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

Chapter 320: The influence of the top writers! The best novel of the year is born! I hope you can still be alive after reading "To Live"!

Huacheng Publishing House is not a large and influential publication, at least in today's China. Its scale is far smaller than that of Xinhua Publishing House. In terms of influence, old state-owned publishing houses such as People's Literature are not as influential as traditional pure literary journals such as "Harvest" and "October".

No one would have thought that a small and medium-sized magazine like Huacheng would
How could it actually sign a top writer like Jiang Hai?
"Jiang Hai, have you really signed a contract with our magazine?"

Upon hearing this news, Ye Tianya, the editor-in-chief of the 10th Editorial Group, couldn't believe it:

"Even Xinhua Publishing House couldn't sign a long-term contract with this writer, and this is what happened."

"We took it down?"

“This is too magical.”

Just now, Ye Tianya learned that when Jiang Hai was practicing in Weiming Lake of Peking University, even the editor-in-chief Ding of Xinhua Publishing House took the initiative to come to him to ask for manuscripts, but was turned down by Jiang Hai.

Good fellow, if you say you won't see me, then you really won't see me.
However, this person has rejected many top-notch writers from large domestic publishing houses, well-known magazines, and top-selling newspapers.
He actually chose to sign a contract with Huacheng Publishing House?

Don't say that Chief Editor Ye couldn't believe it. Even the president of Huacheng Publishing House was trembling with excitement when he heard about it:
“Is this true?”

Just as everyone was caught in a state of excitement and suspicion.

The assistant shouted, breaking the strange atmosphere:

"Editor-in-Chief Ye, the president's phone number."

After calming down her excitement, Ye Tianya quickly walked to the phone:
"Boss, your orders."

At the same time, in the entire editorial office.

All the burning eyes were cast towards Taozi, the intern editor who had just arrived at the publishing house.

Who would have thought that an intern who had just graduated from college
Does she really have such a background and connections?

She was able to use her own strength to persuade the most influential and prestigious top-tier writer in the literary circle.
Teacher Jiang Hai? ? ! ? !

There are emotions mixed in these gazes.

Or surprised.

Or envy.

Or jealous.

Feeling these unusual gazes, Taozi suddenly felt a little uncomfortable:

"You guys, why are you all looking at me like that?"

In the past, at Huacheng Publishing House, intern editors like Taozi were considered invisible people in the publishing house.

As a newcomer in the workplace——

If you are told to go east, you have to go east.

If I tell you to go west, you won't have any chance to talk back.

And now.
"Sister Taozi, please sit down." The editor-in-chief, who was more perceptive, immediately pushed a chair over from the side and asked Taozi to sit down quickly. "Why are you standing? It's so tiring to stand. Sit down for a while and wait for news."

"What would you like to drink? Coffee? Coconut milk? Iced Americano?"

"I know you've been trying to keep in shape lately, so I'll give you a glass of orange juice to protect your body."

If you want to get involved in the underworld, it's no use just knowing how to fight, you also need power.

The workplace is different from the campus.

In school, teachers will tell you that hard work will be rewarded, you just need to work hard and leave the rest to fate.

But in the workplace, your boss will tell you with bloody examples
What’s the point of working hard?
What we want is the result, not the process. You just need to leave the result to me. As for how much suffering you have endured, how many tears you have shed, and how much heartache you have suffered in the process?
No one cares at all.
In full view.

With a loud bang, Zhang Chengye, president of Huacheng Publishing House, rushed out of the office door in one step.

He strode forward, searching the editorial office almost frantically:
"Who is Peach?"

"Where is Editor Peach?"

To be honest, it has been more than two months since Taozi entered Huacheng Publishing House, and this is the first time she has faced this president who only exists in legends.

From the accounts of her colleagues, she originally thought that President Zhang Chengye was a calm, low-key and introverted middle-aged man.

Who would have thought that when we first met
How could he be so bold?

"I'm Taozi." Taozi stood up from her chair and nodded to Zhang Chengye, "President, what do you want me to do?"

"You are Taozi?" Zhang Chengye looked at Taozi in front of him with admiration, "I knew you could do it from the moment you joined our publishing house."

In the workplace, the most important thing is not ability.

You will find that those who move up quickly and get promoted and salary increases are often not those employees with outstanding abilities.

But I can make PPT.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying in the workplace:
“Those who work can’t beat those who make PPTs, those who make PPTs can’t beat those who can take advantage of others, and those who can take advantage of others can’t beat those who have resources and backgrounds.”

