When Yu Yao came in, she saw that Chu Li was the only one in the living room. Her computer was placed on the sofa, and there was a half-typed manuscript on it... Next to the computer was a thick stack of handwritten manuscripts. Yu Yao pointed at the manuscripts and asked, "What is this?"
"This is Teacher Chu Chuan's real debut." Chu Li held a glass of milk and a sandwich, pushed open the door of Chu Chuan's room with her arm, sent breakfast in, turned around and walked out, and said to Yu Yao who was curiously reading a manuscript, "Do you know why Teacher Chu Chuan swore not to write romance novels? Because this book is a romance novel. Do you know why the male protagonists in all of Teacher Chu Chuan's books are dressed in white? Because the male protagonist of this book is dressed in black..."
Yu Yao put down the manuscript in surprise.
"Just like when you were dumped by a girl with long curly hair in your first love, all your lovers from then on had short hair..." Chu Li sat down next to Yu Yao and patted his chest, "The pain hidden in my heart that I don't want to admit."
As I finished speaking, I discovered that the heroine of this book really does have long curly hair.
Chu Li touched his short hair with an embarrassed face.
Yu Yao paused, as if not paying attention to her little action: "...This bookmark is out?"
Chu Li: "Not yet. The manuscript still needs to be revised. After all, there are some omissions... I will do the hard work of inputting it into his computer."
Yu Yao: "Do you know that the topic of Yu Zhuchuan has reached an unprecedented level on the Internet? Everyone - everyone, please note that everyone, is discussing the debut work of Zhuchuan mentioned by Professor Zhu Guxuan..."
Chu Li's eyelids twitched: "I just checked online, it seems like this."
Yu Yao clenched the manuscript in his hand: "'Zhu Chuan's writing never involves emotional drama', 'Zhu Chuan's male protagonists are always white-robed scholars'... all in this book. Readers will go crazy if they know this - it's like Mr. Zhu Chuan is playing a big game of chess, using his entire writing career to control the settings of this book..."
Yu Yao's tone made Chu Li couldn't help but raise his head and look at her.
Yu Yao was silent for a moment: "Chu Li, I have decided to resign soon."
Chu Li: “Ah?”
Yu Yao: "I will probably develop in another related field, at least I will not touch the physical publishing industry again - you take this book down as a farewell gift to me, and I will give you the position of editor-in-chief as a return gift."
"..." Chu Li was a little confused. She didn't understand why Yu Yao suddenly didn't want to do this business anymore... She looked at Yu Yao, all her doubts were written in her eyes, and she just answered slowly, "I'll try my best. You also know that Zhechuan is currently against Yuanyue Society... Come to think of it, why did you want to resign?"
Yu Yao smiled and said, "Your phone was turned off these past two days, so you don't know what's going on outside. The company's CEO ignored our suggestion the night before that we should 'take responsibility for the author', and became friends with Liang Chonglang who advocated 'don't make trouble for no reason', and stayed out of the matter to gossip about whether Zhechuan was dead or alive after dawn. After dawn, as soon as Teacher Zhe Guxuan's show was broadcast, he realized that the fire had burned on him, and he immediately turned his face and scolded the senior management in the WeChat group for 'not taking action before the situation was under control'. God knows what we all went through this weekend... If Teacher Xia was still here, at least things wouldn't have turned out like this today."
Yu Yao thought for a moment and said slowly, "So this is also the reason why I chose to resign. I am already tired of constantly making up for the mistakes made by those people in the marketing department..."
Chu Li sneered.
People in the marketing department are not actually low in IQ.
They are just too commercial-minded and treat the whole world as fools——
Whether it is an author or an author's book, in their eyes there is only a difference between "can be sold" and "cannot be sold". The author who can sell will hold on to the book, and the one who cannot sell will be thrown aside. He will pick it up when he can sell it. The statement of Liang Chonglang mentioned before is very representative: Give me Herman and his resources, and I can also sell well.
People in the marketing department will never think about what right they have to give it to you, and why would you do that if you can just take it back so easily? Anyway, emotions, human nature, these things are never the point in their eyes.
