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"Laoshan, why don't you come and write a novella?" Lao Li was in high spirits and invited Zhong Yueshan to work with him. He loved reading the character novels written by Zhong Yueshan, they were so vivid!
In Lao Li's opinion, Yuan Qun's poems are written with spirit, but the one with the best writing and the most subtle observation must be Zhong Yueshan. Precision, vividness, and the ability to capture details... these are all Zhong Yueshan's skills.
Zhong Yueshan: “Write one.”
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Qin Yao listened at the side, suppressing the smile on her face, trying not to let herself smile. With these two talents, the quality of the journal articles could be improved.
Seeing that Lao Li and Zhong Yueshan were chatting enthusiastically, Sun Yang pursed her lips and whispered to Yuan Qun, "Just wait and see. Qin Yao will definitely find a way to ask you to write a poem for the journal. Don't agree to her easily."
"If you agree to her, you won't be the Yuan Qun I know. You will never compromise for money. Your poem shows that you are definitely not such a person."
Yuan Qun did not comment. In his opinion, the act of writing poetry ended the moment he wrote it. It did not matter where it was published or to whom it was shown.
Whether the viewers like it or not, it has nothing to do with him.
If Qin Yao invited him to write a poem for a journal, he would definitely refuse, without Sun Yang's reminder.
Yuan Qun looked at Qin Yao and found that Qin Yao was holding her husband and actively talking to Lao Li and Zhong Yueshan. Even though she noticed his gaze, there was not even a brief intersection and she was not interested in him at all.
As a sensitive person, Yuan Qun realized that perhaps Qin Yao had no interest in him at all.
Although Yuan Qun was a famous poet whose reputation gradually grew in the 1980s, his poems were already out of date for people of Qin Yao's generation who were born in the 2000s. His poems were never selected in textbooks, and if you were not majoring in literature, you would basically not know him. Qin Yao had only read a few of his poems, so she did not like them and was naturally not interested in him.
Zhong Yueshan and Lao Li’s novels will still have many readers in the future. Those who love literature will not miss their articles, especially the books written by Zhong Yueshan.
Sun Yang was waiting to see Qin Yao come over and show her courtesy to Yuan Qun, but it was a pity that when the sharing session was over, Qin Yao did not come to say a few words to Yuan Qun. Instead, Qin Yao was chatting enthusiastically with several other young people. Although her husband was a man of few words, he was also good at chatting and even made an appointment to have dinner with others.
Qin Yao left just like that, and Sun Yang suddenly felt bad. He was brooding over her, but others didn't care about her at all.
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Lao Li was in high spirits and came to visit the editorial office the next day. Within five days, he had handed in a perfect first draft. Lao Li not only wanted to be a writer, he wanted to join the editorial department.
Qin Yao: "We are short of people in the editorial department. If you don't mind, you can help with the study."
The cheapest and most affordable workers in the world are probably college students like Lao Li.
Old Li also urged Zhong Yueshan to write articles. He also did not neglect his own schoolwork and the work for literary journals. Or rather, he began to treat it with a normal attitude.
Even several of the original journal initiators usually let the journal exist in a half-dead state, but Old Li himself is the only one who is anxious like the eunuch, and he is eager every day to get the journal on the right track and become famous in the country.
Now he seemed to have realized that this was impossible to achieve and was just muddling through like everyone else.
The change in Lao Li made Yuan Qun and Sun Yang a little confused. They used to find him annoying, but now Lao Li is no longer enthusiastic. It is still unclear whether they can continue.
Qin Yao didn't care about anything else. She had found a treasure. She applauded after reading even the beginning of the short story written by Zhong Yueshan... Zhong Yueshan didn't have any other problems. He had a good literary style and was good at writing characters. His novels were fascinating. His only shortcoming was that he was lazy. He needed someone to urge him to finish his manuscript, otherwise he would be so lazy that he would only churn out a few hundred words in half a day.
After Qin Yao read Zhong Yueshan's works, she was more and more impressed. Even Gu Cheng loved to read his articles, as if everyone who read them thought they were good. But why didn't this guy become famous in the future? Few know his name?
The reason why Zhong Yueshan became less famous later on was probably because he produced too few works, was too lazy, and was not self-aware. While writing, he would rather go and tell fortunes for others than continue writing.
"Authors like this should be locked up in a small dark room." Qin Yao couldn't help but sigh at home.
If an author wants to be successful in the end, it requires not only talent and hard work, but also being tough on himself, being able to write good manuscripts, and being ruthless to himself.
Many well-known writers are very harsh on themselves when it comes to writing. Some even lock themselves in a room and do not allow themselves to leave until they have written a certain number of words. They even develop physical diseases as a result of this.
Some people get up early in the morning to run and write, and require themselves to write a certain amount - only under such extreme self-discipline can they create good works that are popular among the people.
