Chapter 428 Isn’t there something fishy about this photo?
The dinner ended around seven o'clock.

From 7 o'clock in the evening until 7:30, people will enter the venue one after another.

Li Luo, who was wearing a gray suit, wiped the corner of his mouth, and then followed Qianzhou, together with Xu Youyu, who was wearing a blue and pink evening gown, and walked towards Conference Room No. 1 on the third floor.

"Remember to sign on the signature wall later." Qianzhou said to Li Luo and Xu Youyu, "Your seats are No. 16 and No. 17 in the third row. There are serial numbers on the backs of the seats."

"There's a nameplate with the pen name on the small table next to the chair. You can tell at a glance."

"I'll be in in a moment, you guys go to your seats."

"Okay." Li Luo nodded in understanding and followed Qianzhou to the third floor, near the door of Conference Room No. 1.

As a staff member, Qianzhou didn't need to sign on the signature wall. He just lowered his head and walked under the camera and hurried into the conference room.

Except for him, all the editors who were able to come to Qiongzhou City to attend the annual meeting this time were editor-in-chief and above.

After entering, he could just sit on a small stool in the corner and stay beside his editor-in-chief.

When Hongdou, the editor-in-chief of the urban group, saw Qianzhou coming in, she whispered, "Where is Chongran?"

"He's signing autographs outside." Qianzhou responded quietly, then glanced at the several large cameras in the conference room and asked curiously, "Do we need so many cameras to record our annual meeting?"

"This time it's a live broadcast." Hongdou looked at Qianzhou in surprise, and then suddenly realized, "It was just decided a week ago. Since only the editor-in-chief will come, we were only notified. I forgot to tell you."

"Ah?!" Qianzhou was stunned when he heard this, "Why do we have to broadcast our annual meeting live?"

"We invited several celebrities this time." Hongdou whispered, "They are all those who have cooperated with our IP adaptation drama. The live broadcast they requested is mainly for their fans to watch, and has nothing to do with us."

"Oh." After hearing this, Qianzhou understood a little, and then asked, "Where are we broadcasting live?"

"Penguin Live is the main one, and there are also Douyu and Huya." Hongdou said, "Those large cameras are all used for live broadcasts."

After Qianzhou understood the situation, he thought for a moment, then took out his cell phone and sent a message to Li Luo.

At this time, Li Luo and Xu Youyu were walking towards the signature wall while Qianzhou was talking to the editor-in-chief.

Xu Youyu took Li Luo's arm and walked with him to the place on the autograph wall where the cover of "I'm Really Not a Star" was printed.

Afterwards, the two took the pens from the staff, and Li Luo directly wrote his pen name "Rekindle" on the cover of "I'm Really Not a Star".

Seeing this, Xu Youyu also raised his hand with a smile and wrote the five words "Go to bed early and you will grow taller" under Li Luo's pen name. Then he drew a heart and circled the two pen names inside.

Seeing Xu Youyu's somewhat childish behavior, Li Luo smiled and returned the pen to the staff member.

Then, at the signal of the staff, the two turned around and looked at the camera. After taking a few photos, they walked straight into the conference hall and found their seats in the third row.

There are more than 200 authors invited to attend the annual meeting.

There are more than thirty sofa chairs arranged in a row, for a total of seven rows of seats.

Li Luo and Xu Youyu's seats were in the front middle, and they had a good view of the stage.

"This chair is so spacious." Xu Youyu had never been here in the afternoon, and it was the first time he saw the sofa chairs on site. After sitting down, he sighed, "I thought they were seats like those in movie theaters."

"The scene is indeed different." Li Luo glanced at the free fruits on the table, picked up a grape and put it in his mouth.

Xu Youyu, who was standing by, glanced at the small table between the two of them and sighed slightly, "It's a bit far away."

Hearing this, Li Luo immediately glanced at her and said, "Senior sister, do you still want to do something bad at the annual meeting?"

"How can it be called a bad thing?" Xu Youyu snorted, then reached out to Li Luo and held his hand. "It's okay to just hold hands. It's not convenient with the table in the way."

