Rekindling the Youthful Era

Chapter 721 Xu Youyu's Flag
October 9th, Thursday.

Daily study life in college goes by quickly.

The coursework was not as complicated as that in high school, and many of them were just unnecessary courses. After attending them once, Li Luo skipped them.

Li Luo would only take classes that were professional in nature, like Xu Rongsheng's.

It was morning, and Li Luo accompanied Xu Youyu to the class "Appreciation and Research of Online Literature".

To be honest, although this class was about online articles that Li Luo was very familiar with, teacher Si Huanian still managed to talk about something new.

Many times, Li Luo can often make analyses from different angles that he had never thought of before.

Today is the third time we have this class, and the course has reached the stage where student groups go on stage to give presentations.

This week, two groups took the stage to present their favorite online articles, and gave targeted research and analysis based on the appreciation methods and techniques taught by Teacher Si, as well as their personal ideas and understanding.

The first group was the girls’ group. They found a popular novel for women. Li Luo usually didn’t read much novels for women, so she didn’t know much about it.

But when the second group came on stage and opened the PPT, although Li Luo held back, Xu Youyu next to him couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Haha~ It's your turn after all." Xu Youyu held back his laughter, patted Li Luo's shoulder, and looked at the five big words "Daqian Night Patrol" displayed on the PPT, laughing uncontrollably.

Li Luo showed a helpless expression.

Although I was mentally prepared before this, I didn't expect that this would be his masterpiece right from the start.

Fortunately, except for him who is a freshman, all the other students who took this course are sophomores and juniors.

Although some seniors recognized Li Luo's identity, among the more than 40 students who chose this course, only Jiang Feiya who was sitting on the other side knew that he was Juran.

Thinking of this, Li Luo turned his head to look at Jiang Feiya who was sitting on the other side of the aisle. Seeing that she also turned her head to look at him, their eyes immediately met.

Jiang Feiya was actually in a very complicated mood at this time.

After learning the true identities of Li Luo and Xu Youyu, she was a little mentally unbalanced for a while.

Li Luo is fine, as he is so successful in his career and earns hundreds of millions, Jiang Feiya will accept it. It's just that Xu Youyu is lucky and found a powerful boyfriend.

However, Xu Youyu's own success still made Jiang Feiya feel a little unbalanced.

During this period, she carefully checked the income levels of online writers, and then compared them with Xu Youyu's performance and made a rough calculation.

Then she discovered that from the time Xu Youyu started writing in his sophomore year of high school to now, which has been almost three years, this guy's income from royalties is actually around two million!

Three years, two million!

Although this number is far less exaggerated than Li Luo's, it is still an astronomical figure for a college student.

How could a good person make two million in just three years of high school and freshman year?
Whenever she thought of this, Jiang Feiya couldn't help but feel a little envious.

However, after reading Xu Youyu's two masterpieces, Jiang Feiya's mentality changed a little.

How should I put it...it's a bit hard to describe.

She now has a strange feeling towards Xu Youyu.

On the one hand, I feel that Xu Youyu is very happy to make money, but on the other hand, I feel that the stuff this guy writes is really a bit disgusting.

But... Jiang Feiya found that as she watched, she became a little fascinated.

I often stay up until two or three in the morning without realizing it, and when I come to my senses, I realize that several hours have passed.

If it weren't for this, Jiang Feiya would not have been able to finish reading all four million words of Xu Youyu's two books in just over half a month.

After all, she had never read much online literature before, and had not yet mastered the reading speed of an old bookworm who could read ten lines at a glance.

So she reads slowly and carefully.

The content of one chapter can be savored for several minutes.

If it were combined with this chapter, it would have probably slipped away in ten minutes or so.

"'Daqian Night Patrol' breaks the traditional theme framework of Xianxia, ​​combining court intrigues and grudges in the rivers and lakes, and weaving the main plot in the form of case reasoning."

“At the same time, it provides a completely new career advancement route and method, which is completely different from the conventional fairy tales.”

"And on this basis..."

Just when Jiang Feiya was feeling mixed emotions, the student in charge of the presentation on the stage had already started sharing.

