After a moment of silence, another reviewer said: "This cannot be Yue Ke's work. We all know that Yue Ke does not write works with female protagonists at all."
But I heard another reviewer say: "But Yue Ke is a woman, why can't she write works with female protagonists? In fact, Yue Ke is more likely to choose a larger audience of male readers because of the limited environment at the time. group, but in her heart she prefers to have a female character as the protagonist. If this is the case, then it is not surprising that she has an unpublished heroine."
"But the degree of completion of this work is quite high. Do you know what this means? This is definitely a work that was created with passion and is very complete. In this way, it has been completed, even if it is Yue Ke couldn't be published in the early days, but in the later period when she became so famous, she could always try to publish. There were always some newspapers or publishing houses willing to bet on her. On the contrary, if Yue Ke's publication was frustrated at the beginning, It is still possible to abandon a female protagonist's work that died before it was completed when she first started writing. But if she had already completed it but still did not try to publish it after becoming famous, I think it is unlikely."
If Yin Lian were at the scene, 80% of the time he would think that the reviewer's judgment was very accurate.
Did Yue Ke almost give up on this work when he first started writing it? The reason why this work was still born is because in the parallel world she lives in, Yin Lian changed her career trajectory.
But even so, this is still Yue Ke's own work, and parallel space will not affect the actual value of the work. Therefore, this group of talents find it difficult to judge - because this is indeed Yue Ke's own creation, but it was born in a different historical background.
One person said: "If this person can really maintain this level to complete this work, then her imitation of Yue Ke's works can be said to be superb. Not only has she completely inherited her personal style, but she can even build on it. Create your own story... If the other party has this ability, it will be a blessing for Yue fans."
But some people hold the exact opposite view.
"If you really have the ability to create, why bother imitating and impersonating Yue Ke's style? If you do this, you are either deceiving the world and stealing your reputation, or you are greedy for profit. Even if you can write a good story, it is just a matter of luck."
The two sides immediately argued, and finally the chief judge rang the bell to stop the two people, and said: "Have you ever thought that if the other party is not really very similar to Yue Ke in his own style, or has learned Yue Ke's writing style since childhood, then just By imitating someone's style, you can create a work that is similar to that person's peak level. How much creative and plot control skills does she need?"
The judges were silent for a while, and then someone said: "If you really want to successfully imitate a work without breaking it or putting it together, I think the imitator may have better control over the text than the original author. .”
This statement was immediately rebutted: "Has better control than Yue Ke? Are you kidding me?"
Some people also found an explanation: "Maybe this person is not good at creating his own creation, but is just the kind of person who is particularly good at imitating."
The chief judge was silent for a moment, and then laughed disapprovingly: "Look at this work, look at this wonderful plot that is hard to put down from the beginning. Although the styles are similar, these plots are all original and the environment is It’s so interconnected that it’s amazing. In terms of his creative ability and layout ability, do you really think that the original author has no original ability?”
The speaker choked, and instantly realized that this reason was indeed difficult to explain.
Eliminating all untenable answers, it actually makes people feel much more relaxed to believe in a paradox.
For work such as historical or literary appraisal, paradoxes do exist. Due to incomplete or misinterpreted intelligence, countless old theories are overturned and new theories are established every year. In this case, occasionally believing in and facing a paradox with a dialectical attitude is also part of the appraisal work.
But if Yue Ke's matter is overturned, or if a new work is released, it will definitely be a shocking earthquake for the entire Xia Kingdom.
Therefore, making this judgment is a test for all the reviewers present. You know, if they admit that this work "may" be Yue Ke's posthumous work, and it is finally revealed that it is not, they will definitely be ridiculed by people all over the world, and even their entire careers will be threatened. On the contrary, if this is really Yue Ke's posthumous work, it does not even need to be Yue Ke's posthumous work. As long as it is proved to be a very valuable work and the public recognizes its value and literary nature, then the work should be reviewed. The person who identified and determined it to be a "fake" suddenly had to bear the responsibility and the consequences for the damage caused to the organization.
All in all, this is a dilemma.
But I heard someone say: "Is this story really complete? Could it be that it is just a semi-finished product, so that's why it has not been published?"
This is quite acknowledgment that this is Yue Ke's work, but she did put forward a very possible guess.
The chief examiner replied: "No, according to the owner of the manuscript, the manuscript is complete and there are no missing chapters or incomplete chapters. She does not need to lie on this issue. After all, as long as the contract is signed, the manuscript will The matter can be verified in no time.”
The review team spent more than half an hour analyzing whether "The Record of Ming Fang's Redress of Wrongs" was Yue Ke's work. On the other hand, the appraisal department is relatively powerful. It quickly conducted an in-depth appraisal of the handwriting, writing style, plot logic and thoughts and feelings from the various information provided by Yin Lian, and then judged that this "Ming Fang" The expression technique of "The Record of Clearing Wrongs" is almost exactly the same as that of Yue Ke when he was twenty-five years old.
