At night.
At 7 PM sharp.
According to the statistics from all the major bookstores in the country, the 200,000 copies of Fortress Besieged were sold out by 6: 57 PM. There was not a single copy left on the market!
The publishing world was shocked!
The industry was also in an uproar!
Who said that the publishing industry was in a slump?
Who said that physical books were no longer doing well in recent years?
Faced with a book that had skyrocketed in sales, many of the publishing houses hurriedly started researching it. Many of the authors who were not prepared to read it picked up Fortress Besieged and flipped through it curiously. Some netizens even offered 100 RMB for a copy on Weibo. It was already difficult to find a book in this world!
Then, all sorts of analyses were published!
Fortress Besieged had stunned the entire Chinese literary world!
Classic Quotes:
1: It is unfortunate that a poem is meaningful.
2: You are not bad, but you are completely useless.
3: Life is said to be a big book. If life is really like that, then more than half of us authors can only be considered book reviewers. With the skills of a book reviewer, we don't need to read more than a few pages of a book before we can post a bunch of comments and submit a book review.
4: If a person is not arrogant at 20 years old, that person is worthless. If he is arrogant at 30 years old, that person is also worthless.
5: There are no coincidences in this world. That is just an inevitability with makeup and a mask on.
6: A husband is a woman's job. Without a husband, one would be unemployed.
And so on.
Every word, every phrase, and every paragraph in Fortress Besieged was dug out by people like crazy, torn apart, and crushed to pieces before calling it brilliant!
On Weibo.
The netizens were getting very excited!
"Godly! Godly! "
"Any random paragraph is a classic!"
"It's so good that I'm crying!"
"So this is Zhang Ye's pure literary novel?"
"Damn, this is the most awesome book I've read in recent years!"
"I can already feel the goosebumps all over my body!"
"Your sister, how could there be any big secrets about Auntie Zhang in it!"
"Pfft, previous poster, did you really believe it?"
"I didn't expect Fortress Besieged to be like this either. I thought it was a pure love novel. Isn't Teacher Zhang still unmarried? Pfft, why do I feel like he's going to get a divorce? Look at how it's written in other people's books. Marriage is a tomb. I wonder if Teacher Zhang will get beaten up by Auntie Zhang tonight! "
"Hahaha, he deserves it!"
"Support Auntie Zhang! Let Zhang Ye kneel on a washing board!"
"Godlike book! A godlike person! "
"Fortress Besieged is amazing!"
"F * * k, I've become Zhang Ye's fan!"
"Me too. Fortress Besieged has made me completely defenseless against it. That Zhang Ye fellow is too good at getting fans! It was like a silent moisturizer. Just by looking at it, one would be mesmerized! But my parents seem to be even more obsessed with him. These two people who have never paid attention to the entertainment industry before have become Zhang Ye's fans after watching Fortress Besieged! "
"So is my grandma!"
"I've never read pure literature in the past, thinking that it would be meaningless if I couldn't understand it. But Fortress Besieged is really different from other pure literature novels! This book is poisonous! "
"I'm addicted too!"
"I've also read many of the novels that were nominated for the Qilu Literature Prize, but none of them can be mentioned in the same breath as Fortress Besieged. Surely Zhang Ye can't really win the highest award, can he?"
"Who knows? He should have won the Yanhong Literary Prize. He doesn't have a good relationship with the literary world!"
"So what if our relationship isn't good? Just this Fortress Besieged book alone, even if Zhang Ye fucking points at everyone in the literary world and scolds them, he should still get the award! Because this book is too scary. No matter how much the literary world doesn't like him, no matter how many authors he has offended, they still have to accept it! "
"I guess the literary world is already stunned!"
"Fortress Besieged is such a big killer move!"
...
At the studio.
Information from various sources was coming in.
Ha Qiqi and the others kept reporting the good news and were all extremely excited!
"It's sold out!"
"The pre-orders have also broken the record!"
"The popularity stats are growing too fast!"
They compiled a chart for Zhang Ye to see. Zhang Ye's Weibo followers had increased by quite a bit again. His popularity stats in all aspects had also skyrocketed.
This was a rather indirect statistic, but it also explained the problem. Moreover, many of the fans this time were actually middle-aged and older people who were more cultured. As a result, Fortress Besieged had garnered a large number of new fans! This was undoubtedly good news. Every celebrity's fanbase had its limits. Some people targeted the younger generation and fed off their young fans, like those Korean celebrities. Others targeted the otaku male audience and their fans were mostly male, like Dong Shanshan. Zhang Ye's fan base had always been quite diverse. There were men and women, some in their teens, some in their twenties, and some in their thirties. But it was still very rare for him to attract fans on a large scale who were in their 40s and 50s, or even older than that!
A small fan base meant that there was a limit to it.
A celebrity who only targeted the younger generation would only be an A-list celebrity at most. Even if you managed to attract half of the country's youths as fans, the number of fans would still be limited. Similarly, when a celebrity that only catered to men or women reached a certain height, they would realize that they couldn't go any further. This was because the fan base was already saturated, and there was no way for new fans to come in.
Therefore, the fan base was very important!