"Just be honest at the annual meeting."

"What does it matter?" Xu Youyu said, "It's dark under the stage, no one will pay attention."

Li Luo smiled and played with the little hand that Xu Youyu handed over. Then he took out his cell phone with his other hand and casually flipped through the messages.

Then he was stunned for a moment and quickly let go of Xu Youyu's hand.

"What's wrong with you?" Xu Youyu turned his head in confusion and saw that Li Luo's face looked strange.

"Senior sister..."

"Ok?"

"There's bad news."

"What's the matter?" Xu Youyu said with a smile, "As long as the fact that I came to attend the annual meeting is not exposed, everything else is not bad news."

"If that's the case... then it's not too bad for now." Li Luo curled his lips, "But it's trending towards the worst."

When Xu Youyu heard this, his heart skipped a beat and he couldn't help asking, "What's going on? Tell me."

"Tonight's annual meeting will be broadcast live." Li Luo pointed to several cameras not far away and whispered to Xu Youyu.

Upon hearing this, Xu Youyu's whole body froze and he subconsciously looked towards the camera over there.

When she saw the camera lens sweeping across the audience, she immediately lowered her head, raised her hands to cover her face, and then asked anxiously, "What's going on? Didn't they say there was no live broadcast?"

"It is said that the decision was made temporarily a week ago, and Qianzhou has not been informed yet." Li Luo had a strange look on his face. After reading the message sent by Qianzhou on his mobile phone, he told Xu Youyu everything.

to be frank.

Li Luo is not so afraid of being exposed now. After all, people who shouldn't know basically know that he is writing a novel.

As for whether netizens know what he looks like, it doesn’t matter.

Li Luo, who had figured this out long ago, actually no longer cared much about such things.

But he doesn't care, but there are people around him who do care.

Seeing Xu Youyu's face full of anxiety and fear, trembling with fear, Li Luo quickly whispered to comfort him, "It's not a big deal."

"It's already being broadcast live, and it's not a big deal?!" Xu Youyu complained.

"This live broadcast is mainly for the fans of the celebrities invited. It has little to do with us." Li Luo analyzed and comforted, "Qidian didn't even do any publicity. The readers of the book probably don't know about it at all."

"Think about it, who would come to a company's annual meeting? Wenyue Group is not a star company, not many people pay attention to it."

"Not to mention that we were in the live studio and could see us sitting in the audience at a glance."

After listening to Li Luo's analysis, Xu Youyu felt a little relieved and thought it made sense.

After all, she is also a reader. If the annual meeting live broadcast was not promoted on the Qidian APP, she would most likely not know about it.

And even if she was really notified of the live broadcast, she probably wouldn't bother to click on it.

Even if it’s okay! If you really click in to watch the live broadcast, you’re actually there for those long-established platinum stars.

At best, look at this year's new superstars like Li Luo.

As for the author with 10,000 subscriptions?
Although this achievement is already quite impressive in the industry, for readers, it is probably not necessary for them to stare at the live broadcast room just to see an author with 10,000 subscribers.

After thinking all this through in his mind, Xu Youyu finally felt relieved, but he still rested his elbows on the armrests of the sofa chair and covered most of his face with his palms.

All in all, it is better to be safe than sorry.

As long as she kept covering her face with her hands, even if a caring reader saw it, the most they could do was confirm that she was a woman.

Although the fact that "going to bed early will make you taller" turned out to be a girl should be quite exciting, it is definitely better than Xu Youyu revealing his true identity.

If her classmates at school knew about this and read the novel she wrote... when Xu Youyu thought of that situation, she wished she could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.

If her parents knew about this... Xu Youyu didn't even dare to think about this situation. She felt that if such a thing really happened, she would never dare to go home in her life.

Various thoughts emerged in Xu Youyu's mind, and as time passed, when everyone entered the conference hall and took their seats, the annual meeting officially began.

The specific annual meeting process was a bit boring for Li Luo and even more torturous for Xu Youyu.

