After being pushed away by Zhuchuan, Jiang Yucheng held Chuli's hand again. He looked at her more seriously than ever before, looking at her face and said, "I'm not joking. If possible, I hope you can think about it carefully - the editor and the author are a perfect match. If you like what I write, I can write for you every day in the future."
“…”
When an author expresses his love, all he can say is: If you like reading, I will write for you every day in the future.
Chu Li opened her mouth wide. Although everything in front of her was very strange, she had to say that she finally realized how serious Jiang Yucheng was... It was all quite magical. It was the first time in 22 years that a boy confessed to her. The other party was her favorite author. He confessed to her with the most seductive words an author could say, and it was as if he had dissected her to know what she liked to hear the most. He repeatedly emphasized: Compared with you as a person, I love your work ability more.
………………………………this point of view.
It's basically like pinning a girl who thinks she's probably married to work to the ground and madly teasing her probably dead girlish heart.
This is a foul.
--……pity.
——It’s a pity that Jiang Yucheng came too late. About two days ago, Chu Li finally understood one thing. She liked Zhaochuan, a man with no advantages... Except for writing, he was not as good as Jiang Yucheng in other aspects, and he was out of work when it came to writing. Jiang Yucheng would always submit the manuscript of "The Lost Amusement Park" on time, three chapters ahead of schedule, except for the occasional delay in additional tasks.
——But it’s useless to say this, she just likes Chu Chuan.
——Jiang Yucheng arrived too late.
After realizing this, the fluttering in her heart immediately disappeared. Chu Li raised her head and glanced at Chu Chuan almost reflexively, and unexpectedly found that the latter was also looking at her expressionlessly at this time...
Feeling a little flustered by the pair of eyes that had turned from brown to dark brown, Chu Li pulled his hand away from Jiang Yucheng's palm, lowered his head, and remained silent, not knowing how to respond.
Above her head, Jiang Yucheng glanced at his empty palm: the warmth left by Chu Li's hand before it was pulled away from his palm was still there, her hand was so soft that it seemed like it had no bones...
"We are all adults now, Chu Chuan," Jiang Yucheng turned to Chu Chuan. This was the first time Chu Li heard him speak to his "A Chuan" in such a serious tone. "From childhood to adulthood, what they said to you and who they compared you to has nothing to do with me. I have never thought about comparing myself with you... But this time, just this time, I hope you can understand one thing - Chu Li is just your editor..."
Chu Li's throat choked.
"She is not 'the woman who just climbed out of your bed', nor is she 'your person', and certainly not your personal property," Jiang Yucheng said almost word by word. "She is our common editor, and to you, that's all."
Zhuochuan was silent for a moment: "For me?"
"Yes," Jiang Yucheng's expression softened again. He glanced at Chu Li, and a gentle smile appeared in his eyes again. "For me, I hope she will be my girlfriend."
“…”
Chu Li couldn't utter a word.
She looked up at Jiang Yucheng and then at Zhuochuan blankly, but unfortunately neither of them spoke... Jiang Yucheng patted her head and said with a smile, "Don't rush to answer me now, it's okay."
Chu Li uttered an "oh" and couldn't think straight at the moment, so she had to hug her pillow and roll back to her room to sleep... She didn't know what happened downstairs next. She went back to her room and rolled on the bed with her pillow in her arms. Her bloodshot eyes stared at the ceiling of the attic and she couldn't close them.
I don't know how long it took before I fell asleep because I was so sleepy. When I fell asleep, I always felt the coolness of the quilt and the empty space behind me. I actually missed the feeling of someone hugging me from behind last night...
It would be nice if the person who confessed his feelings was Chu Chuan.
Chu Li yawned loudly and thought vaguely -
Unfortunately, they are all delusions.
Because that person has no heart.
…
She slept until 6pm on Sunday, but couldn't fall asleep that night. The next morning, she got up from bed with dark circles under her eyes. She had a splitting headache. After washing up, she crawled to the kitchen to make breakfast. When she served breakfast on the table, she saw a man sitting at the dining table flipping through a thick book...
This is the person she likes.
Heartless.
"That's how I got jet-lagged," Chu Li put fried eggs in front of him, along with toasted bread and jam. "Birds of a feather flock together."
"And I slept very well last night," Zhao Chuan snapped the book shut, "The online pre-sale sales of Luohe Divine Book are almost 70,000."
"Very good," Chu Li was spreading jam on the bread, "very good."
Zhuochuan said nothing.
The first ceremony was to bow the head.
The two of them had something called "tacit understanding" as never before, and did not say a word about the farce that happened yesterday morning... Chu Li did not even want to ask where Jiang Yucheng was. Looking at the half-open door of the guest room, it was empty inside. She guessed that he had gone back, right?