And Fortress Besieged had undoubtedly opened up a new fan channel for Zhang Ye. This new batch of fans was very important to the increase of his popularity. If he wanted to break through the A-list rankings and take one of the seven spots, the first thing he had to do was not to be "biased" towards certain subjects. Otherwise, he would lose at the starting line!
It was almost 8 PM.
Weibo suddenly fell silent.
The staff at Zhang Ye's Studio also fell silent.
Because at this time, the Qilu Literature Prize winners were about to be announced. Countless people all over the country had turned on their radios and were quietly listening to Central Radio.
Wu Yi wiped his sweat away. "I'm so nervous!"
Ha Qiqi clutched her chest. "Stop nagging. I'm getting nervous too!"
Little Wang didn't dare to listen anymore and covered her ears.
Meanwhile, Zhang Zuo and the others were staring intently at the radio.
Zhang Ye leaned against the window and smoked. He was also looking forward to it a little. He had done everything he could and even tossed out Fortress Besieged, the "atomic bomb" of the literary world in his previous world. After that, he could only leave it up to fate. Whether or not his "Reach the Summit" plan could proceed smoothly within a short period of time would all depend on this!
The Qilu Literature Prize was awarded in a different manner from the other two highest literary prizes. It was the most prestigious literary award, and also the most unique. For the past few decades, the Qilu Literature Prize had continued its tradition of announcing the winners through the radio. There was no award ceremony, nor was there a trophy. However, the voice on the radio still tugged at the heartstrings of the literary world. This was the most sacred moment in the literary world!
The broadcast started.
The people were having heated discussions.
Zhang Ye's parents had already turned on the radio on their cell phones.
Zhang Xia got her son to dig out an old radio set from many years ago. After testing it for a long time, it finally worked.
In many of the dormitories at Peking University, there was no longer the sound of games or music. Instead, many of the dormitories were filled with the sound of an ancient radio station from the last century.
Zzt zzt.
The static went by in a flash.
The announcer did not beat around the bush. "Dear listeners, how are you? Next, we will be announcing the five winners of the quadrennial Qilu Literature Prize. From lowest votes to highest, they are —"
Zhang Ye stubbed out his cigarette and walked over.
Ha Qiqi's breathing nearly froze.
Little Wang clasped her hands together. "Director Zhang! Director Zhang! "
The announcer said, "Liu Tianqi, 'Fate by the Lake.'"
Wu Yi exclaimed!
Ha Qiqi hissed, "Quiet."
The jury voted for the five winners. The rankings of the five winners were arranged in order, starting from the fifth place, so it wasn't time to get anxious yet.
The announcer said, "Han Dong, 'Spring Returns.'"
At Han Dong's house. His relatives were already screaming!
"Second Uncle, it's you! It's you! "
"You've won it! You've won it! "
Han Dong was also very excited!
The announcer said, "Zhang Yi, 'Two Summer Days.'"
At Zhang Yi's house. Zhang Yi's husband was already screaming. As a female author, winning the Qilu Literature Prize was the greatest affirmation she could get. When Zhang Yi herself heard that, she immediately walked over to the table and excitedly took several heart medicine. Her hands were trembling with excitement!
There was already a third winner!
There were only two left!
The announcer said, "Zang Weiguo, 'Slow Eyes'!"
In Zang Weiguo's country, his children and grandchildren were all excited!
When Zang Weiguo heard his name being announced, tears streamed down his face. He had won it. After 30 years of hard work in the literary world, he had finally won the highest award. Although he did not get first place in the voting, this was enough to make him cry tears of joy. He had never thought of coming out on top. It would be a miracle if he could even win the Qilu Literature Prize!
There was only one more to go!
The winner of this year's Qilu Literature Prize would be announced!
Little Wang was sweating profusely!
Ha Qiqi was also getting really anxious!
Why wasn't it announced yet?
Why wasn't Director Zhang's name mentioned?
Zhang Ye took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
Wu Yi stomped his feet. Hurry up! Hurry up!
The entire literary world was waiting for the final name to be announced!
A lot of the people were pricking up their ears and staring with wide eyes!
When the last name was announced, the announcer paused for a moment. Then he said in a very magnetic voice, "Zhang Ye, 'Fortress Besieged.'"
The studio suddenly fell silent!
Then Little Wang let out an ear-piercing scream!
"Ah!"
"She said Zhang Ye! She said Zhang Ye! "
"It's us! We've won it! "
"First place in the voting!"
"We've won it! We've won it! "
Screams!
Shouts!
The studio blew up!
Little Wang and a few of the female staff members were raising their hands and shouting. One of the young ladies was even crying from excitement!
Everyone was hugging each other and shouting and cheering. It hadn't been easy at all. This award had come to them after so much difficulty! In just two days, Zhang Ye had only used two days to dabble in the field of literature for the first time, and he had won this year's highest literary award with the highest number of votes. This could only be described as a miracle, or even a dream. Only Zhang Ye could do something like this. Only he could do it!
Today, Zhang Ye had reached the top of the domestic literary world!
Zhang Ye and Fortress Besieged had been pushed to the top!
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