A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

After the ratings of the first episode of Cyberpunk Edgewalker came out, the results of the first episodes of the four most watched animations this quarter were basically all released.

Among the four animations, two were broadcast on TV1 in the capital, and two were broadcast on TV1 in the magic city. It can be said that there is no difference in the broadcast platform.

The popularity and audience flow of the two TV stations are at the same level, and the broadcast time of the four works is also in the prime time of 8 to 9 pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. From this point of view, the results reflected by the first broadcast ratings of the four works can also explain many problems.

The first two works are Red Dragon and Revolutionary World. Because of the popularity of the original works, the first broadcast ratings of the two works ranked second and first in this quarter respectively.

Cyberpunk Edgewalker and Crash Landing on You are pure original animations, and the first broadcast ratings are slightly worse, ranking third and fourth respectively.

These four animations are basically the only four animation works that had a premiere rating of over 3% in the first week of July. All other new animations are far behind these four works and cannot even reach 3% rating.

However, the third-ranked rating of the first episode of Cyberpunk Edgewalker finally allowed those long-standing Xia Yan haters to show off.

On the second day of the premiere, they began to highlight their presence on major online forums.

"I thought he was so amazing, but that's it, third."

"Before Cyberpunk Edgewalker was aired, didn't Xia Yan's fans clamor for this animation to dominate the autumn season? Can third place be considered hegemony?"

"These Xia Yan fans are just too confident in him, always thinking that his Madoka Magica is a good performer, and all his works can easily crush all competitors of the same period."

"There were no big animations aired last quarter, so his Seven Years continued to be the quarterly animation ratings champion. This quarter, two popular adaptations of Red Dragon and Isekai Reformer competed on the same stage, and Xia Yan's true form was revealed, right?"

"I say, you guys are so funny, the first episode determines the outcome, right? The first episode of Puella Magi Madoka Magica had a rating of just over 1%, but it affected the ratings of the rest to more than 6%, making it the most phenomenal animation in Dragon Country in the past decade?"

"An original animation and an animation adapted from a novel and comic with an average sales volume of more than 20 million copies are compared in the first episode? You haters should be more sophisticated in your criticism, and come back after three episodes. , it made me laugh to death. "

"The most important thing is that the ratings of these two novels and comics are not much higher than the first episode of Cyberpunk Edgewalker, only one thousandth of a point higher."

"Puella Magi Madoka Magica told the entire Dragon Country animation community that you have to watch the first three episodes to watch anime. You have made a conclusion after watching one episode? Anyway, whether it is Red Dragon or Reformer of Another World, everyone basically knows what the plots of the first three episodes are like? Those who have read the novels know that there will not be any big explosions, but do you know what plots Mr. Xia Yan will write for this animation? Now you are blacking here, I am afraid that you will be strongly slapped in the face when the time comes."

"It is only a matter of time before the original novels and comics of these two works are surpassed by Mr. Xia Yan's Sword Art Online and Initial D. As for the ratings of the adapted animation, it feels that it is also a matter of time before they are surpassed."

"I just like to watch these black fans clamoring wildly in the early stage, being stubborn in the middle stage, and pretending to be dead in the late stage.

"But I am very curious, Mr. Xia Yan is a good person and has no scandals, why do so many people want to black him? ”

“People will be criticized as long as they become famous. Don’t say that Mr. Xia Yan is just a creator who works hard in the two-dimensional industry. If you look at history, those emperors and national heroes were criticized by many people. It is the same reason that people are afraid of fame and pigs are afraid of getting fat. The more famous Mr. Xia Yan is, the more people will criticize him. ”

“However, after watching the first episode of Cyberpunk Edgewalker, what do you think? ”

“It feels pretty good, but the plot has not been fully unfolded yet. Let’s see what happens next. ”

On this day, many employees of Xia Tang Animation Production Company could not help but search for comments about the animation Edgewalker on the Internet while working. After seeing that this was basically the public opinion, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

What they were more worried about was that the overly heavy plot and bloody style of depiction in the first episode of Cyberpunk Edgewalker would make the audience who had seen too many cute animations in the other world hate it, but in fact, everyone seemed to think that there was nothing strange about these elements. In other words, if the cyber world view had a cute style of painting, the Madonna plot would be criticized, which would be a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Xia Yan had just come to Liuli Bookstore headquarters in the morning to take a group of author photos, and then came to His own Xia Tang Animation Production Company.

He first convened a group of senior executives of the company for an emergency meeting, arranged the operation of various matters of the company for more than a week, and temporarily passed the resolution of the operation department to give Cyberpunk Edgewalker the best publicity funds of 12 million, and finally said.

"In the next week, our three directors are collectively busy and will not appear in the company, so all the affairs of the entire company will be temporarily in the charge of you department leaders." Xia Yan looked at several senior executives of the company.

The total number of employees of Xia Yan's company has now expanded to more than 100 people, and the company headquarters has also moved from the previous office building in the suburbs of Magic City to the central office building in the commercial district.

The equipment and personnel production strength have also been supplemented by a large wave, otherwise how could Cyberpunk Edge Walker not see a black screen?

