After New Year's Day, when students welcome their wonderful winter vacation, it means that the most important festival for Chinese people - New Year - is gradually approaching.
For a newlywed couple, everyone around them, including Ah Gui, thought that they would have a big quarrel over whose house to go to for the New Year. But in fact, Chu Li and Zhuo Chuan solved the problem in one second: each went back to his own home and found his own mother.
[The ghost behind you: No way, you guys are willing to separate? ]
[The navy hired by the monkey: What is there to be reluctant about? ]
[The Ghost Behind You: It feels a bit weird that we can only express our feelings through text messages during Chinese New Year...]
[The monkey's hired navy: What's weird? ]
【Zhao Chuan: It’s okay. Don’t forget that we started our relationship online.】
[Suo Heng: ...It sounds like there is a story behind it.]
【Shattered Light: It seems so. 】
[Yu Yao: Come to think of it, at this time last year, Chu Li did have a boyfriend who lived in Q, and his writing style was very similar to that of Mr. Chu Chuan——]
【Flying Elephant: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Chu Li, so the person you were dating online back then turned out to be Mr. Chu Chuan? Oh my god, he even sent you his underwear to look at. I thought you finally dumped that pervert and are with Mr. Chu Chuan, uh………………………………】
【Jiang Yucheng: Provoking the "Disgusted Face Emoji"】
【Jiang Yucheng: Abnormal.】
[The navy hired by the monkey: …]
【Tsukawa: …】
[Suo Heng: @晝川 I didn’t expect you to be this kind of 晝川. If you hear something outrageous, will I be killed to silence you? ]
[Broken Light: @晝川 I didn’t expect you to be this kind of 晝川. If I hear something outrageous, will someone kill me to silence me? ]
[The ghost behind you: @晝川 I didn’t expect you to be this kind of 晝川. I heard something incredible. Will I be killed to silence you? ]
【Yu Yao: @晝川 I didn’t expect you to be this kind of 晝川. If I hear something outrageous, will someone kill me to silence me?】
【Jiang Yucheng: He has always been a pervert.】
【Zhuchuan: Who created this group? 】
[The monkey’s hired navy: …It’s me. I originally wanted to give out red envelopes during the New Year, but who knew it would turn into this.]
[The ghost behind you: ... Anyway, I took a screenshot:) In May, Ben Dada and Suo Heng's autograph session, can you help me to spread the news crazily? Are you feeling a little bit confident? ]
【Tsukawa: …】
This is the first wave of attacks on Zhaochuan by the WeChat group today——
What he didn't expect was that the second wave of follow-up attacks soon followed.
While the author was having a series of scary conversations in the WeChat group of relatives and friends, Chu Li and Zhuo Chuan were on their way to the last prenatal checkup before last year. It was early February, and Chu Li was already five months pregnant. Her belly was already quite visible. After the blood tests, she took an X-ray, and the baby's outline was clearly visible in the photo...
Chuli and Zhuchuan climbed into the car holding the baby's photo. Chuli nibbled on the bun in her hand. After a few months, the adverse reactions of her morning sickness had been alleviated. Recently, her appetite had been very good, and her waist had grown thicker at a visible speed... Zhuchuan was afraid that she was hungry, so he forced her to eat. He regretted not feeding her a few bites of "pig big", so during the physical examination today, the doctor gently reminded her: "Eat less, the baby is too big to give birth to."
Zhuochuan's resistance was ignorant and foolish, as if the amiable Chan Ke had been plotting all his life to starve his wife and his child who was to inherit the throne.
Sitting in the car at this moment, Zhu Chuan was not in a hurry to drive. The newlyweds could not let go of the photo of their child. They put their heads together and muttered to themselves about the child's appearance in front of a projector. However, they could not figure out what the child looked like after looking at it for a long time. So they took a photo with their mobile phones and sent it to the WeChat group where the four parents at home were also present.
Then the grandmother and the great-grandmother stood up at the same time and said that it was a boy.
Zhuochuan immediately lost his mind.
[Zhuchuan: A girl, I guess... I've even picked a name for my daughter.]
[Chun Guxuan: Don't embarrass yourself. Does it mean that the name must be a girl just because you chose it?]
【Chou Guxuan: Isn't that white thing on the belly a penis? 】
[Zhuchuan: That's a belly button. Your penis is as long as your leg.]
Chu Li: "..."
