A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 188: Word of mouth counterattacks, public opinion reverses! Who doesn't know me, Jiang Hai? I am the face of Chengxi! 5k
Spring is here, everything comes back to life, and it is the mating season for animals.

September 1st does not necessarily represent a certain website, it may also be the day when students start school.

September 1st, that day.

The doors of Chenghai Drama Academy are open.

New students from all over the country filed in and entered the university they had longed to attend for twelve years.

They were carrying large and small bags and suitcases, their eyes full of longing and vision for the future:

"Senior, I want to ask how to get to dormitory building 201? I am a freshman this year, and I don't understand this map."

"Senior, can I ask where our cafeteria is?"

"Classmate, are you interested in learning about our hip-hop dance club? Learn about the club's recruitment."

"Uncle security guard, can I borrow your phone to make a call? My phone is out of battery and I want to contact my girlfriend."

Chenghai Drama Academy has an open space dedicated to receiving freshmen, which can also be called the reception area.

It is called May Fourth Square.

Every freshman, when reporting to the school with their acceptance letters, will first gather at the May Fourth Square, identify their respective colleges and majors, then fill in their personal information and receive the sheets, quilts, and a series of personal items prepared by the school for the freshmen.

"Students from the Department of Performance, please gather here. This is the Student Union. If you have any questions, you can come and ask the seniors."

"Students from the directing and broadcasting and hosting departments, please look here. All freshmen, please come here to fill in your personal information."

"Friends from the Art Academy, look here and hand your admission letters to the long-legged lady next to the tent."

"Are there any new students from the drama school? If no one comes, I will ask the students from the student union to come and collect the forms."

Every department in the school will set up a tent in the May Fourth Square specifically for communication with freshmen.

Seven to eight student union members will be arranged in the tent to welcome freshmen from their respective colleges.

The most conspicuous location in the central area of ​​May Fourth Square.

When the student union president Li Yulong gathered his strength and shouted to the huge crowd in front of him:
"All freshmen from the Chinese Department, gather here!!!"

In an instant, all the freshmen nearby were attracted by Li Yulong's voice and turned to look at the tent where the Chinese Department was located.

There was a hint of envy in their eyes:

"Is this the Chinese Department of Chengxi Academy?"

If we follow the rules of previous years, for things like welcoming new students, the most central and conspicuous area of ​​the May Fourth Square should first be assigned to the Department of Drama and Literature, and then from the center to the periphery, it should be divided in turn to the Department of Directing, the Department of Acting, the Department of Film and Television Art Design, the Department of Dance Choreography, etc. These are departments with higher admission scores and are relatively popular in the school.

But this year the situation is clearly different.

In the school's welcome area, the tent formation was supposed to be in the middle and back, near the outer perimeter of the May Fourth Square, in the [Chinese Department] area. But it suddenly moved from the outer perimeter to the back area.

It directly occupies the most eye-catching position in the welcome area, which is the center of the May Fourth Square?

As for why this happens?

The reason is simple.

It was nothing more than that in the Department of Chinese, there appeared a senior with an excellent resume and honors, and the name of this senior was -

River and sea!

Looking at the literature departments in China, Peking University's Chinese Department is definitely the undisputed number one. And this senior Jiang Hai, whom I have never met, has actually been able to single-handedly raise the reputation of Chenghai Drama Academy's originally inferior Chinese Department to the same level as Peking University's Chinese Department?

In this case, let alone Chenghai Drama Academy, even if you look at the entire history of education——

It should be a unique miracle!

Department of Film and Television Directing.

A freshman with a pure look and pretty features, she sat in the tent a little stiffly, with her long white legs tightly together.

The senior who was in charge of registering new students in the college student union looked at her enthusiastically:

"Classmate, why did you choose our Chenghai Drama Academy?"

"And why did you choose to apply for our Film and Television Directing Department?"

"Are you interested in film and television directing? Can you briefly tell me why you chose our film and television directing major?"

The girl glanced at the senior in front of her nervously, her tone a little uncertain:
"Can you tell me anything?"

"Of course!"

After getting the senior's confirmation, the girl sat up straight, raised her head again, and looked directly at the senior in front of her:
"My first choice was Chinese, but I was rejected because my score was not high enough. I was eventually assigned to Film and Television Director."

"I, I don't know why I chose the major of Film and Television Director. I just happened to be transferred here."

Hearing what the freshman said, the senior who was in charge of registering the freshmen's personal information suddenly lost his smile.

After all, film and television director is considered a popular major in Chenghai Drama Academy, but it turns out that you...
We are the backup options, right?
"I didn't want to choose at all. I was just transferred here."

The girl's straightforward words almost made the senior lose his composure and he almost blurted out MMP.

Although his words are a bit blunt, for girls, especially pretty girls.
You must have the necessary patience.

Gentlemanly demeanor is often reflected in some details.

"Uh..." Although he was embarrassed, the senior student's reaction was still very fast, and the smile on his face did not diminish at all, "Life is not satisfactory, eight out of ten times."

"Since you have come to our Film and Television Directing Department, it is fate. We will all be a family in the future, so don't dwell on the past."

