hired a tutor for him, and he was either in tutoring or on the way to tutoring every day.
He learned piano and erhu since he was a child, and learned guitar for nearly two years. In terms of singing, through the competition last summer, several songs he wrote became a little famous at the time, and were sold to record companies. They are still popular now.
He is now a typical example of a person whose songs are popular but he is not. In addition, he has not appeared in public for more than a year. Although those songs have been popular, few people know about him as the original creator.
His professional course grades are fine, the only problem is his academic grades.
The academic grades of No. 4 Middle School generally have problems. Many students have to make a sudden effort in academic grades in their last year. Some even use their connections to go to No. 2 Middle School to take academic grades for a year. Those who have money hire tutors.
He Qiaosheng hired tutors.
Fortunately, his efforts over the past year were not in vain. After he finally received the admission notice from Beijing Conservatory of Music, he excitedly came to the gate of No. 1 Middle School with his admission notice in his arms.
At the gate of No. 1 Middle School, the sound of "Jiangnan Garment Factory! Jiangnan Garment Factory! Closed down! Closed down!" always echoed . 'The evil loud speaker sound has long disappeared from this street, and it has been replaced by another breakfast shop. However, the business of this breakfast shop is not as good as the previous clothing store business. Even the traffic brought by the "Jiangnan Garment Factory" in the past seems to have disappeared with the disappearance of the "Jiangnan Garment Factory".
This street has returned to its former desolation.
He looked at the shop that had been transferred to someone else with some disappointment. There was no familiar figure in the shop.
He slowly walked to the gate of No. 1 Middle School again, looking up at the gate of No. 1 Middle School, where the words "Congratulations to our school student Jiang Xi..." were still hanging. He turned around and saw that the gate of Wu Middle School also had a sign hanging on it, "Congratulations to our school student Song Peifeng..." He smiled unconsciously and had more expectations for his trip to the capital.
He went to Beijing in late August.
Wucheng didn't have an airport, so he took a green train. The train rattled and rattled, and it took several days to get there. It was on the train that he saw the cover of the "Wuxia" magazine brochure, which had a big message "Congratulations to Xi Meng for getting into Beijing University!" Below it was a line of slightly smaller words, but still very large compared to the other words on the cover, "Xi Meng is back with a new work "I... Jin Yi Wei"!"
The man holding the book was the young man sitting opposite him, reading the book with great interest.
He also had the latest two issues of "Wuxia" in his bag, and seeing him reading, he couldn't help but take it out and read it too.
Because he had to take the college entrance examination, after finishing "White Snake Cultivation", Xi Meng did not write a new work immediately, so he did not buy several issues in between. He waited until he filled out the application form and the college entrance examination was over before he had the mood to buy the "Wuxia" magazine. He did not read other people's magazines, but directly turned to "Jinyiwei" written by Xi Meng.
The boy opposite him had also finished reading the latest issue of "The King's Guard". In order to achieve sufficient publicity effect, this issue of "The King's Guard" was serialized with more than 20,000 words, which made the readers very satisfied. Moreover, according to the interview with Ximeng by "Wuxia" magazine: Ximeng was very busy with studies before, and he had to prepare for the college entrance examination, so he did not start writing immediately after the completion of "White Snake Cultivation". When "The King's Guard" was first published, because of the busy studies, he did not have much time to write, so each issue in the early stage only serialized 10,000 words, which was similar to the serialization volume of other serialized works. But the readers who had been fed with appetite by Ximeng before, felt that it was far from enough.
This is also the reason why Wuxia didn’t promote Jiang Ximeng’s new work on a large scale before. They were afraid that if they did a good job of promoting it, the production of Guards would fail. That would be a big problem. After all, Jiang Ximeng is representing the country in international competitions and has no time to write for you.
So they kept a low profile before.
Now they have accumulated enough manuscripts. Even if Jiang Ximeng is locked up in school due to military training, they still have enough manuscripts to deal with the time when Jiang Xi can’t write.
The boy opposite had finished reading the latest issue of "The King's Guard". After putting down the magazine, he saw a boy opposite him who was about the same age as him was also reading "Kung Fu". He couldn't help but ask curiously: "Hey, buddy, do you like "Kung Fu" too?"
He Qiaosheng looked up and turned to the page of "The King's Guard". He nodded and said: "I am a loyal reader of Xiao Meng."
The boy's eyes lit up: "What a coincidence? I also read Xiao Meng." As he said this, he was a little distressed: "It's just that Xiao Meng's works all open from the perspective of the female protagonist."
Relatively speaking, the perspective of the male protagonist makes him feel more involved.
Previously, because it was said that Ximeng was a policeman in the system, they put themselves in the author's perspective and enjoyed the story. But...
