Chapter 907: The Stars And The Seas
The sister discipline plan was also proceeding smoothly. In one and a half months, Xiao Qin’s total number of stars had abruptly reached 100.
Where did those stars come from? Let’s briefly review them.
When we were in primary school, the teachers always told us to learn from Lei Feng. Nowadays, Lei Feng was gradually forgotten, but Xiao Qin found Lei Feng’s diary on the internet and memorized it from beginning to end. She then followed the examples of of all the good deeds she could imitate.
Xiao Qin has done a lot of things like returning lost items to their owners and giving up her seat on the subway. She has even helped an old lady cross the road twice.
Hard work always pays off. Although she wasn’t able to obtain a large amount of stars at once like the hostage incident, Xiao Qin still slowly acc.u.mulated small amounts and had unknowingly already acc.u.mulated 1% of the 10,000 stars.
“Hmph o(n_n)o~, though I’m still a childhood friend right now, I’ve already progressed 1% to be a girlfriend.”
In addition, Xiao Qin also made a breakthrough in her manga career. It wasn’t because Auntie Ren bought her a drawing tablet, but because she dubbed her own manga, ‘Cthulhu Also Wants Love’.
u17 had a self-service dubbing function on their website. After turning on the function, people can add voices to the text in the dialog boxes. Although ‘Cthulhu Also Wants Love’ was a hot topic, it was far from being qualified to use the dubbing function.
It all started when the serialization of ‘Cthulhu Also Wants Love’ reached the eighth chapter. Xiao Qin wrote a part about the alien’s s.p.a.ceship being breached, and Cthulhu and Dagon suddenly having internal strife in the enemy’s base. It was a section of the plot that had very long tongue twisters.
“From the south came a mute with a trumpet strapped to his waist, and from the north came a llama with a mammoth in his hand…”
“Si XiaoSi and Shi XiaoShi went to the market at 14:40 on April 14. Si XiaoSi bought forty-four pounds and fourty grams of tomatoes…”
“Black fertilizer turns gray, gray fertilizer turns black, black fertilizer turns gray and volatilizes, gray fertilizer volatilizes and turns black, black fertilizer turns black but not gray, gray fertilizer turns gray but not black…”
Two prehistoric monsters saying traditional Chinese tongue twisters was really comedic and also contradictory.
However, the readers’ complaints focused on things like “Have you considered the feelings of the voice actors?”, “You must have level 10 Chinese to do a voice over”, “Is the 600-plus word tongue twister at the end an attempt to murder the voice actor”.
Some readers who opposed ‘Celery-sensei’ commented maliciously:
“Why would this s.h.i.tty manga have the dubbing function enabled? Usually the dubbing function is only enabled for manga that are going to be animated.”
“That’s right, don’t waste the website’s resources.”
“The s.h.e.m.a.l.e author pretends to be a 14-year-old lolita to gain popularity, but in reality, he’s a foot-picking uncle like Sun Zha.”
Xiao Qin got mad when she saw these comments and began to argue with them. After a while, the topic shifted to whether anyone could read those tongue twisters in one breath. Xiao Qin insisted that the tongue twisters aren’t that difficult, that she could recite the 600-word tongue twister without blushing or being out of breath.
So, the ‘Anti Celery-sensei Party’ and the ‘Celery-sensei Supporters Party’ made a bet to see if Celery-sensei could p.r.o.nounce the tongue twisters from her manga. The losing party would have to publicly admit their mistake. They would have to admit that they were the dregs of humanity and their lives were worth less than the maggots in casu marzu cheese.
Actually, the main reason for the bet between ‘Celery-sensei fans’ and ‘Celery-sensei haters’ was because they wanted to confirm whether Celery-sensei was really a 14-year-old loli or not, but Xiao Qin was so angry that she didn’t realize.
The topic of the author personally dubbing the manga became a very popular topic. Therefore, with the efforts of Xiao Qin’s editor, Shen EnNiu, the site made an exception and enabled the dubbing function for ‘Cthulhu Also Wants Love’. The ‘Celery-sensei haters’ were very dissatisfied and immediately commented:
“This website would do anything for the sake of popularity. I can’t believe they enabled the dubbing function for a work that has such a childish art style and a brain-dead plot.”
“They might as well just animate this work and let the j.a.panese animation industry see how we do it in China. Celery-sensei is obviously the Pica.s.so of the manga industry.”
However, before Xiao Qin dubbed the tongue twister, most readers took a wait-and-see att.i.tude to avoid being embarra.s.sed later.
Xiao Qin spent an afternoon practicing tongue twisters, and then took 3 minutes to say 600 words of tongue twisters in one breath. After uploading it to the website, both the ‘Celery-sensei fans’ and ‘Celery-sensei haters’ were shocked.
It was because Xiao Qin’s voice was so beautiful. In our school’s election process to find the most beautiful girl in school, there were many people who voted for Xiao Qin simply because of her beautiful voice. It was a soft and warm female voice that would make flowers blossom in spring. It was the dream voice otaku would have for their 2D girlfriends. She was just like a j.a.panese voice actor from an anime that knows how to speak Chinese.
“Celery-sensei, I love you, I accept defeat.”
