Yueyao's gift was supposed to be for Zhang Yurong in the afternoon, but unexpectedly it arrived in the morning. While everyone was still chatting together after dinner, they received an express. Yueyao said that it was her gift, but Zhang Yurong and Li Yan were curious.

Next, when I opened it, there was actually a book inside!

Zhang Yurong had no requirements on the value of the gift. She also knew that Yueyao "had little money." She also always felt that Yueyao was an intellectual homebody Internet writer, so it was not a big surprise that her gift was a book.

"Books are the best gifts. Thank you, Yueyao." Zhang Yurong took it and thanked her happily first, lest she feel the gift was shabby and feel inferior. As expected, Yueyao seemed a little embarrassed and hesitated to speak.

Li Yan took the book from Zhang Yurong's hand, looked at it carefully, and said in surprise: "Did you write this book?"

"What?" Zhang Yurong was surprised and grabbed the punch again. When he saw that the author's signature was "Yue Yao", he was surprised and said: "Yue Yao. You published a book? You didn't even tell us!" Girls Channel,

I have been updating it intermittently. What gift should I give you? If it were published as a book, it would be of some commemorative significance to give you a copy, but I didn’t. I printed this at my own expense."

Li Yan and Yurong's smiles also became a little embarrassed. It turned out that they published the book at their own expense!

Looking at the expressions of the two of them, Yueyao shook her head again: "I'm not publishing the book at my own expense! I'm just printing the book at my own expense."

Zhang Yurong and Li Yan looked at each other, "What's the difference?"

As a country as big as China, publishing houses are far inferior to Taiwan, or even to Hong Kong. This is because of systemic problems. The government has always been strict in managing this area. The Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Culture, and the Press and Publication Administration can intervene in management.

There is more than one department, and not only the central government, but also provincial, municipal and county governments have these departments. The book market is far less open than other aspects.

However, with the marketization of the country's economy, the days of relying on financial allocations have slowly changed. Traditional film studios have either closed down or been reorganized, and the same has happened with publishing houses. People's Publishing House, for example, has to rely on the translation of "Harry Potter"

"Special" series can make money, and others are not allowed to move closer to the market? However, due to the aging management and editorial teams and lack of understanding of the market, the situation of many publishing houses is not optimistic.

However, because the country does not open the publishing field to the private sector, private book companies cannot obtain publishing "book numbers", so some "booksellers" have begun to appear. Booksellers often exist in the form of book and cultural companies, and what they do is actually the work of publishing houses.

It's just because of the system. They are trying to buy book numbers from the publishing house and achieve the purpose of private publishing through backdooring. The publishing house can make money by selling book numbers, regardless of the cost, sales, profit or loss of the book. So in this situation

Under the circumstances, it is almost impossible to apply for publication, but you can publish a book at your own expense.

The same is true for magazines. The competent authorities generally do not allow private publications. Many privately run commercial magazines are actually affiliated with some old magazines and spend money to publish them in the name of their sub-magazines. For example, Shanda Literary Investment, edited by Han Han

magazine "Solo Group". Although the content was not discordant, due to Han Han's relationship, approval was difficult, and no magazine dared to cooperate. In the end, a small publishing house in Yiye, Not Afraid of Death bought the ISBN and completed the first issue in the form of a book.

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Yueyao gave a rough explanation, which Zhang Yurong also understood, but Li Yan didn't know.

"I understand, you are not publishing books at your own expense by buying a book number from a publishing house, you are just printing books privately. You can only collect them yourself and give them away. If you put them on the shelves for sale in a bookstore, it is an illegal publication!" Zhang Yurong understood.

"Yes. Self-publishing is relatively expensive, at least tens of thousands of dollars, and there are no sales channels. Printing is so toxic and wasteful. The cost of printing through private channels is relatively low. The quantity does not need to be large, I only produce one

This is also done."

"Oh, Shansai!" Li Yan commented.

"Haha. You can also say that."

Zhang Yurong happily took the book and smelled the ink, "It's not a copycat, but Yueyao can specially create a book for me. To me, it is a very honorable treatment.

