When a new book becomes a hit, I was terrified and couldn't sleep at night the first time. The second time, I was encouraged and happy. The third time, I was confident, steady and calm.
The fourth time... Too lazy? Watch it.
After breaking the one million sales mark, Jian Jing never looked at sales again. She only occasionally glanced at the comments to see readers' feedback.
Most of the reviews are positive.
"From Sleepwalking Girl, we can see that Jian Jing's writing is becoming more mature: the tricks, reasoning, narrative style, and emotional psychology are all very balanced, and each of them can reach more than 8 points. I believe that as long as she continues to write, she will definitely be on the list of mystery literature in history."
"I like Jian Jing! Some mystery works have great tricks but poor narratives, and I can't wait to see the mystery before giving up, but I can't stop reading Jian Jing's works! To be honest, a good novel is more important than anything else."
"What moved me the most about the new work is the delicate description of emotions. We are both teenagers, but I felt depressed after watching Hide and Seek, but Sleepwalking Girl is so much more vivid. Hahaha, I bet there will be a love story later. Childhood sweethearts are better than each other!"
"Ah, a young boy and girl who are both immature and hazy. In the first 10 pages, I thought it was a youth love story, but I was immediately slapped in the face by the end. Is Teacher Jian really so persistent in writing murder mystery stories that he won't consider writing romance novels?"
"I want to praise Jian Jing's outline. The length of the case is just right, not too short to cause loopholes, nor too long to be tiring to read. The tricks are not particularly complicated or showy, but quite ingenious and refreshing. The creation is really mature, and it is worth getting into it."
"Jian Jing is getting better and better at writing!"
"Stable performance, worth buying."
There are also more discerning readers.
"As a senior mystery reader, I am still a little disappointed. Although "Sleepwalking Girl" does not have too many logical errors, it lacks thrilling and gorgeous tricks. I didn't feel hissing after reading it. 4 stars, I feel that 5 stars is still a little short."
“There is no obvious improvement, but there is no regression either. It is just average.”
"It's OK. It can be a bestseller, but it's still far from being a classic."
Of course, no matter how good a work is, there will always be readers who don’t like it, and this is unavoidable.
"Youth literature that complains about pain without any reason? It's just covered in the cloak of reasoning, which makes it look high-end, but it's still bullshit."
"It's bland and not pretty at all."
“I gave up after reading 3 pages.”
…
Generally speaking, the response is good, and the rating on Shuchong.com is stable between 8.5-8.9.
On this day, Jian Jing was packing new books at home, preparing to send them by express.
The book that he promised to give to Jiang Baiyan just came out of the printing factory three days ago, and he came to pick it up on his own initiative. He was even more outrageous and published his review after reading it (flattering) before it was released, which caused Jian Jing's fans to scold him for showing off.
The others still have to be packed and sent out by her.
For example, Leo, Fina, Kojima Wataru, and Duo Lin are all over the world, and there are also many in China. They need to be sent to Zuo Xin, Liang Yi, Zhu Yanan, as well as the closely related screenwriter Xu, director Huang, director Ding, and so on.
In the past, Kang Mucheng (assigned it to his secretary) did this job, but now she has made a lot of random friends, so of course she has to do it herself.
By the way, I haven’t forgotten Ji Yunyun.
She went to the capital to study at university and did not come back on New Year's Day, so she missed the new year's first release. However, Jian Jing had already promised to give her a signed hardcover book as a thank you for her help.
Jian Jing: [Yunyun, should the book be sent to your school or home?]
Ji Yunyun: [Thank you, Teacher Jian. I have already bought the paperback and have finished reading it. I want the one you gave me. Collect it.]
Ji Yunyun: [There is no one to receive the parcel at home, and the security guard has left it in a mess. Can you give it to my brother?]
Jian Jing: [… OK]
Ji Yunyun: [Thanks.jpg]
However, Jian Jing didn't want to look for someone again.
