This morning, the first ceremony was a bit late.
This is actually not in line with her usual painting style of getting up early and working late at night, but today is purely accidental—
On Saturday afternoon, she got the manuscript of the first three chapters of Jiang Yucheng's "The Lost Amusement Park". After saying goodbye to the adults, she called Yu Yao as soon as she walked out of the hot spring club, but reminded her that Yu Yao's mobile phone was shut down—sent a text message I sent WeChat and Q, but there was no response. For a moment, she almost wondered if her editor-in-chief was mad at her;
In desperation, she returned to City G at ten o'clock last night, and could only take a series of things back to the editorial department as quickly as possible and put them on Yao's desk. can be seen at the first time;
It was almost twelve o'clock when I got home at night, and it was one o'clock in the morning when I washed up and went to bed...
So the next day, of course, I stayed in bed for more than forty minutes more than usual. When Chu Li hurried into the office, the people in the office were packing up their things for a meeting—
Lao Miao raised her head and glanced at her, and smiled slyly: "What's the matter, did you sleep well last night? I envy you heartless people. You don't know the severity of the trouble, so you can sit back and relax."
The little bird raised his eyelids and glanced at Chu Li expressionlessly, then brushed his hair;
Ah Xiang looked at Chu Li worriedly;
Another American editor, Li Shiwai, who looked like a good person, picked up his folder and said in a voice with a local accent: "Go to a meeting, and it's a bit of a scolding, just bear it." It’s over, why are you here now?”
First ceremony: "..."
Chu Li saw that the atmosphere of the editorial department was like a cemetery, and guessed what was going on on the spot... Looking up at Yu Yao, Yu Yao was picking up a familiar USB flash drive from the table and putting it in his jacket pocket, feeling that Chu Li Looking at her, she raised her head and smiled at Chu Li, and nodded as if to appease.
Chu Li: "Good morning, boss."
Yu Yao: "Good morning, thank you for your hard work."
Lao Miao's face was absurd: "Am I deaf or are you blind?" "??? Hello? What is she working hard for?"
Everyone: "..."
This day is the Monday morning meeting of the entire Yuanyue Society, which means that not only the editorial department of "Moonlight" magazine, but also the editorial department of "Star Trail" magazine, the financial department of Yuanyue Society, the sales department and other departments sat around in a circle cauldron stew…
Jiang Yucheng's matter was full of turmoil on Friday night. At this moment, the whole world is probably waiting to see the jokes of the editorial department of "Moonlight". Going to die generously with a mentality of "I will be a circus animal today"—under the leadership of Yu Yao, ten minutes later, the entire editorial department of "Moonlight" rushed into the conference room and sat down there. , Everyone's face is like a dead pig that "soldiers come to block, water comes to cover up, if you want to scold, scold the editor-in-chief first".
At the beginning of the meeting, each department routinely reported on the work progress of the previous week. After the editorial department of "Star Track", which was the penultimate speaker, finished speaking, everyone was silent for a few seconds, and then turned their heads in unison with the expression of "the start of a good show" , watching everyone in the editorial department of "Moonlight"—
First ceremony: "..."
Very exciting.
She rushed from one cemetery (*editorial department) to another cemetery (*meeting room).
Amidst the eyes of everyone, Mr. Xia, the fifty-five-year-old straight man and the editor-in-chief of Yuanyue Club, who once brought out the ritual to suppress that evildoer in Richuan, cleared his throat, and finally said, ""Luohe Shenshu" and "Huahua How are you doing?"
Yu Yao: "Last week Mr. Zhou Chuan came to the editorial department, and the responsible editor took him to the library to choose the cover style. After the cover is confirmed, we can start looking for artists to advance the cover design..."
Lao Miao: ""Hua Li" is ready to enter the promotion period."
Teacher Xia nodded: "Two books, you should be a little tighter, especially "Luohe Divine Book", you need to find a good painter, you have to be worthy of Zhou Chuan—preferably a painting that has already become famous and sells ancient styles. Hands, don’t be reluctant to pay the cost... Then try to catch up with the progress. Both books will be listed before the book fair in October—our Yuanyue Club has been doing traditional literature in the past, and has never participated in this kind of book fair that is biased towards young people. , this first battle has to be fought beautifully to impress others..."
Teacher Xia: "Besides these two books, are there other projects that can be promoted?"
