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Chapter 200: Xu Ke is coming to visit?

"I heard you came to the Magic City, I came to see you!"

Lin Baohui smiled, and the complex look in her eyes was mostly suppressed.

Cao Sheng opened the door and asked, "Would you like to come in and sit down?"

Lin Baohui hummed and gestured, "You go first!"

She was still as polite as before.

It just lacks the enthusiasm it once had.

Cao Sheng didn't care about the change in her attitude. Ever since she came to his school to find him last time and he took the initiative to tell her that he had a girlfriend, he noticed that she was not as enthusiastic.

And this is what he wanted to see.

He walked into the room first, and Lin Baohui followed him in.

Cao Sheng stopped and turned around to say to her as she was about to close the door: "No need to close the door! This is a good opportunity to ventilate the room."

Lin Baohui was a little surprised. She looked at him and smiled, "It's better to close it! I'm a little afraid of the cold."

Having said that, she closed the door.

Cao Sheng: “…”

Cao Sheng didn't say anything else. He turned on the air conditioner in the room, invited Lin Baohui to sit down, and then he went to the closet to get two bottles of mineral water and handed one to her.

When he is away from home, even if there is hot water in the hotel room, he will not drink it. He will only drink bottled mineral water, so he can only ask Lin Baohui to drink this.

Lin Baohui took the mineral water, unscrewed the bottle cap, took a sip, and said with a smile: "Congratulations! After participating in this award ceremony, your position in the industry will be more solid."

Cao Sheng sat down on the single sofa next to him and laughed when he heard it. "This is all empty talk. If one day I need to use such an award ceremony to consolidate my position in the circle, it means that not many people read the books I wrote, and I can only use this method to gild myself."

Lin Baohui looked at his confident expression at this moment, and the complexity in her eyes was revealed again.

She has long been a fan of Cao Sheng's books.

Before coming to the mainland from Taiwan, she had always fantasized about winning him over with her beauty and having a romantic relationship like that of a talented man and a beautiful woman.

But now this dream is over.

She suppressed the bitterness in her heart and smiled, "That's right! You don't need this method to consolidate your position yet."

After a pause, she asked, "By the way, have you signed out the traditional Chinese copyright for the new book you published yesterday?"

Cao Sheng shook his head, "Not yet."

Lin Baohui looked at him and asked, "Can you sign it to our publishing house?"

Cao Sheng smiled, "Forget it! I don't want to change publishers for the time being. If Xinchang doesn't want my new book, I'll give priority to you then, okay?"

His cooperation with Xinchang over the past two years has been quite pleasant.

The mobile phones he uses now were all gifts from the boss of Xinchang.

Therefore, he has no interest in changing his partners.

Lin Baohui lowered her head slightly, clasped her hands together, bit her lips lightly, and asked in a low voice: "Do you think I'm beautiful?"

Cao Sheng was a little surprised, but he nodded and replied, "Of course! You are very beautiful."

Lin Baohui looked up at him and smiled, "Give us the new book sign. Today... I'll watch the stars with you, okay?"

There was a smile on her face, but the look in her eyes when she looked at him was complicated.

She didn't know whether she wanted him to agree or refuse.
Cao Sheng's heart skipped a beat and he felt a little moved. This was his instinctive reaction.

But his brows furrowed.

"You are insulting me! You are also insulting yourself! You can leave now."

After Cao Sheng finished speaking, the room fell into silence. Lin Baohui did not get up and leave. Looking at his unhappy expression, she smiled slightly.

Nodding, he said, "I really envy your girlfriend. I didn't make a mistake in choosing her. It's a pity..."

As she spoke, she stood up and walked towards Cao Sheng.

Cao Sheng realized something, frowned, stood up, and took a step to the side, "Don't come over! If you continue like this, we won't even be friends anymore!"

She stopped walking, still smiling, "Don't get me wrong! I don't mean anything else. I just want to fulfill my original reward."

"What reward?"

Cao Sheng was a little confused.

Lin Baohui: "Did you forget? I asked you to guess the sales volume of your book before. I said at that time that as long as the difference between your guess and the actual sales volume is not too big, I will give you a reward!"

Cao Sheng: "What reward?"

Lin Baohui suddenly stepped forward and kissed him on the face before he could react. When Cao Sheng reacted, she had already returned to her previous position.

His face turned a little red, but he still kept smiling, "The reward has been paid. Since you are unwilling to sign the new book to us, then I should leave now. Goodbye!"

After saying that, she picked up her handbag and walked towards the door.

Cao Sheng did not try to keep him.

After she left and the door closed, he raised his hand and touched the place where she had just kissed him.

Then he sat back on the sofa and laughed at himself.

He found that after he was reborn, he seemed to have lost an ability.

The ability to be a playboy.

Faced with a beautiful woman like Lin Baohui who came to him on her own initiative, he actually refused.

Thinking back to those days, he was also the kind of person who would pick flowers as soon as they were in season.

If there is an opportunity, you should go for it; if there is no opportunity, you should create one and go for it.

But now, I don’t want to make my love life too complicated.

His thoughts quickly returned to business.

He took out more than twenty business cards from his down jacket pocket.

