"How could it be?" The girls from the Literature Department showed surprise expressions.

The girl who asked was even more puzzled: "Minister, isn't that a magazine opened by your mother? I remember that you had basically published the articles you submitted in the past. Why did this novel that I carefully prepared for more than half a month but was rejected?"

The others were also puzzled and looked at Xia An with inquiring eyes.

Xia An shook his head and said, "This time is different from before. When the magazine didn't have any problems, my mother could make me a little willful and put what I wrote in inconspicuous small sections in the magazine. Anyway, it didn't occupy much place. But now the magazine has encountered a lot of difficulties, and my mother can't spoil me like before. Although I wanted to help share some of the pressure, the things I wrote were indeed far inferior to those of the professionals, and this result was expected."

Her expression was dim. Obviously, although it was expected, she still felt a little disappointed and hit by the rejection.

"Can you tell us what's wrong with the magazine?" Bai Mufan asked curiously.

Xia An did not shy away, explaining: "In recent years, electronic literature has gradually formed an irresistible trend. While it is growing, it has also caused a significant impact on the physical industry. In order to achieve better development, the authors under my magazines all went to online literature, especially the authors trained by one of the magazines breached contract and changed jobs, resulting in serious loss of readers in the magazines. Now it is in the most difficult time, and it is urgent to need an old author who can stabilize the scene or a good work with good quality. But..."

She shook her head and didn't continue to say it, but everyone had understood what she meant - both situations were too difficult.

Nowadays, people's pace of life has become faster, and online literature, which can be read online at any time and anywhere, has become the mainstream. The market and cake of paper books will inevitably be squeezed smaller and smaller by online literature. The crisis encountered by Xia An's mother's magazine is believed to be the dilemma of most physical magazines and publishing houses today.

Bai Mufan thought for a while and asked: "Have the magazine tried to transform into the online section?"

If you want to avoid being eliminated by this trend, the best way is not to stick to your own opinions and stick to the "old land" of the physical version, but to boldly open your arms, embrace the emerging online literature, and strive to not be left behind by the trend of the times, so that you can continue to flourish.

Xia An looked at him in surprise and nodded, "After my mother discovered that the trend of online literature was unstoppable, she was already trying to let magazines enter online literature in the form of enterprises. However, because she lost the opportunity, most of the readers' market was seized by other competitors who entered the first time, so almost no master-level authors were willing to enter our magazine. Most of the new authors also contributed to us with a try attitude. There were basically no high-quality manuscripts in these manuscripts, let alone the top works that we urgently needed to support the scene."

Bai Mufan nodded in a clear way.

As the saying goes, step by step, when other magazines and publishers have already occupied the online market first, it is not easy for Xia An’s mother, who has been slowing down, to grab a piece of meat from these powerful opponents to eat.

Bai Mufan pondered for a moment and said, "Minister, can you show me your manuscript?"

"Of course, but I don't write very well. I hope you don't dislike it." Xia An handed him the manuscript in his hand openly.

Bai Mufan sat upright and looked at it seriously.

Xia An wrote a short campus romance novel with a full text of about 50,000 words. Bai Mufan was not fast but not slow, and he finished it in about thirty minutes.

When he finished reading the last line of words, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and fell into deep thought.

How to say it, overall, this is a regular love novel.

Because of the inclined concepts of men and women in this world, the novel says that girls pursue boys. After several twists and turns, their relationship finally overcomes many difficulties. The lovers finally got married and got together, which is a joyful congratulation!

So the question is, why are the manuscript rejected?

Because although this novel has no poison or disadvantages, it also lacks new ideas that make people shine.

Bai Mufan could only see that Xia An's writing skills were very solid. He would feel a little satisfied when he saw the ending of the hero and heroine coming together, but that's all. He might forget everything when he wakes up tomorrow morning.

A truly excellent romance novel must be kept so that readers will close their eyes and reminisce for a long time after reading it, and their minds are completely immersed in the story of the novel, and they will be worried about the characters and stories in it for many days. Xia Anli is still far behind in this state.

Under normal circumstances, this novel should be barely published in a small section of the magazine. It is at least qualified, but now the magazine is in the most difficult time and the requirements have been raised a lot, so it is not difficult to understand that this novel will be rejected.

Xia An kept paying attention to Bai Mufan's reaction. Seeing that he had read the last page, he couldn't help but ask: "How is it?"

Bai Mufan came to his senses and returned the manuscript in his hand to Xia An, and at the same time told her his comments.

Xia An sorted out the manuscript. Hearing this, he couldn't help but smile helplessly and said, "The editor who rejected the manuscript also told me this. I still can't do it."

Seeing that she was full of loss, Bai Mufan couldn't help but propose: "How to try a new routine? For example, let the hero and heroine exchange the souls of the hero and heroine or something."

"Let the hero and heroine exchange souls?" Xia An thought carefully, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's okay? This kind of creativity is too amazing! Afan, how did you think of it?"

"Awesome?" Bai Mufan was a little puzzled. This routine should be considered an old routine, right? Many people have played it in the film and television fields and literature fields.

He suddenly remembered something, took out his phone and searched it, and soon he raised his head and his face became a little strange.

No one has ever used the routine of men and women's soul exchange!

Whether it is the field of film and television works or the field of literary works, this kind of subject matter is blank, just as if this person who reverses the world has never thought about it in this direction.
Chapter completed!