After Being Bent by Reader

There were not many customers in this tea restaurant. Two people ordered coffee and milk tea separately, and some snacks.

The delivery of something temporarily interrupted their conversation. Rosa took a sip of cold milk tea and said, "Speaking of milk tea, there is something delicious from Taiwan."

Murong Shi also took a sip of coffee and asked, "Are you going back?"

"Yeah." Rosa put the cup down, chin clicked on the packaging bag she put aside, "Time is too fast for me to study well, although I look rough, I still love them one by one. The story is attracted, and I have stayed up all night to read it these days."

Murong Shi smiled and said, "I will say thank you on her behalf."

"But it's a bit early to say thank you."

Murong Poetry doubts.

Rosa's legs overlapped, and she said sternly: "Taiwan can indeed publish this kind of books, but overall the audience of Lily's novels is small, and the difficulty of publishing is relatively large."

Murong Shi listened quietly.

"Because of the small audience, when we select this type of work, we should not only consider the necessary conditions such as stories and writing, but also refer to the author's reputation. Of course, I am not saying that your girlfriend is not well-known. I have seen it on the Internet. In terms of the number of clicks and collections related to her articles, she is still relatively good among similar authors."

"She also often ridicules that she is a little transparent." The other party was still too tactful, and Murong Shi was straightforward. "You mean hers is not suitable for publication?"

"No, no, no." Rosa shook her head hurriedly, "Your girlfriend writes very well, there is no doubt about it."

"Her writing is exquisite, and the sweet love story fits the market very well. If I follow my personal preferences, I would very much like to cooperate with such an author. But I want to make it clear to you that our editor-in-chief prefers that A novel with a strong narrative, such as by An Ji."

Speaking of Anji, Murong Shi couldn't help but think of the chance encounter on the plane.

She and Rosa met on the way back from Taiwan. In the three rows of seats, Linda sits by the window, Murong Shi sits in the middle, and Rosa sits outside. After the plane flew smoothly, the tired Linda fell asleep quickly, and Murong Shi took out the magazine in the back pocket of the front seat and turned over.

I don't know if it was her bad luck or the airline's inadequate service. The magazines in front of her were all in traditional Chinese, which made her dizzy. She put the magazine back, and was about to close her eyes to rest, and Yu Guang caught a glimpse of the passenger next to her holding a thick book and reading with gusto.

Probably aware of her prying eyes, Rosa smiled at her and said, "It will take more than three hours to fly. It's boring, isn't it?"

Murong Shi didn't expect Rosa would strike up a conversation with her, and smiled back at her and said, "It's very boring."

Rosa lowered her voice to complain to her: "These magazines on the plane are very boring, so I always bring my own books."

Murong Shi noticed the book she was holding, looked at her face, and said, "I think your accent should also be from the Mainland? Your book is in traditional Chinese characters. Isn't it uncomfortable?

Rosa turned the pages of the book: "You said this? I work as an editor in a Taiwanese publishing house. I read these words every day. I've long been used to it."

While she inadvertently flipped, Murong Shi noticed the words on the cover. When she saw the four words "Author An Ji", she thought she was dazzled: "An Ji?"

"This is a mainland author who is very well-known in the circle. She writes very beautiful novels, but the subject matter is somewhat special."

Murong Shi smiled and said lightly: "I know this author."

As if she suddenly found her soulmate, Rosa's eyes lit up: "Have you read the novel she wrote?"

"I've seen it a little bit." Murong Shi twitched, "I know this author in reality, and I have eaten together several times."

Rosa opened her eyes wide and tried her best to control the volume: "What a coincidence?!"

This is also unexpected by Murong Poetry.

Too boring, in order to pass the time, Murong Shi listened to Rosa talked a lot about Anji novels. Rosa also took the opportunity to ask her about some of Anjie's information, such as how people look like in reality and how their tempers are.

After thinking about it for a while, Murong Shi replied with two words in summary: "It's okay."

That happened a week ago.

With his floating thoughts back, Murong Shi looked at Rosa on the opposite side without blinking his eyes: "Please tell me."

