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Chapter 171 The Essay Contest Starts and the Ever-changing Shadowman
The "Shadow Man Cup" essay contest on the Fiction Street was successfully launched, and various tasks were carried out accordingly.

Although the essay competition raised 1.2 million prize money, nearly half of the booksellers in Fiction Street are not optimistic about this essay competition, thinking that it will be difficult to make a profit.

It's just that the essay solicitation activity was organized by the Fiction Street Committee and had been approved by the committee. The committee is the highest management organization of Fiction Street. Naturally, these booksellers did not dare to publicly oppose this activity.

Unless they don't want to hang out in Fiction Street.

However, nearly half of the booksellers supported the "Shadow Man Cup" essay contest, and many of these booksellers had been favored by Liu Xing.

Among them, 15 booksellers were rescued by Liu Xing in the traffic accident on the Huangjiang Bridge in Tianjing City, such as Guo Meiyu, the proprietress of Meijiayang, and Huang Heping, the owner of Heping Bookstore.

Out of the mentality of repaying their kindness, they gave Liu Xing's essay competition as much support as they could.

The success of the essay competition largely depends on the lineup of the jury.Only a first-class review team can excavate high-quality novels from entries.

The review team mainly comes from two professions, one is a book appraiser, and the other is a reader.

In order to form a strong jury, these booksellers who have been favored by Liu Xing used their contacts to introduce Liu Xing to book appraisers and readers they knew, and invited them to join the jury of the essay contest.

At the same time, Director Wu Guokun of Tianhai City Book Testing Center has a certain friendship with Liu Xing, and he expressed his willingness to serve as the general counsel of the jury.

As a result, the jury headed by director Wu Guokun was formally established. The jury consisted of 10 book appraisers and 40 readers, a total of 50 people.
In order to allow the judges of the jury to work better, Liu Xing vacated a large reading room in Meteor Book Bar as the working place of the jury.At the same time, Meteor Book Bar provides free board and lodging for all judges.

In this way, Meteor Book Bar became the work place of this essay contest.

……

Liming Bookstore, Chairman's Office.

Sitting on the sofa in the office is a middle-aged man in his 50s and not tall. He is Li Ming, the chairman of Liming Bookstore.

Li Ming is one of the nine committee members of Fiction Street, and at the same time, the oldest bookseller in Fiction Street.

At this time, there was another man sitting opposite Li Ming. He was about 50 years old. His appearance was seven or eight points similar to Li Ming. He was Li Ming's younger brother Li Xingchen.

Li Xingchen is a book appraiser.
"Brother, are you really going to let me join the judging panel of the essay contest?" Li Xingchen asked puzzled, "This contest is thankless, and I don't think there is any future."

Li Ming smiled lightly and said, "Brother, it is because you have no future that I let you join the jury. I asked you to be the judge of the essay contest just to mess up this essay contest."

Li Xingchen frowned: "What do you mean?"

Li Ming said: "Liu Xing, this boy is very happy. He suddenly created such a large-scale essay contest. He just wanted to show off and put money on his face. Unfortunately, Liu Xing didn't understand that holding an essay contest would be profitable. How difficult it is, this essay call is destined to lose money."

The more Li Xingchen listened, the more confused he became: "Brother, since you are not optimistic about the essay contest, why did you invest 500 million yuan to sponsor it?"

Li Ming smiled and said: "It is precisely because the essay contest is bound to end dismal that we should support it more vigorously. The essay contest was proposed by Liu Xing. If this essay contest messes up, the 1.2 million prize money will be forfeited." Piao, Liu Xing cannot escape the blame, he has to bear most of the responsibilities, maybe he will be forced to resign as a committee member, and he will not be able to participate in the election for the new president of Fiction Street. At that time, we can reap the benefits of the fisherman."

Li Xingchen suddenly realized that it is indeed very cost-effective to get rid of Liu Xing, the strongest competitor, for only a few million. He asked, "Brother, you let me enter the judging panel because you want me to secretly sabotage?"

"Not bad!" Li Ming said, "After joining the jury, if you find any good manuscripts, you should find a way to deal with them, and try not to let excellent works be shortlisted. In this way, only a bunch of papers can be selected in the whole essay competition. Rubbish novels, I want to see how Liu Xing ends up."

Li Xingchen nodded: "I understand."

……

On the second day, Li Xingchen successfully joined the essay judging panel as a book appraiser and participated in reviewing the entries.

Scholars in China are enthusiastic about the "Shadowman Cup" essay contest. Half a month after the essay contest started, the judging panel has received more than 2800 novel manuscripts from all over the country.

Most of these manuscripts were not improvised, but originally written.

It turned out that after the news about the Shadowman came to light, some writers had started writing novels about the Shadowman a few months ago, but they hadn't had time to publish it yet.

It just so happened that Fiction Street is holding the "Shadow Man Cup" essay contest, so these writers sent their finished works directly to the jury of Fiction Street.

