Chapter 18
The story of Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er has been making headlines on TK short video platform for several days, attracting a large number of netizens to search for the original novel on Feihong Novel Network.
In a short time, the number of collections and subscriptions for "Back to High School" soared, and riding on this wave, the name of February Sky became much more well-known.
However, in the era of short videos, compared to the long and tortuous story of Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er, the short and classic phrase "Long live the Emperor, may the pepper flowers sing praises" is more popular.
One day.
Mo Yun, who was on summer vacation at home, suddenly noticed that her sister had updated her personal signature on WeChat Moments, which read: "Long live the pepper flowers; youth never dies, friendship lasts forever."
ah?
It's really weird, you know?
My sister updated her personal signature, which wasn't anything special. What was special was that someone who never reads novels suddenly used a line of poetry from a novel she's been reading recently as her signature, which was quite strange.
It has an absurd feeling of the dimensional barrier being broken!
She remembered that when she used to recommend novels that she thought were good to her sister, her sister would scoff at them. How come she has changed her mind now and started reading novels?
While feeling strange, Mo Yun also felt a sense of surprise that the people around her had finally been assimilated by her. She immediately took a screenshot and sent it to her sister to show off.
Silence is golden: Hey, once upon a time, someone resolutely declared that they would never read novels, but now they've fallen for them, hahaha!
elder sister:?
Sister: I don't know what you're talking about, but this is really annoying, you know? [choking]
I don't know what I'm saying. I'm just pretending, still pretending, huh?
Mo Yun continued her sarcastic remarks.
The two sisters talked at length about nonsensical things before Mo Yun finally understood that her older sister was still the same sister who didn't read novels.
She just happened to come across the story of "Long live the emperor, the pepper flower sings praises" on TK short video, thought it was nice so she used it as her personal signature. She even got inspired and added two more far-fetched lines to the end.
Mo Yun, who knows the truth: ......
Speechless.
But she still wouldn't let it go.
Silence is golden: Just tell me if this novel is popular or not, even someone like you who's not in the know knows about it.
Sister: It's really popular.
Sister: I think the plot is also very exciting. What's the name of this novel? I'll read it when I have time.
Unexpectedly, her sister didn't put her down, but instead went along with what she said. Mo Yun looked at the message on her phone, and the corners of her mouth, which had been drooping, instantly turned up again.
Hehehe, as expected of February Sky, she even conquered a difficult person like her sister!
Mo Yun's sister is just one example. There are many other people who neither pay attention to Da Meiyou nor to the novel circle, but they have all come across the poem "May you live a thousand years, may the pepper flowers sing praises" in various ways.
They may not know the origin of the poem, but everyone shares the same appreciation for words and the same emotional resonance. So, without realizing it, February weather has unexpectedly invaded people's lives.
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Since Xu Ying brought Lin Zhongxu home, the Wang family's dining table has become a place where four people eat together.
Lin Zhongxu didn't seem to have any questions about the presence of an outsider at the dinner table. He would sit down every day without saying a word, pick up his bowl, and eat like a starving ghost reincarnated.
Xu Ying was a little uncomfortable at first.
Ultimately, the three of them are a family, so what's wrong with her eating here all day?
Perhaps sensing her discomfort, after the four of them ate several awkward meals, Lin Zhongxu suddenly knocked on Xu Ying's door one afternoon.
This was Lin Zhongxu's first visit to Xu Ying's home in many years. He had little memory of the place, and of course, the same went for Xu Ying, his neighbor.
If his grandmother hadn't told him that the neighbor's sister was coming to pick him up the day he arrived, he might not have even remembered that such a person existed.
"Why are you here?" Xu Ying was a little surprised to see him when she opened the door. She stepped aside to let him in. "Come in and sit down."
Lin Zhongxu, wearing a tattered straw hat and carrying a bag of things, shook his head: "No, I just came to say a few words and will leave after that."
Xu Ying looked at him.
He said, "Just relax and eat at Grandma's house. I'm the one who has to leave. Don't worry, I'll leave in a month."
Hmm, what?
Xu Ying's pupils dilated slightly; was something amiss?
"My school will be starting in about a month, and then I'll have to go there to register."
That's an explanation.
Having made himself clear, Lin Zhongxu turned and left.
Xu Ying, standing behind him, subconsciously asked, "Where are you going?"
"Let's go fishing."
"It's so hot?"
Xu Ying found it hard to believe. In the dog days of summer, even a little time spent under the sun can cause sunburn, so why was Lin Zhongxu out fishing?
Lin Zhongxu didn't say anything, just waved his hand with his back to her and left.
What a strange person.
Xu Ying assumed he was obsessed with fishing and didn't think much of it before closing the door and going back to her bedroom.
She was typing before she opened the door, and now she's going back to continue writing.
In "Back to High School," she had already written up to the point where the female protagonist's game company went public, but at first, no one paid attention to her small company.