The CEO also happens to be a businessman, so he always has similar opinions with the marketing department. On the contrary, the things that editors care about are redundant in their eyes. Editors only need to be responsible for receiving manuscripts, commissioning manuscripts, proofreading, and contacting printing companies.
After Teacher Xia left, with the Marketing Department firmly in control of the East Palace, Yuanyue Society went further and further down this path.
"When I have nothing to do, I always think, why do we need so many editors? If it weren't for the listing review, they would have chased us all away," Yu Yao said. "When something goes wrong, we know we are wrong, and the first people we find are the editors, who push us to the front line to test the author's opinion..."
When Yu Yao said this, Zhu Chuan came out with a yawn and a messy head, carrying a plate of breakfast.
Ergou jumped down from the sofa and followed him, hoping to have a bite of the remaining bread.
Chu Li followed the man into the kitchen.
Soon, the sound of water splashing came from the kitchen. After a while, the man's unhurried voice came from the kitchen: "In this case, why don't you take this opportunity to teach the marketing department a lesson? What are you waiting for?"
Chu Li and Yu Yao looked at each other.
"From a purely business perspective, this book has become a hot topic even before it's published. Liang Chonglang should also want this copy of 'The Love Story and the Sword'," Zhuo Chuan poked his head out of the kitchen. "Then let's use this as an excuse to win him over. How about I kowtow to you and admit my mistakes?"
"..." Chu Li picked up the manuscripts and looked left and right. "When did this book get a name?"
Zhuochuan said expressionlessly: "I just got it."
Chu Li: "..."
Zhuo Chuan: "You can't always call it a debut, that book, or this book, right?"
Chu Li: "You agree to give this book to Yuanyue Society?"
Zhao Chuan: "I haven't agreed yet, but you can use the excuse of trying to please me to make things difficult for Liang Chonglang... Anyway, judging from what you guys are saying, even if you ask him to do pole dancing on a live streaming platform, he will go."
"..." Chu Li was silent for a moment, "When I first met you, you weren't this old bitch."
He is just a idiot who keeps yelling "I am a beggar".
"I learned it from you," Zhuo Chuan washed the breakfast dishes, shook the water off his hands and walked out, leaning against the kitchen door with a nonchalant look, "'The author is the weapon in the hands of the editor' - this sentence was said by you, and it left a deep impression. And I am different from Jiang Yucheng, who is a broken copper and rotten iron. I am the 'Imperial Sword'. Seeing this sword is like seeing the emperor. You common people in the marketing department, why don't you kneel down quickly."
As he spoke, he put his ten middle fingers together and thrust them out like a sword, while at the same time he raised one foot to stand like a golden rooster.
Yu Yao: “…”
Chu Li said expressionlessly: "You are such a slut, sorry to see you making such a fuss."
…
noon.
Barely for Chu Li's sake, Zhechuan's attitude was not so resolute to boycott Yuanyue Society. Yu Yao felt relieved and hurried home to rest without staying for lunch.
Chu Li dragged Chu Chuan, who had been staying at home for dozens of days, out to the supermarket to buy ingredients for lunch and dinner. The community security guards looked surprised when they saw Chu Chuan, as if to say, "You are still alive!"
As soon as I entered the supermarket, Liang Chonglang called.
Chu Li answered the phone. The person on the other end had a "thank God" tone and tried to discuss with Chu Li whether they could issue a joint statement with Zhu Chuan to clarify the events of the past few days. Because if Zhu Chuan came forward, it might be able to alleviate the overwhelming attack on Yuanyue Society by the people on the Internet who did not receive Zhu Chuan's formal forgiveness and had nowhere to vent their grievances after Zhu Guxuan's series of attacks.
People always subconsciously blame animals.
These people who have not been forgiven and always feel that something is wrong easily find Yuanyue Society as the scapegoat, and blame Yuanyue Society for all the pace and slaps they have received in the past few days.
The result of the Yuanyue Society being scolded so badly was that Liang Chonglang was scolded so badly.
