Chapter 36 This is how the nine knives came about

The dog Puma has been with our family for 14 years. When she was young, we were full of youth. When she was old, our family was also old.In those 14 years, there are many, many stories.I met her, wrote novels, learned to cry, started fighting... The book "Phallic Forest" was renamed from "Penis" in my Urban Horror Disease series, because the original title of the story was too eye-catching, and important chain bookstores were not very willing to have such a title on the shelves. I don't have any reputation at all, and I don't even have the backbone to change the title of the book. As long as a word of the deformed story is not deleted, I feel very happy.

"By the way, do you want to take a pseudonym?" asked the person in charge of Magic Beans Studio. "It's kind of disgusting to use a pseudonym, can I just use my account Giddens on the Internet?" "Giddens..." "Isn't it good? Does it sound learned in English?" I laughed. "I think, if the pen name is in Chinese, it will be better remembered by readers?" "Then...then use nine knives." I made a quick decision. "Huh? Nine swords? Is it... the nine swords of nine swords?" The other party's voice was like being hit by Ikki's Phoenix Phantom Fist.

But what kind of question is this? "Yes, that's my nickname. It's fine to publish a book with my nickname." "ㄜ, do you want to think about it again, don't answer me now, in a few days..." "It's okay, just nine knives!" It's okay a big headed ghost. Using Nine Swords as a pseudonym caused troubles in my future life. I was forced to listen to a lot of bad jokes repeated over and over, and had to nod and smile at each other.For example: "Nine knives? I have nine guns!" "Nine knives? Are you going to kill people or write a novel?" "Nine knives? I am ten knives!" "Nine knives? Excuse me." Which nine are your nine knives?"

Ho!It's very cold, okay? Regardless of the pseudonym, the first book! I believe that the joy of every writer when he gets his first book is definitely far more than that of others. Unable to restrain the excitement of publishing a book for the first time, I would often patrol the bookstores near my home to observe the placement of "Dildo Forest".It's just that I've never seen this book placed in the popular fiction section. The first time I saw "Phallic Forest" in a bookstore was in the "gender issue area", which I can barely accept. After all, the story describes the pathological male penis worship from a negative perspective, and it does have something to do with gender issues.

But I also see the penis forest in the "health care area", which is kind of weird. But this is not as shocking as I saw "Phallic Forest" in the "Forest Conservation Area". You know, if a little girl from elementary school wanted to write a report on the forest, so she went to the forest conservation area in the bookstore and bought a copy of "Phallic Forest" and went home. After reading it for a long time, she could only be innocent She said to her mother, "Mommy, there are so many small dicks in this book!" My scalp tingles just thinking about it.

Later, my books were published one after another. Due to the variety of themes, I wrote one on horror, one on fantasy, one on love, and one on martial arts. My books are placed in piles, but arranged according to subject type. So put one here, insert one there, scattered, after a long time, readers who visit the bookstore will not think that it is cool and daring for this writer to write a variety of subjects, but will only think why this writer It will be extremely lack of qualitative! So every time I go to a bookstore, I can't help but "replace" my books. By the time I left, that bookstore already had the "Nine Knives Zone" that I personally created.

Due to multiple submissions of one manuscript, many strange and interesting things happened. Half a year later, Chunk Press called me. "Excuse me, is this Mr. Ke Jingteng?" I remember it was a woman. "I am, where are you?" I was so impressed, I was waiting for Shaggy Dog to go to the bathroom at KFC. "Hello, we are Dachun Publishing House. We like your manuscript "Language" of Urban Horror Disease very much. I hope we can make an appointment to talk about it." chunk? "language"? I was completely dumbfounded. "Wait, I seem to have... submitted the manuscript, it's been almost half a year, right?"

"Half a year? But I just saw your manuscript recently." "Do you want to check the postmark, because it's been a long time since I sent it!" A few seconds passed. The other party exclaimed: "...Really, then why did I only see it these few days!" All I can say is, "Psychology. It's paranormal." Crap, and more crap. Eight months later, the editor-in-chief of Red Publishing House, which once published Cai Zhiheng's "The First Intimate Contact", called me personally, congratulating me on the acceptance of my manuscript. "Admission? When... did you review the manuscript?" I was drying Puma's feet in the pharmacy.

"I saw a floppy disk in a drawer this afternoon. I opened it and thought it was well written. You have a very special kind of black humor, and I think you can develop more." "Thank you, I'm really happy. But there is a big problem, I have been submitting for a long time!" "Really? I remember receiving it for a while, but..." "Do the math, it's been eight months!" I quickly calculated the answer. Puma kept hugging my calf and twitching, her earnest and persistent expression was admirable. "Then what should I do? Have you already given the manuscript to another publishing house?" The other party was very surprised.

"That's right, the book is coming out soon, so... just have a chance in the future, right? I just finished writing a novel, called, it is more in line with the tone of your publishing house, maybe you will like it." I can only so. In fact, what I most wanted to cooperate with at the beginning was Red, who had the most experience in publishing online novels, but I didn't cooperate immediately. That's right, no matter what, it's especially powerful when it comes to fate. A year later, the small Magic Beans Studio was put on the signboard of the publishing house. The name is "Gaia".

×××××× It is hard to forget the first time I saw you, a pair of charming eyes, In my mind, your figure can't go away. Hold your hands and feel your tenderness, I'm really a little breathless, Your innocence, I want to cherish, Seeing you wronged makes me sad. Harlem Harlem's "Love Is Not Deserving" was the theme song in Taiwan from 2000 to 2001. Department stores, hypermarkets, roadside shoe stores, and various clothing stores were all broadcasting it, and the streets and alleys were full of youth. Even me, who has never watched "Meteor Garden", remembers the first time I rode a motorcycle from my home in Changhua to Taidonghai, and I can't help singing along.The song was playing on repeat in my headphones all the way. The student dormitory area near Tunghai University is very lively, and everyone calls it "Dongbei". I've always been good at renting cheap houses. I rented a large room with a monthly rent of 3,500 yuan, about 7 pings in size. It was composed of two mini-suites connected to form a room.A bit peeling Japanese floor, but the soles of the feet tell me it's ok to the touch. The room is located on the fifth floor, the highest, at the end of a corridor where the street lights are occasionally broken. Suspected to be a little chilly, but I pretended not to care. Less than a minute's walk from where I rented a house, there was a motorcycle shop with no business. The owner of the motorcycle shop was Chen Jinhuo... well, that's another story.