Rosa looked embarrassed and said, "I am not the editor-in-chief after all, so I can't give you a definite answer. Do you know what I mean?"

Murong Shi pondered for a moment and said, "Then, how likely is it that my girlfriend's novel will be published?"

"I'm only 50% sure now, because I really like your girlfriend's work and this kind of warm story. After I go back, I hope I can fight for the editor in chief."

In this view, it is still unknown whether it can be published.

Murong Shi didn't know much about publishing, so after adding Rosa's WeChat on the plane, she pestered Rosa to ask questions whenever she was free. Rosa was also good-tempered and patient, and told her a lot of knowledge in every detail.

Although Xu Chuanchuan always said that she only wanted to make some pocket money and didn't want to chase fame and fortune when she wrote articles, Murong Shi saw the envy on her face every time she mentioned Anji.

"An Ji's novel is going to sell movies and televisions again. I heard that many companies are rushing to get it. It's amazing."

"Did you know? Anji's new article only released the copywriting, and the publishing house asked her to sign without a chapter. Hey, the treatment of the Great God is different.

There are countless words like this.

After spending six months together, Murong Shi had already understood her character thoroughly. Xu Chuanchuan didn't want to, but she felt that she was not capable enough to dare to hope.

This time I ran into Rosa on the plane. After listening to Rosa talk about the publication of An Ji's novels, Murong Shi immediately sprang up to help Xu Chuanchuan's novels to be published.

Although Xu Chuanchuan is not as famous as Anji, she thinks Xu Chuanchuan's writing is not bad at all. Why can others publish but Xu Chuanchuan can't?

The frequent contact with Rosa these days is for this. She really wants to surprise Xu Chuanchuan, but she also knows that publishing this matter is very difficult, so she doesn’t want Xu Chuanchuan before everything becomes clear. know. To prevent accidents, she changed the phone password.

It's just that she forgot that Xu Chuanchuan is a sensitive person who likes brain supplements. She didn't cover it up, causing Xu Chuanchuan to become suspicious and almost fell out with her.

Seeing that Rosa was going back to Taiwan, Murong Shi thought of seeing her off today. Before leaving, she gave her a set of beauty equipment and said: "No matter if this happens or not, you should tell me first. If it doesn't happen, I will still find you. of."

Rosa was confused: "Look for me if you fail?"

Murong Shi said frankly: "I promised to surprise her. If you really can't make it, I plan to fund it myself."

"Do you want to pay for it yourself?"

"Well, I want to realize her dream."

Rosa was stunned, looked at the expensive beauty equipment, then looked at her, and said with envy, "You are so kind to your girlfriend."

Murong Shi smiled without saying a word.

After seeing Rosa off, Murong Shi returned to the car.

Linda has been playing with her phone in the car for half an hour. She heard the door opening and saw Murong Shi come in. Although she had doubts in her heart, she didn't ask much.

The desserts in that restaurant were good, and Murong Shi took two copies and gave one to Linda. She drove herself so that Linda could eat easily.

Linda pointed to the other one and asked knowingly, "Who is this for?"

"Who else?" Murong Shi smiled, and before starting the car, he took out his mobile phone and sent Xu Chuanchuan WeChat, "Go to my office in ten minutes and bring you delicious food."

After returning to the company, Linda went to work on other things. Murong Shi pushed open the door of the office and found that it was quiet inside.

The curtains were not drawn, the air conditioner was not turned on, the lights were not turned on, and there was no personal figure. She couldn't help but wonder: Did Xu Chuanchuan not see her news?

Murong Shi put the car keys and the packaged desserts on the desk, and when he took out his mobile phone to call Xu Chuanchuan, a figure came out from under the desk.

"Surprise!"

"..." Murong Shi was taken aback by her, and she almost couldn't hold her phone securely.

It was the first time that Xu Chuanchuan saw Murong Shi panic like this. He laughed and said, "Isn't it fun?"

"It's not fun." Murong Shi rolled her eyes and pushed the packing box in front of her.

