Chapter 221 Xu Rongsheng's Amazing Discovery
February 2th was the first day that the symposium officially began.

After being awakened by the alarm clock, Li Luo got up from the bed, washed, and dressed, and sent a message to his senior schoolmate in the middle of the process.

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

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

Xu Youyu, with disheveled hair and lifeless eyes, glanced at Li Luo, mumbling something.

"Get up, go downstairs for breakfast." Li Luo pushed the door open and walked in. He held Xu Youyu's shoulders, pushed her into the bathroom, turned on the faucet, dipped some water, and tapped her on the forehead.

When touched by the cold water, Xu Youyu shuddered all over and woke up instantly.

"You go out, I can wash it myself."

"Hurry up, it's almost eight o'clock." Li Luo reminded, "We still have to go have breakfast, the meeting starts at 8:30."

"Know it."

……

At the same time, Xu Rongsheng, who had rested for a night at the Four Seasons Hotel, got up early and went downstairs to have breakfast with a friend he met at the Writers Association.

"We will have a chat in the small conference room this morning." Sun Jingchun from the Writers Association accompanied him and said to Xu Rongsheng, "You can tell us in advance what you are going to say tomorrow, and we can discuss the details. In the afternoon, you can have free time and go to the West Lake to collect folk songs."

Xu Rongsheng raised his eyebrows when he heard him say that: "Do we have to wait until tomorrow to talk about it? I can't meet those online writers today?"

"Oh, haha. After all, we are from the Writers Association. Those who write online novels over there belong to the Online Writers Association."

Sun Jingchun smiled and said, "You don't know that the people who write online articles nowadays are all young men and women with very stubborn tempers."

"When I was preparing to set up the online writers' association, I had already had arguments with many of the senior members of the association, and even dared to contradict the leaders."

"We are also considering your reputation and experience, so let's have a private meeting today."

"The online writers will also have their own sharing session. Let's not disturb each other on the first day. We can communicate and exchange ideas tomorrow."

After listening to what Sun Jingchun said, Xu Rongsheng came to his senses. He laughed repeatedly and pointed at Sun Jingchun with his finger: "We are all friends, why are you still speaking these official words to me?"

"You're just worried that the speech I prepared might contain some criticism of the online article, and that it might cause criticism and debate among those guys, right?"

"Haha, it's normal for you to worry about this, but there will definitely be no problem on my side. You will know after reading my manuscript."

"If you say so, then it couldn't be better." Sun Jingchun laughed, "Anyway, just in case, some professors, scholars and writers who were invited to support the event will be pulled over for a small meeting first."

While eating breakfast, the two of them confirmed the entire schedule for today.

At about eight o'clock, Xu Rongsheng finished his breakfast, got up, followed Sun Jingchun out of the restaurant, and walked towards the meeting room prepared for them today.

It was at this time.

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

Before he walked into the elevator, he took a subconscious glance and felt that the backs of the two people were inexplicably familiar.

But the elevator door was already closed. Xu Rongsheng had an inexplicable expression. Sun Jingchun noticed his abnormality and asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing." Xu Rongsheng laughed and shook his head. "It must be my illusion. I felt like I saw someone I know just now, but now I think it's not me."

Sun Jingchun didn't think much about it. He smiled and took Xu Rongsheng to the first floor of the hotel and walked towards the rented meeting room next to it.

At the entrance of the restaurant on the second floor, Li Luo and Xu Youyu were allowed in after showing their room cards. They held their plates and began to choose food.

After a quick search, the two of them took their plates, found a seat by the window, sat down, and started eating, completely unaware of who they had just missed.

"Speaking of which, the prize money for your essay contest this time is a full 50,000!" Xu Youyu was eating breakfast when he suddenly thought of this and immediately looked envious, "This is equivalent to all the royalties I have earned in the past few months."

"Really?" Li Luo raised his eyebrows, then said modestly, "But this doesn't seem to be as much as the fraction of my royalties last month, so it's not a lot."

Xu Youyu: “……?”

"Are you still human? You can actually say such cold words."

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

"Haha." Xu Youyu sneered, "Do you think I'm stupid? Besides, you've been at the top of the bestseller list for so long last month, you can figure it out if you do a little calculation."

