The elevator from the restaurant to the apartment.
This route is exceptionally familiar.
"We're buying our own books?"
"Is that so strange?"
"Is… is this still a normal thing to do?"
"Of course, it's quite normal."
"I can't see anything normal about this!"
"You, you're still a princess who doesn't understand the hardships of the real world."
"Enough! Zhou Mo Sen, stop mocking me!"
"Okay, I won't mock you. Buying our own books is actually called chart manipulation."
"Oh, this…"
"Aren't you worried because your novel couldn't get on the sales chart?"
"You, you actually…"
"It's a perfectly normal mindset, so let's just use a few tricks, and these tricks are perfectly normal too."
"But…"
"Anne, could you really be so naïve? Don't you know that even a traditional publisher sending out books counts in sales numbers?"
"Then…"
"Then what? Where's your sincerity?"
The term 'chart manipulation' was indeed unfamiliar to Anne Hathaway.