From the host's opening remarks, to the president's introduction of the company's performance data for 2015, to the editor-in-chief taking the stage to announce the achievements of various popular works.

Around eight o'clock, the president came on stage again and officially announced more than 20 new great authors and eight platinum authors of Wenyue Group this year.

On the big screen behind the stage, the pen names and portraits of more than 30 authors were instantly displayed. As the youngest among them, Li Luo naturally attracted most of the attention.

Of course, being young is only one reason. The other reason is that… most online writers sit for long periods of time, so they are fat and have round heads.

In the photo of Li Luo, he looked very energetic, with clear facial features and very handsome, just like a wolf cub jumping out from a group of huskies.

The painting style seems a bit out of place.

Just when Li Luo was invited to the stage to speak as one of the great representatives.

Xu Youyu also quietly took out his mobile phone, searched for the live broadcast room of Wenyue Group's annual meeting on the live broadcast platform, and took a look at the situation inside.

[I haven’t heard of many of them]

【Who are these? 】

[Damn! So young!]

[Fuck, is this a rekindling?! ]

[Didn't I say before that he was a high school student? Why are you so surprised? ]

[High school students are high school students, but it’s too much for this guy to be so handsome! 】

[I am dying of laughter. If you don’t know, you might think it was some young idol invited by Qidian.]

[Okay, okay, no wonder Yuan Wanqing's daughter fell in love with this guy, damn it! ]

Xu Youyu was watching the barrage in the live broadcast room.

In fact, most of the comments above are from fans of celebrities urging and questioning why their brothers haven’t come out yet.

Apart from this, Xu Youyu could barely find those comments about Li Luo from the vast army of comments.

Seeing this situation, Xu Youyu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that even Li Luo's popularity had been severely suppressed, so she no longer had to worry about anyone noticing a small fry like her.

But what Xu Youyu didn't know was that far away in Bihai Lanting, Yinjiang District, Yuhang City, Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng were sitting at the desk in the master bedroom, turning on the computer in Li Luo's room, and watching the live broadcast of the annual meeting.

"Zhusheng." Ying Chanxi turned his head and looked at Yan Zhusheng, "How did you know that there would be a live broadcast tonight?"

"Qidian sent a notification on Weibo." Yan Zhusheng blinked and said, "I saw it. What about you, Xixi?"

"Me, me too."

As Ying Chanxi said this, he quietly took out his mobile phone and took a look at the situation in the QQ group without Yan Zhusheng being able to see.

【Zhang Guohuang】：（Screenshot）
[Zhang Guohuang]: Look what good stuff I found?

[Ren Zheng]: Huh? Live broadcast of the annual meeting?

[Hua Xiu Xiu]: What is this Wenyue Group?
[Zhang Guohuang]: The website where the squad leader writes his novel is owned by this company.

[Lin Yuan]: Other people’s annual meetings, what does that have to do with us?
[Zhang Guohuang]: How stupid! There must be a squad leader inside!
[Zhang Guohuang]: They said that they would announce this year’s new top names. Your class monitor had such great performance last year, and was ranked among the top few on the website. How could he not be rated as a top name?

[Fang Chen]: But this is nothing, what’s so exciting about it?

[Ren Zheng]: Indeed, the squad leader has become a complete jerk now, and his material is totally uninteresting.

[Zhang Guohuang]: The class monitor has gone, but you guys don’t even think about whether Senior Sister Xu will go too?

[Ren Zheng]: Hmm? Is it possible?

[Zhang Guohuang]: Have you not read your senior’s books recently?

[Hua Xiu Xiu]: I haven’t finished watching it yet.

[Zhu Yufei]: I have been keeping it for a long time, but the updates are too slow, even slower than the class monitor. He has been taking leave frequently recently. I'd better wait until it is finished before reading it.

[Ren Zheng]: What does this have to do with her update?
[Zhang Guohuang]: She sent in her request for leave yesterday.

