The straight man in the entertainment circle

Lin Li went back to his room to sleep after watching the latest issue of "I am a Creator".

The next day, Lin Li returned to school and had two classes in the afternoon. He was putting on a mask and preparing to go home. Suddenly, a classmate said, "Look at Lou Junjie's Weibo. He is going to post a collection of poems in the next two days."

Students in the Chinese Department were already paying close attention to some of the published manuscripts. Although Lou Haojie's poems were not famous, he had gained a lot of popularity after all the trouble he had with Lin Li.

So Lou Junjie just posted on Weibo, and some classmates saw it.

"Damn it, this grandson still has the nerve to publish a collection of poems?"

“Is this publishing house blind?”

"This is Chaohua Publishing House, the same publishing house that published Lao Wai's poetry collection before, right?"

"This is the publishing house. Lao Wai's collection of poems hasn't sold many, but this company still dares to publish a collection of poems."

"The old crooked poems are not good, and they are not popular. After all, Lou Junjie is a serious poet and has two good poems."

"That's not bad. Didn't Lin Li compare them to shit last time?"

"This publishing house doesn't care about the quality, as long as it's popular. The popularity of Lao Wai that time is obviously incomparable to the popularity of Lou Junjie this time."

"That's right. Lao Wai's incident was just a matter in the poetry world. At most, the literary youth knew a little bit about it. This time, Lin Li's beating of Lou Junjie became a social news."

"This guy has also printed 50,000 copies. He is really not afraid of death!"

"It's better to lose them to death!"

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Lin Li listened to the discussions among his classmates and checked Lou Junjie's Weibo. He saw that he had posted a promotional Weibo two hours ago, saying that his poetry collection would be released in two days. He hoped that everyone would support it.

Originally, Lou Haojie only had 700,000 to 800,000 followers on Weibo, but that number has doubled now. However, this new group of people doesn't seem to be his fans, they just pay attention to when he posts on Weibo to scold him.

Most of the comments on Lou Haojie’s Weibo are mocking.

"Wow, Poet Lou is going to publish a collection of poems. I will definitely support it. I will buy it and see what the legendary shit is like."

"I'm going to take a look at it in the bookstore for free and not buy it. I'll piss you off to death."

"Haha, you guys are so bad, I like it so much!"

"Tsk, tsk, 50,000 copies, you really dare to print them. It's all the popularity that Lin Li brought to you. Do you really think your poems are so good?"

"One of my most proud poems was surpassed by Lin Li, and his body was completely damaged. If it were me, I would never dare to come out and embarrass myself."

"No, you must publish it, so that next time Lin Li will have more contrasting and good poems to come out. You have to throw the bricks."

"Everyone doesn't know that when Lou Haojie was young, he worked as a brick thrower."

"Hahaha, the world of poetry relies on these bricks thrown by them."

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Seeing that Lou Haojie was mostly ridiculing on Weibo, Lin Li was also quite pleased. In this society, there is no shortage of people with correct views. What is lacking is objective reporting by the media.

Lou Haojie and his Chaohua Publishing House obviously published the collection of poems so quickly to gain popularity. Lin Li checked the time and saw that it happened to be on the shelves at the same time as the collection of poems printed by Hua Li, and the number of prints was the same.

It seems that Chaohua Publishing House did this deliberately to hype up the topic and drive sales.

There is no way to adjust the time at Kyoto Publishing House, so even if you know that they are trying to take advantage of your popularity, there is nothing you can do.

Even for Kyoto Publishing House, this is not necessarily a bad thing. The poetry world has not seen such a confrontation for a long time. With this trend, the sales of Hua Li's poetry collection may be even higher.

Lou Haojie and other members of the Poetry Association were like dog-skin plasters, they had been riding on Lin Li's popularity, but now their reputation online has completely collapsed.

Although many people scolded Lin Li, there were more people who supported Lin Li. There were so many people supporting the attacker, which made it even more obvious that Lou Junjie and others felt sad.

Thinking of Lou Junjie, Lin Li still had a doubt in his mind, which was why he chose to forgive himself last week.

