Chu Li remained glued to the computer until Lao Miao and Yu Yao finished talking, and then they looked at Chu Li with a look of lunatics as he returned to his seat... Chu Li then let out a long sigh, put down his computer, sat back in his seat, and typed a series of blanks to squeeze the horrible photo out of the current chat box -
[The navy hired by the monkey: ...I was in such a hurry when I left this morning that I specially checked to see if I had missed anything. No need to give it to me, teacher, please cut it into five pieces.]
【Zhuchuan: How? You want me to take it off the hanger, find a pair of scissors, hold it in one hand and the scissors in the other hand, and cut it into pieces?】
【The navy hired by the monkey: . . . . . . . 】
[The monkey’s hired navy: Did you see that? The enlarged “…” represents the speechlessness in my heart at this moment.]
【Zhuchuan: You are so dramatic. 】
Chu Li covered her chest with her hands: The sky is falling, this actor actually said that she is too dramatic.
Chu Li ignored his idle chatter. She was very busy. There were a lot of readers’ comments and authors’ submissions waiting for her to attend. She didn’t have time to accompany this idle great god to go crazy... After closing the dialogue box with Zhu Chuan, Chu Li turned around to do the things at hand, organize the submission mailbox and so on, and then browse the major literary websites to look for novels suitable for publication... In the blink of an eye, an hour passed, and then Zhu Chuan came back again, unwilling to be lonely——
【Zhuchuan: “Screenshot”】
Screenshot content: A screenshot from Taobao, a four-piece bed set with dark blue and white stripes and yellow banana patterns printed all over it... The price is 199 yuan, free shipping.
【Zhuchuan: It suits you. 】
【Zhuchuan: “Screenshot”】
Screenshot content: Taobao screenshot, banana pillow.
【Zhuchuan: “Screenshot”】
Screenshot content: Desktop ornament, a banana with an evil smile on its face lifts up the banana peel with both hands to reveal a large white root...
【Zhuchuan: Look, your true form!!!】
【Zhuchuan: Buy it! 】
【The navy hired by the monkey: . . . . . . . . . . . 】
[The navy hired by the monkey: Teacher. ]
[The Monkey's hired navy: Please be normal and show the proud demeanor of a scholar instead of acting like a pervert. ]
[Zhu Chuan: How could someone like you be so perverted as to leave a pair of clean cartoon blue and white striped panties at the home of a young single man who was just beginning to fall in love?]
[The Monkey’s hired navy: … I think I’ll have to use periods instead of ellipsis for the rest of my life.]
【The monkey's hired navy: That was a mistake.】
【Zhuchuan: Oh.】
【Zhuchuan: But I am not. 】
【Zhuchuan: I did it on purpose.】
First Li: “……………………”
For a moment, she really wanted to blow up the computer in front of her - if doing so could blow up the person who was talking to her in the computer, she would do it without hesitation... Chu Li raised her head and looked around, hoping to see something to calm her down, or take a deep breath or something?
As a result, he accidentally caught a glimpse of Yu Yao, and then he found that Yu Yao had just finished the work at hand and had already started to do the second revision of "Luohe Divine Book" - Chu Li stared at it for a while and was a little nervous at first. Every time he saw Yu Yao put pen to paper, his heart was beating, thinking "where did she revise", "where did I miss", "Oh my God, she is not going to revise my revision opinions, is she?"...
As he thought about it, he took out his phone and took a photo of Yu Yao looking down at the proofreading paper, and sent it to Zhao Chuan.
[The navy hired by the monkey: Look, the second round has already started. ]
【Zhu Chuan: Oh, at least I managed to hand it over to your boss.】
[The monkey's hired navy: Well, thank you teacher for your help last night, thank you thank you! ]
[Zhuchuan: How to repay me? ]
[The Monkey's hired navy: We will definitely try our best, go all out, and use our greatest efforts to help the teacher sell this book. We will not let you down! ]
[The Monkey’s hired navy: Our goal is to ignore the meagre numbers on the contract and set out for the first print run of 200,000!]
【Zhuchuan: I am glad to see that you also think the first seal on the contract is shabby.】
【Zhuchuan: It turns out you are not stupid. 】
【Zhuchuan: I just have a black heart. 】
【The navy hired by the monkey: . . . . . 】
Chu Li closed the dialogue box with Zhuchuan for the second time, this time because of guilty conscience.