Yu Yao: "The other authors who cooperate with the magazine don't have any suitable books for now..."
Teacher Xia: "Where is that ghost that appeared in the June issue? I see that there are quite a few comments about her on the official Weibo?"
Yu Yao: "Huh?"
Teacher Xia: "That's the one that many people asked, that's a ghost!"
Yu Yao: "...ghost baby?"
First ceremony: "... ... ... ..."
Guiwa is a gay man, teacher! ! ! ! ! ! !
Why mention her! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Still think the air is not dignified enough? ! ! ! !
"Oh, that's right," Editor-in-Chief Xia said slowly, completely ignoring Chu Li's instant gaze of death, "Speaking of the June issue, and about last week's "Moonlight" magazine's June issue project, Jiang Yucheng was invited , and asked Jiang Yucheng to write us a frontispiece to plan this matter... "
coming.
Chu Li moved his lips, at this time Yu Yao kicked her under the table, gave her a look, and signaled her to shut up first.
Here, Lao Miao thought for a while and said, "Mr. Xia, it's like this. The editor in charge of this matter is still a newcomer who has just officially joined the job. He doesn't know much about the pros, cons and functions of our magazine... That's why he came up with this." It belongs to the follow-up review and failed to check it properly, and Yu Yao and I are also responsible."
Teacher Xia: "No, no, I don't mean to ask who is responsible! It's actually not uncommon to advertise authors for free. For example, "Star Trail" also received a cooperation with "Luohe Divine Book" Is it an advertising task for the listing? In our business, it is also necessary to have a good relationship with the author, so you don't have to be so nervous... "
—The standard ellipsis ending sentence pattern, the turning point is coming, the beginning of the next sentence is either "but" or "just".
Chu Li thought expressionlessly.
Teacher Xia: "It's just that the author, Jiang Yucheng, is a very famous author, but after all, he didn't cooperate with our Yuanyue Society before... Although he wanted to build a good relationship and strive for cooperation, he wasted a whole P to give others free advertising space —”
Teacher Xia: "If this book "The Lost Amusement Park" is finally signed to the next-door Xindun Publishing House, it will be a bit embarrassing."
"Xindun" has always been a giant in the youth-oriented fiction literature industry. Originally, Yuanyue Society, which was engaged in traditional literature, was quite incompatible. After trying to get a piece of the non-traditional literary fiction project...
The positions of the two societies became somewhat awkward.
In any case, as a member of Yuanyue Club, everyone doesn't want to be laughed at by Xindun's people.
So when Mr. Xia's words came out, the atmosphere was a bit serious - at this time Yu Yao kicked Chu Li under the table again, Chu Li trembled and looked at her boss.
Yu Yao kept a dignified smile: "Chu Li, you report the work progress to Mr. Xia."
Chu Li nodded reflexively, and stood up. From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Yu Yao reaching into his jacket pocket: inside was the first three chapters of "The Lost Amusement Park".
Chuli settled down, and under the gazes of all the senior executives of the Yuanyue Club on the scene, she took a deep breath and looked at the editor-in-chief not far away, and heard her own steady voice remember: "Mr. "Paradise", I have already won the serialization rights from the veteran Jiang Yucheng, and I just got the sample draft yesterday—"
Yu Yao put down the USB flash drive in his hand, stood up a little and pushed it to the middle of the table where everyone could see it.
Under the shocked eyes of Lao Miao and others, Chu Li nodded: "I am preparing to advance the project to the stage of asking the legal department to draw up the first version of the contract according to the teacher's request."
Chu Li: "According to our preliminary plan for "Moonlight", we will complete the project contract as soon as possible, find a supporting artist, and then try to start the official serialization of "The Lost Amusement Park" in the September issue."
The voice of Chu Li was loud and clear, and after finishing speaking, his eyes calmly scanned the surrounding people—
The air at the scene was quiet for three or four seconds.
Yu Yao and Ah Xiang were laughing; Lao Li raised his eyebrows in surprise; Xiaoniao still had a cold, dead face; Lao Miao's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
The editor-in-chief of Yuanyue Society probably didn't expect her to talk about this book. After a while, he smiled like all the high-level executives, and said, "It's signed" and "Why didn't you say it earlier"...
The meeting room suddenly changed from the solemnity of a cemetery to the joy of a disco.
Eat with Lao Miao's face as black as the bottom of a pot—
The atmosphere at the scene can probably be summed up in the four words "Grave Head Jumping Disco".
