February 7th is the first day when the symposium officially begins.

After Li Luo was woken up by the alarm clock, he got up from the bed, washed and dressed, and sent a message to his senior sister on the way.

After finishing cleaning up, Li Luo looked at his phone and found that Xu Youyu hadn't responded to him yet. He sighed helplessly, got up and walked out of the room, went to the next door room No. 9106, and knocked on the door.

After knocking like this for about a minute, the door finally opened.

Xu Youyu, with disheveled hair and dull eyes, glanced at Li Luo and muttered something.

"Get up, go downstairs for breakfast." Li Luo opened the door and walked in, pressed Xu Youyu's shoulders, pushed her into the bathroom, opened the faucet, soaked some water, and patted her on the forehead.

Being touched by the cold water, Xu Youyu's whole body suddenly trembled, and he suddenly woke up.

"Now that you're out, I can wash it myself."

"Then hurry up, it's almost eight o'clock." Li Luo reminded, "You still have to go have breakfast. There will be a meeting at eight-thirty."

"I know."

…

At the same time, Xu Rongsheng, who had rested one night at the Ji Hotel, had already gotten up early and went downstairs to have breakfast with a friend he met at the Writers Association.

"This morning we are just chatting in the small conference room." Sun Jingchun from the Writers' Association accompanied him and said to Xu Rongsheng, "You can talk about the content of tomorrow's speech in advance, and we will discuss the details a little bit, and we will have free time in the afternoon.

, you can go to the West Lake to enjoy the scenery.”

When Xu Rongsheng heard what he said, he immediately raised his eyebrows: "Do you want to wait until tomorrow? Can't you see those online writers today?"

"Uh-huh, after all, we are from the Writers Association, and those who write online articles over there belong to the Internet Writers Association."

Sun Jingchun laughed and said, "You don't know that those who write online articles now are all young guys and girls with very stubborn tempers."

"During the process of organizing the Online Writers Association, I already had quarrels with many seniors in the Writers Association, and even the leaders dared to contradict me."

"We are also thinking about your reputation and experience, so we will have a small meeting in private today."

"The author of the online article also has a sharing meeting of his own to hold. We will not disturb each other on the first day. We will have another communication and exchange tomorrow."

After listening to what Sun Jingchun said, Xu Rongsheng came back to his senses, laughed repeatedly, and nodded to Sun Jingchun: "We are all friends, and you still tell me these official talk."

"Isn't it just that I'm afraid that the speech I prepared contains some rhetoric that criticizes online articles and will cause criticism and controversy among those young guys?"

"Haha, it's normal for you to have this worry, but there's definitely nothing wrong with me. You'll know after you read my manuscript later."

"If you say that, it must be the best thing." Sun Jingchun chuckled, "Anyway, just in case, some professors, scholars and writers who were invited to support the scene will be invited to have a small meeting first.

.”

The two of them confirmed today's entire process while having breakfast.

Around eight o'clock, Xu Rongsheng finished his breakfast, got up and followed Sun Jingchun out of the restaurant, heading towards the conference room prepared for them today.

It was at this time.

Just as Xu Rongsheng was about to enter the elevator, he noticed two people walking out of the elevator farthest from him.

Before he walked into the elevator, he glanced subconsciously and felt that the backs of the two people seemed inexplicably familiar.

But at this time, the elevator door had been closed. Xu Rongsheng had an incomprehensible expression. Sun Jingchun, who was standing beside him, noticed his strangeness and immediately asked with concern: "What's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing." Xu Rongsheng laughed and shook his head, "It must be my imagination. I always felt like I saw an acquaintance just now, but thinking about it, it shouldn't be the case."

Sun Jingchun didn't think much about it. He led Xu Rongsheng to the first floor of the hotel with a smile and walked towards the rented conference room next to it.

At the entrance of the restaurant on the second floor, Li Luo and Xu Youyu showed their room cards and were let in, holding plates and starting to select food.

After some cleaning, the two of them took their plates, found a seat by the window, and started eating, not knowing who they had just missed.

"By the way, your scholarship for this essay competition is a full 50,000 yuan!" Xu Youyu suddenly thought of this while eating breakfast, and suddenly looked envious, "This is worth all my manuscript fees in the past few months."

"Really?" Li Luo raised his eyebrows, and then said modestly, "But it seems to be less than a fraction of my last month's royalties, so it's not a lot."

Xu Youyu: "...?"

"Are you still a human? How could such cold words come out of your mouth?"

"Senior, why don't you ask me how much my royalties are?"

"Haha." Xu Youyu sneered, "Do you think I'm stupid? Besides, you stayed at the top of the best-seller list for so long last month, you'll know just by doing some calculations."

