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

Chapter 316: Going to Beijing to be rewarded? This is a great writer who will be recorded in history! Fame also has troubles!

River or sea?

Who is that!

He single-handedly defeated the top-tier writers in the European literary world!
Looking at the domestic situation, in terms of influence, which other writer can compare with him?
Which other writer dares to compare with him!!!

To date, the sales of "The Old Man and the Sea" in Europe have exceeded an astonishing 37 million copies. This is a terrifying result that even foreign writers cannot replicate, let alone Chinese writers!
In less than two months, the United Kingdom alone—

And Then There Were None sold 28 million copies.

The sales of Murder on the Orient Express totaled 17.9 million copies.

Let’s talk about Jiang Hai’s masterpiece “No Longer Human”, which is popular in Japan and even the entire Asian market——

An existence that is directly deified!
This year, "No Longer Human", a new work that pioneered the decadent and depressive genre, has been dominating major best-selling lists in Asia!

According to incomplete statistics, the sales volume of "No Longer Human" in Asia so far is...
It has reached an astonishing 36 million copies!

These are all Jiang Hai's bestsellers. If you count Jiang Hai's "Hope" and "The Crucible" which are praised by South Korea, "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" which is well received in China, and even "The Injustice of Dou E" and "The Butterfly Lovers" which are regarded as classics in the field of drama, the high-quality works created by Jiang Hai can be described in four words:
countless!

Such a great writer who is also a dramatist is definitely worthy of being recorded in history!
It is hard to imagine that such a great writer
He is actually familiar with the new intern editor at the publishing house???

On the way back to the publishing house from the cafe.

Until now, Ye Tianya, the editor-in-chief of Huacheng Publishing House, could not believe what the intern Taozi had just said to her.

She looked at Taozi with shock in her eyes:

"You mean, you and Jiang Hai have a good personal relationship, and you have known each other for a long time."

"You met this person when you were still unknown in Jianghai?"

"You have already obtained Jiang Hai's permission. All of Jiang Hai's subsequent physical books will be given to you as the sole agent."

“Are you sure what you said is true???”

"Are you sure you're not talking in your sleep???"

Who in the publishing industry doesn’t know how difficult it is to sign a well-known author?

Don’t even mention Jiang Hai, a well-deserved top-tier writer with great talent.

Even Liu Zhenyun and Jia Pingwa, who are second-tier writers, are well-known veteran writers in China.
Those are things that Huacheng Publishing House can only dream of but cannot achieve!
The scale of Huacheng Publishing House is indeed quite impressive when compared with other domestic publishing houses.

But
It depends on who you compare with!
If you compare it with some small publishing houses, the scale of Huacheng Publishing House is indeed quite good.

But if you compare it with some of the truly large state-owned publishing houses in China, such as Xinhua Publishing House and People's Publishing House,
That Flower City is really not good enough?
In the past, the works of these great writers would be exclusively represented by large publishing houses such as Xinhua Publishing House and People's Publishing House.

On the one hand, it would be less stressful for you to entrust your work to these reputable and strong publishing houses.

On the other hand, my own works are published by these large publishing houses.
This is also a recognition of the writer's strength by the market!
For ordinary writers, forget about sales, the only thing they can do is to have their works published and included by the People's Publishing House.
This is already a great honor!

It is precisely based on the huge reputation of these state-owned publishing houses that most well-known authors, after signing a contract, will submit their works to such large publishing houses with both strength and fame.

Don’t you think Jiang Hai is a unique writer in the country in terms of influence.

Huacheng Publishing House, even if it signed a contract with a second-rate veteran writer like Liu Zhenyun——

Then we have to treat writers as our ancestors!

And now, Taozi actually promised in front of her.
Can she get an exclusive contract with writer Jiang Hai? Can she sign Jiang Hai's subsequent physical books?

"This is too magical."

When she was studying at Chengxi Academy, the school downplayed the class differences between people. Although Taozi knew that Jiang Hai was very famous now, she treated him as a normal friend and did not feel that there was any difference between them.

But since I graduated from school and entered society
Taozi then realized how popular Jiang Hai was in the domestic literary market!
Jiang Hai shook his feet, and the circle shook three times.

It is not an exaggeration to describe it this way.
"It should be no problem." The two walked into the publishing house together and returned to the tenth group of workstations. Taozi turned her head to look at Chief Editor Ye beside her, her eyes flickering, "Although Jiang Hai usually doesn't talk in a very reasonable way, he usually does what he promised to his friends."

"I trust him, I don't think he would lie to me"

In fact, it had only been two or three weeks since Taozi graduated from school and came to Huacheng Publishing House and joined their tenth editorial group.

