The atmosphere in the private room was no longer as strong as before, and there were more people chatting together. Therefore, Ji Yanxin and Qi Nian's whispers were not noticeable.
While picking up the meat, Zhou Xinxin asked the editor-in-chief about the current market situation. When she was put on her arm to talk, she was still biting the meat with a stunned expression.
Apparently aware of her abruptness, the girl who spoke with pursed her lips and smiled, "Hello, I'm Qiangi's manager."
Zhou Xinxin swallowed the screw meat in one gulp, looked at Qi Nian sitting diagonally across from him, nodded slightly, but was searching for information related to "Qianmu" in her mind.
"The company is not big, you probably haven't heard of it, I came here to meet the world." Probably seeing through Zhou Xinxin's idea, she briefly introduced Qianmu Company, "It's the intermediary you often talk about. "
An intermediary, as its name implies, is a bridge. The usual way of operation is to buy copyright at a low price, and then sell it to a film and television company at a high price after a little package. Another is to determine the quotation and conditions with the copyright owner, and then connect the film and television company to earn a high price difference.
Zhou Xinxin understood, wiped her oily fingers with a tissue, and smiled politely.
Tonight, no matter who it is, see that Ye Changan has made no secret of his interest in Qi Nian. As an intermediary company, Qianmu is naturally not stupid enough to think that he will have the opportunity to win the agency rights of Qizai's works.
She just inquired about the market conditions in the circle, such as the copyright quotations of various painters.
Zhou Xinxin heard from her that she entered this circle because of a painter she liked. At first, she answered patiently, but the more she talked, the more she realized that the girl didn't seem to have much emotional intelligence, so she couldn't help interrupting: "You talk like this. Directly?"
The girl was stunned for a moment. She didn't seem to notice her displeasure, and nodded her head very honestly, "That's what I usually say."
Zhou Xinxin sighed softly and slandered: "Then your boss is also generous enough."
until-
The girl said it herself, and blurted out: "Does your seven cubs have a good relationship with Lu Qingwu of Rongpin Culture?"
Zhou Xinxin swallowed a mouthful of tender fish and almost choked. Looking back at the girl, she was shocked and surprised, "Who told you that?"
The girl looked at her in confusion, "Isn't it okay? But when I was hooking up with Lu Qingwu on Weibo a while ago, she recommended Qizai to me, and she also said that her style is more Korean, and she is very girlish. …”
Zhou Xinxin's face became more ugly the more she listened, "What else did she say to you?"
"I also said that Qizai's works are highly maneuverable. Isn't there a popular weekly drama adapted from a comic? She also directly passed me the list of topics for that drama, saying that it can be used directly after modification." Said In the end, in Zhou Xinxin's angry eyes, the girl's voice was inaudible.
She glanced at Zhou Xinxin timidly, a little nervous, "Did I say something wrong?"
Zhou Xinxin sneered and patted the girl on the shoulder, "No, I would also like to thank you for telling me about it."
When the words fell, she turned her head and stared at Lu Qingwu, who was chatting and laughing at the banquet, and clenched her fists.
Zhou Xinxin's contacts in the film and television industry have just developed this year, and her abilities are limited. Seriously, it is entirely up to Qi Nian that she can enter this circle.
Qi Nian does not like to write the outline of the story, and does not like to analyze the market. For her, painting is like a small world that she has circled. In this world, she shares the stories she created with her little angel, without causing trouble or criticizing others, just enjoying herself.
This kind of character has led her to go with the flow in all aspects of her development. When the concept of IP did not exist in the first two years, the film and televisionization of comics was limited in China. In the past two years, the IP fever driven by the adaptation of works has caused more and more people to contact Qi Nian for copyright.
Qi Nian used the excuse that he didn't understand anything, and threw the stall directly to her, accidentally letting her enter this new field.
After Qi Nian's "Beauty Yi Xiu" began serialization, her popularity skyrocketed, and there were many people who wanted to sign Qi Nian's full copyright.
After rejecting a few companies that looked unreliable, there were rumors that the copyright of Qi Nian's "Beauty Yi Xiu" was worthless, because it was based on the cartoon that was popular before, and it was copy and pasted.
But at that time, there were still many film and television companies that contacted Zhou Xinxin, especially Ye Changan's studio. She didn't think much about it, and the result... The truth of the matter turned out to be like this.
Zhou Xinxin hooked the girl who was about to urinate and smiled very kindly and beautifully, "How about you give me a screenshot of the chat record between you and Lu Qingwu?"
The girl's face changed, and she shook her head in resistance.