…
One and a half months later.
Chu Li has been working in the editorial department of Moonlight magazine for nearly two months. During these two months, the editorial department has been calm. Except for Lao Miao and Xiao Niao who are still so fucked up, everything else is fine...
To be precise, it is quite good.
Because he got the contract from Chu Chuan, he successfully invited Jiang Yucheng, a great god whose status is equal to Chu Chuan, to the front project. He was awarded two great merits together. In addition, he did not make any big mistakes in his work on weekdays. Therefore, his superiors, including Yu Yao, recognized Chu Li's work ability...
Now, it is June, and Chu Li is a little excited——
June is a special month. First of all, Mr. Zhuchuan’s “Luohe Divine Book” has completed the second and third proofreading in the past month and has been sent to Mr. Xia, the editor-in-chief of Yuanyue Publishing House, for the final review.
In addition, the June issue of Moonlight magazine is about to be released. This is the first publication that Chu Li officially participated in producing and editing. The first page after the cover is the frontispiece project that made her so upset...
When the proofs of the June issue came out, Chu Li jumped up and down excitedly while holding the proofs. When Yu Yao encouraged her with a smile, "Open it and have a look," she hesitated again.
She was afraid of seeing typos in Jiang Yucheng's contribution on the first page... She was the one who proofread it at the time, and it would be so embarrassing if there were typos and it tarnished her reputation as Xiao Bailian.
So, Chu Li just opened the book and quickly glanced at the parts she was responsible for, carefully rubbed her hands over the printed characters, and then closed the book, sighing with satisfaction: this was her first publication, no matter how it turned out, she would put it up for display when she got home, burn incense, pray, and touch it when she had nothing to do, telling herself: Don't forget your original intention.
…The June issue was released nationwide around the fourth day of the month, and for the next few days, I was very careful when checking the submission emails and official Weibo accounts.
result.
really.
Everyone was very excited about Jiang Yucheng appearing in the front matter plan.
[Oh my god, I never thought I could see Jiang Yucheng in my lifetime! ! ! ]
[The foreword section is so exciting. I never read the foreword before! I couldn't help but read it many times. It was like I was back in those days when I hid "The Lost Zoo" under my Chinese textbook and read it secretly in class. My deskmate would urge me to read it quickly because the next classmate was waiting! ]
[To be honest, you should consider a new line-up of authors... Authors like Nian Nian and Hippo are too old, and their works are not as interesting as imagined - their writing is full of a sense of "making a living" - the appeal of the author of Guiwa is greater than theirs, right? ]
[The things written by Jiang Yucheng are still good to look at. The old masters are just different and you can tell who is better at once.]
[Can I understand that Jiang Yucheng is going to cooperate with "Moonlight"? ? ? ? ]
【Hahahahahahahahaha sh*t, I actually saw our ghost doll!!! This guy can actually be on Yuanyue Society’s magazine ahhhhh, I’m dying of laughter, is this the clarion call for the official connection between traditional literature and non-traditional literature?】
[Will I see Jiang Yucheng again in the future? ! ]
[To be honest, this issue of "Moonlight" is really much more interesting. I was dumbfounded when I saw Gui Wa and Jiang Yucheng: I used to buy it just because of "Star Tracks". If there are so many surprises, I will continue to buy it! ]
…
There are countless comments like the above.
The June issue of Moonlight magazine has been on sale for a week, and its sales have already surpassed the same period last month by 1.5 times. When Chu Li passed by the marketing department, he heard them holding a meeting to discuss reprinting. And whether all of this has anything to do with the God of Heaven "Jiang Yucheng" or even the master of BL novels, Guiwa, no one can tell...
People were just guessing. But the appearance of these two people in "Moonlight" did cause quite a stir: At least Ah Xiang said that in the past release days of "Moonlight", there was basically no splash on the Internet and Weibo, but this time, after being forwarded by Guiwa and Jiang Yucheng, the number of forwardings directly increased to 4,000 to 5,000...
It seems to be very lively and this magazine is super popular.
This was enough to make Chu Li feel proud for many days. During the long period from the June issue going on sale to the reprinting to the end of June, Yu Yao greeted him with a smile every day, Xiao Niao became more and more silent, and Lao Miao...
I am getting more and more impatient.
For example, right now, he had just had an argument with Yu Yao over the increasingly hot weather.
