Chapter 293 Prophecy Summary

Chapter 293 Prophecy Summary

Chapter 293 Prophecy Summary
“Wow, look what I found!” “Dad, the uploader you follow has updated.” “What dad? It’s grandpa. The uploader you follow has updated.” “Did you finally remember the password?”…

As soon as the video was released, the number of comments in the message area surged, and many netizens left comments without even watching the video content.

I don’t know what the current algorithm of Bilibili is, but Gu Lu’s priority is very high. As long as you post a video, it will appear directly on the homepage.

Many netizens will feel confused.

For example, Wanbei. Even though his name sounds like a female name, he looks quite androgynous!

Fortunately, Wanbei has protective parents, otherwise he would be easily bullied at school. When he was in school, not to mention his androgynous appearance, his voice was a little sharper and his movements were a little softer. Nicknames like "fake brother" were everywhere.

"Interview with King Guru?" Wan Bei clicked on it and watched the 15-minute video.

He was confused. The video quality was not high. It was just two students about his age bragging.

All competition results and extracurricular activities are good.

What will the music market look like in the future?

Wan Bei felt that these two people were too narrow-minded. He and his friends boasted that they were all 3,000 PLA ​​soldiers, liberating Washington!
Why are the number of likes, coins and collections so high?
Confused, Wan Bei clicked on the comment section, and the comment with the most likes said:

Hearing the flowers bloom: [Gu Lu, my hero! A few days ago, my mom was not at home, and I secretly played on the computer. I played games for a while, and was browsing Bilibili at the same time. As a result, my mom was like the ghost leopard in World of Warcraft, walking without making any sound. I just heard "Didn't I ask you to do your homework? Who asked you to play on the computer?"

The moment I heard this, I even thought of the contents of the suicide note.

But when my mother took a look at the video playing on the computer, "Gu Lu Interview" (yes, that's what the first episode was called).

"Gu Lu, is that the Gu Lu who wrote "On Youthful China" and "Flatland"? "

I admired myself at that time. My mind suddenly turned and I immediately said, "Yes, this is Gu Lu sharing his writing and learning experience. Let me learn from him."

I saw my mother's face cool down, and finally she just told me, "It's good to learn from Gu Lu, but don't aim too high. Because there is only one Gu Lu in the whole country."

I wasn't beaten, hehe.

Praise Gu Lu! ]
There are also many netizens on this floor who have shared their own experiences, explaining how good Gu Lu is in the hearts of his parents and teachers.

"Oh, no wonder, it turned out to be this guy!" Wan Bei realized that this name had been mentioned countless times by the Chinese teacher.

There is also a story that says that Gu Lu's talent for writing was already evident when he was in middle school. Once, when the school gave out a test paper, Gu Lu, a middle school student, pointed out the grammatical errors in the test paper.

It sounds like a legendary story, but the Chinese teacher was so confident that Wan Bei could only be skeptical.

"Shouldn't he be reading and writing books every day? How can he still have time to study?" Wan Bei was quite surprised.

Then, Wanbei saw another message that interested him very much.

It comes from the netizen Lan Jiyao, who seems to be an up-master as well.

Lan Jiyao: [Gu Lu is indeed different from ordinary students, as can be seen from his serialized science fiction short stories. Let me review his forward-looking predictions.

1. Ten years from now, South Korea may be a society where people won’t have children even if they are given money. (From an interview with the magazine “Chitu” in Neon)

2. The Internet may lead to extreme convenience. Computers can calculate everything we like to see, and we will fall into a situation where we cannot break the old environment. (The activities of the Writers Association and the Science Popularization Association, and Gu Lu’s speech are more complicated. I just briefly summarize them.)
3. There will be a takeaway industry that will change people’s living habits, that is, integrating all store information and then hiring takeaway drivers. (Same as above)

4. The Bear Country may directly attack the Bear Country for its own interests. (From the previous video)
5. The music market will pay more attention to singers rather than works due to the development of the Internet. (From this video)

Let’s see how many of these will come true in ten years.]
After reading this message, Wan Bei found that Gu Lu didn't seem to be bragging.

It seems that this talented writer, who is as old as him, has deep thoughts about the future world.

"No wonder he can be a writer. I can only brag. I have thought about this both at home and abroad." Wan Bei muttered to himself.

Did you notice that the content of Gu Lu's video, or more precisely, the learning secrets of Li Guyuan, are basically ignored by everyone? This is related to the current positioning of Bilibili.

Bilibili now is not like it was ten years later, with knowledge area, digital area, travel area, etc. Netizens come to Bilibili to see or learn something.

I came to bilibili in 2013 to have fun. Who would want to be taught?

The version is wrong, but fortunately Gu Lu himself is famous enough.

"You play on the computer all day long. Your final grade has dropped so much. Don't you know how to prepare well?"

There was a male voice behind him, and Wan Bei recognized it as his father. Damn! The content on the Internet reflected reality.

