☆ MV Chapter 14

Title: Simply cannot do anything to it

Translator: Xiaoxi

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After arguing with her online boyfriend as well as the big cry, Chu Li became calmer…within her conversation with L Jun, she realised that there was a problem: She could not, on her own initiative, allow handing over the editing of [Book of the God Luohe] to anyone else. Even if it was Zhou Chuan’s own person was not acceptable.

 

Chu Li studied Chinese literature, which is why when she was in university, she normally helped her teacher with temporary work, such as taking over the proofreading work of the publishing house. While working and interacting with the editors, she frequently used the opportunity to listen to the editors’ diss writers, sometimes to avoid trouble, these Dada liked to use a phrase “Whatever” to reply——

 

Editor: Laoshi, on the cover, what type of style should we use, ah? Do you have a design style you like?

 

Writer: Whatever.

 

Editor: Laoshi, this character seems a little unnecessary. The Editor in Chief laoshi thinks that deleting this part of the text will make it more compact and complete. Why don’t you have a look to see if we can delete this…..

 

Writer: Who is this person? I wrote it? Delete it, delete it, whatever.

 

….now.

 

At this time, those sons of a bitch writers’ attitudes towards their works were not as conscientious as you would think. It was to the extent that it would surprise people into slamming their palm onto a desk… and if this actually became reality—

 

[Yu Yao: Zhou Chuan laoshi ah, our editorial department was fighting over the editing allocations of your book [Book of the God Luohe] until the chickens flew and the dogs jumped [footnote] Chinese saying which basically implies chaos [/footnote]. Since this issue concerns the editor of your book, why don’t you say if you want the main editor to be Chu Li or Lao Miao….]

 

[Zhou Chuan: Who is Chu Li? Whatever.] 

 

Chu Li: “………………………..”

 

Thinking back to the lack of responsibility to the cover art, Chu Li started a cold war, within her mind emerged the scene of Zhou Chuan saying that “Jian Niang Niang’s type of person isn’t worthy of washing my feet”, with brows lightly raised on his thin cool face…..she felt more and more that there was an 80% chance of such a terrible conversation happening.

 

Chu Li decided she would not sit and wait; she would take the initiative in making an attack.

 

She opened Q, she squinted lightly and looked around, within her good friends list she found A’Xiang…….

 

[Monkey Invited Water Army: A’Xiang, thanks for telling me today! QAQ Next Monday I’ll treat you to eat something really nice!]

 

Chu Li waited for a while. A’Xiang’s side replied, two simple words–

 

[Flying Elephant: No need :D]

 

Chu Li thought for a while, not understanding why A’Xiang, who was obviously on good terms with Xiao Niao, would help her today; she also didn’t dare ask directly either. Rather, she sent a kneeling on the ground to express her thanks, after thinking she added another sentence—

 

[Monkey Invited Water Army: The editing rights to this book, I will snatch it back. If it is possible, I hope that I could be the main editor for this book… this is just too important to me, Lao Miao’s act of assigning all the work to Xiao Niao has made me very angry.]

 

A’Xiang thought deeply for a while, and she only started typing after a while.

 

[Flying Elephant: …..She.]

 

[Flying Elephant: Before you came, she did a book where the branch helped proofread an emergency; she did a pretty bad job. At that time, the Editor in Chief even started swearing; it was like the first edit had not been done at all.]

 

Chu Li’s eyes brightened,

 

[Monkey Invited Water Army: Ai! No way, students who major in Chinese Language and Literature will take the initiative to do similar work if they have an interest in this area….they all have experience, ah!]

 

[Flying Elephant: Haiz, she also isn’t.]

 

[Flying Elephant: She studied accounting, ba, hehe, I don’t know the workers in Human Resources assigned her to work in the editorial department.]

At this time, Chu Li didn’t know what A’Xiang was trying to say; she only knew what she should say……

 

[Monkey Invited Water Army: Alright, I know now! Thanks, ah! Really, really!]

