"The war of the century has already begun," Zhu Chuan stretched out his index finger and tapped Chu Li's forehead, "since the day you just crawled out of my closet and he was eager to confess his love to you - a war without gunpowder smoke, you are the □□□, and also the final trophy."

Chu Li sat next to Zhu Chuan and squeezed her head, then her eyes widened slightly: "Ah."

"What are you talking about?" Zhu Chuan retracted his hand and continued to eat his meal. "I had no intention of fighting, but the enemy arrived at the battlefield at the speed of light, stood under my city, drew their swords, and shouted wild words of provocation. I had no choice but to trample them under my feet in the name of justice... What do you call this?"

Chu Li: “What?”

Zhuochuan: "Justice from heaven."

Chu Li: "..."

Zhu Chuan thought for a while while holding the bowl, and sighed: "At that time, he was still a has-been, and later you pulled him back from the edge of the cliff to the top of the pyramid...you pig teammate."

"Now that you two have become successful, I am counting on you to bully others in the publishing industry," Chu Li also laughed foolishly while holding the bowl, "I can't do anything about you two fighting each other to death. I only know that I now have two swords: Gan Jiang and Mo Ye."

"Where are Ah Gui and Suo Heng?"

"Suo Heng is Yu Yao's after all. Ah Gui was just a gap sword in the hands of a wandering swordsman before," Chu Li thought for a while, "When the voyage story of Moonlight is finished, maybe she can also squeeze into the ranks of famous swordsmen and start climbing your pyramid... Speaking of pulling to the pyramid, I also want to say, why don't you take her with you when the time comes."

Chu Li's voice was understated. Zhu Chuan glanced at her and asked, "How do I carry it?"

"Repost it and write some recommendations. Do you know why new authors always have a long list of best-selling authors recommending their books? Ordinary readers always think it's for bragging, but the actual meaning is that when these books are put on the online stores, these recommenders will list them with titles such as "Author XXXX" recommended by A, B, C authors," Chu Li explained. "When readers of best-selling authors A, B, or C search their names in the product search column, the work "XXXX" will also pop up as a related product...to increase exposure."

Zhuchuan stopped talking, probably because he was busy counting on his fingers in his mind how many authors he had woven free wedding dresses for.

In the past, an editor from the same publishing house or company came to ask him if he could put his name in the article. He thought it was safe to put his name in the article, so he agreed without hesitation...but he didn't expect there were so many twists and turns involved.

When Zhuchuan took out his phone and typed "Zhuchuan Recommendation" on Taobao, preparing to find these stupid authors one by one based on the book list that popped up and collect advertising fees, Chu Li was still chattering beside him: "A Gui has had a hard time. Ever since the last book signing event with Teacher Jiang Yucheng, she has been asking me eagerly whether she can have a book signing event that will fill the streets in her lifetime... Do you have the heart to shatter a young girl's dream?"

The first search result that popped up on the phone was "The Lost Amusement Park".

Without raising his head, Chu Chuan repeated: "Girl."

Hatsurei: "Is she not a nerdy girl anymore? Doing this is your way of repaying her for quickly accepting you as Mr. L. Even with a lantern, you can't find someone with such a big heart. At that time, I wanted to cut you into pieces, you liar."

Zhuchuan: “…”

It would be fine if I didn’t mention anything else, but when it comes to L-kun, I feel a little guilty—

Although there are not many benefits from being Mr. L.

But isn't lying just lying?

He glanced cautiously at Chu Li who suddenly brought up this, fearing that she would use this as an excuse to make him sleepless tonight...but he found that it looked like she was just saying it casually. Her attention was focused on Mr. Herman on TV. She had to distract herself to talk to Zhuo Chuan, and now she was even stuffing green peppers into her mouth, looking like she had no appetite.

Zhuo Chuan: "You have to watch TV, talk to me and eat at the same time. How many things can you do at the same time? Stop watching and eat."

Chu Li protected the remote control: "You are not allowed to watch TV while eating. What's the difference between you and the old-fashioned families who don't allow you to drink water after meals?"

Zhuochuan: "I'm worried that you might have indigestion."

Chu Li: "If you don't talk to me, I'll have one less thing to do. Go away!"

Zhuchuan: “…”

As a result, among many things happening at the same time, what Chu Li chose to give up in the end was not "watching TV" or "eating", but "talking with Chu Chuan".

Meanwhile, the interview with Mr. Herman was still going on on TV. Apparently, the interviewer had noticed the Chinese novels next to Herman, so he started to interview the authors of these novels. The first person he asked was of course Zhao Chuan, who had been the talk of the town recently.