After receiving the manuscript, the review work of the jury begins officially.

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Meteor Book Bar, Essay Contest Evaluation Office.

At a desk about 20 meters long, 50 judges sat together.In front of them, there is a thick pile of novel manuscripts, all of which are entries.

At this time, each judge read the manuscript attentively and scored the manuscript.

The maximum score for a manuscript is 5 points, and the minimum score is 0 points.

Manuscripts with a score lower than 1 will be eliminated directly.Manuscripts with a score higher than 1 can enter the second round of screening.

Since the competition has just started, most of the works sent in are from novel lovers, and the quality of the works is relatively poor, and the scores of many works are below 1 point.

"Huh? This book "The Ever-changing Shadow Man" seems to be written well?"

At this time, Li Xingchen frowned slightly, and looked at a novel called "Man of Variations in Shadow" in his hand with strange eyes.

This "Various Shadowman" tells the story of the shadowman who is good at disguise and has the ability to change.The plot concept of the overall novel is ingenious, the layout is exquisite, and it is a fairly standard plot flow work.

"This "The Ever-changing Shadow Man" may have reached the level of a star novel! This novel cannot be shortlisted!"

Thinking of this, Li Xingchen gave "The Ever-changing Shadow Man" an extremely low score - 0.2 points!
After scoring, throw the manuscript in a box for waste manuscripts.

All waste manuscripts will be eliminated directly.

……

After a busy day, the jury reviewed a total of 520 manuscripts, and 1 manuscripts scored above 40 point, of which the highest score was only 1.6 points.

As for the remaining 480 waste manuscripts, they were all packed in boxes like garbage, and then stored in the corner of the underground library of Meteor Book Bar.

In the evening, Meteor Book Bar, the underground library.

Liu Xing was squatting next to a box, and was checking the waste manuscripts in the box with a book eye.

Although these manuscripts had been eliminated by the jury, out of caution, he decided to test them again.

Anyway, for Liu Xing, testing hundreds of manuscripts is as easy as pie!

Picking up the first scrap manuscript and looking at the cover, the title of the book is "My Husband Is a Shadowman".Judging from the title of the book, this novel should be written by a girl, and she imagined the shadow man as her husband.

Flip through the manuscript quickly.

[Book Title] "My Husband Is a Shadow Man"

[Type] Romance novel

【Level】None
[Matching degree] 0.28%
Even the matching degree of 1% cannot be achieved, the quality should be extremely poor!

Liu Xing flipped through a few pages casually, and found that the content of the novel was about the marriage of the heroine and the shadow man.In the novel, the shadow man accompanies the heroine to go shopping, buy clothes, watch movies, and even perform light skills to take her flying together... Later, the heroine and the shadow man travel around the world, and every time they arrive in a city, they give birth to a child ...

"What a horrible creature the female writer who loves lust!"

After reading the manuscript, Liu Xing suddenly felt that Wang Lanlan was really a pure female writer.
Putting "My Husband Is a Shadow Man" aside, Liu Xing continued to test other novel manuscripts.

""The Days I Lived With the Shadowman", a romance novel, no grade, matching degree 0.26%"

""The Personal School Beauty of the Shadow Man", a campus novel, no grade, matching degree 0.65%"

""Dark Shadow Man Raiders Diary", a romance novel, no level, matching 0.41%"

""The Man in the Shadow and the White Rose", a romance novel, no level, matching 0.14%"
……

More than 100 books have been tested continuously, and the matching degree is almost less than 1%. Among them, more than half of the works are from female writers.

These female writers almost write the theme of the shadow man as romance novels, and the matching degree between Liu Xing and romance novels has always been relatively low.

Just when Liu Xing was completely hopeless, at this moment, an accident occurred.

""The Ever-changing Shadow Man"?"

Finally found a slightly surreal novel.

Without thinking too much, Liu Xing quickly flipped through the manuscript.

[Book Title] "The Ever-changing Shadow Man"

【Type】Supernatural novel

【Grade】One star
[Matching degree] 20.8%
"One star?"

Liu Xing's eyes lit up slightly, and he was very surprised. The matching rate of this "Variety Shadow Man" reached 20.8%, which is very close to 30%.If you modify it again, it is likely to meet the standard.

As long as the matching degree exceeds 30%, you can use the "same land and different feelings method" to trance.

"Strange, the quality of this "Various Shadow Man" is good, why is it considered a waste manuscript?"

Liu Xing looked at the score on the manuscript, and it was only "0.2 points".

Why is the score so low?

Generally, unless the novel is extremely bad, the score will not be only 0.2 points.Even works written by junior high school students can achieve a score of 0.3 or more.

The quality of the "Man of Variety Shadows" in front of him is obviously higher than that of junior high school students, so it shouldn't have such a low score.
"The judge who gave the score is called Li Xingchen?"

Liu Xing frowned slightly: Is there something wrong with this judge named Li Xingchen?
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(End of this chapter)