"Yes, senior sister invited us to review together."
"Who else is there? Zhao Rongjun, Qiao Xinyan, Xu Yinghuan..."
"Don't worry, he won't run around, just stay in the house."
"Yeah, I know, I'll pay attention."
"OK, I'll be back on the 15th."
On the sofa in the living room, Li Luo hung up the phone and looked at Xu Youyu with a helpless sigh: "It's better now, I've become a bad boy who can tell lies."
"Just say you can review here with me." Xu Youyu rolled his eyes at him, narrowed his eyes and said with a bad smile, "Why do you have to include Zhao Rongjun and the others in your words? Why do you feel guilty?"
"It just makes the reason seem more legitimate."
"Really?" Xu Youyu chuckled, "When you were on the phone with Xixi this morning, you told so many lies. I think you are quite skillful."
Li Luo: "..."
Being reminded like this by Xu Youyu, Li Luo felt a little embarrassed and actually thought about it.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing." Li Luo scratched his head and suddenly thought of something.
Ever since he wrote the novel, he tried his best to avoid being known by others.
After all, there is still a bit of shame in what I write.
So, how was it exposed in the first place?
First, I am a minor, so signing a contract requires the consent of my guardian.
After chatting with Xu Youyu, he learned that he could just secretly take the household registration book at home and make a copy in private.
But he didn't think about it carefully at that time. Looking back now, this method actually doesn't work very well.
Because his family's household registration book was usually locked in the safe by Li Guohong, Li Luo had no idea what the password of the safe was at this time.
So being exposed to my parents is definitely unavoidable.
The bad thing is that I forgot to remind my parents not to talk about it everywhere.
As a result, the uncle's family also found out.
Then he accidentally wrote the song "Rings of the Year" into the book. In order to respond to readers' questions, Li Luo asked Yan Zhusheng to record the song and post it online.
As a result, Yan Zhusheng found out about this after being backstabbed by readers in the comment area of ​​QQ Music.
As for Xu Youyu, it's even more outrageous.
It turned out to be because the editor gave her a new QQ account, and Xu Youyu got Li Luo's QQ account from Ying Chanxi at the beginning of school.
The two QQ accounts were the same, which directly allowed Xu Youyu to see through Li Luo's true identity.
Later, Yuan Wanqing, as Yan Zhusheng's mother, naturally knew about this because of her cooperation in the song "Rings of the Year".
And Xu Youyu's father was actually invited to a symposium held by the Writers' Association and attended the meeting as a guest, where he directly bumped into Li Luo.
After Li Luo recalled this, he suddenly realized that many people around him seemed to know about his book writing.
And to be honest, before you write a web article, others may find it interesting and make fun of you.
It's really embarrassing.
But when his royalties reached the level of 370,000 yuan a month, no one would look down on him anymore because of writing online articles.
At most, I felt a little embarrassed after someone read the content of the novel.
But even Yan Zhusheng and Xu Youyu, the prototypes of the two female protagonists, know it, so no matter how others embarrass Li Luo, it won't actually be embarrassing at all.
After thinking about this, Li Luo lowered his head and pondered, and thought of something.
Over at Yingchan River... shouldn't I continue to hide it?
After all, among the people close to him, it was Ying Chanxi who had been kept secret for the longest time.
In the past, it was indeed because I didn’t want others to know, so I concealed it indiscriminately.
But now, his fig leaf is full of holes. One less Ying Chanxi is not enough, and one more she is not much.
Thinking of this, Li Luo immediately started to make plans, thinking that he would tell her to forget it before the Chinese New Year.
There's no point in hiding it anymore.
At worst, I'll die in society again, I'm used to it anyway.
And... over there in my hometown, the Li family and the Ying family are neighbors.
When everyone in the uncle's family knew that he was writing a book, the neighbors might have stabbed him out while eating melon seeds and chatting during the Chinese New Year.
If this is the case, then it is better to take the initiative to explain it yourself.
Otherwise, Li Luo couldn't even imagine how angry Ying Chanxi would be.
Li Luo thought about her little temper and decided that it would be better to surrender.
"Why do I think you feel like you are willing to die generously?" Xu Youyu on the side was licking a little pudding and looking at Li Luo with a puzzled look on his face.
