Chapter 26: What is Chivalry?
Although when he came to his senses, the dark passage wondered why the sky didn't say so many books, and he hadn't even noticed it himself, but he just discovered this one. However, he didn't get entangled in this matter, perhaps the name of the work "Book Sword Enmity Record" attracted him. Giving himself a somewhat reasonable reason, Li Zhi Cheng clicked on this work.
150,000 words, 9 million clicks.
"Are you kidding me? The data is so intense?"
Seeing such data, Li Zhi Cheng secretly cursed, no wonder this book can rush into the click-through rate chart.
Just by looking at the author's introduction, it is clear that this is another newcomer. Generally speaking, even if a newcomer's work is going to explode, it won't happen at 150,000 words, but only after accumulating to a certain degree, around 2-3 million words, will they show their edge. But this work, in such a short period of time, has already attracted so many people.
And below that, there is a large pile of people discussing and arguing about the plot of the whole story.
If it were just some casual discussion posts, Li Zhi Cheng might not have paid attention. However, after he casually clicked on a few posts, he discovered that these discussion posts were one more professional than the other, and one more awesome than the other. Just like this post about writing Book and Sword Enchanting Hatred Record, it may have started another type of post, written very professionally.
Li Zhi Cheng's heart skipped a beat, he didn't continue browsing the posts, he thought to himself for a moment.
Chapter 1 doesn't look very good, although the writing is not bad, but the specific plot has not been developed, and the main character is not visible. This makes Li Zhi Cheng a little disappointed. In his opinion, the way of writing in recent years has changed greatly. Many works now need to explain the beginning, introduce the protagonist, and introduce the background from the start.
But in the first chapter of The Book and the Sword, who the protagonist is and what the background is are equally unclear.
If it were in the past, Li Zhi Cheng wouldn't have looked at this kind of book again.
Sanlian Publishing House is just a small publishing house and cannot publish any book casually. When they decide to publish certain books, they will carefully select and confirm that they will not lose money before deciding to sign the contract. Although this operation mode once made Sanlian Publishing House unable to expand, with limited strength, they can only do so.
After all, not every publishing house can forcibly promote some works like a global publishing giant.
Even if these works are poorly written, they can still be sold through commercial operations.
But Sanlian Bookstore is not allowed.
However, faced with such a terrifying data, Li Zhi Cheng still decided to continue reading. He knew that some classic works were often laid out for a long time. Without this layout, it wouldn't be too strong. Although many don't follow this approach now, I think this work can get such high popularity, there must be something extraordinary about it.
He focused his attention on the book again, and after finishing the second chapter, Li Zhi felt that this book was written quite well. Although it still didn't reveal many highlights, at least the writing style was good, and the storytelling level was passable. Furthermore, the author's writing was rich and vivid, and the characters were well-portrayed, although they were just some minor characters, but still quite interesting.
Then, Li Zhi Cheng continued watching chapter 3.
Chapter 3, with Huo Qingtong and Chen Jialuo's appearance, it was a bright spot in front of everyone.
Not bad, not bad, the protagonist of the story has personality, can continue reading.
Slowly, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6... In one breath, Li Zhi Cheng read 50 chapters.
Only when I clicked on the next chapter did I realize that the author hadn't updated Chapter 51 yet.
At this time, Li Zhi Cheng was excited beyond words.
"Good book, indeed it's a classic good book."
Li Zhi Cheng is a businessman in the publishing industry, unlike ordinary readers. When he publishes books, he always analyzes the characteristics of a book, including the author's reputation, the target audience of the content, and the positioning of the entire work. He considers everything carefully. As a result, although some of these works have not become bestsellers, they are all profitable.
Similarly, after finishing reading "The Book and the Sword", he habitually started summarizing.
Firstly, this book inherits the characteristics of ancient chapter-style novels and has a very outstanding style.
In ancient times, this kind of thing was not a popular literary work. Some relatively famous writers would not write anything like it either. At the time, it was considered a lower-class art form and was not accepted by the upper class. So in ancient times, if you relied on writing to make a living, you'd probably starve to death.
However, even so, due to the high artistic value and the presence of a complete story, it can be accepted by the general public. It is still constantly developing, with the earliest works being in the chapter-division form. In this form, each chapter and each division has a relatively complete story. Also, because of the chapters, our earliest catalogues were formed.
The book of sword and book can be said to have a good inheritance of the characteristics of chapter-style novels.
The beginning, development, turning point and conclusion are all perfectly executed, like a masterfully crafted work of art that leaves one mesmerized and unable to look away.
However, if it simply inherits the characteristics of chapter-style storytelling, it is still not enough to make the audience infatuated.
Secondly, throughout the work, a strong aesthetic of violence is embodied.
Actually, violent aesthetics is a film term that refers to the use of violence to evoke feelings of shock, excitement, and so on. For example, action movies from China often use violence to create an exciting experience for the audience. Of course, violent aesthetics have been revered since ancient times.
