It had been a month since the book 'Return to the Ming Dynasty and Be a Prince' had started to sell. Xia Qiu had indeed had an easy time this month. The novel had sold like crazy and all his debts had been paid off. At the same time, his wealth had also increased rapidly. Everything was going in a good direction. Taking advantage of this good momentum, Xia Qiu was already preparing for the sale of the second volume. However, the phone call he just received had ruined his good mood. Liu Qianqian was sick. When Xia Qiu rushed to the hospital, Aunt Huang was waiting anxiously for him at the hospital entrance.
Mr. Xia, Miss Liu is still in the ward."
"Hmm, what's going on?" Xia Qiu asked.
" She suddenly had a high fever," Auntie Huang said." The doctor said that it's the root cause of the disease that has accumulated from the cold she had in the past."
Xia Qiu nodded. It was probably due to the cold accumulated from the shock he received in the river. However, he had already made up his mind that if anything happened, he would have to use the cultivation method on the Tao Te Ching to save the person. Although he had been busy selling books recently, he had never stopped cultivating the Tao Te Ching. It was just that he was still stuck at the second level.
Bang! The door was pulled open and a doctor in a white coat came out. Xia Qiu asked hurriedly,"" Doctor, how is it?
"It's nothing serious. I caught a cold in the past and it suddenly broke out overnight. I'm fine now, but I have to pay more attention to recuperation in the future.”Hearing the doctor's answer, Xia Qiu felt relieved.
Xia Qiu nodded and walked into the ward. She asked Liu Qianqian,"" How are you? Do you feel uncomfortable?"
Liu Qianqian looked haggard as she said softly,"I'm fine. I just suddenly felt weak all over. I don't know what's going on."
Xia Qiu said," This is the root of your illness. Once this illness erupts, you'll be fine. You should rest well and recuperate for a while."
"Yes." Xia Qiu stayed in the hospital for another hour before leaving. She chatted with Liu Qianqian for a while before leaving.
Xia Qiu returned to the company and continued writing his novel. Hui Ming was almost done, but he was curious that the publishing company had yet to come to him." Xiaoxue, have you received any calls from the publishing company recently?"
Not yet, boss." Zhou Xue, the receptionist, quickly replied.
Hearing this answer, Xia Qiu couldn't help but frown. No one had come to find her yet. It was impossible." Call Chen Liang over."”Chen Liang was the employee with the best performance last month and had been promoted to manager. Boss, you were looking for me."
" Yes, how's the matter with the publishing company I asked you to find last time?" Xia Qiu had already asked Chen Liang to keep an eye on the publishing company, but the whole company was filled with newcomers in the industry and there were no familiar acquaintances, so she could not find any clues.
Chen Liang hesitated for a moment before saying," Boss, there's something that I just received news about. A bookstore customer told me that someone is boycotting us, saying that our novel is bad, so they warned those editors not to let us publish it."
Xia Qiu was stunned. What was going on? They had been behaving themselves since they came to Gang City and had never offended anyone. Why did someone suddenly come out and say that they wanted to boycott them?" Who wants to boycott us? Who said that my novel is bad? That's impossible. We've been doing our own thing obediently and have never offended anyone. It's impossible for us to have any enemies here."
"I haven't found out who exactly it is, but the one who said that we can't write novels well is someone from the novel association.”
Xia Qiu was confused." The Fictional Association? What kind of organization is this? Why haven't I heard of it?”
"This association was formed by Jin Ming and the others more than ten years ago. It was said that at that time, a few famous people in the literary world often discussed writing matters together. However, more and more people joined later, and their influence grew. Even the writers in Wancheng felt proud to join this circle, and slowly formed such an association. If someone's novel was approved by the association, the association would help contact a publishing company to publish it, as well as film and television production. Those publishing companies would also approve of their recommendations because they could achieve a win-win situation every time they worked together. In the end, the result was that as long as the novel was approved by the association, it was a good book. If it wasn't approved, it was just average. It was because of this that the novel association slowly became a giant in this circle. Nowadays, many authors were members of this association.
However, ever since Jin Ming stopped writing, the association's influence was not as great as before. This was because the books they recommended in recent years had also caused those editors to lose a lot of money. Even if they lost money, the publishing companies wouldn't dare to offend the association too much, because the members of the association basically included all the authors in Gang City and some authors in Wan City. If the association decided to boycott a publishing company, the publishing company could say that they could produce five books.
Originally, our novel had a lot of interest from a number of publishing companies, but because we published it privately without discussing it with them, they wanted to suppress us. If any of the publishing companies wanted to publish our novel, the association would reject all cooperation with them. In the future, any book written by any member of the association would not be able to cooperate with any other publishing company.”
"F * ck, I was wondering why these publishing companies haven't shown up for a month. It turns out that we've been boycotted. Isn't this the legendary ban? F * ck them, my book still needs their approval.”Xia Qiu was baffled. She didn't expect that she would have to go to the dock to pay her respects just to write a novel. If she didn't go, she would become a loner.
Xia Qiu was really angry when she heard the news of the boycott. As the saying went, getting in the way of others 'wealth was like killing one's parents. Just as she was about to go all out, a tiger suddenly appeared in her way. "This means that Jin Ming is behind this.”
Chen Liang saw that the boss was angry and felt a wave of anger in his heart." Not necessarily. Jin Ming has always been an honorary president and doesn't care about anything. Moreover, he has been focusing on the newspaper and doesn't go to that association anymore. " Because our 'Quest for Qin' was initially published in the newspaper, they didn't make things difficult for us out of respect for the newspaper office. However, when we returned to the Ming Dynasty to be a prince, we published it privately. This is breaking the rules of the industry. If no one buys it, or if our novel loses money in the end, then they won't say anything. But the problem is, no one expected our novel to sell so well. Seeing that we made money, of course, some people were jealous."But at that time, our novel had already filled all the bookstores in Gang City. It was too late for them to stop us, so they could only stop us from publishing it. If we don't do anything, the sales of the second volume will definitely be greatly affected."
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