Can you also write a book and publish it for me?"

"Hey," Yueyaoshan stuffed the book, didn't I copy the movie?"

Hearing Li Yan's words and thinking of his gift, everyone laughed.

"I rarely read it. What is this like? Is it like "Alive" or "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?" Zhang Yurong looked through it with interest, and then asked Yueyao.

Although Li Yan has read many in-depth books on his own, he has read very few classics in terms of academics, and the occasional ones are just for leisure and entertainment. At this time, he has nothing to show off, but he is quite right.

"Yue Yao, is this really written by you? Many of the female videos I've heard about are full-length, prostitutes and the like."

"Qingchuan?**?" Zhang Yurong was puzzled.

"It's just like, a girl travels back to the Qing Dynasty and trains wealthy young men, princes, elder brothers, etc. It seems to be about getting between beautiful men and beautiful men."

"Isn't it?" Zhang said, feeling a little goosebumps.

Li Yan thought to himself, I can't stand this anymore? It is said that there are many heroines who have a harem of beautiful men!

Yue Yao burst into laughter and said, "Li Yan, it turns out you like to watch female videos. But my book doesn't have the heavy flavor you like. It's just a normal pure love story between a man and a woman."

Li Yan recalled the indoctrination from Xu Ping, who often chatted with them about the city, and smiled:

"Harem? Shouldn't the harem be a royal palace? Is this still a city?" Yurong didn't understand this at all.

"Haha, the male protagonist is like an emperor, and he has many beauties who love him. Everyone lives happily together. It's "Legend of Romance", Li Yan is thinking about his future harem plan." Taking advantage of the opportunity, in Yurong

Talk about this situation in front of her so that she will not be abrupt. Her concept needs to change slowly!

"How disgusting! This is purely your men's tripod!"

"It happens in reality. Have you seen any news? A judge or a prosecutor in Hebei or somewhere, a person who has been commended by many countries, died in an accident. When the body was collected, he came out. Wife, all of them were

Have a marriage certificate!”

"That's bigamy, but this is still breaking the law knowingly!" Zhang Yurong said angrily.

Li Yan shrugged, "So what? If it wasn't due to an accidental death, how would outsiders know?"

Seeing him saying this again and again, Zhang Yurong looked at him a little suspiciously, "Do you want to get married? There's no need to take so much trouble and risk, just tell me and I will make it happen for you!"

This can't be done overnight, just a little influence will do. Li Yan smiled quickly and said: "How can I do it? I'm just like the two-two men you mentioned. By the way, what happened last night is quite big. You were too big-headed yesterday."

I am a guest tonight, and the police may ask you to know the situation. I should be considered irrelevant. It would be bad if I came to the house. I will go out first!"

Zhang Yurong was successfully diverted by him. Seeing him getting up to leave, she hurriedly warned: "Change your clothes! Are you going out like this?"

Li Yan deliberately lowered his head and looked: "Haha. Yes, if you go out like this, it's easy for female perverts to peek at you. I'd better dress more tightly!"

After driving out, Li Yan was counting the time in his mind. He must first go to Wen Qianyi's place and have lunch with her earlier, then go back to Duan Haibo's place, get his things back, and then go out to watch a movie with Yu Rong.

The time is relatively tight. No matter which link is delayed for a little longer, it will not be enough for the rest.

While driving all the way, he didn't waste time. When he passed some movie theaters, he slowed down and took a look at the movies that were recently released. In case he didn't know what to choose when he arrived in the afternoon.

All in all, he has never watched a movie alone with Zhang Yurong. He has watched it with Yu Xiaodi, Li Jie, including Wen Qianyi, Hai Fu, Huang Ying and others the night before, but his wife has not. It is really unreasonable.

When he was about to arrive at Wen Qianyi's place, he made a phone call first, asking her to have a good wine, and then kindly invited Hai Fu to share it with her, which would be embarrassing.

"Li Yan? Are you here?" On the phone, Wen Qianyi's voice seemed to be deliberately lowered.

