One day in January, the weather is still relatively cold. In the early morning, in a simple and elegant study in Jianghai City, a gentleman sat quietly in front of the computer alone. His spirit was highly concentrated, as if he was looking at some more important documents.

This gentleman is naturally Lu Yichou, president of Qianhong Culture, and is known as the "most literary businessman". At this time, what he read was not an important document, but the beginning of a manuscript, whose name was "Xiao Shiyilang".

Although the beginning is only three short chapters, and it is basically composed of short sentences and dialogues, the experienced Lu Yichou still took nearly an hour to read it back and forth twice before turning his eyes away from the computer screen and falling into deep thought.

Unlike the experience I felt when I read Gu Yongsheng's manuscripts several times before, this time I was not astonished or shocked, but a little... confused and difficult to understand. Although he had long known that this was a novel tailor-made for the script, based on his years of reading experience and professional intuition, there was a clear difference between this book "Xiao Shiyilang" and any of his previous books. This gap is not only reflected in the perspective of segmented words and narratives, but more importantly, the overall style and feeling, as well as the very different character temperament.

Feng Siniang, who appeared in the beginning of this book, can be said to be no similar to the previous female characters. Feng Siniang's arrogance and stinginess, not to mention that she can't find any trace of Liu Yufang or Li Wenxiu, even compared with the same arrogant and arrogant Lian Nishang, it is completely different.

Feng Siniang saw through the worldly love, but she was still sad about the worldly love. For example, she cared about her age, for example, she didn't care about others peeking at her taking a bath, and for example, she hated marrying, and for example, she loved Xiao Shiyilang...

In short, different is different.

Lu Yichou rubbed his eyebrows and felt more and more complicated. He had met Gu Yongsheng, talked to him, and talked seriously about literature. He did not suspect that these things were from Gu Yongsheng, but - he was worried.

As a businessman, he was worried, as an expert in the industry, he was worried. Because Gu Yongsheng's previous works had accumulated a lot of popularity and attracted a certain scale of fans, his sudden change in style will inevitably cause readers to rebound, which is the part that businessmen are worried about.

In addition, as a growing author, transformation is undoubtedly a high-risk choice.

Lu Yichou saw this clearly. But he would not try to do anything to convince Gu Yongsheng. First, apart from the style changes, the beginning of this story is indeed unique, and it can be said to be frequent highlights. First, he, who had been an editor, understood that any author in the world is a little narcissistic. Once they conceived a story and decided to start writing, basically no one can persuade them.

So Lu Yichou immediately transferred the manuscript to Wei Wuzhi and Yi Shui'an. Later, he left a message to Gu Yongsheng WC: "I have read the new book, so I have time to talk about it in detail."

...

Gu Yongsheng naturally has no time now because he is talking to Mihu in detail.

"How is it, what do you think?" Liu Jingting asked Mi Hu confidently after reading the first three chapters.

Mihu did not answer.

Liu Jingting was not in a hurry, because he knew that as long as he had a little understanding of the martial arts and martial arts market, he could roughly judge the infinite potential of this manuscript. Of course, the most fundamental reason why he had this confidence was that in that world, these have been proven, so he believed that Mihu's current quietness was because she was shocked by this novel and unique story and could not speak for a moment, which was normal.

Whether it is the sharp writing style as sharp as a blade, the appearance of the two protagonists, or the delicate psychological descriptions shown by the omniscient and omnipotent narrative methods, they are all remarkable. Liu Jingting has reason to believe that Mihu, who has editing experience, can easily capture the value of this book.

Little girl, don’t be nervous, quickly show your inner admiration and shock. Liu Jingting thought so, and then Mihu spoke seriously:

"Liu Jingting, have you ever peeked at the girl taking a shower?"

If they were having a meal now, Mi Hu's face would have been sprayed with rice residue and soup. No matter how clever Liu Jingting was, he could not have thought that after reading such a novel full of humanistic feelings and supreme positive energy, the first question in his mind would be this.

"When I was in college, oh no, huh?"

"I start by writing about women taking a bath," Mihu turned his head and stared at Liu Jingting, with a dark meaning of swords in his eyes. "And it was written in such a detail. Have you ever seen it? What did you just want to say, when you were in college?"

The incident that Liu Jingting almost said something missed happened in the summer of the other university. At that time, opposite the dormitory he lived was the girls' dormitory. One night, a buddy in the dormitory suddenly had a whim or was so hot that she couldn't stand it. She secretly climbed to the roof of the building to enjoy the cool air. Just as the guy was enjoying the pleasure of "seeing all the mountains" on the roof of the independent building, greater pleasure soon appeared in front of him - through a thin layer of glass, he saw several girls taking a shower in the water room of the girl's dormitory opposite!

From then on, going up the rooftop to enjoy the cool air became the daily routine of that guy. After a whole week, other people discovered the abnormality. After learning the truth, "going up the rooftop to enjoy the cool air" suddenly became popular in this boy's dormitory. After several ideological struggles, Liu Jingting really felt that the weather was too stuffy, so he went up to the rooftop as the general trend...

There is no way to explain this to Mi Hu in front of him.

Liu Jingting shook his head sincerely and said, "It's purely the author's personal imagination, it's easy to see."

