Chapter 52: You said it wasn't Ming Lei?

  Hai Dian Book City

  "Xiao Yan, open the door a bit earlier, the manager said that there is a famous author coming to Haida Bookstore for a book signing event today."

  In the staff dormitory of Hai Da Book City, an employee named Ah Hong said to another employee, Xiao Yan.

  "Oh no, it's not Ming Lei again, is it?"

  "This one, it seems like it is, but it's not very clear."

  "Alright, I'll get up now."

  Xiao Yan's words were biased towards the writer Ming Lei.

  To be honest, the staff of these bookstores deal with authors every day and are not particularly interested in some celebrity authors. On the contrary, they put on a big show. Of course, this is fine if they really have something to offer. However, during Xiaoyan's year of work, she found that most well-known authors were just pretending to be signing books nine out of ten times.

  The purpose of this show is nothing more than to promote their work on a larger scale, in order to achieve good sales. In the eyes of this person named Xiao Yan, what kind of writer is this? Obviously it's a star, all relying on packaging. If not relying on packaging, I estimate they can't even sell 10,000 copies.

  But anyway, these writers are their bread and butter. Without the works of these authors, their books would be harder to sell. So, despite some complaints, Xiaoyan had no choice but to get out of bed quickly.

  After more than ten minutes, Xiaoyan and Ah Hong arrived at Haida Book City.

  "Unbelievable, so many people."

  When the two of them arrived near Haidian Book City, all they saw was a sea of black, all of whom were people.

  These people, either standing or squatting, surrounded the Haidian Book City in a way that was impossible to get through.

  I didn't know what was going on and thought something had happened at Haidian Book City.

  "My goodness, what are these people doing? Are they all fans of Ming Lei?"

  How is this possible?

  In the past, Ming Lei's fans were at most three or four hundred people, and among these three or four hundred people, half of them were fake. Now here, from head to toe, from street corners to street heads, all are human shadows. Although I don't know exactly how many people there are this time, a rough estimate is that there are at least three or four thousand people.

  Suddenly, three or four thousand people, and I don't know if the entire Haidian Book City can hold them. Xiaoyan and Ah Hong quickly squeezed to the front, because there were too many people here, no way, so they loudly said, "Make way, make way, the door is about to open."

  The staff of Hai Da Bookstore came to open the door. The people next to them took a small step back and gave way.

  "Wow, you guys are crazy, is Ming Lei's book really that good?"

  Xiao Yan opened the door while saying to the fans surrounding her.

  She also read Ming Lei's works, but found that they were all books for little kids to read, without any ideas or meaning. Moreover, they were all written about high school love stories, which was simply corrupting children. Sometimes Xiaoyan wondered, if it weren't for the psychological confusion of adolescence, who would still buy Ming Lei's books?

  The person next to him, however, was somewhat puzzled and replied, "What's Ming Lei?"

  But then someone picked up the conversation and said, "Are you talking about the writer Ming Lei?"

  "You don't know."

  Xiao Yan was sweating profusely.

  It seems that this time they have gone too far, inviting all sorts of people, even the authors' names are unknown.

  If something goes wrong and a scene is made, it will be terrible.

  Shaking her head, Xiaoyan didn't ask any more questions and opened the door, letting them go.

  In her heart, she despised Ming Lei once again, and didn't know if Ming Lei had gone crazy. You want to make the signing ceremony more exciting, we understand that. But no matter how exciting it is, there's no need to invite a few thousand people to be draggers.

  "What did that girl say?"

  Others felt that the girl who spoke at Haidian Book City just now was somewhat inexplicably strange.

  "He said, 'Is Ming Lei's book really this good?'"

  "Looks good to me."

  Someone immediately began to curse.

  "They're all just scamming kids out of their money, and yet they still come here every day to show off."

  "Yeah, I've been wanting to scold that guy for a long time."

  As soon as Ming Lei is mentioned, some friends get angry and directly attack him.

  It wasn't until then that a bright and elegant girl calmly said, "Yes, everyone, let's be more dignified. Whether Ming Lei's book is good or not, we shouldn't make any comments. We should give our captain a good impression later."

  "Whatever the team leader says goes, we follow the team leader's lead."

  This team leader is not a team leader of any army, but a team leader of fan club.

  At the last internet registration for the book signing event at Haida Book City, the response was overwhelming and many people had already signed up. When the final count surprisingly exceeded 4,000 friends, they were almost stunned speechless. Therefore, in order to unify management and avoid causing trouble for others, a team leader was finally elected.

  This girl is the leader of the fan group, with the surname Lu and the name Feiqing, a native of Yanjing, studying at Yanjing Medical University.

  "That's right, yes, remember for a while, if the captain comes over, we have to shout our slogan."

  "Haha, don't worry, Captain, we guarantee to cheer even louder and shock the whole audience."

  A group of fans were excited beyond measure.

