A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 126: Pearls and jade cannot be covered in dust, word of mouth will tell everything!
Jiang Hai thought that "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" would be popular among middle-aged and elderly readers, but he never expected that -

How could it be so popular?

Other things aside,
Just look at Mr. Liu Zhenyun's evaluation of this book.

“Subverting traditional literature?”

"A tragic masterpiece?"

This evaluation is a bit surprisingly high?

Jiang Hai clicked on the news report and found that Liu Zhenyun had praised "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" in front of many writers and media at a literary salon in Beijing, and gave a high evaluation of the book.

"Xu Sanguan Selling Blood is a vivid portrayal of Chinese life in the last century. It tells the story of a small person's rough fate. With its delicate and powerful style, it combines justice with irony, depicting the mental journey of a small person's tenacious survival and stubborn living."

"This book seems to be telling a series of trivial things that Xu Sanguan encountered through blood, but in fact, it is describing the grandeur of the great era of the 1960s and 1970s through describing these trivial things."

Mr. Liu Zhenyun’s evaluation of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" is very high. How high is it?
Through the style of this book——

He actually claimed that he saw the shadow of Lao She in the book?
"This book is not only a tragic masterpiece, it can even subvert traditional literature to a certain extent."

Do you think this statement is an exaggeration?

This is really not the case!
Looking at the current literary world, there are very few writers like this who describe reality and tragic themes.

Looking at the current literary world, there are few books that can write tragedy beautifully and resonate strongly with readers.

This is even rarer!

Liu Zhenyun considers himself a person who is very picky about traditional literary works. However, when he held the book "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" in his hands, he was able to calm down and read the book quietly in the extremely noisy environment of the literary salon.

It is enough to see the value of the book "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" -

How much is that?
As a very famous writer in today's literary world, Mr. Liu Zhenyun has a huge influence on the traditional literary world!

This is a character worthy of being included in textbooks!

When such a well-known person, at a literary salon, promotes a new work so loudly and enthusiastically——

This immediately attracted the attention of many parties!
“Is this book really so magical?”

"Why haven't I heard of it? Could it be that Teacher Liu is also promoting products?"

"With Mr. Liu's status, is he still promoting products? You really look down on Mr. Liu, or you may be overestimating the profession of promoting products."

"You know what, after hearing Teacher Liu's praise, I really want to watch it."

"Where did you buy this book? I've never heard of it before."

Because when "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" was first released, there was no promotion at all!

To be precise, the publicity channels found by Jiang Hai have such small effects that they can be basically ignored!

This leads to the situation that many authors or readers don’t even know that there is such a book in the bookstore?

Everyone searched on Baidu -

I found out that "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" is actually a new book?
This book was released just last week?
"A newly released book? No wonder I haven't heard of it before."

Through the search information, everyone learned that the author of the book "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" was a young man named Jiang Hai.

For a person like Jiang Hai——

Students who are familiar with Jiang Hai know about his previous awards and the book "No Longer Human" he wrote at the [Asian University Literature League].

Therefore, I subconsciously became a little wary of Jiang Hai's new book:
"This "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" could it be another alternative version of "No Longer Human" made by this guy Jiang Hai."

But for middle-aged and elderly readers who are not familiar with Jiang Hai——

Firstly, they had never heard of a person named Jiang Hai before, so why should they be wary of such an author?

This is certainly not something that can be mentioned.

Secondly, and this is the most crucial point, even a great writer like Liu Zhenyun praised "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", so why do you care whether Jiang Hai is a young writer?
In short, it can be summed up in one sentence -

Just do it!

"I want to see if this book is really as good as it's cracked up to be."

Seeing the popularity of the topic "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" on the hot search list, it kept rising, even approaching Na Ying's topic entry at one point -

[A fifty-year-old woman guarding the country's borders, I want the foreigners dead! ]

To be honest, Jiang Hai was stunned by the overwhelming heat:

"So fierce?"

Just as Jiang Hai was sitting in the library auditorium, staring at the screen of his mobile phone in a daze.

A slightly soft voice sounded in my ears:

"What are you looking at so seriously?"

Jiang Hai looked up, and a familiar face immediately came into view. The person who was talking to him was——

She is the owner of the school’s entrepreneurship park [Café West of Old Town], and also the beautiful and charming senior student from the School of Art.

Ye Yingqiu?
"I didn't watch anything." Jiang Hai put his phone in his trouser pocket. "I was bored, so I watched some short videos."

Although the number of people admitted to the meeting was strictly limited, even so——

The scene was still packed with people, it was extremely crowded.

It was quite a coincidence that Jiang Hai and Ye Yingqiu's seats were right next to each other.