Li Luo, who was in the audience, felt goose bumps on his arms as he listened to others praising his work from various angles.

Especially when it comes to innovations in the cultivation system, Li Luo feels a little embarrassed.

After all, this thing was first introduced in online novels by "Lord of Mysteries".

However, at this time, it is still a long way from "Lord of Mysteries" to break out of the shell, and Squid is still finishing up his dog food master.

The new book won’t be out until April next year.

"That's very well said." Xu Youyu leaned close to Li Luo's ear with a smile, "Doesn't it feel good? They praised you in so many ways."

"Ha." Li Luo glanced at Xu Youyu, "Next time it's my turn to go on stage, I'll let you have some fun too."

Hearing this, Xu Youyu's face suddenly froze, and then he snorted: "Who is afraid of who? I have prepared yours too."

Two people were secretly hurting each other off the stage, while the student giving a speech on the stage had already talked about everything from subject matter innovation to narrative structure and character development.

The final point was the chivalrous spirit and human nature thinking, which directly led to a wave of subject sublimation, leaving Li Luo stunned.

"Did you consider so many things when you were writing?" Xu Youyu asked curiously.

Li Luo: "...How can I think so much when I'm typing?"

"Haha~ Why don't you raise your hand to correct it?" Xu Youyu covered his mouth and laughed.

Li Luo coughed, shook his head and said, "Although I didn't think too much about it when I was writing, it may be that I naturally yearn for chivalry and justice, so these ideas were naturally integrated into the creation."

"If you think about it this way, then what they said is not wrong."

"There's nothing to correct."

After hearing this, Xu Youyu looked at him sideways and laughed, "You are quite good at bragging."

Although he said this, Xu Youyu still agreed with what the students on the stage said in his heart.

Especially the part praising the author made Xu Youyu smile and nod repeatedly to show his agreement.

Compared with the entertainment theme of "I'm Not a Star" and the realistic theme of "Little Joy", "Daqian Night Patrol" obviously has a wider audience. Especially after the protagonist of the book travels through time, modern concepts and certain concepts of the fairy world collide with each other, guiding the protagonist step by step from a stable mentality of being rich and contented to gradually completing the transformation of protecting the people, which is also the theme and core that Xu Youyu likes very much.

This point was also well explained by the members of this group, which made Xu Youyu very satisfied.

When the student on the stage finished his speech, Xu Youyu immediately raised his hands and clapped loudly.

"After class, shall we have lunch first and then go swimming?" Li Luo finally waited until the lecture was over. He breathed a sigh of relief and turned to ask Xu Youyu.

"Let's go back to the dormitory and take a nap first." Xu Youyu said, "I'll go after I wake up."

"Don't stay in bed again."

"I never stay in bed when I take a nap!" Xu Youyu gritted his teeth and said, "Don't stereotype me."

"Really? Why do I remember..."

"Don't bring up the past." Xu Youyu grabbed his waist and said angrily.

The two of them made a fuss while Si Huanian on the podium got into the main topic of the day.

After the first two classes taught the development history of online literature and some basic online literature analysis methods and tools, today's course content ushered in specific case analysis.

"With the presentations of the first two groups, everyone should be able to see that they used a lot of the methods we used in the last class."

“But, in fact, everyone is still quite rigid in sticking to the perspective of traditional literature.”

"Even though we read online literature, we are all from the literature department after all, so we still can't adapt to it many times."

"Or rather, not bold enough."

Si Huanian smiled slightly, and then opened the PPT he had prepared. "It just so happens that, based on the two cases presented by our classmates today, let's take a deeper look from my perspective."

"This time, I will find an angle that everyone should be interested in and make a simple attempt."

"Everyone come and see."

After saying that, Si Huanian had already turned the page of the PPT, on which was the female-oriented online novel that the first group presented today.

But the screenshot above is a bit embarrassing.

Compared with the first group's presentation which focused on subject matter, narrative structure, main story line, character core and ideological sublimation, Si Huanian's presentation was much bolder.

Directly take a screenshot of the driving content of this novel.

The female author is quite open in this regard, especially her writing style and artistic conception, which are so delicate and subtle that they make people feel as if they are there.

