After chatting for a few sentences, seeing that Bai Qing was very busy, Fang Qiu took her leave.
After Fang Qiu left, everyone present turned to look at Bai Qing one after another.
"Ah Qing, did I hear that right just now? Fang Qiu finished the entire rest of Sword and Fairy?"
"Hiss... I sucked in a breath of cold air."
"Saying yourself that you sucked in a breath of cold air, is that really okay..."
"I remember Volume 1 of Sword and Fairy was only released in the last issue, right? How many days has it been? Such a thick stack of manuscripts..."
"Sigh, if only the author I'm responsible for was this diligent... I wouldn't have to go to their house every day to urge them for updates. I'm exhausted, and I fall asleep as soon as I get home every day. My husband is starting to have complaints about me..."
"Me too. Recently, publication day arrives and I almost have no books to publish. What to do if this continues? So depressing..."
"Exactly. These authors are lazier than the next. It would be one thing if their results weren't as good as Fang Qiu's, but they aren't as diligent as Fang Qiu either. All day long they just know how to say they lack inspiration, their lives are painful, and they are feeling depressed. But then, that same afternoon, I saw him on the roadside arguing fiercely with an old man playing chess. He almost got beaten with a bench by that old man because he kept pointing fingers and giving advice while the old man was playing, annoying him... Then when I asked him to write, he said he got into a fight with an old man, was traumatized, and couldn't write... Tell me, how can there be such people? Writing books is clearly for them to earn money themselves, so why do they act like they are working for me..."
"Mm, she finished it."
Faced with the complaints from the senior editors about the authors under them, Bai Qing couldn't help but be caught between laughter and tears. She nodded and spoke.
Immediately after, she frowned, covered her forehead, sighed, and said, "Although she says she finished it, I don't know what the quality is like..."
Fang Qiu used a quill pen, and characters written with a quill pen are much smaller than those written with an ordinary brush. With such a thick stack of paper, there was no telling how many tens of thousands of words were there.
To compress such a long-form content into such a short time to finish, was the quality really guaranteed...?
It seemed Fang Qiu was still too young, too impatient.
If the quality of Fang Qiu's remaining manuscripts was poor, she would have to have a good talk with Fang Qiu and make her revise it properly.
How many naturally gifted geniuses ended up fading into the crowd because they were anxious and impetuous, unable to stay calm? This led to problems with the quality of their works, eventually causing readers to leave.
With few people interested in their new books, they eventually gave up writing.
She absolutely could not let Fang Qiu follow in those people's footsteps.
So, after exchanging a few words with the senior editors, Bai Qing returned to her desk. She did not immediately read Fang Qiu's manuscript but continued to read the manuscript she had been halfway through before.
After all, although she was anxious to read Fang Qiu's book, she couldn't favor one over the other. She had to finish reading the book in her hand before looking at Fang Qiu's book.
Time passed.
It wasn't until two hours later that Bai Qing finally let out a long breath.
"Finally finished reading. There are still so many problems."
She stretched her waist, sighed, set that manuscript aside, and bound it in a file folder.
She had been reading the manuscript of a new author's novel, and this was already the third revision.
But there were still quite a few problems, and it did not meet the requirements for publication.
It still needed another revision.
She would have a good talk with that rookie author later.
First, handle Fang Qiu's novel.
After all, publication day was approaching, so naturally, she had to prioritize handling the novel that could be published.
"Phew."
She rubbed her eyes, picked up Fang Qiu's novel manuscript, exhaled gently, and began reading.
The story started from the end of the last volume.
Looking at the writing style on the manuscript, which was full of xianxia flavor, as well as the lifelike character images, Bai Qing couldn't help but marvel at Fang Qiu's writing prowess once again.
She had originally thought that Fang Qiu wouldn't be very good at writing xianxia works. After all, her previous two books were completely unrelated to xianxia, and she had prepared herself to help Fang Qiu make major revisions.
For this reason, she had specially gone to Wanwen Bookhouse to buy two popular xianxia works to read, just to give Fang Qiu more precise suggestions.
Unexpectedly, Fang Qiu far exceeded her expectations in both writing style and world-building structure.
The writing was full of immortal flavor, and the world view was extremely novel.
Not to mention herself, even the authors of the two books she bought weren't as good as Fang Qiu.
So, the first volume of Sword and Fairy was released directly with almost no modifications made.
The market feedback these past few days had been extraordinarily explosive.
She smiled and continued reading.
The emotional rendering in the novel was done extremely well.
From Tang Xuejian being blocked from seeing her grandfather for the last time, to the ridicule and mockery from everyone in the Tang family, and finally Jing Tian relying on the Demon Sword to take action and break the deadlock.
The emotional suppression and explosion of this entire plot sequence were written with hearty ease, without any sloppiness.
The subsequent plot of Tang Xuejian bidding farewell to her grandfather was also very touching.
And this plot sequence also sculpted the character designs of the two protagonists, Jing Tian and Tang Xuejian, making them more three-dimensional.
One was a little punk who dreamed of getting rich all day long and dreamed of being a great hero, yet harbored justice in his heart; the other was an unruly yet incredibly filial and kind-hearted eldest miss.
And Xu Changqing also met Zixuan.
Clearly, there hadn't been much emotional buildup between the two, but Fang Qiu, relying solely on powerful and delicate writing, made Bai Qing feel that aura of sorrow that seemed about to pierce through the paper.
Looking at the plot in the book,
At this moment.
Bai Qing only felt that her heart seemed to ache along with it.
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