The issue of The Speaker featuring "The Last Leaf" had been released.
As usual, its print run totaled two hundred thousand copies.
As soon as the magazines came off the presses, they were swiftly distributed to major newsstands, bookstores, and various distributors across the country.
Gao Lingyue was a bookseller in Yuedong Province.
Although the internet had dealt a considerable blow to traditional books,
his bookstore had not actually suffered much, thanks to its wide selection and its location in a neighborhood populated mostly by arts enthusiasts and older people.
This time, he had ordered two thousand copies of The Speaker.
As usual, he put The Speaker in a good spot.
After all, it was a magazine for the general public,
and a bestseller to boot,
so giving it a good spot made sense.
Still, Gao Lingyue found the cover of this issue of The Speaker a little strange.
Was this magazine going down the clickbait route too? Gao Lingyue wondered.
It was only natural for him to think that.
The headline on the cover was extremely eye-catching-
"Hope" as Written by a High School Student.
What sort of hopes could a high school student have?
Surely nothing more than a pretty girlfriend, countless anime girls, or some mature beauties...
If the kid was an unusual one,
at most, he might hope to strive for humanity's advancement...
With those thoughts in mind, he casually picked up a copy of The Speaker, opened it, and found the story at the very front.
Yes.
Yan Xiao's piece had been placed first in the entire magazine.
Normally, the opening story would be a work by an established author.
Putting a high school student's work there
was not entirely unprecedented,
but it had not happened once in the past ten years.
He looked at