Xiao Qin’s recital of the tongue twister wasn’t perfect, and she made a mistake in one of the p.r.o.nunciations. However, that only made it cuter and the reader’s could imagine Xiao Qin’s face that was unwilling to admit defeat as she read out the tongue twisters.
“Long live the beautiful girl mangaka Celery-sensei. From today on, I’ll fight for Celery-sensei every day. If anyone refuses to accept it, come over and fight me.”
Most of Celery-sensei’s original ‘fans’ were simply people who wanted to troll. However, after hearing Xiao Qin’s dubbing, some of them immediately became die-hard fans. They felt that it didn’t matter whether her drawing skills were good or not. Just the fact that the author was a 14-year-old cute loli was good enough for them.
“That’s definitely not her own voice, it must be someone she hired.”
The haters refused to admit defeat.
“That’s right, isn’t her a.s.sistant ‘Winnie’? According to everyone’s a.n.a.lysis, Winnie is more likely to be a 14-year-old loli, and maybe it was dubbed by Winnie.”
“It’s Winnie the Pooh, have you forgotten that everyone kept adding the word Pooh?”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s pooh or not, but I know that it’s not dubbed by Celery-sensei. Either she hired a professional voice actor, or it was dubbed by her a.s.sistant Winnie.”
“Even if it was dubbed by the a.s.sistant, I’m satisfied with it…”
Since it was suspected that the author did not dub the voice, there was a dispute over which side would win the bet. Finally, Xiao Qin’s editor, Shen EnNiu, came forward to verify that it was indeed the author herself, but the haters refused to believe it.
After Winnie heard about it, she felt very sorry for Xiao Qin. She and Xiao Qin worked together to create a complete tongue-twister showdown between Cthulhu and Dagon, with each person taking on a role to play one of the roles.
Now it was even more shocking. Winnie’s voice was obviously different from Xiao Qin’s. Her voice was full of energy and slightly hoa.r.s.e, but if you savored it carefully, it was still very charming.
“It’s actually a manga made from a collaboration between two Loli? I can’t do it anymore. I can die happy right now.”
“According to my a.n.a.lysis, the two people were in the same room when they were dubbing. When Dagon somersaulted to Cthulhu, the two people seemed to be in physical contact…”
“d.a.m.n, lesbian loli? I like it, I’m following this manga for sure.”
The otakus really had weird thought processes. All they did during the dub was imitate the plot and touch each other. I don’t know how they came to the conclusion that Winnie and Xiao Qin were lesbians.
Soon, the comments on ‘Cthulhu Also Wants Love’ almost completely had nothing to do with the plot. Everyone was discussing who was more beautiful, Celery-sensei or a.s.sistant Winnie, and some people even uploaded fan art of Xiao Qin and Winnie.
Fueled by the overwhelming amount coming because of the fact Xiao Qin had a beautiful voice, ‘Cthulhu Also Wants Love’ unexpectedly ranked 7th on the website’s most discussed list. Some of the original Celery-sensei haters changed their stance after hearing Xiao Qin and Winnie’s voices.
However, Xiao Qin, who gained popularity by relying on her voice rather than her drawing skills, seemed rather disappointed and didn’t respond to the readers’ teasing comments such as ‘Sing a song for everyone. If you sing, I’ll vote for you.’ Winnie, on the other hand, sang a song completely off tune. It made some of the readers with unique interests cover their ears as they gave them monthly votes.
‘Cthulhu Also Wants Love’ was an impromptu work. Xiao Qin’s didn’t really do in-depth research on the Cthulhu mythology. The current plot of the battle against the aliens has long been exhausted. In addition, once she found that everyone’s attention was on her voice and not the manga, she decisively ended the series at the tenth chapter.
“So, Cthulhu and Dagon embarked on a long journey to conquer the stars and the seas…”
After defeating the aliens, Cthulhu and Dagon stood side by side in the s.p.a.ceship, looking out at the universe, and then said an overly used line when a series ended.
“It’s actually over? Celery-sensei, please don’t leave us.”
“I haven’t had enough. How can 10 chapters be enough? They beat the p.e.n.i.s aliens, but they can still fight the b.a.l.l.s aliens.”
“Is the loli author really impatient? Or is it because the website couldn’t stand it anymore and forced the author to end it?”
“It should have ended a long time ago, it’s awful…”
The comment above ended up with a lot of other people roasting him. Apparently, on the last chapter, there were ten times more fans than haters.
However, although the adventure of Cthulhu and Dagon was over, Xiao Qin’s long journey as a mangaka had just begun.
At Winnie’s suggestion, Xiao Qin started to make a new manga, which was tentatively t.i.tled, ‘Detective Li ErGou’.
The premise of the manga was way less creative than Cthulhu Also Wants Love, the criminals were basically copied straight from Detective Conan and The Kindaichi Case Files.
The only difference was that the background of the story was set in a remote rural area of China. The main cases were like “A rabbit foamed at the mouth and died. It was probably poisoned by the neighbor who fed it bananas. Then in revenge, he cut off the tail of the neighbor’s goldfish…”
And ‘I only took a little radish from his family, but they stole half an acre of garlic sprouts from my family. I’m going to go to his fish pond and…”
It was basically a Chinese detective manga where neighbors steal food and pets from each other.