TSMVHATRM Chapter 81

Time Space: the Male Villain Has the Ability To Read Minds Chapter 79: Editor-in-Chief Xing Weigang

Moreover, these days, at least half of the young people in Huangsha Village only complete compulsory education before going out to work, and most of them don’t enjoy studying.

Consequently, Pei Zihao and Pei Tianyu lack a clear understanding of the importance of studying.

Pei Tiantian believed that only by subtly changing Pei Zihao and Pei Tianyu’s mindset during their future school years could she encourage them to pay more attention to their studies.

At least, they wouldn’t always score only 10 or 20 points on tests.

Gu Rong’s ninth birthday was at the end of August, and he had the most lively birthday he ever remembered at the Pei family’s.

Even the villagers had grown accustomed to treating Gu Rong as a member of the Pei family.

Afterward, the enrollment of Pei Tiantian and Gu Rong was put on the agenda.

With Tao Jing’s introduction, Pei Tiantian and Gu Rong underwent individual testing by the elementary school principal, Meng Youquan.

After confirming that their knowledge level was sufficient for fifth grade, he agreed to let them skip a grade.

With Tao Jing’s help, the grade skipping went incredibly smoothly. The Pei family even prepared a large table of food and wine to celebrate.

Pei Tiantian even nibbled on a delicious pig’s trotter, her little mouth greasy.

News that both Pei Tiantian and Gu Rong had skipped to fifth grade spread throughout the village.

Everyone’s first reaction was, “Has the Pei family gone crazy?”

Pei Tiantian was only five years old.

Five years old and already in fifth grade?

This… was outrageous.

Incredibly outrageous.

Gu Yang, the village’s renowned prodigy, was only in sixth grade at nine.

Could Pei Tiantian be smarter than Gu Yang?

Because the news of Pei Tiantian’s immediate fifth-grade skipping was so shocking, Gu Rong’s grade skipping was overlooked.

As for how the grade skipping happened, many villagers quickly began to believe that the Pei family had bribed him.

They had bribed the principal, Meng Youquan, to allow the Pei family to act so recklessly.

Furthermore, word spread that Pei Tiantian’s godmother also taught at the town’s elementary school, further solidifying the notion that Pei Tiantian’s grade skipping was a result of connections.

This upset many people.

They felt their own children weren’t bad, so why shouldn’t they skip a grade? Skipping a few grades meant saving a few years of tuition—what was wrong with that?

When these rumors spread, Pei Tiantian didn’t pay much attention.

A five-year-old skipping five grades defied common sense, and there would always be doubters.

Pei Tiantian didn’t bother to pay attention.

She still wanted to write more novels before summer vacation ended.

Ever since she asked Pei Zhiwen and Pei Zhiqiang to help her go to the magazine to solicit reader feedback, she’d learned that the readership was polarized. Those who were receptive to the novels were raving about them and found the plot incredibly engaging.

Those who weren’t happy with the novels were dissatisfied, arguing that the heroine, pregnant before marriage, was unfaithful and that her various pseudonyms were outrageous and impossible for the same person to own them. They sent letters to the magazine daily, demanding that her serialized novels be stopped.

Even within the magazine, there were people who were dissatisfied with her novels. If the editor-in-chief hadn’t been supporting her, her novels wouldn’t have been able to continue serializing. After all, in this era, many places still have relatively conservative thinking.

The mainstream view is that men work outside and women work inside, and the idea of favoring boys over girls still exists.

The most popular women at present are also good wives and mothers, strong and kind, repaying grievances with virtue, and gentle as water.

Pei Tiantian writes the heroine as tough as a tack.

When she encounters vicious male and female partners, she slaps them in the face or puts them in a sack as she pleases, anyway, she does whatever she wants.

The CEO male protagonist is always humiliated in front of the female protagonist, and even has to grovel and chase her to the crematorium.

This style of novel writing makes some people feel unacceptable.

How can the male protagonist, a CEO, be so servile in front of the female protagonist?

Some people even scold the female protagonist for not being like a woman and the male protagonist for not being like a man.

Of course, Pei Tiantian had no intention of changing herself because of some people’s ridiculous abuse.

After all, everyone has their own preferences, and those who can’t accept it can just let it go.

At least there are still people who like her novels, which means that she still hits the mark for some people.

As long as her novels are not canceled, she will continue to write.

However, Pei Tiantian was very grateful to the editor-in-chief whom she had never met, and she also became a little curious.

She wanted to know who the editor-in-chief was.

Pei Tiantian opened “Story Collection” and found the name of the editor-in-chief.

Xing Weigang.

Pei Tiantian was surprised.

The name was actually a man.

She had always thought that the editor-in-chief who had always supported her was a woman?

After all, her novel was a female protagonist.

This made her have a better impression of the editor-in-chief.

Pei Tiantian suddenly frowned, and her eyes once again stopped on the three words “Xing Weigang”.

“Why does this name look familiar?”

Pei Tiantian murmured.

Suddenly her eyes lit up, and she remembered.

Editor-in-chief Xing also played a role in the novel.

Isn’t this the unfortunate author Xing Weigang, whose novel copyright was swindled away by a shell company, and who then fought lawsuits for years without success?

In the end, Xing Weigang was depressed and announced his pen name was banned, leaving the entertainment industry.

When Xing Weigang signed the contract with the shell company, the shell company secretly tampered with the contract, and without Xing Weigang’s knowledge, he lost the copyright to his novel “Jinghong” and only received 100,000 yuan.

However, the shell company sold it for several million yuan two years later.

Even when the TV series and movies adapted from the novel became huge hits, Xing Weigang received no share of the profits from the sales of various derivative products.

It was tragic, so tragic.

Pei Tiantian couldn’t help but sigh.

The reason Editor-in-Chief Xing had a role in the novel was because the film adapted from his novel featured Xue Ningxiang, a woman who also earned 1 billion yuan at the box office.

In later generations, a movie box office exceeding 1 billion yuan is nothing, but at Xue Ningxiang’s time, it was a national sensation.

This also laid the foundation for Xue Ningxiang to become a national-level actress.

However, it seems that the boss of the shell company benefited, the investors benefited, and the starring actors of movies and TV series benefited.

Only the original author, Editor-in-Chief Xing, was hurt.

Pei Tiantian counted on her fingers.

In the novel, Editor-in-Chief Xing’s novel “Jinghong” was in court for a full twelve years before she gave up. The heroine was twenty-two years old that year. According to Xue Ningxiang’s age of ten this year, Editor-in-Chief Xing sold the copyright in 1995.

That is… this year.

Pei Tiantian’s eyes widened suddenly.

Damn!

What a coincidence!

But half of this year has passed, and it will be September soon.

Could it be that Editor-in-Chief Xing has sold the copyright a long time ago?