"Today is February 16, 2014. It's only been a few days since I started working at Yuanyue Publishing House for a full year. In this year, I bravely and tenaciously survived the abuse of my green tea bitch colleagues; I wrote a popular annual bestseller; I received a generous year-end award, but I didn't get a promotion; the publishing industry has already begun to have my first legendary "Yuanyue Publishing House's Most Promising New Editor"; I have collected four authors who are out of fashion, about to be out of fashion, popular, and Togashi Yoshihiro-type authors who specialize in writing □□ thank you for publishing themes," Chu Li raised his head from Zhaochuan's arms and stared at his chin, "Anything else to add?"
Zhuchuan: “…”
"Yes." Chu Li asked herself and answered seriously, "My greatest achievement is winning the heart of an author. The love letter he wrote to me was forwarded 80,000 times and commented on 80,000 times, and it directly became the number one trending search on Weibo. It greatly satisfied my girlish heart, as well as my vanity."
Zhuochuan raised his big hand and easily covered her mouth and eyes. He grabbed her face and pushed her back with one hand, and his voice sounded particularly cold: "Have you said enough?"
But it's not really indifferent.
Chu Li knew that he was just pretending, because his face was thinner than the wonton wrappers rolled by the aunt at the gate of the community courtyard... So she shook her head and said to the man: "If you don't say sweet words, someone has to say them, and that person can only be me..."
Zhu Chuan said nothing. He pursed his lips tightly, picked her up, and threw her onto the sofa—he handled her with care, as if he was afraid of breaking her… The moment Chu Li’s butt landed on the sofa, she hurriedly got up and jumped off the sofa, climbed over the sofa armrest and followed closely behind him: “You can’t spend your whole life writing love letters to me on Weibo. I’m a living person standing in front of you. If you want to say something nice, just tell me directly…”
Chu Chuan paused and turned around.
He looked expressionlessly at the person following him, with his hands behind his back and his back straight. He was crying just now but now his face was full of smiles: "After all, we have to keep a low profile. They say that those who show off their affection will die sooner. Don't always show off your affection to your readers on Weibo..."
Zhuo Chuan wanted to take off his slippers and throw them at this smiling face... But he held back and finally reached out his hand and pulled her face, twisting the smile that made people feel helpless. He then let go of her hand and said concisely: "I'm taking a nap."
Chu Li was stunned, stopped chattering, and blushed.
Seeing her blush, Zhuo Chuan was also stunned. After a while, he reacted and criticized her harshly: "You fantasize too much."
By the time Chu Li reacted, the man had already turned back to his room, slammed the door shut, and locked it with a click, as if some ferocious beast was outside and was about to break in.
Chu Li stood outside the door for a while, then hiccuped and quietly went upstairs to continue packing her suitcase. This experience was very magical. While going up and down the stairs, she experienced anxiety, despair, despair, resurgence, and springtime. She finally...
"……oops."
Chu Li slapped his forehead and took out his cell phone.
[The navy hired by the monkey: Chu Chuan. 】
[The navy hired by the monkey: Chu Chuan. 】
[The navy hired by the monkey: Chu Chuan. 】
【Zhuchuan:? 】
[The Monkey’s hired navy: Nothing else, I just suddenly remembered that I forgot to tell you, I like you, I like you, I like you - I’ve wanted to tell you for a long time, on the night of the pre-sale of “Luohe Divine Book”, I wanted to tell you, in fact, I have already told you, but Teacher Jiang Yucheng suddenly showed up...]
【Zhuchuan: Humph. Since I was born and my family moved next door to his house, has Jiang Yucheng ever done anything good?】
【Zhuchuan: Got it, go and collect your luggage. 】
[The monkey’s hired navy: …Oh: (]
【Zhuchuan: I like you too. 】
[The navy hired by the monkey: Oh:)]
…
People in love look like fools even when they send an emoji, and the aura of idiocy is overwhelming. The most terrifying thing is that they still think they are very romantic at the moment.
The most obvious feature is probably that they are always holding their phones and smiling at the chat box. Even if the other party only sends a punctuation mark, they can sigh in their hearts, "Fuck, his punctuation marks are so unusual, and there is a lovely aura inside and out."
