A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

Success is accidental. ♝♦ ♦♦

No creator dares to set a goal of being in the top ten or even the top 100 in history before his work is born.

The reason is very simple. Longguo is a big country with a population of 1.5 billion.

Who can grasp the taste of 1.5 billion people?

Your masterpiece is my poison.

Initial D is so well-known in Longguo, but a group of people still say it is ugly.

No one dares to predict the performance of a work before it is tested by the market.

But Xia Yan directly said that he thought so.

Your work has not been serialized yet, and you already think it will be the first comic with the highest sales volume in history?

Tang Yin had a strange expression.

If it were someone else, she would have laughed, but Xia Yan's words.

Anyway, he has never boasted so far, and all his words that others think are boasting have come true.

"It's only been four years." Tang Yin looked at Xia Yan sitting in front of the computer and said suddenly.

"What four years?"

Xia Yan also stopped his little action of grabbing Tang Yin's hand and playing with her nails. When the two were alone, Xia Yan kept doing these actions, and Tang Yin got used to it.

"I mean, I can still remember the scene when you first came to see me with the novel "Youth Journey" four years ago. Who could have known that four years later, you would have grown to this point." Tang Yin smiled, with a sense of pride in her eyes.

"It seems that my career as a novel editor was actually quite successful. I single-handedly discovered you, the most powerful genius in the history of Dragon Country's two-dimensional world."

"It's just that I was a little cruel to Song Lingjun." Tang Yin said here, and then paused.

"What does it have to do with Song Lingjun?" Xia Yan asked.

"Song Lingjun has always regarded you as her life goal since she was in the third year of high school. In fact, she is extremely talented. The sales of her fifth light novel "Absolute World" have exceeded 10 million copies. If it weren't for you, Xia Yan, she would be the most dazzling light novel genius writer of this era. After the work Absolute World has settled down, she can hone her writing skills and create one or two popular novels to improve herself. Maybe in three, five, six or seven years, she will grow into the top author and leader of the Dragon Country light novel industry."

"However, because of your existence, her exposure in the Dragon Country novel industry is not high. And competing with you in the same era, her idea of ​​becoming the first person in the Dragon Country light novel industry should be difficult to achieve." Tang Yin sighed.

Xia Yan was indeed silent when he heard this.

In fact, Song Lingjun's is the normal way for a genius novelist to rise.

Oda worked as a comic assistant for several years before he started drawing One Piece, and Kishimoto failed before he started drawing Naruto. Obata Takeshi became famous for Hikaru no Go only after his disciples and grandchildren became famous for many years. After graduating from university, Shinkai Makoto worked as a marginal person in a game animation company for several years before he had the opportunity to play an important role in a work. Only more than ten years after graduating from university did he create his representative work, 5 Centimeters per Second.

These creators of the other world? Who is not a genius?

But they also have to accept the friction of the industry, fate, and the times in the early stage of their creative careers in order to grow up.

Song Lingjun is of course also a genius novelist in the Dragon Kingdom plane, but in the first two years of her creative career, she had to serialize several works in a small bookstore in a small provincial capital city, and only after she went to study in the Magic City could she serialize her works in the Liuli Bookstore. Moreover, her second work in the Liuli Bookstore, "Absolute World", was a real big hit.

The average sales of this work exceeded 10 million per volume, but even so, it is basically impossible for her work to reach the sales of 15 million per volume, let alone 20 million per volume, or even to reach the top few in the history of the light novel industry of Monk Dolls, like Sword Art Online.

There is a big gap between them.

If she maintains this momentum and grows for a few more years, and is in good condition, she may have a chance to create a work with an average sales of nearly 20 million per volume.

Even if she is a top genius in the light novel industry of Dragon Country, Xia Yan's existence is indeed despairing to his contemporary competitors.

Even if you work hard, will you catch up with Xia Yan's current achievements in more than ten years?

What position will Xia Yan reach by then? No one can tell.

This is the difference between genius and cheating.

Genius is always in the category of human beings.

"So I have always told her not to target me." Xia Yan also sighed.

Xia Yan's achievements in the past two years are too terrifying, which makes Song Lingjun also under great pressure. Now, apart from attending classes and maintaining her first place in the department, she doesn't participate in any campus activities or clubs. She has earned tens of millions of royalties, but she doesn't even have time to go shopping for clothes, jewelry and bags when Tang Yin invites her. She says that she can't relax, otherwise Xia Yan will widen the gap.

Going to class, thinking about novels, writing novels, and sleeping, this is all her life in the past year.

"So you have to persuade her more. I feel that if she continues like this, she will follow in my footsteps. I fell in love with you when I was 28 years old. If she indulges in novel creation and is controlled by her desire to win, I am afraid that she will not be interested in boys until she surpasses you in this life." Tang Yin hesitated and said worriedly.

"." Xia Yan had a headache when she heard this.

You said that this matter is related to him, but it's not quite right. It has nothing to do with him, so there is indeed a factor of him in it.

And it's not easy to persuade her. With an inappropriate word choice, she was misunderstood as a winner comforting a loser, which made Song Lingjun more excited about Xia Yan's desire to win.

"Try your best." Xia Yan said.

The two looked at each other and both realized that this topic was a little heavy.

"Mo Ran still has a good attitude!" Tang Yin sighed at this time.

"Indeed, she eats when there is food and drinks when there is drink. She doesn't procrastinate. After drawing the weekly comic update, if there is no comic club activity, she will travel around the Magic City all day to eat, drink and have fun. In one day, she can go shopping in the Magic City in the morning, fly to the coastal city beach to sunbathe at noon, fly to the inland city in the afternoon to celebrate the national festival at night, and fly back to the Magic City in the middle of the night to sleep in the business class. She visits three places in one day and goes to school after washing up in the morning. I was shocked when I saw her schedule after a weekend holiday last year. She is the happiest. Now she is a senior, earning more money than she can spend in her lifetime, and she doesn't look for a job. She has no pressure at all." Xia Yan also said.