"How can you understand the turmoil in my heart?" Li Luo said seriously with a straight face.
"How can I understand if you don't tell me?" Xu Youyu gave him a blank look.
"Let's not talk about it anymore." Li Luo waved his hand and stood up from the sofa, "Although the review I told my family is false, the code wording thing is true. I will go back to the room to code words first."
"etc!"
"What's wrong?"
"You come out with your laptop and we can code together in the living room."
“If I don’t have a desktop computer, do I have to use a laptop?”
"Then, or should I go to your bedroom with my laptop? Mainly because it's more motivating to write words next to you."
"Are you motivated?" Li Luo's mouth twitched, "You obviously want to get information anytime and anywhere, right?"
"Ahem...that's part of the reason." Xu Youyu avoided his gaze with a guilty conscience, "Come on, come on, I can also let you collect materials."
"I haven't written any plot about Jiang Mingyue recently."
"Really? Is it written about Shen Dongdong or Mo Qinghan?" Xu Youyu said with a smile, "Whether it's Xixi or Zhusheng, I can play it~"
When Li Luo heard this, his face suddenly filled with black thoughts: "What are you talking about? Hurry up and get your computer, don't be so out of tune all the time."
After saying that, Li Luo took out the notebook Yan Zhusheng borrowed from his schoolbag and put it on the desk in the living room.
Seeing this, Xu Youyu happily took out her notebook from her schoolbag in the bedroom and sat down next to Li Luo.
After plugging in the charging cable, Li Luo went back to the house, took off the mechanical keyboard that Xu Youyu had given him before, and brought it to the living room to plug in his laptop.
Xu Youyu also followed her example and took out her red keyboard of the same style.
As the lights on the keyboard turned on, the two keyboards suddenly flashed with the same frequency, but one was red and the other was blue, which was very distinctive.
"OK, come on!" Xu Youyu waved his hand and shouted with great momentum, "Let's see who writes more this afternoon!"
"How dare you compare this with me?" Li Luo looked at her sideways.
"I haven't finished speaking yet." Xu Youyu quickly added, "For the final result, multiply my number of code words by 5, and then compare with you!"
"You are quite self-aware." Li Luo rolled his eyes at her, "You know that even three times or four times may not necessarily win you over me, right?"
The two chatted and laughed, and soon entered the state of coding.
As the mechanical keyboard crackled in the living room, Li Luo quickly tapped the keyboard with the memory palace running at full speed.
Xu Youyu sat cross-legged on a chair, rocking his body back and forth to find a feeling. Once inspiration came, he immediately touched the keyboard to write a paragraph. If he got stuck, he continued shaking.
When I couldn't get any inspiration, I would get up and walk around the desk twice. Occasionally, I would go behind Li Luo and tease him by using the material.
Sometimes it really inspires her, so she immediately runs to her seat and enters the coding state.
The afternoon passed quickly like this.
When it was past four o'clock, Xu Youyu stretched out and looked at the more than 3,000 words displayed on his code page, and suddenly showed a satisfied expression.
"Call it off! Go buy groceries!"
After announcing so loudly, Xu Youyu came over to Li Luo and took a look.
When she saw that this guy's code count for today showed more than 17,000 words, she was immediately shocked.
"Are you riding a horse or are you a human?!"
"Just practice cooking more." Li Luo stood up with a calm face, picked up the down jacket and scarf from the sofa, and said to Xu Youyu, "Let's go, didn't you mean to buy food?"
"You are really outrageous." Xu Youyu was still in disbelief. He picked up Li Luo's mouse and moved the screen up and down to confirm that he had really written so much and was not typing it randomly.
She originally thought that she had made great progress by writing more than 3,000 words in two or three hours in the afternoon.
As a result, I didn't expect that Li Luo would be so defiant.
That’s almost 6,000 words in an hour, right?
Li Luo looked at her with a stunned expression and was amused for a while, then secretly rubbed his wrist.
For him, the normal speed is actually about three to four thousand words an hour.
Writing 6,000 words in one hour this time was already the result of the high-speed operation of the memory palace.
After stopping now, Li Luo couldn't help but rub his temples, feeling that his head was still a little dizzy.
This is a side effect of the memory palace being overloaded.
At night, I definitely can't work as hard as I did in the afternoon.
