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Chapter 135: Fighting on both sides? Who is responsible for this?
Hong Kong.

Early in the morning, 24-year-old Guo Jingfeng walked on the street with a messy hair and a dull expression.

He's been having a hard time lately.

After graduating from college, I changed several jobs, but I couldn't see any future in them. A few days ago, I lost my job because of a trivial matter.

Therefore, he is currently unemployed.

He was going to eat something and buy two newspapers to see if there were any job openings.

After eating a bowl of chicken noodles, he came to a newsstand and flipped through newspapers and magazines. Suddenly, he noticed a news headline in Ming Pao.

——Zhongyuan Yidianhui’s two works, fighting each other? Fighting itself?
His eyes were determined, a little surprised.

He had heard of Zhongyuan Yidianhui, who seemed to be a new writer in the mainland and was said to have written some fantasy novels.

His friends had previously suggested that he try writing novels, saying that his writing was so good that it would be a shame if he didn't write novels. Just as Zhongyuan Yidianhui became famous by writing books, so could Guo Jingfeng.

But he hadn't considered his friend's suggestion before.

Because he didn't think he had the talent to write novels.

But when he saw the news about the gray situation in Central China, he couldn't help but pick up the newspaper.

Read this news carefully.

"Recently, two new books by the mainland's new writer Zhongyuan Yidianhui appeared in the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets at about the same time. They are his new work "God's Tomb" and his debut work "The Days of Living with the Air Hostess". What is surprising is that these two novels were published by two different publishing houses.

What is even more surprising is that the sales and reputation of these two novels are both very good, and it seems that a competition has formed between the left and the right..."

"Hey! Boy! Do you want to buy it or not? If you want to see it, just pay!"

The newsstand owner's scolding interrupted Guo Jingfeng from reading.

He hesitated for a moment and then paid for the newspaper.

When he left the newsstand, he breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a little envious of Zhongyuan Yidianhui, who had become so popular that two of his works were published at the same time, competing with each other.

Are those two books really that good?
His curiosity aroused, he went to a bookstore and searched for a while, but he didn't find "God's Tomb", but he did find "Living with the Air Hostess".

He bought a copy, returned home, and started reading.

He wanted to see if this author was so successful and whether his writing skills were really much better than his.

Time passes little by little.

He kept reading until lunch time when he finally finished.

I have a direct understanding of the strength of Zhongyuan Yidianhui.

I think it's pretty good! It has the quality of a bestseller.

It's a nice story.

That's it.

It still cannot be compared with the famous works he has read before.

He began to understand why his friends advised him to try writing novels.

If a work written with such ability can be so popular, then I think I can really give it a try.

I wonder what Zhongyuan Yidianhui's new book is about? Is it an improvement over this book, The Stewardess?
He wanted to see it.

If the quality of "God's Tomb" is similar to that of "The Stewardess", then Guo Jingfeng can definitely try writing novels.

With this thought in mind, he went out again. This time he visited two more bookstores and finally bought a copy of "God's Tomb".

On the way back, I packed a bowl of pork trotter rice.

After returning to his residence, he ate pork trotter rice while flipping through "God's Tomb".

As he watched, he forgot to continue eating.

There was even a mouthful of rice in his mouth. It took him a while to react and swallow the food.

His eyes were full of surprise.

Can novels be written like this?
The protagonist picked up a three-pointed double-edged sword in the first chapter? A golden hoop? And the magic weapons of Taishang Laojun and Nuwa Niangniang?

Are mainland authors so bold? Isn't their imagination too rich?
Do you dare to pick up the map of mountains, rivers and the country from Nuwa?
After reading the first chapter, he thought the biggest feature of this book was its creativity.

The author is so bold that he gives the male protagonist so many treasures at the beginning.

but……

Chapter 2, Chapter 3...

The protagonist's extremely fast training speed, the rapid pace of plot advancement, the thrilling fights and duels, and the killing of Jindan masters as cleanly and neatly as killing a chicken, all made his scalp tingle.

The plot advances too fast!
For him, who had never seen such a fast-paced work, the impact of "God's Tomb" on his thinking was subversive.

He never thought that novels could be written in this way.

He has not read "I Want to Become an Immortal" or any other novels about cultivation.

Therefore, it was not only the creativity of the opening of "God's Tomb" that amazed him, but also the settings of various cultivation levels in the book, which also amazed him.

He was surprised by the fast-paced plot and the dense excitement.

And very pleasantly surprised.

When he finished watching this episode of "God's Tomb", he was in a daze for a long time.

If "Living with a Flight Attendant" made him feel that I could do it, and that my writing skills were no worse than Zhong Yuan's, as long as I could think of a good story, I could also write a work of equal quality.

but……

After reading "God's Tomb", in his heart, Zhongyuan Yidianhui, who wrote this book, has risen to the level of a genius.

If you are not a genius, how could you write such a fantastic work?
This book overturned all his previous impressions of novels.

The novels that impressed him were those written by famous writers such as Jin Yong, Gu Long, Ni Kuang and Wo Longsheng.

