Lin Qiao was immediately impressed by Ji Nian’s small but perfectly furnished apartment. Xinghai Publishing House truly lives up to its reputation as a leading, long-established publishing house; its employee benefits are amazing!
While housing prices in Jingnan aren’t as outrageous as in Beijing, land is still incredibly valuable. Ji Nian’s apartment is only a kilometer from the Xinghai office building, right in the city center. Renting an entire building for employee dormitories—that’s some serious financial audacity!
[Your company is such a conscientious enterprise! The employee dorms are really nice!]
Lin Qiao sent her a message from Ji Nian’s beanbag chair.
Ji Nian snapped a picture of herself proofreading a massive amount of text at her computer desk, adding a ‘cold’ emoji. The caption was written as: [Rent is deducted from my salary, there’s never a set time to leave work, and proofreading can’t have a single mistake. Is this conscience? Or is it heartlessness?]
Lin Qiao choked: “…”
Sure enough, capitalists have no conscience!
[When are you coming back? I’m waiting for you to take me out to eat!]
Lin Qiao sent a pitiful emoji.
[Order takeout. I think I’ll be late.]
Ji Nian sobbed.
Lin Qiao also sobbed: [Sob, won’t I be lonely all by myself?]
Jin Nian immediately sent a picture with a mischievous smiley face: [Go get this from my bookshelf and read it. I guarantee you won’t be lonely.]
Lin Qiao got up and went to the bookshelf to rummage through it.
Good heavens, it was a novel with explicit content!
But, coincidentally, she was an adult, and she loved reading it!
The book wasn’t too thick. Lin Qiao flipped to the last page in three hours, only to find the plot stuck on a thrilling scene where the male and female leads were fighting in bed, while opposing forces arrived simultaneously outside the door.
Halfway through the exciting story, Lin Qiao felt a lump in her throat, an unbearable urge to scream. She called out to Ji Nian, who hadn’t returned even though it was already dark.
[That’s it??? That’s it??? There should be a sequel, right???]
Ji Nian, as if anticipating Lin Qiao’s reaction, sent a mocking emoji: [Didn’t expect that, did you? This book was only printed in a few copies after the final draft was completed, before it was deemed too explicit. What you’re holding now is my rare, out-of-print copy! Hahahaha, finally someone else has fallen into this pit and can’t sleep!]
Lin Qiao wanted to hit someone: […How vicious and malicious!]
Lin Qiao wasn’t giving up. She searched online based on the book title, but only found the first volume. She then searched by the author’s name, only to find that the author had stopped writing after this one volume!
What’s most infuriating is that the author’s pen name is ‘Happy and Carefree’!
Seriously, who could be happy reading half a book?!
Ji Nian didn’t get back until after 10 PM. When she returned, Lin Qiao was already furious and had no appetite for going out to eat. She dragged Ji Nian into a tirade.
“I saw that the data for this book on the website was very good, so why did the author suddenly stop writing? And you all bought the copyright, why didn’t she continue writing? If she could finish it, it would definitely be a huge hit, right? This halfway through is so painful to read!”
Ji Nian gave her a ‘You’re such an outsider, you’re thinking too simply’ look, pointing to the page on her phone.
“Didn’t you notice this website relies on donations? It looks like there are a lot of viewers, but actually, there’s no revenue. Xinghai bought the rights and was preparing to publish, but didn’t it just fall apart halfway through? Now they’re just waiting for the contract to expire. If someone doesn’t have money, they naturally switch tracks. I heard this author’s family is quite poor. If you’re really upset, you can support her new account.”
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