"If you multiply it by a factor of 5, you are still less than me." Li Luo reminded kindly next to Xu Youyu, "Senior sister, is there any punishment for the loser?"
"Um...didn't I say it? How about forget it then?"
"It's okay, help me while we cook later. After dinner, you'll wash the dishes too." Li Luo said with a smile, "By the way, you can help me wash my clothes in the evening. Oh, by the way, remember to clean up too."
"
"You think of me as a nanny?" Xu Youyu glared at him angrily.
"Are you willing to admit defeat, or do you want to change?"
"Are there any other options?"
"Yes." Li Luo nodded, "You can also choose to be my maid. You have to listen to me until early in the morning."
"Hey~" When Xu Youyu heard this, he suddenly laughed ambiguously, "So this is what the junior kid had in mind? If you think about it, it's not impossible."
"Then it's settled?" Li Luo raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Then we will leave the kitchen to our little maid, washing dishes, washing clothes, sweeping and mopping the floor."
When Xu Youyu heard this, his head suddenly filled with black threads: "...Is there any difference between you before and after?!"
"Does a maid sound better than a nanny?"
"Get out of here!"
…
Cleveland, around 7 a.m.
At the door of the hotel, Ying Zhicheng and Yuan Wanqing said goodbye at the door.
"Please spend more time with your daughter." Yuan Wanqing came up to him, stood on tiptoes, and kissed the corner of his lips gently, then took two steps back and said with a smile, "I'm going back first."
"Yes." Ying Zhicheng took Yuan Wanqing's hand, hugged her back, and kissed her deeply for a long time before letting go of her again, "I will go shopping with my daughter for two days first, and then I will go find you."
"No problem." Yuan Wanqing waved to him and got into the car of the secretary who drove to pick her up.
After Ying Zhicheng watched the car drive away from the hotel door, he looked away, turned back to the hotel, and walked all the way to the door of Ying Chanxi's room and knocked lightly.
Soon, Ying Chanxi ran to the door and opened it.
"Xixi, it's time for breakfast." Ying Zhicheng walked into the room and saw his daughter holding a phone in her hand and chatting with someone.
Ying Chanxi nodded towards him, and then said to the other end of the phone: "Let's not talk about it for now. Stop playing games and go to bed early. I'm going to have breakfast first."
"Yeah, bye~"
Seeing the sweet smile on his daughter's lips, Ying Zhicheng coughed twice. After seeing her hang up the phone, he couldn't help but ask: "Li Luo?"
"Yeah." Ying Chanxi put on her shoes and followed Ying Zhicheng out of the room, "Let's go, Dad."
"Has he finished attending the symposium?" Ying Zhicheng thought of the topic he and Yuan Wanqing talked about last night, thinking that his daughter already knew about Li Luo's book writing, and he guessed that Xixi also knew about it.
He usually works all the time and rarely spends time with Ying Chanxi, so he lacks topics to talk about.
At this time, seeing that Ying Chanxi had just finished talking to Li Luo on the phone, he subconsciously found an excuse to chat with his daughter.
But after Ying Chanxi heard what his father said, he was immediately confused and asked strangely: "What symposium? Dad, what did you say?"
When Ying Zhicheng saw her reaction, he burst into laughter: "You still act like one? Are you so good at helping Li Luo keep secret?"
"You don't know that the song "Rings of the Year" he wrote and sung for Yuan Wanqing was produced by our company."
"So I already knew that he was writing a novel before, and you don't have to help him keep it a secret."
As soon as these words came out, Ying Chanxi stopped immediately and looked at Ying Zhicheng with a blank expression.
"What, what's wrong?" Ying Zhicheng suddenly panicked when he saw her expression, "Uh...Xixi, you..."
"Dad, can you say it again what you just said?" Ying Chanxi blinked, then smiled slightly and tilted his head and asked.
"It's just... Li Luo writes songs and novels. What's wrong?"
"I know that he can write songs, but what happened to "Rings of the Year"?" Ying Chanxi pursed her lips, "There is also the matter of writing novels, how come I haven't heard of it?"
Hearing what Ying Chanxi said, Ying Zhicheng was also a little confused.
Li Luo, you have already let other people know about it, but you still hide it from his family, Xixi?
Chapter completed!