Chapter 219 Showdown
On the way to the barbecue restaurant, Qianzhou felt that the atmosphere around him was very solemn.

On the left side is Li Luo, who sighs from time to time.

This guy's book "I'm Really Not a Celebrity" earned him 37 yuan in royalties last month, and he is only 16 years old.

On the right side, there was Xu Youyu, who had an expressionless face and turned his head to look at the street scene on the right.

Her work "The Age of Literature and Art" has the literary and artistic flavor of the literary and artistic circle at the beginning of the century. She is one of the few treasure authors under Qianzhou who has achieved the level of a masterpiece.

Moreover, this girl is only less than 17 years old and looks exceptionally beautiful, no less beautiful than the girl named Yan Zhusheng whom Qianzhou met before when he was with Li Luo.

Whenever he thought of this, Qianzhou felt dazed and felt that this world was really magical.

The most important thing is that these two people seem to know each other, and judging from the situation, they are probably acquaintances.

Otherwise, everyone wouldn’t have reacted so strongly after the identity was revealed.

"So what is your relationship?" Qianzhou asked curiously, "Are you relatives? Or classmates?"

"Obviously she's from the same school." Li Luo laughed, "Didn't you hear me calling her senior?"

"Shut up!" Xu Youyu gritted his teeth and said, "If you say one more word, I will kill you!"

"Qianzhou is an editor, not an outsider, so he knows it if he knows it." Li Luo said helplessly.

"It's all because the editor didn't explain it clearly!" Xu Youyu couldn't help but feel annoyed when he thought of this. "I didn't think so much. If I had known you would come, I would never have come!"

"You didn't ask that either." Qianzhou was embarrassed. "And I thought you two were quite familiar with each other online. You even visited each other's comment section, so you must have a good relationship. You may have communicated and understood each other privately a long time ago."

"How could I possibly tell anyone about attending an offline symposium?" Xu Youyu said unhappily, "It's all the editor's fault anyway."

"Indeed." Li Luo nodded in agreement, all the people pointing the finger of blame at the editor.

"Okay, okay." Qianzhou was too lazy to argue with the two kids. "Okay, my question is, I didn't explain it clearly. I'll treat you to the barbecue tonight."

"That's not necessary." Xu Youyu grumbled and whispered, "I said it was my treat."

"Why are you being so polite to her?" Li Luo teased, "Don't look at her young age, she has also written stories about male and female protagonists at home... um..."

"Shut up, you bastard!"

As soon as Xu Youyu heard Li Luo's words, he knew what this bastard was going to say. He immediately crossed Qianzhou and covered Li Luo's mouth tightly from behind.

This posture is somewhat ambiguous.

Li Luo only felt his back being pressed hard, and he couldn't tell whether it was a punishment or a reward.

Seeing this, Qianzhou coughed twice and reminded them, "I'm following your two books, so you don't have to react so strongly to going to bed early."

"Girls mature earlier. I understand. You don't have to be so shy."

"We are all online writers, so don't make fun of each other. Look at Li Luo, there are three female protagonists in the book, and each of them... um..."

When he said this, Qianzhou paused for a moment, not knowing what he was thinking of. He looked at Li Luo, then at Xu Youyu, and thinking of the title of "senior" from Li Luo's mouth, he looked a little strange for a moment.

At this time, Xu Youyu had already let go of Li Luo and returned to Qianzhou, drawing a clear line between himself and this guy Li Luo.

Qianzhou asked in a low voice: "Li Luo, the heroine in your book, the one named Jiang Mingyue..."

"Haha." Xu Youyu snorted coldly, crossed his chest and said, "I can tell at a glance that it was copied from me. She's a senior, has big breasts, is greedy, likes to sleep late, and..."

Listening to what Qianzhou and Xu Youyu said, Li Luo's face suddenly darkened, but then he heard Xu Youyu talk about the characteristics of the heroine like a treasure, and immediately said coldly, "You know your own shortcomings very clearly."

"Besides, didn't you write about it in the book?"

"The male lead is one year younger than the female lead. He is also very good at cooking, playing guitar, and occasionally writing songs. Also..."

"You!" Xu Youyu's eyes were wide open and his face flushed red. He was about to pounce on Li Luo again and tell him to shut up.

But Li Luo had anticipated this. He dodged sideways and circled Qianzhou to avoid the attack, performing the Qin King's move around the pillar, and managed to prevent Xu Youyu from catching him.

Qianzhou looked at the two funny little authors in silence. They made him feel like he was taking care of a child.

It was so noisy. Those who knew him clearly knew that he was working as an editor, while those who didn't thought he was just taking his children out shopping.

"Okay, okay, we're at the barbecue restaurant." Qianzhou stopped and pointed at the barbecue restaurant on the side of the road, "Do you want to eat?"

Xu Youyu stopped what he was doing, snorted heavily, and walked into the barbecue restaurant first with angry steps.

Li Luo followed Qianzhou into the store and found a table to sit down.

Qianzhou and Li Luo sat side by side, while Xu Youyu sat opposite Li Luo.

After taking the menu, Xu Youyu quickly ordered the barbecue. Finally, he waved his hand and said to the waiter, "Give me a case of beer."

"Ah?" The only adult present was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but whispered, "Drinking is not good, right?"

"What's wrong with that?" Xu Youyu looked at Qianzhou in surprise, "Editor, you're not capable, are you?"

"What does it have to do with me?" Qianzhou's face darkened. "You two are underage, okay? Why are you drinking outside?!"