It all started because Yao probably saw some of the comments from Weibo and submission boxes and wanted to find some new authors to join the magazine’s author lineup, but Lao Miao was unwilling to do so.
Lao Miao: "They have been using it for a few months, and the sales volume of the magazine has not dropped, which shows that they have a following. Why would they look for someone to replace them?! What if the person they find is not as good as them?!"
Yu Yao: "You have to give it a try. It's just that if you don't publish one of their articles occasionally, it won't kill you."
Lao Miao glared: "You will die."
Yu Yao asked back: "Who can? You?"
I've said before that the rate of publication, popularity, and number of articles published by the authors under one's command directly affect the editor's position in the editorial department... However, these things are the default rules. Now that Yu Yao asked so bluntly, Lao Miao was speechless.
Chu Li was watching the fight from the sidelines. Upon hearing this, he turned his head away and grinned.
I could hardly control myself and almost laughed out loud.
Behind her, Lao Miao began to slam his hands on the table in annoyance: "I really don't understand why you suddenly came up with this idea..."
Yu Yao: "Can't you see the readers' contributions and Weibo comments that have been sorted out? Readers, our bread and butter, say: These authors, s!"
Lao Miao sounded furious: "Reader contributions? Weibo comments? Aren't these all made by Chu Li!!!"
“………………” Chu Li suddenly heard his own name and quickly adjusted his expression. He turned his head and looked at Lao Miao with an innocent look, “I took screenshots of the packaged image files directly. There is no forged evidence!”
Lao Miao glared at her fiercely, but after two months of training and being too high-spirited in recent days, Chu Li was no longer as frightened as when she first came in... So from an angle where Yu Yao couldn't see, Chu Li looked back boldly -
The two men held each other for ten seconds.
"Shut up, both of you. The increase in magazine sales is a good thing. You two look so bitter and resentful. Are you sick?"
Yu Yao really showed up and performed what she was best at: "keeping things fair."
Chu Li: "..."
Lao Miao: “…”
…
After get off work in the evening, when Chu Li ordered takeout, she also ordered an extra meat dish to show off to Mr. L that she had meat tonight. She also happily shared with Mr. L the quarrel between Lao Miao and Yu Yao today...
【The disappeared Mr. L: Are you happy? 】
[The monkey’s hired navy: As happy as a monkey. ]
[The disappeared Mr. L: I told you this matter will be solved perfectly. ]
[The navy hired by the monkey: Don’t be so hindsighted. ]
After giving the initial gift, she sent Mr. L away and went to eat meat happily. She didn't know that Mr. L had just logged off, and the great Zhuchuan officially came online. However, Zhuchuan didn't look for her. The man just smiled and opened his QQ account and found Jiang Yucheng...
【Zhuchuan: I heard that Moonlight has become more popular because of you. The monthly sales have doubled and more copies have been printed. The banana man monkey even came to show off to me that she is now in the editorial department like a fish in water because of you... OK, you are still sharp, Jiang Yucheng.】
【Jiang Yucheng: Look how jealous you are.】
【Jiang Yucheng: It was you who asked me to go. Now that the matter has been settled, my little fan is very happy. You are the one who is jealous... Why are you so difficult to please?】
【Jiang Yucheng: If you have the ability, go by yourself, don’t look for me. 】
【Jiang Yucheng: I am just doing you a favor, why don’t I kneel down and kowtow to express my gratitude?】
【Zhuchuan: You are very arrogant. 】
【Zhu Chuan: I have gold under my knees, I can’t kneel down, and I can’t thank you either—what are you doing me a favor for? Yuanyue Publishing House won’t pay you for your writing! How dare you!】
【Jiang Yucheng: Manuscript fee?】
【Jiang Yucheng: You give it to me?】
【Jiang Yucheng: There is no payment for the frontispiece project. Damn, you are so lazy. You have been a big boss for so many years, but you have never agreed to write a frontispiece project for others, right?】
【晁川:……………………】
【Zhuchuan: No royalties?】
[Zhuchuan: ...It doesn't matter, there's no payment, but she owes you a favor! ]
【Zhuchuan: Human relationships are very important. 】
【Zhu Chuan: In today's society, the most valuable thing is human relationships, which are worth a ton of gold.】
【Jiang Yucheng: I'm listening to your nonsense, but before I post a collection of your "weird old bitch's best remarks" in a nine-square grid on Weibo, get out of here!!!】
【Tsukawa: …】