The night before Yang Lilu's birthday, Liu Jingting called Hu Xiaomi across the country and asked the same question as Yang Lilu.

"If these didn't exist, what would you think of me?"

Hu Xiaomi first laughed, and then said, "I didn't expect Gu Yongsheng to ask such a pretentious question."

Liu Jingting smiled bitterly and said "Yeah", nodding and admitting that it was only because of some reasons that were not worthy of being told by outsiders that Liu Jingting would not explain too much and would continue to wait for Hu Xiaomi's answer.

"First of all, let me ask you a question. If it is not writing, how do we know it?"

“It makes sense.”

"Secondly, I think this question itself has no meaning. Writing is part of you. Why does the assumption not exist? When two people get along, whether they are a couple or a friend, they must be because they have the advantages and qualities that each other like, such as humor, education, and know how to sing. If this assumption is true, these connections themselves are not true. A girl likes a boy to play basketball well, but you make that boy stop playing basketball, which is logically unreasonable, so what is the meaning of your assumption?"

Liu Jingting couldn't answer this question, so he had to remain silent.

Hu Xiaomi paused for a while and said, "Why don't you feel uncomfortable if you don't speak?"

"No, I'm thinking about what you said."

Hu Xiaomi said with a little hesitation and said, "In the past, when you wrote new novels, you always wrote one chapter for me to read one chapter. That feeling was very good. I felt very lucky and happy at that time. I could read a story that was popular so long in advance. When I first arrived in the United States, I missed that kind of day very much."

"If you want to see it, it's possible now."

"No. I still like to read the novels you wrote, but now my mentality is different from before. I used to want to read them in advance because I felt that I felt that I was particularly superior. I felt that I was familiar with you and was my own person. Now, I would rather wait for serialization or the whole book to come out."

"Because it's not as familiar as before?"

"No." Hu Xiaomi thought for a while and continued: "No, and it's actually not proven."

Liu Jingting nodded. Then he thought that the other party could not see it at all, and said, "That's true."

"By the way, why did you suddenly remember to ask the question just now?"

"Pretty."

Hu Xiaomi smiled and said, "Since you asked that, I still have to answer you honestly. If you can't write and we happen to meet each other, I think we can still be good friends."

Liu Jingting was stunned and then said, "Yes."

"By the way, well, that roommate is named Yang Lilu, right?"

"ah?"

"Don't, I saw her on Broadway that day and knew there was something wrong with you. Later, I went to your apartment. She pulled us to play games for so long, afraid that we would go out to do something. Haha, what a cute girl, right?"

“…”

The two of them stopped talking and remained silent for half a minute. Hu Xiaomi said: "Liu Jingting, I miss the days we just met. I am a pure good friend, like my best friend, who can talk about everything and will not think of some messy things. Later... it was a little messy and a little strange."

"I feel so, too."

"Then... should we try again?"

"OK."

...

After Hu Xiaomi hung up the phone, a teardrop in the corner of her left eye slowly slid down from her face. She didn't tell Liu Jingting just now that she was just watching the second time of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, and happened to see the 26th chapter of "The New Alliance and Old Testament". Guo Jing firmly said that he was going to Huazheng as his wife. Huang Rong became more sad and said:

[Brother Jing, I understand. She and you are the same person. You two are a pair of white eagles on the desert. I am just a swallow under the willow branches in the south of the Yangtze River.]

A long time ago, Liu Jingting was still writing "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains" at that time, and his reputation was not as great as it is now. That day, he came to the room he rented to have a meal, praising the delicious food he made, and said that he would write a novel in the future, where the heroine in it was a master of cooking.

Therefore, when Hu Xiaomi saw the character Huang Rong, she was in a complicated and mixed mood.

Until Liu Jingting suddenly asked this question, and his hesitation in his words, he understood something that Huang Rong in the story may not have anything to do with him, and he may even be the unpleasant Hua Zheng.

It seems that I met Gu Yongsheng the first time and experienced many storms together, but now when I recall it, the relationship between the two is almost completely related to the novel.

Liu Jingting's question suddenly woke her up. She had invested too much in the virtual world, so much that she could not answer his questions clearly.

Then this time, did he, like Guo Jing, have found the little swallow under the willow tree, but because of some morality, he had to continue to perform with his white eagle?

Hu Xiaomi could not accept this inference, so she proposed to try again, and this was the best implicitness before Liu Jingting made any conclusions.

...

"Not every beautiful sentence represents the truth. Guo Jing and Huang Rong are the pair made of heaven and earth."

After the birthday party, Xu Qing entered Yang Lilu's room and analyzed to her why Liu Jingting asked that question.

"Guo Jing wanted to marry Huang Rong just because he wanted to be trusted and fulfill his promises. It has nothing to do with love. That boy used this setting to express his emotions. The girl in the United States is Hua Zheng, and you are Huang Rong, you are the little swallow under the willow tree. Huang Rong's sad complaint is the best hint. Think about it, why is it a willow tree, why is it not a sycamore tree, a peach tree, or a pine tree?"

Xu Qing had already mastered the secret and patted her niece on the shoulder and taught her earnestly: "Because the willow tree is his own metaphor."

"He asked that question..."

"Isn't that the most common question between young couples? If I had nothing, would you still do with me? The answer you did not hesitate at the time was the most perfect answer of all the similar questions I've ever heard."

Yang Lilu shook her head and said, "I didn't think so much."

"This is the most precious."

...

When everyone thought that the story of Yang Lilu and Liu Jingting was finally about to turn around, the two parties tacitly kept holding on.

Everything seemed to be back to the state of being a drama. Liu Jingting and Yang Lilu spent all day in the apartment reading hall, sitting side by side, writing and translating each other, and occasionally communicating two sentences, which was completely maintaining a suitable distance.

Lin Xun ran to peek several times, but did not notice any intimate behavior between them, so she couldn't help but feel discouraged and disappointed.

November was slowly completed in this unscientific atmosphere, and the second issue of "Jianglu" was launched as scheduled.

In the previous questionnaire survey, everyone's expectations for "Journey to the West" have been approaching "Lu Xiaofeng", and the second and third chapters of the latest magazine serialization are even more exciting, which makes readers stutter.

These two chapters are written that Sun Wukong returned from his studies, stepped on the Demon King of Mianshi, then brushed the Dragon Palace dungeon, got Ruyi Golden Crown, Golden Armor, Yunlu and other equipment, and then brushed the Underworld dungeon to complete the task of modifying the Life and Death Book. Finally, he left a suspense that Taibai Jinxing passed the heavenly order, claiming to be awarded an official title.

To some extent, "Journey to the West" is the originator of later online literature. However, once serialized, the author has to bear the readers' criticism of "out of context".

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Chapter completed!