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After Hualijun and Kamodo Tanjiro followed Xiang Kai into his office, Xiang Kai opened the drawer and took out a thick stack of manuscripts.

Looking at the thickness of this stack of manuscript paper, Hualichun couldn't help but feel a little dazed.But soon, she nodded.

"I understand." Hualichun took Xiang Kai's manuscript solemnly, "Then let me read it first, Teacher Xiang Kai."

After actually flipping through the manuscript written by Xiang Kai in his hand, Hualichun noticed that all the handwriting on this manuscript was written by him stroke by stroke.

The original content on the manuscript paper was written smoothly and neatly, obviously copied from an earlier manuscript, but even so, there were still many traces of revisions in the neat handwriting after the transcription was completed.In some places, the handwriting that was revised repeatedly even tore the thin paper a little bit.

Before seeing the content, she can feel the author's intentions in creating this story.

Worried that the manuscript paper that had been repeatedly deleted and edited would be damaged, Hualichun took out her handkerchief and wiped her hands before carefully opening the manuscript.

Kamado Tanjiro also came over and read Hibiki's with her.

Time passed minute by minute.The class bell rang, but neither the reading party nor the reading party showed any intention of getting up.

Finally, Huali Chun closed the last page of the manuscript.

She was hesitating how to speak, when Tanjirou Kamado suddenly exclaimed: "Teacher Hibiki?"

Hualichun was startled, and looked up, only to find that Xiang Kai turned his head aside at some point, and pressed his handkerchief on his eye sockets.

"Teacher Hibiki, what's the matter?" Zamon Tanjiro stood up in a hurry, raised his hand and patted Hibiki's back, "Is the teacher feeling unwell all of a sudden?"

"no……"

Xiang Kai wiped his eyes with a handkerchief.He bowed his head, his voice a little choked.

"It's been a long time since anyone treated my manuscript with such cherishment."

After putting down the handkerchief, Xiang Kai tightened the handkerchief in his palm.He is a tall man with a height of more than 1.8 meters, but at the moment he is like a helpless child with slumped shoulders, curled up on a small office chair, with despondent eyes.

"Actually, this is not the first time I have let an editor read my manuscript."

Xiang Kai said in a low voice: "I am 32 years old this year. Since I was 20 years old, I have submitted manuscripts to literary magazines for the first time, but I have been rejected many times. The editors who greeted me with smiles at the beginning often looked at me. After that, my attitude became obviously cold. If I went to visit with the manuscript again, the other party’s expression would be undisguised, with 'give up, you have no talent' written all over his face..."

"My manuscript was rejected by different editors, from the age of 20 to 28. Later, even the editor who told me that there was still a chance at the beginning, after receiving the manuscript I revised repeatedly, just glanced at it casually. Just let me go back and rewrite it. After that, I never let the editor of the publishing house see mine again."

"Until then, I had been working and writing. When I gave up at the age of 28, I came to this school and became a music teacher. I decided to live an ordinary life as an ordinary person."

"Maybe it was a mistake to start writing. I couldn't help but think that way at the time."

Speaking of this, Xiang Kai raised his head to look at Huali Jun, and said in a low voice: "But now I think, if it is someone who can make a big writer like Dazai and Nakahara debut, it should not be like the ones I have met before. Just like the editor, he just returned my manuscript in a perfunctory manner..."

"My... can it be published in a magazine?" He asked, and he didn't realize that there was a little hope in his eyes.

Hualichun stared into Xiang Kai's eyes, and pursed her lips: "...I'm sorry. As far as the writing level of the teacher's book is concerned, I am afraid that it cannot be published by any mainstream literary magazine on the market."

Don't watch "Renaissance!"Wenhao Publishing House", Hualichun can also judge that the manuscript Xiang Kai gave her can only be rated as D-level at best.

Hearing this, Xiang Kai was startled for a while, then the light in his eyes dimmed.

"...Really, you feel the same way." He sighed, and covered his face with his hands in pain, "Sure enough, it still doesn't work."

However, at this moment, Hualichun suddenly increased the volume: "Mr. Xiangkai!"

The suddenly louder voice startled Xiang Kai, half of his breath got stuck in his throat.He raised his head and looked at Hualichun blankly: "... huh?"

"Just now, I confirmed with the teacher whether you want to listen to my opinion." Hualichun frowned and said, "The teacher also nodded, right?"

Xiang Kai was stunned: "...Yes."

"However, as soon as I heard the first sentence, the teacher made the final conclusion on his own, and showed a look that he didn't want to listen anymore..."

Hualichun asked loudly: "Is this enough? Teacher Xiangkai, after hearing what I just said, do you really feel enough?"

Under Xiang Kai's astonished gaze, Hualichun held the manuscript in his hand and looked straight at him.

"About this article, I still have more suggestions to say. But if Teacher Xiangkai doesn't want to continue listening, then I won't continue with the next one." She said, "How about it, teacher?"

In the silent room, the sound of Xiang Kai swallowing saliva subconsciously sounded.His Adam's apple visibly rolled up and down.

