When scholars first started learning to write, they only needed a pen and a piece of paper.

This is the current situation of Chuchuan and Jiang Yucheng.

They sat facing each other, each with a piece of paper and a pen in front of them. They crossed their arms in unison and stared at the paper and pen in front of them - in silence - as if all they needed to do was remain silent and an outstanding article would automatically appear on the paper in front of them.

Zhuchuan's feet tapped the ground rhythmically, making a "tap-tap" sound. Jiang Yucheng glared at him and said, "You're making so much noise."

Zhu Chuan raised his eyelids and glanced at him: "If you have the guts, stop shaking your legs. I don't even think you're shaking like an earthquake. Men who shake are poor, women who shake are mean, have you heard that?"

——The author who is stuck in a writer's block is always like an irritable lion, and this is the state of the mentally retarded duo right now.

Chu Li and Gu Baizhi stood behind them like little eunuchs, craning their necks and looking forward, watching the two of them blaming each other, tasting what it means that the emperor is not in a hurry, but the eunuch is... Before Gu Baizhi opened his mouth, Chu Li had already crossed his arms and said coldly: "While you have time to quarrel, shut up. Maybe you have already thought about how to start."

Gu Baizhi: “…”

Gu Baizhi glanced at Chu Li with admiration, as if she had just said what she wanted to say first.

What Gu Baizhi didn't know was that Chu Li was actually much more anxious than Gu Baizhi.

She had been guessing before whether Mr. Herman gave Jiang Yucheng opportunities again and again because he liked Jiang Yucheng's work more. Now it seems that her guess was correct: Mr. Herman's seemingly random questions were actually more beneficial to Jiang Yucheng.

This is an easy question to figure out.

If we have to compare short stories with the same subject matter to see which one is more impressive, then the supernatural and suspense stories are more likely to leave such a deep impression; in comparison, the conventional oriental fantasy stories may not be that impressive.

Perhaps Herman himself did not have this inclination, but in fact, when he made the initial choice of "improvisational writing", he had already reached out and personally added a weight to Jiang Yucheng, tilting the balance of victory towards Jiang Yucheng.

This is very troublesome.

What to do?

While Chu Li was thinking, he raised his eyes and found that Jiang Yucheng had already started writing.

…

Jiang Yucheng's thoughts here are not very complicated. In "The Vanishing Emperor Girl", the heroine travels through a mirror to the night of the "Peacock Ashura King's Birth of a Son" ceremony. During the celebration, countless children wearing koi masks are playing and dancing with dragons - in this world, no one knows their true faces, but just names them: Hui.

The people in that world also don’t know where they come from. In “The Emperor’s Girl”, the heroine once played with such children named “Huai”, and under their guidance, she climbed up a high ladder and approached the sky and the stars…

However, in the main text, Jiang Yucheng did not give specific origins and stories to these seemingly minor monster-like characters.

So this time, he simply took "Huai" as the protagonist, and set each "Huai" to be the soul of a child who died young in the human world. King Ashura took pity on them, so he let the children, who were like rootless duckweed, enter the "World of King Ashura" in the form of "Huai", wearing all kinds of strange koi masks, waiting for their parents who had a chance to be pregnant with new life, and then they would leave this world -

Before this, there must be hints of "fish" around their parents, perhaps a swimming gift of koi in the house;

Maybe it was seeing fish-shaped white clouds floating in the sky;

Maybe it was a fish jumping out of the water in the pond at home...

That's their child back.

"恢", which is composed of "a double person and a 回 character", means "walk and stop".

, Hui means "return" - that is, the long journey of life, stopping and starting as you go, and finally turning around and returning to the starting place.

Jiang Yucheng changed his previous dark writing style and wrote a story about a mother whose child was seriously ill. After losing her child, she regarded a koi in the pond as a spiritual sustenance and lived with it day and night.

In the story, every sunset, the young mother would sit by the pond, put her feet in the pond, step on the water and tell the kinkoi everything that happened every day;

In another world, the child who became "Wandering" wandered in the world of the Night King. However, every time the sun set, he seemed to hear a familiar voice in his ears, so he stopped playing, turned his head blankly and looked behind him, against the crowd, with his arms open blankly, as if he was desperately trying to escape from here, wanting to go back to a certain place he should go...

