After giving Zhao Chuan a fierce look, Chu Li squatted on the chair with her knees hugged, picked up her phone and typed in Jiang Yucheng's Weibo. Then she found that Zhao Chuan was not lying: Jiang Yucheng's new work was not only signed to Gu Baizhi, but it had been signed for a long time.

Jiang Yucheng is now serializing on Weibo. Not only does he @ the official Weibo of Xindun Publishing Company every time he updates, but he also has a very talented illustrator to illustrate his works every time. Chu Li knows the price of this illustrator, which starts at 3,000 yuan. It is obvious that she was found for him by Gu Baizhi.

Not only that, Jiang Yucheng even changed his literary name——

When the novel was first published, it was clearly called "The Disappearing Koushou-tori". At that time, Chu Li actually felt that the name was a bit repetitive with "Koushou-tori's Summer" by Japanese mystery writer Kyogoku Natsuhiko, and he also raised his opinion, but it was just a casual remark at the time, and no one took it seriously... And now, Jiang Yucheng directly changed the name of the novel to "The Disappearing Emperor Girl" (*According to records, the prototype of "Koushou-tori", one of the classic 100 demons in Japan, evolved from the classic image "Emperor Girl" in "Classic of Mountains and Seas"), and Jiang Yucheng also made it clear in the announcement of the name change that it was -

【After discussing with the editor, I hope this book will have a stronger Chinese traditional atmosphere, so I changed the title.】

Chu Li: "..."

This wave of name changes is very clever——

After all, not many readers know the relationship between "姑獲鳥" and "天帝少女". Under the Weibo post about the name change, many people said that they knew from the beginning that this was a story about a girl looking for her son, and using "姑獲鳥" as the title is appropriate, but no matter what, I still feel that it doesn't match the style of Chinese-style works...

Therefore, the revised name of the new book is perfect both inside and out, which is awesome.

Gu Baizhi is really smart.

For example, Jiang Yucheng has been writing for many years, but he has never mentioned that he has too much interest in "Chinese traditional atmosphere". This time, after "discussing with the editor", he suddenly developed such an interest...

It's easy to guess why this is happening.

——From the very beginning, Gu Baizhi planned to use this book as a stepping stone for the cooperation with Mr. Herman on the film project that will be launched in the next two years... Such a big piece of fat meat that will definitely not fail has not only been eyed by Chu Li, but also someone with a keen sense of smell like Gu Baizhi, who will naturally not let it go.

Chu Li put down his phone, his head buzzing with pain: "What have I done... I was busy with your work some time ago, and I also turned a deaf ear to what was happening outside. The work at hand stopped, and the authors under me just maintained the simple process of submission and review. As a result, Jiang Yucheng ran away with Gu Baizhi without paying attention."

Zhuo Chuan glanced at Chu Li and said, "Jiang Yucheng signed the book with Xindun during the time when I was in trouble."

First Li: “?”

Zhuochuan thought for a moment: "Maybe he also saw that your mind was completely on me at that time, and you had no time to care about him..."

Chu Li's rage expression: "This matter won't trouble me forever, wait, what's wrong with me?!"

"Even if this incident is over, so what?" Zhu Chuan smiled and pinched Chu Li's face. "Just like what you said before when you refused to ask Bai Zhi, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Two people with similar strength levels are unwilling to be inferior to each other no matter what. And after experiencing this bloody storm, probably the whole world knows: if you and Yuanyue Society give priority to the same resources, you will definitely give them to me first."

Chu Li: "Nonsense! I am fair!"

Zhuochuan: "That's not what you meant by your distraught look a while ago."

Chu Chuan: "Besides, Yuantsuki Society is now under pressure from the senior members of the Writers' Association and is eager to please me. Of course, any resources will be given priority."

Chu Li: "..."

She understood what he said next, without him having to say anything.

Jiang Yucheng had shown his commercial and profit-maximizing model early on, so after weighing the pros and cons, he felt that he might not be able to get the best chance to promote the cooperation with Mr. Herman in Yuanyue Society...

