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Chapter 502, "Cultivation Chat Group," has been released.

The next morning, Cao Sheng woke up earlier than usual.

Because he went to bed early last night.

After waking up, he got dressed and remembered what had happened the night before. Many media outlets online were reporting on his affair with Qian Zhenyu.

He also remembered his decision last night—to face the media today and announce that he and Huang Qingya had already broken up.

He hadn't announced the breakup because he didn't feel he needed to report his relationship status to anyone. But now? He felt it was time to announce it.

Otherwise, no matter which person of the opposite sex I get close to in the future, I will be rumored to be cheating on them, which would be too unfair.

After leaving the bedroom, he went into the kitchen, poured himself a glass of milk, grabbed a piece of bread, ate a simple meal, and went downstairs to practice his boxing as usual.

Although he is currently embroiled in scandals, he still tries his best to maintain his lifestyle.

It's not easy to form the habit of practicing boxing every morning, but it's very easy to give it up.

Whether a person is living an active life is mainly determined by whether they maintain good daily habits.

For him, practicing boxing and writing are the same; both require persistent effort over time and the spirit of water dripping on stone to achieve something in the future.

In the morning mist.

Cao Sheng was practicing his palm and fist techniques alone in the open space in front of the villa. At this time, none of the bodyguards had gotten up yet, and Cao Sheng did not go to wake them, but silently continued his practice.

His footwork was unpredictable, and his hand techniques were varied.

Without the whistling sounds of every move in a kung fu movie, this kind of practice seemed particularly tedious and boring, but he remained calm and practiced very seriously over and over again.

Every time he practiced boxing like this, he felt as if he had returned to his childhood.

I still remember when he first entered junior high school, he found it very difficult to adapt to the junior high school curriculum.

In elementary school, you only need to learn Chinese and math.

In the first year of junior high, however, there were suddenly many more courses, including English, biology, physics, chemistry, geography, politics, history, and so on.

He couldn't adapt to it at all in a short time.

So, in the first year of junior high, he blended into the crowd, not only not ranking in the grade, but also not ranking in his class.

During that period, his originally cheerful and outgoing personality gradually turned silent.

Every day, he could see the mocking and contemptuous looks in the eyes of his former classmates. The way his classmates who had gone up from the same elementary school looked at him during that time seemed to be saying: "You, Cao Sheng, were good at studying, weren't you? What are you like now? Aren't you just like us?"

Among them were several elementary school classmates with whom he used to have a good relationship.

He suddenly realized that his past popularity was entirely based on the fact that he was the top student in the class.

When he was no longer the top student in his class, it seemed as if all his friendships had vanished.

He was holding a grudge.

Determined to improve grades.

It's not about salvaging past friendships, but about not being looked down upon by these people.

He not only listens more attentively in class than before, but also stays up late every night to study until 11 p.m., and gets up before 5 a.m. every morning to memorize English words.

After a semester of hard work, he jumped to fifth place in the grade in the final exam.

She regained her lost dignity.

Of course, lost friendships can never be regained.

He didn't want to rekindle those friendships.

Because after he climbed to fifth place in the grade, every teacher started to pay attention to him. He became the class monitor, academic representative, subject representative, group leader, and one of the prettiest girls in the class. The way the underachievers in the back of the classroom looked at him and the tone of their voices towards him changed.

He can choose to befriend anyone he wants.

When he reached the third year of junior high school, the school selected the best students from the entire grade to form an elite class, and his classmates became the top dozens of students in the entire grade.

This experience left a deep impression on Cao Sheng.

Therefore, he always remembered the feeling of working hard silently and studying in a tedious way.

He knew that feeling of boredom was actually the feeling of leading to success.

That's how it was in junior high.

The original storyline is similar to the one where someone plunges headfirst into the writing profession, experiencing the feeling of repeated failures while quietly learning and honing their writing skills.

Therefore, he was not afraid of tedious studying.

I even quite like this monotonous feeling.

The monotonous repetition of the same thing every day gave him a sense of peace, because he knew it was a process of gradual progress.

Gou Tian, ​​the reporter from the Jinling Evening News.

Yesterday, he secretly photographed Cao Sheng and Qian Zhenyu fishing by the river from under the stone railing on the opposite bank of the river, obtaining firsthand material about Cao Sheng's scandal. He reaped a great harvest, not only receiving a bonus but also praise from his superior.

