Genshin Impact: Reincarnation as a Hilichurl

Chapter 10: Stealing a Book is Not Stealing

The books that Wang Chen was able to "steal intelligently" were mainly divided into four categories: novels, short stories, fairy tales, and poems.

Novels were the first to be abandoned. Novels have a lot of content, and even copying them word for word is very time-consuming.

Poetry was the second thing I gave up. Mondstadt's poetry is more inclined to Western poetry, which is not quite suitable for my major. Maybe I can try it when I go to Liyue. I have read so many Tang and Song poems for a long time.

Short stories and fairy tales are the two options that Wang Chen is most conflicted about. Both are relatively short and have not too many words.

Finally, he chose to write fairy tales, because there is a witch in The Witch House who writes fairy tales, and compared with long and short stories, the content expressed in fairy tales is simpler and easier to understand.

Wang Chen got up and left the restaurant, and bought a pen and a notebook at Bald Patch's grocery store.

Next, you need to find a place where you can write quietly for a long time, and Mond Library is undoubtedly the best choice.

After explaining his purpose to the two guards at the entrance of the Knights, Wang Chen successfully entered the Knights. Then he saw a man with indigo hair, an eye patch on his right eye, and dark skin, leaning against the door of the confinement room with his arms folded.

Wang Chen knew the internal layout of the Knights Templar, but he did not expect to meet Kaeya as soon as he came in. He looked a little panicked, but he was wearing a mask and a cloak, so others could not see him.

And Kaia noticed someone coming in and glanced at him.

For a moment, Wang Chen saw Kaiya couldn't help laughing, but when he looked closely, he saw that his face was expressionless.

Is it my imagination?

Wang Chen hurriedly entered the library from the right door, and found that Lisa's beautiful green eyes were also fixed on him at the first moment. Her beautiful face had a strange look, which made Wang Chen feel strange as well.

"It's okay, it's okay. I just wanted to see who came in."

Suppressing the nervousness in his heart, Wang Chen walked towards Lisa, "Hello, is the library closed at night?"

He wore a purple wizard hat, a purple waistcoat, and a purple robe. Under the robe were gray-black stockings, and above the robe was a striking touch of white.

In the game, Wang Chen believed that Lisa's distinctive feature was this touch of white, and now he is even more convinced of this idea.

"No." Lisa opened her red lips slightly, giving Wang Chen the answer he wanted. Lisa was a little curious about what he was going to do, but didn't ask more.

"Okay." Wang Chen turned around and was about to find a suitable position, but was stopped by Lisa.

"Wait a mininute."

Wang Chen froze in place and turned around mechanically.

"Please take a look at the library usage regulations in front of you. As long as you abide by the regulations... the library is open to everyone. I hope you can find the book you are looking for."

I felt relieved, but was also filled with sadness.

I am so familiar with him, her and them, and I have worked so hard to increase the favorability of each character to the maximum, but now when I see them, I act like a thief seeing the police... One day I will increase the favorability of all the characters to the maximum again!

It was precisely because of his familiarity with them and his boring self-esteem that Wang Chen didn't want his true identity to be seen.

Who doesn’t want to always have a positive image in the eyes of others?

After carefully reading the "Library Usage Standards, Seventh Edition", Wang Chen began his creation.

Because it was already mid-afternoon when he arrived at the library, and the remaining Mora was not enough for accommodation, he made plans to stay in the library all night, ready to create a miracle in one night, one person, one pen.

At 6pm, Lisa got off work on time. Before leaving, she observed what the stranger was doing. He held the pen in a daze for two seconds, then wrote quickly, then froze again, and so on...

Lisa didn't look any further and walked out of the library.

Kaiya had already calculated the time and was waiting for her outside.

"Lisa, what do you think?"

Kaia nodded towards the library, and Lisa naturally knew who he was talking about.

"The cloak he's wearing seems to be made by Senior Alice, right? Since Senior Alice is willing to trust this person, I'm willing to believe that he has no ill will towards Mond."

"Oh?"

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From the afternoon to the early morning, Wang Chen's pen never stopped. After hard work of copying and pasting, many famous fairy tales appeared in his notebook, such as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, The Daughter of the Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and The Little Match Girl. Not a single one escaped.

After finishing a full notebook, Wang Chen looked up. Although it was quiet when he came, there were still many people. Now he was the only one left in the library, and Lisa was not there either.

When he heard that the library was never closed, he thought there were people taking turns on duty at night, but it seemed that was not the case.

He thought, is it really that free? But even if he stole the book, Lisa would find it back.

Then fatigue pressed his head and he fell on the table.

After waking up, I couldn't see the sky, and I didn't know what time it was. I just felt very hungry. Many people came to the hotel, and Lisa was also at the front desk.

Wang Chen picked up his notebook and walked towards Lisa. He knew nothing about the process of publishing a book, so he could go to the bookstore on the street to ask for advice, but this was a good opportunity to get close to Lisa.

"Ms. Administrator, do you know how to publish books?"

"Lisa Mintz, you can call me Lisa."

