After dreaming of getting rich, I dressed up as a collapsed idol

Chapter 467

Flirting

Last November, I listened to the childhood stories of my roommate Wu Yongfei and his childhood sweetheart Julie, and remembered this book. I had planned to submit it to the Nine Schools Alliance Literary Exchange Conference.

Later, many people felt that this story was not suitable, so they chose Gu Long's "Legend of Lu Xiaofeng"

However, the outline and materials were ready at that time, so I simply wrote it during the winter vacation and sent it to "Mengya"

As a novel with themes of growth and first love, it also fits the tone of "Germination".

The original work was set in a foreign context, but Lu Qingfeng changed these elements to domestic ones. He also used the names of the two protagonists in the book after obtaining the consent of the dormitory leader and senior student.

The story originates from the seven-year-old "I". Xiaofei moved with his parents to a small town in the south. On the first day after the moving truck arrived, he was pestered by a little girl who was like a wild child.

She lived right across the street from my new home, and without being invited, she climbed onto the truck with her shoes covered in mud.

Dad tried to stop her, but she sat down and started pushing a big box with her feet, saying she wanted to help.

A huge trouble, this was the first impression Julie left on me. I just wanted to stay away from this overly enthusiastic girl.

After we became classmates, Julie's various behaviors in elementary school made me dislike her more and more. Even if Julie had some outstanding achievements, in my eyes, she had ulterior motives.

In Julie's eyes, on the first day she met Xiaofei, her heart was beating fast because of his eyes.

The seven-year-old girl loved playing football, but there were no other children of her age to play with her. When her mother told her that new neighbors were moving in, she was very excited.

She even played soccer by herself to pass the time while waiting for the new neighbors to arrive.

On the day when the new neighbor finally arrived, after being held at home by her mother for more than an hour, she was finally allowed to go outside and met the man who would become her best friend, Wu Yongfei.

That day, Wu Yongfei was hanging around the truck while her father was moving boxes. Julie felt very sympathetic towards Wu's father because he was exhausted and was doing all the moving by himself.

She thought to herself that she had to go and help.

The story continues to advance from the dual perspectives of the male and female protagonists.

Because of their different first impressions, Julie thinks Xiaofei is a shy, cute boy who is greater than the sum of his parts; while Xiaofei sees Julie as a troublesome "stalker".

This awkward relationship lasted until the arrival of adolescence. The sycamore tree that Julie loved was going to be cut down due to construction. She climbed up the tree and vowed to defend it to the death and asked Xiaofei for help.

But Xiaofei chose to leave because of his cowardice.

After the sycamore tree was cut down, Julie was deeply shocked. Her father gave her a painting, which made her start to think about "the part and the whole" and re-examine her love for Xiaofei.

After the incident of sending eggs, Julie was completely heartbroken. She saw through Xiao Fei's hypocritical and cowardly nature and took the initiative to distance herself from him.

In the library, Julie heard Xiao Fei joining his friend in mocking his mentally retarded uncle, and the two broke up completely.

During this period, Xiaofei's grandfather was like a guide. After things happened, he would throw the problems back to Xiaofei again and again, allowing him to face himself little by little, understand others, and interpret the true beauty little by little.

At the end of the story, Xiao Fei came to his senses and, with the encouragement of his grandfather, planted a sycamore tree in Julie's yard with his own hands, symbolizing growth and redemption.

If you are lucky enough to finish reading this book, you will understand that it is not just a story about first love.

When I was in junior high school, girls circulated youth literature magazines such as "Fireworks" and "Germination" among each other. They mainly told stories about the pain of youth, which made many junior high school students, including me, feel that they had a kind of adolescent pain that others could not understand.

In addition to studying, I would also imagine a bloody youth drama.

But in reality, in junior high and high school life, apart from studying, grades, and some people falling in love early, most boys are stupid and girls are gossiping, and not so many tragic things happen.

Everyone is growing up smoothly, with endless classes to attend, endless homework to do, and endless exams to take.

I like the author's previous book, "Those Years", because what happened in the story are all simple and sincere daily things that I have experienced. This new book is more pure.

It depicts the different views and feelings of men and women when facing the same thing from their perspectives, and uses a relaxed tone to show the differences in thinking between boys and girls.

Julie has a pure heart and pursues the person she likes with a passionate and sincere attitude; she believes that such sincerity can impress the other person, but in Xiaofei's eyes, these behaviors make him feel embarrassed and ashamed.

I like this passage in the book: Some people are shallow, some people are all show and no substance; one day you will meet someone as brilliant as a rainbow, and when you meet this person, you will feel that everyone else is just a passing cloud.

Just like grandpa said, Xiaofei is not hopeless, he just doesn't understand himself.

Don't judge a person casually, don't blindly listen to the voice of the outside world, see with your own eyes, and be true to your inner self.

Xiao Fei went from listening to his parents and best friends at first to developing his own judgment. This is part of his growth.

Unlike last time, Lu Qingfeng, who has proven himself in the book market, did not do too many new things in publishing his new book this time, and launched it step by step.

Its fame itself is enough to attract many readers to spontaneously walk into bookstores and buy books.

Three days after the new book was released, the first wave of book reviews came out.

This book has received much higher praise than "Those Years". In a sense, it is not a youth literature novel.

Before writing the book, the original author worked as a teacher for a long time. Her long-term teaching career gave her a deep understanding of the psychology of children of this age group.

In the book "The Fault in Our Stars", there are a lot of delicate psychological descriptions of the male and female protagonists.

It has received rave reviews both at home and abroad, and was listed as one of the best children's novels of the 21st century by School Library Journal.

Compared to "Those Years" which mainly writes about adolescent campus relationships, this book has a higher purpose. It is a story about growing up, about the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty, but it is set in the story of childhood sweethearts' first love.

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After the new book was released, Lu Qingfeng paid attention to the market response and then went about his own business.

Yang Xiuxiu has handled the publishing procedures of several books and is now able to handle it independently without having to worry too much.

Today is Friday. After school in the morning, Lu Qingfeng met up with three other roommates in the dormitory to go to the cafeteria for lunch. On the way, he saw senior Julie.

Lu Qingfeng, Guo Hao, and Zhang Jingyi gave Wu Yongfei an "I understand" expression and left first with tact.

Wu Yongfei, an honest man, felt a little embarrassed, but didn't say anything.

"It looks like Julie and Phineas are about to get married."

When the two people were no longer in sight, the three of them discussed the matter.