Reject the Manuscript

I was a rejection editor at a publishing house for twenty years. At 3:17 one morning, he discovered that there were words in the manuscript that were not supposed to be there. Not written by the author. It is generated by the manuscript itself. He started checking. What found out: None of the things he remembered—his professional judgment, his catchphrases, his memory of his ex-wife—were not his. It was written by someone else. He is a character in a novel that was rejected. The person who rejected his manuscript was himself. The novel is written in three layers: the outermost is the publication notes and letters from readers - implying that the entire book has been published; the middle is the system log - using cold engineering language to reveal the emotional truth; the innermost is the protagonist's experience - he filters everything "from a professional perspective" until the filtering system collapses. Core setting: The rejection system is not a tool, it is alive. Its "rejection" does not mean refusing publication, but preventing the story from entering the editor's consciousness. When the editor realizes this, he has four choices before him - publish, continue writing, stop, or not reject the manuscript. Not rejecting the manuscript is not an answer. You turn the test paper over and write your answers on the back.