dkrc After Chapter 61, you will no longer have custody of the child.
After Chapter 61, you will no longer have custody of the child.
"What are your thoughts on the recent controversy surrounding the child actor who played the lead role?"
"All I can say is that we firmly oppose domestic violence; I have no further comment."
Director Mo left the promotional event under the protection of bodyguards.
China Telecom is a publisher of books, one of the top five publishers in China.
The Children's Literature Department received a very important book today. Without even looking at the contents, just look at the first sentence on the title page: "This book is dedicated to my friend's childhood, a song of courageous life."
Everyone who is following this matter now knows who the friend of the early spring tea is, so it's not hard to understand the meaning of this commemorative friend. When the old editor received this fairy tale book called "The Little Prince", he was quite puzzled.
This young author did indeed create many excellent works last year. They thought his first published book would be a suspense or science fiction book, but they never expected it to be a children's book.
"The Little Prince, though its name is beautiful, is like a fairy tale."
Fairy tales are definitely not an option; it has to be a fairy tale. We live in the degenerate age of books, and it's very difficult to get a publisher to help you publish your book instead of publishing it yourself.
The old editor opens the first page, and the perspective begins with a pilot who had a childlike heart but was destroyed by adults, until he was stranded in the Sahara Desert after an accident and met the young Little Prince.
This child, named "The Little Prince," comes from a planet not much bigger than a house. He has golden hair, always asks questions but never answers them. He has his own logic and world—a proud rose, three dwarf volcanoes, and a baobab sapling that must be constantly watched.
The next morning, Editor Chen brought the manuscript to the topic selection meeting.
"The Fairy Tale Department received a manuscript called 'The Little Prince,' which I think can be listed as a key topic." He distributed the photocopied sample chapters.
Marketing Manager Zhou flipped through the book, frowning. "Fairy tales? Who's the author? Does it have a fan base? Last year, only three fairy tales sold over 50,000 copies. The ceiling for this market segment is too low."
"The author is like tea in early spring," the veteran editor said.
The meeting room fell silent for a moment. People in the publishing industry all knew this name, but wasn't he the author of science fiction and suspense novels?
"He writes fairy tales?" Manager Zhou's voice rose a half-octave. "His target audience is young people in their twenties and thirties. How much do you expect fairy tales to sell? Are you expecting a young woman in her twenties to buy a book written for children?"
"This book," the senior editor carefully chose his words, "is not necessarily just for children."
Editor-in-Chief Liu took off his glasses, wiped them, and asked, "Old Chen, did you finish reading it yesterday?"
"I've finished watching it."
"What do you think?"
Editor Chen paused for a few seconds, then said, "After reading it last night, I sat in my office for a long time, not knowing how to describe the feeling. Then I realized—this book is about something very simple: all adults were once children, but few remember it."
The meeting room fell silent again. Teacher Liu put her glasses back on, turned to the first page of the sample document, and began to read.
Five minutes later, she said, "Let's submit the topic proposal. Copyright department, contact the author's agency as soon as possible to finalize the contract details."
Her idea was simple: it was a deal she was willing to make even if it meant losing money, because what she wanted was the other works in the hands of the young author.
The contract negotiations went smoothly. Early Spring Tea had only one requirement: the illustrations must be provided by the author themselves; no one else could be hired to draw them.
When the illustrations arrived, Editor Chen was taken aback again. The style was clumsy, like something a child would draw—a snake swallowing an elephant, the Little Prince standing on a planet, a sheep in a box, a fox sitting under an apple tree. The lines were crooked and the colors lacked any real skill, yet each drawing possessed something indescribable.
Editor Chen spread the stack of drawings out on the table one by one and looked at them for a long time.
When the layout was being designed, Xiao Song, the graphic designer in charge, came over for a look and hesitated, saying, "This...this really was drawn by the author himself? It looks like it was drawn by a child."
"That's right," Editor Chen said.
A month later, The Little Prince was released.
With an initial print run of 20,000 copies, this is actually quite low for a top author like Early Spring Tea. The marketing department only arranged basic placement on new book bestseller lists and press releases from a few book review media outlets. Manager Zhou stated bluntly at the meeting, "We need to allocate the budget to his next suspense book."
But things started to change after the book was published.
The first to react was within Early Spring Tea's own fan community. A Weibo influencer named "Suspense Tea" posted a long article: "I've read all of Early Spring Tea's books, and I stayed up all night to finish each one. I originally thought that 'The Little Prince' was just the author dabbling in a different genre, but I didn't expect it to be written so well. I won't reveal the specific content, but I strongly encourage everyone to buy a few copies; you and your children can both enjoy them."
A parenting blogger posted: "I read the new 'The Little Prince' to my child over the weekend. When we got to the part where the Little Prince says goodbye to his rose, my child asked me, 'Mom, why did the Little Prince leave his favorite flower?' I said it was because he wanted to see the world. My child said, 'But if it were me, I would stay and keep her company.' At that moment, I suddenly realized that this book wasn't written for children, but for adults who have forgotten how to love."
Following closely behind, a relationship blogger added: "Yesterday on the subway, I was reading 'The Little Prince.' The fox said, 'What is essential is invisible to the eye.' A stranger sitting next to me handed me a tissue, and that's when I realized I was crying. We are all searching for that one and only rose, but we forget that taming takes time."
Some of them are genuine, but many were bought by Uncle Qin.
The fire quickly spread back to the words on the title page of "The Little Prince".
[Why not just directly oppose domestic violence? What's the point of stringing us along like this?]
[If you have inside information, could you please take action? We're getting really anxious watching this.]
[The hype will soon be overshadowed by the next celebrity, so make good use of the traffic.]
in the hospital,
The stepfather cut an apple for his nominal wife and said in a deep voice, "Let's get a divorce."
The middle-aged woman exclaimed "Ah!" before her eyes were still glued to the television. "What did you say?"
"I said let's get a divorce. I've had enough of you. You're being discharged from the hospital today, so let's just go get a divorce."
The middle-aged woman stood up, her eyes coldly fixed on the man surnamed Chu. She had actually heard what he said the first time, but she had given him a chance.
"You're shameless! Even if we're going to get a divorce, I should be the one to initiate it. My son is earning money now, and I'm only being kind by not kicking you to the curb, you know that?"
"Fine, stop acting like a coward, let's get a divorce right now."
Chu Xiang, whose body wasn't particularly tall, straightened up again, and he read out, word by word, "From now on, you will not have custody of the child."