Mi Hu glanced at him and did not continue to pursue it. The topic finally returned to the novel itself: "After a sudden change, readers will definitely not be able to adapt. Be prepared to be criticized and abandoned."

"Be ready at all times," Liu Jingting shook his head and smiled, saying, "Even if you don't transform or change your style, readers will be lost. Look at Yi Shui'an, have you been sticking to your own style for so many years, and have few readers left?"

"It's different. Your transformation is too big. It's just a 180-degree turn. Readers who like "Green Hair" and "Seven Swords" will not like you, "Xiao Shiyilang"."

"Because of the pure modernization of language, because of the lack of poetry, there is no book bag?"

“This is a matter of reader interest.”

"It's still the same problem. The author cannot take it for granted that what readers like and then write something, but should try to write a good story to make readers like it. Do you don't like Feng Siniang or Xiao Shiyilang?"

"Let's see the story behind it."

"Where is the text that feels like this?"

"Broken knife, Qinse or Beihetang are all in this style."

Liu Jingting smiled slightly sarcastically and said, "The gap is too big."

In Liu Jingting's opinion, in addition to the language style of the three of them, their works are pure modern vernacular, whether they have story knowledge or taste, compared with Mr. Gu Long's works, the novels they have produced can only be written by college students.

Mi Hu didn't expect Liu Jingting to suddenly say such an unmodest thing, wrinkled his nose, and whispered: "How long is this story?"

"It's a long story."

Although Mi Hu was worried, she was still full of confidence in Liu Jingting's strength. In the foreseeable future, Liu Jingting had to face the departure of readers who were temporarily unfit. This was a pity. Although she knew that new readers would definitely join in, she still felt it was a pity. It would be great if readers were always increasing without decreasing.

Since you are thinking about the problem from the perspective of your boyfriend, where can you still maintain dialectical materialism?

At this time, Liu Jingting's phone suddenly rang.

...

The newlywed Yi Shuian did not plunge into the honey jar and forget the time. She still followed her biological clock and wrote her daily routine, so-called "can't lose herself in marriage anymore."

Then she saw Lu Yichou's email.

She was one of the few people who knew about Gu Yongsheng’s new book earlier. She knew it was a novel written for scripts, and knew it was a collaboration with Xingyue, but she didn’t know that the new novel was like this.

Like Lu Yichou, after reading three chapters, Yi Shuian fell silent. As the author, she had a more intuitive feeling about Gu Yongsheng's transformation.

What's different from Lu Yichou is that she did not simply leave a message to Gu Yongsheng, but after thinking for five minutes, she directly called Gu Yongsheng.

"An Da?" Gu Yongsheng's confusing voice came from the phone.

"It's me," Yi Shui'an said calmly, "I just read your manuscript and want to talk about this book. Is it convenient now?"

Liu Jingting looked at Mi Hu beside him, reported Yi Shui'an's name with his mouth shape, and said to the phone: "It's convenient."

"Well, the first thing I want to know is, what is the general direction of this story? Looking at the hero's appearance, is a thief who robs the rich and helps the poor?"

"yes."

"Similar to male and female thieves?"

"There is another heroine, but it can be defined like this."

What surprised Liu Jingting was that from beginning to end, Yi Shui'an did not ask questions about transformation, and asked some questions about the novel itself and some details. It was not until the end that Yi Shui'an summed up: "I am optimistic about this story, I like the taste inside, and I will achieve great results."

After hanging up the phone, Liu Jingting smiled at Mi Hu and shrugged.

...

"With two chapters of previewing, the third chapter leads to the male protagonist. The most rare thing is that in the process of previewing, a wonderful person like Feng Siniang can hold the readers' attention. Although the style is different, the old Taoist techniques are still the same. To be honest, my interest in this Xiao Shiyilang is greater than that of any male protagonist in Xiao Gu before. Let's put it more directly, I like the role of Xiao Shiyilang."

This is Wei Wuzhi's evaluation of Gu Yongsheng's new book, and it was Lu Yichou who talked to him.

"The first few pieces have some yin and yang decline."

"I don't think there is no need to worry about the readers' rebound. In fact, they should be waiting for Gu Yongsheng to give such a decision. After Feng Siniang's appearance, I was already amazed. After Xiao Shiyilang came out, it was not too much to use slap in the face. That cool and lazy spirit, the passion and wildness that regards splashing wealth as dirt make people feel that this should be a character in martial arts novels."

"Long time no see you praise people like this."

"Haha, I haven't seen such a refreshing literary man for a long time, and such a happy person. I hope Xiaogu doesn't disappoint me too much this time."

"Keep looking forward, then I have an idea. The next issue of "Big Jianghu" will be published until the end of the month. I don't want Xiao Gu to wait for so long, and strike while the iron is hot and put it directly on Han Shuo's "The Grass on the Yuanshang" can you read it?"

"Put it in the 'New Face' column, it's done."

"Well, that's it. I'll talk to An and Mr. Han later, and then confirm the remaining manuscripts with Xiao Gu."

"Public relations and editorial departments are moving too. There is no need to beat around the bush, just tell everyone that this is a completely different story, allowing them to form a preconceived impression." (To be continued, please search for Piaotianwen, novels are better, updated and faster!
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