Facing these IP buyers and magazine editors who said one after another, "Teacher, please sell us the copyright of "The Divine Book of Luo River" and the price is negotiable", "Teacher, can you cooperate with us for a long time in the future?", "Teacher, you are so great", and then changed to "Teacher, we don't know whether you will live or die in the future, so let's forget about our cooperation", "Teacher, you see you are being suppressed so badly, your value should be lowered, or you can sell the copyright to us at a low price, since no one else wants it anyway", according to the general novel routine, in order to reflect the indifference of growing up in the trough and seeing the world's coldness, the male protagonist should be mature, stable, and silent at this time, smilingly sending these people away one by one, and then quietly waiting for a comeback and a slap in the face.
However, Zhuchuan refused.
Because in Chuchuan's view, besides Chu Li, the second person in the world who can make him suffer injustice has not been born yet. If this lucky child is born, her identity can probably only be his son or daughter.
So the next morning, when the news was all reporting on "The early works of a well-known new generation best-selling author were questioned, and young authors born in the 1980s once again stirred up the controversy of 'fathers writing for them'", Zhuo Chuan sat at the table with his legs crossed, eating breakfast while responding to these monsters one by one -
[Okay, I won't cooperate this time, and I don't need to cooperate in the future. Please note that I am not threatening anyone.]
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【Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, not for sale.】
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【Haha ..., I won’t write it. 】
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[I am a beggar. Even if I am a beggar, I am still a noble leader of the Beggars’ Gang.]
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【Go away.】
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[We had a very pleasant cooperation before, but now we have come to an end.]
When Zhuchuan was replying to the comments one by one at the speed of ten per second - smaller companies would simply block or delete them without wasting even a punctuation mark - Chu Li was walking past him with a plate of toast.
Putting the toast in front of the man over his shoulder, watching him block a small magazine editor who asked him if he wanted to work on a short magazine manuscript for 80 yuan per thousand words, Chu Li stood behind him and said quietly, "Thinking back then, I worked hard for you for three months on Luohe Divine Book before you gave me your WeChat account... and last year, Yuanyue Publishing House paid you 180 yuan per thousand words, which doubled after the Chinese New Year."
Chu Li pointed at the phone and said, "Why would a bitch like you write to her for just 80 yuan for 1,000 words be in your WeChat!!!"
"That night, Jiang Yucheng and I got drunk. We were so excited that we wanted to grant amnesty to everyone, so I added anyone who wanted to join," Zhu Chuan put down his phone and spread some jam on a piece of toast. "To the point where I deleted so many people today that my hands were tired. I even suspected that the underground organization had issued a wanted order last night: whoever can first anger Zhu Chuan to death with words, or humiliate him to the point of committing suicide, will receive a reward of one million."
The first ceremony started with a smile.
Zhao Chuan frowned and said seriously: "The wanted man is either Jiang Yucheng or my dad."
Chu Li laughed even louder.
With a smile, he glanced at the TV. The morning news was still gossiping about Chu Chuan. Chu Li picked up the TV remote and changed the channel. He looked at Chu Chuan across the table, then restrained his smile a little: "Is it a big impact?"
"Some of the cooperation projects we were discussing have just been put on hold," Zhu Chuan picked up his chopsticks, his brows naturally cold, as if he didn't care that he might have lost millions overnight. "It's not a big deal. Those who can't wait have withdrawn. Big companies have experience, so they will continue to wait and see, and won't be blinded by groundless rumors."
The smile on Chu Li's face disappeared completely. He tapped the table with his fingers and fell into deep thought.
Zhuo Chuan raised his head and glanced at her: "Why, are you afraid that my reputation will be ruined and I will have to beg for food on the street from now on, and I won't even be able to buy Ergou's canned food and your rice?"
Hearing his name and the keyword "canned food", Da Gou came over with a grunt and put his chin on the edge of the table... Chu Li reached out and wiped Er Gouzi's head, and said slowly: "Speak nicely, I bought all the rice in the house, and the most you contributed is the cucumber in the refrigerator."
“…”
Zhuchuan put down his chopsticks.