Having tasted success, he woke up early that morning. Unable to sleep, he took his camera and went to the stone railing across the river, quietly gazing at Cao Sheng's villa on the other side.

A thought kept swirling in my mind: the early bird catches the worm. I got up so early today, could I get a picture of Cao Sheng again? Like the scene of Cao Sheng getting up early and "fighting" shirtless with that beautiful woman from yesterday at the window?

Because of this thought, he kept his eyes fixed on the windows on the second and third floors of Cao Sheng's villa.

He fantasized about seeing Cao Sheng and a beautiful woman fighting shirtless.

but……

As the sky gradually brightened, he still couldn't see the scene he wanted to see.

But then, by chance, he caught a glimpse of a figure in white training clothes practicing martial arts alone in the open space in front of Cao Sheng's villa.

"this?"

Gou Tian paused for a moment, then opened his eyes wide and stared intently at the figure across the river. After a while, because of the morning mist, he couldn't see clearly. Suddenly, he raised his camera and kept adjusting the focus to look at the white figure through the camera lens.

When he saw the face of the white figure clearly through the camera lens, his expression turned to surprise.

I was pleasantly surprised.

He didn't expect that the early bird would indeed catch the worm; he actually managed to capture Cao Sheng practicing his boxing early in the morning.

Early in the morning, Cao Sheng actually got up to practice his kung fu.

Does he know kung fu?
Did he not only write "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts" but also practice Chinese martial arts himself?
Could it be that the martial arts he describes in his novels aren't fictional, but all real?

No way?
How can this be?

But he really is practicing!
He was practicing alone so early in the morning; he was clearly not just putting on a show. He really knew martial arts.

……

On this side of the river.

Cao Sheng was still immersed in his tedious practice and did not notice that someone was secretly taking pictures of him on the other side of the river so early in the morning.

Even if he notices it, he probably won't care.

Practicing boxing is nothing to be ashamed of.

Focusing wholeheartedly on your own task, forgetting yourself and the world around you, is the best state for learning. Why care whether anyone is paying attention to you?
A moment later, Huang Lijun, Qu Hai, and the others got up and quietly found an open space to practice boxing with Cao Sheng.

When the sun is high in the sky.

Cao Sheng stood with his fists clenched, slowly pressing his palms down, and exhaling a breath of stale air.

Afterwards, she smiled and went back upstairs to wash up and have breakfast.

Assistant Wang Jing was already eating breakfast. Cao Sheng sat down, took the millet porridge that the housekeeper Qin Xiyue had served him, and ate it along with the side dishes, fried dumplings, fried eggs, and other breakfast items on the table. Wang Jing chuckled and teased, "Boss, as an author, how does it feel to always have rumors circulating about you? You must already know about the rumors about you and Miss Qian online, right? What are you planning to do about it?"

Cao Sheng glanced at her and said indifferently, "Don't you want your bonus this month? How dare you talk to me like that? You've got some nerve!"

Wang Jing smiled, knowing he was joking. She immediately put down her chopsticks, clasped her hands in apology, and said, "I'm sorry, boss! I was wrong! Please forgive me this time!"

Cao Sheng smiled and glanced at her sideways.

Wang Jing picked up her chopsticks and continued eating her breakfast. After thinking for a moment, she said, "By the way, boss, there are some news articles online that you may or may not have seen. They say that Ms. Huang claims she broke up with you a long time ago. Did you see those news articles?"

Cao Sheng stopped using his chopsticks.

He turned to look at Wang Jing.

He frowned slightly. "Really? What Huang Qingya told the media?"

While curiously observing Cao Sheng's expression, Wang Jing nodded, "Yes, she said it. You and she really broke up a long time ago?"

Cao Sheng looked down at the breakfast on the table, pondered for a moment, nodded slightly, and hummed in agreement.

Wang Jing's curiosity only intensified.

He opened his mouth as if to ask something more, but then held back.

She noticed that Cao Sheng was in a bad mood and was a little afraid of angering him.

In fact, Cao Sheng's emotions were quite stable at this time.

He was just a little sentimental that the news of his breakup with Huang Qingya had finally spread; before he could even announce it, she had already made it public.

Yes!

She should announce the news first; this will save her some face.

……

after breakfast.

Surrounded by Wang Jing, Huang Lijun, Qu Hai, and others, Cao Sheng arrived at the gate of the courtyard and faced the crowd of reporters outside.

