Chapter 234 Xixi: Why haven’t I heard of it?

"Yes, Senior invited us to review together."

"Who else? Zhao Rongjun, Qiao Xinyan, Xu Yinghuan..."

"Don't worry, I won't run around. I'll just stay in the house."

"Yeah, got it. I'll pay attention."

"OK, I'll be back on the 15th."

On the sofa in the living room, Li Luo hung up the phone and looked at Xu Youyu with a helpless sigh: "Now I have become a bad kid who tells lies."

"You could have just said you were going to review with me here." Xu Youyu rolled his eyes at him, narrowed his eyes and smirked, "Why did you have to bring up Zhao Rongjun and the others? What are you feeling guilty about?"

"It just makes the reason seem more legitimate."

"Really?" Xu Youyu laughed, "When you were on the phone with Xixi this morning, you told so many lies. I think you are quite skilled at it."

Li Luo: “…”

After being reminded by Xu Youyu, Li Luo felt a little embarrassed and actually fell into deep thought.

"what are you thinking?"

"Nothing." Li Luo scratched his head and suddenly thought of something.

Ever since he started writing novels, he has tried his best to avoid being known by others.

After all, what I wrote is more or less a bit shameful.

So, how was it exposed in the first place?

First, you are a minor and you need your guardian’s consent to sign a contract.

After chatting with Xu Youyu, he realized that he could just secretly take the household registration booklet from home and make a copy privately.

But he didn't think about it carefully at that time. Looking back now, this method doesn't really work.

Because his family's household registration booklet was usually locked in the safe by Li Guohong, Li Luo had no idea what the safe password was at this time.

Therefore, exposing this matter to my parents is definitely unavoidable.

The bad thing was that I forgot to remind my parents not to tell anyone about this.

As a result, my uncle's family also found out.

Afterwards, the song "Annual Rings" was accidentally written into the book. In order to respond to readers' doubts, Li Luo asked Yan Zhusheng to record the song and release it online.

As a result, Yan Zhusheng discovered the matter after being backstabbed by readers in the comment section of QQ Music.

As for Xu Youyu, it was even more outrageous.

It turned out that the editor gave her Chongran's QQ number, and Xu Youyu got Li Luo's QQ number from Ying Chanxi when school started.

The two QQ numbers were the same, which allowed Xu Youyu to see through Li Luo's true identity.

Later, as Yan Zhusheng's mother, Yuan Wanqing naturally learned about this because of their collaboration on the song "Annual Rings".

And Xu Youyu's father was unexpectedly invited to the Writers Association's symposium as a guest, where he ran head-on into Li Luo.

As Li Luo recalled this, he suddenly realized that many people around him seemed to already know that he was writing a book.

And to be honest, when an online article is not yet well written, other people will find it interesting and make fun of you when they read it.

It's really embarrassing.

But when his income from royalties reached 37 yuan a month, no one would look down on him for writing online articles anymore.

At most, it would be a little embarrassing after someone read the content of the novel.

However, even the prototypes of the two female protagonists, Yan Zhusheng and Xu Youyu, were known, so no matter how embarrassed other people made Li Luo, it wouldn't be that embarrassing.

Thinking of this, Li Luo lowered his head and pondered, and something came to his mind.

As for Ying Chanxi...should I not continue to hide it?
After all, among the people close to him, Ying Chanxi was the one who had been kept in the dark for the longest time.

In the past, I did not want others to know, so I concealed the truth indiscriminately.

But now, his fig leaf has been riddled with holes. One less Ying Chanxi won't make much difference, and one more her won't make much difference either.

Thinking of this, Li Luo immediately started to think about it, and decided to just tell her before the New Year.

There's no point in keeping it a secret any longer.

At worst, I'll just suffer another social failure. I'm used to it anyway.

And...in my hometown, the Li family and the Ying family are neighbors.

Since my uncle's family all knew that I wrote a book, I might have leaked it to myself while eating melon seeds and chatting with my neighbors during the New Year.

If that's the case, it would be better for you to confess yourself.

Otherwise, Li Luo couldn't imagine how angry Ying Chanxi would be.

Li Luo thought about her bad temper and decided that it would be better for her to surrender herself.

