Zhuchuan: “…”

Chu Li: "..."

Zhuchuan: “…………”

First Li: “…………”

Zhu Chuan pointed at Chu Li's face and laughed, "Look, you're trying to be calm. I knew you couldn't be so calm. You're pretending to be a ruthless old driver. Why don't you find a mirror and look at your pale face now..."

"Zhechuan!!!!!!!" Chu Li raised his voice, "Please get the point. Is this the time to talk about this? I appeared in your room in pajamas, looking like I just climbed out of your bed, and your friend, my author Jiang Yucheng, was standing on the other side of the door——"

Jiang Yucheng's voice came through the door: "I am here. It is definitely not your hallucination."

Chu Li thought it would be better for her to just pass out. She stared at the man who was sitting cross-legged on the bed with the quilt in his arms: "Do you think you can explain to me that I did sleep with you last night, but we were just chatting. I watched horror movies all night. Can Teacher Jiang Yucheng believe this?"

Zhuochuan: "I don't remember chatting with you."

Jiang Yucheng: "I don't believe it."

Two voices rang out at the same time. Chu Li wiped his neck with his hand and made a choking sound...

At this time, Jiang Yucheng knocked on the door: "Open the door first. You guys can't reduce the awkwardness by closing the door like this. If you really don't want to be embarrassed, don't go out early in the morning and ignore the people next door who are yelling something like 'You've tormented me all night'..."

The expression on Chu Li's face suddenly became very beautiful.

"I got up to use the restroom and was surprised to see a ghost," Jiang Yucheng said. "I could only make myself a cup of coffee to calm my nerves. As soon as I took a sip of the coffee, I heard the following sentence: A girl was tortured by my friend all night, and the first thing she did at dawn was to congratulate him for having perfectly preserved her virginity for 28 years..."

Before Chu Li could even change her face to the second "I'm already dead" expression, Zhuo Chuan had already thrown away the quilt and stood directly on the bed: "What the fuck do you mean! Who can't say no! Banana man, open the door for me!!!"

As he spoke, his hand had already placed on the edge of his pajamas.

Fearing that he would do something drastic, Chu Li covered her eyes with one hand and instinctively opened the door with the other hand. Jiang Yucheng leaned against the door with a cup of coffee in his hand and glanced at Chu Li. Zhu Chuan took his hand off his pants and raised his eyebrows to ask, "What are you looking at?"

"You didn't learn the health and hygiene class well, but you definitely learned possessiveness, right?" Jiang Yucheng said, "Why is Chu Li at your house?"

"Last night, the pre-sale of "The Divine Book of Luo River" was on, and she was worried—" Zhu Chuan was halfway through his speech when his face changed, "It's none of your business. She can do whatever she wants. Who are you to care so much?"

"Wearing a nightgown in your room early in the morning, do you think I'm a fool?" Jiang Yucheng put down the cup of hot coffee in his hand, "Think about me, I got up early in the morning to go to the bathroom, and I heard the cute voice of my editor next door..."

"What do you mean by pee? Why are you pretending to be so elegant? Just pee. Last night you kept saying 'where's the paper' and 'use your hands to wipe your butt' in the toilet. I heard it clearly." Zhuochuan pointed at Chuli, "If you don't believe me, ask her yourself."

Jiang Yucheng was stunned and looked at Chu Li.

Chuli: “………………………………”

Chu Li twisted his head, rubbed his little feet on the soft floor, and then lowered his head and muttered: "If I don't talk, I won't notice me."

Jiang Yucheng looked serious: "Are you two dating?"

Chu Li shook his head wildly.

Jiang Yucheng looked a little more relaxed: "What's going on?"

"…Before, there was a problem with the peripherals of Nian Nian's new book, and this guy was implicated and had a lot of wages deducted. He had to sleep on the street. At that time, it was the time to prepare for the release of "Luohe Divine Book". I was afraid that her daily communication with beggars under the bridge would affect her, so I let her sleep in my attic." Zhuo Chuan raised the corner of his lips, "Why are you so nervous?"

Ignoring Zhao Chuan's question, Jiang Yucheng looked doubtful and looked towards the attic: "Then why was she in your room last night?"

"Why don't you ask yourself why you ignored social etiquette and came to my house without saying anything?!"

"I'm here to watch you pre-sell."

"Fortunately, I took over the first ridicule when I was on the street?"

"No, I know you can sell it," Jiang Yucheng looked at Chu Li and smiled at her, "Isn't Chu Li here? Seeing how dedicated she is, you know this book will definitely sell well. It has nothing to do with you. It's because of her that it sells well—"

Chu Li raised her head suddenly, and her originally pale face was immediately stained with a faint trace of blood. She looked at Jiang Yucheng with starry eyes... Jiang Yucheng looked at her with a smile and patted her shoulder.

From beginning to end, Zhaochuan's eyes were fixed on Jiang Yucheng's hand. When he saw his hand fall on Chu Li's shoulder, his eyebrows trembled; when the pale bronze hand, which was in sharp contrast to the fair skin, touched it and slapped it twice, his eyebrows trembled again.

Chu Li didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Zhao Chuan thought that this scene was quite shocking - although the Qing Dynasty had been gone for five hundred years, he really shouldn't have opened the door to Jiang Yucheng last night.

Jiang Yucheng: "So Chu Li hurriedly hid in your room last night just to avoid me?"

Zhuchuan: “…”

Chu Li: “Yes.”

Jiang Yucheng: "You two are not the kind of relationship I imagined?"