"You're not my parents, why bother me?" Xu Youyu waved his hand. "Li Luo and I drank at home. It's okay."

"At home?" Qianzhou was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding what she meant. "What do you mean at home?"

"Well... we lived together when we were in school." Li Luo explained in a low voice, "My house is relatively large, and we have two rooms for rent. She happened to rent one of them. She is my tenant and I am her landlord."

Qianzhou: "...How complicated is your relationship?"

Originally, Qianzhou thought that they were simply classmates from the same school, and at most they were familiar with each other in school.

So you two are still living under the same roof, right? You're both secretly writing novels without telling each other, and neither of you knows the situation.

How could such a coincidence happen in the world?

What’s even more outrageous is that these two guys are actually his authors.

Qianzhou was shocked and looked at Xu Youyu, then at Li Luo. He couldn't help but whispered in Li Luo's ear, "You two weren't really in love before, were you? Then what's your relationship with Yuan Wanqing's daughter?"

"Brother, what on earth are you thinking about?" Li Luo was speechless when he heard the question he asked, "They and I are all friends. It's not as complicated as you think."

"What do you mean by them?" Xu Youyu asked suspiciously, "What are you two talking about secretly?"

"Nothing." Qianzhou shook his head, "Just talking about the heroine in his book."

"Oh, this." Xu Youyu talked about this and laughed, "There's more than just me in his book. Mo Qinghan is Zhu Sheng and Shen Dongdong is Xixi, right? He really knows how to choose materials."

After hearing what Xu Youyu said, Li Luo was immediately furious: "Novels are purely fictional, please don't relate them to reality. You are just thinking too much."

"Humph." Xu Youyu didn't believe his lies. "You fantasize about the three of us in your books all day long, and I don't even bother to say anything to you. Do you dare to say that when you were writing that kind of content, you never thought about the image of us in your mind?"

Xu Youyu is still the same Xu Youyu, and he never beats around the bush when speaking.

Li Luo was choked by her question and hesitant for a while, saying that the material was not real, the novel was fictional, and he was in the flow of writing, so why would he think so much... He blurted out all kinds of words, but in the end, he couldn't say anything meaningful.

The three of them were chatting, and soon, the barbecue was served on the table and a box of beer was also in place.

Watching Xu Youyu pry open the beer cap very skillfully, Qianzhou fell into deep thought for a moment, wondering how much alcohol this girl usually drinks.

The action of opening the lid is more skillful than his.

However, at this time, Li Luo and Xu Youyu talked about the fake meeting incident again, and the final responsibility fell on Qianzhou.

"It's all the editor's fault. His own authors came to the symposium, but he didn't make it clear who else would come."

"Indeed, the essay contest results are out, but they haven't announced who the other winners are."

The two of them sang the same tune and put all the blame on Qianzhou.

But soon, Qianzhou realized something was wrong.

When he figured out a logical bug here, he couldn't help but say, "That's not right."

"It stands to reason that neither of you knows that the other is writing a novel."

"Then even if I told you guys that Rekindle or Sleep Early would come to the symposium, you two wouldn't know who the other person really is."

"Won't we still have to meet in person to know who is the real person under the vest?"

"So what does this have to do with me? It's obviously inevitable!"

After hearing what Qianzhou said, Li Luo and Xu Youyu looked at each other and were stunned for a moment.

After thinking about it, it seems to be true.

But Xu Youyu sneered and shook his head: "You don't know this, right? In fact, I already knew that Chongran was him, but I just pretended not to know."

"What the hell?!"

As soon as these words came out, Li Luo jumped up from his seat in shock. He pointed at Xu Youyu with trembling fingers, looking incredulous, "You, you...when did you know that?"

Seeing Li Luo's unbelievable expression, Xu Youyu finally felt a little happy. He laughed proudly and boasted to him: "I knew it a long time ago."

"I knew it since you first moved in."

"I still remember the first time you cooked, Xixi, Zhao Rongjun and I were waiting in the living room."

"When we were chatting, I asked them to add each other on QQ, and asked for your QQ number, thinking of adding you as well."

"Guess what?"

"Your QQ number is the same as the one my editor gave me for rekindling my QQ account!"

"What a coincidence."

"In fact, I guessed at that time that it was you who rekindled it."

After hearing this, Li Luo felt a little unwell.

So he had been hiding it for so long, and Xu Youyu actually already knew everything?
Thinking of this, Li Luo wanted to say that he had known for a long time that Xu Youyu would grow taller if he went to bed early.

But on second thought, after all, this was information he gained through his rebirth, and it was a bit difficult to explain. After thinking it over, he chose not to show it off.

So Li Luo could only put on a gloomy face and accept Xu Youyu's face-to-face ridicule.

Only Qianzhou standing aside was speechless: "So you already knew it, but you pretended not to know."

"What do you mean by pretending?" Xu Youyu's eyes widened. "If I expose him, wouldn't that expose my own identity? I'm not that stupid!"

"Well, now we all know it anyway." Qianzhou said helplessly, "It's an online article, everyone knows what it's about, there's nothing to be ashamed of if we talk about it openly, you two should also be more open-minded."

"It's so easy for you to say it." Li Luo chuckled twice.

"That's right." Xu Youyu agreed, clinking glasses with Qianzhou, "Editor, drink! If I don't get you drunk today, I won't be named Xu!"

"Damn! We have a meeting tomorrow, let's drink less."

(End of this chapter)