The moment of silence made Chu Li stunned. After thinking carefully, she seemed to understand where the silence came from... She took her hand away from Ergou's ear, turned her head expressionlessly and said to Zhuchuan sternly: "I'm not making dirty jokes."
"I know." Zhuo Chuan nodded. "My cucumber doesn't need to be put in the refrigerator. It's been stored in my crotch for 28 years and it's still very fresh."
Chu Li: "..."
The man stretched out his long legs a little: "You can pick them at will."
Chu Li couldn't hold back the expression on her face anymore. She stood up with her lips twitching, picked up her bag, and hurriedly fled under Zhu Chuan's questioning gaze of "When are you going to pick cucumbers?"
When I walked to the gate of the community, my phone screen lit up.
【Teacher Xizi: Although this is ridiculous, I still want to ask you out of concern. Do you know that dating in the adult world means that one day you will be in perfect harmony with each other and live in harmony together?】
[The navy hired by the monkey: …]
【Teacher Xizi: Don’t nod, answer directly, this is very important—even more important than “When will the mentally retarded child who wants to ask Zhuchuan to write a thousand words for an article wake up?” 】
[The Monkey’s hired navy: ………………………oppose premarital sex.]
【Teacher Xizi: You and I have been living together illegally. Instead of telling me this, you might as well say that you believe in Christ, which is more convincing.】
【Actor Teacher: Then let’s get married tomorrow.】
[The navy hired by the monkey: ???????????】
【Actor teacher: You won’t get married?】
[The Monkey's hired naval forces: Why did you make the proposal sound like you were asking me to bring a pound of pork to make meat cakes for you when I go home in the evening? ]
【Teacher Xizi: QAQ But my career has hit a low point. 】
Chu Li: "..."
Even when his career is at a low point, he still has the energy to act shamelessly cute.
I really want to dig out "QAQ"'s eyeballs with my hands.
【Actor Teacher: Oh, by the way, remember to ask for leave and come home with me.】
【Teacher Xizi: Feel the harmonious family atmosphere in my home, and maybe you can’t wait to walk into the holy marriage hall with me.】
[The Monkey’s hired naval forces: I heard that Mr. Chu Chuan’s best record was that he barely managed to achieve a record of not quarreling with Mr. Chu Guxuan for seven days at the cost of “no more than five sentences a day and no more than ten words in each sentence” during the seven days he returned home.]
【Actor teacher: ……】
【Teacher Xizi: Why does Jiang Yucheng tell you everything?】
[The water army hired by Monkey: In order for us to break up sooner, he told me that you wet the bed once in the first year of junior high school, and that you felt that you had urinary incontinence after you peed, which must be because you had a terminal disease.]
【Teacher Xizi: Now that you know all this, it’s even more impossible for us to break up.】
[Actor Teacher: You will carry this secret with you until you die, and you will lie in the double grave with my ashes next to you.]
[The navy hired by the monkey: …]
After accepting this series of the world's most creative "proposals" that were suddenly proposed with the premise of "requiring harmony in life", Chu Li rolled her eyes and replied with a series of "get lost", then put away her phone and jumped on the subway to Yuanyue Society.
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It was Monday, and when Chu Li arrived at the editorial department, he needed to urge the serial manuscripts of A Gui and Suo Heng, and then go to ask some great writer, such as Jiang Yucheng, if he had time to write a short story... Now Chu Li was already the deputy editor-in-chief, and he went out to solicit manuscripts under the banner of the deputy editor-in-chief of Yuanyue Society's "Moonlight" magazine, which was like hitting the snake at its most vulnerable point, and he hit it accurately every time.
After arranging the next things, Chu Li prepared to ask for two or three days off from the company before leaving get off work, applying for an outing in the name of "discussing the serial outline" and accompanying Zhuchuan home.
With the above, Chu Li felt that his arrangement was stable and there was nothing wrong with it.