"Why do I feel like you are ready to die bravely?" Xu Youyu, who was standing aside, licked a small pudding in his mouth and looked at Li Luo with a puzzled look on his face.

"How can you understand the turmoil in my heart?" Li Luo said seriously with a straight face.

"How would I understand if you don't tell me?" Xu Youyu rolled his eyes at him.

"Let's not talk about this anymore." Li Luo waved his hand and stood up from the sofa. "Although what I told my family about reviewing was fake, the writing is real. I'm going back to my room to write first."

"and many more!"

"what happened?"

"Bring your laptop out, and we'll write together in the living room."

"Why do you have to use a laptop when you have a desktop computer?"

"Then maybe I can go to your bedroom with my notebook? Mainly because I feel more motivated to write next to you."

"Are you motivated?" Li Luo's mouth twitched. "You just want to collect materials anytime and anywhere, right?"

"Ahem... this is also part of the reason." Xu Youyu avoided his gaze a little guilty, "Come on, come on, I can also let you collect materials."

"I haven't written any stories about Jiang Mingyue recently."

"Really? Is it Shen Dongdong or Mo Qinghan?" Xu Youyu said with a smile, "Whether it's Xixi or Zhusheng, I can play them~"

When Li Luo heard this, his face immediately turned black: "What the hell are you talking about? Hurry up and get your computer. Stop being so irrelevant."

After saying that, Li Luo took out the notebook that Yan Zhusheng had lent him from his schoolbag and placed it on the desk in the living room.

Upon seeing this, Xu Youyu happily took out her notebook from her bag in the bedroom and happily sat down next to Li Luo.

After plugging in the charging cable, Li Luo went back into the house, took out the mechanical keyboard that Xu Youyu had given him, and took it to the living room to plug in his laptop.

Xu Youyu followed suit and took out her red keyboard of the same model.

As the lights on the keyboards came on, the two keyboards suddenly flashed the same frequency of light, but one was red and the other was blue, which was very distinctive. "OK, come on!" Xu Youyu waved his hand and shouted very imposingly, "Let's compare and see who wrote more this afternoon!"

"How dare you compete with me in this?" Li Luo looked at her sideways.

"I haven't finished yet." Xu Youyu quickly added, "For the final result, multiply the number of words I typed by 5 and then compare it with yours!"

"You are quite self-aware." Li Luo rolled his eyes at her, "You know that even if you win three or four times, you may not win me, right?"

The two of them chatted and laughed for a while, and soon started typing.

As the mechanical keyboard crackled in the living room, Li Luo tapped away at the keyboard quickly with the Memory Palace running at full speed.

Xu Youyu sat cross-legged on a chair, rocking his body back and forth to find the feeling. Once inspiration came, he would immediately pick up the keyboard and write a paragraph. If he got stuck, he would continue rocking.

When he couldn't come up with any inspiration, he would stand up and walk around the desk. Occasionally, he would go behind Li Luo and tease him under the pretext of collecting materials.

Sometimes it would really give her some inspiration, and she would immediately run to her seat and start typing.

An afternoon passed quickly like this.

At around four o'clock, Xu Youyu stretched and looked at the more than 3,000 words displayed on his typing page, and immediately showed a satisfied expression.

"Call it a day! Let's go buy some groceries!"

After hearing this loud announcement, Xu Youyu moved closer to Li Luo to take a look.

When she saw that this guy had typed more than 17,000 words today, she was stunned.

"Are you a horse or a human?!"

"If you're not good at it, practice more." Li Luo stood up calmly, picked up his down jacket and scarf from the sofa, and said to Xu Youyu, "Let's go. Didn't we say we were going to buy some groceries?"

"You are really outrageous." Xu Youyu was still a little bit unbelieving. He picked up Li Luo's mouse and moved the screen up and down to confirm that he really wrote so much and it was not just typed out randomly.

She originally thought that she had made great progress since she had written more than 3,000 words in two or three hours in the afternoon.

Unexpectedly, Li Luo would be so amazing.

This is about 6,000 words in an hour, right?

Li Luo looked at her stunned expression and laughed a little, then secretly rubbed his wrist.

For him, the normal speed is about three to four thousand words per hour.

This time, writing 6,000 words in one hour was the result of the high-speed operation of the memory palace.

After stopping for this moment, Li Luo couldn't help rubbing his temples, feeling a little dizzy.