"——After the New Year, Mr. Hirokawa has started to like humans. This New Year must have been unusual."
In the conference hall early the next morning.
Ah Xiang sat next to Chu Li, muttering to himself while looking at his phone - the "love letter" that Zhe Chuan sent yesterday has been forwarded more than 100,000 times. In the comments, readers lamented that the gentle and jade-like Mr. Chuan could kill people when he got romantic, and that there was no girl that he could not chase after... Only some poor editors who knew the true face of the actor teacher used six dots (...) or many dots (……………………) to express their shattered world views.
Ah Xiang stood in line to give Zhuchuan a few nods and forwarded the message, while nudging the person next to him with his elbow: "Chu Li, what kind of person do you think the actor teacher likes?"
"Ah?" Chu Li's whole face was smiling like "(*^?^*)", and he looked up from his phone, "What did you say?"
Ah Xiang: “…”
Ah Xiang: "Why are you smiling so maliciously?"
Chu Li: "..."
Nothing, she was just recalling the conversation with Chu Chuan yesterday afternoon, revisiting Chu Chuan's words "I like you too" for the 800th time... Now she put away her phone, straightened her expression, and returned to her normal face. She asked seriously, "I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention to what you said just now?"
Ah Xiang: "I said that Teacher Chu Chuan seems to be in love."
Chu Li opened his mouth silently.
Ah Xiang paused and asked, "Why are you smiling so viciously?"
Chu Li's lips twitched, and she realized that they were out of control again. She raised her hands and rubbed her face: "Nothing, I just think that being in love is good. He's so old now, his family would be worried if he doesn't have a love relationship, right? Maybe he will become more mature after being in love, and have fewer weird ideas to bother other editors and artists..."
After Chu Li's reminder, Ah Xiang accidentally thought of the cover requirement that Wei Yi proposed when he and Zhu Chuan had a face-to-face conversation. He said, "It seems to be true, but I always feel that if this is the case, the people he likes are a bit pitiful. Are we going to ask her to take on all the things that we shared before?"
"It's okay," Chu Li hummed a song and squeezed her head, "What kind of ordinary character can be liked by Mr. Zhuchuan..."
"I always feel that Mr. Chu Chuan will not last more than a week before he breaks up with his lover."
"This is a really good counter-argument. Maybe people are enjoying it."
Chu Li waved her hands with a look of "what do you know"... Ah Xiang stared at her face for a while, and was about to say, "Your author's love has nothing to do with you, you look so happy, are you trying to get in on the wedding wine?" At this time, Teacher Xia walked in with a pile of folders. The gossip meeting in the conference room, which was originally themed "Zhu Chuan is in love", came to a temporary end, and everyone took their seats to start the first morning meeting of the new year.
...It is worth noting that this time all the members arrived in perfect order, even the elusive CEO of Yuanyue Society, who usually only appears in WeChat groups, came.
Two things were announced at the meeting:
First, Moonlight magazine is preparing to revise its edition, remove redundant content, focus on serials and popular authors, reduce the number of pages, change the size of the format, use better paper, change from partial black and white to full color printing, and increase the price.
Second, in the new year, the wind of harmony is blowing. All magazine branches should pay attention to using clean and standard words on the cover and back cover, and the articles published should comply with the new publishing standards.
The first thing was announced by Teacher Xia, and the second thing was announced by the boss himself. The boss spoke very subtly, and kept saying "I am the legal representative of Yuanyue Society." The implication was very clear: I am the person in charge of the company, and I don't want to go to jail just because one of you is not in your right mind and published something that shouldn't be published on the cover or back cover. Everyone, wake up, and who dares to mess around when the wind of harmony blows? Even the Jade Emperor's uncle will get out of here immediately.
The boss said something, and Chu Li gave his inner voice-over below. Looking at the expressions of the people around him, everyone probably understood what the boss meant...
Then, as they were talking, Chu Li found that the topic suddenly returned to her.
After listening to these people's long discussions, she realized with a confused look on her face that the book she had to follow was not just Jiang Yucheng's - Suo Heng had previously completed the magazine serial and was going to publish a single volume, and this single volume was also what Chu Li, the current editor-in-chief of Suo Heng, had to follow...
