Chapter 208

Norton, the capital of the kingdom of Baron.

In the spacious and luxurious study, a thin man sat on the sofa and lit himself a cigar. His face was thin, his eyes were deeply sunken, and his eyebrows were sparse, which made him look gloomy and strange. Ordinary people will feel fear when they see a fierce face, but he belongs to the type that makes people fear without reason. This kind of feeling is like a poisonous snake. Sometimes it is more dangerous than a beast.

The burning tobacco is particularly conspicuous in this dark study, and the light white smoke rises up. If count Henrietta is here, he will recognize the identity of this gloomy man at a glance. The honorary president of the Literary Association, voyne hall, the rival in the next election of the president of the Literary Association, is also a person who can do nothing for the higher position.

"Dudu ~"

When the knock on the door rang, a dusty young man came in, put down his papers and began to tell what he had seen and heard in Elroy.

"Fairy tales?"

"Yes, Harvey Adrian did not deny that the novel was his own creation. This is a sample of the novel I bought from the bookseller on the street."

"It's hiring painters, it's writing fairy tales. What do our great writers want to do?" Vorn snuffed out his cigar and stared at the crude novel with a grim look: "you can go back and continue to monitor Harvey Adrian's movements. Don't miss any information, even if it's just a shadow."

"Yes, Mr. hall." The young man bowed, put on his hat and left the study.

Voyne came to the window, gazed at the scenery outside and muttered to himself, "Devon Henrietta hasn't done anything during this period of time. He's not a patient person. He won't be indifferent in the face of gossip. I'd like to see what else you have."

"Harvey Adrian, a young man, is in the wrong place. Apart from the count of Monte Cristo, there are no works that can cause a sensation. At best, the dark age is a well conceived novel, the romance of ice and snow? What else can fairy tales written for children bring about? "

"No, perhaps Harvey Adrian should not be regarded as a pure author. He invented the photographic crystal technology, which makes it difficult to attack him alone. Now we can only try our best to suppress Harvey Adrian before he has time to write novels. No matter how popular the count of Monte Cristo is, the position of the literary world and society is different, And the literary world is its own home. It completely suppresses him and takes over the post of president. When the dust settles, it's too late for him to do anything. "

"Devon Henrietta." Vaughn sneered: "maybe some people think highly of him. Does he really think Harvey Adrian can fight against the whole literary world? Do you really think that winning the Bauhinia medal can represent Norton's literature? Now the right of public opinion in Norton's literary world is completely in his own hands. Devon Henrietta's only trump card, Norton's night, has been criticized by many authors for a stupid article he published impulsively, and has killed himself! "

"Now." Vaughn turned around and looked at the novel "strange fate of ice and snow" on the table. He was always cautious and never gave the enemy any chance to fight back.

He lit the oil lamp on his desk, sat back and began to read "strange fate of ice and snow".

When the moon outside the window was gradually setting and a touch of fish belly white appeared in the distance of the city, voyne put down his novel "strange fate of ice and snow" and finished reading the fairy tale in one night.

"Yes, yes, because it's the fairy tale genre, which uses a lot of gorgeous rhetoric, and the words and sentences described are also very innovative. Adults will not feel boring when they read them. It's true that only Harvey Adrian can write this flavor." Voyne was born as an author and had some excellent literary accomplishment, so he naturally had the ability to appreciate a novel.

"But fairy tales are fairy tales after all. There is no good or evil in the world of adults, only interests," he sneered

After watching "ice and snow", he completely mastered the fairy tale, judging that its literary or artistic value is far from enough to put on the table. "Ice and snow" is an excellent fairy tale, but it is far from enough for the author of "count of Monte Cristo", and it is far from enough to help Harvey Adrian win the Bauhinia medal.

Voynn picked up the phone from his desk. Now that "ice and snow" appeared, he had to do something to suppress the momentum between Harvey and count Henrietta.

Now he can't let go of any chance to suppress Harvey and count Henrietta. Especially recently, they haven't moved a bit in the face of crazy public opinion criticism, which makes Vaughn feel uneasy. He doesn't know what cards Harvey and count Henrietta have. The only thing he can and must do is to completely suppress them, At least before the election, they're going to make their reputation worthless.

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"Absolutely, there are still people to help hype it!"

When Harvey got today's newspaper, he almost didn't spit out the milk in his mouth. He thought that Norton's disturbance couldn't involve him, but he didn't expect that even Elroy's newspapers would dare to publish their own slandering remarks, or aimed at the novel "strange fate of ice and snow" which has not been on the market for a long time.

[Elroy Morning Post: "talent is exhausted? A story for children. "]

The title of the newspaper almost didn't directly indicate that this is a comment on the novel "strange fate of ice and snow" which has been circulated. The whole content didn't mention Harvey's name, but the strange shadow implied that Harvey couldn't come up with a better work to refute Norton's popular criticism that he didn't deserve the Bauhinia Award.

Elroy is the city where Harvey lives. In addition to the huge economic and fame effects Harvey has brought to Elroy, Harvey's face is Elroy's face in a sense. The people who wrote this report either follow suit or are ready to be driven out of the city.

Although there is a saying that reality is stranger than fiction, Harvey can't believe that newspapers publish such journal reviews in order to attract attention.

Harvey thought about the stupid things that some people did on the Internet in order to gain attention before crossing, but now he is uncertain.

Hyping novels is Harvey's idea by the way. If the painter doesn't sell the novel, he doesn't have to sell it. Hyping can really improve the popularity of the novel and lay the foundation for comics and animation, but it's too much trouble after all.

It's hard for Harvey to draw a conclusion. Niya, a female painter with bread in her mouth, comes to Harvey's back, sees the newspaper headline, blushes, wants to say something and is swallowed by the bread.

Seeing this, Shirley handed her a year's warm milk. Niya swallowed the bread in confusion, waved her fist and said angrily, "it's all those guys' fault! It's Mr. Adrian who gave those guys a painting reference, but he shamelessly sold it. There's no character an artist should have! "

Harvey put down the newspaper, glanced at her and said, "let's not talk about that. Niya, you've been eating breakfast here for a week in a row."

"Thank you. The breakfast is delicious. The bread is soft and sweet. The bacon is delicious. If only I could put more salt in it. The milk is also delicious. I haven't had such a big breakfast for a long time." Niya nodded with satisfaction.

Harvey was angry for a moment, and felt that his brain waves and Niya's were not at the same frequency.

"Please keep quiet during the meal." Diana's elegant dinner towel touched her little mouth in a light reminder.

Shirley next to me smiles apologetically.

Niya waved to Shirley with a smile: "teacher, I'll go to the studio first."

Niya complains in front of Shirley that she comes here to work in a hurry from home. Most of the time, she doesn't even have time to eat breakfast. After hearing this, Shirley invites her to have dinner with her, but Niya doesn't know what politeness and refusal are. The breakfast is all prepared by Shirley. It doesn't take much effort to prepare more than one person. It's just that the atmosphere of breakfast is lively.