The crowd knocked the koi mask on its face crooked, revealing the confused face of a child underneath the mask.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered everything about being a human being.

The koi started and swam away from its mother's feet.

A long time ago, there was a popular saying on the Internet: fish are in the water, so humans cannot see their tears.

Later, the mother became pregnant and gave birth to a son.

The child was healthy, except for a few faint spots on his back, like the scars left on a fish when its scales are knocked off.

The day the child opened his eyes, the confusion and homelessness on his face were just like the day when he was standing in the crowd and had his koi fish mask knocked off his face.

It was a child who had died young, but on that day he finally went upstream, broke the barrier between the human world and that world, and returned to his mother.

An unexpectedly heartwarming and happy ending.

…

In the course of describing the article, because Jiang Yucheng knew what Herman wanted, he focused a lot of attention on the mother, the pain of losing her child, the despair of sitting by the pool and talking to Jinli, until the end, when the mother, who had gritted her teeth and never cried, held her little child, stroked the birthmark on his back, and shed the only and last tear since the beginning of the article.

It is hard to imagine how he managed to describe a person's emotions to such a delicate degree.

As Jiang Yucheng was writing, Chu Li stood behind him and watched. The more he watched, the more he felt upset. He thought to himself, Damn, how could he write so well?

For the first time, I felt that even as an editor, she might not be happy when she saw a good article written by an author.

As a die-hard fan of Jiang Yucheng, she could tell at a glance that this was the best story Jiang Yucheng could write. It was so good that she even wanted to hold Jiang Yucheng's hand and tell him to stop writing.

Looking up at Zhuochuan again, an hour had passed and Jiang Yucheng had almost finished the 800-word essay, but this guy was still holding his face and biting the pen, daydreaming, with a dull look that made people anxious.

Chu Li: "..."

Chu Li had no choice but to walk up to him, raised his foot and kicked him: "Teacher, is your soul still at home?"

Zhaochuan said "hmm". Chu Li looked down and found that the man was not completely idle. There were a few jokes written on the paper in front of him. One of them was circled. It was probably about the story of a fish transforming into a human being. In short, what Chu Li saw was an equal sign between fish and human beings. That was probably what it meant.

There's nothing wrong with this idea.

At least Zhuchuan also knew that Hermann had mentioned that what he wanted to express in his new work was the beauty of Eastern women: softness, gentleness, waist-length black hair, kindness, and a mysterious charm that Western women did not have.

But, it's too ordinary.

Compared to Jiang Yucheng's short film that combines themes such as family affection, maternal love, and love, the mere idea of ​​using the theme of "carp becoming a spirit" has already made it inferior in the initial setting...

Chu Li looked at Zhuchuan from behind. When he saw the man take out a new piece of manuscript paper and write the four words "Once upon a time" on it, he suddenly felt a sense of despair that "it seemed like he was going far away."

She looked at Chu Chuan from the side. The man had his face supported by one hand, and his expressionless face seemed to show no emotional fluctuations. He was no longer anxious or anxious, as if he had already won.

——Yes, the person who knows Jiang Yucheng best is Chu Chuan, and he must think that he has guessed what Jiang Yucheng will write.

Chu Li: "..."

Chu Li saw this and felt anxious. He really wanted to grab Zhu Chuan’s neck and tell him: Jiang Yucheng is not following the usual path today. It’s understandable that you want to write this ordinary routine, but, at least today, this kind of thing can’t defeat Jiang Yucheng!!!

However, Chu Li could not say anything.

She could only stand behind Zhuo Chuan with her mind full of random thoughts and watch him write the first sentence -

[A long time ago, there was a village called "Chi". The village was peaceful and tranquil for a long time. It was very close to the sky, as if you could touch the blue sky with your hands...]

Are we going to lose?

It's going to lose.

Chu Li stood behind Zhuchuan with his hands behind his back and his lips pursed, staring intently at Zhuchuan as he wrote the first line of words. In his heart, he felt more than ever that Zhuchuan would fail on this day.