When he asked Chu Li hesitantly like a bereaved dog if he could persuade Zhe Chuan and stand up to save the reputation of Yuanyue Society, Chu Li was picking yogurt hand in hand with Zhe Chuan... With the phone between his shoulder and head, Chu Li bent down to pick up a box of yogurt and looked at it, and answered absentmindedly: "Yes, yes, I also know that Yuanyue Society has been badly criticized these two days. Yu Yao told me about this this morning. Well, I'll tell you, Zhe Chuan is not dead yet. Lao Liang, you are just too anxious..."
Zhuochuan lowered his head and glanced at Chuli, who grinned at him.
He looked very happy, without any regretful tone of "Oh, I told you so" in his voice.
"Zhu Chuan hasn't contacted me yet. I'm just his editor at Yuanyue Society, not related to him in any way." Chu Li turned around and looked at Zhu Chuan, then watched the man who was "not related to her" bend down and kiss her on the lips. Chu Li turned around and continued to make the call, "If he is angry with Yuanyue Society, he probably won't want to talk to me."
Liang Chonglang on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, then said in a tone of "You're fucking kidding me, I know it but I can't expose you, I'm so angry": I heard that you and Zhuochuan are in a relationship.
"We broke up a long time ago," Chu Li put down the yogurt and looked at the man pushing the supermarket cart in front of her. He turned around and looked at her when he heard her words. "Now that you remind me of this, maybe the fact that I was dumped is also related to Yuanyue Society..."
Liang Chonglang fell silent on the other end of the phone.
At this time, the cart moved to the family planning *safety products* condoms.
Chu Chuan stopped.
Chu Li took a look and said: As for condoms, Zhuchuan's family used to have a box of them given as a gift when they bought rice from the supermarket. The quality was not good, but there was no choice yesterday, so they just used up what they had.
I was just about to buy a box when I saw the man pushing the cart said to the saleswoman in a serious tone, "Give me a box."
Chu Li: "..."
The salesgirl was probably a summer intern and looked even younger than Chu Li, so her face immediately turned red.
Chu Li walked forward, stood on tiptoe, covered Zhu Chuan's mouth with his hand and pushed him back, while at the same time he had to seriously argue with Lao Liang -
"If you want to please Jun Chuan, you have to prescribe the right medicine. Who is the person who did the interview online before? Find him out and make him apologize publicly... You don't know who it is? Well, I didn't say you knew. If you knew, it would be weird, right? Hahaha, yes, yes, I'm kidding, don't be nervous. What I mean is, how long has it been since Yuanyueshe's legal department did anything serious besides printing contracts? Let them send a lawyer's letter and let the person who posted the video sell out his teammates."
Chu Li held her cell phone in her hand and picked up a box of Japanese condoms to take a look at it. Before she could understand what it was, it was snatched away.
First Li: “?”
Chu Chuan: "The Japanese ones are too small to fit."
Chu Li: "..."
The saleswoman standing next to the shelf laughed with her hands covering her mouth.
Zhuo Chuan picked up a box of large European and American sizes and took a look: "Do you have an extra large size?"
Chu Li hurriedly said to Liang Chonglang, "Okay, do this thing first and then think about looking for Zhechuan," and then hung up the phone and snatched the condoms from the man's hand: "What the hell is this extra-large size? You have to pretend to be cool just to buy this thing. Is vanity a useless thing?"
"How is that different from buying a size XXS skirt and hanging it in your closet with the words 'I'll wear it when I lose weight'?"
"I can lose weight, but can your thing get bigger if you use it more?"
"Why not?"
"When I was three years old, it's not like I hadn't seen or used it before—"
"I'm not arguing with you," Zhu Chuan grabbed Chu Li's face with his big hands and pushed her back, "In front of the public, you are yelling about your boyfriend's size, can you be more civilized?"
Chu Li glared at him, snatched the supermarket cart, and walked away with her head held high, leaving Zhu Chuan standing there alone. After a moment, she turned around and said to the saleswoman, "Large size, I want a box."