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Chapter 78 Book signing event, San Shao enters the pit

October 10st, National Day.

September 10th, the Mid-Autumn Festival.

However, Changjiang Literature and Art scheduled the signing event on October 10. Cao Sheng didn't know what they were thinking, but after looking at the electronic calendar online, he felt that October 10 was also okay because it was a Saturday and book fans who wanted to come to his signing event should have time.

Even when I asked for leave, counselor Lu Xiangwei couldn't help but ask a few more questions.

Because there will be seven days off for National Day.

However, Cao Sheng wants to take leave starting after the National Day. How many days of rest does he want?
When Cao Sheng said he wanted to attend a book signing event and that I Want to Become an Immortal was about to hold several book signing events, Lu Xiangwei was surprised and delighted, and readily approved a week's leave for Cao Sheng.

……

October 10th is here in the blink of an eye.

Cao Sheng arrived in Wuhan one day in advance.

This is the base camp of Changjiang Literature and Art, so the first book signing event of "I Want to Become an Immortal" was held in this city.

Compared to the book signing events for "Living with a Flight Attendant" during the summer vacation, he felt much more relaxed this time he came to Wuhan.

I no longer feel any anxiety in my heart.

Just like after a woman has experienced it for the first time, she is no longer afraid and may even feel a little bit of anticipation.

I no longer worry about whether my book signing events will be empty and there will be few book fans.

What is there to worry about?
Anyway, the publishing house will have a contingency plan. If there are not many real book fans, they will arrange some fake book fans to come and support the event.

Besides, compared to the last book signing event, he is now much more famous.

"Living with the Air Hostess" is still the best-selling pure love novel in China.

The fame of Zhongyuan Yidianhui has long spread from online to offline.

As he expected, on the morning of the signing event, the place was crowded with at least three or four hundred book fans queuing up for autographs.

When Cao Sheng got off the business car, while greeting the media for taking photos, he looked at the book fans at the scene and noticed a detail.

——At the book signing events for "Living with a Flight Attendant", female book fans made up the majority, but today there are obviously many more male book fans than female ones.

As more male fans of the book came, the voices shouting his name became louder.

Surrounded by several staff members, Cao Sheng walked into the venue, waving as he walked in response to the enthusiasm of book fans. He was like a star, attracting many passers-by to stop and pay attention.

In this warm atmosphere, he started signing today.

……

After Wuhan, it’s Beijing.

The book signing event in Beijing was larger in scale and attracted more book fans.

……

Then came Shanghai, Guangzhou, Kunming and Nanjing.

Yes, Changjiang Literature and Art arranged 6 signing sessions for Cao Sheng this time, which is exactly one more than the signing session originally arranged by Huacheng Publishing House.

During the book signing event in the past few days, domestic media of all sizes also began to report on it.

For a time, the five words "Zhongyuan Yidianhui" appeared again in various domestic media.

One can't help but wonder whether Zhongyuan Yidianhui's autograph session during the summer vacation has continued until now?
Shanghai.

When Han Er saw the report about Zhongyuan Yidianhui in the newspaper again, his first reaction was surprise.

I can’t believe that two or three months have passed and the newspapers are still reporting on Zhongyuan Yidianhui’s book signing event?

Aren’t newspapers supposed to report news?
Are newspapers now even rehashing leftover news?

Confused, he picked up the report and took a closer look. He was surprised to find that the report was not about "Living with the Air Hostess" but about Zhongyuan Yidianhui's new work - "I Want to Become an Immortal".

"This? He's publishing a new book so soon?"

Han Er was surprised.

I thought: Ran Jing's body is still warm, and you've already published a new book? I was more envious.

The guy who is only two years older than him actually published two new books in succession this year. This made him wonder if Zhongyuan Yidianhui’s background was particularly impressive?
Could his family own a publishing house?
But he has seen "Living with a Flight Attendant" and the quality is indeed excellent.

Is it really because of talent?

With mixed feelings, Han Er came to a Sanwei Bookstore and found Zhongyuan Yidianhui's new work - "I Want to Become an Immortal", and bought a copy.

As a freshman in high school, he has not yet developed the habit of surfing the Internet, so he does not know that "I Want to Become an Immortal" is actually not a new book. The book has already been published up to the tenth volume in Taiwan.

That night, Han Er tried to read "I Want to Become an Immortal".

The newspaper said that this was a brand new genre created by Zhongyuan Yidianhui, and it was said to be some kind of immortal hero cultivation...

Xianxia is Xianxia, ​​what does cultivation mean? Is there any fake cultivation?
With these questions in mind, he plunged into the world of "I Want to Become an Immortal".

He finished reading the book at midnight.

When I finished reading, I found a few small words below the main text: (To be continued, please look forward to the second volume)

He stared blankly at the small words in the brackets, and had a bad feeling in his heart - the plot of this book seems to have just begun at this point, how many copies will it have? Will it take a sum of pocket money from me every month?
He was a little reluctant to give up.

After all, he doesn't have much pocket money every month.

but……

Thinking about the flying swords, magic weapons, various incredible spells, the legendary Mahayana masters, and so on in this book, he couldn't bear to read the rest of the story.

At the same time, I feel a little bit like I am looking up to a mountain when I think of the Central Plains.

He felt that Zhongyuan Yidianhui had left him far behind in the field of writing. He had never thought of this kind of subject matter before, but Zhongyuan Yidianhui had already written it, and it was so brilliant. Could he really catch up with him?

The young boy Han Er stared at the ceiling blankly, and the more he thought about it, the more discouraged he became.

……

Zigong, Sichuan.

After Guo Xiaosi finished reading the first volume of "I Want to Become an Immortal", he frowned and remained silent for a long time. He took out his most recent manuscript from the desk drawer.

The expression is quite complex.

Because he had only written half of the love story imitating "Living with a Flight Attendant" recently, his original strong creative passion had disappeared after watching "I Want to Become a Fairy".

He originally wanted to catch up with Zhongyuan Yidianhui in the field of pure love novels.

I didn't expect that not long after I started catching up, Zhongyuan Yidianhui actually changed its track and wrote some kind of fairy tale and cultivation story?
What made him most depressed was that he wanted to write a fairy tale, but what should he do with the pure love novel that he had just finished writing? Should he just give it up?

……

San Shao, who was working at CCTV International website at the time, accidentally saw news reports on "I Want to Become an Immortal" and "A Little Gray in the Central Plains" on the Internet.

His curiosity was piqued.

He likes reading novels very much, but the ones he read before were martial arts novels and story books.

Today I saw a novel defined as "Xianxia Cultivation" in the news. Seeing the praise for this book "I Want to Become an Immortal" in the news, it seems that this book is very good.

His current income is not low. After work that day, when he passed by a bookstore, he turned into the bookstore and bought a copy of "I Want to Become an Immortal". He planned to take it home and read it to kill the boring time in the evening.

He didn't know yet that the book was serialized online.

It was past 1 a.m. that day when he finished reading the first volume of the book.

Looking at the words marked in brackets below the main text (To be continued, please look forward to the second volume), he belatedly realized that he seemed to have jumped into a big, deep pit.

The plot of this book has only been unfolded a little bit. If I want to finish reading the whole book, how long do I have to wait?

Will we see the finale this year?
Probably not, there are only a few months left this year.

Will we see the finale next year?
He also felt a little uncertain.

"How can there be such a long novel? Jin Yong and Gu Long's novels are not this long..."

He muttered to himself, feeling very complicated. He was depressed that it might take him a long time to finish this book, but he was also happy that he could read such a wonderful work for a long time.

(End of this chapter)