[Major publishing accident: "Yuan Yue Publishing House" announced that the first 450,000 copies of its annual key publication "The Last Whale of the Pacific" would be recalled! The relevant departments ordered it to suspend operations for rectification. ]
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[Yuan Yue She spokesperson Weibo: I know who is behind all this, and I also believe that good things happen in return... Just wait and see, one day, you will get the retribution you deserve.]
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[The decline of the traditional paper media industry - the publishing house "Yuanyueshe", which once set a record for monthly sales in China, announced that its B round of financing failed and accepted acquisition. ]
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【Yuanyueshe's authors collectively left and announced the termination of cooperation, and its best-selling magazine "Moonlight" announced that it would officially cease publication next month. 】
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[The former serial writer of "Moonlight" magazine and the famous domestic oriental fantasy writer "Zhu Chuan" took the lead in making a statement on Weibo: If I don't want to write, I won't write. Although it is a serial, strangely enough, I was not asked to sign a so-called serial contract at the beginning, so I can come and go freely.
In line with the attitude of being responsible to readers, the next story originally serialized in "Moonlight" magazine will be written in succession on Weibo as a platform. Please rest assured and look forward to it. 】
As the overwhelming mobile phone news push made the phone ding-dong non-stop, Chu Li was helping his son to take the first step in his life... So when Chu Chuan saw the news and walked out of the house, he wanted to discuss the matter of "Yuanyue Society seems to be closed down because of you" with his wife, and happened to see this scene -
"Mom! Mom... help me!"
The chubby son walked forward slowly on his chubby short legs, drooling and trembling.
"Mommy is holding you. Mommy is holding your clothes. It's safer than a walker. Come on, don't be afraid!"
And Chu Li, who was standing behind his son, with one hand on his waist and the other busy on his phone, lying without changing his expression.
Zhuchuan: “…”
Zhao Yueli stepped out steadily on the ground with his right foot like a bun. The little guy shouted "Gaga" and waved his arms with excitement. His round body swayed along with it. Zhao Chuan took a breath of cool air, and before he could make a sound, Zhao Yueli had already fallen down!
Before he knew it, a brown figure that had been squatting nearby and watching for a long time came rushing over. He steadily caught the fat boy who was about to fall down. The fat boy fell on the big dog with a "bang", letting out a heartless scream and laughter, and even reached out to pull its ears.
"Oh, don't pull the dog, baby, let go." Chu Li bent down, freed Er Gouzi's ears from his son's hand, and pinched Er Gouzi's face. He raised his head and looked at Zhu Chuan's frightened expression, and was shocked, "What are you doing?"
"Are you a human being? You even lied to your own son... If it wasn't for Ergouzi, I would have almost fallen. Ergouzi will give you meat for dinner, and you are not allowed to eat!"
Zhu Chuan glared at her, walked over in two or three steps, picked up his son and held him in his arms, and patted his butt. He didn't know who he was trying to surprise, but the little boy in his arms was raised and started to shout "Dad! Dad!" excitedly. Zhu Chuan lowered his head and saw that the ground was covered with a thick foam mat, and there was a layer of wool on top of the mat...
I stepped on it and it was very soft.
The child won't get hurt even if he falls.
Suddenly, he felt a little guilty, and looked up at Chu Li. Sure enough, he saw her rolling her eyes at him: "Everyone fell and bumped when they were little. When will they learn to walk if they stay in a walker every day? This is called spoiling."
"I'm afraid he might get hurt."
"Children's bones are soft and they can withstand falls." Chu Li took his son back from Zhu Chuan and threw him onto the mat again. "Keep walking. Uncle Er Gou is watching you. You won't fall."
Er Gouzi lowered his head to sniff Zhuo Yueli's face. Zhuo Yueli pulled the fur on its back and stood up with his chubby legs trembling.
Seeing the man and the dog playing together, Chu Li stopped paying attention, turned around and sat on the sofa, opened his phone and carefully read the news just now -
More than half a month ago, on the night when Zhuchuan announced the end of cooperation with Yuanyue Society, after the announcement was issued, Chu Li immediately asked Suo Heng, A Gui, and Sui Guang to send out the withdrawal announcement one after another. The three people sent out the announcement with different feelings, giving Yuanyue Society the final fatal blow...
Three years.
In three years, she watched and supported Moonlight Magazine as it grew from a new magazine to its peak and became a best-selling magazine in people's eyes. She was like a new gardener who grew up with a fragile sapling. When the sapling grew into a towering tree, people gathered under the tree to enjoy the shade and praised the tree.