Although Taozi had graduated from the Chinese Department of Chenghai Drama Academy two or three months ago, she went directly to Huacheng Publishing House after graduation. However, during these two or three months, she spent most of her time as a management trainee of the publishing house, doing internships and rotating positions.
The so-called management trainee, whose full name is management trainee, exists to help interns who have just graduated to understand the industry clearly in the shortest time possible and act as a buffer.

Before becoming an official contracted editor of physical books, Taozi went through a series of tedious and trivial jobs in the publishing industry, including printing, purchasing, proofreading, etc., before finally choosing to join the tenth editorial group and becoming a glorious physical book editor!
According to her qualifications, Taozi is now just a transparent person in the editorial team, but who could have expected that...
How could a little unknown person who just joined the group know Jiang Hai, who is considered the ultimate BOSS in the writer circle?

Just entered the Novice Village, and a level 100 boss followed behind?
What the hell.
“I still can’t believe it.”

Physical book editors have a clear promotion path, and the rankings from low to high are:

Editor-in-chief, chief editor.

Obviously, as an intern Taozi has not reached the programming level, but is still in the probation period of intern editor.

This means that the performance pressure of the tenth editorial group is not reflected much on Taozi.

As the editor-in-chief, Ye Tianya was almost the only one who bore the performance pressure of the tenth editorial group.

During this period, in order to find talented authors to sign contracts and complete the performance assessment of the editorial team——

Ye Tianya was in a state of panic.

She tried to use her personal connections to contact the editors-in-chief of other publishing houses to see if they could introduce two talented authors to her so that she could complete the publishing house's assessment KPI and solve her urgent problem.
However, colleagues are all enemies!
In the editing industry, every veteran and powerful author is a core resource in one's hands and the foundation of one's livelihood.

If only I could have an author who could write a hit work.
Instead of keeping it for yourself, you give it to you?
Why?
In the distance, the president's assistant walked slowly towards the two of them:
"Editor-in-Chief Ye, the president wants to have a meeting."

Walking to Ye Tianya, she lowered her voice and whispered to her:

"The president is very angry, you have to be mentally prepared"

The tenth editorial group was a newly established editorial group of Huacheng Publishing House. As the editor-in-chief, Ye Tianya had a shallow foundation and had no way of completing the massive performance assessment of Huacheng Publishing House. She was at the bottom for three consecutive months and did not even reach the passing level, which made the president very angry.

If the president gets angry, the consequences will be serious.
Naturally, we know that the warning to disband the 10th editorial group is not empty talk.

Ye Tianya looked at Taozi in front of her, then made up her mind and walked to the conference room resolutely:
“Wish me luck.”

Chenghai Drama Academy.

Spring is not as bright as imagined.

I don’t know why, but through the classroom window, Jiang Hai looked at the lively freshmen outside the window.

Suddenly, you feel like you’re getting old?
Zhu Ziqing once said in his essay "Haste":
"The swallows fly away, but they come back; the willows wither, but they turn green again; the peach blossoms fade, but they bloom again. But, you who are wise, tell me, why do our days never come back?"

Rao still remembers that when he was a freshman, he had a passionate heart and an extreme desire to "escape", but he still resolutely stepped into this university campus full of youthful atmosphere.

Now I am a senior and about to graduate.
Why did I suddenly become desireless?

Is it because I’m old?
"Lao Fang, why do you think this person is alive?"

To be honest, I don’t know why you are alive. The purpose of my life is to become the president of this university.

Seeing Jiang Hai's indifferent look, Principal Fang Zhenguo was so frightened that he waved his hands repeatedly:
"Let's talk it over. Please come down from the rooftop first."

"Have a cigarette." Jiang Hai jumped down from the rooftop, then skillfully took a cigarette from Fang Zhenguo's hand, puffing away smoke while casually complaining, "I'm just sitting upstairs for a while, I don't want to jump off the building, why are you so nervous?"

For the profession of university teachers, there are usually two things that they fear the most:

First, the female student suffered from depression while doing the self-review.

Second, when I was sleeping in the middle of the night, a student suddenly sent me a photo of himself standing on the roof of the classroom, enjoying the breeze, and captioned:

"Teacher, the wind on the rooftop is so strong, I'm so scared." In fact, Jiang Hai didn't stay on the rooftop on purpose, but the huge Chenghai Drama Academy
There is indeed no place for him!

At Chenghai Drama Academy, you randomly pull a student out from the playground and ask him:

"Do you know who your principal is?"

Then he would immediately reveal a clear yet stupid look:
"Who? I don't know."

But you have to continue asking him:
"Then do you know who Jiang Hai is?"

The clear and stupid look will disappear in an instant.

Instead, there is unparalleled enthusiasm:
"You mean Senior Jiang Hai?"

“Well, I know that very well.”

It is no exaggeration to say that in the small area of ​​Chenghai Drama Academy, Jiang Hai's reputation far exceeds that of a principal like Fang Zhenguo.

As the principal, Fang Zhenguo was ignored when he walked on the street.

