Chapter 176 Insensitive force

Chapter 176 Insensitive force

Chapter 176 Insensitive force

Wang Zixu was judging others by his own experience. After hearing Wang Zixu's sigh, Zhao Peilin's expression changed slightly. After a long while, he said:
"Junior brother, you have to know that this world is very tolerant to successful people, but on the contrary, it is quite harsh to failures.

"Alexandre Dumas fils has made great achievements. The fact that he is the son of Alexandre Dumas père will only be passed down as a good story. Otherwise... never mind, don't think otherwise. Anyway, this world is very cruel."

Wang Zixu said: "I know, I know. I know that this world is as cruel as the law of the jungle, but, but..."

"But you always hope that the big guys can be reasonable, right?" Zhao Peilin smiled bitterly.

"Then I can only hope that you can change all this after you become a big shot."

Xu Rongrong's slightly high-pitched voice came from behind the two of them, and they both turned around.

Xu Rongrong was wearing a purple long skirt and walked with a girl in a white skirt.

The one in the purple dress is enchanting, the one in the white dress is elegant, and both of them have makeup on their faces. In the early autumn season, they exude an ethereal and charming atmosphere, as if there is fragrance floating around them.

Xu Rongrong has a big face, but a very good figure. After putting on makeup, her temperament and appearance instantly improved by two levels, and her sexual tension instantly increased. Zhao Peilin was surprised and said:

"Why are you acting like a little girl?!"

Xu Rongrong punched him: "What day is today? Only you straight male cancer people can come out just by wearing anything."

The two men looked down at their bodies. Zhao Peilin was wearing a black jacket and Wang Zixu was wearing a brown casual suit. Both of them felt that there was nothing wrong with their outfits.

"What day is today?"

Xu Rongrong rolled her eyes and didn't want to talk to them. The girl next to her with a gentle voice said to them:
"Many reporters will be here today. Some people have already started saying that Shi Shuqiu is the youngest writer to become famous since the founding of New China."

"So exaggerated? How old is he? Is he more powerful than Eileen Chang?"

Xu Rongrong said: "First, Zhang Ailing was a writer before the founding of New China. Second, he was 20 years old, and Zhang Ailing wrote her famous work when she was 23."

Zhao Peilin was shocked twice. Once he was shocked by the media's fuss, and once he was shocked that Shi Shuqiu looked younger than he felt.

"Just now I said that big shots should have some dignity, but how come they are so shameless when it comes to hyping things up? How can you, the youngest famous writer, have the nerve to say this?"

Zhao Peilin was a little angry, and the prince looked at him speechlessly. Just now he had an expression of a sage who saw through the world, but he didn't expect that his defense would be broken.

Xu Rongrong blushed slightly, obviously disagreeing with her senior brother's statement, and retorted: "Zhao Peilin, don't deliberately belittle your junior brother. You have chosen the wrong opponent if you want to compete with him."

"How am I being competitive? Do you think I'm jealous of him? I'm not targeting Shi Shuqiu personally. I'm just angry because I'm indignant at the media for leading the literary values ​​astray! Of course, if he was the one who hyped it up, I'll scold him as well."

"You're just jealous," Xu Rongrong pointed out sharply, "You think your junior is so outstanding, better than you, and you're jealous."

Zhao Peilin sneered: "Xu Rongrong, you underestimate me. Let me ask you, how can Shi Shuqiu be called a 'famous writer'?"

The girl in the white dress next to Xu Rongrong spoke up: "Shi Shuqiu is a member of the Chinese Literature Association. He started writing at the age of 12 and has published many novels. Yesterday's Star has just appeared in Modern."

Xu Rongrong said, "Did you hear that? Did you hear that? They can even hold a seminar. What's wrong with hype? To hype something, it has to have value. Look at Wang Zixu. Can he hype something up?"

Wang Zixu felt as if he was just passing by and did nothing, but was inexplicably looked down upon and felt extremely aggrieved.

Zhao Peilin held out his hands. "Okay, let's exclude Dad's influence and not talk about how many personal relationships there are in the seminar. Let's assume that they held a seminar and came up with something. But I want to ask you, has Shi Shuqiu ever appeared in "Get"? "

Xu Rongrong stopped talking.

Zhao Peilin asked again: "Besides the article "Yesterday's Star" in "Contemporary", is there any other representative work of his that can be mentioned?"

Xu Rongrong searched her bag: "Of course there is, otherwise how could it be so easy to get into the Chinese Language Association?"

"Don't look for it. If you can't name it, you still want to look for it because you don't have any representative works. Wang Zixu also has "Wild Grass", and I will still remember it ten years later. I just want to ask, is it published in "Get", if not, what famous writer are you talking about?"

