Chapter 49: 10 Days of Exposure

"Just came back from the book signing, just finished reading the parts of this book that weren't serialized online. If you ask how the rest of the plot is written? I can only say: Worth it! Super worth it!

I don't regret buying this book one bit.

Now I finally understand why the publisher released this book; it turns out the essence of this book is in the last twenty-something chapters! As for the specific plot details, I won't spoil them here; I can only say the final plot greatly sublimated the feelings between Ding Yang and Ran Jing, it was so moving! It made me shed tears, and I'm still deeply moved to this day.

The final ending actually echoed the beginning of this book; the structure of the whole text is too clever!

I strongly suggest everyone who can afford it to go buy a copy right away, believe me! You will definitely be moved! If I'm lying, I'm a puppy!"

In front of the computer, Zhang Yang split this post into two sections and posted them in the same thread.

After posting, he read it over himself and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

He asked himself if what he said was the truth; he hadn't lied to anyone.

He just didn't mention that the female lead, Ran Jing, had died.

After the post went up, he kept refreshing the webpage, wanting to see other people's replies.

To be honest, a moment later, he refreshed out more than a dozen replies.

"Is it really that good? Are you sure, OP?"

"The essence is all in the last twenty-something chapters? For real?"

"OP is a genius! I also just finished reading the content of the last twenty-something chapters; I vouch for OP, the plot afterwards is indeed very moving, I cried too."

"The one above, do you dare to swear?"

"If the end of this book is truly this moving, then the sales of this book must be quite good, right? Is this author going to become famous with one book?"

"The one above, before this book was published, the author was already famous, okay! Can you find anyone more popular than this book on the entire net?"

"I also just finished the plot afterwards; originally I was holding back a belly full of things to say to the author, but after seeing OP's post, the thousands of words in my belly turned into one sentence: OP, you are right! The plot in the back of this book is indeed very moving, the feelings between the male and female leads really sublimated!"

Zhang Yang, sitting in front of the computer, raised an eyebrow and chuckled a few times.

He didn't expect two readers who had seen the ending to reply so quickly, and moreover, these two guys not only didn't expose him but both vouched for him.

That was quite interesting.

Su Jing was very beautiful; fair skin, beautiful face, and long legs—that described women like her.

She was a flight attendant for China Eastern Airlines.

Half a month ago, a colleague asked her if she knew a man named Ding Yang?

She said she didn't know him.

That colleague then asked if she had ever dated a boyfriend who could write?

At that time, she thought it was strange and asked the other person why they were asking that?

That colleague first asked her to answer.

After she denied it, that colleague said that recently on the internet, there was a very popular novel where the female lead was named Ran Jing, which sounded quite similar to her name.

Moreover, that Ran Jing was also a flight attendant, the very beautiful kind.

Su Jing was a bit surprised, and her curiosity was piqued.

A few days later, taking advantage of her break time, she went online and found the novel her colleague mentioned—The Days I Lived with a Flight Attendant.

She knew the prototype of the female lead in this book couldn't possibly be herself.

Because she had never lived with anyone.

Nor did she remember dating a boyfriend who could write novels.

But because the female lead's name in this book was somewhat like hers, and the profession was the same as hers, she patiently tried reading this book.

Unexpectedly, she, who had never had the habit of reading novels, got hooked not long after.

Since then, she became one of the readers chasing updates for this book.

And today, she happened to be off; knowing well that there would be a book signing in Shanghai today, she took the time to go to the signing venue.

She bought a signed copy.

She also saw the author of this book—Zhong Yuan Yi Dian Hui.

She was quite surprised that this author actually looked quite handsome.

What surprised her even more was that the female lead of this book, Ran Jing... was actually dead.

But she wasn't heartbroken like Zhang Yang.

After reading all the chapters at the end of this book, she sat blankly by the bedside for a long time; she felt a bit envious of Ran Jing in the book.

Although Ran Jing died, the love between Ran Jing and Ding Yang made her very yearning.

As a very beautiful flight attendant, she, Su Jing, didn't lack suitors.

Male colleagues within the company, various male passengers on the plane, small leaders in the company...

Many people had feelings for her.

But she never felt that was love.

She remembered the high school period, that boy who wasn't very good at studying and was a bit introverted; he always secretly looked at her, and many times when she turned around, she saw him staring at her in a daze.

Every time he saw her turn around, he would quickly lower his head, his face turning red.

She believed he truly liked her.

After graduating from high school, he finally mustered the courage to hand her a love letter.

But since she became a flight attendant, he seemed to have lost the courage to continue pursuing her; he disappeared from her life, and she occasionally heard from classmates that he felt he wasn't good enough for her.

Thinking of this, Su Jing let out a light sigh, her expression somewhat lonely.

She couldn't help but think in her heart: If only he had Ding Yang's courage.

Ding Yang in the book also felt at the beginning that he wasn't good enough for Ran Jing.

But he was a toad craving swan meat; knowing full well he wasn't a match, he still wanted to try, and try again.

As Ding Yang put it: not getting swan meat isn't shameful; the shameful thing is not even getting pork. If you pursue an ordinary girl and fail, that is the most shameful of all.

Su Jing sat by the bedside for a long time before getting up to turn on her computer.

She logged onto Rongshu Xia.

She went to the book review section of "Days Living with an Air Hostess."

She saw someone in the review section say the later plot of this book was very good and very moving; she felt this reader was very right, and she had the same feeling.

So she also posted a thread praising the plot of the last twenty-odd chapters of this book.

Unlike Zhang Yang, she was sincerely praising it.

There were many book fans similar to Zhang Yang and Su Jing.

In this era, the most popular works were this kind of literary youth style; in a love story, if neither the male nor female lead died, it seemed impossible to be moving.

Such works where the female lead dies might be roasted into dog shit by readers if placed in the online novel circle twenty years later.

But in this current era, the literary youth just loved this flavor.

So, in the book review section of "Days Living with an Air Hostess," a large number of negative reviews did not appear today.

Instead, many positive reviews appeared.

That night.

Cao Sheng found an internet cafe near the hotel where he was staying; after checking the book review section online for a while, his heart felt at ease.

He had actually been a bit worried that killing off the female lead in his writing would cause many book fans to roast him.

If too many book fans roasted him, the reputation of this book would not be good, and subsequent sales would probably not sell many copies.

The next morning.

Accompanied by Zhao Ping, Cao Sheng boarded a passenger plane flying to Guangzhou.

After staying in Guangzhou for two days, he went to Shenzhen, then to Chongqing, then to Jingcheng.

In every city, the publishing house arranged media interviews for him; there were newspapers and radio stations, mainly newspaper interviews.

In every city, he stayed only two days.

One day accepting interviews, one day appearing at a book signing.

Five cities for book signings, a total of ten days in all.

During these ten days, "Wenhui Daily," "Shanghai Youth Daily," "Guangzhou Daily," "Yangcheng Evening News," "Shenzhen Evening News," and so on, multiple newspapers successively reported on him and "Days Living with an Air Hostess."

Many of these newspapers were distributed nationwide.

In this era when the internet was still just a small circle and mainstream media were still traditional newspapers and television, one could imagine how many people saw information about him and his work in the newspapers during these ten days.

Besides newspapers, radio stations in this era also had many listeners.

Especially local listeners.

And whenever Cao Sheng arrived in a city, the publishing house would arrange for one or two radio stations to interview him.

During these ten days, Cao Sheng became the writer with the highest exposure in the domestic literary world.