January 2, during the holiday.
Jiahui, a sophomore, was surfing the Internet out of boredom. There was still nearly a month before the final exam, and she was not a high school student, so it was too early to review. Let's go out. The weather was too cold, and the heated dormitory made people miss it more.
Early in the morning, she ordered a fried chicken takeout, and stayed in the dormitory with her roommate to watch TV series and Weibo.
"Hui, look at this poster." The roommate sent her a picture, "This guy is quite handsome."
Jiahui glanced at it and said, "This is Shao Meng!"
"Oh, is he the one who filmed "The Mystery of the Song Dynasty"? "The roommate said a costume drama that was once popular all over the country.
Jiahui nodded: "Yes, yes, he is filming a new drama again? Let me see it."
She is not a fan of celebrities, but Shao Meng has acted in many popular dramas, and the industry has given him high praise. The quality of the drama is also guaranteed, which immediately aroused her interest.
The poster is a mixture of light and shadow, revealing only a white coat, and the actor's face is vaguely visible. The overall style is not like the common medical dramas, but has a somewhat evil and cool flavor.
No wonder my roommate was surprised, this poster has the style of an American drama, unlike most domestic dramas, which just put the faces of the stars in front of the audience.
"Devil Doctor? It's interesting." Jiahui casually followed the Weibo of this drama, and then, related recommendation links appeared under this Weibo.
"Devil Doctor 1 2 Sets, Light and Shadow, Good and Evil, Both Ends of the Scale, Who Can Dominate?"
is a book recommendation.
I haven't bought a book for a long time, so Jiahui clicked in casually.
She didn't know Jian Jing, but she felt that she had heard of the name vaguely. Then she looked at the book critics who recommended it. Oh, it seemed that they were all famous people (although she was not familiar with them either).
It should be okay. She
took another look. Hey, the book he wrote was also made into a movie, and the previous hit even won an award.
This author should have some talent.
Finally, she looked at the rating on Shuchong.com, 8.5, which is a very good review.
Buy it and have a look.
Jiahui placed an order.
Yiwen is a social animal, 26 years old, and has no girlfriend, because it takes more than an hour to go from home to the company every day, and two hours to go back and forth. After work, he just wants to lie on the bed. He has no interest and no money for love.
His only interest is buying comics and novels.
He is a loyal reader of Bingjing, and occasionally he would browse Jinwu's books. If he saw a good one, he would buy it. Anyway, the second-hand book network is very developed. After reading, he can sell it online. It doesn't take up space and can make a profit. There is no pressure to buy.
Last night, the reading public account pushed new books from various publishers to him. "Devil Doctor II" sold more than 15,000 copies yesterday and topped the list.
"Jian Jing's book." Yiwen hesitated. He is a boy and doesn't like to read novels written by girls. They are either about love or love in disguise.
But this is not absolute. There are a few good books by female authors, and Jian Jing is one of them.
He likes "Hide and Seek" very much, and has also read "Devil" 1. Now that Devil 2 is out, relying on the good impression of the first part, he decided to give it a try first.
He moved the mouse, clicked, and the purchase was successful.
The next moment, the website popped up a prompt "out of stock".
Now, the last bit of hesitation disappeared.
Fortunately, he acted quickly. Yiwen secretly rejoiced.
The book arrived very quickly.
Yiwen originally wanted to read it on the way to work tomorrow, but when he checked Weibo yesterday, many people started discussing Devil 2, saying that the style is very different from the first, but also very integrated, full of surprises.
His curiosity was aroused, and he was thinking "How good can a mystery written by a girl be", and he was so itchy that he started reading immediately.
He read until twelve o'clock, finished two chapters, and fell asleep with an unsatisfied feeling.
The next day when he went to work, he put the book in his bag and continued reading on the subway.
Who knew that the subway would arrive so fast today, and he had to start work before he could finish the third story.
This feeling was like being forced to interrupt his bowel movement, and he felt uncomfortable all over.
Yiwen hadn't been so anxious for a long time. He arrived at the company, went through the morning meeting, and couldn't wait to go to the toilet with the book in his bag. He squatted on the toilet for fifteen minutes at public expense before coming out refreshed.
Ah, I finally finished it, it was worth it!
After a difficult day's work, Yiwen stood on the subway during the evening rush hour for more than an hour, and finally finished reading "Devil Doctor II" with satisfaction.
After returning home and taking a few bites of rice balls, he could not wait to open Bookworm.com, rate it, give it five stars, and then start posting.
"A good mystery novel is gender-neutral, Devil 2 is expected to be the best work of the year"
"The author is male, female, and has posted mystery novels before. Old bookworms may still have some impression of my ID. Let's get to the point. These days, mystery novels written by female authors cannot escape the vicious circle of love. Even if some of the mystery is actually well written, the emotional drama makes a straight man like me feel uncomfortable...
"But the simple and quiet Devil series does not have this kind of corny feeling. After reading the first story, I completely abandoned my gender prejudice - girls, I'm sorry, I misunderstood you! As long as you don’t fall in love, your mystery works are not inferior to those written by men...”
Uncle Bing is 37 years old. After resigning from the publishing house two years ago, he started to write WeChat public accounts. The response was good and he has become a well-known reading account.
Last night, he compiled a manuscript titled "Jinwu PK Morning Star, a battle of wills between the old and the new", which vividly described the fight between the two companies on New Year's Day.
The final result was that Morning Star signed nearly 35,000 books, and Jinwu won 46,000, a big victory.
This data is actually quite good. Uncle Bing thinks that Morning Star lost in the end, not because of war. Jinwu asked for action Although it was a "private activity" and Jiang Baiyan denied the commercial cooperation, the appeal was not on the same level.