"Yes, am I coming up to find you, or are you coming down? Is there no one else at home?" Seeing that it was a little inconvenient for her to speak, Li Yan was worried that Haifu was returning to visit her.

"No. Uh, don't you want to treat me to dinner? Let's find a restaurant first. There must be a seat now. Find a good seat. I'll go find you after I put on my makeup and change clothes!" Wen Qianyi said quickly.

"Okay, I'll wait for you!"

It doesn't matter if you go up and sit for a while. What Li Yan is worried about is that Wen Qianyi said it was too early. If everyone goes to play first, or watch a movie or something before eating, then there won't be enough time.

When he passed by a restaurant before, it felt pretty good. He had already called to make a reservation. At this time, there was no need to worry. He continued to drive over and wait for her.

When he arrived near the area, he was afraid of bumping into Hai Fu, so he didn't get close to her. He stopped at a distance where he could see her coming out.

On the bed, he checked the time. Today is her birthday. Maybe it will be a little more grand, with makeup and clothes changed, but it shouldn't be so fast. Do you want to buy a bouquet of flowers and wait?

But today is Sunday, and people are coming and going. It would seem too silly and too tacky to bring a bouquet of flowers as a gift. If you wait there with flowers, you will be watched even more. Thinking about that scene, he

It’s not natural. Anyway, with Wen Qianyi, I don’t know what to give when giving flowers, and what flowers mean it. If I get the wrong one, it will be self-defeating. Just wait!

While waiting, Li Yan called Duan Haibo and told him that he would pack his things and go back later.

Duan Haibo smiled knowingly: "Brother Li, have you reconciled with your girlfriend?"

Li Yan was a little embarrassed and refused to admit it, "What? It's just that I found a higher-end place and moved."

"Hey, I understand! We have reserved that room for you, and you are welcome to come over at any time. For example, sometimes if you drink too much, your sister-in-law will not let you in." Duan Haibo continued to tease. The two weeks of getting along have made them more familiar and close.

"Ahem," are you speaking from experience?" Li Yan smiled dryly, "I will simply pack up my things and leave, so I may not run into them. You can tell them and thank you for taking care of me.

Living with you, I am free and very happy!"

"Okay. Everyone has a good impression of you too!"

The two continued to brag for a while, but no one mentioned the robbery last night. After hanging up the phone, Li Yan continued to smoke a few more cigarettes, thinking about the mysterious stone in his mind.

Finally, I saw Wen Qianyi coming out. She didn't come out by car, she came out on foot.

This can be considered a date, even if you don’t think it’s a date. Two people go out to eat together. Each drives a car to come, and each drives a car to leave, which is really unpleasant. Now you can take a ride there, and ask the man to take him back when you come back, and chat more.

Space.

But looking at her, Li Yan frowned!

Because... Wen Qianyi is not a bad girl. She went out with a man so that she could not see carefully from a distance. "You can see that he is the same. A mature man, his figure, clothes, walking posture, etc. are all stylish and fashionable."

.And Wen Qianyi had a happy smile on her face as always, but her arm was wrapped around the man's arm!

Seeing this scene, although he knew that he was not qualified to ask her for anything, Li Yan was still very depressed and felt that his chest was congested. Maybe it was because there was not much space in the car and it was a bit boring after being there for a long time. It would be better if he opened the window. But he

I wanted to open the window. But I found out that I had already opened the car because of smoking...

At this moment, he understood why Wen Qianyi lowered her voice just now. It was probably because there was such a man around her. She just walked aside and couldn't speak loudly. But she didn't let him go up. She asked him to go find the restaurant first.

The purpose of occupying the seat is actually to keep him away to prevent him from going up. As for putting on makeup, changing clothes, etc. I just want some time for this man to leave.

Li Yan scratched his head and smoked hard, as if what he was smoking was not cigarettes, but fresh oxygen that would make him feel less stuffy.

He didn't move the car to leave, because he had already kept a distance when he started to stop, and he didn't have to worry about Wen Qianyi seeing him. He had thought about calling her and asking her if she had gone out, where she was now, and to see if she would

If you lie to your face, will you panic in front of that man?
To be continued...