【Zhang Guohuang】：（Screenshot）
[Zhang Guohuang]: You can see for yourself. As long as our initial guess is correct and the one who went to bed early is Senior Sister Xu, then Senior Sister Xu must be at the annual meeting now!
[Ren Zheng]: I have already opened the live broadcast software! Look, look!

Ying Chanxi glanced at the content in the QQ group, then glanced at Yan Zhusheng, feeling a little suspicious.

When the screen in the live broadcast room changed, it turned to the audience seats and the camera was aimed at Li Luo who had just stood up from his seat.

Almost everyone's eyes followed Li Luo.

But Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng immediately fixed their eyes on the girl in a pink and blue dress sitting next to Li Luo.

Even though the other person covered most of his face with his hands, given their familiarity with Xu Youyu, they could tell at a glance that the other person was indeed Xu Youyu.

Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng looked at each other subconsciously, and both thought that the other didn't notice, so they remained silent.

Yan Zhusheng simply said, "Li Luo looks good in a suit."

"Yeah." Ying Chanxi nodded.

“Next time we shoot a MV, we can let him wear a suit for the shoot,” Yan Zhusheng suggested.

This suggestion made Ying Chanxi's eyes light up, and he nodded repeatedly: "This is fine."

After saying this, a corresponding picture appeared in Ying Chanxi's mind, and he immediately became excited.

At this moment, when the previous scene flashed by, the QQ group instantly became lively.

[Ren Zheng]: Did you see that scene just now?

[Hua Xiu Xiu]: I think I saw it. Is that Senior Xu?
[Zhu Yufei]: Your face is covered, so you can’t see it.

[Zhang Guohuang]: I took a screenshot.

【Zhang Guohuang】：（Screenshot）
[Zhang Guohuang]: Look at the sign on the table with my pen name on it: Go to bed early to make you taller!
[Ren Zheng]: It’s true!
[Lin Yuan]: Are your hand speeds so fast?

[Zhang Guohuang]: Haha, when the host said he was going to announce the list of great names, I was already preparing.

[Fang Chen]: You are worthy of being here. It would be a waste of your talent if you don’t become a paparazzi.

[Hua Xiuxiu]: He is no different from a paparazzi now.

[Jiang Liuxian]: By the way...didn’t you see the photos that Qi Dian posted on Weibo?

[Zhang Guohuang]: What photos?
[Jiang Liuxian]: It was sent just a few minutes ago. I just saw the group message and took a look. I found that there were new things posted there. There seemed to be a photo of Senior Sister Xu in it.

[Zhang Guohuang]: Hmm?! I’ll go check it out!
……

Opposite Jincheng Community, in an office renovated from a breakfast shop.

Lin Xiuhong is learning how to use a computer and looking for places to have fun in Qiongzhou City.

Li Guohong was driven to the store entrance to smoke.

Li Luo's uncle, Li Guoru, made a pot of tea in the office and sat in front of the computer flipping through papers casually.

It was not until he went through the routine work of checking the Weibo accounts related to Li Luo and saw that the official account of Qidian had released the news of the annual meeting live broadcast that he immediately called Li Guohong into the room and opened the live broadcast room on Lin Xiuhong's computer.

"What is this?" Lin Xiuhong asked curiously.

Li Guohong also came over to take a look, and heard Li Guoru say: "The annual meeting your son attended was live broadcast, and we can watch the situation on the spot directly online in due course."

"Oh, we can watch it too?" Lin Xiuhong looked at the camera in the live broadcast room, "Where is Li Luo?"

"He's sitting in the audience, so the camera can't see him for now." As Li Guohong said this, he saw the list of new greats being announced on stage. His eyes lit up immediately, "Look, it's your son's turn!"

"It seems there are also photos of Li Luo." After watching Li Luo's speech on stage, Li Guoru returned to another computer, scrolled through Weibo, and said to the two of them.

"No, no?" Lin Xiuhong hurried over and looked at Li Guoru's computer.

Li Guohong also followed over.

The couple took a closer look and saw a man and a woman standing in front of the autograph wall. They immediately cried out in surprise, their faces filled with shock.

"This……"

“Isn’t this fishing?”

(End of this chapter)