There are leaders of the Writers Association who are attending the award ceremony today, some authors, and more are representatives of publishing houses who are attending the award ceremony today.

He knew what the publishers wanted. It was his book contract.

But he doesn't want to change partners for the time being.

What's more, the two publishing houses he cooperated with also attended the award ceremony today.

Xinchang's manuscript editor in mainland China, Chang Qingshu, mentioned the new book contract to him today, and the representative of Changjiang Literature and Art also mentioned it to him several times.

He felt it necessary to sign the contract as soon as possible.

As long as the contract is signed, other publishing houses will naturally stop bothering him.

Although he currently has only about 30,000 words of manuscript for his new book, which is not enough to publish a whole volume, I believe that neither of these two publishing houses will care about this.

Having made up his mind, he put away the business cards.

I took out my cell phone to see if anyone had contacted me while I was attending the award ceremony.

There are quite a few.

Dozens of text messages.

These were all messages sent to him by the authors and publishing representatives he met today.

He glanced at it briefly and was about to reply when he suddenly saw the message from Huang Qingya - "Are you coming back today? I miss you."

A smile appeared on his face.

He was just irritated by Lin Baohui, and now when he saw the message sent by Huang Qingya, his heart was suddenly moved.

"Well, I'll be back in the afternoon, so go to my place early and remember to take a shower!"

After a moment, Huang Qingya replied: "Then you should have a good sleep on the plane."

This?
Cao Sheng was immediately eager to return home.

I don't want to stay in the Magic City for a moment.

I immediately got up and packed my luggage, ready to go to the airport.

……

It was already evening when Cao Sheng returned to Huizhou.

When she returned to the villa, Huang Qingya had already prepared dinner and taken a shower. Her black hair was draped over her shoulders and was obviously just blown with a hair dryer, so it was a little fluffy.

The skin on her face is white with a rosy glow.

The air conditioner was on in the villa's hall, and she looked a little lazy in her purple nightgown.

When he came in, she came over with a smile. After Cao Sheng changed into slippers, she came forward, put her arms around his neck, and gave him a kiss.

In front of Lin Baohui, Cao Sheng, who seemed like Liu Xiahui, was not polite to Huang Qingya at all. Since she took the initiative to throw herself into his arms, he was not in a hurry to have dinner.

After kissing for a while, he suddenly bent down, grabbed her legs, picked her up and walked towards the sofa in the living room.

Huang Qingya did not refuse, but just looked at him seductively, her cheeks as red as if she was drunk.

More than an hour later.

They both lolled in the bathtub.

Huang Qingya lazily washed his hair with both hands and said casually: "It seems that you really slept on the plane! I thought you would not perform well today!"

Cao Sheng closed his eyes and chuckled, "Don't you think about how long you haven't been here recently? How can I perform poorly?"

Huang Qingya: "I've been busy writing a new book recently! By the way, my new book already has more than 10,000 words. I'll send it to you when I get home tonight. Can you help me see how it's going?"

Cao Sheng nodded.

She was a little curious, "Hey, is today's award ceremony lively? Are there many people going?"

Cao Sheng: "Not bad! Including the guests, there are more than a hundred!"

Huang Qingya: "Unfortunately, I am not eligible to participate, otherwise we could go together. If I can't go this time, I'm afraid I won't have the chance to participate with you in the future."

Cao Sheng was a little surprised and looked at her, "You have no confidence in your new book?"

Huang Qingya shook her head, "No! This time I plan to publish my new book on Hongxiu. Hongxiu is a website mainly for girls, and it is more suitable for me than Under the Banyan Tree. What do you think?"

Cao Sheng said "oh" and closed his eyes again, "You are right! Hongxiu is indeed more suitable for you, if you want to go, just go! The protagonist of your novel is a woman, under the banyan tree, there is really no chance for her to stand out."

……

More than 10 o'clock in the evening.

Cao Sheng sent Huang Qingya home. As soon as he returned to the villa and made himself a cup of tea, he suddenly received a call from an unfamiliar number.

Cao Sheng hung up the phone casually.

This is a habit he has gradually developed in the past six months.

Mainly because more and more people are calling him.

I don’t know who leaked his cell phone number. Sometimes it was the publishing house that called, sometimes it was a certain book fan who called, and sometimes it was a certain former classmate who called.

If he answered every call, I don’t know how much energy he would have to spend.

So, gradually, I stopped answering calls from unfamiliar numbers.

He believed that if the other party really had something important to discuss with him, he would try to send him a message.

He will read all the information.

If necessary, he will reply to the message or call.

However, he was in a good mood tonight, so when the number just called again, he smiled and answered it.

A middle-aged woman's voice with a slightly strange accent came from the phone, and the accent reminded Cao Sheng of Huang Baiming.

"Hello! Are you Mr. Zhongyuan Yidianhui?"

"Yes, I am. May I ask who you are?"

"Hello! I am Xu Ke's wife, my last name is Shi. We are currently promoting "One Man's Martial Arts" in the mainland. Xu Ke wanted to stop by to visit you. Is it convenient for you?"

Cao Sheng was surprised.

Is it Xu Ke’s wife calling?
Want to visit me?
(End of this chapter)