She then spent the entire day sitting in front of the computer. She had a meeting in the morning, and after the meeting she went back to the editorial department to solicit manuscripts. She finalized three short stories and collected the manuscripts of Ah Gui and Suo Heng for proofreading. She even ate her lunch break while typing and spooning food into her mouth... She was so tired after a day that her head and eyes were blurry. When she closed her eyes, all she could see were lines of size 5 fonts in a Word document...
Finally, I sent my application for field work to the vice president, Liang Chonglang, after get off work. I never expected that he would reject it outright: "No."
First Li: “???”
First ceremony black question mark face.
"You are now the editor of Yuanyue Publishing House, not Zhuochuan's personal assistant. If you run field work for him alone, what will happen to other authors?" Liang Chonglang shook his head. "Hey, if you care so much about this author, why don't you just be his personal editor!"
actually.
It is not uncommon for magazine editors to travel to other places to visit authors in order to obtain cooperation priority or serial outlines with a popular author.
In most cases, magazine publishers will agree to the offer without blinking a blind eye. Regardless of whether the editor is just there for fun or really going to visit the author, as long as the magazine can get back what it wants, there will be no problem.
——Just like the last time Chu Li used the weekend to rush to City B in person, just to get the serialization cooperation contract for Jiang Yucheng's "The Disappearing Amusement Park". Yuanyue Publishing House reimbursed both the train tickets and the air tickets. Afterwards, Yu Yao even told Chu Li that even if he didn't have to rush there on the weekend, he would be granted leave if he wanted to go to the company on weekdays. For the sake of great resources, "field visits" are natural and reasonable.
"I have already arranged the other authors' affairs. I will also bring my computer with me when I go out on field trips..." Chu Li couldn't understand why Liang Chonglang refused. He temporarily ignored his weird suggestion of "just be his personal editor" and said patiently, "We are still eagerly waiting for Zhu Chuan to sign his next new book to be serialized in our magazine first--"
"We can't just ignore other authors for him, right?" Liang Chonglang said, "There's a lot of noise about Zhechuan on the official Weibo right now. You know we don't need to be so nervous just for an author who doesn't know what he will be like in the future..."
"Zhou Chuan returned to City C this time just to resolve this matter."
"What if he can't solve it?"
“…”
If we say that from the beginning to the end, since Chu Li was questioned and his popularity was affected, Chu Li could only be regarded as a bystander watching from the sidelines, and as an outsider, she tried to help Chu Li get out of this emotional dilemma...
Now, she finally has the opportunity to face what Chu Chuan is facing now.
What is it?
Looking at Liang Chonglang's face, he once wanted to kneel on the ground to clean Zhuchuan's shoes, and hang on his thighs and never come down. Today, that face is full of ridicule, disdain, and contempt.
Chu Li wanted to sigh and wonder how these people could do it. They changed their minds overnight, faster than turning the pages of a book.
nausea.
She was still so angry.
What about Chu Chuan himself who has been facing these faces for several days?
"When a writer is involved in such an all-round scandal, it's like an artist being involved in pornography, gambling and drugs. He won't be banned, but he will definitely be devastated," Liang Chonglang continued in his nonchalant tone. "Young people like you don't know that information on the Internet is updated so quickly nowadays. It may be different in 30 years. Today he is very popular, but tomorrow no one cares about him. Look at Jiang Yucheng. He was so popular back then, but now he has to rely on autograph sessions to save himself from being a nobody. Look at Suo Heng. He has almost sunk to the bottom of the sea in recent years, but now he is so popular. His Weibo fans are increasing rapidly. Several film and television companies want to negotiate film and television cooperation with him through us..."
Liang Chonglang hadn't finished speaking yet.
The man standing in front of him slapped the table.
Liang Chonglang stopped crossing his legs, as if startled by a loud bang. His chair slid back, and he widened his eyes slightly, looking at Chu Li who was across the desk. At this moment, her eyes were red with anger, as if she was some evil demon that had crawled out of hell!
"If you say the same thing, do you have the guts to say it to Zhu Chuan? You know it yourself. Things change over time. Who was the one who managed to keep Yuanyue Society from making a profit last year? Zhu Chuan isn't even dead yet! How dare you say such frivolous things?!!!!"