That night, Joo-chwan slept with Chu-li in his arms, holding her tightly, as if he were a baby; Chu-li also slept soundly. Although she appeared to be a hot-tempered person, she also had a girlish heart. She had been thinking about the idea of sleeping in someone's arms and looking up in the morning to see the slightly bearded chin of her beloved since she was not yet able to fall in love.
Today we are halfway done.
Why do you say it is half completed?
Because when she woke up the next morning, she found that the guy who held her like a baby last night was gone, and instead she was hugging a pillow like a love-starved tree... She reached out and touched the bed next to her and found it was cold, just like Zhuchuan himself in Chu Li's heart, like a corpse, cold and hard.
Chu Li: "..."
This person gives people a girly feeling, and the principle of never staying overnight is also very fascinating.
Chu Li looked at the time and it was 10:30 in the morning. She got up, washed and put on makeup, and after she was done, she went out for breakfast. After breakfast, she waited and waited but her teacher, Mr. Chu Chuan, didn't show up. So she sat in the room and played games for a while. She also went on QQ to urge the authors to submit their manuscripts and see if they had done anything else while she was away.
It turns out that the one causing the trouble was not the author, but the editor——
[The Ghost Behind You: It's not a big deal. I've already given you the outline for next year's new series. When are you going to give me the contract?]
[The Monkey’s hired navy: What do you mean, say it again—I haven’t given you the contract yet?! ]
Before Chu Li arrived in Turkey, seeing that Ah Gui's sailing-themed article was about to end, she had already discussed a new theme with her, and it was a large-scale world view series that could be written for seven consecutive parts. This was enough for Ah Gui to serialize in "Moonlight" magazine until Yuanyue Publishing House went bankrupt, not to mention that Ah Gui's sailing articles had always been well received in "Moonlight", so this was more or less a big deal...
So everyone discussed the outline and draft of the first part early on, and Chu Li submitted it to the new editor-in-chief, who also liked it very much, so the matter was happily settled.
Originally, it was time to sign the contract. Before Chu Li left, he told Ah Xian, the new editor who was to take over all matters concerning the authors, to keep an eye on this matter. Unexpectedly, when Chu Li suppressed his anger and questioned Ah Xian, the editor replied casually, "Ah, Vice President Liang said that there is no rush for the contract. We will leave together after we get the new series of Mr. Zhuchuan and Mr. Herman."
Chu Li was so angry that he wished blood came out of all his orifices.
She had only been gone for a few days, and this young editor had already become Lao Liang's lackey?
The more I thought about it, the more I felt something was wrong. I made a phone call overseas and flew back to my country.
"What if the matter of Chu Chuan can't be settled? Are you going to keep Ah Gui hanging like this? He has already written the draft, so is it not right for you to give him the contract?"
Ah Xian explained: "No, Mr. Liang said that since the deal has been finalized, there is no need to rush to sign the contract. It would be very troublesome to re-negotiate Mr. Zhechuan's contract... By then, we can give Mr. Guiwa and Mr. Suiguang a contract template based on Mr. Zhechuan's. It will definitely be more beneficial for the authors. I'm sure Mr. Guiwa and the others will also--"
Chu Li almost gnashed his teeth and said, "Oh, Suiguang's contract is still there... What do you think about Guiwa? Are they also happy to get the contract template by relying on Zhaochuan's help?"
Ah Xian was silent.
Suiguang is an author friend of Zhuchuan. Chuli got the author resources by holding on to his thigh. They were originally planning to start a new series together in "Moonlight" next year, but now it is hanging there in a suspenseful manner...
"In your opinion, 'respecting' authors is just a way to trick them into writing well. As long as they agree to write, everything else is bullshit, right?"
“…”
"You act like the author is also happy and celebrating. Who gave you the courage and confidence? Fish Leong? Don't think I don't know why you are doing this. If there is really a problem, the author will come to me, the editor-in-chief who was responsible for the connection?" Chu Li held the phone and sneered, "I have never seen such a shameless person who speaks of 'laziness' so confidently and refreshingly——"
"Boss, don't say that..."