When Chu Li heard this, he snatched Zhuchuan's chopsticks and pointed his face directly at the TV screen.

As for Chu Chuan, Herman said:

[I personally like this author's writing style, which is full of the flavor of China in my imagination. However, before I read his work... "The Divine Book of Luo River", I felt that something was missing. Later, I thought about it carefully, and it was probably the unique warmth and tenderness of oriental women. I tend to think that my works must have this thing.

What a coincidence, and magically, just when I was about to give up, this author was criticized for some things, and finally seemed to prove himself by handing over his first work that he had treasured for many years. Because of this event, I had to pay attention to him again, and once again, as if I was under a magical trend, I picked up his latest and first novel.

Then I was amazed and became addicted to it.

Until now, I have asked my friends in China to mail this magazine to me as soon as possible every month, and then give it to me for translation, so that I can read this book as soon as possible. 】

The first ceremony sighed.

Zhuochuan: "What?"

Chu Li knocked on the table: "A blessing in disguise... If it weren't for Lao Miao, you would have almost missed Mr. Herman - do you dare to say that this is not the most glorious achievement in Lao Miao's career?"

Zhuo Chuan showed a disgusted expression: "Who do you hate?"

At this time, the interviewer mentioned Jiang Yucheng again, and Zhuchuan immediately turned his face away with a look of great concern - the funny thing is that this person had sneered at Chu Li's so-called "War of the Century" just fifteen minutes ago.

"If I hadn't shown up, I'm really afraid that you would have lived the rest of your life alone with Teacher Jiang Yucheng." Chu Li said coldly, holding up the profile of the man who was staring at the TV with a serious face.

Zhuchuan put his hand over her mouth.

[I also like this author very much. However, his new work has not been serialized in any physical magazine, but only on a social media platform unique to China... So as an old man, I can only wait for my assistant to get the manuscript for me and print it out for me to see - I heard that his book has been handed over to an agent for publication, or it is a book publishing company I have worked with before, but I can't wait until the time when I can ask them to send me a sample book through the back door -]

When talking about "backdoor", Herman smiled particularly happily.

【But good works deserve this, don’t they?

The significance of this writer's existence should be to tell us, to tell the world: Eastern reasoning is not limited to Japan.

I like his wild imagination and the commercial atmosphere in his works... Oh, please note that this is not offensive. "Commercialization" is not entirely a derogatory term. The reason why it is "commercial" is because this thing itself has been recognized and liked by the public. To use an old Chinese saying, it is called down-to-earth.

That's good, no one is a philanthropist -

Being able to carve out a path of one's own in the "commercialization" is something that not everyone can do. 】

The translation is told slowly.

Chu Li's eyes widened bigger than a bell: "What did he say?"

Zhu Chuan had no expression on his face: "It's a huge compliment to Jiang Yucheng."

Chu Li grabbed Zhao Chuan's hand and said, "Not this - I mean, didn't Mr. Jiang Yucheng's new work "The Lost Bird" just start to be serialized on Weibo? Huh? Signed? Signed away? To whom did you give it?"

Zhuo Chuan's arm was pinched with claw marks. He turned his head and glanced at Chu Li: "...Isn't it clear that the book publishing company Herman has cooperated with is of course only Gu Baizhi. What do you think?"

"Jiang Yucheng signed "The Vanishing Bird" to Gu Baizhi!" Chu Li raised her voice.

"You didn't know?"

"I have no idea!!!!!"

"I thought you lost the bid, so I didn't dare to mention it these past two days."

"Fuck! I haven't even started bidding yet!" Chu Li stood up from her chair. "Jiang Yucheng didn't even mention this to me and just signed it to Gu Baizhi. What's the relationship between them?!"

"It's just a normal friendship, who knows..."

"He is destroying the bridge after crossing it!"

"...You didn't write your name on the bridge in the first place. Isn't it normal to change publishing companies for a book?"

"Fuck! You're still talking to him!" Chu Li stretched out his hand to fan himself. He couldn't remember the last time he was so angry. "I'm going back to my room tonight. You can sleep with the pillow printed with your gay friend's photo!"

Zhao Chuan raised his head and looked at the man standing on the chair, jumping up and down excitedly, with a red face and thick neck... After a long time, as if he thought of something, he paused and smiled, and lazily stretched out his hand to hand over his mobile phone: "Nowadays, technology is so advanced, it only takes ten seconds to make a phone call, you can ask him in person."

It's totally a...

It seems like he's not afraid of making a big deal out of it.