This has happened for the fewest time. She directly dialed the phone and decided to let Ji Feng come and get it himself.
It took a while for the call to get through.
"Teacher Jian, is there something wrong?" he asked.
Jian Jing: "If I call you for no reason, will your phone explode?"
Ji Feng: "... I didn't provoke you."
"When you are free, come and pick up Yunyun's book. She is worried about sending it by express." She was too lazy to talk nonsense.
Ji Feng said, "Tsk, call her? Come get it yourself during the holidays. I'm busy."
Jian Jing narrowed her eyes.
"Is there anything else? If not, I'm hanging up." he asked.
Jian Jing: "You don't want the money anymore?"
Ji Feng paused for a moment, and after that, he seemed to walk to a secluded place and said, "I'm not in Heping City."
He finally said something sensible. Jian Jing decided to chat for a while: "Where have you been?"
"It's quite far away." He said, "I watched your award ceremony. Is everything ok?"
Jian Jing: "Hmm."
There was a celebration party after the award ceremony, and director Ma Lun asked her indirectly whether she knew anything and why she stayed in Korea.
She said that 3Q Group is aiming for the championship of "The King of Reasoning".
"They kept saying that victory should belong to South Korea, but I stole their fruits." Jian Jing pretended to be confused, her anger was hard to hide. "I obviously won by my own strength, but they insisted on accusing me of cheating. I asked them to find someone to confront me, but they couldn't find anyone, so they had to let me go."
Then he turned the tables and asked Mullen, "Why did the victory belong to South Korea? Did you reach a consensus?"
Ma Lun felt guilty and ended the topic with a few random remarks.
"Don't go to South Korea in the next two years." Ji Feng said, "You should also be careful. This kind of thing is more difficult to deal with than a vicious criminal."
Jian Jing was greatly surprised and couldn't help but glance at the communication interface.
That’s right, it’s Ji Feng, not Mr. Kang.
"Did you take the wrong medicine?"
"I didn't eat." He said, "I'm hanging up. You don't have to pay me back. I'm not that stingy."
Then, without waiting for Jian Jing to respond, there was only a busy tone on the other end.
To be honest, at this moment, she felt a sense of uneasiness, but the monsoon was too irritating and made her very unhappy, so she didn't think about it carefully.
In the blink of an eye, three days have passed.
Ji Yunyun called and said, "Teacher Jian, do you know where my brother went?"
Jian Jing: "I don't know."
"I called him, but couldn't get through for two days." The younger sister was very worried. "I don't know the phone number of his colleague. Do you have it?"
Jian Jing gave her Lao Gao's phone number.
Half an hour later, Ji Yunyun sent another reply, saying, "Officer Gao said my brother is on a business trip. It seems that the place he went to is very remote, so there may be no signal."
She was quite embarrassed: "I'm sorry, Teacher Jian, I disturbed you."
"It's okay, it's okay. I don't blame you." Jian Jing quickly comforted her.
Ji Yunyun thanked him several times before hanging up the phone.
Jian Jing called Lao Gao immediately.
"Hey, Teacher Jian?" Lao Gao's voice was as generous as ever. "What's the matter? Did you encounter a case or find a body?"
Jian Jing went straight to the point: "Where's Ji Feng?"
"He went on a business trip." Lao Gao pretended to complain, "He? Didn't he tell you? Oh, this kid is getting more and more outrageous, I'll tell him later?"
She asked, "On January 3, you posted a photo of you and your daughter going to Disneyland on your Moments. He was out that day. Are you two not partners anymore?"
Lao Gao: "Yes, I can't leave here. Of course, only unmarried people can go on a business trip."
"Officer Gao, I have no right to ask you to give me an explanation." Jian Jing said, "But we are all friends. Aren't you afraid that something might happen to him?"
Lao Gao laughed: "We? When is this line of work not dangerous?"
Jian Jing: "Then I'll check it myself."
The breathing on the other end suddenly stagnated. After a while, Lao Gao said, "Actually, I didn't get through to him, but I don't know where he is either."
