Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 62
At that time, no one knew that Ning Meng in Wuxia and Ning Meng in Zhiyin and other magazines were the same person.
For other martial arts magazines, the first thing that came to mind was poaching people.
After all, the value of an author who could single-handedly revitalize a dying magazine and take off directly was huge.
Not only martial arts magazines, but romance magazines were also looking for news about Ning Meng.
They could also ask Ning Meng to write for them another series. The next novel could be signed directly by their romance magazine.
Therefore, all major magazines of the same type arranged for their reporters to go to Guangzhou. Whether they were undercover agents or other methods, they wished to inquire about Ning Meng’s current royalties and get her contact information.
That was actually not difficult. They could bribe a few staff members in the receiving department of Wuxia magazine. They used to do that in the past and poached many talents from Wuxia magazines.
The Wuxia magazine was just a little bit poached and was near to being closed down due to them. There had been news in the industry that the Guangzhou branch of Wuxia was going to be canceled.
Even if they were not in the same city, they all had their own information channels.
But Li Ang, the founder of the martial arts magazine, had been on guard against this for a long time. Since the staff of the magazine were transferred, only three or two kittens (newbies) were left. The rest were all dead cats who had been following Li Ang since the first issue. Zhong, or honest people who didn’t matter, as long as they had some connections, were all transferred away.
Director Li said very straightforwardly, “Once Ning Meng’s information is poached, you may temporarily get some money, but so what? What will you face next? I believe each of us understands.” He said, “The big deal is I will get transferred, but I will still work as a director. I will retire in a few years, and I will still get my pension. How about you?”
“The only thing waiting for you is to be laid off.”
The shadow of being laid off some time ago still hung in the minds of these people, but now it finally dissipated. Those people who came were poaching Ning Meng. They were clearly poaching their jobs and their foundations, and how could they tell others about Ning Meng?
They didn’t know Ning Meng’s identity, but they always knew her contact address. Was there any difference between knowing the address and finding Ning Meng herself? It was just a matter of time.
So these old employees were on tight guard one by one. If there was any slight disturbance, they would feel like they were facing a formidable enemy, and would wonder if the person was an undercover agent sent by the rival magazine.
Their magazine had seen undercover agents many times before, and their house was almost robbed.
To another end, Director Li also held a special meeting with the old employees. “We can’t just defend blindly, we can also attack, right? Only we know Ning Meng’s information now, but this does not prevent us from releasing some false news, such as Ning Meng’s identity and her job.” He paused and took a sip of tea. “Many readers tried to analyze what Ning Meng’s real job is. I think the readers just have very good analysis skills.”
“Ning Meng, is she actually a police officer? Doesn’t this make sense?”
Although the old employees didn’t know Ning Meng’s specific identity, the director had said so, so it must make sense.
Soon, the news said that the author of Catcher in Song Dynasty was actually a police officer from a certain city within the government from Guangzhou.
Jiang Ning knew nothing about her identity outside. After finishing the mock exam at the beginning of the school year, the head teacher and teachers of various subjects had a basic understanding and judgment of the approximate scores of the students in the class, which were not much different from the high school entrance examination score rankings.
The only exception was Jiang Ning.
After all, she was a student who did very well in the Chinese liberal arts test, okay in science, and average in English in high school. However, during the mock test at the beginning of the semester, the situation was completely reversed. It was really something that the teachers of each subject did not expect.
Even if she had strengthened English learning during the summer vacation, she would not have left all other subjects, right?
Jiang Ning also continued to find opportunities to start her writing career after taking the mock exam.
After a week of military training and a few days of getting to know each other, the girls in dormitory 610 had all gotten to know each other initially. They were no longer as unfamiliar or distant as when they first arrived. At that time, looking at the scrolls that Jiang Ning was writing so hard, they put down their books and, out of curiosity, came over to see what she was writing.
Jiang Ning quickly covered the manuscript and refused to let them see it.
She really didn’t want people to know that she made money by submitting novels. She always felt that if a secret was known to one person, the whole school would know it, and her parents would also know it.
She didn’t want to cause trouble.
Xu Xiuli’s character was really like the arrogant Sister Lin in Class 87’s Dream of Red Mansions. Seeing that she wouldn’t let her look at it, she snorted and rolled her big eyes beautifully. Sitting back on the bed, she poked her face from the book from time to time and was very curious.
Jiang Ning sat on the two martial arts magazines she bought and the one sent by the magazine.
Xu Xiuli said in disdain, “Hey, who wants to read your book?”
Jiang Ning didn’t care and stuffed it back again.
They weren’t as busy as during military training. She could probably maintain a rhythm of five thousand words a day, writing until the lights were turned off, then going to wash up and go to bed.
After she went to wash up, several roommates in the dormitory came over curiously to see what book she had.
It was true that they had too little entertainment. Except for a few students who had enough money to buy leisure books, the rest of the students basically had no money to buy magazines. Even if they had money, they could only buy tutoring books, homework books, pens, etc. At most, they could buy a collection of college entrance examination essays.
They had already seen that it was a magazine.
It was a new one. They were too embarrassed to borrow it, but Jiang Ning actually used this brand new book as a toaster, which was a waste of money.
Although they were both in No. 1 High School, many people like Jiang Ning also loved to read Jin Yong and Gu Long (classic novels).
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