"That's it." Zhou Xinxin knocked on the table and lowered her voice to discuss with her, "You opened the chat record, I moved your phone while you were going to the bathroom, and it has nothing to do with you. You didn't say anything before. Do you have a favorite painter? No matter who it is, how about I sign it for you within a month and send it to you?"
five minutes later.
Zhou Xinxin put away the phone with a dark face, gritted her teeth viciously, pushed aside the chair and walked to the vacant seat next to Lu Qingwu, sat down, and turned her head to Lu Qingwu's somewhat indifferent and stagnant expression, revealing eight With a standard smile of teeth, he raised a toast to her, "Ask the next teacher if you have anything."
The voice, neither high nor low, attracted the eyes of half of the people.
Qi Nian had already picked up her bag and was about to leave early. Hearing this, she looked at Zhou Xinxin with a bad face, frowned and sat back again.
She had also reminded her to be careful of Lu Qingwu's shady tricks, and it seemed that it could end peacefully... Why did Zhou Xinxin hit the gun on her own
She turned her head to look at the editor-in-chief in doubt, and seeing that he also had an unsure expression, she glanced at the wine bottle in front of Zhou Xinxin.
Didn't drink much... ruled out the possibility of being drunk.
It's not a menstrual period... It also ruled out the possibility of wanting to fight with someone because of irritability.
The only reasonable explanation left is to be stimulated and simply want to bully back. Sometimes, Zhou Xinxin is more irrational than her when facing Lu Qingwu.
Aware of her sudden cooling down, Ji Yanxin's hand on the back of her chair gently pulled her back collar, and when she turned to look at her, she asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
"It's a long story." Qi Nian sighed, carefully covering the emotions in his eyes, holding his fingers, "Just a little while longer, just a little while!"
Her hands were warm and warm, so intertwined, she could vaguely catch the beating pulse on her wrist, the rhythm was clear and lively.
Ji Yanxin looked at her fair and slender fingers for a long time before he said "um", and replied, "If you can't go back later, I'll open a room here."
Qi Niangang's heavy heart was not fermented for a few seconds, but Ji Yanxin's words were successfully shattered...
Can not afford to fall to the ground.
Zhou Xinxin sat here on impulse, and before she had time to retreat, she suddenly remembered the picture of Qi Nian's restraint and forbearance in the afternoon. When his brain became hot, he immediately scolded Lu Qingwu in his heart to be bloody and courageous.
Knowing that the visitor is not good, Lu Qingwu first put on a humble attitude, glanced at Qi Nian, and smiled, "Are you the editor of Qizai? What is the problem, you say."
Zhou Xinxin pondered for a while and said, "Let's take an inappropriate example first. When opening a business, we pay attention to the issue of integrity. For businessmen, integrity is the first priority. Similarly, word of mouth is also a facade for the author. Do you think it is malicious? Is there any virtue in corrupting the reputation of a work?"
Lu Qingwu looked back at her without evasion, and said with a chuckle, "Are you saying that I maliciously ruined the reputation of Seven Cubs?"
Before Zhou Xinxin could answer, Lu Qingwu let out another low laugh. Although she lowered her voice, how could anyone who pricked up her ears could not hear her fluttering rhetorical question: "Does she still have a reputation?"
With that sarcastic tone, Zhou Xinxin's blood pressure suddenly soared, her fingers tightening her grip on the wine glass, she suppressed the urge to pour red wine on her face with great restraint.
Ji Yanxin frowned slightly, stared at Lu Qingwu, who was smiling brightly, and a cold light suddenly gathered in his eyes. As soon as the aura that strangers should not be approached opened, the temperature of the whole body plummeted, making people feel cold on their backs for no reason.
Qi Nian pursed her lips tightly, and was stared at by those scrutinizing or curious eyes, a little embarrassed and a little embarrassed.
Just when Zhou Xinxin was thinking about whether to throw the screenshot on Lu Qingwu's face, when she pulled it back, a cold and almost cold voice sounded unhurriedly: "Why don't you answer her question directly?"
The deep voice contained a hint of oppression, which made people have to surrender.
As soon as Lu Qingwu turned her head, she looked at Shang Ji Yanxin's emotionless eyes, cold and deep, like Gujing, the more calm and oppressive it was.
Her heart skipped a beat, and she felt that she was overwhelmed and breathless. She was secretly startled, and after a little thought, she replied, "It's very immoral."
Ji Yanxin clasped Qi Nian's fingers on his lap with his backhand, lowered his head, as if he didn't care about the stagnant atmosphere, and looked at her fingers seriously.
