Regarding Su Xinchengs plagiarism, the Yangcheng Evening News deceived readers, and this news spread rapidly like wildfire. In just one day, it became known throughout the streets of Yangcheng, and even attracted attention from several nearby cities. After all, being eager to watch a spectacle is a good quality that every Chinese person must have. Moreover, the two central figures in this incident are the famous genius writer Su Xincheng and the Yangcheng Evening News.
The reason why such a scene appeared is largely due to jealousy. Su Xincheng became the target of many people, but also became the object of envy for many people. There are many mediocre writers who have been working hard for decades and still cant get their books published, so why did Su Xincheng, a 14-year-old kid, manage to publish his first book with good results? Why did this little kids writing get serialized in Yangcheng Daily? Jealousy is the original sin.
But once Su Zizi fell into the plagiarism storm, these people jumped out and shouted for the "irrefutable evidence" of the plagiarism storm, which is also one of the important reasons for the current situation.
Of course, the "Morning Talk" also played a role in stirring up the waves. The first article that said Su Xingchen plagiarized was actually created by the "Morning Talk". As for Zhao Dandans idea, it was actually very simple and is often used by many celebrities who are entangled in scandals - holding a press conference.
And the time was set for the next morning, Yangchengs mainstream newspaper, and even the surrounding cities newspapers received an invitation from Yangcheng Daily.
Helpless, Su Rui Chen had to call the class teacher to ask for a day off, but the class teacher was still quite understanding. The plagiarism storm made a big noise in Yangcheng Street, and Zhou Bi naturally heard about it and showed concern for him with two sentences.
Zhou Bis concern is not superficial, but genuine. Now it can be said that Su Rui Chen is the darling of Class 10 and the entire experimental middle school. Zhou Bi has been in the profession for over three years, but this time the school had a vacancy for a grade director, and Zhou Bi was not qualified to compete. He became the class teacher of Class 10 only because he begged his father and mother, and its unknown how many gifts were sent before he succeeded. There are many people in the school with more seniority than him, and those with stronger connections are also numerous, so naturally it wasnt his turn.
But everything changed after Su Shichen, a genius writer, emerged from Class 10. Zhou Bi was directly appointed as the grade leader by the principal. Its hard not to envy him, but if you have what it takes, your class can also produce a genius author like Su Shichen. However, its easy to say this, but the difficulty of actually doing it is self-evident. A genius writer like Su Shichen probably wont appear again in the next 100 years, either forward or backward by 50 years.
Su Rui Chen is also valuable for Experimental Middle School. The school regards Su Rui Chen as a benchmark to promote the school.
Why are Tsinghua and Peking Universities so awesome? Why do many people make them their goal? Apart from the quality of teaching, Im afraid another reason is that they have produced a lot of famous people.
So Su Release Chen is like a national treasure for Class 10, how can they let the national treasure get hurt.
But its not all bad news, the principal told Su Xichen a good piece of news, a truly good piece of news that was so good it was suspicious, and overshadowed by being slandered and plagiarized by many newspapers.
And this good news has also added a very important weight to his counterattack at tomorrows press conference.
"Zhang Dan, about those things in the newspapers, you can handle it, right?" Tang Lingyu.
"Hehe, our baby is so caring, come give mommy a kiss." Zhao Dan dan pounced on Tang Lingyu with open arms, but Tang Lingyu dodged.
"Rumors of plagiarism are just something that some people with ulterior motives and others who are jealous have stirred up, and will calm down after tomorrows reception."
Tang Lingyu nodded and pondered for a long time before suddenly asking, "Is that editors son still bothering you?"
"Heh heh" Zhao Dans mouth curled up in a disdainful smile. "A good-for-nothing who only knows how to eat and drink, your mother doesnt even look at you." Zhao Dan pinched Tang Lingyus cheeks with both hands, like she was playing with clay. "Our familys treasure, Ill be a widow for the sake of that deadbeat dad of yours." The ferocity of this loli housewife was truly something outsiders couldnt understand, and yet she could say such words.
After Zhao Dan said this, Tang Lingyu didnt continue the conversation either. The atmosphere fell into silence for a moment, and the two lowered their heads to eat their meal. This big meal was called "Phoenix Ramen" by Zhao Dan himself.
Phoenix pulled noodles sounds pretty cool, but in fact its just instant noodles with ham and egg. Ham and egg instant noodles, also known as fire egg instant noodles, and isnt "fire egg" just a homophone for "phoenix", and arent the bent instant noodles just "pulled noodles"? Thats how phoenix pulled noodles came to be.
After finishing instant noodles, Zhao Hanhan still had to prepare for tomorrows reception. After all, hosting nearly twenty newspaper reporters was no small matter.
It was already dawn by the time she had made all the arrangements.
The auditorium, which was booked by Yangcheng Evening News, can accommodate more than 500 people. Its a bit of an overkill to hold a press conference here, so they also invited some fans.