Black is just bad, he is not stupid, he knows that the production quality of Cyberpunk is definitely the top level in the animation industry.

The senior executives of several departments of the company were a little stunned. After all, they have been in the company for more than a year, but they have never seen Xia Yan ignore the company's affairs for a week. In his eyes, even if he went to the capital to receive the award before, the company's business was also handled remotely.

But since Xia Yan said so, they didn't ask.

After handling the company's affairs, Xia Yan drove home.

At his home, Tang Yin, Song Lingjun and Mo Ran were discussing the topic of traveling in the next week with interest.

"Finally a holiday. I'm exhausted."

Mo Ran was wearing a black dress, her long hair hanging down to her waist, and a smile on her fair face.

"I've been drawing comics for a year without a break. It's harder than working 996."

"That's right. You have to complete your studies at school and draw comics and write novels. Office workers are definitely not as tired as you."

Tang Yin, who had her hair tied up, a white shirt on her upper body, a light white short skirt on her lower body and long legs showing black stockings, also smiled.

"It's okay. The schoolwork is very simple. I spend three times more time thinking about the plot of the novel every day than I spend on studying."

Tang Yin wore a red sweater, a baseball cap on her head, and black shorts on her lower body, looking like she was wearing light sportswear.

"But I've always been curious about Xia Yan. He writes novels, makes animations, draws comics, and has to cooperate with the publicity work of the novel book club and the comic club. Where does he have time to think about the plot of his works?" Song Lingjun sighed.

Two years ago, before entering university, she set a goal to completely crush Xia Yan before graduating from university and make her novels famous throughout Longguo.

But two years have passed, and it can't be said that her grades are bad.

The popularity of the new novel Absolute World is now stable and ranks among the top three in Liuli Journal.

Two volumes of the novel have been released, and the average sales of each volume has exceeded 8 million copies. In another month or two, it is highly likely that it will exceed 10 million.

But compared with the original goal, why do I feel that the gap with Xia Yan is widening?

Xia Yan's current status in the animation industry is not to mention that the sales of Sword Art Online and Initial D have exceeded 20 million copies. The combined revenue of the two works for Xia Yan in one year is conservatively estimated to be more than 600 million.

Although Song Lingjun is now known as the first female writer under 30 years old in the light novel industry of Longguo.

But why is it specifically marked as "female writer" instead of "writer"? The reason lies in Xia Yan. Among the light novel writers under 30 years old in Longguo, Xia Yan is the undisputed first. Song Lingjun basically reached the second place with the performance of Absolute World.

However, her second place is far behind Xia Yan.

"He once said that he conceived the plot by dreaming at night." Tang Yin paused and smiled.

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"Forget it, let's not discuss him. The more we discuss, the angrier we get. Compared to him, we always feel like we are useless."

"Then let's discuss Xia Yan's daily life. Sister Tang Yin seems to be very close to Xia Yan recently!" Mo Ran took out a popsicle from the refrigerator and said while eating it.

"You two often go home together recently, and it's always around 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening."

Song Lingjun's fingers froze when she heard this, and then she looked at Tang Yin with suspicion. She was immersed in novel writing every night and didn't pay attention to these things.

Tang Yin's expression froze, and then a faint smile appeared on her face.

"Isn't Cyberpunk Edgewalker about to start airing? We have to deal with this with him! Signing contracts with BD manufacturers, copyright authorizations in overseas countries, customization of peripheral products, especially Xia Yan's Rebecca coaster, he always has strange requests for some strange things."

Mo Ran and Song Lingjun put away their doubts and curiosity when they heard this.

It makes sense.

However, Mo Ran and Song Lingjun didn't know that Xia Yan was now in the stage of pursuing Tang Yin. After get off work at 6 o'clock in the evening, he would always invite Tang Yin to dine at a restaurant near the company, or go to the commercial street to hang out.

Or play in some night spots in Shanghai.

Although the two did not break the window and officially date, their relationship was actually very ambiguous.

However, Tang Yin was embarrassed, so she kept these things hidden from Mo Ran and Song Lingjun. As for Xia Yan, he would not announce these things before he officially dated others, so Song Lingjun and the others didn't know anything.

At this time, Xia Yan came back.

"Okay. Let's go."

Xia Yan, wearing shorts, sneakers, and a light blue coat, smiled as he looked at the three people chatting in the living room.

"It's the first official trip since college."

The luggage and other things had been prepared long ago, and they could just pick them up and go.

His sports car was definitely not suitable for driving in the city. The kind of sports car for two people was only suitable for driving in the city, not suitable for going on the highway, not to mention traveling across provinces.

There are four people in the family. Xia Yan spent more than two million to buy an off-road vehicle a few months ago. After carrying the luggage of four people to the trunk, half an hour later, the four people arrived at the airport.

Self-driving tour is definitely impossible. Xia Yan does not have so much time. The overseas tour event was too short. Considering the complaints of fans, he only took a break for one issue and was away for a maximum of ten days.

So he chose a tourist island overseas in Longguo.

After a three-hour flight to a city near the destination, we took a boat to the destination island.