This is a side effect of the memory palace being overloaded.

At night, I definitely can't work as hard as I did in the afternoon.

"Even if I multiply you by 5, you still have less than me." Li Luo kindly reminded Xu Youyu, "Senior, is there any punishment for the loser?"

"Um...didn't I say that? Then why don't we just forget about it?"

"It's okay. Help me with the cooking later. You will also wash the dishes after dinner." Li Luo said with a smile. "By the way, help me with the laundry tonight. Oh, and remember to clean the place."

"Do you think of me as a babysitter?" Xu Youyu glared at him unhappily.

"Are you willing to accept the loss, or do you want to change it?"

"Are there any other options?"

"Yes." Li Luo nodded, "You can also choose to be my maid. You have to obey me until the early morning."

"Ah~" Xu Youyu smiled ambiguously when he heard this, "So this is what you are planning, little brother? If you want, it's not impossible."

"Is it settled then?" Li Luo raised his eyebrows and laughed, "Then the kitchen help, washing dishes, doing laundry, sweeping and mopping will be handed over to our little maid."

When Xu Youyu heard this, he was immediately furious: "…Is there any difference between what you said before and after?!"

"Maid sounds better than nanny?"

"Get out of here!"

……

It’s about seven in the morning in Cleveland.

At the hotel entrance, Ying Zhicheng and Yuan Wanqing said goodbye.

"Spend more time with your daughter." Yuan Wanqing came close to him, stood on tiptoe, kissed him gently on the corner of his lips, then took two steps back, smiled and said, "I'll go back first."

"Yes." Ying Zhicheng took Yuan Wanqing's hand, hugged her back, and kissed her deeply for a long time before letting her go again. "I'll accompany my daughter for a few days, and then I'll come to find you."

"No problem." Yuan Wanqing waved at him and got into the car that her secretary came to pick her up.

Ying Zhicheng watched the car drive away from the hotel entrance before he withdrew his gaze, turned back to the hotel, walked all the way to the door of Ying Chanxi's room, and knocked gently.

Soon, Ying Chanxi ran to the door and opened it.

"Xixi, it's time for breakfast." Ying Zhicheng walked into the room and saw his daughter holding a phone and chatting with someone.

Ying Chanxi nodded at him, and then said to the other end of the phone: "Let's not talk about it for now. Play less games and go to bed early. I'm going to have breakfast first."

"Yeah, bye~"

Seeing his daughter smiling sweetly, Ying Zhicheng coughed twice. After she hung up the phone, he couldn't help but ask, "Li Luo?"

"Yeah." Ying Chanxi put on his shoes and followed Ying Zhicheng out of the room, "Let's go, Dad."

"Has he finished the symposium?" Ying Zhicheng thought of the topic he talked about with Yuan Wanqing last night. He thought that since her daughter knew about Li Luo's book, he guessed Xixi also knew about it.

He usually works all the time and rarely spends time with Ying Chanxi, so they have little topics to talk about.

Seeing that Ying Chanxi had just finished a phone call with Li Luo, he subconsciously found an excuse to start chatting with his daughter.

But after hearing what his father said, Ying Chanxi was confused and asked curiously, "What symposium? Dad, what are you talking about?"

Seeing her reaction, Ying Zhicheng burst out laughing: "You acted really well. You did such a good job of keeping Li Luo's secret?"

"You don't know that the song he wrote, 'Annual Rings', for Yuan Wanqing to sing, was produced by our company."

"So I knew he was writing a novel before, and you don't have to keep it a secret for him."

As soon as these words came out, Ying Chanxi stopped immediately and looked at Ying Zhicheng with a confused look on his face.

"What, what happened?" Ying Zhicheng panicked when he saw her expression, "Um...Xixi you..."

"Dad, can you say what you just said again?" Ying Chanxi blinked, then smiled slightly and asked with his head tilted.

"It's just... about Li Luo writing songs and novels, what's wrong?"

"I know he can write songs, but what about 'Annual Rings'?" Ying Chanxi pursed his lips. "And about his novel, why haven't I heard of it?"

After hearing what Ying Chanxi said, Ying Zhicheng was also a little confused.

So, Li Luo, you have let other people know about it, but you still kept it secret from your daughter Xixi?
(End of this chapter)