But if the target is changed to Jiang Hai.
The main point is that it is surrounded by people!
Don't even think about walking on the street, people will treat you like a monkey and make crazy comments about you:
"That's Jiang Hai?"

"Is that Senior Jiang Hai who wrote Murder on the Orient Express?"

This morning, Jiang Hai was in the bathroom wanting to go to the toilet.

Unexpectedly, he didn't have time to defecate.

A fanatical female student, holding Jiang Hai's "No Longer Human" in her hand, rushed in from outside the toilet without caring about anything:
"Senior Jiang Hai, could you please sign an autograph for me?"

Let me ask you, are you polite?
Do you want to see what this place is???
"I'm here to take a shit."

It is also based on this series of outrageous operations.

Jiang Hai, who was depressed by the fanatical book fans, went to the rooftop of the classroom building to relax.

This sitting lasted for a whole morning:
“When I wasn’t famous, the people around me were not normal.”

“Why am I famous?”

“The people around me are still so abnormal???”

Tomorrow morning, Queen Elizabeth and the British Prime Minister, Jiang Hai, will arrive in Peiping to hold a meeting with the Peiping leaders.

At that time, Jiang Hai will be needed to accompany you.

It is said
The people above want Jiang Hai to serve as the Chinese writers' ambassador for foreign exchanges?

Fang Zhenguo, the principal of Chengxi Opera, kept telling Jiang Hai the information he had heard:
"I don't know whether the news is true or not, but it is said that a very important leader will be present at the Great Hall tomorrow morning."

In the actual circle of writers, once you reach a certain level, you will find that what this circle values ​​most is not talent.

It is actually a place of fame and fortune.

Once you have a certain reputation and status in the circle, every word and every sentence you say will be magnified infinitely by others.

For example, Jiang Hai now writes down two lines of text:
“We have two trees in our school.”

"One is a willow, and the other is also a willow."

Others would speculate on Jiang Hai’s mood when he wrote these two lines:
"First of all, the willow tree symbolizes the vitality of all things. Why did the author write these two slightly sad lines in the sunny spring?"

"This must be an expression of the author's homesickness."

Even if the critics praise it highly.

But Jiang Hai’s idea is not to be too simple:
“I just wrote it wrong.”

Jiang Hai and the principal Fang Zhenguo walked together from the teaching building to the third canteen.

It's also interesting to say.

In the United Kingdom, Elizabeth, who is called Queen,
It's like you really enjoy this kind of life that ordinary people lead?
Accompanied by Yang Wei and Chu Tianjiao, she attended classes in the classroom like ordinary students and ate in the cafeteria like most ordinary students.
There is not even the slightest bit of discomfort?
In the past, Elizabeth was always picked up by luxury cars and greeted by bodyguards when she traveled.

But now, without these material things
She seems to be enjoying riding her bicycle quite a lot, right?
This was a farewell dinner specially held by President Fang Zhenguo for Jiang Hai. After the meal, Jiang Hai would follow Queen Elizabeth V and the British diplomatic corps to Peking and to the Great Hall of the People.

Originally, the principal Fang Zhenguo was thinking about eating and drinking with public funds:
"I'll treat you guys to a nice meal outside."

Unexpectedly, the principal's proposal was immediately stopped by Gwen, who blinked pitifully and looked at everyone:

"I don't know when I'll come to Chengxi next time."

“Our farewell party.”

"Can we just do it in the cafeteria?"

There is no never-ending feast.

Even so, after spending these few days together, the brothers around Jiang Hai could all feel that Gwen was an approachable girl who didn't put on airs at all.

but!

Seeing you off thousands of miles away, there will be a farewell in the end.

Some people are born to be queens.

Some people are born to be slaves.

Of course, our division of labor is different.

but!

We all have a bright future!

Of course I know that after this farewell, after today, we will probably no longer appear in each other's lives.

However, it is a wonderful experience to have such a
That is also something to be thankful for!
On the table.

Under Jiang Hai's organization, everyone toasted and celebrated together:
“I hope we can become good friends in the future.”

For Gwen, compared to expensive and luxurious Western food.
Maybe the so-called home-cooked meals are more suitable for her?
She still prefers to eat things with a bit of wok flavor.

As the saying goes-

The fireworks in the world touch the hearts of mortals.

Put down the wine glass.

Gwen couldn't wait to pick up the beans in the bowl with chopsticks and start putting them into her mouth.

Unexpectedly, after just one bite, she immediately frowned:
“These beans feel so old.”

Hear this.

Jiang Hai also picked up a piece of vegetable with chopsticks and tasted it lightly.

With just one chopstick, he pointed out Gwen's misconception and immediately began to explain it to her:
“When it comes to beans, you have to eat the old ones!”

“People who know how to eat always eat old beans!”

"Who said these beans are old? These beans are amazing."

(End of this chapter)