Chapter 855 - Frenemy! (1/2)

Once the introduction was released, it went viral rapidly.

There was no doubt that people working in the publishing industry were the first to receive the information.

Earlier, some of them were still despising Fang Qiu and thinking that Fang Qiu couldn’t write a proper book, in the Wechat group. Soon, someone reposted the book introduction to this group.

Seeing this introduction, most of the people in the group fell silent.

“This… this book was written by Fang Qiu?”

“This introduction looks quite professional. The book should have been written by Fang Qiu, right?”

“As far as I’m concerned, in order to create a buzz, the publishing house must have asked someone to write the introduction for Fang Qiu. After all, there are a lot of editors in the house. It’s a piece of cake for them to do some research and write a fantastic introduction. As for the content, it’s not a problem to write by imitating the CG animation that Fang Qiu made before. Finding a ghostwriter is easy!”

“I don’t know if the introduction was written by Fang Qiu, but I heard that the book was written by Fang Qiu himself. The publishing industry of Jiangjing has spread the news. Fang Qiu spent more than ten days doing research and writing the articles in the library of their school. After a thorough investigation, every word of this book was indeed written by Fang Qiu.”

The people in Jiangjing’s publishing circles appeared immediately to confirm the news.

Now, people in the big Wechat group in the publishing industry suddenly lapsed into silence.

It was so embarrassing!

Earlier, they were saying that Fang Qiu was only out to make money and couldn’t write anything profound. In the blink of an eye, they were slapped in the face when they saw the introduction to his book!

It was an incredibly professional book about Chinese Medicine.

They had forgotten how peerless Fang Qiu’s medical skills were!

However, when it came to the matter of losing face, people always made every effort to deny it.

“It’s just a brief introduction. What else can it tell? It’s normal.”

“That’s right. Looking at the introduction, I can tell that it was the editor who helped him to rephrase it so that it will attract readers. It seems to be quite professional, but being professional will also mean that the book will be obscure. Moreover, it’s his first time writing a book. Even if it was published, there will be many people who can’t understand it!”

“Totally! Taking up a new job doesn’t mean that he will definitely succeed.”

“Maybe Fang Qiu will meet his Waterloo in our industry.”

“That’s right. No matter how excellent Fang Qiu’s medical skills are and how capable he is in the variety show, he is no more than a newcomer in the publishing industry. What I can think of is that the only book he can write is about Chinese Medicine. But in this day and age, how many people will read medical books? Ordinary people can’t even understand them. This medical book is only for students in Chinese Medicine schools.”

“Absolutely. People don’t even have enough time to read e-books these days. Who will spend money to buy a medical book that they can’t understand at all?”

The awkward atmosphere seemed to have been completely lightened, and everyone began to discuss enthusiastically.

At this moment, someone suddenly said.

“In fact, it’s not necessarily a bad thing to integrate into a new industry. After all, the current business in our industry is slack. It’s tough for us to make money in this industry now. Apart from that, we also have to respectfully treat those writers who have a market. To sign a popular writer, we almost had to go down on our knees. All of this is because the paper book market is too slack now.”

“There’s nothing we can do about it. Technology is developing, and the paper book will be eventually replaced by the e-book one day. We’re simply struggling and on the brink of collapse.”

“I hope that Fang Qiu can bring the slack paper book market back to life.”

The other members of the group also started to speak out when they heard that.

“Impossible.”

“Can anyone improve the paper book market?”

“Yes. Everyone knows what the paper book market is like now. It’s impossible to rely on one person to bring back the paper book. Unless the e-book completely disappears, the paper book market will continue to shrink.”

“If a star could bring a market back to life, the paper book market would have been very popular. Over the years, many big stars who were more popular than Fang Qiu tried writing books, but the market has been sluggish, and there is no improvement in sales at all.”

“No one can improve the paper book market!”

As they were talking, people in the group became dispirited.

They were working in this industry. It was true that the paper book market was shrinking. They were also dying to bring the market back to life again, and they wanted to greatly increase the readers’ passion for paper books.

Unfortunately, they couldn’t do it.

They didn’t believe that anyone could do it either!

People were still discussing on Weibo.

“He’s indeed a scholar. Is he writing a monograph?”

“I am eager to read it after reading the introduction. I’m really curious to find out what the book is about!”

“Although I don’t think I can understand this book, I will buy one to keep when this book is published. Maybe this will be the only book written by our Master Fang in his lifetime!”

“Haha, the master is so awesome. The introduction makes me feel as if there is a medical professor teaching us.”

“The introduction is out. What about the title of the book?”

“Why are they keeping the title a secret?”

“What Fang Qiu does is always confusing. I can’t figure it out at all,” Zhou Xiaotian said with a wry smile.

“Totally.” Sun Hao nodded repeatedly and echoed. “This guy can do anything for no reason. The key is that we don’t even know what is his purpose for doing all these things. I’m so depressed.”

“Fang must have his own reasons for doing this. Maybe we can’t see through it now. When we do, maybe it will be mind-blowing.” Zhu Benzheng chuckled.

“This introduction?” In the medical team in Comores, Jiang Miaoyu managed to get a break in her busy schedule. She quickly took out her phone and logged on to Weibo to check the situation at home. As soon as she logged in, she saw the brief introduction of Fang Qiu’s book on Weibo.

After reading it carefully, Jiang Miaoyu smiled.

Just as she had expected, Fang Qiu’s book must be particularly profound!