You look so good.
I never thought it could grow so lush and green.
Thanks to you.
Look, it bears so many beautiful fruits, almost surpassing those old trees!
However.
What those people didn't know was that the roots of this lush tree were already infested with worms and rotten - just like the profit-first ideas implanted by the marketing department, which were gradually devouring the entire editorial department.
The lush green leaves have long been inadequately nourished, and they are about to fall down at the slightest touch - just like the authors who are not respected, and are always regarded as readers who "just pay for their money", and are gradually drifting away from the magazine;
The sound of wind blowing through the treetops is not a sign of vitality, but a prelude to death - just like the overwhelming complaints in accidents, from the author, readers, and even the editor himself;
The so-called "beautiful fruits" are all bitter and astringent when you pick them and take a bite.
There is no doubt that the publishing industry is a sunset industry. However, for a company that does not respect those who truly love this industry, no matter how hard it is recruited and promoted, even if it occasionally has a brief period of revival, it will only face the sunset and move towards the ultimate darkness and destruction.
Readers and authors are the foundation and original intention of this industry.
Yuanyue Society never understood, nor did it ever think about understanding.
So after three years, Chu Li’s sense of responsibility and patience as a gardener finally burned out, and she finally realized that she still loved this industry and still had passion in her heart, but she was no longer willing to waste this “love” in Yuanyue Society.
So in the end, she chose to pick up the axe and cut down the big tree that she had tried to take care of carefully!
Holding the phone, watching the crowds on the Internet watching, laughing, and gloating, Chu Li originally thought that he should be in a good mood and happy. Unfortunately, no matter how he hypnotized himself, he could still feel his eye sockets getting hot quickly. He blinked, and a drop of liquid dripped from his eye sockets and fell on the screen of the phone in his hand with a "plop"——
The blow of the axe finally felled the tree, but it also hurt her arm holding the axe.
The vision in front of her eyes became blurred. Chu Li sniffed, raised her hand, and wiped her eyes, but the liquid in her eyes kept wiping more and more... She finally burst into tears and couldn't hold the phone anymore. Until she heard a sigh in her ear, and then her head was grasped and she was held in a strong embrace.
Chu Li sobbed, stretched out her hands to grab the man's clothes on his chest, and crumpled the neat T-shirt into a ball of salty food: "I don't want this... Ugh, hiccups... Why is Yuanyue Society... Why is it such a rotten mud that can't be helped?... That Liang Chonglang... Oh, oh, oh, Japanese dramas are all lies. The ending of Japanese dramas should be that the heroine leads the corrupt people to a bright tomorrow. How can reality... reality be so far away!"
Zhaochuan raised his hand and touched her hair, with complicated emotions: Liang Chonglang and his gang probably didn't expect that the irony was that, in the end, the evildoer was probably crying even more sadly than them.
However, he couldn't say this directly, so Zhuchuan could only close his eyes and whisper to the person in his arms: "Don't cry, don't cry, it's not a big deal--"
"Yuanyueshe failed to go public! Failed to raise funds! Accepted a takeover!" Chu Li suddenly sat up from his arms, frowning, "Yuanyueshe is going to go bankrupt! What do you mean by no big deal?!"
Zhuchuan was stunned: "...wasn't it you who did it?"
Chu Li: "..."
Zhuchuan: “…”
After three seconds of silence, Chu Li moved her lips awkwardly, and then without saying anything, she snuggled back into the man's arms, her face pressed tightly against his chest out of embarrassment... When the man slowly patted her back to calm her down, she thought for a moment and said sullenly, "...I don't want to cry, Yuanyue Society deserves it, I don't know why I should cry."
Got it, got it.
crybaby.
Zhuo Chuan sighed inwardly again, patted her shoulder, and changed the subject: "Gu Baizhi asked you to check your mailbox."
"What?"
"How should I know? You will know when you see it."
"oh."
Another sob, and the crying sound finally stopped. The man felt the face pressing on his chest was taken away. He looked down, then pinched the wet clothes on his chest with a look of disgust: I don’t know if there is snot or not.
"teacher."
"Um?"
"Where's my phone?"
When he looked up, he saw the person sitting next to him with a red face from crying. She was squinting her eyes and fumbling around for her phone to check her emails. He sighed for who knows how many times today, bent down to pick up her phone that had just fallen to the ground because she was crying so hard, and put it in his hand. He grabbed a tissue and wiped her face by holding her chin: "…Why are you crying? There are not so many tears to shed. Tsk tsk, your eyes are swollen—your son can walk, and you are still like a middle school girl."
