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Last night Mu Yan saw the @ symbol from Siyu. After that, she found her Weibo account and discovered the chibi manhua 《Fashion Strategy》.
Mu Yan used to be the vice-chief editor of a well-known manhua magazine. Later, she was recruited as a high paid chief editor by the newly established Qu Man. Originally the matter of recruiting authors wasn"t under her management. However, yesterday she accidentally caught a glimpse of the manhua drawn by Siyu. She immediately got a strong premonition in her heart:
This person will definitely be popular in the future!
Even though this author named "Koi" had never published any works before, but her painting style was very mature and the imagination was great. The prologue of the story from before had hooked the reader"s liking. The cool and soothing plot had intrigued people"s interest to continue reading it. From this point, you could see that Koi was definitely not a novice.
Mu Yan couldn"t help but suspect it. Could this be some experts opening a smurf account to test the water? But, within her knowledge, there"s no author skilled in this kind of short and adorable chibi comic-strip ah!
Although she felt uncertain, Mu Yan still quickly handed over an olive branch1 to Siyu, she was just joking. Now Qu Man was urgently in need of talent and there"s nothing to say about the quality work of this Koi. Didn"t you see a lot of big V forwarded? If other compet.i.tors dug a corner of the wall2, she had nowhere to cry!
Because she unexpectedly excavated a good seedling, Mu Yan wished the other party could reply immediately. However, after waiting for a bit, there was still nothing in the private mailbox. Mu Yan was a little disappointed. She could only comfort herself, perhaps the other person slept early?
As soon as she woke up the next day, she was pleasantly surprised to find that Koi had indeed written back!
However, the reply message only had a short sentence: 【Yes, I"m very happy to collaborate with you.】
Although Mu Yan was very experienced, she was stupefied for a moment: No, how could there be any person like Koi, who immediately agree without asking any questions? Isn"t she afraid of being scammed by others?!
Mu Yan had seen many types of shrewd authors. They relied on their tiny bit of talent and did various things of not putting the platform in their eyes. Bickering with them would only annoy yourself to death. So, this was Mu Yan"s first time seeing such a casual and laid-back person.
Maybe it"s because the heart cherished talents, Mu Yan somehow couldn"t bear to see Koi being so "simple" and silently set a setting where she single-mindedly engrossing herself in drawing and paid no attention to the world. She thought to herself that since Koi had such confidence in Qu Man, then she couldn"t let the other person down! Besides, this child was too unguarded. Forget it. Since it"s someone she recruited, she"ll take good care of her later. Lest one day Koi didn"t realize that she was deceived by others.
Siyu had no idea that by a single sentence, Mu Yan could imagine so many things. Even before she formally signed the contract, Mu Yan had developed compa.s.sion for her.
Heaven and earth can testify that she used to be a professional manhua artist. Jumping around on several internet platforms, she had figured out the matter about contracts at an earlier time. Whether there"s a trap or not, she could tell it in a glance. Therefore, in this case, she confidently replied to the invitation from Qu Man.
Both parties were interested and the conversation went particularly smoothly. In one morning, Siyu and Mu Yan had already concluded on the final details for the contract. However, what surprised Siyu was that Mu Yan didn"t refute at all and she even took the initiative to make the conditions very favorable, seemingly in fear that she would suffer.
" Do you still have a copy in hand? Qu Man"s homepage has a recommended new star section. The location was very conspicuous. After your work was put on the shelves, I could help win over this place for you. " Finally, this good seedling signed and Mu Yan breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, she quickly thought and immediately began to plan and prepare for this silly child of hers.
" Yes, there is…. but isn"t this too fast? Don"t I need to update a little bit more?" Siyu was a little hesitant. This treatment was too good! In the previous world, she could only enjoy this kind of treatment after she became very popular. However, now she was just an insignificant new-comer!
" It"s alright, you just listen to me. " As a chief editor who had the authority to keep her words, Mu Yan expressed that this was a trivial matter. What"s the matter with supporting the person she wants with more resources? ! She had said that Koi would be popular and it would certainly be realized!
Hence, under Mu Yan"s persistent go-ahead, within one day Siyu sent the scanned copy of the contract along with the last two chapters of 《Fashion Strategy》 to Qu Man.
Because Mu Yan absolutely guaranteed that everything would be readily handed over to her, Siyu only needed to focus on drawing. On top of that, Siyu"s body was honestly too weak and didn"t have the energy to pay close attention to these trivial matters. So, after she conscientiously handed in the ma.n.u.script, Siyu didn"t pay any more attention.
Contrary to what she expected, a.s.sistant Xu from 《Feng Shang》 took the initiative to call. It"s said that the final photos had been developed and at the same time let Siyu come over to settle her payment.
Siyu checked her bank card and found that there"s not much money— only 20,000. The talent agency she signed with should have taken fifty percent so it"s equivalent to having a mere 10,000 yuan in her hand. According to a.s.sistant Xu, the extra 10,000 yuan was subsidized by Yu Ling in private as a compensation for her vomiting blood.
20,000 yuan ah…. Siyu comforted herself, only feeling a dull ache in her heart. This little bit of money, just to buy medication and it would nearly be used up. At most, it could sustain her for half a month as this disease mostly needed expensive medicinal ingredients. However, not drinking the medicine would make her feel very unwell. Zhou Siyu family circ.u.mstances weren"t good and a big part of the reason was because of this sickly body.
It"s still a matter of money ah…… Siyu sighed and was more determined to change her profession as soon as possible. Modeling was a tough business and the salary wasn"t much. The talent agency was an exploiter. It"s no wonder that the original body was desperate to climb up. Especially after she came into contact with her half-younger brother, Ji Lin, trying every means to scheme against him and steal his resources.
1: Olive branch-a symbol of peace.
2: Original text 挖(了)墙角 Wā(le) qiángjiǎo – digging the corner of the wall (or here dug the corner of the wall). It refers to an act of digging out the relevant personnel (or technology) of compet.i.tors to maximize the benefits. In the eyes of young people, “digging the corner of the wall” refers to robbing a friend"s lover and breaking them up so that the one he likes becomes his own male (or female) friend. So, Mu Yan was saying that if Siyu was stolen by other compet.i.tors, she had nowhere to cry.
T/N: I"m so sorry readers! (✖﹏✖) It had been a disastrous way to start the new year for me. The night of the new year I had been merrily eating and barbequing my way with my family, then in the morning, we found out that the front of our house had been flooded by water! ( TДT) Luckily my area wasn"t as bad (only calf-height water) In the worst area they were flooded with neck-height water! But the worst of all we got no electricity, no clean water, and the signal had been bad… (╥﹏╥) Moreover, the most disgusting thing was the fact that all the gutter creatures went up! c.o.c.kroaches, Rats, and their friends….. After long disastrous days, everything finally settled down. Thus I"m able to make this post… :;(∩´﹏`∩);: I"m so sorry for the late chapter readers!
P.S: Happy New Year to all of you!! And sorry for this rant of mine, I need to vent this out before I go crazy (/ω＼)