After introducing her name, Lisa asked with a little surprise: "You didn't write a book in one night?"

She knew that Wang Chen had been writing something since he came to the library, but she could never have guessed that he had actually written a book.

"I'm just repeating some things with the help of the wisdom of my predecessors." Wang Chen held the brim of his cloak with his left hand.

"Can you show it to me?"

"Please." Wang Chen handed the notebook to Lisa.

Lisa didn't show any obvious reaction on her face, she just quietly flipped through a dozen pages, then she returned the notebook to Wang Chen.

"It's a very good story, it will definitely be popular with everyone." She nodded, and then continued: "As for publishing a book, with the quality of this book, we can directly find a publishing house to design, typeset, and print it. I don't think any publishing house will refuse. And if we want to publish it, we need to conduct a content review by the Knights. After passing the review, we can also obtain copyright protection, which is valid throughout Teyvat."

Generally speaking, when one person helps another person, the helper is often willing to help the person being helped again.

Wang Chen struck while the iron was hot and asked, "Ms. Lisa, do you know how to contact the publishing house?"

Of course he could go find a publisher himself, but this would be a good opportunity to get closer to Lisa.

"Well...if you trust me, give me the manuscript and I'll help you contact the publishing house. The finished product should be available the day after tomorrow."

"Ms. Lisa, you are so nice!"

The notebook returned to Lisa's hands again.

"You also need to provide the title of the book, pen name, and the bank account number where you will receive the proceeds after publication."

Wang Chen had already thought of the title of the book and pen name, "The title is 'Fairy Tale in the Box', the pen name is 'Don't Want to Go to Work', but I don't have a bank account yet."

"'Don't Want to Go to Work' is a good name, but it might be rejected. I suggest you change your name."

"I see... Then let's call it 'Ashes'."

Lisa nodded and said, "You can go and open a bank account in the next two days and give it to me before the book is published."

"Okay! See you after that."

Mondstadt does not have its own bank, but there are two banks in Mondstadt, one of which is the Teyvat Bank, which is self-explanatory as the name suggests.

The other is the Northland Bank, which is the bank of Solstice. Because of the relationship between the Northland Bank and the Adventurer's Association, the Northland Bank accepts the use of Adventure Certificates to open accounts, and other banks in Teyvat have also opened this account opening method.

Although Wang Chen was grateful to the Northland Bank for allowing a person of unknown origin like him to open a bank account, he still chose the more reliable Teyvat Bank.

The banking mechanism in this world is relatively simple. Everyone has a unique bank account. When depositing money, you only need to know the account number. When withdrawing money, you need the identity certificate + bank certificate + password used when the transaction is completed.

A bank voucher is a card with a bank account number printed on it. The mechanism is simple, but the security level is not low.

After paying 250 Mora to open the account and handing over the bank account number to Lisa, Wang Chen had to worry about the living expenses for the next two days, as well as today's dinner.

Wang Chen, who was already starving, used the remaining Mora in his pocket to buy a barbecue steak. In the next two days, if he didn't accept any commissions, he would have no income. He chose to return to the wild. The largest monster force, the Hillocks, were his own people, so it was relatively safe for him to go out in the wild.

The library two days later.

Lisa returned the manuscript to Wang Chen, and also gave Wang Chen a compiled and printed copy of "Fairy Tales in the Box".

The cover has a gold border and a starry sky background, with the book title and author name in the middle, and a line of "Mond Publishing House" at the bottom.

The faint smell of ink reminded Wang Chen of the feeling of getting new textbooks at school.

He flipped open the pages and ran his fingers over the slightly rough paper, "Great... Where should I go for content review now?"

"The place responsible for these matters is on the third floor. Just go up there. Once you get the distribution certificate, you can ask the publishing house to print a large number of copies and officially distribute them."

Lisa paused, sighed, and said, "After I get the certificate, I can help you forward it to the publishing house."

There is also a publishing contract, which needs to be signed by Wang Chen and sent back to the publishing house together with the issuance certificate.

At this point, Wang Chen had no contact with the publishing house. If he was allowed to go, there would be no need to help him in the first place. However, Lisa had anticipated all this and was willing to help Wang Chen because she was very interested in Wang Chen, the person chosen by Alice, especially after reading the fairy tales he wrote.

"Miss Lisa, please let me give you some compensation to thank you!"

Lisa shook her head. "I really like these fairy tales...I will buy three copies and put them in the library when they are released."

After Wang Chen left, Lisa recalled the story of the Little Mermaid. Although it had nothing to do with love, the Little Mermaid gave everything but got an illusory dream, which was so similar to her...

Wang Chen couldn’t get to the third floor of the Knights in the game, and it was the first time he knew what the upstairs was for.

Climbing the stairs to the third floor, the layout inside was similar to that of an office in a building. Many people were busy with their work. After Wang Chen was received by the front desk and waited for two hours, he signed his name and passed the content review and copyright application.

Even so, Wang Chen still praised it as "very efficient!" In his past life experience, many trivial matters took longer than this time, and this was even the review of a book.

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