Lin Zixuan knows that "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" is a classic.

If "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is about the feelings of family and country, then "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" is about the spirit of personal freedom.

It writes about a protagonist called Linghu Chong.

How is this protagonist doing?

He had no father or mother, and finally became a master and was still a hypocrite. He was first suspected by his master, then lost all his martial arts skills and sought medical treatment everywhere. From beginning to end, he was also used by others.

The junior sister he liked didn't like him, and his respected master lied to him.

He was unstable between the right path and the evil path, and was misunderstood, and he almost died and died several times.

If you see this introduction, you must think it is a abuser and give up directly, but this is not a abuser, but instead highlights Linghu Chong's free and open-minded nature.

If ordinary people have such an experience, they will not be depressed or have high fighting spirits.

However, Linghu Chong has an attitude of not taking everything to heart and is optimistic.

Even when he was at the Jindao Wang family, he lost all his martial arts skills, got drunk at the banquet, vomited all over the floor, was disgraced, and was ridiculed and forced by the Wang family. Even readers who read books felt very distressed, but he still didn't take it to heart.

He only cares about the people he cares about, such as his junior sister and his wife, but he has no concern for other irrelevant people.

This is Linghu Chong's arrogance beyond open-mindedness.

His arrogance comes from his bones. He is open-minded and unwilling to compromise, otherwise he would never have fallen to this level.

In this world, everyone lives in barriers and has to face various difficulties and cannot be liberated. So we learn to compromise and continue to live.

Linghu Chong was unwilling to compromise, so he lived alone.

He yearns for freedom but cannot get real freedom, but his heart is free, at least he is on the road to pursuing freedom.

He lived a bad life, but he was not sad at all.

For such a protagonist, it is like seeing ourselves, and readers can't help but dislike it.

We envy Linghu Chong, but we cannot live like him.

The four words "Swordsman" come from "Journey to the West". In the ninth chapter "Yuan Shoucheng's selfless plot, the old dragon king's clumsy plan violates the rules of heaven" by the fisherman's "Xijiangyue" "I got it and the cooking taste was strong, and the smilesman's proud Jianghu was coaxed."

It means free and easy fishing and enjoying the delicious food.

This is an attitude towards life.

Only those who see the second half of "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer" can experience this spirit of freedom and Linghu Chong's state of mind.

However, now "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer" has just been serialized to Linghu Chong's plot on the cliff and facing the wall. Lin Pingzhi, who was originally considered the protagonist, went to play with the soy sauce, and Linghu Chong's story has just begun.

At this critical moment, criticism is increasing.

Lin Zixuan can ignore it and speak with his works. After a few months, the story will naturally stop after the story is serialized.

But he could not do Linghu Chong's open-mindedness, and too much criticism would lead to a decline in sales of "Popular Novel Weekly".

Readers have herd mentality. If everyone thinks that "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" is poorly written, or even someone writes on behalf of others, then why should I buy newspapers to read? Isn't it a waste of money?

Once this idea takes root in the readers' minds, the "Popular Novel Weekly" will lose this customer.

It would be fine if Lin Zixuan wrote it faster, but there are only 10,000 or 20,000 words per week. Readers have to wait for a week after reading it. They have a week to criticize "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer".

Even Pingqianya believes that the boss may have made a mistake this time.

Compared with "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer" is too ordinary. It does not involve national hatred and family feud, nor does it have outstanding heroes and heroes, and even the background of the times is not specified.

There are only a few conflicts between the major sects and the Demon Cult, and this setting has returned to the routine of "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" and has become clichéd.

Of course, compared with other authors' martial arts novels, "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" is still good.

But I am afraid of comparison in anything. With "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in front of me, "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" seems much dim.

Pingqianya’s suggestion is to increase the publication of "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer" to win back readers.

But Lin Zixuan knew that since Linghu rushed up to the Siguo Cliff and faced the wall, the next thing was the beginning of his unlucky fortune.

Although he learned the Nine Swords of Dugu, he was suspected by Yue Buqun. The junior sister fell in love with someone else. She lost all her martial arts skills and was abused to the point of being completely abused. She was a mess. Not to mention winning back the readers, just don’t be scolded.

If you want to turn the tables, you can only use other means.

He remembered the score of Liu Zhengfeng and Qu Yang in "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer". There is a song "A Laugh in the Sea" in later movies. This can be used as a gimmick to attract readers' attention.

Think about it, the music score made in the original novel actually appeared, so be surprised!

This matter must be discussed with Li Jinhui. Next time, the music score and lyrics will be published in the "Popular Novel Weekly" to divert readers' attention and stop discussing the plot.

In addition, the publication of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Search for Qin" are also on the agenda, and many bookstores in Shanghai have intentions to publish.

Ping Jinya proposed to run a bookstore by himself. He worked in Shanghai World Bookstore and understood the tricks.

In this era, there were many private bookstores. As long as there were printing factories and distribution channels, it was not difficult to collect manuscripts in a place where literati gathered in Shanghai, and they could also translate foreign books first.

He is an ambitious person and has the ability. He is not satisfied with being the editor-in-chief of a newspaper, and he needs a bigger stage.

Since Lin Zixuan has the capital, why not take it a step further?

In fact, in the original history, even without Lin Zixuan, Pingqianya would have become a hero in the Shanghai publishing industry in the 1930s, mastered the Central Bookstore and the "Wanxiang" magazine, and had a great influence in the Shanghai literary world.

He had a cousin named Ping Xintao. His wife was good at writing romance novels, and her pen name was Qiongyao.

Lin Zixuan thought it made sense. Anyway, he wanted to make a newspaper. It would be much more convenient to have his own printing factory. And with a bookstore, he could print his own books, so there was no need to make money from other bookstores.

He had many popular novels in his mind during the Republic of China. Even if he didn't have time to write them, he could find the author to make an appointment and make a profit by publishing them.

For example, Zhang Henshui, Qin Shouou and others, and even later Zhang Ailing.

Discovering new writers is also a very fun job. In the future, these famous writers were cultivated by him with keen eyes and vigorously. As a mentor, he would be very proud of his face when he talked about them.

The highest level of a great literary master is not to become a literary master yourself, but to cultivate a group of literary masters.

Think about it and feel fulfilled.
Chapter completed!