Qi Nian's hands are very slender, with well-defined joints, well-proportioned and coordinated, and the nails are neatly trimmed and glowing with a faint light. The only flaw is probably the faint half-moon mark on the base of the finger, and there is no trace of the half-moon mark on the ring finger and pinky finger. .
He frowned, raised his eyes and stared at Qi Nian fiercely.
When Qi Nian, who was still moved, received his very displeased eyes, he was a little baffled.
Qi Nian was still confused about what he had done to make him unhappy, Ji Yanxin asked again slowly, "Then you just did that for no reason, is it wicked?"
Lu Qingwu was speechless by his intimidating eyes, and when he came to his mouth, the words "Seven cubs plagiarized me a few years ago is known to everyone. I said she didn't have a reputation or I was wrong" lingered for a while. Second, I can't say it confidently.
Lu Qingwu took a sip of red wine crampedly to relieve the thirst in the depths of her throat, and she calmed down for a moment, knowing that she couldn't confront this man head-on, so she apologized in a low voice, "I'm sorry, I was unintentional. "
Ji Yanxin was indifferent.
He never had the patience to deal with women, and it was because she bowed her head a little dazzlingly at that moment, and he couldn't bear to be bullied, ridiculed or suspected, so he got involved.
To hear an apology so easily is really not a sense of accomplishment.
In awkward silence.
Qi Nian stared at Ji Yanxin with a smile, and lightly scratched the back of his hand with his fingertips, saying, "It's getting late, shall we go first?"
Ji Yanxin was noncommittal and just stood up with her. The next second, I heard Qi Nian say rudely: "I don't think it's necessary to not respond all the time, but now I find out that my silence will be interpreted as acquiescence and concession, so these years, you can feel at ease with a pair of words. The attitude of the victim wantonly smeared me. You made an inadvertent understatement. If you did it on purpose, would you force me to delete my account and commit suicide as I did four years ago
"Lu Qingwu, you are still so self-righteous!"
Qi Nian has been holding her breath since she saw Lu Qingwu in the afternoon, as if she was simmering lightly on a small fire. Occasionally, the sparks burst out because the temperature was not high enough to scald her.
But when these sparks splashed on the hem of her clothes and burned her favorite clothes, it was enough for her to boil.
Qi Nian's appearance belongs to the non-aggressive category, especially when he laughs, his black eyes are particularly radiant.
But when she looked down at Lu Qingwu with a cold face, the cold and angry arrogance made people feel oppressed like never before, as if she had been aroused by the darkest coldness in her heart, penetrating into the bones.
Lu Qingwu looked at her in astonishment. She never expected that she would be in trouble at such a time. In her memory, the person who always smiled at her very tenderly and the image of the cold brow and the astonishingly imposing image in front of her could no longer overlap.
She avoided Qi Nian's eyes almost embarrassedly, her fingers on her knees clenched into fists, forced herself to calm down for a few seconds, and when she raised her head again, she looked at her without any waves in her eyes, and smiled, " Cub, let's talk about it in private if there is anything."
Lu Qingwu gives the impression of a gentle temperament, and the occasional coldness makes her a character like an orchid in an empty valley, which is indisputable. Especially when she used this somewhat indulgent tone, it was as if she was coaxing a willful and coquettish girl.
She pushed the wine glass away and smiled softly, "If you insist on confronting me, I will not feel guilty at all. I didn't force you. You did such a bad thing to me four years ago, and I still stand by you. By the way, I want to hear your explanation. You are unwilling and forcibly defended and angered the fans. Are you sure you want me to continue speaking on this occasion?"
After a few words, he made a full gesture.
Qi Nian was so angry that his heart beat a little out of order. Almost immediately, he recalled what Lu Qingwu described four years ago.
After getting to know Lu Qingwu, she would often give Qi Nian some advice and revise her shortcomings. At that time, Qi Nian was like a sponge, constantly absorbing all the knowledge from her, making up for the lack of skills, and naturally began to discuss the story.
Lu Qingwu debuted a year earlier than her, and already has some experience in how to grasp the readers' psychology, and the opinions given usually make Qi Nian's eyes shine.
At that time, the platform did not have the constraints of signing a contract. Lu Qingwu proposed to share a vest to help her practice writing and agreed to keep it private. When it was treated as an independent trumpet, Qi Nian agreed with no heart.
The vest is called Qiyue Qingwu. The idea of the first work was Qi Nian's campus stalk. She wrote the outline of the story and passed it to Lu Qingwu, who made a slight modification and drew the first scene and uploaded it to the website. Since then, except for the occasional painting of a few transitions and minor revisions, I have not intervened.
