Chapter 121 Classmates, Military Training and Serialization Passed

Xia Yan hung up the phone.

He has been a novelist for more than a year and has serialized four works in total. This is the first time that his work has been rejected at a serialization meeting.

Xia Yan shook his head.

It's better to waste a little time and try a few more times than to be tied down for ten years. Liuli Bookstore is not full of long-term contract authors.

Wait for a while, until at a certain serialization conference, the works submitted for selection are all works by non-long-term contract authors. Xia Yan believes that under fair conditions, Parasite Beast will not lose any works in the serialization competition. .

end of august

September is coming.

Xia Yan's college career has begun.

The summer breeze is warm, and the beautiful Mordu University has red maple trees all over the campus. The entire school is surrounded by red maple leaves.

However, Xia Yan's melancholy mood on the first day of school was interrupted by the appearance of an unexpected person.

Song Lingjun.

On the first day of school, Xia Yan was assigned to Class 1 of the Literature Department, majoring in "Longguo Language and Literature."

As soon as he walked into the classroom dedicated to their class in the college building, he was watched by the entire class of one hundred and two classmates.

After all, the major of "Longguo Language and Literature" has a wide range of employment opportunities.

If you want to be a Chinese teacher, you can learn it and become a writer, literary critic, editor, copywriter, secretary, reporter, or clerk

But all in all, although they are all the proud students who have been admitted to Shanghai University, they are still basically ordinary people.

Some people in the class have good family conditions and can be considered middle-class, but this situation is basically not the case for the rich second generation.

In such an environment, Xia Yan, a top-notch genius novelist in the Dragon Kingdom light novel world, really stands out in the class.

Xia Yan was mentally prepared to continue to be watched after entering college.

But he really didn't expect that he was not the only one being watched in this class, but also Song Lingyun.

Xia Yan saw her at a glance, carried his bag, and walked straight to the desk where Song Lingjun was sitting.

"Why are you here?"

Just like in high school, she sat there with a cold expression that was enough to attract the attention of all the boys around her, but it was also enough to make them afraid to approach her for fear of being disliked by her.

But Xia Yan didn't care about this. He was so familiar with Song Lingyun, so he naturally sat on the chair next to her.

In a ladder-type classroom like the university, although you sit alone at a table, the distance is still relatively close.

"Of course I got in through the college entrance examination. Don't ask such underage questions next time."

Song Lingjun looked at Xia Yan, who was sitting next to him, and then looked at the wide-mouthed and stunned eyes of the unknown classmates in the class, feeling a little embarrassed.

"This." Xia Yan was slightly confused.

"Are you interested in this major?"

"I am also someone who has decided to become a professional light novel writer. Is it weird to apply for this major to learn more about literature?" Song Lingjun paused and said.

"It's not surprising." Xia Yan thought for a moment after hearing this.

Although according to his impression, a science major like Song Lingjun should major in mathematics, physics, etc., that is just the inherent impression of ordinary people.

There are many high-achieving students who drop out of college. Where is Song Lingjun?

Moreover, Song Lingjun's obsession with novels is obvious to all. The two best universities for literature majors in Longguo are Imperial University and Modou University. When choosing one of the two, Song Lingjun chose Modou University. This is normal.

Xia Yan and Song Lingjun sat there and talked familiarly. This scene made countless students in the class feel heartbroken after seeing it.

After all, Xia Yan is quite handsome and is a famous light novel writer with great commercial value.

Song Lingjun's situation is similar, and his appearance is even more outstanding.

These two people have such a good relationship, which makes many people who have some strange ideas give up immediately.

You will definitely not live in the dormitory on campus, but it is necessary to say hello to your roommates and give them some gifts.

Xia Yan rented a well-decorated house in a community near the school to write with peace of mind. But in school, we often have to rely on classmates to help us deal with things. Appropriate interpersonal communication is very necessary.

but

Song Lingjun has become his classmate, this feeling.

Xia Yan was a little stressed.

I feel that as a special admissions student, I am afraid that I will be ruthlessly crushed by Song Lingjun's grades in four years of college.

The first month of school, as usual, is military training.

The beginning of Xia Yan's college career.

I got up at six in the morning, ran to the school playground, and was severely disciplined by the military training instructors all day long. I didn't go to bed until ten at night.

To be honest, people really have to be defeated by training.

Xia Yan had no intention of thinking about novels, animation, his career development and other matters for a whole month. He and Song Lingjun often sat in the cafeteria at noon, looking at each other but unable to say a word.

Too tired and don't want to talk

But during this time.

