"What are you looking at?" Su Hai approached, feeling a bit uneasy under Ningning’s gaze.
"Nothing," Sheng Ning dared only think to herself.
"When will you give the manuscript?"
"Are you talking about the manuscript for the Phoenix novel?" Sheng Ning had been working overti every night, and the plot and outline were already etched into her mind, making the writing process smooth. However, handwriting was inevitably slow compared to typing on a computer. Moreover, she also spent quite so ti practicing dance and yoga each day, so she had only completed half of the text in this period.
"I haven’t finished it, and I’ve submitted it to Zhi Yin magazine."
"Why hasn’t it been published?" Su Hai frowned. He seed to rember her saying so last ti, but Zhi Yin had not published it after such a long wait. Strange, with the current fa of ’Rebirth’, it couldn’t have gone unnoticed.
"Perhaps it wasn’t selected?" She had sent the beginning part before returning to her hotown to get married; there had been no response until now, so she guessed that the magazine probably thought this kind of novel was not mainstream enough to catch their eye.
"Heh heh..." Su Hai let out a cold laugh, "They must be blind. Give the manuscript, however much you have."
"Why should I give it to you? Haven’t you been transferred from the Inspection Departnt? Plus, our Song and Dance Troupe can’t make use of a novel." Sheng Ning was deeply wary of Su Hai, that sly fox. The mories from her past life were too vivid, and she couldn’t easily categorize him as a good person.
"What do you want?"
Su Hai touched his face. Did he really look like a villain with ill-intent? Many office girls admired him; why was it that Ningning disliked him so much? She still refused to even call him ’uncle’.
"I’m now overseeing culture and sports, it’s only fitting that you give it to . I can help you with promotion for free, are you really unwilling?" Su Hai made a disgusted face, reluctantly saying, "If it weren’t for the old man asking to look after you, would I need this?"
"Really?"
"I’m the Vice President now, would I need to scam you? Besides, with the old man as your backing, who would dare to scam you?" This darn girl, he thought, always needed him to resort to an and shaless coercion before she’d agree. A straightforward request always failed.
Sheng Ning thought it over and it indeed seed reasonable. The future President wouldn’t bother with small sches. She didn’t want to change her current life, and to prevent anyone from finding out she was the ’Rebirth’, the best choice at present was to collaborate with Su Hai.
"Wait for , I’ll get the manuscript, but we need to set down so ground rules."
"Speak!"
"Firstly, we can maintain a long-term partnership. We can split the profits eighty-twenty, and I’ll give all my future manuscripts to you. However, you cannot disclose this to anyone, nor can you threaten ."
"Agreed! I’ll take eighty, you take twenty."
Sheng Ning was about to head back to her dormitory when she heard this remark and stopped dead in her tracks. Was there such a shaless person in the world, boldly claiming eighty percent?
"And you have the nerve to request eighty as the Vice President?"
"I was joking. I won’t take a single cent; I’m a public servant and can’t be engaged in business."
"That’s unacceptable." Sheng Ning insisted, "There’s no such thing as a free lunch. If you don’t take it, I’ll feel uneasy."
"Alright! If it really makes money in the future, we’ll donate twenty percent of it."
Sheng Ning gave him a peculiar look, thinking to herself that he truly was a politician, never forgetting about crafting his political image.
On the way back, Sun Gan said with a smile, "Vice President, Comrade Sheng Ning seems to really look down on you, doesn’t she?"
"As if I didn’t know that," Su Hai replied irritably, "That girl has such a strong prejudice against ! It’s all because of your terrible attitude when you first t her; what do you expect?"
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