[Li Yuehua (Chu Li’s mother): This is not about looking at the penis, but the shape of the gestational sac. This is obviously a boy.]
[Xuan Yi (Zhu Chuan's mother): My in-laws are right. It depends on the shape of the gestational sac. Generally speaking, a round shape means a girl, and a long shape means a boy.]
Inside the car, the superstitious mothers cheered as they heard the first words of the ceremony.
Zhaochuan feels that most of the WeChat groups today are toxic.
【Zhuchuan: I don’t believe it.】
【Zhu Chuan: Forget it, the prize will be announced in five months, I can still make a comeback. 】
Chu Li looked at the guy who was still stubborn on the phone and said, "You are still stubborn."
Zhuochuan: "I just don't understand why you like boys. Can boys wear short skirts and pigtails?"
Chu Li continued to eat the buns: "If the boy is disobedient, you can beat him."
Zhuchuan raised his eyebrows: "How dare you hit my child?!"
Chu Li ignored him and continued eating his buns: "My daughter will grow up and get married, and it's also troublesome to choose a son-in-law. Look at my dad. When you first came to my house, he wanted to do a population survey and interview every pore of yours..."
Zhuo Chuan lowered his eyebrows and asked curiously, "Why should my daughter get married? I have raised her all her life. It's not like I can't afford it."
"You look like a pervert. When my daughter is rebellious, she will start dating other boys. If she quarrels with dad, you will cry in my arms." Chu Li shuddered as he thought of that scene. "So sons are better."
Chu Li's words are so vivid—
Zhao Chuan thought about it carefully. He really couldn't accept the fact that his daughter was dating another boy. How could he let another pig eat his well-raised emerald cabbage? ………………Then it would be best to raise a pig to eat other people's cabbage.
Thinking of this, Zhuchuan felt relieved. He took out his cell phone and started texting.
【Zhuchuan: Old Jiang! 】
【Jiang Yucheng: ...Why, is there something bad happening as soon as I see you?】
[Zhuchuan: You must work hard to give birth to a daughter in the future! ]
[Jiang Yucheng:? ? ? ? ? ? 】
[Zhu Chuan: Let's arrange a marriage for our children. My son will definitely be as handsome as me.]
【Jiang Yucheng: ……】
【Jiang Yucheng: Please get out of here as far as you can.】
…
Before the Chinese New Year holiday, Chu Li counted carefully on her fingers. After the Chinese New Year, when she returned to Yuanyueshe, she would be almost six months pregnant. At this time, it was really not good for prenatal education to face Liang Chonglang, a stupid thing...
Although many pregnant women calmly go to work and wait until the ninth month before returning home to wait for delivery.
But she couldn't forget that there was also Chu Chuan in her family, who was always anxious and irritated. For more than a month, the man had been asking her when she would start her maternity leave or quit her job. This made Chu Li very annoyed. If she dared to tell him that she would work for nine months before taking maternity leave, Chu Chuan would probably hang himself at the door of her room...
With this in mind, Chu Li was glad that he had recruited a few new people last year.
So hurry up and do it three days before the holiday.
Chu Li, who was afraid that her husband would lock her up at home after the Chinese New Year, decided to solve all the problems that could be solved. First, she held a meeting with the co-publishing contract between Chu Chuan and Herman. At the meeting, she specifically emphasized the clause she had added: "No damage to the author's reputation"...
Chu Li emphasized at the meeting: "Especially the issue of Mr. Herman's debut work, "The Sky Tracks Written by Dragons", I would like to ask everyone not to mention it at all - forget that Herman wrote this book."
Ah Xian was stunned for a moment: "But Baidu Encyclopedia..."
Chu Li glanced at her and said, "That's Baidu Encyclopedia, it doesn't represent authority. Mr. Herman himself is very resistant to this work he once wrote..."
"That's something he wrote before. Even if the first book wasn't well written, you can't just deny it, right?" Ah Xian frowned slightly, with a hint of disdain in his eyes, "He's an internationally renowned writer..."
Chu Li was stunned when he saw her like this. He didn't understand why an editor like her had to interfere in the author's own affairs. It wasn't like she was asked to write the book "The Sky Trajectory Written by Dragons".
Chu Li took a deep breath and said, "Anyway, don't mention it. Gu Baizhi almost ruined the chance of cooperation because of the translation error when she mentioned this book... I might be in confinement when Herman and Zhuo Chuan's book project starts, so I may not be able to keep an eye on everything. You must be careful about the details, if you don't want to lose your underwear."