"What are your plans for the future?"

“The four years of college are crucial and time cannot be wasted.”

Seeing that the senior began to ask about her future study plans, the girl hesitated for a while and decided to tell him the truth:

"In fact, I had already made up my mind when I was transferred. I must study hard in my freshman year, meet the GPA requirements, and be in the top 3% of my grade."

"Because I can only change my major if my GPA reaches the top 3% of my grade, I want to switch to the Chinese Department when I am in my sophomore year."

The biggest advantage of freshmen is their simplicity and straightforwardness.

There is always a clear yet foolish light in their eyes.

If you see a student walking on the street in college who is unkempt, unkempt, has dull eyes, and may even be wearing slippers.
There is no doubt that this person is either a veteran junior or a senior.

If you find someone walking by who is neatly dressed and has clear eyes full of yearning for the future,
Needless to say, the person he was dating was a freshman.

"I came to study Film and Television Directing just to transfer to the Chinese Department"

Simplicity is simplicity.

But this kind of answer has a kind of beauty that disregards the life and death of others?

Hearing this, the senior was speechless and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Seeing that the senior's face looked a little strange, the junior looked at him, blinking her big eyes:

"Senior, I'm a straightforward person, please don't mind."

"Did I say the wrong thing?"

The senior paused and forced a smile from his face:
“It’s a good thing to have a plan.”

"Want to change your major? Then all I can say is, I wish you good luck."

The original admission score soared from the lowest 580 to 650, which enhanced the school's reputation.

Just from the perspective of Chengxi School——

If the Chinese department doesn’t come to the table, who would dare to pick up their chopsticks?

Whether you are an old student or a new student, you should go to the welcome area in the center of the path square, which is where the Chinese Department is located.

Everyone looked up to the students from the Chinese Department who were on duty:
"Has Senior Jiang Hai come?"

"Is this the Chinese department that Senior Jiang Hai is studying in?"

It is similar to Tsinghua's Yao Class, Peking University's Guanghua, and now the Chinese Department of Chenghai Drama Academy. Specifically, it should be the Chinese Language and Literature major of the Chinese Department.
It is the signature feature of Chengxi Opera!
A golden signboard!
If you go out and tell any student in school:

"I'm from the Chinese Department, Chinese Language and Literature Class."

"You know Jiang Hai from junior year, right? He's my classmate."

Who wouldn’t look up to you?
It was also based on this that, although his grades in the class were definitely at the bottom and he was not able to keep up with the learning progress at all, he was directly held back.

But the monkey Zhang Wenle and the muscular man Chu Tianjiao still rely on this series of reasons:

"You know Jiang Hai, right? He's the one who won the Cao Award!"

"Well, my good buddy, I'll introduce you to each other when I have time."

In the morning, I have received WeChat messages from more than 10 to 20 innocent girls.
No one will always be eighteen years old, but there will always be someone who is eighteen years old.

Compared with girls' mate selection criteria:

Handsome, humorous, considerate, rich, and if he can be family-oriented and romantic, that would be even better.
Men’s criteria for choosing a mate are much more specific: when they are 20 years old, they like beautiful girls who are 18 years old.

When I was thirty, I liked beautiful girls who were eighteen years old.

When I was 40, I still liked pretty girls who were 18 years old.
It is no exaggeration to say that even an extremely self-disciplined Sigma man like Chu Tianjiao could not withstand a group of young, beautiful and innocent female college students.

"Did you see that girl who just walked by? Her legs are longer than my life."

"Oh my god. This girl I just added on WeChat, isn't she definitely a copy of Chen Duling?"

"Why is the quality of this year's freshmen so good? Those freshmen in the acting department are almost indistinguishable from celebrities!"

"There are three thousand rivers, and I only take one scoop! But why is there not a single beautiful girl who belongs to me?"

Men, there are only two things you should focus on in your life.

First, make money.

Second, have sex with women.

Young people in their early twenties obviously do not have the ability to make money, so at this age when they are full of energy and have too much free time, what they focus on is...

Obviously only the latter.

Just as Zhang Wenle and Chu Tianjiao were frantically discussing which girl they had seen this morning was the prettiest.
Fatty Yang Wei walked over dejectedly:

"Monkey, Brother Chu, there's no hope again."

This morning, I saw a beautiful freshman who was good-looking and came to school alone to report.

The fat man will greet them enthusiastically:
"A new classmate, huh?"

"It's hard for you to carry your luggage by yourself, let me help you."

However, due to his unattractive appearance, every time the fat guy wanted to step forward to help the new classmates.

Will be ruthlessly rejected by the other party:

"No, thank you."

Finally, I met a petite girl wearing a floral dress and white shoes, who was very delicate and willing to let the fat man help carry her luggage:
"Trouble?"

"It is only natural for seniors to help juniors"

However, when the fat man breathlessly dragged the girl's luggage from the first floor to the thirteenth floor and wanted to add her on WeChat to get to know her.

The originally harmless girl waved her hands at the fat man again and again:

"I'm sorry, senior, my boyfriend doesn't allow me to add strangers on WeChat"

Thirty degree hot weather.