Qi Nian understood that Lu Qingwu used her own large-scale update with regular fans, and she often recommended the "Qingwu Qingwu" vest, and gradually, this vest also had her own fans.
After getting used to it, every time Qi Nian updates or releases a new work, he will upload it to the vest of Qiyue Qingwu first. After two consecutive works ended in the same pattern as the first one, Qiyue Qingwu's vest has begun to occupy a small place in the circle, and it also vaguely revealed the characteristics of a dark horse.
At that time, a few days before the college entrance examination, Lu Qingwu recommended the editor of the publishing house to her. Because she was banned from the Internet by Qi's father and Qi's mother, she could only contact Lu Qingwu at the Internet bar, and entrusted her with the signing of the contract. After the college entrance examination, Qi Nian received a contract from the other publishing house.
That is, in the month when she disconnected from the Internet to prepare for the college entrance examination, Lu Qingwu concealed from Qi Nian that Rongpin Culture was going to sign the three comics of Qingwu in July, and modified the registration information of this vest, the login password, and used Lu. In the name of Qing Wu, these three works are directly owned by them.
After Qi Nian finished the college entrance examination, he followed his cousin to travel abroad. The plane was not a direct flight, and it happened to be a transfer in the city where Lu Qingwu was located, so when Lu Qingwu suggested that Qi Nian stay and play for a few days, Qi Nian did not hesitate. agreed.
That is to say, during these few days of getting along, Lu Qingwu premeditatedly damaged Qi Nian's laptop, and insisted on compensating her for a laptop of the same model.
Step by step, she was good at calculating. Even if Qi Nian wanted to convince herself later, she might just be blinded by the high-priced signing gold from Rongpin and couldn't do it.
Qi Nian will never forget the night she happily bid farewell to Lu Qingwu and returned to Z City.
After taking a shower, she was about to pack her luggage when she received a private message from Zhou Xinxin on Weibo, and hurriedly crawled the Internet to take a look - the top post on the comic forum was a post about her plagiarism.
And her Weibo was already full of vile scolding.
She almost suspected that she was dreaming. A few hours ago, Lu Qingwu reluctantly said goodbye to her at the airport. Before boarding the plane, she smiled and agreed to go on a trip with her on the 11th holiday...
In just a few hours, the pusher of fate pushed them one to the left and the other to the right to completely push them into two worlds.
Qi Nian didn't have any evidence to prove that he was Qiyue Qingwu. All the evidence was destroyed by Lu Qingwu's cup of hot coffee two days ago.
And Lu Qingwu, just posting a few chat records is enough to guide the direction of public opinion.
She watched from the sidelines that Qi Nian was pushed into the dark abyss by everything she led, and faced Qi Nian's questioning, she always said lightly: "Qi Nian, as long as you admit and apologize, I will still stand by you. here."
Even if she remembered this sentence now, it was still dazzling and piercing her heart.
Lu Qingwu was not just theft, but also Ling Chi and torture.
These memories, which she had deliberately forgotten, rushed to her face, and the heavy emotions instantly overwhelmed her.
Qi Nian shivered a little back, and was supported by Ji Yanxin on the lower back, and then she stood firm. She covered her painful heart and stared at Lu Qingwu.
After a while, Qi Nian actually laughed. The coldness in that smile made Zhou Xinxin fight a cold war. She had a few screenshots of herself and dared to do it, and regretted her bowels.
"Thanks to you, four years ago I fell to the ground and my blood was broken. Those lessons are really unforgettable." Qi Nian took a deep breath and forced back the water in his eyes.
Even if she had to use all her strength to speak a word at this moment, even if the space was so cramped that she couldn't breathe, she still gritted her teeth and said word by word, "I won't just let it go, I advise you to hide it. Your own tail, don't give me the opportunity to step on you and grind you to ashes."
Unlike the stagnant atmosphere in the private room, the night style is peaceful and soft.
Zhou Xinxin used to scoff at those male protagonists who were still climbing the stairs in the elevator, but couldn't even wait a few seconds to run up the stairs to chase people, but now, when she was panting and pushed open the safety passage door of the stairwell to chase out, she thought in her mind. Only the sound of the wind over the ears remained.
After finally catching up with Qi Nian, Zhou Xinxin didn't even have time to take a breath. She held Qi Nian's hand in her palm, bowed and apologized: "Yes, I'm sorry..."
Upon seeing this, Ji Yanxin explained that Qi Nian was waiting for him at the door, and went straight to the parking lot to pick up the car, giving them time to talk.
Zhou Xinxin glanced at him gratefully, and was about to apologize again, when she just bent over, Qi Nian put her fingers against the eyebrows and raised it gently, "What kind of apology do you say?"