A single volume was indeed going to be published, in line with the mentality of "a mosquito, no matter how small, is still meat", although the fact that this long novel was not popular was exposed early on when it was serialized in the magazine.
…………………………Not only was it insufficient, it could be said to be extremely insufficient. Chu Li stared in amazement at these people discussing whether to order 6,000 or 8,000 for the first print run. After arguing for a long time, that bastard Lao Miao even brought Xiao Niao to fan the flames: "How about 12,000? Chu Li is so good at selling books. After all, he is the most promising new editor of Yuanyue Society. What if he creates a miracle?"
...I sell books, not perform magic.
…and the first print run of my last book was 312,000, and for the second book, you’re left here to watch you fight over whether the first print run is 6,000 or 8,000?
That thing didn't make any splash from beginning to end. How can I create a miracle?
Since she was just a grassroots editor, Chu Li had no right to speak at the scene, so she dared not say anything from beginning to end. She could only sigh that no wonder Lao Miao found an excuse to push Suo Heng to her early in the morning, originally for this day -
[Standing on Mount Everest and looking down on all the other mountains is nothing. If you have the ability, you can build your own mountain! ]
【sure.】
“…”
Chu Li raised his hand and rubbed his brows with a headache, feeling deeply that he was finding things to do for himself.
…
After returning home in the evening, I couldn't help but complain about this to Chu Chuan. At that time, Chu Chuan was sitting on the sofa with a pillow in his arms, watching the news broadcast intently.
Chu Li was chattering away.
"I'm not saying that I dislike Suo Heng's popularity. To be honest, Suo Heng's new novel "The Great Ruler" shouldn't be too popular. It ranked third in the first issue, and in the second issue it jumped to second place, tied with Ah Gui. In the third issue, the votes were almost the same as Jiang Yucheng's. To be honest, I'm confident that this book can sell for 50,000 or 60,000... Why didn't Suo Heng's previous serial do well? It's because he chose a rubbish subject!"
Zhuchuan: “…”
Zhao Chuan crossed his legs and changed his sitting position without making a sound.
"Because the wind of harmony is blowing now, we have to proofread and revise it again. We can't be careless when we go to the printing factory and color it. There can't be any mistakes... The most tiring thing when making "The Divine Book of Luo River" is going to the printing factory and coloring it. I get up earlier than a donkey every morning. When I go to the printing factory, I stare at the four Heidelberg brothers whose maintenance cost several million. My eyes are wide open-"
Zhuchuan: “…”
Zhuochuan took the remote control, pressed a few buttons, and started checking the weather forecast.
"This time, the marketing department took advantage of your "Luohe Divine Book" and wants to sell two versions. Not only do they want to give away gifts, they also want to make two versions with different covers. I'm really suffocating. That's the cover! Readers will definitely jump up-"
Zhuchuan: “…”
A small fist waved in anger in front of Chuan's sight. His eyes drifted away, a little bit distracted.
"Well, let's not talk about this. Speaking of harmony, I won't talk about the old bans in the past. This year, there are new ones. No politics or gangs are allowed. Even time travel is not allowed. This is not a lie. Ah Gui told me last night that the editors of their Green Jiji online literary website went online at 10 o'clock in the evening. The scene was very spectacular. They forced the author to change the title and modify the content of the chapters. They were not allowed to write below the neck. If there was no way to change it, they simply locked the entire article and put an end to it... Ah Gui received more than 50 text messages in one night to lock the chapters and harmony. He called himself the Green Jiji God and the fastest to go down the Green Jiji Mountain..." Chu Li said, recalling Ah Gui's proud tone when he gossiped with her in the morning, and shook her head with emotion, "How did I know such an unruly author."
Zhuchuan: “…”
Zhuochuan supported his chin with one hand, stood up when he saw the weather forecast said it would rain tomorrow, walked to the closet, and magically took out a piece of clothing and an umbrella. The raincoat was hung on the hanger by the door, and the umbrella was leaning against the door handle.
Chu Li was stunned. She sat on the sofa and stretched her neck like a meerkat, watching the man at the entrance bending over and carefully placing his umbrella against the door handle. "What are you doing?"
Chu Chuan: "It will rain tomorrow."
Chu Li: “Oh.”