If you were to read this secretly, everyone would probably stare wide-eyed and read it carefully.

But at this moment, most people took a few glances and found out what was written on it. Then they lowered their heads and looked around, and were too embarrassed to look at the screen.

"Fuck, is Teacher Si so cruel?" Xu Youyu said this subconsciously. When he turned to look at Li Luo, he found that his face had turned pale.

"This is the specific description of the novel's emotional aspect." Si Huanian said with a smile, "But we are not here to criticize this aspect. Instead, we want to understand the development and changes of online literature from this perspective through comparisons between the past and the present."

"Please read these contents again."

As soon as he finished speaking, Si Huanian turned the page again, and the PPT was suddenly divided into four sections, each of which contained an article.

"Starting from the upper left corner, here are some excerpts of works in this regard from the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties."

"Then let's take a look at the excerpts from 'Daqian Night Patrol.'" Si Huanian continued to turn the pages.

This time, Li Luo didn't dare to look at it anymore.

Jiang Feiya, who was not far away, almost couldn't hold back her laughter. She subconsciously glanced at Li Luo. Seeing him lowering his head and covering his face, she immediately laughed out loud.

Xu Youyu was also a little nervous, trying to hold back his laughter while comforting her: "It's okay, it's okay, no one knows you anyway."

"Stop talking." Li Luo was speechless for a while, waving his hands repeatedly, just wanting to end this class quickly, "I should have known not to come to this class with you."

"Haha~" Xu Youyu was listening with great interest at this time, and even helped Teacher Si to speak up, "I think it's pretty good. Even in traditional literary works, there is no lack of content in this area."

“I think it’s great that Mr. Si dares to make this kind of appreciation and sharing.”

"And the attraction in this regard is really good. Just look at the looks in everyone's eyes."

Xu Youyu was speaking quietly, and Li Luo looked up and around, and found that most people were listening very carefully.

To be honest, for courses like online literature electives, some people do choose them because they are interested in them.

But there are also those who come here just to slack off.

After all, online literature is relatively easy to read, so the course content is definitely not very professional.

Come here and do some homework. At the end of the semester, you will get the credits.

But at this moment, when Si Huanian used this trick, everyone focused their attention and was completely controlled by Teacher Si on the podium.

Si Huanian spent a few minutes talking about his views on this evolution, and then he leaned on the podium and said to the audience: "The entertainment nature of online literature cannot be ignored by anyone, especially those of us who do research."

“We cannot forcefully analyze online literature from the perspective of traditional literature just to prove its excellence.”

"Is the driving force behind online readers' love for online literature really just the analysis of our group members?"

“It’s something we need to think deeply about.”

After saying this, Si Huanian continued to analyze the two online articles from other perspectives and temporarily let Li Luo go.

"Ah..." Li Luo sighed deeply, and then couldn't help saying, "Next time I'll recommend "The Age of Literature and Art" to Teacher Si. I wonder if she's willing to analyze it in depth."

"Get lost." Xu Youyu glared at him. "I had nothing to do with what happened today. If you have the guts, wait for other students to come up on stage and present my book."

At this point, Xu Youyu became proud: "Who made you so famous? I'm just a small fry, and no one would promote my book."

"Tsk." Li Luo made a sound, but there was nothing he could do.

After another twenty minutes or so, the bell finally rang for the end of get out of class.

Li Luo quickly pulled Xu Youyu out, not wanting to stay in the classroom for too long.

"By the way, Xixi, don't you want to come swim with us?" Xu Youyu asked while hugging Li Luo's arm as they were on the way to the cafeteria.

"She said she was going to the secretariat after lunch and wouldn't go swimming. After all, we haven't started swimming lessons in our freshman year, so it wouldn't count as a Sunshine Run if we went." Li Luo said, "But after swimming, if she wants to go see the kittens, she said we can go together."

"Then let's go swimming?" Xu Youyu raised his eyebrows, leaned close to Li Luo in a somewhat ambiguous manner, and whispered in his ear, "Coach Li, you have to teach me how to swim."

(End of this chapter)