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

Chapter 148 Is this a book signing event or a memorial service?

In terms of scale, this reader signing event is actually quite grand?

University Town, Guomao Shopping Center.

The summer sun was scorching in the afternoon.

Jiang Hai slung a shoulder bag over his shoulder and strolled to the atrium lobby on the first floor of the China World Shopping Center.

Although the signing event has not officially started yet, there are already about three to four hundred people gathered at the scene.

Members from the Student Union of Chenghai Drama Academy were standing in the venue, maintaining order in an orderly manner:

"Classmates, don't push, the signing time hasn't started yet. If you want an autograph, you can line up here."

"Uncle, please don't cut in line, please pay attention to your manners!"

"Teacher Xiao, you don't have class today? Are you here to get an autograph too?"

"Student, please come over and register. What? You are from Japan?"

Do you want to ask about the composition of the readers who come to the book signing?

This is actually quite complicated.
They are middle-aged people in their forties or fifties, who have experienced many hardships and whose fatigue can be felt from their words and actions.

As young as seventeen or eighteen years old, they are in the prime of their youth, but their eyes are full of sorrow.

Among them, there are even fanatical book fans who crossed the ocean from Japan to China just to see Jiang Hai.
To be honest, when Jiang Hai was at the book signing event, he was also a little surprised:

"My influence is so great?"

Looking around, there are men and women, each with their own soulmate.

There are pink girls wearing Lolita clothes.

There are also muscular men with muscles all over their bodies and strong bodies.

There are also middle-aged uncles who look older at first glance and have deep eyes full of experience.

As a writer, it is a great honor to be able to bring together such a group of readers who seem to have nothing to do with each other.

This is actually quite difficult?
The summer weather is quite hot. As I stepped into the book signing event from the entrance of the shopping mall, the heat faded away and a cool feeling came over me.

Jiang Hai wore a mask and walked among the crowd, carefully observing the readers present.

Strangely enough, other readers' book signings -

When readers and authors meet, everyone is happy and the joy on their faces is simply uncontrollable.

But looking back at Jiang Hai's readers' book signing event, the distress on everyone's faces became increasingly obvious.

"Where exactly is the problem?"

Before Jiang Hai could think about it, the student union member who was in charge of receiving Jiang Hai came out from the venue:
"Senior Jiang Hai, you are finally here"

In the Asian College Literature League, because Jiang Hai's "No Longer Human" has such a great influence in Japan, the Japanese Ministry of Education and the Japan Book Publishing Association have invested in the initial printing of 500,000 copies to create momentum and publicity for this signing event.

Domestically, "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" received a good response among the middle-aged group. After much consideration, Xinhua Publishing House finally decided to cooperate with Jianghai to carry out the second batch of printing and publishing. The second batch of printed and published books also has a total of 500,000 copies.

It is precisely because these two things collided at the same time.

Xinhua Publishing House, together with the Japan Book Publishers Association, jointly funded and made possible this reader signing event.

As a student of Chenghai Drama Academy, Jiang Hai is a famous figure in the school. As for the school,

Then definitely choose unconditional cooperation!
If you need a venue, we will provide you with the venue; if you need personnel, we will provide you with the personnel; if you need momentum, we will provide you with the momentum!

From the school's perspective, this book signing event is not only a recognition of Jiang Hai's achievements, but also a positive publicity for Chenghai Drama Academy!
Our Chengxi student, who is only in his sophomore year, has not only become a best-selling author with hundreds of thousands of physical books, but is also -

Defeat students from major universities at home and abroad!
What better propaganda than the truth?

"This is the teaching standard of our Chengxi Opera!"

In fact, not all the people who came to the book signing event were Jiang Hai’s fans. A considerable number of them were——

I'm just curious about people like Jiang Hai!

Although they have never read Jiang Hai's books, but -

But I have heard of Jiang Hai’s deeds!
Chenghai Drama Academy is located in the university town. There are a series of colleges and universities around the university town, such as Chenghai Foreign Language School, East China University of Political Science and Law, University of International Business and Economics, Chenghai Normal University
These colleges and universities belong to the same batch of ordinary colleges and universities as Chenghai Drama Academy. When I learned that——

The Chengxi Opera next door unexpectedly produced a ruthless person like Jiang Hai. Not only did he defeat famous domestic and foreign universities in the literary league, such as: Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, Jiaotong University, Waseda University, Tokyo University and so on, but he even set a best-selling record of selling 500,000 physical books in two weeks at a young age. Such a great person——

Naturally, it arouses everyone’s curiosity!

"Jiang Hai is actually going to hold a book signing event?"

After learning the news, a considerable number of students from surrounding schools came to the signing event out of curiosity.

This is why the signing ceremony was so crowded.

In fact, Jiang Hai doesn’t care at all about whether there are many people or not.

What he cares about is whether his hidden identity has been exposed, and whether there are any fanatical fans at the autograph session who really want to trade one-for-one with him.

Fortunately, after taking a look around the scene, Jiang Hai discovered that most of the people who came to the book signing event were normal people.

Although everyone's faces looked a little gloomy, they were not so angry that they really wanted to come up and stab someone with actual actions.

"It seems that my identity Yuye has not been exposed yet."

