MC Bookstore Chapter 424: Mori Naoki’s Contrasting Side
Chapter 424: Mori Naoki’s Contrasting Side
Wang Ziyi had only seen Jiang Ran in live streams before;the closest she had ever been to him was during the welcome party she attended with Lin Feng.This time, Jiang Ran was standing right beside her.
She could take a good look at this person.
Hmm, he looked about as handsome as he did in the live streams.
He didn't give off a particularly dangerous vibe either, just an ordinary person's aura.
It was really hard to imagine the madness displayed when his alternate personalities took control of his body.
As she kept watching, Jiang Ran suddenly moved.
It turned out the conversation was over, and he was about to leave.
Wang Ziyi hurried to see him off.
She and Lin Feng escorted Jiang Ran out.
The moment Jiang Ran left and the door closed behind him.
Lin Feng's expression suddenly turned impatient: "Ugh, so annoying, living in constant fear every day. I really want to rush out, grab a gun, and kill everyone here!"
"After this round, there's still one more round before we're free."
Wang Ziyi stood beside him, her heart pounding with fear, not daring to say a word.
Because, wasn't it thanks to her that both of them could even be here?
...
After receiving the promise from the new manager, Mao Li Zhishu.
Shangguan Fei returned to his own home.
And went back to sleep.
He had stayed up far too late last night, slept until that time, and was woken up in the morning by the two police officers checking the surveillance footage.
He was genuinely sleep-deprived.
So, this time, he slept straight until past five in the evening.
When he finally got up, seeing the dim, dusky room, the equally gloomy sky outside the window, and the golden sunset.
A sudden wave of loneliness washed over him, a feeling of being abandoned by the whole world.
He lay in bed for over ten minutes, recovering.
Then he got up, poured himself a glass of water, and stretched.
After that, he used his phone to order a 10-yuan beef fried rice.
Then, he went to his laptop, turned it on, and stared blankly at the screen of his writing software.
His right index finger kept tapping the spacebar.
Shangguan Fei's thoughts were chaotic, anxious.
This was the frustration of having written for so long with no success, and even more so, the worry about whether he would have faced so much pressure if he hadn't chosen to write web novels back then.
"Mixing attendance bonuses from three websites like this still isn't working. The more I write, the more watered-down it gets. I need to focus on just one book."
There's no medicine for regret in life. The melancholy Shangguan Fei felt after waking up, influenced by that sense of loss, gradually faded.
He was currently writing three books across three websites.
One was a traditional xianxia.
One was a Demon Slayer fanfiction.
And one was a time-travel historical fiction.
Shangguan Fei's self-assessment was: a jack of all trades, master of none.
He kept clicking the mouse, checking his draft stock.
He found that for two of his three books, he had enough drafts to scrape through this month's attendance bonus. For the remaining one, he was short by about a dozen chapters, but that was almost manageable too.
Therefore, he made a decision.
He grabbed the black keyboard and started typing furiously.
He directly wrote predetermined endings for all three books, effectively abandoning them.
Since hardly anyone was reading them anyway, abandoning them was just abandoning them.
Of course, he still apologized to his readers at the end of the novels.
"Hmm... after abandoning these three, what should I focus all my energy on writing?"
"How about... suspense? I've always liked it, but I've never written in this genre before."
"Also, my current experiences are pretty suspenseful themselves. The agreement, ten thousand a day... I could just use myself as the prototype... though I'd definitely have to fabricate a bunch of stuff into it, otherwise it'd be too thin."
Perhaps because he was using himself as the prototype, Shangguan Fei was suddenly brimming with inspiration at this moment.
He was ready to grab the keyboard and type like crazy.
But just then, his food delivery arrived.
"Forget it, let's eat first."
He finished the delivered fried rice he had ordered.
After that, he sat in his chair, motionless except for his constantly moving hands.
He wrote for three hours straight.
In these three hours, he wrote seven chapters for his new book.
This time, starting a new book felt completely different from the usual agony of beginning a new project.
Really, his mind was overflowing with ideas.
"I have a feeling that with this book, I might actually achieve my wish of writing a book that earns a little money!"
Shangguan Fei was very excited.
He was holding onto this inspiration, ready to continue writing, when.
A knocking sound came from the door.
Along with a man's voice: "Excuse me, resident Shangguan Fei, are you home?"
Shangguan Fei got up from his chair, walked over to the security door in his slippers with big strides, and pulled it open.
Outside stood the new manager, Mao Li Zhishu.
At this moment, besides himself, Mao Li Zhishu was also holding a black briefcase.
Sticking his head out and looking left and right, Shangguan Fei asked suspiciously, "Is it just you? Didn't the security team come?"
"It's only a little past eight in the evening, not even nine yet, so I came first to keep watch with you."
"As for the security team, they will be on standby and lying in wait after midnight."
"When that person appears at your doorstep again, we can attack from both inside and outside."
Manager Mao Li Zhishu clenched his fist forward with great confidence.
Shangguan Fei saw the black briefcase in his hand and asked what it was.
Manager Mao Li Zhishu opened the black briefcase right in front of Shangguan Fei.
After it opened, Shangguan Fei felt like he was going to get a stye in his eye.
He saw that the briefcase seemed to be full of erotic manga, adult magazines, and the like, probably from Cherry Blossom Country.
"Hehe, because we don't know when that person will come, and waiting around can be boring, I brought some things to look at."
Manager Mao Li Zhishu explained with a smile.
Shangguan Fei said, we're all men, he understood.
Although he said he understood, deep down, he felt this manager Mao Li Zhishu really didn't treat him like an outsider at all.
Especially since Mao Li Zhishu was currently wearing a burgundy suit, appearing refined, scholarly, and gentlemanly.
Who would have thought he'd look at this kind of stuff so openly and unabashedly? The contrast was just too strong.
It really gave off a feeling of a wolf in sheep's clothing.
"Then, please sit here for now."
Shangguan Fei poured Manager Mao Li Zhishu a glass of water.
After that, he didn't write either.
He didn't like typing and writing in front of others, whether they were acquaintances or strangers.
He then went over to the balcony, looked at the night view outside, played on his phone, and relaxed his mind after the three-hour intensive writing session.
Manager Mao Li Zhishu also sat very properly on the sofa, seriously reading the erotic manga and magazines he had brought himself.
They were looking at their phones and books.
While the people in the Neighbors Over Distant Relatives live stream room were watching them.
Middle-aged Uncle: [The manager replacements are really fast. I wonder how these managers are selected?]
Domineering Female CEO: [Definitely chosen from a bunch of deranged criminals and deranged serial killers. But I'm sure they're not selected from the current residents of Alice Apartment.]
[After all, the previous Li Chong, including this mixed-race Mao Li Zhishu from Hua Country and Cherry Blossom Country, didn't come from here.]
Middle-aged Uncle: [That's terrifying. So that means, behind the Neighbors Over Distant Relatives live stream room, within the country, besides having one gathering place full of these psychopaths, there are other gathering places too.]