He couldn't help but lean over, "You like Ximeng, have you read the latest issue of "Wuxia"?" He opened the cover of "Wuxia" in his hand, "Fuck, it says on the cover 'Congratulations to Ximeng for being admitted to Beijing University'. What does that mean? Didn't they say that Ximeng was a policeman before? Doesn't this mean that Ximeng and we were in the same class?"
This is impossible.
The Internet is also arguing about this.
The main reason is that there is a netizen who posted a post on the forum, shouting: Last year's 'Ximeng' was a girl, and you stood on your head and ate shit, come out!
Then, he released the latest promotional cover and poster of "Wu Xia", as well as Xi Meng's latest work "King's Guard". He used the reason that the new work "King's Guard" also has the female protagonist's perspective and Xi Meng was admitted to Kyoto University to refute the rumors spread by netizens last year that Xi Meng was a "policeman within the system", and concluded that Xi Meng must be a man's thing.
He said in the post: "The latest issue of Wuxia has officially confirmed that Ximeng is not an old policeman in the system, but a freshman this year who was admitted to Peking University. Last year, you used this to prove that Ximeng is a man, which is not true at all!"
"The one named 'Ximeng is a girl, I eat shit' is an Internet user. If you are still online, you should come out and admit your mistake and get beaten!"
The publicity effect of this time was also explosive, because it was promoted by the magazine and the publishing house at the same time. Many students who were still in summer vacation and had to go to the bookstore to read books every day. When they saw the poster of the latest issue, they thought they were seeing things.
'Congratulations to Ximeng for being admitted to Peking University'?
Is this Ximeng the Ximeng they know?
Then they opened her latest published book. Just looking at the title "My Years as the Commander of the Imperial Guard", which was so similar to the title of the two books "The Song Dynasty" and "White Snake", was enough to let them know that this Xi Meng and the Xi Meng they knew were probably the same person.
When you open the title page of the first physical book of "The Imperial Guards", you will find a brief introduction of the author, Xi Meng, on the folded cover page.
Xi Meng is a new martial arts writer and a freshman of Peking University in 1997. He is the author of "The Years I Was a Constable in the Song Dynasty" and "The Years I Was a White Snake Cultivator".
When this introduction came out, those who still couldn't believe it confirmed that it was the Xi Meng they knew.
Then a bunch of questions popped up in their minds: What? Xi Meng is actually a freshman of this year? Xi Meng was admitted to Peking University?
How old is Xi Meng?
Many people were attracted by the cute name, and they sat down at the bookshelf in the bookstore and started reading it without thinking
twice. Some people who were not short of money bought the first volume of "King's Guard" on the spot and read it at home. Some people bought the book because they were not satisfied with it. A large number of people went home or went to the Internet cafe and couldn't help but find other readers of "King's Guard" to complain about this. Then they saw this post and flocked to this post: [Who has read the latest issue of "Wu Xia"? Does anyone know the inside information? 】
【I called the Wuxia magazine to confirm before, and the staff there said that it was an old policeman in the system. Now they say that Ying Meng is a freshman, and a college student from Peking University. Is there anyone who knows what's going on? 】
【I have already seen that Ying Meng is a girl. You still don't believe it. Why don't you look at how old Lu Zhen, the heroine of Song Dynasty, was when she first appeared? Thirteen years old! The little white snake turned into the White Snake! I won't talk about the little white snake, because the White Snake is the first premise. Many people used this point to say that Ying Meng is a man. Now Ying Meng's new work "The King's Guard" is out. If Ying Meng is a man, what reason does he have to make the protagonist of "The King's Guard" still a woman? Is the male protagonist unworthy of being the commander of the Imperial Guard? 】
This point was strongly criticized by many readers who believed that Xi Meng was a female author. Even the readers who originally believed that Xi Meng was an "old policeman within the system" and were now slapped in the face by the official "Wu Xia" magazine were silent.
In addition to discussing this point, some readers were discussing another thing.
【Have you noticed that Xi Meng is a freshman this year, and his first article was serialized in "Wu Xia" two years ago, which means that he started writing in the summer vacation between his first and second year of high school. In two years, he wrote two long novels, and he was admitted to Peking University! 】
【Fuck, what kind of god is this? 】
No one had counted how many words Ximeng had written in the past two years before, but soon a talented reader counted the number of words Ximeng had written in the past two years, which was more than 1.8 million words!
【I worked hard to make up for my high school and almost went bald. Ximeng wrote more than 1.8 million words in two years of high school and was admitted to Peking University. This is about the diversity of human beings!】
As Director Li Ang expected, as soon as the promotional strategy of "Congratulations to Ximeng for being admitted to Peking University" came out, the popularity of "Wuxia", Ximeng, and "The Guards" rose rapidly. The most intuitive data brought about by this is that the latest issue of "Wuxia" has finally seen a sudden surge in sales after several months of declining sales!