Dont think that Su Rui Chen is a newcomer and doesnt have any fans. In fact, its not like that. "Journey to the West" has been on sale for nearly a month and has accumulated a considerable number of readers for him. Although its not as many as top authors with tens of millions of readers, its still a solid sales figure of over 10 million copies. Among these 10 million or so readers, there are at least several thousand fans.
Zhao Dandans collaboration with Wang Ni led to a lucky draw activity, where viewers could write down their thoughts after watching Wukong Biography or a single sentence and send it to XXXXX number. Four hundred lucky audience members were selected through this activity, which was quite successful. With the help of this activity and yesterdays plagiarism controversy, Wukong Biography sold nearly 20,000 copies again.
Originally, Zhaos plan was to promote "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", after all, it was published in their own newspaper. Although the quality of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is good, there are too few episodes. Including yesterdays plagiarism storm, it only serialized for two days, with only two short stories "The Red-Headed League" and "The Blue Carbuncle". The impact is really not enough, and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is also embroiled in the plagiarism scandal, which can easily lead to trouble.
So under duress, he cooperated with the Deyun Publishing House, but this also achieved a side effect, after all, Su Ruo Chens reputation increased, and it was helpful for "The Collection of Sherlock Holmes" which was being serialized in their newspaper.
The press conference had not yet begun, and nearly all 400 readers had arrived, with reporters from various newspapers also arriving one after another.
The press conference officially kicked off, and Zhao Dan first spoke up: "I am Zhao Dan, deputy editor-in-chief of Yangcheng Evening News. On behalf of Yangcheng Evening News, I would like to thank all the fellow journalists for taking the time to attend this press conference hosted by our newspaper. This press conference is intended to clarify the rumors about plagiarism..."
"Excuse me, Deputy Editor Zhao, how do you know the rumor has new evidence?" Before Zhao could respond, he was interrupted by a reporter from below.
"Firstly, two points. Firstly, interrupting someone while they are speaking is very impolite, I hope this reporter friend can be a bit more polite and have some quality. Secondly, as for whether there is solid evidence or not, I wont say anything about that now, I just want to ask one question back: do you have any solid evidence to prove that our contracted author Su Xichen plagiarized?" Zhao Dans sharp words immediately stunned the reporter who had just interrupted him.
"Please welcome our special guest from Yangcheng Evening News, Su Shicheng." A round of applause erupted from the 400-strong audience, and amidst this warm reception, Su Shicheng stepped up to the podium, ready to address the crowd with confidence.
The protagonist of this storm as soon as the scene atmosphere hot up, and those reporters like sharks that smell blood -
"Excuse me, Su Xichen, regarding your works narrative method being strange, how would you respond?"
"Excuse me, do you admit to plagiarism?"
"Excuse me, is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes just a publicity stunt by Yangcheng Evening News?"
"Youve always cooperated well with De Yun Publishing House for the publication of The Legend of Wukong, so why is your new book suddenly being serialized in Yangcheng Evening News instead? Is there a dispute with De Yun Publishing House?"
"I heard that when you first published Journey to the West, you only got 5,000 yuan, but now the cumulative monthly sales are close to 150,000. Is it because of this matter that you had a dispute with De Yun Publishing House and jumped to Yangcheng Evening News?"
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One problem after another comes pouring in.
"Everyone, please be quiet for a moment. Youre asking too many questions at once. I only have one mouth, so its impossible to answer all of them at the same time. Lets take turns asking questions, and Ill select them one by one." After Zhao said this, the room became much quieter, and reporters from newspapers and magazines raised their hands.
"A friend of the Reform News asked, Reporter from Reform News: Please ask Su Renshan about the plagiarism issue regarding the wildly spread "Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories" outside. How do you respond?"
"Plagiarism? Lets see who I plagiarized from." Su Xichen sneered coldly.
"Alright, next one. With so many journalists present, in order not to waste everyones time, each journalist can only ask one question." The reporter from Revolutionary News seemed like he wanted to say something else but was stopped by Zhao. He directly pointed to the reporter from Morning Talk Daily, which was the first to spark this plagiarism controversy, and thus allowed the Morning Talk Daily reporter to face off with Su Xichen, the person involved in the incident. Everyone was eager to hear this and quickly took out their pens.
"From the writing style of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the narrative method, and the logical ability of the story, it can be analyzed that the original author of this book is not you. What do you have to say in rebuttal?"
"Let me tell you a story," Su Xichen didnt respond but suddenly said, "Once upon a time, there was a person who accidentally fell to death while walking..." He stopped here.
"And then?"
"Whats next?"
"Excuse me, does this story have something to do with the plagiarism scandal?" The reporter from Early Talks was confused, and not just him - everyone present was perplexed as to why Su Xichen would suddenly tell such an unrelated and pointless story.
"It doesnt matter," Su Xichen said with a wave of his hand.
PS: It seems that the monitors AD board is broken, Im not sure, need to wait for 3-4 days for the materials to arrive. In these few days, Ill try my best to write in the internet cafe, although its inconvenient. Today I managed to write one chapter, tomorrow should be two chapters. Once the monitor is fixed, Ill make up for the missing chapters on top of the daily three chapters.