"Stop, Dad. Put down the belt on your hand and listen to me seriously." Wan Bei said, "Look at this video. It was made by Gu Lu. He is the same Gu Lu who wrote "Flatland" and "Young China".

"He taught his essay-writing skills online, and I came here specifically to learn." Wan Bei said this with such sincerity.

Dad Wan looks at his children.

The room was suddenly unusually quiet, and Wanbei could even hear his own breathing.

Did I get away with it? Wan Bei was just beginning to feel secretly delighted.

The next second, "I told you to learn from Gu Lu, I told you to learn, but you didn't even look at it. Your composition only got 30 points out of 50, and you still want to learn!"

Fat Beat will only be late, never absent.

Crying, Wanbei cried, why is it of no use?
There is one more child in the world who doesn’t like Gu Lu.

This kind of discussion is harmless, just like when I was in school, I wanted to beat up the author of "The Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng" after reciting it. But when I grew up, I still went to the Pavilion of Prince Teng to see it if I had the chance.

It must be to pay for this childhood memory, otherwise who would spend money to rebuild the modern building Tengwang Pavilion with steel and concrete?
Gu Lu stopped browsing Bilibili for the moment. He was checking his email.

Because "Genius writer Gu Lu cuts the ribbon for the bookstore, Xinhua Bookstore Yangjiaping Store builds a special reading corner!"

Because of this report, many stores in Fog City sent him invitations to open.

Forget about the bookstore, the stationery store is barely related, but what about the clothing store? Are they really treating Gu Lu like a celebrity?
"reject!"

"Reject this one too!"

"Although I was offered an appearance fee that I couldn't refuse, I just like to say no."

The main thing is that he has money in his pocket, so he doesn't have to make money by treating himself as a star. Gu Lu wanted to hide the email address of the cooperation of the Weibo account, but if there is any copyright cooperation, it will be delayed.

Dilemma.

"Hey, this is quite interesting."

Don't get me wrong, the interesting email that Gu Lu said was not an invitation to cut the ribbon.

Rather, it was an invitation to an event from the Writers Association, and he was already a member of the association.

About two months ago, President Jian asked him to apply. The review time was quite long, but after the release of "Young China", it was quickly approved.

"Tour the West Lake, I don't think I've been to the West Lake yet." Gu Lu has never been to the West Lake in his two lifetimes. The ancient poetry in primary and secondary schools is really the best slogan "I want to compare the West Lake to Xi Shi", how much money does it cost to achieve this effect?
"You can go and have a look." The small goal I set for myself earlier was to participate in more new things.

So Gu Lu replied to the email and expressed his interest.

Not long after, I received a call from the staff.

"Hello, Mr. Gu Lu. I am a staff member of the secretariat of our Writers Association. You can just call me Xiao Ming."

"If you decide to participate in the [Tour of West Lake] event, a form will be sent to your email. After filling it out, just send it back via email."

The staff didn't look down on Gu Lu at all because of his young age.

The genius writer was too famous. Gu Lu agreed on the phone and soon received the form and downloaded the attachment.

It was just some common information that Gu Lu filled in, and he did it in no time. He sent his ID number and booked the flight and hotel there.

"To be honest, it's pretty cool to be a famous writer." Gu Lu stretched.

You don’t have to spend money or worry about food, accommodation and transportation.

Gu Lu thought that it would be best if he could trigger a new synthesis sequence, but it would not be a loss if he couldn't.

"I'll be away for four or five days, so I'll finish these things first." Gu Lu's current task is to find the protagonist for the next Bilibili interview.

After much deliberation, Gu Lu chose Lu Ping and talked about sports students.

There was still a lot to do, so I went to the living room to open the package, which contained a hundred copies of "The Prince at That Time".

Yes, it was a book sent from Japan. Xiangchuanshe is having a sales event. They need a book signed by the author as a prize.

Gu Lu would definitely not refuse anything that would help with book sales.

Gu Lu signed each book with great care, his handwriting was full of flying dragons and phoenixes. The signature was meant to be unreadable.

The royalties from the Japanese version of The Little Prince exceed the total royalties from all the books Gu Lu has published in China. Therefore, we should still pay attention to such a promising market.

"I don't know what the situation is like with Bai Tongshe." After signing, Gu Lu stood up and stretched his body and arms. He felt a little tired after maintaining the same posture for a long time.

After the break, I put the books back into the cardboard box as they were. There were foam and air bags inside, so it was a good anti-collision measure. After all, they were prizes. They couldn't be bumped too much.

Now that we have done it, we might as well get it done. We pulled the books on a cart and headed to the express station that can send international parcels.

On the way, Gu Lu thought of the crisis that Vice President Sato mentioned.

"If this happened a few months later, that is, next year, I could have come up with "The Devotion of Suspect X". Now it's too fast." Gu Lu thought, his science fiction bomb was about to be published.

I don’t know when the publication date will be?!

Speaking of publication dates, let’s go to the Children’s Publishing House.

Today, Vice President Jin took the initiative to launch an attack.