Wang Zixu was shot again, but this time it was a good gun.

"Have you read his book Yesterday's Star? It's really well written."

“He wasn’t in Get.”

"Even Professor Gu praised it in class and said it was really good!"

“He wasn’t in Get.”

"Then can you name a famous young writer born in the 00s? Is there anyone else besides him?"

“He wasn’t in Get.”

Xu Rongrong was annoyed: "Is it true that you only know how to say 'obtain'?"

Zhao Peilin looked indifferent: "But he just didn't appear in Get."

Xu Rongrong said: "What's wrong with not being published in De Dao? Is it that easy to be published in De Dao? Editor-in-chief Ning Chunyan was not published in De Dao either, and she is not a famous writer."

Zhao Peilin said, "Don't argue. You're using your acquaintance to pressure others, right? Sister Ning can't really be called a famous writer. Her future battlefield is in the editing industry."

"How do you know that Shi Shuqiu will not be able to appear in Obtain anymore?"

"Will I never be able to appear in Get? How do you know Wang Zixu won't be able to appear in Get? How do you know you won't be able to appear in Get? If you didn't appear, you didn't appear. Just don't brag about being a famous writer."

Another shot.

Wang Zixu felt it necessary to stop their endless quarreling and said:
"Let's not discuss this topic anymore. You just have different definitions of famous writers. There's nothing to argue about. Besides, the seminar hasn't even started yet, so there's no point in talking about this."

"Yes, I think so too." The girl in the white dress voted.

The two of them stopped fighting and watched Shi Tonghe's car enter the campus. Xu Rongrong joked:
"Wang Zixu, don't you still have to attend the seminar? When people take pictures for the news, how can you dress in rags in front of the whole nation?"

"Why should I dress so fancy at Shi Shuqiu's seminar? I'm not the main character."

Zhao Peilin immediately agreed: "Yes, Qiuya is getting married, and you, Charlotte, are singing and dancing here, what are you doing?"

"You're not done yet, are you?"

Xu Rongrong was furious when he poked her (because she was dressed up), and the two of them started fighting with each other with fists in the air, and the girl next to them covered her mouth and laughed.

"Brother Chang." The girl came over virtuously and whispered beside him.

"I'm not called Brother Chang."

"Oh, they talked so much that I didn't even know your real name."

"Wang Zixu."

"Brother Zixu," the girl said, "I'm so envious of you for being invited to attend the seminar."

Wang Zixu was surprised, but then he smiled with relief and said, "Yes, I have made some progress. I am qualified to be invited to attend Shi Shuqiu's seminar."

The girl blinked, bewildered, not realizing the sarcasm in his words at all. This made Wang Zixu feel powerless, as if he had punched the air with a brilliant move.

"Can you please do me a favor?" The girl took out a form from her bag. "Our school newspaper is going to write a news report. We have counted some celebrities who will be attending the conference, but it may not be complete. When you go in, can you please pay attention and fill in the information that is not on the form?"

Wang Zixu then remembered that this girl was from the press corps and he had met her before. Her name was Han Fei.

"Can't you go find Shi Shuqiu? He must know more." Wang Zixu said.

"He must be very busy today, so he may not be available." Han Fei said, blinked, and added: "There will be royalties."

"Payment?" Wang Zixu is no longer like before. He would get excited when hearing about payment. He asked, "What is the payment standard for your school newspaper?"

"Two hundred for a thousand words, one hundred for a newsletter."

The prince politely declined her request.

It's not that he complains about the low pay - of course the low pay is also a reason. If the pay was as high as that of Get, he would consider it longer - he feels that if he runs around and looks at celebrities at the seminar, he will look like a country bumpkin, and he can't do such a thing.

Han Fei looked quite disappointed.

He glanced at his watch and realized it was almost time. Before he could figure out how to talk to Chen Qingluo, he turned around and said, "I should go now."

Zhao Peilin was sharp-eyed. He saw a corner of Get stuck out of his briefcase and said, "Okay, go ahead. By the way, is the new issue of Get published today? Let me have a look after you finish reading it."

Hearing the word "obtain", Xu Rongrong shuddered as if in response and stared at Zhao Peilin with a vigilant look.

"What? I can't watch Get?"

Xu Rongrong said: "You still want to quarrel, right?"

"Do not want to."

"If you don't want to, don't bother me," Xu Rongrong said. "When will you submit an article to be published in Get? Only then will I respect you."

Zhao Peilin knew it was difficult, but he didn't care. He said, "Sure. When Shi Shuqiu can appear on the cover of Get, I will respect him."

Xu Rongrong sneered, "Humph, I'll remember that. In seven or eight years, if he does appear on Get, I'll come back to settle the score with you. Just don't pretend you don't remember it then."