Along the way, the blue water was rippling, the sea breeze was salty, and seabirds were circling overhead.

"Ah, this is life!" Xia Yan stood on the bow of the ship with excitement on his face.

Although he really enjoyed his career as a novelist and cartoonist, for four years, from the second year of high school to the second year of college, he spent every day creating, and he was indeed tired.

"Look, there are fish." Mo Ran pointed to the school of fish jumping on the water in the distance, with an excited look on his face.

"Isn't it normal to have fish in the sea?" Song Lingyun said this, but he also blinked reluctantly at the sea level.

"That fish is so beautiful. What kind of fish is it, Song Lingjun?"

"How do I know? I've never learned anything about this." Song Lingyun rolled her eyes at Mo Ran.

"Is there something you don't know about?" Mo Ran took out her cell phone and took a photo while asking.

"It's really strange."

Song Lingjun's forehead went dark, and looking at Mo Ran's cute expression, she wanted to speak venomously.

When Xia Yan saw Song Lingjun and Mo Ran paying attention to the fish on the sea level, Xia Yan quietly walked up to Tang Yin who was watching seabirds on the other side of Class A.

"Lean your head closer." Xia Yan said softly.

"What?"

Xia Yan raised the high-definition camera that he had prepared long ago.

"Let's take some photos! Speaking of which, this is the first time the two of us travel." Xia Yan said as he leaned over.

"Hey, don't be so close. Mo Ran and Song Lingjun will see it later and misunderstand it." Tang Yin said quickly.

Xia Yan's shoulders were close to Tang Yin's, and then his head moved slightly closer to take a photo of the two of them.

In the photo, Xia Yan was smiling, while Tang Yin's face was a little red, but she didn't avoid it.

"What's the misunderstanding? Misunderstanding that we are dating?" Xia Yan said.

"Is that a misunderstanding? It's just a fact that will happen in the near future."

"You" Tang Yin was speechless.

But Xia Yan didn't go too far. Anyway, he also knew that Tang Yin would not resist him. When it comes to dating, it doesn't mean that people will agree immediately if they like you. There must be a process of getting along.

Even after taking a photo, they didn’t continue to have many intimate actions.

Tang Yin breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Xia Yan taking a few steps away and preparing to try sea fishing with a fishing rod.

She really didn't hate Xia Yan, but Song Lingyun and Mo Ran were so close, so she felt a little embarrassed to expose them.

On the deck of this small boat, three extremely beautiful girls and a young man faced the sea breeze with exaggerated expressions, which put a smile on the face of the captain who was controlling the direction of the boat.

This is a person who has never seen the sea in the mainland. Everything he sees is new. If he spends a few more days here and eats seafood feasts, he will probably feel like vomiting.

When it comes to travel, your experience depends entirely on how much you are willing to spend. Xia Yan himself does not have high material pursuits. Making one billion a year means that he basically has no idea about money nowadays.

Expensive ones may not necessarily be good, but good ones are definitely not cheap. Therefore, whether it is a vacation villa or travel guide service, Xia Yan is the most expensive.

After arriving at the destination in the afternoon, I did some self-cultivation and had a local special meal in the evening. The next day, I followed the tour guide I hired to take a boat trip to the archipelago area.

Sea fishing, diving, and even some more dangerous projects such as helicopter skydiving can be arranged, and Xia Yan can feast his eyes on it. After all, the beach swimsuit scenes of Tang Yin, Song Lingjun and Mo Ran are indeed eye-catching beyond his imagination.

Each of the three girls has a better figure than the other. Even a person like Xia Yan who is obsessed with work is a little stunned.

Two days after arriving here, Xia Yan, Song Lingjun, Tang Yin, and Mo Ran completely forgot about the anguish of millions of fans across the Dragon Kingdom outside the island.

Sword Art Online is closed this week.

Initial D is closed this week.

After these two news were announced by Liuli Publishing House and Beizhou Comics Club on the same day,

Most people in the entire two-dimensional industry are directly sad.

"What's going on? Both works are suspended at the same time?"

"Is Teacher Xia Yan sick?"

"Are you sick? A friend of mine who works within Liuli Journal told me that Teacher Xia Yan is on summer vacation and the college students are traveling. Damn it."

"Just for this reason?"

"Here I go, I thought something happened? The two works were suspended at the same time, that's it?"

"Damn it, the last chapter of Sword Art Online ended with the conversation between Xu Xiang and Asuna. Now that the issue is suspended, isn't this plot going to whet my appetite for two weeks?"

"Don't say it, don't say it. The same goes for Initial D. The protagonist ae86 has just been installed with a racing engine and is now preparing to debug the machine. As soon as the opportunity comes to take revenge, it will be unbearable to stop updating for two weeks!"

"Teacher Xia Yan is just a traveler. He is so ungrateful. How can he be published at his age?"

The fan group was extremely resentful of Xia Yan's travel.

However, the suspension of Sword Art Online and Initial D will not affect the broadcast of Cyberpunk Edgewalker.

July 12, Sunday

The air date of the second episode of Cyberpunk has also arrived smoothly.