Xu Chuanchuan opened it and found that there were two Portuguese tarts, two durian crisps and two doughnuts. The sweet creamy smell penetrated into her nostrils. She took a deep breath.

Murong Shi saw her look greedy, followed by joy, and said, "Eat while it's hot."

"I can't finish eating so much." Xu Chuanchuan walked to her, "You eat with me."

"I have already eaten."

Xu Chuanchuan didn't care, picked up an egg **** and fed it to her mouth: "Quickly, quickly, I only have five minutes."

Murong Shi ducked her mouth and said jokingly: "What is the hurry, you should have an affair?"

"If you cheat, will five minutes be enough?"

Murong Shi wanted to laugh, but deliberately sullen her face, shook her head solemnly, and said, "At least two hours."

Xu Chuanchuan got hot on his face and began to urge: "Really, I can't leave for too long. Come on, I'll feed you."

Murong Shi raised her eyebrows, wrapped one hand around her waist, and said, "The door is locked, feed it with your mouth."

"That's even slower!" Xu Chuanchuan stomped her feet, squeezing the Portuguese **** in when she opened her mouth, and her mouth was not idle.

The two of them were eating when the phone rang suddenly. When they realized that his phone was ringing, Xu Chuanchuan was so excited that he almost didn't choke on the doughnut.

Thinking that it was the boss or other colleagues looking for her, picked up the phone and looked at it. The caller ID was Anji's name. She hurriedly pressed the answer: "Are you there?"

An Ji: "Just got off the plane. Are you here?"

"Me? I..." Xu Chuanchuan hesitated and glanced at Murong Shi, "It's here! Come out, there is a big surprise waiting for you."

"What big surprise?"

"You'll know when you come out. Don't say anything, see you later, bye!"

Xu Chuanchuan hung up without waiting for a response from the other side, took a bite of the matcha donut, and said, "I lied to her so, I wonder if she will be angry."

Murong Shi didn't care: "She should be grateful to you."

airport.

I heard that Xu Chuanchuan prepared a surprise for her, and An Ji kept wondering what the surprise was as the people flowed out.

It was cold. She took a lot of clothes for washing, and there was a laptop inside. She dragged a heavy suitcase to the exit. She did not find Xu Chuanchuan, but she found Fang Qin, a tall and lanky person in the crowd.

An Ji thought he had hallucinations.

Fang Qin smiled and walked straight towards her, and asked softly, "Are you tired?"

An Ji blinked, trying to find Xu Chuanchuan's figure in the crowd, but still couldn't find it. He turned his eyes back to the face of the person in front of him: "Why are you?"

Fang Qin stared at her face for a moment, and asked instead, "You don't want it to be me?"

"..." An Ji licked his lips that had been blown dry by the wind, his eyes wandering, and secretly gritted his teeth.

This is Xu Chuanchuan's so-called surprise? ? ?

Fang Qin took a step forward when she was startled and said, "Let's go."

Before An Ji could react, she dragged the suitcase over.

"I'll do it myself." An Ji stretched out her hand to grab it, but accidentally touched Fang Qin's hand. She suddenly felt her heart and withdrew her hand in a jealousy.

Fang Qin didn't seem to care, pointed to the outside and said, "The white one is my car."

"……Thank you."

"You're welcome."

It was only half a month since we met last time. After they came back, they contacted intermittently, but they didn't talk very deeply. After getting in the car, Fang Qin said with emotion: "I didn't expect us to meet so soon."

An Ji looked at the interior of the car and pretended to say casually: "I didn't expect it either."

Fang Qin calmly looked at her: "Are you here specifically to play with strings?"

"Right." An Ji said with some guilty conscience.

"I thought……"

"For why?"

"Nothing." Fang Qin smiled faintly, motioned her to fasten her seat belt and start the car, "I'll take you to eat something first."

"I'm not hungry." An Ji said hurriedly, "I have eaten on the plane."

"that……"

"You just take me to the hotel." An Ji stopped her.

Fang Qin looked down and said a good word in a low voice.