"Can you still estimate?"

"I read on the forum that the daily sales of the number one bestseller can be around 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, which means that the author has more than 10,000 yuan." Xu Youyu said with his fingers, "If I can stay at the top of the list, then

The monthly royalties are three to four hundred thousand."

"But you only stayed there for a few days at the beginning of the month, and then you fell off."

"You may not think that the top five and ten are all close together, but in fact the gap between each of the top ones is quite big."

"It is said that when you reach about tenth place, you will only have about 100,000 yuan left."

"You have been in the top ten for the last month, and you said that 50,000 is not even a fraction of your royalties, so it must be between 150,000 and 200,000."

Xu Youyu's analysis seemed very confident.

But Li Luo shook his finger and smiled slightly: "It's 370,000."

"Ah?" As soon as Xu Youyu heard this number, he stopped breathing for an instant and felt his brain twitching.

"Three hundred and seventy thousand."

"I heard it. I was just surprised. You don't have to repeat it." Xu Youyu took a deep breath and tried to keep an expressionless expression on his face. "I really want to stab you to death with a fork. If I had known, I would have treated you to the barbecue last night."

.”

"It doesn't matter, I'll treat you to dinner these two days."

"Just two days?" Xu Youyu raised his eyebrows and said, "After I go back on the 9th, you have to continue to invite me! Otherwise, my wound will never heal!"

"Where did you get the wound?"

"Look." Xu Youyu opened the zipper of his down jacket, pulled the sweater collar and said to Li Luo.

"Look at it!" Li Luo quickly pulled up her down jacket, "You are sick, this is a restaurant! It's not in the room."

"Oh?" Xu Youyu looked at him with a half-smile, feeling like he had pulled back the game, "You mean, if you were in the room, you would have watched it?"

"What I mean is, don't pull off your clothes casually in public." Li Luo said with a dark face, "Don't misinterpret my meaning casually."

Ever since the exchange of vests last night, Xu Youyu has become more and more relaxed in front of him.

After all, it was Li Luo who discovered her deepest secret. After sharing the secret, Li Luo actually became the person with whom she had the closest relationship in private.

Although Xu Youyu himself was not aware of it, this was already revealed in the subconscious process of getting along with him.

…

After breakfast, Li Luo and Xu Youyu followed the signs inside the hotel and went all the way to the conference hall next door.

They had already signed in here yesterday, received an identity card, and were let in after showing it.

In the past year, almost all the authors who have joined the Qianjiang Provincial Internet Writers Association came here this time.

There were about a hundred participants, only about half of whom were locals, and the other half were bigwigs from other provinces who came to attend the meeting.

After all, Qianjiang Province was the first to take the initiative in this matter. The government took the lead in responding to the country's call for building new entertainment and new literature, and established the country's first provincial-level Internet Writers Association.

Internet writing has been developing for more than ten years now, from the primitive era to the current golden age step by step.

When the film and television copyrights of Internet articles worth tens of millions were sold one after another, the market suddenly realized that the market for Internet articles should not be underestimated.

If the authors who can sit in this conference hall at this moment are local, it can be said that their achievements are high or low.

The lowest ones are like Xu Youyu, who was lucky enough to attend the conference solely because of an essay submission.

As for those who can be invited from other provinces to attend the conference, they are all worth at least tens of millions.

Even though everyone here is a little shabby and dressed casually, the money earned from writing books is really a solid cash flow.

With millions of dollars in cash in hand, he is better off than many small business owners.

In such an atmosphere, as they were all young people, Li Luo and Xu Youyu were not particularly conspicuous.

Occasionally, several authors who had just met Li Luo yesterday came over to say hello, and Li Luo responded politely.

Especially since he has a memory palace in his body. As long as the person here is someone he has met before, he can call out the pen name and the corresponding work one by one.

There are many works that he has read, and he can even tell a few corresponding exciting plots, which makes many authors happy and happy, and they all have a good impression of Li Luo.

In contrast, Xu Youyu seemed to have no interest in this kind of social interaction, and just stayed quietly beside Li Luo without saying a word.

Li Luo also knew Xu Youyu's temper, and he would be cold-blooded with people he didn't know well.

It's not that she keeps people away, it's just that her social energy is limited.

So she just wants to use her energy on the people she cares about, and doesn't want to waste any energy on people she doesn't care about.

Fortunately, she was just a little Karami, and her performance was inconspicuous among this group of authors, so not many people cared about her.

At most, a few male authors would occasionally cast their gaze over and ask a few questions out of curiosity.

But after asking the people around me, especially the editor, I learned that the other person was a minor like Xianyan, so most people restrained their thoughts.
To be continued...