Chapter 30: First Meeting with Qu He
After the farewell dinner, Liu Ye, Huang Xiaoming and others left school and went home the next day.

Liu Zhou was not leaving so quickly. He needed to stay in the capital for another day.

Because today is the day when Liu Zhou is holding a book signing event in Beijing.

This was Liu Zhou's first book signing event in his two lives, and he was a little nervous.

At first, Liu Zhou felt a little ashamed about holding a book signing event after only publishing one book, but thinking that it would stimulate sales, he gritted his teeth and agreed.

But Liu Zhou doesn’t have this feeling now. The sales of the novel are Liu Zhou’s confidence.

The signing event will be held at the Wangfujing branch of Xinhua Bookstore in Beijing.

This Xinhua Bookstore is located in Dongcheng District, not far from the Central Academy of Drama campus.

The book signing event was held at nine in the morning, and Liu Zhou arrived at the bookstore before eight.

As soon as he got off the bus, Liu Zhou saw from afar a middle-aged man wearing glasses and with a very bookish temperament standing at the door of a bookstore.

At this time, the middle-aged man saw a tall and upright young man walking towards him. He seemed to have some feelings and also walked down the steps towards the young man.

If anyone looked carefully, they could see the two men running in both directions through the crowd.

"You must be Liu Zhou!"

"You must be the editor of Quhe!"

When they got closer, they both said at the same time.

Seeing this, Qu He immediately laughed out loud, and Liu Zhou also smiled shyly.

"I've wanted to meet you for a long time, but I never had the chance before. Now I finally get to meet you."

This time, Qu He was the one who organized Liu Zhou's book signing event. He had been in Beijing for several days. Liu Zhou was also looking forward to meeting his editor.

Seeing him now, his image is exactly what I imagined in my mind.

"I really want to meet with the editor, but I'm still in school and just finished my exam yesterday."

"I see. Good things are worth waiting for. When I saw you from afar just now, I knew it was you."

"Same feeling!"

"Hahaha!"

Liu Zhou felt that Qu He was a cheerful person who loved to laugh, and his smile was very contagious.

After the two chatted for a while in the Xinhua Bookstore, Qu He took Liu Zhou into the bookstore.

Qu He took him to visit Wang Yue, the general manager of Xinhua Bookstore.

"Liu Zhou, this is Mr. Wang from the bookstore. He has been taking good care of us and has been busy preparing for this book signing event three days ago."

Liu Zhou looked at the amiable, slightly plump middle-aged man, stepped forward, shook his hand and said:
"Mr. Wang, thank you for your appreciation. Please give me more guidance in the future."

Wang Yue stretched out his other hand and held Liu Zhou's hand, smiling and saying:

"Haha, you are indeed a young writer. Your books are selling very well in Beijing. I have heard of your name for a long time!"

"Liu Zhou is still a student of the Central Academy of Drama. He just finished his exam yesterday and came here today. Mr. Wang will need to take care of him in the future." Qu He continued.

Qu He attaches great importance to Wang Yue. He is not only the general manager of this bookstore, but also one of the decision-makers of the entire Xinhua Bookstore in Beijing.

Wang Yue asked the two to sit down and said as he poured tea:
“We attach great importance to this book signing event because your book is selling really well, and Mengya magazine has already started promoting it a month in advance.

Just in case, our book signing event will be held in the small square on the east side of our bookstore. We have arranged the personnel and materials. I hope you will be hard at work today."

"It's not hard or not. It's what I should do. After all, it's my honor that readers like to read my books."

"OK!"

At this time, a long line had formed in the small square outside the Xinhua Bookstore. Most of them were young men and women, with more girls.

"What time is it now? Is it nine o'clock?"

"Not yet, it will take another half an hour."

"I'm so excited. I'll be able to meet Liu Zhou soon. I wonder if he's handsome." "He should be quite handsome. From the last magazine interview, Liu Zhou is still a college student. I wonder which university he is from."

"I also want to know, but he didn't say during the interview."

When book lovers get together, the topic of conversation naturally revolves mainly around Liu Zhou and the plot of the novel.

"What's wrong with Liu Zhou's brain? He could come up with the idea of ​​traveling through time and space, and write about love so touchingly."

"Yes, especially when I saw the heroine Lin Beixing deliberately saying harsh words and pushing Zhang Wansen away in order to prevent him from dying, I couldn't stop crying."

"Yes, yes, I cried when I watched this scene, too. My eyes were a little swollen when I went to school the next day. I felt a little embarrassed at the time, but when I got to school, I found that many people were in the same situation as me, haha!"

"I don't know if Lin Beixing and Zhang Wansen are together in the end."

"They probably aren't together anymore. The last thing Lin Beixing said was 'Zhang Wansen, it's snowing!' Wasn't it because she was missing Zhang Wansen?"

"Not necessarily. Maybe Lin Beixing is waiting for Zhang Wansen to pick her up?"

"Zhang Wansen and Lin Beixing are definitely not together anymore!"

"How do you know? You're not Liu Zhou. Anyway, I think they ended up together."

"Then you can ask Liu Zhou later."

"Just ask!"

Because Liu Zhou wrote an open ending, quarrels like this can be seen everywhere in this long team.

A few minutes later, the bookstore staff began to make final preparations and organized book lovers to line up.

"Brother, has Liu Zhou arrived?"

"He's already here. He came quite early."

"Is he handsome?" a book fan asked excitedly.

Seeing that the girls around him were looking at him expectantly, the young man said calmly:
“Not as handsome as me!”

"Cut~"

"Believe it or not!"

"He's definitely more handsome than you!"

The young man was not panicked at all and continued:

"Don't be chaotic. Line up properly so Liu Zhou can sign more books."

"Yes, he's right. Let's line up better so that more people can get signed books."

Some book fans took the initiative to help the staff maintain order.

As time went by, more and more people came to the square and the line became longer and longer.

Most of them were book fans who came after hearing the news, and some were just spectators who came to watch the fun.

At 8:50, Liu Zhou and Qu He followed the staff to the small square.

When the book fans in the front row saw Liu Zhou appear, they immediately cheered loudly.

Then the cheers spread to the book fans in the back row as well, with many even standing on tiptoe to see what Liu Zhou looked like.

Suddenly the whole small square was filled with noise.

Seeing so many book lovers and readers coming, Liu Zhou felt excited and all his previous nervousness disappeared.

Liu Zhou immediately stepped forward and bowed to everyone to express his gratitude.

This caused another round of cheers, and voices shouting Liu Zhou's name rose one after another.

Coming to the table and chairs arranged by the bookstore, Liu Zhou said to the staff next to him:
"let's start!"

(End of this chapter)