After all, violence is man's primitive desire.
We can also see this in many classical works.
Like the legendary story of the 108 generals of Liangshan in Water Margin, a classic Chinese novel, many are related to violence.
Like Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song the Pilgrim, Yang Zhi the Blue-faced Beast... and so on, each one has stunning and extraordinary martial arts skills. However, it seems that Water Margin does not want to show off its violent aesthetics, at most only expressing the meaning of peasant resistance. But even so, when the good guys in it make some moves that are beyond human capabilities, it is still applause-worthy.
It can be said that many audiences are not watching Water Margin to see how it overthrows the Song Dynasty, but to watch each good fellow's violent performance.
It's a pity that after these works, some writers in the world seem to have paid little attention to violent aesthetics. Of course, even if there are observations, what they write about violent aesthetics is not enough to arouse people's interest. However, in "The Book and the Sword", the violent aesthetics are fully revealed.
All kinds of martial arts moves are endless, making people sigh in admiration, it's really satisfying.
Just for this point, "The Book and the Sword" is greatly pioneering.
He took this violence to the extreme, producing a kind of admiration, a feeling that people dream about. Just like, after reading 50 chapters, even Li Zhi Cheng would fantasize, if he were Chen Jia Luo, what would happen if he became a master? Especially when connected to real life, thinking, if I also had the protagonist's kung fu skills, who could contend with me in this world?
Moreover, this kung fu comes from reality and has its own theoretical foundation. Just like their martial arts system, there are different schools and factions, it's not fake at all. Unlike other urban supernatural powers, even if you imagine and imagine, you would think that this is impossible. Could you possibly have supernatural powers? But this kind of kung fu actually exists.
Especially for people in the Huaxia region, the worship of martial arts is even more fervent.
The Book and Sword: Gratitude and Revenge is a novel that depicts this kind of martial arts as being full of passion, with blood boiling.
Classic, it's truly classic.
It's no wonder that such a work can have incredible data at 150,000 words. Moreover, it seems that the incredible performance of "Book Sword Enmity Record" is only just beginning. Because when he finished reading chapter 50, he suddenly saw that the ranking of "Book Sword Enmity Record" had changed from its original 15th place to 12th place. In a short period of time, just over an hour, the data of "Book Sword" rose continuously, terrifying to the extreme.
Of course, this is just the second one.
Li Zhi Cheng wants to say is that the innovation of "Book and Sword" does not just stop at these two points.
Thirdly, "The Book and the Sword" has finally told us what a chivalrous person is.
Chivalrous words have actually existed since ancient times.
Many people seem to have dreamed of becoming a great hero since childhood.
However, people have always been unclear about what a chivalrous person is.
Is it like the "Three Heroes and Five Righteous Men" or is it like the assassin biography written by Sima Qian?
No one had defined it before then.
Perhaps everyone has a heroic spirit in their heart, but what is considered heroic varies from person to person.
However, "The Book and the Sword" fully expresses the spirit of chivalry.
What is chivalry?
When seeing injustice on the road, draw sword to help, this is chivalry.
One word is as good as a thousand ounces of gold; one promise is as good as a thousand pieces of jade. This is what it means to be a knight-errant.
To uphold justice on behalf of Heaven and extend righteousness is what a chivalrous person does.
The chivalrous spirit of thousands of years seems to have been unified at this moment.
This chivalrous spirit embodies justice, fairness, righteousness and pursuit.
It turns out that our hero is like this.
It's just that we never knew.
But when "The Book and the Sword" was written, the chivalric spirit in our hearts truly burst out.
No wonder, some people after reading this book, for several days and nights, were excited and unable to calm down.
No wonder, someone read this book and rewarded 10 million Tiankong coins.
No wonder, just 150,000 words can enter the site's click ranking and quickly rise.
Such a book must be signed and published.
This was Li Zhi Cheng's fleeting thought, he believed that once such a book is published, it will inevitably cause a global sensation.
This innovation will also be reflected in other films and comics, and even change many people's minds.
The scale is so large that even Li Zhi Cheng did not expect it.
Just as Li Zhi Cheng was about to sign this work, even at all costs, he suddenly turned pale. He knew that if things were normal, such a classic work would have been snatched up by other major publishing groups long ago.
Like "Xin Sheng Book Club", he stared at Tianya's click-through rate every day, and as soon as a good book appeared, he immediately signed it away.
I've only just discovered this work, but it's already too late.
However, Li Zhi Cheng still did not give up, perhaps there was still room for a turnaround.
Maybe others haven't discovered the innovation of this work yet?
Maybe even if they find out, they won't think this kind of innovation is a big deal anyway.
A strong desire drove Li Zhi Cheng to join the PP group of "The Book and the Sword" in order to get in touch with the author.
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