"That's what I said, listen carefully, I said shameless, shameless!"
Chu Li hung up the phone with a bang.
Two minutes passed.
The ghost is here.
[The ghost behind you: ...your editor is here to apologize. ]
[The ghost behind you: Don't be angry, it's okay, you don't have to give me a contract, just give me the money. ]
[The monkey’s hired navy: I’m not angry. ]
[The Monkey’s hired naval forces: Don’t worry, no matter what, even if I want to blow up the entire Yuanyue Society, I will wait until after your book signing event next year that will be packed with people in the alley next to the toilet is over.]
[The ghost behind you: QAQ I’m so moved. 】
[The Ghost Behind You: A-Guang, Suo Heng and I all think it's okay not to give you a contract. It's written like this anyway. No matter how Yuanyue Publishing House messes up, can they still not pay you for your work? ... So you don't have to be so anxious. It's not worth it.]
[The navy hired by the monkey: Hmm QAQ]
[The monkey's hired navy: So angry that they are deformed.]
Ah Gui laughed it off and thought the matter was over for the time being. Chu Li was happily chatting with Ah Gui while they were scolding Lao Liang when the hotel room door card beeped twice and the man who had been missing for more than two hours pushed the door open and came back. Chu Li raised his head and glanced at him, then ignored him and continued typing.
Wearing a sports sweatshirt, shorts, and running shoes, Zhuchuan strode over and snatched Chu Li's phone with his sweaty hands. When the latter hissed and raised her head to glare at him, he smiled, held her clean little face with his rough big hands, and leaned over to bite her lips.
Chu Li dodged with a look of disgust: "Where did you go?"
Zhuchuan seemed to be in a good mood, holding her face tightly and not letting go: "Run."
Chu Li: "Why are you running so early in the morning? You are so sweaty."
Chu Chuan: "In order to maintain my charming figure, I want you to be obsessed with me and work like a slave for me all your life."
Chu Li: "..."
Whose kid is this? He is so mean when he talks.
Zhu Chuan was very perceptive at this time and noticed the anger in Chu Li's eyes. He put away his playful smile, bent down to pick up Chu Li's phone and took a look. He only glanced at it twice before putting it down. He was well aware of the familiar plot at the moment: "Is Vice President Liang of Guishe making trouble again?"
"Well," Chu Li took back the phone and half-jokingly said, "Ask Gu Baizhi Xindun Society if they still need people. I was wrong. There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. I will be her foot-washing maid... I will go there as soon as Ah Gui finishes his autograph session next year."
Zhuochuan: "Go, go, go. Wherever you go, I will go too. If you marry a banana, you follow the banana. If you marry a monkey, you follow the monkey."
Chu Li reached out and held Zhechuan's hand, shaking it with satisfaction, obviously thinking that the words were quite pleasing to the ear.
Chu Li and Zhuo Chuan did nothing that day but strolled hand in hand along the streets near the Blue Mosque. Thinking that there would be no news from Mr. Herman for a while, the two discussed for a while and decided to pack up and head straight to Cappadocia in accordance with the golden rule of travel that "since we are already here".
Before dinner, we randomly found a travel agency on the street and booked a hot air balloon trip in Cappadocia. When Chuan heard that he had to get up at four or five in the morning and sit on a hot air balloon to watch the sunrise, his face turned green.
Chu Li didn't take it seriously and patted him on the back: "Who are you showing off to? Normally you haven't slept at five o'clock. It's the same as coming back to catch up on some sleep after watching the sunrise and sitting in the hot air balloon. I promise I won't disturb you."
Zhuchuan: “…”
It seemed so. Zhuchuan took out his phone and searched for photos of "Turkish hot air balloons", and then reluctantly agreed after forcing himself to buy one.
…
The next day they set off, leaving Istanbul for Cappadocia, another city in Turkey. Compared with Istanbul, Cappadocia's urban greening is not that good, and the whole road is covered with khaki. On the way to the natural cave hotel they had booked, the road was winding, and all they could see were wind-eroded hills and a vast expanse of khaki.