Cao Sheng estimated that there were at least twenty or thirty reporters outside the hospital gate.

As he approached the gate, the reporters, like the chickens and ducks he used to raise, who had been quite quiet at first, suddenly became restless as he drew near, eager to rush to his side, bombarding him with questions like chickens and ducks starting to squawk loudly.

"Mr. Cao! Have you really broken up with Huang Qingya?"

"Ah Hui! Was the beautiful girl you went fishing with yesterday named Qian Zhenyu?"

"Zhongyuan Yidianhui! Have you started dating Qian Zhenyu? Is she your new girlfriend?"

……

Cao Sheng stood about a meter away from the gate, calmly looking at the surging reporters outside. The reporters' appearance reminded Cao Sheng of the zombies in "Resident Evil".

Wang Jing stepped forward to control the atmosphere at the scene.

"Everyone! Dear brothers and sisters, please be quiet! Please be quiet! Can we do it one at a time? Please be quiet! Please be quiet! Thank you! Thank you!"

As the reporters gradually quieted down.

Wang Jing started calling on people to ask questions.

One question after another was posed to Cao Sheng.

"Ah Hui! Have you and Miss Huang Qingya really broken up?"

Cao Sheng nodded slightly, "Yes!"

"Cao Sheng! May I ask when you and Miss Huang Qingya broke up? Was it yesterday? Did you break up because you went fishing with Miss Qian Zhenyu yesterday?"

Cao Sheng remained calm. "We split up during the Spring Festival this year, thank you! Next question!"

The reporters outside the courtyard gate stirred, and many of them brightened up.

"Ah Hui! You and Miss Huang broke up during the Spring Festival. So, you broke up because of your rumored affair with Miss Jiang Xiaoshuang?"

Cao Sheng glanced at the reporter twice, then shook his head in denial, "No! Next question!"

Today he decided to publicly announce his breakup with Huang Qingya.

However, they did not intend to complicate the simple issue and involve Jiang Xiaoshuang.

……

About half an hour later.

As Cao Sheng turned and went back into the villa, the reporters at the gate finally dispersed, leaving excitedly one by one.

They rushed to transmit the news materials they had just obtained back to the media outlets behind them.

Wang Jing followed closely behind Cao Sheng as they returned to the second-floor living room.

After entering, she made tea for Cao Sheng while saying, "Boss! You announced your breakup in public today. Your luck with women is probably going to be booming for a while! Hehe, I wonder how many women outside are going to be excited."

Cao Sheng glanced at her and let out a soft sigh. "Then you'll have to help me keep an eye on things! Starting today, I need to focus on writing my new book. Writing two books at the same time will put me under a lot of pressure. You'll have to take good care of the women outside and the company matters!"

Wang Jing smiled gently, carried over the freshly brewed tea, and placed it on the coffee table in front of Cao Sheng.

As I sat down next to her, she asked with a smile, "Will you give me a bonus at the end of the year?"

Cao Sheng chuckled and nodded slightly.

Giving her a bonus would be a trivial matter for him.

How much bonus would we give her alone?

Give her an extra 10 yuan, and she'll be so excited she'll practically float on air.

……

A few minutes later, Wang Jing went to work at Oriental Sunrise.

Cao Sheng carried his teacup to the study on the third floor, turned on his computer, opened the draft of his new book "Cultivation Chat Group," and spent about twenty minutes carefully reading through the current draft, correcting a few typos. Then he opened his browser, logged into Qidian, logged into the author backend, created a new book, and uploaded the first two chapters of "Cultivation Chat Group" for the website to review and approve.

Yes!

He decided to publish this new book today.

Although he knew that the outside world was more interested in his scandals, and that creating more scandals would help him maintain his popularity.

They create the illusion that they are very popular.

But he didn't want that kind of popularity.

As a professional writer, he still prefers to let his works speak for themselves and communicate with readers through his writing.

Therefore, he hopes that the new book he published today will dilute the scandals surrounding him.

Under his conscious modification, the book "Cultivation Chat Group" has incorporated many realistic elements from the original timeline.

And now it is 2002.

Some of the realistic elements in this book are, in the eyes of readers, Cao Sheng's fantasy about the future world.

But he himself knew that some of the realistic elements in the book actually existed in the original timeline.

When these things also appear in this current time and space.

What will readers feel when they reread this book?

Cao Sheng was quite looking forward to it.

(End of this chapter)