He hasn't even read Huang Yi's works.

When he suddenly saw a work like "God's Tomb", he seemed to have opened the door to a new world and saw an incomparably splendid world.

And Zhongyuan Yidianhui is the first person in his mind to open up this new world.

He understood why Zhongyuan Yidianhui was so popular.

He no longer had the ambition to surpass Zhongyuan Yidianhui, but looking at the book "God's Tomb" in front of him, he was already eager to try. His intuition told him that this kind of novel had a strong appeal to book fans.

It is very likely to surpass the works of famous writers such as Jin Yong and Gu Long in appealing to readers.

There don’t seem to be many writers writing this kind of novel right now, so maybe I can really give it a try.

……

Yuan Xin is a hot girl at Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.

The position is okay.

She took these two days off and came to Hong Kong for a trip.

At noon that day, she sat under a parasol outside a coffee shop, sipping coffee leisurely and watching the pedestrians and vehicles hurrying by on the street, looking very relaxed.

I felt a little emotional about how prosperous Hong Kong is. People here walk much faster than people from the mainland, as if they were racing against time.

Occasionally, you can see tourists like her. They are all quite leisurely, walking and stopping from time to time, which is in sharp contrast to those pedestrians who are in a hurry.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew towards her, blowing her hair and blowing a newspaper off the table next to her, landing right at her feet.

This newspaper should have been left by the previous table of guests.

She noticed the words "Ming Pao" on the newspaper.

Ming Pao?

The newspaper published by Jin Yong?

She picked up the newspaper curiously and flipped through it.

As I was reading, I saw a news headline: "Two books by Zhongyuan Yidianhui, fighting each other? Fighting itself?"

A bit of gray in the Central Plains?

She looked surprised.

As a practitioner in a mainland publishing house, she is naturally familiar with this name.

He is a new and cutting-edge writer who rose strongly in the mainland last year!

Many media have reported that he had a big quarrel with several traditional writers and professors in the media. Although he was young, he was surprisingly strong. He scolded a professor so badly that he dared not talk back. A part-time writing professor was so angry that he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and ruined his reputation. The other two traditional writers were also disgraced.

No one can escape unscathed.

Such a hedgehog-like young writer is very popular among readers.

The sales of the two works published successively in the mainland were both amazing.

She heard that the company where she worked, Modu Literature and Art, had previously sent an email to Zhongyuan Yidianhui to request an article.

But it was declined.

It seems that all the publishing houses that sent emails to request manuscripts were rejected.

"Is he so popular in Hong Kong too?"

She muttered to herself, reading the news curiously.

After looking at it for a while, she seemed to be thinking about something.

When she put down the newspaper, she suddenly stood up and asked the cashier at the coffee shop where there was a bookstore nearby.

Soon, she took a taxi and found a bookstore.

But this bookstore had already sold out of "God's Tomb", so she had to take a taxi to another bookstore.

I went to three bookstores before I finally bought one.

She sat by the window in her hotel room reading "God's Tomb" which was written entirely in traditional Chinese characters. She felt a little overwhelmed reading it and the more she read, the more annoyed she became. However, she could recognize most of the traditional Chinese characters by considering the context.

But this deciphering way of reading is a really bad experience.

It's like when you're having sex with someone, you can only move at a constant speed of one millimeter per second. Who can stand that?
She read a chapter with gritted teeth, then put the book down in annoyance.

The expression is quite depressed.

She admitted that the first chapter was very creatively written and she wanted to read the rest of the story, but this kind of deciphering view was too torturous.

She really couldn't stand it.

She decided to take the book back to her workplace and ask the oldest review editor to review the quality of the book.

She remembered that the review editor had learned traditional Chinese characters in school, so he should have no difficulty reading this kind of book.

If the quality of this book is really good, she decided to make a recommendation to her higher-ups and strive to obtain the simplified Chinese publishing rights for the book.

Of course, I have to find out first whether the simplified Chinese copyright of this book has been signed out.

……

The same afternoon.

A meeting was held at Xinchang headquarters.

At the beginning of the meeting, the discussion was about the impact of the book "Living with a Flight Attendant" on the sales of "God's Tomb".

This sudden release of this work caught them off guard.

Many people were stunned.

Where did this book come from? How come it is also the work of Zhongyuan Yidianhui?
Didn’t Zhongyuan Yidianhui’s new book sign to us? How come his new book is on the market?

After the meeting lasted for a while, the truth was revealed to everyone.

This book was really written by Zhongyuan Yidianhui.

But it’s not a new book, it’s an old book written more than a year ago.

Moreover, it has already been published in mainland China and its sales are amazing, having already exceeded one million copies.

Then someone questioned the book, why didn't we at Xinchang sign it? Who was responsible for this?

Chang Qingshu, the manuscript receiving editor who was far away in the mainland, was soon regarded by everyone as the person primarily responsible and should be held accountable for the matter.

Poor Evergreen, he is being held accountable before he can even receive any commendation from headquarters.

(End of this chapter)