“Can you estimate?”

"I saw on the forum that the daily sales of the best-selling book at the top of the list is about 20,000 to 30,000, which means the author gets more than 10,000 yuan." Xu Youyu said, counting on his fingers, "If it can stay at the top of the list, the monthly royalties will be 300,000 to 400,000 yuan."

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

“Although the top five and top ten are all close together, in fact, the gap between each of the top ones is quite large.”

“It is said that by the time the tenth person is around, there are only about 100,000 left.”

"You were in the top ten last month, and you said fifty thousand is not even a fraction of your royalties, so it must be between one hundred and fifty thousand and two hundred thousand."

After Xu Youyu's analysis, he seemed very confident.

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

"Ah?" When Xu Youyu heard this number, he stopped breathing instantly and felt his head throbbing.

"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 a straight face. "I really want to stab you to death with a fork. If I had known, I would have let you treat me to the barbecue last night."

"It's okay. I'll treat you to dinner these two days."

"Just two days?" Xu Youyu raised his eyebrows and said, "After No. 9 returns, you have to continue to treat me! Otherwise, my wound will never heal!"

"Where did you get the wound?"

"Look." Xu Youyu unzipped his down jacket and said to Li Luo by the collar of his sweater.

"What the hell are you looking at!" Li Luo quickly pulled up her down jacket. "Are you sick? This is a restaurant! Not a room."

"Oh?" Feeling that he had turned the tables, Xu Youyu looked at him with a half-smile, "You mean, if we were in the room, you would have seen it?"

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

Ever since they exposed each other's identities 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 did not realize it, this point was already revealed subconsciously during the process of getting along with each other.

……

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

They had already signed in here yesterday and received an ID card. After showing it, they were allowed in.

In the past year, almost all the authors who joined the Qianjiang Province Online Writers Association came this time.

There were about a hundred participants, of whom only about half 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 lead in this matter. The government took the lead in responding to the country's call for building new entertainment and new literature, and set up the first provincial online writers' association in the country.

Online literature has been developing for more than ten years now, from its early grassroots days to its current golden age.

When online literature, film and television copyrights worth tens of millions of dollars were sold one after another, the market suddenly realized that the online literature market has become something that cannot be underestimated.

For the authors who are sitting in this conference hall at this moment, if they are local, it is not difficult to say, their performance will be high or low.

The lowest-ranking ones, like Xu Youyu, were only lucky enough to attend the conference because of a writing competition paper.

Anyone who was invited to attend the conference from other provinces was worth at least several million or tens of millions. Although everyone present seemed a little unkempt and dressed casually, the money they earned from writing books was real cash flow.

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

In such an atmosphere, with everyone being young, Li Luo and Xu Youyu were not particularly conspicuous.

Occasionally, a few authors who had just met Li Luo yesterday would come over to say hello, and Li Luo would respond politely.

Especially since he has a memory palace, he can call out the pen names and corresponding works of everyone present whom he has met before.

He has read many works and can even tell some wonderful plots of the corresponding works, which makes many authors happy and proud, and they all develop a good impression of Li Luo.

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

Li Luo also knew Xu Youyu's temper. He would be cold and aloof with people he was not familiar with.

It's not that she's keeping people at a distance, it's simply that her social energy is limited.

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

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

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

But after asking people around them, especially the editor, and learning that the other party was a minor like Chongran, most people stopped thinking about it.

It is really beautiful, but it is a bit inhumane to target minors.

Especially when seeing Xu Youyu and Chongran sitting together, many people had guesses in their minds and roughly guessed the relationship between the two.

Then I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.

Look at how great their lives were in high school, and then look at yourself.

It’s really worth comparing things.

…When the time reached half past eight, the morning sharing session officially began.

First, the members of the presidium of the Provincial Online Writers Association came on stage to deliver a speech, and then representatives of writers from various websites shared their experiences.

After completing the morning process, three hours passed quickly and it was already 11:30 in the afternoon.

Li Luo felt drowsy after listening to this.

Xu Youyu, who was standing next to him, simply fell asleep on the table.

Li Luo looked around and found that many authors were checking their phones, and some who were too introverted even brought their notebooks with them to write.