I helped people drag their luggage from May Fourth Square all the way to the dormitory building, and even moved it from the first floor to the thirteenth floor in one go.

When I was sweating profusely, the result was that the other party said:
"Thank you, Senior. You are such a good person."

This made the fat man's mentality collapse:
"Why didn't she tell me earlier that she had a boyfriend?"

"This is not pure, I am playing with you like a dog"

Zhang Wenle expressed sympathy for the fat man's experience.

However, Zhang Wenle expressed his complete incomprehension of the fat man's behavior.

"What's wrong with having a boyfriend? Can having a boyfriend stop you from adding her on WeChat?"

Although he is still a virgin and has never been in a relationship, this does not affect Zhang Wenle's theoretical ambitions:
"If she doesn't have a boyfriend, all boys are your enemies. If she has a boyfriend——"

"Then you only need to kill one person!"

"It's easiest to chase a girl who has a boyfriend, because you only have one competitor."

Fatty didn't believe Zhang Wenle's heresy at all:

"If you are really as awesome as you say, how can you still be a virgin?" The fat man wiped the sweat from his forehead with a wet tissue while looking around for Jiang Hai. "Where is Jiang Hai? Where did he go? Why didn't I see him all morning?"

While Chu Tianjiao was busy chatting with the girl he had just added on WeChat, he raised his head and casually shouted to the fat man:
"Jiang Hai?"

"He just told me that he is west of the old city."

Cafe west of the old city.

There was a crowd of people in the cafe.

Many students passing by would come in and shout to the store staff:
"Boss, give me a cup of Zhaoyang."

"Oh no, it should be the rising sun."

Zhaoyang is the male protagonist in "My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant".

Zhaoyang is pronounced as Chaoyang in Chinese and in popular internet memes, Chaoyang is also known as [the newly born east sun].

In view of the beastly behavior of the scumbag Zhaoyang in the book "The Female Tenant", the owner of the coffee shop Ye Yingqiu directly made "Zhaoyang" into a drink, and the name of the drink is called -

The sun is rising in the east.

Unexpectedly, the sales of the milk tea drink [Chu Sheng Dong Xi] in the store went through the roof.

Perhaps due to the hatred for the hero Zhaoyang in the book, the sales of this milk tea Rising East Xi were exceptionally good in the store.

It’s almost a must-order when you enter the store!

Almost every customer who comes to the store will shout to the front desk:
"Zhaoyang, you beast!"

"Rainy night, shit!"

I didn't care at all about what others were saying.

Jiang Hai sat by the window outside the coffee shop, carefully reading two emails sent by October magazine and Ta Kung Pao newspaper respectively.

First, the October Novel magazine column sent a special notice to Jiang Hai:
[Dear author Jiang Hai, hello! ]

[Your novella "The Crucible" has been included in the 335th issue of "October" magazine. The sample magazine has been sent to the designated location. Please check it.]

Jiang Hai stroked the draft of "October" in his hand. The magazine itself gave him a very heavy feeling.

“Very thick”

Unlike other magazines and periodicals, medium-length and long novels need to be serialized issue by issue.

An issue of "October Novel" will publish three to five medium-length or long novels at the same time, and only completed novels can be published.

This is the biggest difference between October and other magazines and periodicals.

This is also the reason why "October Novel" is only published once every two months.

“Let the readers enjoy it all at once?”

Jiang Hai still feels a little novel about the unique publishing format of October.

Jiang Hai carefully looked at the catalog and found that the 335th issue of "October·Novel" not only serialized his own work "The Crucible", but also the other four included novels.
They are from four traditional writers domestic who have been established for a long time and are still well-known?
Among them, there is no lack of those who I had seen last time at the [Asian College Literature League] and who were also selected by the league as the chairman of the league jury last time——

Teacher Liu, Liu Zhenyun?

"In each issue of October, we will select one of the five novels included in the issue that is most popular with readers, which means"

"Teacher Liu wants to participate in the competition with me?"

Last semester, Mr. Liu Zhenyun was my own judge.

This semester, Teacher Liu Zhenyun has directly become my opponent?
This is a huge change in identity.
This makes Jiang Hai quite uncomfortable?

"Whether or not to choose is a small matter." Jiang Hai flipped through the October in his hand and whispered to himself, "The most important thing is how many readers are there——"

“He can see my work.”

"The Crucible" is an extremely depressing story from the beginning to the end. Jiang Hai does not want such a classic and depressing masterpiece to be forgotten by everyone.

If this issue of "October" only sells a few thousand or tens of thousands of copies upon its release, wouldn't it be a complete waste?

"First of all, my goal is to kill people."

“Secondly, everything else has to take a back seat.”

Jiang Hai was thinking about what he could do to hype up "The Crucible" before its release and create some fame.

However, the next moment when he was thinking about it.

An email message specially reprinted for him by the Ta Kung Pao immediately caught his eye:

[CCTV strongly recommends, and the public opinion turns around! The reputation of "Sanmao Wanderings" has made a comeback]

(End of this chapter)