It is obvious that a teacher is facing his students, but at this moment, Xiang Kai feels that he is a student with little knowledge, while the teenage Huali Chun, who still has a somewhat immature face in front of him, is the real teacher.

"...please go ahead," he said.

"I understand." Hualichun nodded, and opened Xiang Kai's manuscript.

"Mr. Xiangkai, you have added too many elements to what you wrote, causing the content to be very confusing..." At this point, she raised her head and asked, "Can you tell me why the teacher wrote this story?"

"This is because..." Xiang Kai said nervously, "Because the manuscript has been rejected too many times, revised and rewritten constantly, so the content appears messy..."

He said dejectedly: "However, because I have deleted and edited too many times, I am no longer sure what I am writing now..."

"May I ask?" Hualichun asked Xiang Kai who was stunned, "Does the teacher still keep the first article he wrote?"

"Of course!" Xiang Kai nodded quickly, "It happens to be in my file cabinet. I'll show it to you right now!"

While talking, Xiang Kai stood up, hurriedly opened his filing cabinet, and searched inside.Soon, he straightened up holding a stack of yellowed manuscript paper.

"This is the first story I wrote when I was 20 years old. It's not long, but I've never shown it to others." Xiang Kai said nervously, "I don't know if I can read it..."

After receiving Xiang Kai's first story, Hualichun immediately became more careful before she had time to say anything.

This story is much shorter than what Xiang Kai showed her just now.It didn't take long for Hualichun to finish reading the story.

Under Xiang Kai's apprehensive eyes, Hualichun raised his head and said to him happily: "This story is about a pair of twin brothers with telepathy in the Edo period. I think this story is better than what you showed me just now. The content is much better!"

Hearing this, Xiang Kai's tense expression relaxed a little, and he couldn't help exhaling forcefully.

Hua Lichun continued: "Although the writing style of the first story is a bit jerky, and the perspective change is not coherent enough, the content of the story is quite smooth, without adding too many blunt elements, the style is relatively uniform, and the story structure is also very easy. I understand. In contrast, the latest draft is too messy both in terms of character setting and plot.”

"That's because I used to look for different editors with the manuscript. Some editors thought that the story of twin brothers in the Edo period was too boring, and some trendy love elements should be added; some editors thought that the ancient story was too earthy. Now, the background of the story should be set in a fictional world, and some sci-fi or magical content that does not exist in the real world should be added; some editors feel that the character setting is too ordinary and needs to be more fancy..."

"...At the end of writing, it became like that."

Xiang Kai was silent for a moment, then lowered his head.

His shadow was cast on the floor by the sunlight outside the window, and his back was bent like a drum: "Actually, I don't like changing like that at all..."

"That's how it is..." Hualichun nodded, "Different editors have different preferences, so they may propose different revisions. But it is not acceptable to accept all opinions as they are."

She said seriously: "Then, I will work with Mr. Xiang Kai to create what Mr. Xiang Kai wants to write, and no matter which publishing house is willing to accept the manuscript."

***

Tokyo Conjuration High School.

There was a rush of footsteps, and Hui Yuanxiong rushed into the second grade classroom, panting, and shouted to Wujo Wu, Xia Youjie, and Jiarui Nizi in the classroom: "The reply is here!"

Soon, Hui Yuanxiong rushed to the third grade classroom again.With his notice, soon, everyone who had contributed to Hoshinosha gathered in the same classroom.

What was placed on the table was a stack of mail that Yuo Huihara went to fetch.Among them, the envelope with the Hoshinosha logo is placed on the top, which is very conspicuous.

"This is the one that Hoshino Club sent back." Jianren Qihai picked up the letter, and the recipients on the envelope were their pseudonyms. .”

"Quickly open it and have a look!" Hui Yuanxiong said excitedly.

However, at this moment, Ming Ming, who was sorting out the remaining envelopes, suddenly let out a "huh" and took out another letter.

"Didn't we submit to Hoshinosha?" She asked Gojo Satoru, "Is it true that we only submitted to Hoshinosha?"

"Yes." Gojo Satoru was a little puzzled, "What's wrong?"

"...Here is also a letter from Bailang Society, and there is a newcomer award or something written on the envelope."

Mingming raised the envelope in Yang's hand—I saw the logo of Bailang Society printed on this envelope.

"No, I haven't submitted any manuscripts to Bailang Club." Wutiaowu frowned, and walked towards Mingming, "Did I send it by mistake..."

"No, there is no mistake."

Before Gojo Satoru had time to take the letter from Bailang Society from Mingming's hand, a hand suddenly stretched out from the side and intercepted the envelope halfway.

Xia Youjie took the envelope and smiled at everyone: "This letter is for me, and I also submitted the same article to Bailang Society."

"..."

The sudden speech made everyone dumbfounded.An Ge Ji's eyes were about to pop out: "Why?"

"Didn't you say that Bailang Society also has a call for papers?" Xia Youjie replied, "So I had a whim, so I voted together."

Hui Yuanxiong muttered to himself in surprise: "As expected of Senior Xia You, he actually made two preparations from the very beginning..."