After that, the two of them ignored each other as if they were strangers. The car was very quiet, so quiet that Anji was fidgeting, she had nothing to say: "Can you listen to songs?"

"Yes." Fang Qin helped her turn on the music.

The volume was moderate, and the sound of textured music reverberated in the car, and Anji's tight nerves finally got a little relaxed.

"How many days are you going to play?" Fang Qin broke the silence.

An Ji thought for a while and said, "I don't know, let's take a look first."

"If you are bored, you can also play with me."

An Ji didn't answer his voice. After watching the scenery flying by outside for a while, he felt bored and straightened his head: "By the way, you have something left in my house."

Fang Qin was taken aback: "What is it?"

"It's the blue suspender nightdress, which is still hanging on the balcony when you leave."

Fang Qin recalled for a moment, and laughed blankly, and said, "No wonder I can't find it. I forgot to bring it back."

She kept watching the road ahead so An Ji could look at her unscrupulously. Unexpectedly, Fang Qin suddenly raised his eyes to look in the rearview mirror, and the two of them collided.

An Ji quickly shifted his gaze, cleared his throat, and said, "I... I brought it here for you this time, and I will return it to you when I arrive at the hotel."

"In fact, it doesn't matter if it's not."

"why?"

Fang Qin glanced at the rearview mirror again, looked at An Ji's drooping eyebrows, and said half-truth: "I can keep it for you as a souvenir."

An Ji opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound. She was holding the phone in one hand and the seat belt tightly in the other, pretending to be calm: "No, I have a lot of pajamas at home."

There is still a long way from the airport to the city. The two people talked with each other, but the content of the conversation was relatively daily. In order to get closer to her, Fang Qin asked her about the cake shop. The three cats and one dog in the family even asked the auntie hourly worker.

Basically, An Ji answered mechanically what she asked. Both of them had ghosts in their hearts, they couldn't let go, the atmosphere was very dry, and they wanted to drink water.

When approaching the city, the roads became crowded. Fang Qin asked the Anji who lowered his head to play with his mobile phone: "There is a home near my work, do you want to go to his house?"

An Ji looked up at her and said, "Whatever."

Fang Qin held the steering wheel with loose and tight hands, looked at the traffic lights with changing numbers ahead, and said, "If you don't want to stay in a hotel, you can also go to my house."

An Ji was slightly surprised: "Why go to your house?"

"No, it's the apartment I rented outside to be exact." Fang Qin paused, "Last time I stayed at your house for two days, eating and drinking you for nothing. If you come to City S, I should also entertain you. "

This sounded nothing wrong, but An Ji hesitated when she thought that it was so inconvenient and awkward when two people were in the same room.

The main purpose of this visit was to avoid the oranges. An Ji was not sure when she would go back. She brought the laptop here for codewords, but Fang Qin was at her house last time. In the past two days, she was panicked. I didn't write the words, it was too delay.

After careful measurement, Anji said: "Don't bother you, I think it's better for me to stay in a hotel."

Fang Qin looked straight at her: "Are you afraid of me?"

"..." An Ji laughed twice, "Everyone is a woman. Besides, you have a better temper than me. Why should I be afraid of you?"

Fang Qin wanted to say something but stopped, and finally said nothing.

Send her to the hotel. Fang Qin is about to leave after she is settled. Before leaving, she said, "Excuse me, I only took a half-day off, and I have to go back to work."

"Then you go to work." An Ji wished her to leave early.

But when Fang Qin really left, An Ji felt that he was boring and had nothing to do, so it was better to sleep.

At six o'clock, Xu Chuanchuan called her to contact her: "Murong and I will pick you up now, and then we will go to dinner together."

Just after waking up, An Ji slumped in response, got up to wash and change clothes.

The eating place was selected by Murong's poems, and the three of them met before Fang Qin hurriedly arrived.

With other people around, seeing Fang Qin again, An Ji would not be so at a loss. While going to the bathroom, she dragged Xu Chuanchuan to a corner of no one: "Why do you want her to pick me up?"

Seeing annoyed look, Xu Chuanchuan thief laughed and said: "Don't pretend to be a small sacrifice, we all know."