So after Gu Baizhi extended an olive branch to him, and perhaps even promised him some resources and recommendations, he went to Xindun Society without hesitation.

……………………That’s about it.

……but.

…but QAQ.

...After all, they were all comrades who had come out of the low period together. How could he just go there without even saying hello? If he had explained it clearly, she certainly wouldn't have stopped him from going to find Gu Baizhi. It was too heartless to just go there without even saying anything, wasn't it? QAQ? !

Chu Li had a sad face, as if the adopted child she had raised had run away with another family's aunt. Zhuochuan reached out and patted her head.

——This day was the first time Chu Li realized that Jiang Yucheng was moving away from her.

…

There is a very strange phenomenon in real life——

For example, if there is a wound on your knee, you don't even know you are injured until you notice its existence and see bleeding. At that moment, the pain will be transmitted to your brain, and you will feel as if you are lame or have been beaten up. Every time you take a step forward, you will feel pain all over.

We don't know what this phenomenon is called yet.

Chu Li is experiencing this personally.

When she came to her senses, she realized that she hadn't spoken to Jiang Yucheng for almost a month. The last time they chatted was when "The Lost Emperor Girl" was still called "The Lost Bird Girl". At that time, Jiang Yucheng had just started writing, and Chu Li asked Jiang Yucheng what kind of story it was -

At that time, the story was only a prototype, which was about a young girl named "Man" who dreamed of herself and a handsome and mysterious boy. After waking up, she found that she was pregnant as a girl.

In panic, as her pregnancy symptoms became more and more severe, she began to have hallucinations: one day when she was sitting in front of the dressing table combing her hair, she found that her mirror was connected to another world, extinction.

In the world called "Extinction", there is no day but only night, and the whole world is governed by a man called "Peacock Ashura King" - when Man first passed through the mirror to the other world, it was the time of a grand celebration in this world, which lasted for fifteen days without sleep. People from the other world wearing strange masks crowded into the celebration, singing and dancing. Man heard from the mother-in-law in the tavern that this was to celebrate the fact that the princess of "Peacock Ashura King" was pregnant with a child.

After having fun in another world, she returned to the real world and found that her pregnancy symptoms had disappeared. She went to the hospital and found that the baby was gone.

In this strange imagination that even modern science cannot explain, I can't help but associate the changes that have taken place in myself with the wonderful world in the mirror.

From then on, Man embarked on a journey to find his son.

In constructing the world of "Destruction", Jiang Yucheng spent a lot of effort, looking up a lot of information to build a magnificent and grand world with ancient Chinese colors. In the process of description, it is like an ancient scroll with rich ink and heavy colors, slowly unfolding in front of the reader...

Chu Li remembered that she had a deep impression of the scene when the girl climbed out of the mirror for the first time - she fell on the old wooden floor with a "creaking" sound, struggled to get up and lay on the windowsill. When she carefully poked half of her head out of the window and took in the festive world outside with lights, dragon dances and acrobatics, Chu Li seemed to hear the noisy sound of the celebration in her ears.

This is a book with a completely different subject matter from Jiang Yucheng's previous works, but it also incorporates the writing style that he has always been good at.

Chu Li: "..."

Such a publication would surely be a hit, and it would be even better than "The Lost Amusement Park" in overall significance, but it was given to Gu Baizhi like this... I feel so heartbroken.

Feeling a little annoyed, Chu Li closed the chat box with Jiang Yucheng with a click.

I sat in front of the computer and thought about it carefully, and I felt something was wrong.

Chu Li opened the chat history with Jiang Yucheng again, narrowed his eyes slightly and flipped through the chat history. After scrolling through a long section, he simply couldn't be impatient and entered the keyword "Herman". Sure enough, he found the relevant chat history.

That was about three months ago.

In a casual chat, Chu Li mentioned to Jiang Yucheng that Herman wanted to find young domestic writers to collaborate on the film script. During the chat, Chu Li emphasized the creative elements of "ancient style" and "Chinese style"...