Zhuchuan: “…”

Chu Li: “No.”

Jiang Yucheng: "Does that mean I still have a chance?"

Chu Chuan: “Bullshit!”

First Li: “???”

Jiang Yucheng: "Okay then."

Chu Chuan: "What's good?"

"I was worried that I was a little late," Jiang Yucheng took a sip of the coffee that had been placed aside, looking calm, "I was just wondering when to tell you about this, and since I bumped into you today, I might as well tell you about it..."

In the silence of the room, Jiang Yucheng turned to Chu Li, the smile on his face faded slightly. He looked at her and said seriously: "Chu Li, actually I have liked you since the first time we officially met."

Chu Li: “…Ah? Ah?”

Zhaochuan: “???????”

Jiang Yucheng: "I have been writing for more than ten years. I have worked with all kinds of editors. Of course, many of them are my fans. I am used to it... But I always feel that you are different from the editors I used to work with - before I met you, when I saw you taking care of Zhachuan, you had the tenacity to go to the thatched cottage three times a day. When Zhachuan complained to me, I thought it was quite interesting. At that time, I envied Zhachuan. In this era when few people are willing to go to bookstores to buy books, there are still editors who chase after authors in order to publish a paper book..."

First Li: “……………………”

He opened his mouth slightly in shock, but no sound came out for a long time; staring blankly at Jiang Yucheng, Chu Li suspected that he might still be dreaming: What did he say?

"So I had the idea of ​​collaborating with you, so I found a good excuse to do the front matter project. You don't know, when I found out that you were my ten-year-old fan, Xiao Houzi, I was really happy. I was thinking, I have been waiting for so many years, and finally I have an editor who might understand me."

“…”

"Later, in order to sign "The Lost Amusement Park", you showed me your ability to take action. You gave up your vacation and traveled thousands of miles to another city by train the next day. When you appeared in front of me in a dusty state, to be honest, I was very moved..." Jiang Yucheng's gaze fell on Chu Li's eyes. Seeing her eyelashes tremble slightly because of shock, a smile appeared at the corner of his lips. "Last time in the cinema, those words you said were also the reason why I decided to believe you... I know you are still a new editor, but I also believe that one day you will become a full-fledged person--"

"Teacher, I..."

Jiang Yucheng made a silent gesture, signaling Chu Li not to say anything. But suddenly, as if he remembered something, the smile on his lips faded slightly, and a hint of self-mockery appeared on his face. He said, "They all say that I, Jiang Yucheng, have been writing business bestsellers for more than ten years, and now I have finally been abandoned by the market - but no one has thought about it seriously. In fact, I am a little tired and exhausted of facing those editors. They send me forms day after day and say: Teacher, statistics, these popular topics are all selling well..."

At this moment, all the emotions on Jiang Yucheng's face suddenly disappeared.

“Sometimes I suddenly wake up from a nightmare in the middle of the night. I dream that the pyramid under my feet collapses, and the editors and readers gathered under the pyramid disperse... At that time, I can't help but think, as an author, what have I left for myself and my readers?”

Jiang Yucheng held the hand of the initial gift——

"This is something I started to think about seriously after I met you. One day, I opened my Weibo and saw a reader telling me that it was great to see Jiang Yucheng's work in Moonlight again. Thank you Moonlight, thank you for not giving up."

Chu Li: “That is…”

That's what I should do.

Jiang Yucheng: "You probably think this is natural, but at that moment, I suddenly felt like I had finally found a way out in the darkness..."

"As for love between men and women, I really didn't have a deep love or the kind of longing described in other books. What is certain is that when I saw you trying to promise us something in the cinema that day, and your serious face, I was indeed moved."

Jiang Yucheng said this, raising his eyelids to glance at his friend who was standing stiffly on the bed.

"That's the tendency of plants in dark corners to flock to light. I haven't walked out of the darkness yet, so, Chu Li, are you willing to reach out and help me?"

In front of me, the man's confession was calm and clear.

The lack of emotion makes people feel the unpretentious sincerity and indifference.

His tone sounded as if he had been thinking about this for a long time.

Rather than a momentary impulse.

Chu Li was completely bewildered. He lowered his head and looked at the big hand that was clasped on his wrist and wrapped around his hand in his palm... He felt as if he was floating up: there was no sense of reality.

What does it feel like when an author you’ve liked for ten years confesses his or her love to you?

so drama!

Chu Li's face turned red. He tried to pull his hand back but failed. His heart was beating like a drum in his chest: "Teacher, I..."

"——Jiang Yucheng, I'm afraid you are sick."

A cold voice sounded from behind, interrupting Chu Li's answer... She turned around and looked at the man standing on the bed. He jumped off the bed nimbly and stood on the floor.

"It's fine if you don't sleep well in the early morning, but you came to my room and talked nonsense to the woman who just climbed out of my bed - if you're hungry, eat, if you're sleepy, go to sleep, if your brain is not working well, turn left and see a doctor, why are you dragging my people here and going crazy?"

The man strode over and slapped open the two people's tightly clasped hands.

"Let go, let go, that's enough, you. Go back to sleep." Zhao Chuan said to Chu Li.

"You. Go home." Zhuchuan said to Jiang Yucheng.

"The meeting is adjourned!" Zhuo Chuan announced.

The author has something to say:

This is the most fundamental difference between Jiang Yucheng and Zhuchuan

Zhuochuan: Let’s wait and see.

Jiang Yucheng: Take it over first.