  They also didn't know that several thousand brothers would come, which is simply a miracle. Especially last night, several thousand people were densely packed and suddenly asked where to eat, and then a group of police followed over. Ah, you say what's the point of following over, it goes without saying, these several thousand people gathered together are doing something, and they're organized too. You're not afraid, the police are even more afraid. What if something goes wrong, who will be responsible? Fortunately, they were all first-class good guys, seeing the police follow over was also a happy event for them.

  At least they used to cause a stir.

  Fortunately, the Haidian Book City is very large, with a total of five floors, and just the first floor alone has over 9,000 square meters. However, despite this, several thousand people entering at once still makes the entire floor extremely crowded. It seems they arrived a bit early, as it's only a little past 7 o'clock now, and there's still some time before the normal 8:30 start of work, so many friends started chatting casually.

  Of course, they mostly talked about the book "The Book and the Sword", as well as its impact on later generations.

  "Excuse me, are you here for Ming Lei's new book signing event?"

  At some point, a journalist friend suddenly started interviewing people in the crowd.

  This journalist friend just received a message saying that the Hai Da Bookstore was crowded today, with several thousand people coming. After inquiring, she finally knew that it was because Ming Lei, a popular author, had released a new book. Originally, as a news reporter like her, she wouldn't usually go to interview literary news. There are specialized people responsible for this. But thinking about the thousands of people who came, she saw some signs.

  No matter if such news is literary news or not, it's already remarkable that thousands of fans would travel from afar to attend. Even more so, having thousands of fans specially come to cheer on an author at a book signing event is treatment worthy of a superstar. If that's the case, she might as well go to the frontline to interview this literary star who has been active in recent years and see if they've really produced a masterpiece.

  And so, this reporter got up early today, wanting to get a scoop on the latest news.

  As expected, it's just past seven o'clock, but lovely fans have already arrived.

  "Wow, what a magnificent view, so many people."

  It's been a long time since I've seen the entire Haidian Book City fully packed.

  Three or four thousand people rushed in all at once, how can it be underestimated?

  Everywhere I look, there are people's shadows, such a scale, it's just like some star holding a concert.

  It was just that when she had her first interview, it was a bit unexpected for her.

  "Who is Ming Lai, I don't know."

  The friend shook his head directly.

  "Alright, I'll leave you alone."

  It seems that this friend is here to buy books, not a fan of Ming Lei. However, she also has a crush on him, and the probability of meeting him in person is one in thousands, but unfortunately, she was unlucky enough to run into him.

  "Excuse me, do you know the name of Ming Lei's new book?"

  Turned around and interviewed another person.

  "This beauty, you ask me, I ask who?"

  The answer still left her somewhat perplexed.

  "It seems they're in cahoots with each other, have to find another place to ask."

  The beautiful reporter comforted herself and walked to the other end, asking, "Excuse me, are you here for Ming Lei's book signing event?"

  "What?!"

  It might be too noisy and he didn't hear clearly.

  "Excuse me, are you here for Ming Lei's new book signing event?"

  "Ah, still can't hear."

  Helpless, the beautiful reporter could only ask loudly again, "I'm saying, are you here..."

  This time, the beautiful female journalist's voice was very loud, and it wasn't just him, several people around her also heard it.

  Unfortunately, after the beautiful female journalist finished speaking, she received a lot of booing from her friends.

  "Cut, why did we come to attend Ming Lei's new book launch?"

  It's really strange.

  These fans are confused, at first someone said "Ming Lei" "Ming Lei", now why is someone saying Ming Lei again?

  They were obviously here to attend the new book launch of "The Book and Sword Grudge", Ming Lei and they knew each other, but basically ignored him.

  "Oh, it's not you guys?"

  Seeing everyone's negative reaction, the beautiful female journalist's face was a bit embarrassed.

  "Of course not."

  "What did you come here for?"

  This time, it was actually making the beautiful female journalist curious.

  Since these three to four thousand people are not here for Ming Lei's book signing, is some company organizing an event? However, it's hard to mobilize three to four thousand people all at once. Moreover, why have they all gathered at the Haidian Book City? Is today Earth Day or something? But wait, isn't Earth Day in October? How can there be so many people here today?

  "Let me say it."

  At this time, Lu Feiqing, the leader of the Book and Sword Grudge Record fan group, stepped forward. "Hello, I am the leader of the Book and Sword Grudge Record fan group, as well as the Monday Fan Group. May I ask, what do you need to interview about?"

  "Huh? What's 'The Record of Book and Sword Enmity', and who is Zhou Yifan?"

  "The Book and the Sword is a highly innovative martial arts novel, which can be said to have pioneered a generation of martial arts style masters, and Zhou Yifan is the author of The Book and the Sword. In other words, we are here today to attend Zhou Yifan's new book signing ceremony. Of course, the more than 3,000 people here are all members of our fan club..."

  "No way."

  The beautiful reporter Zhang's mouth was agape, she couldn't believe it no matter what.

  It was agreed that Minglai would come, why did you change to someone else?

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