After confirming this, Jiang Hai took off his mask with confidence and boldness.

To be honest, it was such a hot day - when I saw Jiang Hai walking in from the entrance of the mall wearing a mask and covering himself tightly.

Yuan Shiyun, who organized this book signing event and is also the head of the Student Union's Publicity Department, found it very strange:
"Student Jiang Hai, it's so hot, why are you still wearing a mask?"

"Don't you feel bored?"

Yuan Shiyun is the Minister of the Publicity Department of the Student Union. Jiang Hai has heard of her name.

She and he are both sophomores, but because of her outstanding personal organizational skills, she was able to serve as the Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Student Union during her sophomore year.

Yuan Shiyun is a strong contender for the next president of the Chenghai Theatre Academy Student Union.

Facing Yuan Shiyun's doubtful questioning, Jiang Hai uttered a sentence helplessly:

“Better safe than sorry”

This is a reader signing event, not a crime scene.

What's there to be careful about?
Just as Yuan Shiyun wanted to question Jiang Hai:
"Student Jiang Hai, this is a good thing, not a bad thing. Do you have to be so cautious?"

Unexpectedly, before Yuan Shiyun could finish her words, the host's voice came from the stage:

"Now, on behalf of the organizer, I announce that this reader book signing event will begin now."

A book signing event refers to an activity in public where stars, writers or other celebrities sign for supporters who have purchased their works (music albums, books or other works).

Since it involves the book signing session, the most important part is——

Signature of course!

"I have diabetes, let me go first!"

"Ladies first, could you please be more gentlemanly?"

"Nowadays, everyone is talking about gender equality. Who cares whether you are a woman or not?"

"I don't care whether you are men or women, in short, even if the king comes, he can't cut in line."

Do you think Jiang Hai has true fans?
This, of course, exists.

However, it seems that the age of Jiang Hai’s true fans is generally a bit older?

When a middle-aged man with untidy beard, holding a copy of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" in his hand, walked up to Jiang Hai with an expectant look on his face.

Instantly, he was stunned:

"You, you are Jiang Hai?"

Seeing Jiang Hai's age, he is only in his early twenties. Who could have expected that he would be so popular because of a book written by a young man——

Are you crying your heart out while reading by lamplight late at night?
In the middle-aged uncle’s fantasy, the author of the book "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" should be a wise and calm, worldly-wise yet unsophisticated, profound old man.

Who would have thought that the Jianghai that appeared on the title page of the book—

He turned out to be a handsome, sunny and cheerful boy in his early twenties?

The decadence and gloom of the middle-aged man formed a sharp contrast with the sunshine and cheerfulness of Jiang Hai.

Looking at this unkempt middle-aged man in front of me, his eyes are bloodshot and his temperament looks extremely decadent.

Jiang Hai smiled cheerfully:
"I am Jiang Hai, what can I do for you?"

Holding a signature pen in his hand, Jiang Haiyang wrote his signature "Jiang Hai" on the cover of the book, then opened the title page and wrote his sincere blessing to the readers on the title page:

“I wish you that the beauty of the world will always be with you for the rest of your life, and that you will be happy every day!”

After writing this series of blessings, Jiang Hai waved his hand and directly greeted the readers behind him:
"Next!"

To be honest, when the middle-aged uncle walked out of the huge crowd, holding the book that Jiang Hai had signed, I don’t know why——

He suddenly had an urge to cry?

First, I finally got the autograph of my favorite author and I felt so excited that I wanted to cry.

Second, watching Jiang Hai write down his sincere wish on the title page of the book: "Be happy every day."

At this moment, the middle-aged uncle almost couldn't control himself:
"Isn't this too bloody?"

You are a writer who writes tragedies, and your wish for readers is to be happy every day?
You want readers to be happy, so why do you write so many depressing plots?
You want readers to be happy, so why do you add so many tragic elements to the book?

For other readers, "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" may just be a book?

But for the middle-aged man, "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" is not just a book, it is more like a true portrayal of his tragic life?

Art comes from life, but is higher than life.

As for the uncle, he is not only like Xu Sanguan in the book, but also sold blood in his early years because his family was poor. He is even more miserable than Xu Sanguan.
Xu Sanguan has only one child who is not his biological child.

As for the uncle, he has three children at home, none of them are his biological children.
After twenty years of hard work, I raised my children, but when I did a paternity test, it turned out that none of the three children were my own.
Is there anything more tragic in the world than this?
Is there anything more tragic in the world than this!

The saddest thing is that the middle-aged man thought he had met his soulmate in life. After reading "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" in its entirety, he naively thought that -

Jiang Hai is the most understanding person in the world, and the person who can best understand his pain!
But who would have thought that after seeing Jiang Hai in person today, the uncle's filter for the author himself -

It broke directly!
The author of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" is not only a young man who has just started out, but his temperament is also similar to the word "gloomy" -

It's totally irrelevant!

I read your book and cried so sadly.
Instead, he was laughing so happily?
I don’t know why, but when I saw Jiang Hai talking to the readers with a cheerful face, the middle-aged man suddenly felt grief-stricken. As soon as he walked out of the crowd, he collapsed on the ground and broke down emotionally:
"I'm not fucking going to live anymore."

This scene also attracted the attention of others.
(End of this chapter)