Xia Yan's Parasitic Beast is a novel within Liuli Publishing House. Starting from August to October, it has been included in the serialization conference of the "Liu Li Yu" journal three times in a row, but it has been rejected three times in a row.

This situation also made Xia Yan a little angry.

Although he knew the importance of the novel serialization platform, there were more than just Qingze, Liuli, and Xingkong among the top bookstores in the Dragon Kingdom.

Several people in Qingze and Xingkong themselves have said that there is serious nepotism within the company. Moreover, Xia Yan is not prepared to sign a long-term contract, so the other party may not value Xia Yan more than Liuli Book Club.

But apart from these three novel companies, there are four other seven book clubs, "Liming", "Xuanzhou", "Nanyue" and "Poyue".

Although the headquarters of those four companies are all in the imperial capital, they also have branches in the Magic City area. At most, Xia Yan will submit his manuscripts to these four companies, which is much better than being rejected by Liuli Book Club.

If Xia Yan submitted a toilet paper literature of another world, the kind of old-fashioned goddess, harem, demon king, hero and other character settings. Xia Yan can accept the rejection.

But a fine semi-god work like Parasyte was also rejected in this way. Xia Yan himself felt a little sorry for this work. Born in this world in his hands, it was underestimated.

In the end, it was still the reason why Xia Yan's status in the Dragon Country novel world was not enough.

Until early October, one month after the start of school, the third day after the end of military training

"Parasyte" appeared in the serialization meeting of Liuli Book Club for the fourth time.

Before the serialization meeting started this time, Xia Yan had already decided that if Parasyte still failed, he would not be so persistent and would take time to visit the Magic City branches of the four novel book clubs tomorrow.

However, in the evening

"Passed." Bai Xuan called and said these three short words.

Xia Yan moved his fingers, took a deep breath, and then said solemnly.

"Thank you, Sister Xuan."

"You're welcome. This is just my job. If you really want to thank me, then try to make Parasyte more perfect and interesting. After all, my income commission is closely related to your work performance." Bai Xuan said lightly on the other end of the phone.

But Xia Yan also knew that she actually helped him a lot with this novel during this period.

At least Bai Xuan was busy with the connections within Liuli Book Club and helped the serialization of the work to attract votes. If it wasn't because he felt that it would be too sorry for Bai Xuan to run away directly, Xia Yan would have left directly when Parasyte failed to be serialized at the third serialization meeting.

"None of the four candidate works selected for this serialization meeting is written by a long-term author of the book company. So your Parasyte was directly voted through for serialization with a high number of votes." Bai Xuan said softly.

"The date for the serialization of the first chapter of Parasyte has also been confirmed. It will be on Friday, November 1st of next month."

"Xia Yan, you have to be prepared." Bai Xuan's tone became very serious at this time.

"This is different from your previous work in the Southern Province. The sales of each issue of the journal "Liuli Se" is about 6 million copies. Once the 20 novels serialized in it are released, they are basically all novels with an average sales of over one million per volume. It is not on the same level as the competitors you faced in the Southern Province before."

"Although you are very talented, I hope you can be proud of yourself after becoming the top light novel writer in Dragon Country one day. Now, set a goal. Based on the quality level of the first few chapters of your Parasyte, keep it up. Strive to hit the top three in the journal ranking before the serialization of the novel ends."

"Only you can achieve this result."

"As a non-long-term author in the book company, your next work is eligible to be submitted to the serialization meeting and strive for the serialization qualification in the top journal "Liuli"."

"I understand the top three, right?" Xia Yan said softly after hearing this.

"Sister Xuan, you can actually have a little more confidence in me. This work, it is absolutely impossible that the goal is just to be in the top three of the "Liuli Color" journal."

Xia Yan didn't have so much patience to slowly waste time with Liuli Book Club.

His initial goal was to use the novel promotion and demotion system within the book club, hoping that Parasyte could rely on the popularity and reputation of the work itself after serialization to the middle and late stages.

After moving from the secondary journal "Liuli Color" to "Liuli", it will be serialized to the end.

Anyway, there are no publicity resources for so many of his works, and they have gradually developed to the current single-volume sales of 5 million and 6 million per volume.

Even if Liuli Book Club does not give him too many resources because of his "short-term worker" status, what does it matter?

As long as a good work has a good serialization platform with large enough traffic, whether there are publicity resources or not, this work will rise, it's just a matter of speed.

There is another chapter later, which will be sent out later. The transition plot is finally finished, and I also feel that the recent plot is a bit watery, but there is no way, these plots must be written appropriately. Moreover, the author has been having a lot of things happen at home recently, which has affected his creative state. Now I am slowly adjusting. I am sorry for that.