 

[Flying Elephant: Ai, I didn’t say anything. Why are you thanking me hahaha :D]

 

[Flying Elephant: Then treat me to drinks next Monday! After joining the editorial department for so long, it has always been me treating others; there hasn’t been anyone treating me yet.]

 

Drinks?

 

You won’t eat food right, then I’ll buy you a whole box, my good friend!

 

After closing the chat with A’Xiang, Chu Li started making her move. Firstly, she gathered up all the proofreading work she had done previously and drew a form, willing herself to look taller, the books that were of cultural literature put at the top of the list; then, maintaining this expression, she grabbed her phone, opened up WeChat, cleared her throat, and left a voice message for Head Editor Yu Yao—

 

Chu Li: “Editor in Chief, I’m sorry for disturbing you to talk to you about work on a holiday night. It’s just that I have thought seriously, the job of being the main editor of the Book of the God Luohe isn’t something that I can give up…. At the time of signing the contract, I had promised Zhou Chuan that I would do a good job; that’s why I really cannot be assigned elsewhere.”

 

Chu Li: “Editor in Chief, I don’t know why, as an accounting major graduate, what aspect of her university major would give her such an advantage that it can make Lao Miao choose her unconditionally. However, I have studied Chinese literature for four years, ever since my university days, and I have dreamed of being an editor in order to help the writers I like produce books. That’s why, in the process of doing initial edits, I have done many of these types of jobs. Regarding the books that I have done, I have sent them to your email; they have all said that I did them quickly and did them well…”

 

Chu Li: “Even those professional books I have been able to edit. At times, there was some information that required diagrams, and I even went to the library, and I wasn’t annoyed. That’s why I could definitely do Zhou Chuan’s book well. I can even promise that I can do it better than Lao Miao. Three days! Give me three days, and I can have finished the initial edit! If you could nod your head, I will go straight to the office tomorrow to get the copy and start this weekend.”

 

Chu Li: “Chief editor, just take it as me begging you. Please give me an opportunity, I don’t want my favourite author to think that I and the magazine department are a bunch of cake drawing liars.”

 

Pa pa pa, four long voice messages were sent out. Chu Li clutched the phone in her hand, her palm sweating. She stared at the screen in a daze for a long time, when she thought that Yu Yao didn’t see her messages and got ready to recall the messages…..

 

In WeChat, Yu Yao’s name had “Currently typing” behind it.

Chu Li’s heart seemed to have revived.

 

The thing was that it took forever before Yu Yao’s simple reply came through.

 

[Yu Yao: I know, rest early, good night.]

 

Chu Li stared at the message for a long time, her whole body passed out on the bed, and she let out a long breath: at least she tried.

 

Lying on the bed, Chu Li conveniently opened up her WeChat moments [footnote] TN:  Basically kind of like Instagram, where you can see posts [/footnote], picking out a post by Xiao Niao: a Korean male lead photo with the subtitle: hahahaha Dou Mijun is super handsome! Here is a star for you, so good looking! I must go and catch up on the drama episodes this weekend! Yeah!

 

Chu Li: “….”

 

Chu Li rolled her eyes.

 

She opened another person’s Moments and scrolled down to Lao Miao’s.

 

This guys one wasn’t full of Korean fangirling, but there was a screenshot of 30 minutes of a conversation—

 

[Zhou Chuan: Free tomorrow?]

 

[Miao Miao: Yes! Did Zhou Chuan laoshi want to meet? That’s great, I had something that I needed to talk to you about!]

 

[Zhou Chuan: Ok, office then.]

 

[Miao Miao: Come on, why so serious, why don’t we go to the South Road which has a newly opened cat cafe!]

 

[Zhou Chuan: Office.]