... Well, of course it was Lao Miao's grave that jumped.
About half an hour later, at the end of the meeting, I heard that Chuli took advantage of the weekend break to go to other cities to take down Jiang Yucheng in person, and the editor-in-chief Mrs. Xia personally said "Thanks for your hard work" to Chuli.
It was exactly the same as what Yu Yao said.
Only this time, no one dared to ask Teacher Xia in a skeptical tone, "What is she working hard for?" The senior executives looked at this newcomer editor who had just entered Yuanyue Club and won two great gods to create miracles in a row—
Chu Li's heart was full of joy when he saw that look in his eyes, and he had the illusion that next month's salary might be raised a little bit more.
…
After the meeting, everyone returned to the editorial department. Chu Li logged on to the official Weibo of "Moonlight" and reposted the prologue of "The Lost Zoo" posted by Jiang Yucheng on Friday with the words—
["Moonlight" Magazine: Looking forward to the cooperation with Teacher Jiang Yucheng o(*////___////*)q]
The people who eat melons on Weibo also responded immediately——
[Wow, it turns out that I really want to cooperate with Jiang Yucheng!]
["Moonlight" is amazing, first it was Hiukawa and then Jiang Yucheng... It is indeed a veteran industry leader, taking down a few masters is as easy as drinking water...]
[Our outdated author Jiang Yucheng finally doesn't have to go hungry! Great, great, great new book, come on! ! !]
[When will the serialization start? Buy, buy, buy!]
[QAQ can still see Jiang Yucheng's serialization in my lifetime, I am so happy that I want to cry... Thank you "Moonlight" magazine, thank you editor!]
After ten minutes of reposting on Weibo, thousands of comments were quickly accumulated, private messages were flooded, and fans on the official Weibo skyrocketed. It was so lively for a while! Chu Li looked at those readers' comments happily, and was infected by those elated expectations...
Apart from being an editor, she is also a reader of Jiang Yucheng.
She probably knows exactly what kind of state a reader wants to see the author she likes—
At the very beginning, finding an unknown author among the crowd was like obtaining a treasure among the vast crowd;
Hold his works and read through the night, every word and every sentence, maybe grinning silly with the book, maybe secretly jealous with the book;
Close the book and go around to give Amway to others, emphasizing over and over again: His book is so beautiful! Great plot, great writing! Sooner or later it will become super-red!
Finally, one day, he really became popular all over the country, and the mood that was carefully cherished at the beginning suddenly turned into joy and bitterness—the joy is that many people fall in love with the person I like, and the bitterness is that in the vast crowd In the midst of it, it probably got a little farther away from the one I like;
Seeing his popularity, buying every one of his books, I feel happy in my heart;
Then watching him enter the bottleneck that he will definitely go through, going downhill, being ridiculed, being ridiculed by others, as if stuck in a quagmire, he was anxious;
I accidentally found that his Q and Weibo were changed to helpless words: Will it be silent
So I started to worry, would he just give up like this
I started to get scared, Da Da, when will you open a new book
I started to feel uneasy, afraid that one day when I opened Weibo, I would see an author I liked and say: I’m sorry everyone, I’ve closed my pen...
— until one day.
—Seeing the author I like stand back in front of everyone energetically, and tell everyone with a smile: Sorry for the long wait, I am starting a new article! This time, we are cooperating with a very powerful physical leader. I am fine, don’t worry!
At that time, as a reader who always loves, fears, and expects, the feeling that the rock hanging in the heart finally falls to the ground cannot be expressed or described by ordinary words.
—The feeling of looking forward to his return to the top.
—I want to tell him loudly, Da Da, you are great, and you will not be silent!
…
[Ding dong.]
The microblog forwarding prompt sounded, and the number of @ was rapidly increasing. Chuli clicked on the content of @, and found that it was Jiang Yucheng's forwarding—
[Jiang Yucheng: @《月光》杂志 Then please take care of me next time! (＾＾＾)]
The comments below are naturally the ecstasy of readers and fans. Everyone congratulated Jiang Yucheng for opening a new book and finding a reliable partner... Sitting in front of the computer, Chu Li sneered. At this moment, Chu Li felt that she and these The hearts of fans are connected—
The joy they wanted to express, she received perfectly.
She felt very happy and very happy.
I have never been so lucky to step into this circle like this second.