Especially Jinwu's precise targeting of Morning Star's customer base, the result was not surprising.
After finishing this part of the commercial content, Uncle Bing must also publish another top-ranked article.
Yesterday's book signing, Jian Jing's "Devil Doctor II" ranked first, and he had to take a look no matter what. So after sending the first draft, he started reading this book.
To be honest, the content of 1 is already vague, but this is the advantage of the unit case. There is no need to recall the previous situation and directly enter the new case.
The first story is about a virtuous wife who used a secret room to kill her cheating husband and finally escaped with innocence.
The devil could not judge her goodness or evilness, so he sent her a letter and told her her methods of committing the crime.
He asked again: "Is it you?"
The virtuous wife did not answer.
The second story is about a witchcraft murder case. Needless to say, the content is exciting and bizarre. What is even more chilling is that there is a printed wanted order here, and the person on it is "Qitian".
Uncle Bing pays close attention to hot topics on the Internet, so he naturally remembers the haunted house incident that caused a lot of trouble a few months ago.
He remembered that Jian Jing was the person who reported the discovery of the corpse.
Thinking of this, and looking back at the details of the second case, it is inevitable to speculate how much is true and how much is fiction, and the hair on the neck suddenly stands up.
Uncle Bing is not very timid and usually never reads horror novels. Seeing that it was almost eleven o'clock, he simply closed his book and went to sleep.
Well, let's wait until the sun comes out tomorrow to read.
I didn't expect that a little girl like Jian Jing could write such an article. The industry used to say that she had "run out of ideas", which was really a bit too much.
Uncle Bing turned over, not wanting to sleep at all, and his brain had automatically conceived the content of the new article.
The change in Jian Jing's two books can be said to be from cold police notices to news reports. The former is more calm and objective, while the latter is more humane. From a literary point of view, it is difficult to judge which one is better, but for readers, news is definitely better than notices.
The next day, Uncle Bing finished reading the two stories at the end, one about revenge and the other about manslaughter. The plots are not complicated, but they are full of twists and turns, and quite exciting.
He organized his thoughts and began to write the content for the public account.
"Doctor VS Hunter, the devil is in the world, let's talk about the new book of the new year, Devil Doctor II"
"The day before yesterday, the editor published an article about the fierce battle between Jinwu and Chenxing. It must be said that in the past two years, the competition between publishing houses has become more and more fierce. As an old company, Jinwu wants to gain a place in the market. It must discover high-quality works without falling into clichés.
"Fortunately, Jian Jing's new book has achieved this. Compared with the terrible slander when the first part was released, it is probably difficult for anyone to say bad things about the second part. As I type this line, more than 1,000 people have rated the book on Shuchong.com, which means that within three days, so many people couldn't wait to buy and finish the book, and all gave it high scores.
"The current score of Devil Doctor II is 9.3. Of course, as the number of readers increases, this score will definitely drop a little, but it will definitely be difficult to be lower than 8.5. Jian Jing integrates real cases into fictional stories, using the dual perspectives of demons and hunters. The edge of good and evil is often blurred. However, isn't this the contradiction of reality?"
He wrote more than 3,000 words in a casual manner, checked it briefly, and sent it out immediately.
On that day, the number of readers exceeded 100,000.
On New Year's Day, Ji Yunyun went to the book signing event early. Compared to other fans who only read books, she obviously understands Jian Jing better.
Is this a little sister who can only write novels?
No!
She is a big sister who can really solve cases!
Saving people in the hospital, digging corpses in haunted houses, looking for gold in the park... Her own stories are as exciting as novels.
Ji Yunyun has upgraded from a book fan to a fan of the author. She made an appointment with her classmates early in the morning to go and ask for autographs.
Unfortunately, there were too many people at the autograph session, and she left before she had time to say a few more words to her idol.
Ji Yunyun had to go home with her classmates to read the novel.
Before reading, Ji Yunyun was still a little worried. In her opinion, Devil 1 is already very brilliant. If Devil 2 does not have enough highlights, it may receive another wave of negative reviews and be ridiculed for running out of ideas.
But after finishing the book, all the worries disappeared.
Ji Yunyun took the lead and shouted in the reader group, holding her mobile phone: [If we don’t occupy the public opinion position, the enemy will! We can’t let Teacher Jian be bullied like last time! ! ]
After thinking about it, she felt unwilling and complained: [Jinwu is really old. It’s better to rely on us than on tap water.]
Group member 1: [My book hasn’t arrived yet. Is Devil 2 good? I heard there are new characters.]
Group member 2: [Yes, there is a hunter. I am so worried that it will not be written badly, right? ]
Group member 3: [Go for the devil, don't steal the devil's limelight]
Ji Yunyun: [Don't worry, the devil is still the protagonist, but the hunter is not bad either. I feel that these two characters are originally one, and it feels more complete, especially good-looking! ! ]
Group member 4: [Devil x Hunter, a good CP, I'm already shipping them]
Ji Yunyun: [Black and white opposition, past life grudges, exciting! ]
Group member 5: [Wait, there is no heroine? I've been waiting for Teacher Jian to write a love story]
Group member 4: [The female criminals she writes are also very exciting, there is a pair of best friends, very lesbian, and very shipping]
...
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On January 5, the new book list of major book websites, "Devil Doctor II" sales amounted to 100,000. This number is not impressive, because most readers choose to buy books in nearby bookstores. The physical bookstores have very developed local delivery services, which can arrive in half a day, and there is no need to wait for a few days.
But starting from January 6, online sales began to soar all the way - the reason is simple, the physical bookstores were out of stock... Readers who couldn't buy the books had to place orders online.
Online sales climbed to 300,000 and then stopped abruptly.
The inventory was gone.
On January 10, the entire network was out of stock.