"Lao Liang, there are some things I have been holding back for a long time. I have wanted to say them since the last book fair. I will just say them today - times have changed. Book publishing today is no longer like it used to be. Authors submit their manuscripts by letter, editors review them, printers print them, and readers buy them. It is not that simple..."
The hands were clenched into fists, and the fingertips turned white from excessive force.
"With the various convenient online communication tools, there are now more ways to communicate in any link in the past, so even those who were only interested in profit and could get by in the past have also surfaced... The author is not a fool, and neither are the readers. A perfunctory attitude and a muddle-headed attitude will sooner or later cause Yuanyueshe to fall."
"What did you say? Who are you calling a jerk?"
Chu Li raised his chin slightly and said, "I said, when the sun is strong, everything becomes visible."
The corners of Liang Chonglang's lips twitched slightly, and he stood up from his seat in a flash: "Chu Li! Watch your attitude! Who are you! You are just a deputy editor-in-chief of a magazine branch. I am your boss, the vice president of Yuanyue Publishing House. Oh, you think you are great just because you have brought in a few powerful authors, right? You can try it. If I fire you now, will those authors leave with you and give up such a good platform as our Yuanyue Publishing House?"
"I'd like to know, too."
Chu Li curled the corners of his lips.
In fact, the blood in her body was almost frozen. She was so angry that she wanted to throw the leave application in Liang Chonglang's face and tell him that she was leaving right now.
But she still held back.
Suo Heng and Jiang Yucheng's comebacks have just gotten on track, and Ah Gui's new series has just begun. Seeing that her high-rise building has just had a solid foundation, how can she give up the foundation?
And Chu Chuan...
Herman will be looking for a co-writer in China next year. The reason why Chu Li mentioned this so often is that she really cares about it. She knows how much Chu Chuan likes Herman's works and how much he longs to prove himself on a bigger and broader platform one day. Chu Chuan doesn't say it, but he is the kind of person who was awarded the title of "Three Good Students" in elementary school and could keep the award certificate in his schoolbag for the entire summer vacation without taking it out. In fact, he is looking forward to the award certificate jumping out of his schoolbag every day and can't wait to stick it on his forehead to tell the world...
And what Chu Li had to do was to be the one who helped him take out the award certificate.
Movies, movie novels, and then a series of movie scripts and novels will be published. The largest publishing companies in the country are Yuanyue Publishing House and Xindun Publishing House. If she leaves Yuanyue Publishing House today, there will be no one else in Yuanyue Publishing House who will try their best to fight for Zhuchuan like she did...
She could almost imagine that when Herman's new works are handed over to Xindun Press again next year or the year after, an idiot like Liang Chonglang would only curl his lips sourly: That's Herman, isn't it normal for it to sell well? If you give me these resources, I can also sell well.
……………………Such a stupid idiot would never think that if these resources fell from the sky, what use would they be to you!
Hold on.
Can't get angry.
Don't bother with these idiots.
During this time, her pupils were enlarged countless times because of deep breathing. Chu Li finally suppressed her anger... Pulling the application form for field work back from Liang Chonglang's hand, she changed to a nonchalant tone: "I was just talking. What's the matter? You are not the only one who has the final say. You don't accept advice from the ministers? Forget about the application for field work. I can use my annual leave..."
The anger came and went quickly. One second he looked like he was going to fight, and the next second he seemed to be indifferent. Liang Chonglang couldn't keep up with the pace... He looked dumbfounded as Chu Li took the pen from his desk and hurriedly made two changes on the note, then slapped it in front of him.
Liang Chonglang stuck his head out and saw that he had really used his annual leave.
Then Liang Chonglang has nothing to say.
Chu Li was given leave without saying anything. She took the note and prepared to go to the Human Resources Department. She turned around and walked out of Liang Chonglang's vice president's office with her head held high. The moment she closed the door, she heard Liang Chonglang whisper two words from his seat: "You are sick."
Chu Li looked as calm as a rock and left in a hurry without looking back.
Thanks to Lao Miao's painstaking cultivation over the past year, everything she encountered in the past few months taught her the most important thing: don't argue with idiots, it's not worth it.
…
When Chu Li returned home in the evening, he had already put all his emotions under control.
Amid rumors recently, Chu Chuan posts his updates on Weibo every day and then immediately logs off without reading comments, reposts or private messages. Following the ostrich principle of "you can scold me as much as you want, if I can't see it, it doesn't exist", as an internet-addicted teenager, he has caught up on all the British, American, Japanese and Korean dramas he missed in the past decade, and then he has become as idle as a salted fish.
So every day after Chu Li got off work, the person who followed her in and out of the kitchen, up and down the attic stairs, and squatted (leaning) at the bathroom door and waited eagerly while she took off her makeup, in addition to Ergouzi, now there was also her man.
Chu Li glanced at the man through the mirror: "What's the matter?"
He is in a bad mood.
And he looked like he was troubled by something.
Zhu Chuan showed a hesitant expression, as if he swallowed the words three times on his tongue, and finally asked slowly: "Have you asked for leave?"
"Yes," Chu Li lowered his head, opened the facial cleanser, and pressed it to his face amid the buzzing sound. "You keep repeating it three times a day like Xianglin Sao, how can I forget it?"
"Confirm the date, this Wednesday to next Monday."
"right."
Zhuochuan stared at Chuli, and after a moment he frowned slightly: "Yuanyue Society didn't set any traps for you, right? Based on my understanding of them, Liang Chonglang might say something like this is an outdated author and ask you not to put too much thought into it..."
