Episode 11 recap: Someone knows that the novel is plagiarized.
Gu Ji Ming sat at home looking at the fish tank, the fish inside were thriving but not free, trapped in this tiny space, their only purpose was to be admired by people. He suddenly received a call from a strange woman, who knew that Gu Ji Ming's novel was plagiarized. He Peng came to the hotel again to inquire about any news of Jiang Na, but unfortunately, he still didn't get the information he wanted.
Jiang Guang Ming and Shi Luo came down to have breakfast and coincidentally met him, so they said that if they had any news of Jiang Na, they would promptly notify He Peng. The investigation had temporarily reached a bottleneck, and Shi Luo felt that Su Zhen Zhen might be able to help, but Jiang Guang Ming really didn't want to drag her into this.
That night, Su Zhen Zhen, who hadn't fallen asleep yet, went to the study to find Gu Ji Ming and told him that she was pregnant. Gu Ji Ming showed a happy expression, indicating that from now on, his life would only revolve around her, the child, and his writing. Su Zhen Zhen wanted him to name the child, and Gu Ji Ming blurted out "Maisui," surprising even himself.
Su Zhen Zhen asked why he chose that name, and Gu Ji Ming absentmindedly made up a rather ordinary reason. The reason Gu Ji Ming was lost in thought was that on July 28, 2018, Jiang Na had also become pregnant with his child. At that time, Jiang Na had booked a room and was waiting for him, sending him a message saying she was pregnant, but then she retracted it, thinking it would be better to tell him in person. However, Gu Ji Ming did not respond to her messages for a long time.
Jiang Na then called him, learning that his father was hospitalized, but her concerned words were coldly interrupted by Gu Ji Ming, who also didn't mention the pregnancy at that sensitive time. Afterward, Jiang Na insisted on transferring all her savings to Gu Ji Ming, wanting to help him raise more money.
Gu Ji Ming returned to Fanghai City, not to find Jiang Na, but to visit Su Zhen Zhen in the hospital.
Outside the door, I heard Su Zhen Zhen and the publisher pushing her own novel, but it didn't sound very promising. Gu Ji Ming said he wouldn't help promote the novel anymore, but Su Zhen Zhen encouraged him not to give up, saying the novel was really well-written, it's just that the subject matter might not be popular with the market.
The next day, when Su Zhen Zhen was discharged from the hospital, she invited Gu Ji Ming to have a meal at her house. She specifically kept writer Liu there for a while and introduced Gu Ji Ming to him. She said that writer Liu had only written one work but had become a famous writer, and if Gu Ji Ming also wanted to succeed, Su Zhen Zhen could help him.
Gu Ji Ming was moved by this. When he went back home, he pondered deeply and started writing a suspense novel. He had once thought of using a car accident on the edge of a cliff as the beginning, but that was too realistic, so he wrote and deleted it. Suddenly, he remembered Tang Xun's short story of only six pages. He created a few original sentences at the beginning, and then copied the content of those six pages without any changes.
Soon, Jiang Na also learned that Tang Xun had passed away from cancer. She wrote a postcard and dropped it in the mailbox near the seaside hotel, which was the same postcard that Jiang Guang Ming and Shi Luo later got from Yang Hui's house. Gu Ji Ming printed out the new novel he had written and gave it to Su Zhen Zhen, whose attitude towards him was obviously different from before.
He and Jiang Na were still having a secret affair, and Jiang Na told him that she was pregnant. Gu Ji Ming was not delighted, but more surprised and confused. However, to make Jiang Na happy, Gu Ji Ming secretly replaced the article on page 35 of the new magazine issue with the one Jiang Na had written called "Wheat Ears".
Jiang Na accidentally mentioned that before Tang Xun left the hotel to go back and spend time with his family, he had said he no longer planned to write novels. Gu Ji Ming's heart was filled with a sense of luck, and his guilty conscience grew even stronger. Gu Ji Ming wanted to be honest with Su Zhen Zhen, but at that time, the publishing house thought his novel "Black Rain" was very good and had decided to publish it, so in the end, he said nothing.
However, what's meant to happen will come. On the night of April 22, 2019, Gu Ji Ming received a call, and the woman on the other end of the line knew that his novel was plagiarized.
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