Chapter 72 – Physical Publishing
In the blink of an eye, July has arrived. Because he was dragged by Zhu Luyan, who seemed to have found a like-minded comrade, and was taken to visit the schools he had built before and asked to give advice, Yang Yi came back a little late.
There was actually no problem between Yang Yi and Mo Fei. Although they parted that day with a sour note, it didn’t affect their conversation every night.
The content of their conversation was a little strange. They don’t talk about each other’s feelings or love. They just talk about Xixi day after day.
If Xixi was with Yang Yi, Mo Fei will ask Yang Yi to tell her the interesting stories about her daughter that day, and if Xixi returned to live with her mother, Mo Fei will also tell Yang Yi about Xixi.
This kind of long phone conversation was truly mysterious, but what was even more mysterious was that Yang Yi quite enjoyed the process, and Mo Fei would be secretly feel sweet for a while after hanging up the phone, as if Yang Yi had just said something sweet – which is unlikely. How can Yang Yi, a blockhead, say words of love?
When Yang Yi came back, the happiest was actually Editor Qiang Zi!
“My uncle, you’re back at last.” Qiang Zi almost wept with joy when he received a reply from Yang Yi on SNS. (TN: My uncle is a slang similar to “My lord” or “My little ancestor” and not literal.)
Yang Yi was a little puzzled: “Did the update stopped?”
“No, there are still some manuscripts left in the draft box.”
“My readers has a falling out again?”
“Well, there’s a bit of that. The readers are a little indignant about the new female lead, but it’s still manageable.”
About this matter, we have to start from last week. Under the joint counterattack of the two major military forces and some small warlords, the Japanese aggressors finally retreated one after another, and were even driven out of the country and hunted back to their home island! Finally, the Japanese aggressors surrendered unconditionally… This history was somewhat similar to those in Yang Yi’s previous life, but it was more of the Chinese army’s exultation, and the troops of Europe and the United States were no longer involved.
After the great victory, the beginning of the civil war was bound to happen. During joint operations, the strength of the small warlords was almost exhausted, and all that remained was a confrontation between the two major military forces.
The history has changed, but it is also strikingly similar. After Yang Yi made artistic changes, the trajectory of the story returned to its original plot: Li Yunlong’s military forces, which are based on workers and farmers, and Chu Yunfei’s military forces, backed by entrepreneurs and bankers, fought each other across the vast land of China.
Li Yunlong’s name was unknown, but he showed cunning and tenacious combat effectiveness, causing headaches to his opponents. Like his military forces, although it looked small, it’s strong enough to make all those who looks down on it slap themselves in the face.
But fate is so strange that Li Yunlong and Chu Yunfei, two men that sympathize with each other, but have to wary of each other and are hostile to each other, met again.
At one time, they were both regiment commanders. Li Yunlong, because of his temper, killed prisoners, disobeyed orders, rose and fell, has stayed in the position of regiment commander. Even though the troops he led were already a brigade-sized independent regiment, and expanded to a division in battle. (In the original work, Li Yunlong was promoted to a division commander, but the title of regiment commander is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.)
Chu Yunfei was much better. He is brilliant, slicker and slyer than Li Yunlong. Naturally, he has reached the level of major general. Of course, he also led a division.
Having arrived into an unavoidable confrontation, these two characters, whom the readers love so much, were destined to have a life-and-death showdown.
But can Yang Yi’s pattern be guessed by them? (TN: The readers have no idea what Yang Yi will do next.)
At the end of Chapter 12, Chu Yunfei asked his men to fire on Li Yunlong, and Li Yunlong also asked the machine gunners around him to shoot Chu Yunfei. At that time, the readers were heartbroken…
Fortunately, Li Yunlong was finally pulled back from the brink of death in a hospital. He, who was wrapped into zongzi, was in a coma for eight days before he woke up. (TN: Zongzi – traditional Chinese rice-pudding. He was covered full of bandages.)
The overjoyed readers felt the same as Li Yunlong’s subordinates – “Listen, if anything bad happens to our division commander, I’ll shoot you first, and then I’ll shoot the doctor, do you understand?”
There will always be a delicately pretty girl around a boorish man.
This time when he was injured, a young nurse, Tian Yu, who seemed have walked out from a painting, appeared beside Li Yunlong. When Zhao Gang, this commissar literary man, saw her, he thought of the line “Hibiscus like face and willow like eyebrows” in the poem Song of Everlasting Regret, which showed how exquisite her beauty is!
But readers didn’t rejoice because she was beautiful!
Amazingly, in the world of webnovel, novels that targets male audience are basically full of male chauvinists, and most readers wish the male lead would take all the beautiful women into his pocket.
But in this book, there was once a call in the book review area not to welcome the role of Tian Yu. It was almost a one-sided expression of disgust!
Maybe it’s because Xiuqin was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people! She was a tough woman who was stubborn to death and was willing to sacrifice herself for her man. Shouldn’t she be the perfect match for a man like Li Yunlong?
How could a vixen sneak into his mind “so soon” when his wife just died?
Of course, there was a time jump that actually happened in the plot of the book. But since the readers read this development in a just few days, they didn’t realize it. In fact, Xiuqin has actually been gone for many years.
In the next few chapters, the attitude of readers has quietly changed.
These two characters that seemed to not match each other, because they frequently interact with each other, created chemistry between them that even made the reluctant readers chuckle.
Tian Yu, who originally born from an influential family, has chivalrous heart. She not only took good care of Li Yunlong, but also had a deep understanding of him. She can also understand Li Yunlong’s past. She even tries to argue with her colleagues about Li Yunlong killing his wife and devils together.
Li Yunlong also changed from a tough man to a tough man with a playful heart. He tried to read poems with Tian Yu, sulked because the hospital had changed his nurse, and played narrow-minded to get Tian Yu back…
Such a mismatch personalities gradually made people feel that the two are actually quite a match!
Finally, Li Yunlong went to Tian Yu’s family to propose…
Although some readers were still unconvinced, most of them have accepted the arrangement of the plot.
This is not right; it seems we have veered from the story a little too far! Back to the conversation between Yang Yi and Qiang Zi. (TN: So, you’re aware of it too.)
Yang Yi asked in puzzlement, “Then what is the urgent matter?”
Qiang Zi said hurriedly: “The physical publishing of ‘Soldier assault’! Didn’t your contract say you need to participate in the negotiation of copyright? Now several publishers have come to us, and some people even want to sign your two books in one go.”
That’s right, there were still people who has great foresight. Even though “Drawing Sword” was only halfway through, they saw the potential of “Drawing Sword”.
Of course, they hope to strike while the iron is hot and strive for more benefits, but Yang Yi has been away!
“I see.” Yang Yi pondered for a moment and said, “Ask them to come here to talk with me. Next week, I will be in the shop almost all the time.”
“OK, I’ll arrange it right away, and my colleagues from the copyright department will accompany me at that time.” Qiang Zi responded quickly.
Of course, the happy Qiang Zi didn’t see it across the screen, but Yang Yi also raised a smile at the corner of his mouth, a slightly profound smile.
________________
TN: If you see any mistakes or you didn’t understand parts in the chapter, please write it on the comment area. I will immediately address it. Thank you!
But if you are reading this other than in my site, I will not be able to read your comments.
If you like my work, you can support me by reading this chapter at my site at thenoobtranslator.com
<Previous | Table of Content | Next>