Until the female protagonist's R&D team developed a multiplayer online competitive game called "The Winner Returns".
The game "Winners Return" requires players to cooperate and fight together, which greatly increases the game's playability and fun. In addition, there are many game characters with different skills to choose from, which has attracted a large number of players to try the game.
......
After a year of development, "The Winner Returns" has attracted countless fans and become the king of hit games of the year.
The game's popularity brought public attention to Hsu Chia-yueh for the first time. It was then that people noticed that the chairman of Chia-yueh Technology Co., Ltd. was so young and a rare female leader.
This is the first female leader in the gaming industry, which is truly epoch-making. In an instant, a flood of praise for her appeared on the internet.
Laymen are praising Xu Jiayue, but insiders have a completely different mindset.
Over the past year, everyone has witnessed the incredible money-making ability of the game "Winners Return" and is already green with envy.
The gaming industry is only so big, and Xu Jiayue has made all the money, so their company's annual report naturally doesn't look good.
In addition, the excessive praise Xu Jiayue receives online, as if she were the number one figure in the gaming industry and there was no one else in the industry besides her, which makes these people in high positions particularly unhappy.
As a result, several leading companies in the gaming industry began to repeat the same trick.
Their usual tactic is to unite and suppress emerging forces. This tactic has been successful time and again, with almost no defeats. Every time, they can defeat promising newcomers and take credit for their achievements.
However, they clearly underestimated Xu Jiayue.
Xu Jiayue is struggling to make a living in the industry and can't find a single downstream company to cooperate with. She knows that everyone is waiting for her to back down and curry favor, but she refuses to let them have their way.
She stubbornly built her own team. Other companies were unwilling to cooperate with her, so she decided to build her own team and create whatever talent she needed.
If you don't want to make money, then don't even think about getting a single penny from her.
She took care of all the games herself.
......
While engaging in wits and courage in the business world, Xu Jiayue also inadvertently learned about Fu Yunshen's recent situation from others.
I heard he hasn't been doing well these past few years.
His company's performance has been declining, and now it's just an empty shell. It's one thing that he can't make money, but the real problem is that his beloved, whom he married after all the scandal, was caught having an affair with someone else recently.
His wife is pregnant.
Now many people are secretly laughing at him, mocking him for misjudging people. They said he was so desperate back then, but ended up marrying this bastard, and now it's questionable whether the child is even his.
Xu Jiayue remained calm after hearing the gossip.
She now owns Jiamu Technology Co., Ltd., Li Mu, and Xiao Xingxing. Fu Yunshen is now just a stranger to her.
His affairs no longer stirred any emotion within her.
......
Xu Ying sat at her desk from dawn until dusk. It wasn't until Grandma Wang stood at the door and called her over loudly for dinner that she realized how long she had been writing.
She planned to finish writing it all in one go.
The story was almost finished, but as she wrote, she started to explain the development of other characters' storylines, which slowed down the pace of the story.
Xu Ying saved the document, got up, and went to eat.
When she arrived, there were only three people at the dinner table: herself, Grandma Wang, and Grandpa Li.
Where is Lin Zhongxu?
“Ah Xu said he went fishing and wouldn’t be home until later. I’ve already saved some food for him, let’s eat ours.”
Lin Zhongxu dislikes being called Ah Xu.
But Grandma Wang has been calling him that for so many years that she's gotten used to it, and no matter how he tries to correct her, she just can't change it. Now he's too lazy to care anymore, so he just lets his grandma call him whatever she wants.
"Oh, you know, why is this child so stubborn?" Grandma Wang put her chopsticks down on her bowl as she ate. "You have no idea, he had a huge fight with his parents the day he came here. After the fight, he took a bus here without telling his family. His family was worried sick!"
Xu Ying sensed the stench of gossip.
She looked up at Grandma Wang, who, probably also feeling pent-up, blurted everything out to her.
"He took the college entrance exam this June. When he was filling out his college application, his family wanted him to apply for economics, or management, so that he could go back to work for his own company after graduation. That would be great."
"But he just wouldn't have it. He insisted on studying directing. Tell me, directing has absolutely nothing to do with us. What's the point of studying it?"
"He made a scene at home for a while, but finally gave in and said he applied to Jiangnan University for economics. Now everyone is happy, isn't that right?"
Grandma Wang sighed again as she finished speaking.
"You have no idea what he did. He didn't apply to Jiangnan University for economics at all. He was just fooling his parents. Last week, his acceptance letter was mailed home. His mother opened it and saw that it was from Shanghai Drama Academy. That's when she realized she had been deceived."
“With something this big, you can imagine how much their family must have argued. Jia Nan hasn’t been sleeping well these past few days; she called me saying she had a headache.”
Jia Nan is Grandma Wang's daughter.
Grandma Wang loves her grandson, but she loves her daughter even more. When it comes to this matter, she is clearly on her daughter's side.
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