Facing the students' surprised reactions, Xia Youjie calmly opened the envelope and took out the letter paper from it.

It's just that when he saw the content on the letter paper, his long and narrow eyes opened wider than usual because of surprise.

"What did it say?" Hui Yuanxiong asked curiously.

However, Xia Youjie seemed to be caught in some kind of thought, and didn't pay attention to the elementary school boy's words.

At this moment, a hand suddenly pulled out the letter paper from Xia Youjie's hand.

"Let me see." Gojo Satoru turned over the front of the letter paper, glanced quickly, and then stopped.

He muttered: "Bailang Club Newcomer Award No.1...?"

The white-haired boy raised his head in a daze.His sunglasses slid down the bridge of his nose, and his blue eyes were full of astonishment: "Jie, your article won the No. 1 Bailang Club Newcomer Award? The one that is said to have more than 8000 submissions?"

"...It seems to be the case." Xia Youjie said slowly.

The silence lasted for a long time.

"It's amazing..." Hui Yuanyu muttered to himself, "Among the [-] submissions, the best one..."

"At first, I was thinking that the article written by senior Xia You must be very powerful, but I didn't expect to be able to win the Bailang Club Newcomer Award No. It’s only been two weeks since I wrote an article, many writers may not be able to write like this after ten or eight years..."

"I knew I would also contribute to Bailang Society." Ming Ming sighed, "No.1 can get a bonus of 500 million, the opportunity to serialize and publish a booklet. If a booklet is published, the author can also get 10% of the royalties... "

"And I heard that the No.1 Newcomer Award will be filming the "[-]/[-]th" program with Bailang Club, right?" At this point, she asked logically, "Xia You, are you going to accept the award?"

"Just accept the award." Xia Youjie said with a smile, "After all, I'm a magician, not a writer, and I don't plan to show my face in public."

"Hey, really? That's 500 million."

Ming Ming put his arms on Xia Youjie's shoulders, and whispered in his ear, "If you don't want it, you can collect the bonus first and then transfer it to me. I'll help you solve a few things if you don't want to go." The field missions I did..."

"Ah, senior Mingming is so cunning!" Hui Yuanxiong shouted, and relieved Xia Youjie.

"I'm so unwilling!" An Geji patted herself on the face, "But I still want to congratulate you. If Wujo wins the prize, I won't be able to say congratulations no matter what."

Gojo Satoru, who had been in a daze since just now, suddenly came back to his senses: "Huh?"

……

After a long time, the commotion over Xia Youjie's award finally subsided.Everyone's attention once again fell on the reply letter from Hoshinosha.

"However, until now, Hoshino Club's reply has no suspense at all." While opening the envelope, Hui Yuanxiong said, "After all, it just happened that Senior Xia You won the Bailang Club Newcomer Award."

The large envelope sent by Hoshino Club also contained several small envelopes of the same size, which contained replies to each person.After finding his envelope, Jianren Qihai couldn't help sighing: "Miss Huali from Hoshino Club is a very careful person. Considering that some people may not want to share her articles and the evaluations she has received, she has done a good job of protecting privacy."

As soon as the words fell, Hui Yuanxiong leaned his head over and asked excitedly, "What's your rating? Let me see?"

"..." Jianren Qihai was a little speechless, but he still showed his partner the reply letter he received: "Level D. Still need to work hard. There will be detailed comments and suggestions later."

"That's because Nanami's article is written like an academic paper! However, I am also a D!" Hui Yuanxiong showed his reply letter, and said with some regret, "I was quite confident in my article at first. of it!"

"What about the seniors?" He asked again.

No one has the heart to refuse Hui Yuanxiong who is like a curious baby.An Geji and Ming Ming showed their evaluations respectively, and their articles were D-level and C-level respectively.

"Ask me?" When it was Gojo Satoru's turn, he made a fool of himself and dragged out his voice, "I'm—"

When Hui Yuanxiong stretched his neck and waited for the next sentence, Gojo Satoru showed his reply letter with a smile: "B-level! He is taller than you."

Xia Youjie couldn't help but find it a little funny seeing Wujo Satoru's complacent look like a little boy.Only then did he begin to open his own envelope.

At the same time, Haibara Yuu's bright eyes turned to Iamori Glass again.

"Even the original manuscript was sent back." Just as Jia Ruozi opened the envelope, he took out his original manuscript.After seeing the reply letter, she couldn't help but startled.

"...Ah, I'm A-rank."

"The suggestion was very long, and even praised me..." She couldn't help laughing, "Chun Jiang is really serious."

So far, except for Xia Youjie, the results of all the others have been announced.Therefore, all eyes were on Xia Youjie.

However, at this moment, Xia Youjie was silently looking at the letter from Hoshinoshe in his hand, with no expression on his face.

"What, it must be S-rank..." An Geji muttered, sticking her head out to look.

But when she saw the reply, her expression also froze.

"How come..." An Geji opened her eyes wide and muttered to herself, "Isn't this the article that won the Bailang Club Newcomer Award? But the rating given by Hoshino Club turned out to be..."

"D-Class...?"