"Okay, if you still remember it after 17 or 18 years."

Xu Rongrong and Zhao Peilin had such a quarrel, she only dared to say "seven or eight years later". The girl in the white skirt was a little curious and couldn't help asking: "Is it so difficult to be published in "Get"?"

“Yeah, it’s that difficult.”

"Is it really that difficult?" asked Wang Zixu.

"What else do you think?" Xu Rongrong looked at him.

"..."

Wang Zi endured it for a moment, thinking that if he said at this time that he had been published in "Get", it might also be a slap in the face of his senior brother. How could he bear to do such a thing, so he simply took out "Get" from his briefcase and handed it to Zhao Peilin.

"What? No hurry, just borrow it from me after you finish reading it. It's also in the library. I borrow it from you mainly for convenience."

"It's okay, Senior Brother. I don't need it anymore. Just take it and keep it."

"collect?"

“Yeah, it’s collectible.”

Zhao Peilin felt that Wang Zixu was saying something weird again, but he walked away.

"Hey, let's not hang around here anymore, let's go to the activity center." Xu Rongrong made a suggestion to the girl in the white dress. Of course, she didn't invite Zhao Peilin.

After the two girls reached an agreement, they had not taken a few steps when they suddenly heard a strange noise coming from behind. They turned their heads and saw Zhao Peilin holding a magazine, grinning for a while, and then making a sharp explosion.

"Wang Zixu! F**k you!"

"What are you doing?" Xu Rongrong shouted.

"Come and see!"

……

If Wang Zixu had any weakness, it was that he could never learn to act cool and calmly.

He felt that he might need a kind of insensitivity, which could both thicken his skin (at least not be hurt by Shi Tonghe's behavior) and reduce his attack power when pretending to be cool. It was like wrapping a layer of cloth on the stick when hitting someone with a club, so that at least he wouldn't lose friends because of pretending to be cool.

In any case, he has made progress compared to before. He has given "Obtain" to Zhao Peilin anyway, so whether he wants to tell Xu Rongrong is up to him. Wang Zixu also doesn't want to appreciate Xu Rongrong's shocked expression with makeup on.

While walking on the road, Wang Zixu glanced and saw another familiar-looking girl on the sidewalk not far from him. She was even more familiar than the girl in the white dress.

She was wearing a black suit skirt and a college-style women's suit jacket on the upper body. It was cut to fit her perfectly, showing off her slim figure. Her legs were wrapped in flesh-colored stockings, and her calves were very well-proportioned and had no excess fat.

So Wang Zixu couldn't help but take a few more glances.

It was these two extra glances that met the other party's gaze. Wang Zixu saw that the other party's eyes changed from confusion to anger, and then he walked towards him aggressively.

When Wang Zixu was looking for the camera, the girl had already rushed to him.

"Is that really you?"

"what?"

Only when he heard her voice did Wang Zixu recognize her.

"Xiao Mengyin?"

Her image has undergone a subversive change compared to before. She no longer has lace flowers in her hair, no messy hair accessories, and no fancy dresses. She looks so normal.

"Is it really you?" Xiao Mengyin ignored his shock and took a step closer.

"what do you mean?"

"'Fire in the Stone'? Did you really write it?" Xiao Mengyin said, "I read today's 'Obtained' and saw your name in the table of contents."

"It's me, what's wrong?"

"Is it really you? I'm shocked!"

"What's wrong?" The prince raised his head and said simply, with a hint of challenge.

"You're on Get. I can't believe it! I haven't even been on it yet!"

Xiao Mengyin clutched his clothes with both hands, and as she sighed, she bent her legs slightly and almost squatted on the ground. She was so close that Wang Zixu could smell the shampoo on her head.

The woman's unwillingness and shock were about to overflow from her pores. Thinking back to when she had previously asserted that Prince Xu could not take Fei Shi, she felt pretty good to be honest.

The prince comforted him hypocritically: "It's okay, if you work hard, you can also be on Get."

Xiao Mengyin took a long time to catch her breath, raised her head, loosened his clothes, sorted out her emotions, and asked:
"Have you not given up on submitting to Feishi? Is this the same manuscript you submitted to Feishi? Tens of thousands of words? It shouldn't be that long, right? No, you're just a newcomer, and Obtain probably won't serialize your particularly long manuscript."

Wang Zixu asked curiously, "Didn't you read the content of Fire in the Stone?"

Xiao Mengyin said: "I just glanced at it. I was in a hurry this morning, and I... I was a little confused, so I didn't look carefully."

“I published 20 words.”

Xiao Mengyin paused for a moment, and Wang Zixu continued, "There are 60 words in total. They plan to publish it in three installments. This is the first installment."

(End of this chapter)