Chu Li turned his face away and let him torture her without any restraint.
She opened her mobile phone mailbox with a slit eye and took a look, only to find that about half an hour ago, Gu Baizhi sent her an email -
【First Ceremony:
Hello, it's me again.
A formal invitation letter for cooperation has been sent!
We are planning to take over the production of your husband's book "The Last Whale of the Pacific" recently. I believe that after what happened with Yuanyueshe, you don't want this book to fall into the hands of others, so this email is to ask if you would like to join our team——
Of course, if you don’t want to join New Shield, it’s fine to give people something to talk about. You can join in another capacity. Here’s what I’m going to say: I feel like I’ve reached the pinnacle of my career in the publishing industry recently. Plus, since you left Yuanyue Publishing, Yuanyue Publishing has been on the verge of collapse. It seems that I’ve completely lost my competitors, and my career has become boring… So I’m also preparing to resign from New Shield (after finishing The Last Whale in the Pacific) to start a new media company that is mainly responsible for IP operations. Its business involves all kinds of copyright operations, from the creation, publishing, packaging, film and television, and audio…
I would like to invite you to join us as a partner to run this company.
The best idea is to join the publishing team of "The Last Whale of the Pacific" as the operator of this company now, so that the company can have a good start!
Of course, you can rest assured that this is legal, because my boss also thinks that this cooperation seems to be very good... After all, the interests of a book publishing company and an IP full-chain operation company do not conflict.
above.
Looking forward to your reply!
Kiss!
Angelica dahurica
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April 1, 2017.
"Huh? What the hell, an April Fool's joke? Aren't you a BL guy?"
“…Danmei people are not allowed to write romance novels, but I want to write, I want to write! How can you not write a book about your wonderful life?! In this era, we need such an article to inspire readers and authors to resonate, and awaken the original intentions of these cold and numb publishing practitioners that have been frozen for many years!!!”
"…What the hell are you talking about? This is my life. How dare you mess with my life?"
"It won't happen randomly."
"Well, since you insist, just go ahead and write it... Wait! If you get sued by Yuanyue Society, please don't look for me or Mr. Chuchuan. No one will acknowledge that they know you!"
"What are you suing me for? For example, if I wrote about the book signing event, then wasn't it Yuanyue Society that kicked me off the signing stand? Am I wrongly accusing them?!"
“……………………………………It seems like you’re the one who’s most bothered by this matter? Your reaction time is longer than the Great Wall, right?”
"Ah? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..."
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April 2, 2017.
Early morning.
In the dark room, only the starlight outside can be seen.
Next to the computer, a round figure was circling around it anxiously for the 800th time, muttering something like a possessed person:
“What’s a good name? ‘Executive Editor-in-Chief’? ‘Dear Editor-in-Chief’? ‘The Devil with a Canvas Bag’? …Aaaaah!”
The figure stopped and ruffled his hair.
After a few seconds, she stopped moving. In the darkness, a pair of numb eyes suddenly sparkled. She put down her hands, rushed to the computer, slid the mouse to open the Green Jiji Literature City website, clicked "Publish New Article", and continued to mutter to herself: "Okay, okay, let's call it this name, there is no better name than this..."
The short fat fingers tapped on the keyboard, the mechanical keyboard made a "clicking" sound, the cursor jumped, and a few lines of words jumped on the screen -
Title: Moonlight Variations
Article ID: 2967257
Author: Ghost Doll.
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This is a story she is going to tell you.
It is also a short episode in the life that her dear editor once lived.
The author has something to say:
Ahhh, the main article ends here, with a very interesting and somewhat intriguing ending (smiling).
The story of the publishing house is probably just the beginning. After all, a work will go through many other industries from its birth to its evolution into more forms, and each industry has its own interesting stories... In the future, perhaps there will be a series of "Moonlight" articles born, but that will definitely be another person's story!
700,000 words is still quite long. Thank you for sticking with me until today. Thank you for reading this story carefully and understanding a lot from it. I want to tell you something through words——
Well, editors like Chu Li who always keep their original intentions certainly exist. I have witnessed it with my own eyes. And some events in the article are undoubtedly based on prototypes, so some scenes are indeed written with true feelings, anger, or happiness... But as for which events have prototypes and who the prototypes are, there is no need to dwell on it. After all, those are all past events. It is enough for me to make you laugh today.