As a newcomer to the workplace.

Obviously, Taozi belongs to the last category, the type who enters the company with resources.

Under the gaze of everyone.

President Zhang Chengye officially announced in front of all editors:
"From today on, Taozi officially becomes a full-time employee. She is no longer an intern editor at Huacheng Publishing House, but a full-time editor at our publishing house."

To be honest, Taozi did not expect this scene.

When President Zhang Chengye announced that she would be promoted to a full-time employee ahead of schedule, she was shocked:
“That’s fine.”

Logically, according to the Labor Law, the period for an intern editor to become a regular employee is six months. After six months, only if their abilities meet the company's requirements and they pass the performance evaluation can they apply to their leaders for regularization, remove the "Intern" title from their title, and become a formal new editor.

Who would have thought that it had only been two months.
Just because she signed Jiang Hai, she was allowed to pass the performance evaluation and even become a regular employee ahead of schedule?

While feeling surprised, Taozi couldn't help but feel relieved:
"This Jiang Hai is so influential."

"You are worthy of being my little brother!"

As intern editors, there are a total of 18 new editors-in-chief who joined the company with Taozi.

After the internship assessment period, among these eighteen people.
Half of the people will be laid off first.

Then, from the remaining people, through various methods such as scoring estimation, performance evaluation, and leadership judgment, three people were finally retained as reserve personnel for regularization, and finally approved by the president.
This is the only way to successfully become a regular employee!
Only then you are worthy of enjoying the benefits of five insurances and one fund!

Now, looking at Taozi, who is also a newcomer, he was able to skip a series of complicated and tedious assessments right from the start, and even became a regular employee half a year in advance.
Do you want to ask if I am envious?
Envy is inevitable. No one would not be jealous of this easy model in the workplace.

Who doesn’t want to reap the benefits without doing anything?
Who wouldn't want a big boss to suddenly appear when they are at their weakest and need resources the most, and then take them to the sky? As the saying goes, when the roc rises in the wind, it soars up to 90,000 miles.
Of course, everyone knows this is unfair.

But it is indeed helpless.

"Why can she skip so many cumbersome and trivial procedures and get a permanent job half a year earlier just by signing with Jiang Hai?"

"That's not fair."

Faced with this almost naive comment from his intern.

The veteran editor-in-chief immediately sneered:

"only?"

"You actually summed up the signing of Jiang Hai with just three words, 'just'?"

"Let me describe it to you this way—"

"It's like you're going to participate in a boxing match. Before the match, you know that your opponent's last name is Ty. You grit your teeth and think that even if Tyson comes, with your strength, you should be able to hold on for a few more seconds if you fight with all your might? But when you get on the stage, you find that the person walking towards you is not Tyson, but a humanoid creature wearing a red cloak-" "An Ultraman Taro is walking towards you."

"This Jiang Hai is the Taylor of the writer circle, also known as the Pentagon Warrior."

You can clearly see the dissatisfaction on the faces of these interns.

However, the editor seemed to be half accustomed to it and didn't care about it at all:
"Not convinced?"

"Then why don't you sign two writers of Mr. Jiang Hai's caliber?"

"There is no such thing as absolute fairness in this world."

Taozi had no time to care about the envy, jealousy and hatred of others at the moment.

At this moment, Zhang Chengye, the president of Huacheng Publishing House, looked at her with an extremely serious look:
"Teacher Jiang Hai, did I tell you when to submit the manuscript?"

The contract is signed, and the draft is finished.

Even if your publishing house has signed a contract with the writer, the editor still needs to communicate with you about when the writer will submit the manuscript and when the work will be published.
If a writer does not submit his manuscript, it means that he cannot bring any benefits to the publishing house.

If it doesn't bring benefits to the publishing house, then everything they are doing now is meaningless.
In response to the president’s question:
"When will Jiang Hai submit his manuscript?"

"Let me ask you something." Taozi was stunned, then took out her phone and started to edit a text message, "Jiang Hai, when do you expect to finish your new work? When can you submit it?"

edit.

send.

Soon, Taozi received a reply:

"Ding--"

President Zhang Chengye was immediately delighted: "How is it?"

Taozi raised her head and looked at him:
“He said, three.”

"Three days?"

Taozi shook her head and continued to count down:

"two"

"One"

The words fell.