"A hotel in a cave in the mountains is so expensive," Chu Chuan muttered as he looked at the hotel reservation information, "Almost two thousand a night, are you crazy?"
"..." Chu Li forced Zhu Chuan to split the hotel bill. Seeing the man with an eight-figure net worth still making such a fuss, she felt very sad. "I didn't even say anything. This thousand yuan occupies one tenth of my bank account."
"Aren't you trying to split the bill?"
"I'm embarrassed to ask you to pay for it all."
"You still feel embarrassed. Why don't you think that the fact that you forced me to come to Cappadocia instead of letting me go home is full of the smell of 'embarrassment'?"
"…I feel embarrassed to choose you as my boyfriend among so many people. The equivalent sentence in English is, 'I'm so sorry'."
“…”
The two arrived at the hotel amidst the quarrel——
It was indeed a natural cave hotel. The entire hotel was embedded in the rocky mountains. From the moment Chu Chuan walked into the hotel, an expression of "that's it" was written on his face. When he saw the walls in the room, which were a little mottled due to the polishing of natural stones, "that's it" turned into "who is this?".
After dinner around 8 o'clock in the evening, Chu Li went to bed reluctantly.
I was still reluctant when Chu Li asked me to get up at 4:30 in the morning.
Chu Li was like taking a primary school student out. She grabbed Zhuchuan, helped him wash and comb his hair, put on a cotton coat for him, and went out. It was still dark outside. As soon as the man walked out of the hotel room, he jumped up from the cold...
The handsome local guy who was going to pick them up to go to the hot air balloon was already waiting. There were seven people in total on this trip, and some of them were individual tourists from other countries. Everyone greeted each other in English after getting in the car. Although they all looked dazed and sleepy, the atmosphere was good.
The car drove to the hot air balloon ride area. Everyone drank a cup of hot coffee and ate two cookies. After the hot air balloon was ready, they began to climb up using their hands and feet.
At this time, the sky was turning pale, and it was getting light and gray.
As the hot air balloon gradually rose into the sky, the loess slope that I had seen from the car yesterday suddenly became a scene under my feet. As the flame of the hot air balloon made a sound of licking fuel, they gradually rose higher, and the foreigners in the same hot air balloon basket began to cheer...
Chu Li tiptoed to the edge of the hot air balloon and looked down—
Watching the shadow of the hot air balloon cast on those hills.
Looking up, a dark orange light appeared faintly at the edge of the gray-blue sky. At the same time, all kinds of colorful hot air balloons were slowly rising from all directions...
I have the privilege of seeing this magnificent sight in my lifetime.
She felt her goosebumps were popping out like crazy...
When the guy behind them who was controlling the hot air balloon reminded them that "the sun is about to rise", Chu Li, with her chin on the edge of the hot air balloon basket, widened her eyes and looked at the direction of the light in the distance that changed from red to orange, then became brighter and brighter, and gradually emitted several rays of light -
As the sun slowly rose, the surrounding hot air balloons had already risen high and low, filling the sky, and the flames were like stars in the daytime, far and near, high and low.
When the sun rises.
Chu Li heard Zhu Chuan behind her say "It seems like I can catch the light", so she also stretched out her hand, opened her five fingers and pointed them in the direction of the sunlight, watching the sunlight pass through the gaps between her fingers, illuminating the edges of her fingers into transparent outlines -
Suddenly, a big hand dropped down in front of her eyes and overlapped with her hand.
Chu Li was slightly stunned, and before she could even react to what was happening, the next second she felt a slightly cool metal ring falling down her open middle finger and landing steadily at the base of her finger.
When the man's big hand behind her was taken away.
She found a diamond ring on her hand that sparkled brightly under the rising sun.
"The diamond ring is in place - the first gift, marry me, okay?"
As the steady voice sounded behind her, the man's kiss landed on the side of her cheek.
While Li was staring at his hand with the huge diamond ring in a daze, the foreigners who were watching everything behind him had already started clapping, whistling and cheering enthusiastically. Within a hundred miles, their hot air balloon was the most fucking lively.