Jiang Yucheng's reaction at that time was -

【Jiang Yucheng: Ah, Gu Baizhi also mentioned this to me, asking me if I’m interested in trying a new work with a Chinese style… I’ll give it a try :)】

In Jiang Yucheng's usual style of keeping things quiet ":)", Chu Li didn't take this matter to heart at the time, and thought that Jiang Yucheng was just casually mentioning Bai Zhi. At that time, she took it for granted that Jiang Yucheng would definitely sign her next book -

Little did she know that the wound on her knee had already started bleeding, but she never lowered her head to take a closer look.

Chu Li: "..."

At this time, Ah Xiang passed by the editor-in-chief's position and put down a recruitment plan sent by the Human Resources Department on Chu Li's desk. Seeing that she looked constipated, he asked, "What's wrong?"

Chu Li irritably pushed the recruitment plan aside and said simply, "It hurts."

Ah Xiang: "Is Teacher Chu Chuan having an affair?"

Chu Li raised his head with green light in his eyes and glanced at Ah Xiang. Ah Xiang stuck out his tongue, hunched his shoulders, and ran away.

Sitting in his seat, Chu Li calmed down a little after Ah Xiang's jokes! He patted his chest. It was heartbreaking that a good work was snatched away, but he couldn't just give up on the author. After all, he was the producer. If this book wasn't good, there would be the next one...

After encouraging herself desperately, a month later, Chu Li mustered up the courage to once again approach Jiang Yucheng - she was as nervous as she was when she first spoke to the little white lotus Jiang Yucheng in her heart.

[The navy hired by the monkey: Teacher QAQ. ]

【Jiang Yucheng: Yes:)】

[The water army hired by Monkey: I have been extremely busy recently. I just had time to check the teacher’s Weibo and suddenly found that the book “The Lost Bird” has changed its name and signed to Xindun Publishing House…]

【Jiang Yucheng: Ah, I know you were busy recently :)】

【Jiang Yucheng: It was given to Gu Baizhi. She was the one who put a knife to my neck and asked me to change the name. Haha, she said that Chinese-style writing must have Chinese-style names, otherwise how can it attract international directors?】

[The monkey's hired navy: ...Mr. Herman?]

【Jiang Yucheng: Yes.】

【Jiang Yucheng: No one would want to miss such a good opportunity, including Chu Chuan.】

[The Monkey’s hired sailors: Well, they are definitely working hard in this direction. The theme of “Love and Sword” is quite suitable. It is as promising as “The Vanishing Emperor Girl”…]

[The Monkey's hired navy: What a pity! I originally wanted to sign both books and take both of you to kill Mr. Herman, haha!]

【Jiang Yucheng: This incident may become a direct battleground between me and Chuan. We have been writing together for so many years and have been compared every day, but we have never had an opportunity like this.】

【Jiang Yucheng: So, haha, in order to fight for the best resources, there is nothing we can do about it...】

【Jiang Yucheng: From a business perspective, this is correct, so I made this choice.】

Chu Li, who was sitting in front of the computer, was a little stunned. She didn't understand why Jiang Yucheng suddenly brought up the word "business perspective" so openly.

[The navy hired by the monkey: Huh? ]

【Jiang Yucheng: ...It seems that you don’t understand either.】

【Jiang Yucheng: Let me put it this way. Actually, if I hadn’t embarrassed you, I wouldn’t have agreed to the book signing. Although I’m facing the issue of being out of fashion, whether an author is a complete flop has nothing to do with whether he wants to hold a book signing or not…】

【Jiang Yucheng: Although it has become a hot topic, book signings cannot save popularity. It will eventually fade away. And I was also very clear at the time that they asked me to sign books to help the revision of "Moonlight", not entirely for myself.】

【Jiang Yucheng: Just because I don’t say it doesn’t mean I don’t know. 】

Chu Li took his hands off the keyboard.

Mainly, I don’t know what to say.

I just stared at the dialogue box in front of me, as words jumped out line by line.

【Jiang Yucheng: I liked you at that time, so whatever happened was fine.】

【Jiang Yucheng: But it’s useless to say this now——】

[Jiang Yucheng: From the day you decided to be with Zhuchuan, our relationship is just a business partnership, and I will no longer be accustomed to you. ]