Chapter 57 Too Trendy
Shen Xuewei was already very satisfied with the price.
She chose the pen name Huayunbi, and she will use this pen name for all her future novels.
After some twists and turns, Shen Xuewei's novel finally reached the signing stage.
At that time, she was a minor, had no ID card, and didn't even have a household registration.
Simply put, he's an unregistered person.
However, signing a contract with a magazine requires providing ID information... This is where Shen Xuewei encountered a problem.
However, when she got home and saw her grandmother Xi coming to greet her, her eyes lit up instantly.
She is an unregistered resident, but her maternal grandmother is not!
Anyway, her grandmother doesn't understand or have any contact with these things, so if she uses her grandmother's identity to submit articles, not many people will know.
After dinner, she acted coquettishly towards her maternal grandmother.
"Grandma, Grandma, didn't you get a new ID card recently? I want to see what the photo on your ID card looks like?"
Grandma Xi helped Big Yellow catch fleas without even looking up.
"What's so interesting about this? Aren't photos just pictures of people who look the same? Weiwei, stop fooling around. Go to the Wu family and play with Yuhong."
Shen Xuewei shook her hand, "No, no, I've never seen it before, I want to see it..."
Grandma Xi was at her wit's end by her antics, so she kicked Da Huang's bottom and chased it away.
"Alright, alright, if you want to see it, Grandma will get it for you right now. After you've seen it, be a good girl and take a bath and go to bed, okay?"
"Okay, Grandma," Shen Xuewei nodded with a smile.
Grandma Xi got up and went back into the room. She rummaged under her pillow, took out her ID card, and handed it to Shen Xuewei.
"Look, the photo on your ID card looks just like me, doesn't it?"
Shen Xuewei held up her ID card and walked around her with great seriousness, comparing it as she went:
"No, the grandmother in the photo isn't as young as the real grandmother."
Grandma Xi laughed and scolded, "You child, you always make fun of your grandma. I wonder if you learned that mouth from your aunt..."
Shen Xuewei chuckled as she secretly copied her ID information onto her hand with a pen.
She returned the ID card and breathed a sigh of relief.
On Sunday, I sent Grandma Xi's identity information via email and signed a contract with the magazine.
After receiving Shen Xuewei's identification information, the magazine's editor remained silent for a long time.
Xi Youyan was born in February 1945.
That means I'm fifty-seven years old this year.
Is it a bit too trendy for a 57-year-old woman to write a campus romance novel?
On second thought, she quickly guessed what had happened.
It's probably another underage girl who used her parents' identity information to sign a contract to avoid trouble. This isn't the first time she's encountered this.
Although she guessed what was going on, she didn't reveal it.
As long as the work is acceptable and the family has no objections, why should she play such a villain?
Shen Xuewei's first novel was successfully published, and while studying, she began working on her second novel.
Having learned from her previous experience, she created a simple outline before starting to write her second novel.
In the following years, youth-themed angst literature became very popular. This type of novel easily attracts many young readers and has gradually become a literary trend.
The novels that Shen Xuewei read to enlighten her back then were of this type.
In these kinds of novels, the main characters are either the school beauty and the school bully, or the top student and the underachiever, mixed with car accidents, miscarriages, and other melodramatic events, and finally they get together.
Shen Xuewei thought about it for two days and finally wrote a brief outline in her notebook, using a few hundred words.
The story begins with a transfer student named Yun Nian'an, a top student with a good appearance and a pleasant voice, to Yuncheng No. 1 High School.
On her first day after transferring, her stunning good looks caught the attention of the male lead, Lu Guiqi.
He had initially thought she was just a pretty girl with mediocre grades, but to his surprise, in the first monthly exam after she transferred in, she outperformed everyone else, dominating the top spot in the grade and pushing him down to second place.
Lu Guiqi, who had always been number one, was defeated by her and vowed to take back the number one spot.
The two competed fiercely, seeing each other as rivals, yet gradually developed feelings for one another as they spent time together.
The two made a promise to get into the best university in the country together, but Lu Guiqi had to transfer schools due to a change in his family situation, leaving only a note saying "Wait for me" and the two lost contact with each other from then on.
Yun Nian'an felt lost and pained, but she quickly adjusted her emotions and cheered herself up.
She and Lu Guiqi had made a promise to meet at the same university.
She wouldn't break her promise. If Lu Guiqi had feelings for her, he certainly wouldn't break his promise either.
She studied even harder and finally achieved unprecedented good results in the exam, entering the university of her dreams.
In the vast sea of people, she heard that voice, "Nian An".
Turning around, she met a clean-cut young man walking towards her from the crowd, and they smiled at each other...
After drafting a simple outline, she spent a week polishing the beginning, adding details, and wrote 20,000 words.
When it was Sunday and I had to go back to school, I couldn't wait to rush to an internet cafe, write down what I had written in a document, and submit it to the magazine I had recently taken a liking to.
Perhaps she does have some talent when it comes to writing novels.
Compared to her first novel, her latest work represents a significant leap forward.
She had read the works in this magazine and dared not say she was 100% sure, but the chances were at least twice as high as when she submitted her work for the first time.
This time, the email wasn't answered as quickly as the last one. While waiting, Shen Xuewei wrote the rest of the novel.
She planned to write about 70,000 words for this novel, but as the plot was gradually filled in and some details were added, it ended up being just over 80,000 words.
Shen Xuewei finally received the email after the midterm exams of the first semester of sixth grade.
She opened the email and saw the accepted manuscript, along with a payment of fifty yuan per thousand words. A smile involuntarily appeared on her face.
She added the QQ number sent in the email as a friend to the editor, Tangtang.
She doesn't have many friends on QQ. Besides Yun Duo, an editor from another magazine, and her own alternate account, there's this new editor, Tang Tang.
The editor quickly accepted her friend request.
"Hello, Huayun Pen."
Shen Xuewei responded positively: "Hello, editor (*▽*)."
Editor Tangtang: "I read the beginning of your story, and it's very well written. I'd like to know how far along the story is now, and how long you expect it to take to finish?"
Shen Xuewei hurriedly said, "I have already finished writing this story, which is about 80,000 words in total."
Editor Tangtang: "Okay, please email me the remaining 60,000 words. As for the payment, we can offer 50 yuan per thousand words, which will be paid the month following publication..."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com