After breakfast, Chu Li absentmindedly carried her bag and went out. When she arrived at the company, she found three "surprises" waiting for her:
The first level: when Chu Li walked into the office, she felt the whole office became quiet. Xiao Niao raised her head from her cubicle and looked at her, glancing at her mockingly. Chu Li felt puzzled until she saw that on her seat there was enough breakfast for the entire office to share: soy milk, fried dough sticks, mung bean porridge, pancakes, and glutinous rice.
Chu Li walked over, bent down and picked up the glutinous rice: "Whose breakfast is on my table?"
"Jiang Yucheng brought it to you early in the morning. He said he didn't know what you liked to eat, so he bought it all," Lao Miao said. "Who are you selling books for this Saturday?"
Chu Li: "..."
Put down the glutinous rice, turn on the computer, open Q, and click on an avatar——
[The Monkey’s hired sailors: I received the breakfast, thank you teacher! But you don’t need to bother making a special trip in the future. I usually eat it at home or on the way to work.]
There was a response soon.
[Jiang Yucheng: Okay, I was a little abrupt, I was afraid you would be hungry :)]
He replied so quickly that it seemed as if he had been holding his phone and waiting for Chu Li. Thinking of what Zhuchuan once said, Jiang Yucheng was a night owl who would never appear in public before 2 pm... Such a person actually got up early on a weekday to buy her breakfast and bring it to the editorial office. She politely refused and didn't say anything.
Chu Li bit her lower lip, sinking into deep anxiety and guilt, feeling that she was committing a crime.
Lao Miao: "What's going on between you and Teacher Jiang Yucheng?"
Chu Li turned his head and looked at him silently. Lao Miao grinned: "If there is any problem, that's the best. Although he may not be popular, at least he can still sell it..."
It’s none of your business.
"Shut up, please." Chu Li interrupted him rudely, "In your eyes, the difference between authors is whether they can be sold or not? If you like to look at numbers so much, why don't you go to the marketing department?"
Although Lao Miao was being bullied, he was not angry at all. He smiled brightly at Chu Li - he was in a good mood today and didn't know why.
The second and third surprises both occurred at the weekly morning meeting.
At the regular meeting, Chu Li, who had not forgotten that he had been forced to take credit on Saturday night, went there early, sat next to Editor-in-Chief Xia, and began to teach Editor-in-Chief Xia how to use the voice function... Editor-in-Chief Xia, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, learned very seriously. After learning, he finally asked a question that reflected his old man's wisdom: "This function is so useful, why didn't you tell me before?"
At that moment, the entire conference room fell into a graveyard-like silence.
Chu Li cleared his throat: "New function."
Editor-in-Chief Xia nodded in belief and muttered, "This feature should have been released earlier." At this time, Chu Li turned around and saw that the editors from all the branches behind her had the same guilty and embarrassed expressions on their faces as she did.
Then the Monday meeting begins.
Chu Li began to wonder if he was experiencing Mercury retrograde.
First, Chief Editor Xia, who had learned the "new function of WeChat", told Chu Li without any gratitude that after "Hearing" was sent to the publishing house, the content could not pass the review and the book number could not be approved, and all the previous work on this book was probably in vain.
Thinking of his own proofreading day and night, and the anticipation in Comrade Ah Gui's eyes when he kept saying "I'm going to publish a book at Yuanyue Publishing House", Chu Li's first reaction upon hearing the news was to look up at the window of the conference room, which was on the third floor.
She didn't expect that something more exciting was yet to come. The contract for "Luohe Divine Book" was finally finalized, and the main revision was the first print run. The head of the marketing department, the surfer brother, stood up with a folder in his hand and announced, "The online pre-sale of "Luohe Divine Book" was a huge success. Within two days of the weekend, several physical booksellers who heard about it increased their pre-orders. So after negotiation, the pre-order quantity for this book is..."
Chu Li held his breath.
"Three hundred and forty thousand!"
The first gift leaked.
Lao Miao had a look of “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA” on his face.
"Let us congratulate the new editor Chu Li. The first book she created after joining Yuanyue Publishing House became a hit. The colleagues in the marketing department are very grateful to her for cooperating with us as the editor-in-chief these days and bringing "Luohe Divine Book" to the peak!" Brother Chonglang put down the folder and said with a smile.
The people around her began to applaud. Chu Li felt as if she was being laughed at. If it wasn't the marketing department that decided the first print run and the boss of the marketing department that announced the results, she would have almost suspected that this group of people were teaming up to play a trick on her...
Three hundred and forty thousand.
Only ten thousand away from three hundred and fifty thousand!
Fuck you!!!!!!!
What should Ah Gui do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What about my position as deputy editor-in-chief? ! ! ! !
The theme of this morning's regular meeting was "Just one step away from success". If I had known this, I would have called in sick and not come! I won't come!!!
Chu Li was extremely depressed, so depressed that she even forgot to mention that she had already received verbal promise from Zhu Chuan to take down that crappy short story serialized on Weibo.
She raised her eyes to the sky and saw her position as deputy editor-in-chief flying away with wings.