Jian Jing said: "What is he checking?"
Lao Gao: "I don't know. He didn't tell me anything."
"knew."
Jian Jing hung up the phone, thought for a moment and decided to go out. She put on her woolen coat, scarf and hat, and drove to the police station.
Lao Gao was there right away, and when he saw her, he became extremely nervous: "Teacher Jian, I really can't tell you."
"I'm here to get something." Jian Jing said, "I left something here with you guys. Did you throw it away?"
It took Lao Gaoman a moment to remember that it was a nightclub case. At that time, Jian Jing was waiting for the suspect to speak, and he was watching them record their statements. He brought a bunch of things with him, but in the end he didn't take them away and left them all on Ji Feng's table.
He hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, please do as you please."
Jian Jing began to rummage through Ji Feng's desk.
There was a common desk, cheap and ordinary chairs, mostly blue folders on the desk, and the computer was a slightly old style.
Lao Gao whispered, "Don't look at anything related to work. He definitely didn't put it here."
Jian Jing responded with a sniff and opened the drawer.
The first layer is stationery such as pens, clips, draft paper, some snacks, biscuits, sausages, instant noodles, instant coffee, sugar, and cigarettes.
The second layer is a box with a pink heart. At first glance, it looks like a gift from a girl. "Happiness for a Hundred Years" is written on the side of the box. In fact, it is a candy box, probably given by a colleague.
When she opened it, she found her dropped things: fancy pens, note pads, decompression toys, and a shiny hair tie. It seemed to be hers, but she had no recollection of it.
There is a blanket and coat in the lower cupboard.
Jian Jing sat down in the chair, stared at the box for a while, and suddenly picked up a stress-relieving toy.
This is a puzzle toy she bought. It is a smooth wooden box with gaps visible, but it cannot be opened no matter how hard she tries to rotate it or pull it apart.
She shook the box next to her ear and listened to the steel balls inside turning, three circles to the left, three circles to the right, then shook it downwards and heard a slight falling sound, followed by a sudden slap on the upper layer.
"Plop", the wooden box fell off, revealing the inner box embedded inside.
The box should have been empty, but now, a key was lying there, as if it had been waiting for a long time.
Jian Jing picked up the broken key and gritted her teeth.
"I'm going to kill you." She pushed the chair away and turned away.
Lao Gao who was watching: “…”
Xiao Li was puzzled: "Uncle Gao, why is Brother Ji so depressed?"
"Alas." Lao Gao sighed, his tone quite complicated, "You are still young and don't understand."
There was a light snowfall.
Jane sat quietly in the car with the heater on, thinking: Ji Feng left her a key, where would the lock be
No, at home, he was afraid that Ji Yunyun would be involved, so he would definitely not leave sensitive things there. But other places... He didn't have any places he liked to go.
Jian Jing frowned.
Only then did she realize that although she had known Ji Feng for several years, he rarely revealed his true self.
This is too weird, police are also human beings.
Lao Gao likes to show off his daughter and often reposts some home-cooked recipes on his Moments. Liang Yi loves playing games and shopping, and sometimes she reposts coupons to the group just to get a red envelope of three or four yuan.
Ji Feng’s circle of friends… only contained police notices and press releases, which were clearly mission indicators from the police station.
He? He doesn't seem to have any hobbies.
After thinking for a long time, Jian Jing called Zhu Yanan.
Zhu Yanan: "Teacher Jian?"
"Yanan, were you and Ji Feng classmates in high school?" She went straight to the point.
"Yeah, what's the matter?" Zhu Yanan joked, "Do you want me to sell you some of his stuff?"
Jian Jing asked: "Which class are you in?"
"Class One." Zhu Yanan was surprised. "Why are you asking this?"
"I have something to do." She said vaguely, "Would it be convenient for us to have dinner together today?"
Zhu Yanan looked at the work at hand and said cheerfully, "Okay, you pick a place and I'll come over after get off work."