A pop-up window suddenly appeared on the desk computer:
【You have a new email message, please check it. 】

There is also a certain gap between writers. Take the revision of manuscripts as an example.

I am a third-rate writer. The editor has the final say and I will do whatever he says. As long as you can publish it for me, don’t ask me to revise the manuscript. I can even be your dad.

A second-rate writer, discuss with the editor, "Do you think my writing here is unreasonable?" I humbly accept criticism, but when I accept criticism, I also have to express my own thoughts. After the two of us discuss, we decide whether to change it or not.
First-rate writer, what do you want to change? Are you the author or am I the author? Change the text? Not a single thing can be changed! If you think you can do it, I will give you my place.
Obviously, Jiang Hai is now among the first-class writers, and his status is even higher than that of the first-class writers.
Even worse than that!

Other writers would be asked to go back and rework their work if they made a typo.

If Jiang Hai made a mistake in writing, there would be a great scholar to argue for him:

"What's wrong?"

"This is obviously a homophone, okay?"

The entire book "To Live" is not very long, with only 120,000 words in total. Jiang Hai divided the book into three parts, each with 40,000 words, which were serialized in three issues of "Huacheng" magazine. The titles of the three parts are:

[The playboy Fugui lives for his own happiness]

[Poor boy Fugui lives for the responsibility on his shoulders]

[Fugui, in his twilight years, lives just for the sake of living]

These three issues together represent the life of a small person.

Precisely--

He is a small person who, under the influence of the old times, has experienced a tragic, miserable, and ill-fated life without any blessings.
Thanks to Jiang Hai's great fame in the contemporary literary world.

Whether it is the publishing department, offline review, printing proofreading.
Any department involved in the publishing process.

As long as they heard the name [Jiang Hai], there was no obstruction at all, and even the content did not need to be reviewed too much, and they were given the green light to pass without any reason:

"Mr. Jiang Hai's new work?"

“Then what else is there to review?”

If the writers who were awarded medals of honor by the chieftain in the Great Hall are not trustworthy, then the world is full of them.
Which writer is trustworthy?

This time, the publication of "To Live" is not in the form of a whole book and sold to the general book market.

Instead, it was serialized in the magazine "Huacheng" for a total of three issues and printed for the book market.

When Huacheng Publishing House announced that it had obtained the exclusive agency for Mr. Jiang Hai’s new work "To Live".

In addition, it was announced that the latest issue of "Huacheng" would begin serialization at nine o'clock in the morning.

Countless readers flocked to the site immediately:

"What? Jiang Hai is writing a new book again? Back to the old days! I enjoyed the last book, Murder on the Orient Express, so I have to enjoy this one too."

"'To Live'? This reminds me of Jiang Hai's last book, 'No One Survives'. One book is about living, and the other is about no one survives. These seem to be two antonyms? Is it possible that Mr. Jiang Hai is so casual in naming his books?"

"Let me guess what this book is about. Jiang Hai's previous book, "No One Survives", was titled "No One Survives", so everyone died in the end. This book is titled "To Live", which is so inspiring. This should be another warm and healing story of punishing evil and promoting good, right?"

"Friends, I can't wait! This should be Mr. Jiang Hai's first literary work after winning the Booker Prize? I want to see if he can break the curse that a big success will be followed by a big failure."

“The pinnacle of avant-garde nonfiction literature? What a boast! Wow, I can’t wait any longer.”

Even so, everyone showed extraordinary enthusiasm for Jiang Hai's new work.

As the author, Jiang Hai himself
But you are very indifferent to this matter?
Before a book goes on sale, the author will write a message to readers in the foreword to serve as a bridge of communication between them.

I originally thought that as the original author, Jiang Hai would write a long article in the preface about his mental journey in creating this book.

But who would have thought that Jiang Hai's preface only contained a simple sentence:

“I hope that after watching “To Live”, you can still live bravely.”

This confusing operation made the readers waiting in line to buy books a little confused:
"No buddy, you."

"What does that mean?"

What does it mean to still live bravely after watching "To Live"?

You mean
After watching "To Live", those with poor psychological endurance can just die?

Look at the preface left by Jiang Hai, the original author, for the readers.

Immediately, a reader sneered:
"Mystification."

Nine o'clock in the morning.

The door of the bookstore is officially opened.

Following the clerk's shout, a flood of readers rushed into the bookstore:
“To Live is now on sale”

(End of this chapter)