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Chapter 48 I can't be the only one to taste this feeling
Cao Sheng turned to look at them, stood up, and clasped his hands together to thank them for their applause.

At this moment, he was in a good mood.

Because not only did he not see any familiar faces in the queue, but he had also quietly tested the situation when communicating with these book fans.

For example: Ask the other person which part of the book they like?
Or ask the other person how many chapters they have read?

and many more.

As an author who is familiar with the entire plot of the book, he wanted to test whether these fans were real fans. It was not difficult at all. He could tell whether the other party was a real fan by just asking a random question.

At this time, the store manager and others came to Cao Sheng, but what caught Cao Sheng's attention was a female reporter behind the store manager and others.

The book signing event lasted for several hours. Other reporters had already left, but this female reporter was still there.

Like a lone goose.

At this moment, she was holding up a camera, taking pictures of them and recording the scene at this moment.

"Mr. Cao! Thank you for your hard work! You have so many fans, which is totally beyond our expectations. You must be very hungry now, right? Sorry, sorry! We have booked a private room in a nearby hotel. Shall we go over and have dinner now?"

The store manager came over and greeted Cao Sheng warmly.

Much more enthusiastic than when Cao Sheng first came.

Zhao Ping also said, "Yes, Mr. Cao, let's go to the hotel first? When we get there, we can eat and chat."

Others echoed.

Cao Sheng nodded, "Okay! Shall we go?"

"go!"

"Okay! Let's go!"

"Mr. Cao, please!"

……

Amid the chattering atmosphere, Cao Sheng raised his chin to the female reporter who had finished taking photos in the back of the crowd and said, "This beautiful lady, I guess you haven't eaten yet, right? How about coming with us?"

The female reporter was looking down at the photos she had just taken with her camera. Upon hearing this, she looked up in confusion.

The store manager and others started to invite them.

She subconsciously looked at Cao Sheng, smiled, and nodded, "Okay! Thank you very much."

One person from the group stayed in the store to watch over the shop, while the others got on the business car outside the store and headed for the hotel.

In the car, Cao Sheng hesitated for a while and asked the store manager, "Mr. Wang, I want to ask, how many of these book lovers today were arranged by you?"

This is what he had been wanting to ask during the book signing today.

Upon hearing this, Manager Wang glanced at Zhao Ping who was sitting next to Cao Sheng, because Zhao Ping had also asked this question today.

He laughed and shook his head, "No! We originally prepared dozens of people to come here to boost popularity, but early this morning, we found that more and more book fans were queuing up. Soon, there were dozens of people queuing up, and it was still a long time before the book signing started, so I didn't let those people come."

Cao Sheng: “???”

This answer was completely beyond Cao Sheng's expectations.

Because Zhao Ping had told him before that, according to convention, more people would definitely be arranged to attend today's signing event.

At that time, Cao Sheng estimated that at least half of the "book lovers" queuing up today were agents.

Because of this, he was depressed for a long time.

But now you tell him that the agent arranged for today didn't come at all?

Cao Sheng turned and looked at Zhao Ping beside him.

Zhao Ping's face turned red, and she was too embarrassed to look at Cao Sheng. She lowered her head slightly and said, "I'm sorry! What I told you before was the custom of our book signing event. I didn't expect that the person we arranged this time would not be used."

Cao Sheng: “…”

"It's okay! You didn't mean it."

He said it in a very magnanimous way, but in his heart he really wanted to pinch her face.

Because of her misleading words, he lost all motivation for the first hour or so of the book signing event today and almost became autistic.

During that hour or so, he thought of several singers in the original time and space who thought they were very famous but had few audiences at their concerts.

He felt that he was similar to those singers and thought he was very famous, but it was all just his own opinion. In fact, he was just a joke.

...When Cao Sheng and others went to the hotel for dinner, in the back seat of a taxi, a young man was flipping through a new book in his hand with his eyes narrowed.

The title of the book on the cover is "Living with a Flight Attendant".

As he flipped through the pages, the cover drooped more because it was heavier than the other papers.

A signature is revealed on the back of the cover: A Little Gray in the Central Plains.

This is Cao Sheng's autograph.

Apparently this person had just left Cao Sheng's book signing event and had just received this signed book.

His name is Zhang Yang.

The name is very bold, but the personality is very introverted.

He read "Living with the Air Hostess" on the first day it was published on Under the Banyan Tree, and has been following it ever since. It's very tiring.

Because at the beginning, one chapter of this book was updated every three days.

Although the update speed was increased later, it only became one chapter every two days.

For Zhang Yang, it was not enough to wait for two days for an update of about 3,000 words for a chapter. It was like waiting for a long drought and finally getting a rain, but only a drop of rain each time.

But he really liked this story and couldn't stop reading it, always looking forward to the next chapter.

I have been following the update until now.

The feeling of catching up was driving him crazy.

So, when Under the Banyan Tree announced that it would hold a book signing event in Shanghai today, he rushed over without much hesitation.

In fact, he knew that this book could also be bought in other bookstores today.

But he still took a taxi for more than half an hour to come to the signing site.

Because he, like many book fans, wants to know whether this book is about the author’s real experience.

result?

He was surprised when he saw Cao Sheng at the book signing event.

How could this gray guy from Zhongyuan be so handsome?
Could it be that this book really records this guy’s real experience?

When it was his turn to ask Cao Sheng to sign, he couldn't help but ask, "Is this book about your real experience?"

Cao Sheng denied it.

But Zhang Yang didn't believe it at all.

He felt that Ding Yang in the book was the incarnation of this guy. He was just as handsome, just as good at writing, just as fond of talking nonsense and lying.

Zhang Yang, sitting in the back seat of a taxi, finally finished reading the last chapter of the book.

This book has a total of 82 chapters, and the online version has been serialized up to Chapter 57.

There weren't many chapters he hadn't read.

So, he finished reading it before he even got home.

He closed the autographed book in his hand, his emotions still immersed in the flamboyant world in the book. He raised his head slightly and stared blankly at the street scene outside the car window, watching the pedestrians coming and going on the street. He couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

The mood is exactly the same as that of the protagonist Ding Yang at the end of the book.

After Ran Jing died, Ding Yang's whole world turned gray. The ups and downs of love became the most beautiful memories in his heart.

But only memories are left.

Zhang Yang, who had never been in love, felt that he would never fall in love again. He felt as if he had already had a memorable love affair, and the woman he loved deeply was dead.

The taxi arrived downstairs of his house.

He paid the fare in a daze and returned home.

I sat in front of the computer, opened Under the Banyan Tree as usual, and came to the book review section of "Living with the Air Hostess".

Looking at the posts in the book review section waiting for the follow-up plot of this book.

He gradually came back to his senses, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he thought: This kind of heartbreak should not be tasted by only me, you all should taste it!
With this mentality, he smiled and started writing the post.

In this post, I praise the book's subsequent plot and perfect ending, and strongly recommend that everyone buy a copy and read it.

(End of this chapter)