The main reason why everyone came to attend the conference was to join in the fun and expand their network. No one would really come here to learn any skills.

If you really need it, chatting with the boss in private will definitely be more effective than in this formal occasion.

After the meeting, there was thunderous applause in the hall, which turned into an alarm clock and woke up the sleeping Xu Youyu.

Li Luo patted Xu Youyu's shoulder and said with a smile, "It's time for lunch, senior sister. Let's go. get out of class is over."

"Is it finally over?" Xu Youyu yawned, stood up with Li Luo, and walked towards the exit of the conference hall.

"Zhongran, go to bed early!" Qianzhou rushed over from the hotel and shouted to the two of them.

Qianzhou is the editor-in-charge and not a member of the Writers Association. He just came along with the editor-in-chief Hongdou to join in the fun and to guide two underage authors.

He slept in the hotel all morning and came to see them at dinner time.

"Let's go and have dinner." Li Luo waved to Qianzhou, then looked at Xu Youyu, "Let's go to Yuhang Restaurant to try some. I treated the editor to a meal there yesterday, and it tasted pretty good. I'll take you to try it today."

The three of them traveled together and headed towards Yuhang Restaurant.

At this time, Xu Rongsheng just walked out of the small conference room next to the conference hall and was led by Sun Jingchun to a restaurant nearby.

When walking out of the conference room door, Xu Rongsheng subconsciously glanced at the three figures not far away and frowned slightly.

The previous sense of déjà vu suddenly came to my mind, and I saw the back that seemed a little familiar before.

But soon, the figure disappeared around the corner of the street, leaving Xu Rongsheng very confused.

Does he have any acquaintances around here?

Not impressed.

And looking at that figure from behind, why does it seem like she looks more and more like his daughter?

But shouldn’t Xu Youyu be in Yinjiang District? How could she appear in the city?
With this question in mind, Xu Rongsheng followed Sun Jingchun to the hotel and called Cui Suling on the way.

"Hello? Is there any fisherman at home?"

"Oh, you went back to Bi Hai Lan Ting yesterday?"

"Are you sure you're going back there? You went home for dinner yesterday, right?"

"Oh okay, I know."

"It's okay, just asking casually, just to show concern for my daughter."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Rongsheng put the matter behind him and went to have lunch with Sun Jingchun.

As a result, at 12:30 noon, after having a good meal and a few drinks, Xu Rongsheng and Sun Jingchun walked slowly back to the hotel, and they met again the figure that looked familiar to him before.

As he walked into the hotel lobby, he saw three figures at the elevator entrance from afar.

One of the figures was quite similar to his daughter.

So Xu Rongsheng quickly quickened his pace to confirm it.

Just at this moment the elevator door opened and the three figures walked into the elevator, but it was already too late.

But Xu Rongsheng suddenly stopped, watched the elevator door in front of him close, and fell into deep thought for a moment.

"Uh...what's wrong with you? You walk so fast one moment and then stop the next." Sun Jingchun on the side was a little confused and asked curiously.

"Well... nothing." Xu Rongsheng shook his head, still recalling the stunning glimpse just now.

That profile... To be honest, as a biological father, if I still don’t recognize him, I would be really incompetent.

But how did his daughter end up in this hotel?
And it was with the two men next to him... When Xu Rongsheng thought of this, he suddenly remembered.

The boy standing next to Xu Youyu just now, wasn’t he the classmate named Li Luo who came to their house last time?

How did they end up in a hotel in the city?!

A thought suddenly popped up in Xu Rongsheng's mind, which scared him and made his face look ugly.

My fists clenched instantly.

"Jingchun, can you do me a favor?"

"Ah? What's wrong?"

"I have an acquaintance who is at this hotel. Can you help me find out which room she is in?"

"Ah?" Sun Jingchun frowned upon hearing this. "It's hard to check, isn't it? After all, it's someone's privacy, the hotel may not tell you. If you want to know, just call your friend and ask."

Xu Rongsheng took a deep breath and stopped hiding it from him: "What if it's my daughter? Can I ask?"

"Ah?" Sun Jingchun was stunned and didn't react. Looking at Xu Rongsheng's serious expression, he realized that this matter didn't seem to be a joke. "Well... in this case, I'll go ask for you."

(End of this chapter)