Ah Xian: "But in the end, it was not destroyed, which shows that Hermann himself felt guilty - it is wrong to deny any of his own works at any time."
Chu Li looked at Ah Xian and tried to sound gentler: "You have too many personal opinions, and this happens to be the most unnecessary part of the whole plan."
Ah Xian's face turned red at first, but he became a little nervous when he was looked at by Chu Li's burning gaze. After thinking for a while, he finally shut up with a look of frustration and dissatisfaction.
After the meeting.
Back to the editorial department.
Chu Li was very confused about what was wrong with Ah Xian. He assigned all the authors he was managing except Zhuo Chuan to several editors.
Although she was somewhat dissatisfied with Ah Xian, Chu Li still fairly gave her the Shattered Light, which was about to be serialized.
After telling the editors about the precautions of leading the authors, urging them to submit their manuscripts, and reading the outline, the other two newcomers nodded their heads like crazy and behaved very well. Chu Li was actually more confident in them...
After what happened today, I vaguely felt that Ah-xian had a subtle attitude towards Herman, and that there might be problems in the review process for other authors if she directly dealt with them. So I gave her a few more reminders before the meeting ended, and emphasized several times the bottom line of interfering in the author's writing. Ah-xian responded on the surface, but I don't know if she listened to me or not.
…
Then three days later, it was the Spring Festival holiday.
On this day, Chu Li was sitting in the terminal, dealing with Chu Chuan's nagging requests every three minutes to check if she had arrived and to match her location. She was getting angry at him for not stopping and decided to just go home with him for the New Year...
Here something even more violent happened.
【Sui Guang: ……………………Ahou, the new editor you found for me is a bit bad, can we change him? 】
[The navy hired by the monkey: ...What's wrong? ]
Suiguang kept talking, saying that after he handed in the fourth issue of his serialized manuscript, Ah Xian made many suggestions. According to Suiguang, "The mountains and rivers of the motherland are all red, and I have never revised a manuscript so much in my life." Ah Xian not only asked him to modify many places in the plot and character settings...
Even the way of expression was changed by him——
It's like the protagonist saying, "Why should I listen to you?" was changed to "Why should I listen to you?" This is an inexplicable modification... You know, it's like the dashes flying everywhere in the novel, and the protagonist must appear in white clothes, which is also the author's unique hobby. The author also has similar "verbal habits" in the writing... When all these are put together, it becomes the so-called "writing style".
Once these things are changed, the flavor of the article changes completely.
Suiguang was very annoyed when he saw that his writing had been changed into a mess, which was obviously full of someone else's writing style. So he quarreled with Ah Xian for a few sentences and then ran to Chu Li to complain.
Chu Li felt that it was simply incomprehensible.
In the past, we only valued the fact that this newcomer had previous experience working in a newspaper company, but now, looking at various circumstances, it seems that this newcomer has too many personal ideas, a tendency that cannot be suppressed.
[The Monkey’s hired trolls: You can tell her that when it comes to writing, the author is a professional, and writing is convenient and does not require editors to interfere...]
【Shattered Light: Aye.】
【Shattered Light: ...Don't you know? 】
[The monkey’s navy: What? ]
[Sui Guang: You, the editor, are also an author, the one who wrote "Give You a Red Score". You have a lot of fans, and your popularity is about the same as mine.]
[Shattered Light: I thought you knew, that's why I hired her as an editor.]
[Sui Guang: My writing has been altered to smell like "Give You a Feather of Red", and I am also drunk - she is teaching me how to write as an author. ]
[Sui Guang: We are all at the same level. Why does she think she can tell me what to do just because she has the title of editor? ]
Chu Li: "..."
At this moment, Chu Li heard the boarding announcement.
Just then, Ah Xian’s complaint popped up on my phone.
【Axian: The author of Shattered Light is unwilling to revise the manuscript. I can’t follow him. Can you find another author to lead me? 】
Chu Li did not reply to her.
The shattered light's complaints continued——
Chu Li thought, what are you complaining about? She can even look down on Mr. Herman, so isn’t it normal for her to look down on you as well?
The four words "literary men look down on each other" are just the right words to describe these two people. Chu Li sighed, feeling uneasy. If she had known that Ah Xian was also an author, she might not have hired her. Otherwise, with the attitude that she could not completely break away from her identity as an author and was too subjective, something would happen sooner or later.