“…”
Look.
Everyone knows Sima Zhao's intention.
Liang Chonglang still thought that his acting skills were first-rate, but even the idiot Chuan Chuan could see that something was wrong with him.
"That's not true," Chu Li's face was shaking, and her voice was a little trembling, but her face was calm under the foam, and her eyes were firm, "He wouldn't dare to say such a thing even if he had a hundred guts. You are Zhuochuan."
Looking in the mirror, the man leaning against the door looked a little better - he had probably been bullied a lot these days, and now even a bastard like Liang Chonglang could affect him no matter what he did... As steady as Zhuochuan, when would it be Liang Chonglang's turn to influence his mood?
Chu Li felt distressed when seeing Zhuchuan like this, and stood on tiptoe to pat his head.
Zhuchuan was stunned.
At this time, Chu Li had washed her face and hands, and walked past him to prepare to cook. After hesitating for two seconds, Zhu Chuan followed her into the kitchen like a little tail.
At this moment, my phone vibrated. I opened it and saw that it was Ah Gui who accepted the setting calmly after knowing that "晝川=L君" and happily connected with晝川's big number——
At that time, Ah Gui said: What's there to be angry about? It's just a lie. On your 18th birthday, your parents suddenly told you, "I'm sorry for lying to you for 18 years. In fact, our family assets are over 100 million, and you didn't have to study so hard..." Would your first reaction be to feel that the sky is falling and to put the cake-cutting knife on your neck to commit suicide? ………………Don't be ungrateful for what you have. To be honest, I have been waiting for this day for more than 20 years and it has never come.
[The ghost behind you: Did you ask? ]
【Tsukawa: …】
[The Ghost Behind You: What did she say? I felt that when Chu Li spoke to me this afternoon, she was full of life through the screen. It wasn’t the kind of life that was full of life, but the kind that was angry.]
【Zhuchuan: Who are you trying to scare?】
[The ghost behind you: I didn’t mean to scare anyone, but I think I scared you, hahahahahahahahahahaha! ]
In his heart, he silently gave Ah Gui the four words "Mom's idiot". Zhu Chuan put away his phone and sighed...
worry.
Chu Li, who was cutting vegetables with her back to him at this moment, heard the man's sigh and was startled. She wondered if her acting skills were so poor that Zhuchuan saw through her.
When a tree falls, monkeys scatter; when a wall falls, everyone pushes it. Does he know that even a bastard like Liang Chonglang can ride on top of him and step on him?
He is sighing.
It must be very hard to be alone at this time, right?
No wonder he followed her so closely as soon as she came home today. Was it possible that some blind person took advantage of her and bullied him when she was not at home?
How much injustice has Chu Chuan, such a proud person, suffered these days——
…
"Dong dong" The frequency of cutting vegetables slowed down. Chu Li became more and more distracted, until the kitchen knife slipped and a sharp pain came from her fingertips. She cried out "Ah" and threw away the kitchen knife. She lowered her head and saw a long cut on the tip of her index finger. Bright red blood gushed out. She frowned——
"What's wrong?"
A man's deep voice rang out from behind her, and then her vision went dark. It was probably because the person behind her bent down and looked over her shoulder... When he saw the wound on her fingertips, the man frowned fiercely: "What's the matter? Are you so stupid just cutting vegetables..."
Chu Li moved her lips but didn't have time to say anything. The next second, the man took her hand and walked quickly outside the house. The man took out the medicine box from a familiar place and took out hydrogen peroxide from the medicine box.
Chu Li was stunned.
Last time he poured alcohol on the wound without blinking.
"What are you looking at?" Zhuo Chuan stretched out his hand and pushed Chu Li onto the sofa. "Last time, the alcohol made her cry out in pain, so I went online to check what disinfectant is better for cleaning the wound of a hypocritical person—"
As the man spoke, he carefully cleaned the blood around her wound with a cotton pad...
"The wound is so deep, you have to cut it hard. Is it necessary to cut lettuce with such force? Are you sick?"
The education talk is not over yet.
The next second, the hand he held was taken away, and the little girl who had been sitting in front of him silently whimpered and threw herself into his arms with red eyes. Her slender and soft arms tightly hugged his neck, and her nose pressed against the aorta in his neck...
“…”
Chu Chuan didn't know what happened.
He knew why the person in his arms was crying so sadly at this moment, as if she had suffered some great injustice. When he raised his hand and patted her back silently, she cried even harder... as if the sky was falling.
Open the gate to release the flood.
What's the matter?
Of course, Zhuchuan didn't know that at this moment Chuli was holding him like a baby who had suffered a lot of grievances. Just thinking about how he was alone at home in the afternoon facing the bullying of those snobs made him unable to bear it and tears flowed out... and at this time, Zhuchuan could only hold her silently and let her cry breathlessly.
Phone vibrates.
Zhuochuan took it out from his pocket with great difficulty, put his hand on Chuli's back, unlocked it and took a look.
Still a ghost doll.
[The ghost behind you: I thought about it, big brother, you shouldn’t ask me before I even open my mouth. Damn, we are all adults now, it will come naturally. Is it that difficult to ask for a bed?!
In the morning she didn't agree. That was morning, and twelve hours had passed. How do you know if there had been any earth-shaking changes during that time?
Live your life to an indescribable rhythm below the neck——
Responding to the call of the motherland like this, you can be the model representative of healthy psychology for primary and secondary school students at the next National People's Congress meeting! ! 】