Xia Guo has extremely rich experience in article identification. For example, identification in this area is like fingerprint or genetic comparison. It is not only very accurate, but also basically difficult to misjudge. Because there are no identical writing styles and ideological trajectories in this world.
Generally speaking, it is similar to genetic comparison. As long as the similarity is higher than a certain value, it can basically be judged to be genuine. Some differences can also be manually judged and lowered based on different life experiences. In other words, intelligent identification is often more strict than the truth in identifying the author of a work, and will not be loose.
Therefore, when the electronic appraisal certificate was released and it was confirmed that the appraisal result was "passed", all the reviewers showed surprised expressions. Because of the electronic identification, their discussion changed slightly this time, and many people were no longer so opposed to making a positive judgment. But because there were still doubts, someone proposed a somewhat irresponsible but relatively safe solution for the reviewers.
"Otherwise, we will accept the auction application for this work, but in the promotional text, we will not mark the identification results, but directly tell everyone that we lack certainty about the identification in this regard. This is a 'suspected Yue Ke' Works', in this case, even if there are any changes in the end, we have sincerely informed them to see if they are interested and whether they want to take the risk."
Another reviewer said: "Isn't this too childish? Does it make us look unprofessional?"
"If this matter involves Yue Ke... I think people who see the news will not think it's funny because we are not sure, but they will think we are kidding because we dare to publish this news. But it doesn't matter, the quality of the article is there , appropriate gimmicks can attract more attention from others.”
The chief judge said so, and the others accepted the decision.
Later, Yin Lian received news that the auction house accepted the auction of the manuscript, but asked whether it would only auction the manuscript, or whether it would include the right to distribute the manuscript. Yin Lian originally only planned to auction the manuscript, but after being reminded like this, he realized that there was also a distribution right that could be sold.
To be honest, the value of this distribution right is much greater than that of the manuscript. Although Yin Lian had already published "Ming Fang's Cleansing of Wrongs" for Yue Ke in the Xia Kingdom five hundred years ago, it does not prevent her from publishing it again - this Yue Ke can't use the copyright fee on the side. It can be converted into silver dollars, but the exchange rate can only be filled by Yin Lian at will.
But Yue Ke probably wouldn't care either.
In addition, after the release of Red Mansion, Yin Changsheng also accumulated some connections and channels in this area, so Yin Lian thought about it carefully and registered the discovery copyright for "Ming Fang" and left it to Yin Changsheng.
As for the source of this copyright, if it really can't be explained, Yin Lian thinks it doesn't matter if it is exposed. Yin Changsheng couldn't do anything to her anyway, she always had a way to convince him.
With this thought, she decided to auction only the manuscript itself and informed the other party so.
After hearing this, the other party felt a little regretful - after all, although this manuscript is very precious, if it is authentic, what can really create amazing value is to discover the copyright protection period. Although the five-year copyright protection period can be said to be very short compared to the real copyright period, this is Yue Ke! No living author can compare with Yue Ke's creative ability.
In fact, if this is a counterfeit - assuming that the author is not a temporary inspiration, but really has the ability to continuously create works of the same level, then by the time she becomes famous, the value of this copyright and the five years of discovery copyright Compared with the value, even the reviewers cannot judge which method is more valuable. But they thought that a truly outstanding author would not think of impersonating other people all the time, and impersonating Yue Ke would indeed gain the greatest benefits in the shortest time.
The reviewers had different thoughts, and based on their different ideas, they all had different perceptions of the kindness of the manuscript provider. Some people sigh, some people are confused.
Yin Lian, on the other hand, has no burden at all - God knows, she didn't pretend to put her works on others at all. This is indeed Yue Ke's own work, and she is also the publisher, so she has no guilt in selling it this time.
Afterwards, the auction organization officially announced the incident, which immediately caused an uproar in the society. Although they used the word "suspected" rather implicitly, it still made people feel that they were using Yue Ke's name for hype. Fortunately, it is an authoritative organization, so many people are still doubtful and curious.
In addition to the public announcement of the sale of auction tickets, the auction house will naturally also issue targeted invitations to some collectors. But after all, it was Yue Ke's work. After it was announced, even though it was unlikely that it was authentic, many wealthy people who were not manuscript collectors took the initiative to ask about the conditions for participation.
Among the invited collectors, there was a very famous scientist. After receiving the invitation, he carefully read the specific contents of the letter and leaflet, frowned, and made a very loud noise at the invitation. He sneered with disdain: "Mr. Yue's posthumous work? The only one with a female protagonist?"