The voice was hoarse, and the tone was very depressed.
Zhou Xinxin's eyes were full of tears, she sniffed, and then she choked on a nasal voice: "I couldn't help you tear up that little bitch, I regret it so much that my bowels are blue... I really, I still remember to remind you to be careful. Click, and as soon as my sperm got on my head, I would go up to provoke without any confidence, and implicate you."
Qi Nian has been awake a lot after being blown by the night wind. Listening to her explanation of the inconsistency of the foreword and the description of "the sperm is on the brain", even if she is really angry, she will dissipate, not to mention she is not angry at all. .
"I'm fine." Qi Nian withdrew his hand from her palm, took out a tissue from her bag and handed it to her, "Run down? My palms are sweaty."
Zhou Xinxin was moved to kneel by Qi Nian's thoughtfulness, and blamed herself more and more, but she didn't know what to comfort her in this situation. Thinking of these things, I can't stand it, let alone you..."
She sobbed, turned around and rubbed her eyes with Qi Nian behind her back, "This is definitely a hatred that can throw acid, how can you swallow it."
"I can't swallow it." Qi Young sighed, the soreness and fermentation at the top of her heart filled her whole atrium, and her mind was in a mess, which she couldn't clean up or sort out. Because of the strong suppression of the desire to cry, the tip of the nose hurt so much that I couldn't breathe, and my whole heart was twisted together, and I kept stirring, stirring, and stirring.
She was unkind to others, but she fell to the ground four years ago, and she has a share of her own. She is too stupid and too easy to believe that others are too mindless, so that she was pressed to the ground by Lu Qingwu, her whole face was covered with tears. Rolled into the ground, unable to resist.
Really frustrating and useless.
The black car slid over from the darkness and stopped in front of Qi Nian. The window was lowered, revealing Ji Yanxin's handsome face that was indifferent between joy and anger.
Qi Nian patted Zhou Xinxin on the shoulder, "Don't worry about me, it's really ugly to make a mess like this, think about how to clean up this mess, I'll go back first."
Zhou Xinxin responded and watched her get into the car. When the car merged into the traffic flow, she could no longer see clearly, and then she turned back.
Ji Yanxin sent her back to the apartment near the school.
Qi Nian was silent all the way, and when he opened the door to get out of the car, he said, "Then I'll go back first, be careful on the road."
Ji Yanxin glanced at her and heard that she was issuing an expulsion order, so he didn't say anything.
Qi Nian's whole body is now tense, and the string that was pulled tightly by her can break at any time as long as it is touched. She didn't want Ji Yanxin to see how badly she was emotionally broken down, and she couldn't whitewash what happened tonight.
But at this time, she didn't want to say it, didn't want to explain, and didn't want to explain.
After waiting for his answer for a long time, Qi Nian closed his eyes, feeling a little tired, "I'll tell you about tonight's matter tomorrow, I'll go back first."
"Come on, I'll take you to the door."
Qi Nian raised his eyes to see his particularly soft profile in the night, moved his lips, but didn't insist any longer.
Ji Yanxin took her to the door, and frowned when she saw that she pushed the door open and walked into the house, with a quiet that was completely inconsistent with normal.
At his feet was the garbage bag that Qi Nian picked up at noon. Originally, he took it with him when he was going out, but he forgot it in a hurry and kept it at the door.
He bent down to pick up the garbage bag, and just turned around, the small hand stretched out behind him tightly grabbed his cuff.
Qi Nian couldn't hide the turbulent tears in his eyes, and asked with a trembling voice, "I changed my mind, don't you go now, okay?"
The person who was holding her cuff didn't look back, stood silently for a while, raised her other hand and gently pulled her away.
Qi Nian was stunned, but before his heart could cool down, he turned around and looked down at her eyes. His slender figure covered up the large white light in the corridor, and Qi Nian, who was standing at the door, was completely caged. in the shadows.
"I think you should need time to be by yourself for a while, and plan to throw a garbage bag and come back up." Ji Yanxin put the garbage bag back to the wall, supported her shoulders and pushed her into the room two steps, closed the door with her backhand, "Don't go. ,be with you."
The sudden tenderness suddenly hit her heart.
Qi Nian endured it, but couldn't hold back, the tears still fell. She swallowed her cry, wiped her eyes with her cuff, and raised her hand to turn on the light.
Just as he stretched out his hand, Ji Yanxin grabbed his wrist and pulled it back.
In the darkness of the room, he bent down, pressed the tip of his nose against hers, and rubbed affectionately. When he spoke, the voice was low and deep, a little coaxing, a little indulgent: "Cry, I don't watch."