Ye Yingqiu took the opportunity to sit next to Jiang Hai:
“Are you also a fan of Kong Xi?”

Facing Ye Yingqiu's question, Jiang Hai did not hide anything and answered truthfully:
"I'm not. Kong Xi asked me to come here."

"I didn't really want to come, but she made me come."

Hearing this, Ye Yingqiu fell silent, and no one knew what she was thinking. After a while, she looked up at the ceiling of the library auditorium and sighed thoughtfully:

"Look, what is that?"

Jiang Hai looked in the direction of her finger, and the ceiling was empty:

"What are you looking at? There's nothing."

"How could there be nothing?" Ye Yingqiu took over the conversation and looked at Jiang Hai seriously, "There are obviously a lot of cows in the sky."

"I just saw a lot of cows that were blown into the sky."

Kong Xi showed Jiang Hai what the true dominance of a movie queen is.
The moment when Kong Xi, wearing a light white long dress, walked onto the stage of the lecture hall.

The scene was bustling with people.

Countless fanatical fans shouted frantically in her direction:

"Kong Xi!!!"

"Kong Xi, I love you!!!"

"Kong Xi, look here. Smile a little, Kong Xi. Smile a little, Sister Kong Xi, I beg you."

"Ah!!!! Don't ask me why, I just want to scream!!!"

"Kongxi, Kongxi, I love you, just like a mouse loves rice."

Jiang Hai had thought that Kong Xi would be popular, but he never expected that Kong Xi's fans -

How could it be so crazy?
Not only students from Chengxi Opera came to attend this film promotion meeting, Jiang Hai even saw quite a few teachers in the crowd?

This included the one who was always very serious and meticulous in class——

Lao Wang, Teacher Wang?

When he looked at Lao Wang, a middle-aged man in his forties, he also shouted towards Kong Xi like the young students around him:
"Little Dragon Girl, Little Dragon Girl, Little Dragon Girl!!!"

Jiang Hai immediately felt that although Lao Wang looked serious, he was also a repressed and crazy star-chaser when he was young?

Under the leadership of the "Fish Leaping Over Nine States" crew, Kong Xi followed the production team and went on stage together.

She showed her signature sweet smile on the screen:

"Hello, friends from Chenghai Drama Academy~"

There was no surprise at all at the scene, and immediately there was a burst of almost crazy cheers and screams.

The so-called movie promotion is actually just a gimmick, and its real purpose is to gain a certain amount of traffic and attention in this way.

"Fish Leaping Over Nine States" is a youth literary and artistic film, and its target audience is young people aged 18 to 25 who have not yet left the campus.

The producers tried to use Kong Xi's traffic and popularity to attract as much attention as possible for the drama.

Therefore, there are these national college tour meetings again and again.

In fact, Jiang Hai does not have much impression of the movie "Fish Leaping into Nine States". The only thing he remembers about the movie is -

The male protagonist stood in front of Kong Xi and shouted at her at the top of his lungs:
"Su Yunjin, what are you going to use to pay me back for what you owe me!!!"

To be honest, this movie is watchable, but how good is it?

That's not really the case.

It was precisely because of his lack of interest in the movie that Jiang Hai felt absent-minded throughout the entire meeting.

Although he was sitting in the lecture hall, his mind had already flown away to who knows where else. He was even thinking about:

“Is it really useful to ask Mr. Liu Zhenyun to recommend a book?”

“Will there be a situation where the writer praises it but the readers say it is bad?”

"If I find someone to promote the book and the sales of the book don't go up, then I'm doomed, right?"

"I invested three million dollars, I really can't lose everything."

Over here in Jianghai, a crazy brainstorming session was going on.

Kong Xi was also frantically accepting questions and interviews from reporters, hosts, and audience members.
In the movie "Fish Leaping Over Nine States", Kong Xi plays a good girl with excellent grades who loves reading.

When the host mentioned——

"Kong Xi, do you think there is a big difference between you and the character in the play?"

"In private, are you the same type as [Su Yunjin] who loves studying and reading?"

"If you have read any books recently, could you please share them with us?"

When asked about this topic, Kong Xi immediately realized that the time was ripe.

She smiled at the host, then took out a copy of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" from her bag and showed it to the host generously:
“I really like reading this book recently.”

I don't care what people think.

As Kong Xi spoke, his eyes kept searching the stage, as if he was looking for something.

After searching for a while without any results, he seemed a little lost.

Kong Xi picked up the microphone and shouted a few words to the huge crowd of fans in the audience:

"Also, I want to ask you something."

"Has Jiang Hai arrived at the scene?"

"Is Jiang Hai here?"

(End of this chapter)