Qin Yao identified Zhong Yueshan as a lazy author with no self-discipline. Fortunately, he had written some works before, but they were probably put together slowly like sesame seeds, just like cockroach shit.
Over at Zhong Yueshan, Qin Yao tried to find someone to urge him to submit his manuscripts more quickly, determined to teach this lazy bum a lesson.
As for Xu Zhehua, Qin Yao stopped her after a literary workshop and told her about Jin Hao.
Xu Zhehua's face turned slightly pale: "Did you guess what happened to us?"
This kind of thing cannot be hidden at all. Unexpectedly, even Qin Yao, whom she had only known for a short time, could see it. Xu Zhehua felt like she had fallen into the abyss. She watched herself fall with great clarity and pain. No one could save her. She was stuck in the quagmire and couldn't extricate herself.
She couldn't control her feelings for Jin Hao, just like opium. She knew rationally that it was wrong, but she couldn't help being attracted to it.
Outsiders will never understand such feelings.
Jin Hao told her not to have too much psychological burden. This kind of thing starts from emotion and ends with courtesy. After the college entrance examination was resumed, many college students showed this phenomenon. After being admitted to college, they felt sympathetic and sympathetic with college students of the same level, spent time together day and night, had more common language, and developed feelings that should not have existed, forgetting their husbands (wives) when they were educated youth.
The college entrance examination is a rebirth for people like them, and perhaps they also need a "rebirth" emotionally.
No matter how high-sounding she tried to persuade herself, Xu Zhehua still felt that she had done something "immoral". She betrayed her husband, her children, and even another woman. Jin Hao's wife treated her very well. Xu Zhehua could not face the tragedy after the incident was exposed. Now she could only drink poison to quench her thirst and hope that that day would never come.
"I know this is not right, but the more I know I am walking on a tightrope, the more I know I am teetering on the edge of a cliff, but I still can't step back, I can't forget... maybe this is fate."
Qin Yao couldn't help but say, "Maybe this is just the suspension bridge effect. When two people experience a dangerous thing together, they will misunderstand the accelerated heartbeat as affection and concern for each other."
"You betrayed your family and did something immoral. It was dangerous, exciting, and scary... These exciting emotions made your heart beat nervously all the time, which led you to misunderstand the relationship between you and him."
"Maybe your feelings for him are not as deep as you think, nor that important." Qin Yao tried to speculate. In general, she did not want Xu Zhehua to continue to be entangled with Jin Hao. It would not do her any good and would force her into a dead end.
Directly persuade Xu Zhehua, who might be reluctant to separate from Jin Hao, while Qin Yao wants to try to divert Xu Zhehua's attention and try to repair the relationship between her and her current husband.
Xu Zhehua was stunned: "Will, will it be like this?"
Qin Yao smiled and said, "You don't believe it? Why don't you try it? Try to do something dangerous with your husband and see if your feelings for him will change."
"Me and him?" Xu Zhehua shook her head subconsciously. She had always believed that her relationship with her husband was not very close. They got married through a blind date and were just living together. She just accepted the life they had before.
But after she was admitted to university, the couple had fewer and fewer common topics. Her husband didn't like to hear her talk about her university life. Every time they talked, he always found ways to change the subject. Xu Zhehua also stopped talking... In the end, there was nothing much to say.
The more she and Jin Hao talked, the more they got along, as if they had found the other half of their souls.
"There's nothing to say about me being with him. In fact, the person I feel most sorry for about what happened between Jin Hao and I is the other woman, not him." Xu Zhehua did not feel too much guilt towards her husband. What was more difficult for her to face was Jin Hao's wife.
She felt that she and her husband had nothing to say to each other and were like strangers. It was only natural that this would be the outcome. Even if she had to confess something to her husband, she could say a thing or two.
Qin Yao: "Jin Hao is probably the same as you. He doesn't feel sorry for his wife either. However, the difference between men and women is that women will sympathize and pity another woman, but men will never do that. So Jin Hao won't feel any guilt towards your husband. So in this relationship, you live in fear and sink deeper and deeper, while he lives freely and without any psychological burden."
When she said this, Qin Yao felt unhappy and a little irritated. Jin Hao was not a good guy, and Xu Zhehua was not innocent either. They were both adult men and women, and they were having an extramarital affair... It was hard for her to have a good impression of him.
After this incident, Qin Yao didn't want to have any more contact with Xu Zhehua. If she couldn't persuade her to turn back, then Xu Zhehua would eventually go down that path, and it would be her own fault. It would be difficult to persuade that damn ghost with kind words.
After thinking about it this way, Qin Yao didn't feel any psychological pressure. She should persuade Xu Zhehua as needed. If his persuasion failed, it was Xu Zhehua's own choice. She would not interfere too much.
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