In the adult world, it is important to strike first before you are strong, and to strike later before you are in trouble. He united many people from the head office and the publishing house, working together internally and externally to get rid of President Jian.

So, at the early morning meeting, Vice President Jin was ready to take action.

President Jian, who was targeted, was no child. He called his old friend yesterday and asked the vice president of Magic City Century Publishing Company. He received a positive answer, "Don't worry, old Jian. With Jin Yuanxin's business ability, the publishing house will decline if he is handed over to him. Don't worry."

President Jian doesn’t know what a flying dragon on the face is, but he knows that the referees and athletes are all my people, so how can I lose?

"Before discussing the direction of expansion, I have another matter to discuss," President Jian said. "As always, don't disclose or leak the manuscript."

Hearing this, I knew they were going to discuss the new book.

As they are all senior executives of publishing houses, they naturally understand that leaking unpublished manuscripts is an industry taboo and no one would commit this mistake.

"The new book by writer Gu Lu, Flowers for Algernon," said President Jian. "Based on the sales of the writer's previous books and the quality of this book, I think we can give 18%."

As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar.

Even though Gu Lu had a million-selling work and several half-million-selling works.

Eighteen percent also broke the internal record of the Children's Publishing House. Looking at the market, those who can get 18% are a small group of writers at the top of the pyramid.

You handed over the target yourself, so don't blame me. Vice President Jin was the first to speak.

He said, "With this ratio, if the sales volume is less than 500,000 copies, our publishing house will not make any money at all. In addition, by paying this royalty rate to an underage writer, aren't you destroying the publishing market?"

Someone was the first to speak out, so all the subsequent words came out.

"Yes, this percentage is too high. The last book, Flatland, only had 16%. Even if the last book sold well, it shouldn't increase so much all at once. Seventeen percent is fine."

"Why not just keep it at 16 percent? This royalty rate is already the top level in our country."

"There still has to be an increase. Gu Lu is a talented writer, and it doesn't necessarily require our publishing house, so 17% is good enough."

There was a lot of chaotic discussion.

President Jian had anticipated this situation and was not panicked at all. He waited until the discussion quieted down before speaking.

But the discussion became quieter, and before President Jian could open his mouth, Assistant Cai Mian knocked on the door of the meeting room.

If there was nothing going on, the assistant would definitely not disturb them at this time, so they all looked at him sideways and waited for him to say something.

"President Jian, Mr. Lu from the head office just called to let us know that he will be visiting the Juvenile and Children's Publishing House this afternoon." Assistant Cai Mian also reported straight to the point, "He will probably be here in a few minutes."

The first four words that came to my mind were: he was not friendly! As the CEO, it was normal for him to come to the publishing house on behalf of the headquarters. What was abnormal was that under normal circumstances, this matter had to be communicated a week in advance.

The words "surprise attack" floated in the minds of other senior executives of other publishing houses. In the entire conference room, it was estimated that only Vice President Jin had a calm expression.

"Get ready, get ready to welcome President Lu." President Jian glanced at Vice President Jin, feeling inexplicably flustered. But his old friend at the head office didn't need to lie to him. Because if he didn't want to say it, he could just say he didn't know. They were all adults, and they wouldn't force him to question them.

Even though he was panicking, President Jian, who had experienced many storms, remained calm and welcomed the CEO with the leadership of the publishing house.

Century Publishing Company is a giant in the industry, and its boss, Mr. Lu, is a 53-year-old man. He wears dark colors, and if he doesn't smile, his slightly long cheeks make him look very serious.

Although Mr. Lu had a serious expression, he was only accompanied by two people, so the scene was not big.

"Welcome Mr. Lu to visit the publishing house." said President Jian.

"It's not an inspection, just a casual look," said Mr. Lu. "Don't make it so grand, just go do your own thing. What were you doing before?"

The head of the head office came to take a look. Will anyone believe what you said? President Jian showed no reaction and replied, "We will hold a meeting to discuss some specific issues."

"That's great. I have something to announce as well," said Mr. Lu. "Since we're having a meeting, there's no need to go out of your way to find someone."

I have something to announce...

Everyone returned to the conference room and seemed very silent, as if it was the false calm on the sea before a storm.

"President Jian has been the president of the Children's Publishing House for eight years, right?" President Lu asked first.

Similar problems result in either dismissal or promotion and salary increase.

"It's been almost nine years," President Jian suddenly became very calm.

"How many nine years are there in a lifetime?" President Lu said, "The Juvenile and Children's Publishing House has achieved good development under the leadership of President Jian. Please applaud President Jian."

Clap, clap, clap, applause broke out from the audience.

"If nothing unexpected happened, the head office would not have transferred President Jian, but the Magic City Literature and Art Publishing House is indeed too bad." President Lu said, "President Jian, the head office would like to trouble you to save this publishing house."

It’s true, President Jian was actually moved away.

Before Vice President Jin could even smile, he heard CEO Lu continue:
"As for the president of the Children and Youth Publishing House, it will be Yuan Mingjie, President Yuan, who is beside me."

(End of this chapter)