Zhuochuan stood up and glanced at her: "If you don't want to bring an umbrella, I'll pick you up."
Chu Li was stunned and didn't react. He subconsciously said, "No, your car is too conspicuous."
“…”
Zhao Chuan was stunned for a moment, glanced in the direction of the garage outside, then came to his senses, took out his mobile phone, and slowly started searching "recommended vehicles under 100,000 yuan" on Baidu.
Chu Li watched the man lower his head and play with his phone before sitting back on the sofa. He didn't take the incident seriously and continued to talk about his own topic: "Did you hear me talking about harmony? You irresponsible wild child, be careful when you write your own articles. Don't get caught with your braids. Remember not to write below the neck. If someone with ulterior motives reports you, I'll take you to the dark room for tea and record your actions. - Zhao Chuan!"
Zhuchuan: “…”
The man raised his head in the middle of a yawn, and his brown eyes finally looked directly at Chu Li for the first time since the past half hour... The latter grabbed the pillow and slapped him twice, then threw the pillow away and said angrily: "I'm talking to you, didn't you hear me? You've been busy all night and you're just doing nothing. You haven't even focused your eyes since I came back. Where is your soul? You don't even look at me——"
Chu Li was getting angrier and angrier as she spoke. At this moment, the man's eyes finally focused when he heard her tone... He frowned slightly, then raised his hand, picked up the pillow that Chu Li had just thrown aside, and scratched it with his fingertips: "It's not that I ignored you on purpose, it's that you kept talking, and I had to find something to divert your attention."
"Just listen carefully when I'm talking to you. Why are you trying to divert your attention?"
Chu Chuan's eyes moved downward.
Chu Li followed his line of sight and finally found that the end point of his line of sight fell on his hand.
Zhuchuan: “…”
Chu Li: "..."
Zhuchuan said seriously: "...I have been thinking about this tonight."
For some reason, Chu Li suddenly became a little nervous. She changed her angry expression and stammered, "Thinking about what?"
The man was silent for a moment, and before Chu Li could react, he reached out his big hand and took her hand, carefully placing it in his palm and taking a look… Then, he raised his eyes and quickly glanced at her, then placed her hand in his palm and turned it over, and with the slender fingertips of his other hand, he stroked her hand along the lines on the palm, applying a little force, causing a slight tingling sensation—
Chu Li shrank subconsciously.
The man quickly grabbed her wrist and increased the force on her fingertips, flattening her slightly bent fingertips...
He pinched her soft, round fingertips.
Chu Li's face suddenly turned red for no reason.
When he eased up and then increased the pressure, kneading her cleanly trimmed fingers out of curiosity, her face turned red as if blood was about to drip out: "Stop, stop, stop... Stop playing, I——"
Zhuo Chuan ignored her. He lowered his head and carefully played with her fingers. They were just as soft and clean as he imagined, as if they had no bones, with flesh and were quite elastic...
Actually, I have been thinking about it for a long time.
I've wanted to touch it for a long time.
Now I can touch it openly——
Well, the grass was not pulled very cleanly. It was said that "the freshness will weaken after you get it", so why did he have the urge to go too far and do something... His pupils sank slightly, and the next second, the man's big hand suddenly turned, and at the same time, his tall body leaned over slightly, and steadily took the white and soft palm, which was only two-thirds of his own, into his palm, interlaced his ten fingers, and then sank down, like a lock, firmly holding it.
The two of them went from "face to face" to "shoulder to shoulder", and Chu Li felt her hand being held firmly by the man and placed between the two of them - then Chu Chuan turned around and continued to look at the weather forecast seriously; the absent-minded, flushed-faced, and quiet person became Chu Li.
"I confessed yesterday and held hands today." Zhu Chuan stared at the TV and said blankly, "The rhythm is perfect."
"...Where is it perfect?"
"From the neck down, it's not possible to describe what's around the corner."
"………………………………………………"
Which AV production company did she dig out this actor from the trash can at the back door?
Right after she confessed her love, she locked herself in the room, more innocent than the heroine in the girls' comics; then when she took off her clothes, her whole body and even her pores were yellow, and all she could think about was the indescribable part below her neck.
...The contrast between the character before and after is so huge that only a bad porn movie would dare to write like this.