Lin Li has been thinking about this problem these days, but he just can't figure out the reason.

Tonight, the program "Dialogue" was broadcast.

Lin Li watched the TV, and sure enough, there were no pictures or questions about Lou Junjie for even a second. The whole show was quite inspirational, and there were some questions and answers, but they were all normal, such as how Hua Li created, the source of her inspiration, and cerebral palsy. Normal questions such as whether his illness will affect his creation are not of an accusatory nature like that of Lou Junjie.

After watching this show, Lin Li felt much better. Although this show is not a very famous show, because Lin Li made a fuss this time, at least this episode is still very interesting, and there will be many people watching it. .

Lin Li thought that Hua Li's story would surely inspire many people, and her poetry collection that would be released tomorrow would also be a big hit.

After watching the show, Lin Li posted a Weibo post to promote Hua Li's poetry collection that will be printed tomorrow.

There were more comments on Weibo all of a sudden.

"I just finished watching the program "Dialogue" and I was thinking that the boss would update his Weibo, and I actually happened upon him, haha."

"The show talks about Hua Li's growth, which is really touching."

"It can be seen in the show that although Hua Li is not very articulate, she thinks clearly and has the look of a poet."

"I watched the show by chance and was moved by Hua Li's story. I came here to thank Lin Li for saving her!"

"I will buy the poetry collection tomorrow."

"I will buy it too, at least two copies!"

“I’ve seen gorgeous poems, and they’re really good. It’s worth buying purely for the poems!”

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On Sunday, the poetry collections of Hua Li and Lou Haojie were put on the shelves at the same time, and many bookstores across the country even displayed banners.

Lou Junjie actively promoted the album, while Hua Li declined all interviews and book signings.

However, even so, on Monday morning, according to the sales statistics released by major bookstores, Gorgeous Poetry Collection ranked at the top of non-fiction books, while Lou Haojie's poetry collection was hard to find.

According to preliminary estimates, Hua Li's poetry collection sold 10,000 copies in one day on Sunday, while Lou Junjie's collection sold at most 2,000 copies. There is a huge gap.

The students at Yan University seemed to be gloating when chatting during class. After hearing this, Lin Li couldn't help but go to Lou Haojie's Weibo to read the comments.

"We only sold so much on the first day. Fifty thousand copies will have to be sold until the end of the Year of the Monkey."

"Everyone is too real. No one really buys it."

"It's so miserable. Poet Lou worked very hard yesterday, but he only sold so much. Look at her Huali, she can sell more than you even sitting at home."

"I would say Lin Li's appeal is stronger. He has tens of millions of fans on Weibo. Let's promote it. Poet Lou broke his leg when he ran away and didn't have that much publicity."

"Poet Lou, you have to take advantage of other people's popularity and publish with them. You were already doing well by selling more than a thousand copies of your poetry collection in a day, but you have to publish with others. Well, now it's embarrassing."

"To be fair, Lou Junjie's poems were quite good before. Unfortunately, now that Lin Li and Hua Li are here, after reading their poems and then looking at Lou Junjie's poems, it's really a bit tasteless."

"Why does it have no smell? I would say it smells very strong, just like the old lady's footcloth."

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Lou Haojie had a tooth knocked out by Lin Li before, and later he swallowed his anger and forgave Lin Li. He was already depressed. He was looking forward to yesterday's autograph signing event, but in the end, no one came at all except those arranged by the organizer, which made him even more depressed. He was so angry, and now that he saw netizens being so sarcastic, he couldn't stand it anymore.

Lou Junjie took out his mobile phone, found the video he had secretly recorded on the "Dialogue" program group, and posted it anonymously on the Internet.

Aren’t your poetry collections selling well, Hua Li?

Aren't you comparing me to others?

I will let everyone see your true face. How can you still write good poems like this?

Who would believe that it is not a joint hype?

As long as netizens believe that Hua Li's poems were not written by her, and that Hua Li's stories are all fabricated, then the public opinion will definitely turn to her side, and when the time comes, she will be the one who sells the poetry collection.

Thinking of this, Lou Haojie smiled proudly.