 

Below the picture there was subtitle: I have an appointment with Zhou Chuan Laoshi ❤❤❤

 

Chu Li: “……”

 

Chu Li rolled her eyes, she had already seen eight to ten posts. Maybe it’s visible for certain groups, but it seemed that the group only had Chu Li in it! Ai, that’s great, at the best time Zhou Chuan sent himself up to Lao Miao’s pillow talking…..

 

Sure enough this person cannot be relied on!

 

Chu Li directly took a screenshot of the moment’s post, then sent the screenshot of Lao Miao’s message history to L Jun —-

 

[Monkey Invited Water Army: Look!]

 

[Disappearing L Jun: Look at what?]

 

[Monkey Invited Water Army: Are you that magpie that flew down from that unlucky tree. What was it again? Before you had just said that Zhou Chuan wouldn’t agree to the Deputy Editor being the main editor for this, now they have already arranged to have coffee together already!]

 

[Disappearing L Jun: Are you blind, aren’t they going to the office?]

 

[Monkey Invited Water Army: Is there a difference! They are meeting each other in private! I still thought that Zhou Chuan didn’t like Lao Miao! This was because of your jade mouthful of poisonous milk which has allowed them to meet in secret! Ah, damn magpie, pei pei!] [footnote] TN: Magpie/Mapie mouth is basically where you jinx someone [/footnote] 

 

[Disappearing L Jun: Pei Pei you head, Zhou Chuan’s tone is quite distant right?]

 

[Monkey Invited Water Army: This doesn’t matter, he’s secretly meeting Lao Miao!]

 

[Disappearing L Jun: Ok ok ok he took the initiative to meet him, I’ve been angered so bad that you want to call 120, go away.]

 

[Monkey Invited Water Army: How have I angered you to death?]

 

[Disappearing L Jun: ……..]

 

After dissipating the annoyance at L Jun’s flat tone, she closed the Q app. She went to have a shower bearing an uneasy heart….having a shower approximately half an hour later, she blow dried her hair before crawling into bed. After laying down she started scrolling through Weibo, as a result a new post from half an hour early by Zhou Chuan appeared—

 

[Zhou Chuan: I encountered an unreasonable white eyed wolf today, but nevertheless I could not do anything about it. I can only sulk on my own…no update today, let me be angry for a while.]

 

Chu L: “Wah.”

 

What foolish grandson has made Zhou Chuan so angry that he hasn’t updated, but yet still cannot do anything to?

 

Chu Li opened up the commenting interface, the regular comments of “Great one, don’t be angry”, “omg who made my normally well tempered Chuan so angry”, “why am I stuck in Weibo feeling like Soviet Germany is killing me, if this was written to my girlfriend I would be done for”….

 

Chu Li read up to “Soviet German is killing me” and felt the hairs on her arms rising. Suddenly she found a comment that said: [Making you mad isn’t easy since great one is such a gentle person.]

 

Chu Li: “…………..”

 

….En.

 

Gentle person.

 

Thinking back to the “not fit to wash my feet” “you think I’m a beggar ah”, Chu Li subconsciously signed emotionally, “your great one is really gentle”. With an unknown emotion, she slowly started typing in amongst the hundreds of thousands of other people:

 

[Scrolling Fan Q7758520: Don’t be angry, great one. Who made you mad? We’ll help you beat him up <doge emoji>! To actually dare bully our soft, cute and easily bullied great one who couldn’t say anything harsh <doge emoji> ah, simply cannot be tolerated!]

 

The two doge emojis accurately emulated the commenter’s sarcasm at the absurdity. The final exclamation also demonstrates the writer’s different attitude from the other commenters. A person in public and animal who secretly shouted accusations…………en.

 

When anxious, the method of being angry with the sky, the ground, the air had good results—

 

Especially when you’re not letting go of the Weibo warriors and honorable Zhou Chuan himself.

 

…simply too wonderful.

 

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Writer has something to say: The female lead in this chapter saved herself, dying in amongst the chaos hahaha. 

 

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