"what do you know?"

Xu Chuanchuan shook her and said, "Fang Qin told Murong that the typhoon flight was cancelled. You took her home to live in, right?"

"..."

"You two, did anything passionate happen?" Xu Chuanchuan lowered his voice.

"……No."

"Really not?" Xu Chuanchuan winked.

"No!" An Ji was blushing when she said, "Xiao Tang'er, why have you become so rude now?"

"Cut, you are a lot more serious than me."

"..."

Someone passed by, and the conversation between the two was forced to stop, and they returned to their seats hand in hand.

"Have you ordered?" Xu Chuan asked.

Murong Shi stared at the two hands they were shaking, frowned, and said, "Why have you been there for so long?"

Reaching the warning gaze, Xu Chuanchuan let go of An Ji's hand, took a seat next to her, and said, "There are too many people."

Murong Shi put the menu in front of her: "Fang Qin and I ordered one. You can order the rest."

Xu Chuanchuan flipped through the menu and asked the person on the other side: "Xiao Jijie, what do you want to eat?"

"Whatever, you can help me order."

"Okay."

"Little chicken?" Fang Qin was called by this strange and strange name to Lei Da, and his gaze swept towards An Ji's lower body intentionally or unintentionally.

An Ji's expression froze and stared at her: "What is your expression?"

"I just think it's weird, how can a woman have such a nickname."

An offering: "..."

Xu Chuanchuan laughed "puchi", and hurriedly explained: "Fang Qin, you are so dirty, it's a small sacrifice, not a small..." She replaced the last two words with her mouth and closed the menu, "because her pen name is An Ji , So I called it that way."

"Cough cough--" An Ji coughed dryly and blinked at her desperately.

After Xu Chuanchuan realized that he had missed his mouth, his eyes rolled and said, "I'm sorry, Xiao Jiji, I didn't mean it."

"..."

"But..." Xu Chuan said, "Fang Qin knew about it a long time ago, I told her."

An Ji was very surprised at this point. She looked at Fang Qin suddenly: "When did you know?"

Fang Qin said slightly, "After we meet for the second time."

"..."

Xu Chuanchuan interrupted them and looked at An Ji and said, "I am to blame for this. I really want to bring you together. I'm afraid that you don't have a common topic, so I told Fang Qin."

Writing a novel is not a shameful thing, An Ji doesn't blame her, it just feels a little sudden.

Fang Qin carefully observed her expression and saw that she was not angry, and said: "I have read all your novels."

It was a little embarrassing to talk about this in person, An Ji didn't know how to pick it up, and smiled stiffly at her.

Fang Qin continued: "I also left you a lot of long comments, you should have noticed too."

An Ji receives a lot of comments every day, many of which are long comments, but she didn't expect Fang Qin to be in the middle. She was surprised: "Which one is you?"

"My reader's nickname is'Water Heart'."

An Ji: "..." No impression at all.

As an author, Xu Chuanchuan can understand An Ji's current embarrassment, and she can see that An Ji is reluctant to talk about her work. She interrupted and said, "This business is good and there are so many people."

An Ji glanced at her gratefully.

They ate for a long time and talked a lot. When they walked out of the restaurant, Fang Qin took the initiative to say to An Ji: "I'll be on the way, I'll see you off."

An Ji did not refuse.

The more Xu Chuanchuan saw that the two of them were a good match, he smiled and said, "Then we will leave first, and Xiao Jiji will look for you to play tomorrow."

An Ji nodded absently.

From the restaurant to the hotel, the middle distance is very short, Fang Qin sent her to the door of the hotel.

"Thank you." An Ji unfastened his seat belt and was about to open the door and get out of the car, but his wrist was caught.

Seeing her surprised gaze, Fang Qin quickly let go, pursing his lips and smiling: "I like the novel you wrote very much."

An Ji unnaturally moved his wrists and replied politely, "Thank you."

"But this is not what I want to say." Fang Qin looked directly at her eyes, and said every word, "You, I also like it a little bit."

"..."