Chapter 66 The Sequel to Investiture of the Gods
For Jiang Jianni, life is wonderful as long as Grandma Jiang doesn't cause trouble.
Besides, there are also two pistachios: peace and good fortune.
No need to raise them yourself, no need to walk them yourself, just play with them when you're happy, pet them when you're not, life couldn't be better.
This led to a new phase in her novel writing.
The outline for "The Sequel to Investiture of the Gods" that I had prepared beforehand was suddenly turned into 50,000 words.
The story begins a thousand years after the Investiture of the Gods. Someone is stirring up trouble behind the scenes, and the peaceful Heavenly Court is suddenly in turmoil.
The Jade Emperor realized that someone was deliberately causing trouble behind the scenes, so he summoned Yang Jian, the True Lord of Pure Source and Wondrous Path, to investigate the truth.
Yang Jian quickly caught the mastermind behind the scenes, but was ambushed and lost his physical body. His soul could only escape, but was forced into a woman's womb and became a baby in the mortal world, losing all memories of his past life.
To his surprise, he was reincarnated into a family with the surname Yang, and his name was Yang Jian. He also had an older brother who was the second son, so he was also known as Yang Erlang.
When Yang Erlang was five years old, his mother gave birth to another sister. However, just as the sister was a month old, a sudden change occurred in the family.
A group of golden-armored deities appeared in the house, saying that his mother was the Jade Emperor's sister who had secretly descended to the mortal world to marry and have children. They were now ordered to arrest Princess Zhang Yunhua, the White Lotus Princess, and bring her to justice.
The story officially begins here.
Jiang Jiani's story is quite complex, with intrigue, love, family ties, and even major events of the world all intertwined.
The purpose was to link Yang Jian from "Investiture of the Gods" with Yang Jian from "Journey to the West".
She was really into writing it, but when she finished and showed it to Lu Xiangyang, she was very nervous: "Everyone's reading martial arts novels these days. Do you think if I submit it, no one will accept it?"
I didn't think too much when I wrote it; I was just following the trend.
Only after finishing writing did I realize that martial arts and romance novels now dominate the market.
Lu Xiangyang was engrossed in reading it, and without looking up, asked, "How is that possible? You wrote the story yourself, don't you have confidence in it?"
Jiang Jianni: "...No matter how confident I am, it's useless if the magazine doesn't buy it and the readers don't buy it."
Lu Xiangyang laughed: "So, are you still going to vote?"
Jiang Jianni gritted her teeth: "Throw!"
"If I don't submit it, won't all my 50,000 words be wasted?"
She wrote all 50,000 words by hand with a fountain pen, word by word.
It wasn't typed out.
She feels heartbroken if she can't use 5,000 words typed on a keyboard, but if 50,000 words written by hand were to be wasted, she would really cry her heart out.
Once the story was written, deciding which publication to submit it to became the biggest challenge.
There are now thousands of newspapers and magazines on the market, covering almost every aspect of life.
There are magazines called "Wuxia" (武侠), which are specifically dedicated to collecting Wuxia novels.
Romance stories and novels offer a wider selection, and even folk tales have their own dedicated collection, "Legends."
Mythological stories, apart from a few folk myths included in a few magazines, have no place at all for their dedicated development.
Lu Xiangyang: "Then you should choose 'Legends of the Past and Present'."
"This magazine is currently the most popular, with the largest number of buyers, and it covers the widest range of stories."
"They have a greater chance of being selected if you vote for them."
Since arriving in this era, Jiang Jianni has been keeping up with the latest newspapers and magazines. Every three to five days, she would bring home a stack of them, mostly expired magazines bought from recycling stations.
Even so, many situations are still unclear.
Her time here was ultimately too short.
Seeing that Jiang Jianni was still hesitant, Lu Xiangyang reassured her: "Don't worry, I think it'll be fine."
“The stories you write are very different from those of other people.”
"I read quite a few books for leisure as well."
"Many books on leisure are full of nonsense."
“Your writing is different. There is almost no nonsense in your writing. When you read it, it feels like the waves in the sea are crashing against the shore, one wave after another, always making you want to keep reading.”
Of course.
Not only is technology advancing, but writing is also constantly evolving.
Jiang Jianni is, after all, one of the few who survived the fierce competition among millions of online novelists, so she can be considered a decent author.
I write two to three million words every year, which can steadily earn me three to five hundred thousand yuan. If I'm lucky, it's possible to earn over a million.
He has already developed the skill to write novels.
While it can't compare to those top-tier authors and publishing giants, it still surpasses the vast majority of people at that time.
Jiang Jianni thought that she had at least sold the copyright once before, so she couldn't not even have the courage to try: "Okay, then let's invest in 'Legend of Today and Yesterday'."
Listen to advice, and you'll have a full meal.
Lu Xiangyang, being a local, definitely knows more about the situation than she, a netizen.
Besides, she's Lu Xiangyang's wife; he wouldn't cheat her, no matter who else he cheats.
Just to be on the safe side, she also listed the inspiration she got from Gao Haoren and his wife, planning to write a story about everyday family life.
This story is very much in line with the realities of this era.
The story begins with two people going on a blind date. They fall in love at first sight. The man is attracted to the woman because she is beautiful, gentle, and kind, while the woman is attracted to the man because he is handsome, elegant, and wealthy. They get their marriage certificate the next day and hold their wedding banquet a week later.
It turned out that the wedding was all a hoax. The woman was beautiful, but had a bad temper and would start a fight at the slightest provocation. The man was handsome, but he was unemployed, sponged off his parents, and liked to philander.
However, the two received a lot of money at their wedding, and both sets of parents and relatives told them to live a good life together. Since they couldn't get a divorce, the two unwilling people began a chaotic life.
Of course, there will also be melodramatic elements like your white moonlight, my first love, and so on.
The sequel to "Investiture of the Gods" has a large structure, involves many characters, and their relationships are intricate. Jiang Jianni wrote it relatively slowly.
But "Such a Couple" is a farce about life. When Jiang Jianni was writing it, it was as if she had eight hands. She wrote 10,000 words in one day.
After she finished writing, she couldn't believe it: "My God, this speed is even faster than my typing speed."
"If I had been this diligent back then, I could have written more than two million words a year, maybe even five million."
It's unthinkable for someone like some of the top writers to be able to write 20,000 or 30,000 words a day.
She cherishes her eyes and doesn't want to suffer from retinal detachment or anything like that from staring at the computer all the time.
Even so, she put buying a computer on her agenda.
Writing is too tiring for her hands. She would rather write on the computer and then print it out than write thousands of words by hand every day—she doesn't want to get tenosynovitis.
Just when she was about to explode with a ton of work—teaching, grading homework, preparing lessons, writing, and so on—Jiang Haibing came to find her:
"What's going on? Is this your house or mine?"
"Why has he disappeared after I went to check on him a few times?"
"Aren't you afraid I'll make a mess of the house?"
Jiang Jianni then remembered the house and was a little surprised: "It's all renovated so quickly? That's too fast!"
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