Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 12 Participation
On March 1999, 3, Chen Linfeng, accompanied by his father and the principal, boarded a flight to Shanghai.

We walked into the Sprout Magazine on the 16th floor of Shanghai Jindu Building and introduced ourselves to each other.

Editor-in-chief Zhao Changtian looked at the young boy beside the two adults and said with emotion, "I didn't expect that classmate Chen Linfeng is also a little actor. If my colleagues hadn't confirmed it many times, I wouldn't have believed it. Mr. Chen, you have raised a good son."

The editor-in-chief has a very approachable tone and a friendly appearance. He even looks a little bit like the editor-in-chief and chief editor of a large magazine.

This is not something I taught him, the child has to work hard on his own.

Deputy Chief Editor Zhu Guiming is a lively and capable person. He said straightforwardly, "This kid is really amazing. I read the article written by Xiao Chen in the novel selection. At first glance, I thought it was written by an adult. Who would have thought it was written by a junior high school student?"

Principal Shen on the side introduced Chen Linfeng's academic performance in school, including skipping grades and always ranking first in the grade.

The adults were praising each other. Chen Linfeng was not old enough to talk much in such an occasion, so he looked at the displays inside the magazine.

Everything around him was consistent with his impression of Time magazine. Each desk was piled high with manuscripts. The editors were buried in mountains of manuscripts, concentrating on the manuscripts in their hands.

There were banners and some portraits hanging on the wall not far away, and in the middle was the portrait of Ba Lao, one of the six great literary masters in China.

Chen Linfeng withdrew his gaze and looked at the several magazines around him with interest. It seemed that they were not finalized and should not have been sent out yet.

Zhu Guiming had been keeping an eye on Chen Linfeng. Seeing that he was looking at a Sprout magazine, he introduced it and said, "This is the final version of the layout for the next issue. The outstanding works from the New Concept semi-finals will be published in this issue."

"So this is what the semi-finished product of a magazine looks like," Chen Linfeng also saw it for the first time.

Zhu Guiming took him to see the layout and sample books of other issues, and took the opportunity to ask, "Is Chen Linfeng still writing articles recently? If you find any suitable ones, you can submit them to our Mengya!"

Chen Linfeng looked up at her, "Aunt Zhu, just call me Xiaofeng. I've been trying to write a long novel recently."

He recounted the general plot of the notes.

Yes, after the Chinese New Year this year, Chen Linfeng started writing a novel.

In view of this, Chen Linfeng would certainly not write according to the original plot exactly.

The perspective of the original work focuses on Light Yagami, and viewers with less stable minds can easily be led to identify with Light Yagami's behavior.

If he writes like this, if the book becomes popular, it is highly likely to be banned.

Therefore, Chen Linfeng set the original comic's L (renamed Li Zhi) as the main perspective at the beginning, introduced his general situation, and added the background setting of the Special Events Handling Bureau to facilitate the subsequent plot in which he commanded the police.

The storyline of Ye Shen (also known as Light Yagami) will follow the original comics, and at the same time, Li Zhi's perspective will be added when he competes with Li Zhi.

In other words, Chen Linfeng writes from a dual perspective, a typical dual-hero drama, and tries to avoid situations where the readers will mentally favor Ye Shen.

After listening to Chen Linfeng's narration, Zhu Guiming was a little excited. This kind of subject matter is very rare, and one can feel how exciting the story is from the description.

She grabbed Chen Linfeng's hand tightly and said, "Please submit your novel to Mengya after you finish it. Mengya is a magazine for young authors and readers. Its circulation is one of the best in this field. It is very suitable for your novel."

Chen Linfeng tried to pull his hand out, but it didn't move. He said helplessly, "Don't worry, Aunt Zhu. I will definitely send you a copy after I finish writing it. If I'm lucky enough to have it published by you, that would be the best."

That afternoon, Principal Shen and the Chen family returned to the hotel. On the following day, Chen's father took Chen Linfeng to visit the Bund and climbed up the Oriental Pearl Tower for a tour.

In the evening, Chen Linfeng saw some adults accompanying their children to check in at the hotel lobby. They must be contestants from other places who had arrived one after another. Before the candidates arrived at Shanghai, a group of famous writers who served as judges for the semi-finals, including Ye Yanzhao, Yu Hua, Tie Ning, Yuan Yuan, and Chen Danyan, as well as admissions officers from seven universities, had already arrived in Shanghai.

At 3 a.m. on March 27, under the supervision of the notary office, the competition working committee voted to select three topics for the semi-final essays from the topics prepared by each organizing unit.

In addition, there is a question given on the spot, and the examiner asks the question based on behavioral actions.

Participants can choose one of these questions and the time limit is 3 hours.

At 1:30 p.m., the rematch was held at Shanghai Nanyu Model Middle School.

There is a classroom called Jingxin Building. It is an old building, but it gathers new concept composition masters from all over the country.

The open-air registration desk was surrounded by a circle of students and parents. Some parents were very nervous, with a look of being on high alert as if facing a great enemy; others stood next to the registration desk, carefully looking at the information of other candidates.

Principal Shen paced in circles with his hands behind his back.

Father Chen observed the expressions of other parents. When he saw a nervous one, he relaxed a little. When he saw a calm one, he wondered if this person’s child was a master.

Chen Linfeng sat in the classroom waiting for the exam to begin.

The invigilator took out an apple from his pocket, took a bite out of it and put it on the chair. This was the topic for the rematch - an apple with a bite taken out of it.

It turned out to be this topic. Chen Linfeng vaguely remembered that he had read model essays on similar topics during his student days in his previous life. He did not expect that this would be the topic in this exam.

He thought about it and decided to use the apple as a metaphor for the country.

The theme is very clear, exploring the country's defense deficiencies.

When the apple skin is broken and someone takes a bite of it, it is conceivable that bacteria will breed and it will inevitably attract flies and insects to bite.

Just as there are loopholes in the country's protective layer, the destruction of the mountains and rivers and invasion by foreign enemies are foreseeable.

In today's era, with the deterrence of nuclear weapons, the possibility of a hot war is not great. However, if the invisible defense is breached, it will also cause extremely bad consequences, such as Russia.

There is a sentence in Gong Zizhen's "On the Recollection of Ancient History": "If you want to know the great principles, you must first study history. To destroy a country, you must first get rid of its history; to undermine a person's pillars and destroy his principles and disciplines, you must first get rid of his history; to destroy a person's talent and block his teachings, you must first get rid of his history."

The fastest way to destroy a country is to let them disintegrate internally and denigrate their own country’s heroes and beliefs!

When a country has no heroes and no faith, it is not far from division and destruction!

Then Chen Linfeng briefly described the domestic chaos before the disintegration of Russia.

Chen Linfeng had read too much information on this subject in his previous life, and there were countless up-loaders on P Station who had discussed similar topics.

He is constantly inspired in this area and writes with divine inspiration.

The next step is naturally to introduce domestic issues, and implicitly point out that other countries have already made efforts targeting China in this regard.

It consists of about 2500 words.

(End of this chapter)