"People's troubles seem to be self-inflicted." Tang Yin said.

"That's true." Xia Yan smiled when he heard it.

After discussing the company's business with Tang Yin for a while, in the afternoon.

Xia Yan convened a meeting for all employees of the company.

The next day

Just as everyone in the Dragon Country's two-dimensional industry was still discussing the topic of Xia Yan's new work, Hunter x Hunter, which would be serialized at the end of the month.

Xia Yan didn't give his fans too much time to digest it.

He has already decided that Lelouch of the Rebellion will be broadcast in April next year, so naturally the promotion activities will be as early as possible.

On the official website of Xia Tang Animation, his creator account simultaneously updated a message.

The content of the message is very simple.

Xia Tang Animation Company has launched a project production plan for a new animation.

The title of the work is "Lelouch of the Rebellion!"

The introduction of the work is also very simple, in a short introduction of 100 words.

Holy Britannia Empire.

→

Island Country

Eleventh District.

Lelouch..

Geass

Everyone knows each of these nouns individually, but when they are combined, they know nothing.

However, although the project was confirmed to be launched not long ago, it can be said that the animation production is still in the early preparation stage.

But the character design of Lelouch has been completed.

The high-definition picture drawn by the animation original painting master in the company in a week was also announced along with the production preview information of this work.

The boy in gorgeous court aristocratic costumes, with black hair, purple eyes, melancholy, and a smiling expression.

Gorgeous, evil, and beautiful

But, it is not annoying.

Xia Yan’s male fans are okay, just such a character picture they don’t have any ideas.

But female fans, seeing this style of painting is directly touched.

After all, the original character design of Lelouch in the parallel world was designed by the well-known cartoonist group clamp.

Speaking of clamp, even many people in the parallel world may not know much, but their most famous work Cardcaptor Sakura, there are many people who know it.

The painting style itself is that kind of girlish style, beautiful style.

Xia Yan’s works in Longguo, if it is not necessary, will try not to go blind.

Especially the painting style of a work, even if the painters under him may not be able to create the same draft, at least the spirit and essence of the original work, Xia Yan must let them simulate these.

It's not that I don't believe in their creative ability. Lelouch will probably survive if he changes his style, but Xia Yan doesn't need to gamble.

After all, the classic case is the graffiti style comics of the original One Punch Man in the parallel world, and the enhanced version of the comics adapted by Murata. The same plot, but different style, has a hundred times the popularity gap.

Xia Yan is still very cautious about this stuff.

So naturally, the female fans of Longguo Xia Yan fell in love with this style at first sight.

But compared with the feeling brought to fans by this character design picture, Xia Yan has a new animation production here, which is the most shocking to fans.

"Code Geass. I can only say that if it were a different creator, I would feel that the title would fail."

"Why is Xia Yan so strong? I'm crying! He's a model worker in the industry."

"Look at Xia Yan. Last month, he was still updating Sword Art Online, Initial D, and Cyberpunk Edgewalker weekly. How long have Cyberpunk Edgewalker and Initial D been completed? In less than a month, two new works have been launched. He really makes me cry."

"The most important thing about liking Xia Yan is his creative speed. A good creative speed is a talent, and high quality is also a talent, but with both fast speed and high quality, I can only say that Xia Yan is a god! He makes so much money a year, and he deserves it!"

"Fuck, it's going to air next April, he's really a god, I'm crying."

"Does the old thief really have no idol burden? He created Puella Magi Madoka Magica last year, and the cyberpunk Edgewalker this year. As for next year, it looks like Code Geass. He started the new animation project so quickly, didn't he consider the poor performance of the new work and the complaints from the industry?"

"Other creators, after becoming famous, spend ten years honing their skills, and are bound by idol burdens. They are afraid of this and that when creating, and often produce a bunch of shit. It's still the old thief Xia Yan. After Puella Magi Madoka Magica became famous, he created casually, and hey, less than a year later, he became a god with another Edgewalker. So, don't look at the old thief with mortal eyes, just praise him and that's it."

"I'm really excited. There are news about the animation adaptation of Sword Art Online and Initial D. If they can be broadcast next year, maybe we can see three animation works of Lao Zei in one year. It's really amazing."

"I don't want to stay at the end of this damn year. Can time go faster and jump to April next year? I really want to watch the premiere of Code Geass."

"But at the end of this month, the first episode of Hunter x Hunter will be serialized in Beikan!"

"I forgot about this, my."

"Why is Lao Zei so strong? Doesn't he have a bottleneck in his creation? The author of another novel I read, "Innocent Aunt and Tenant", either said he was sick and asked for leave or was stuck in writing. 30 days a month, at least half a month of leave, the quality of the novels he wrote is still very low. Lao Zei's writing speed is very fast. Apart from liking to break chapters, I have never seen him stop publishing for strange reasons. Is this a genius? "

"I don't understand. There is no need to understand, anyway, just support him."

"Code Geass, this name is really strange. I hope the quality of this animation can be as good as Madoka Magica and Cyberpunk Edgewalker."

"Be bold, Lao Zei's new animation performance surpasses these two works."

In October, the news of the serialization and production of Xia Yan's works, Hunter x Hunter and Code Geass, was announced later.

The water of Longguo's two-dimensional industry was completely muddied by Xia Yan.

The most uncomfortable ones are actually the animation production teams of this quarter's winter party new series.

Cyberpunk Edgewalker, which has been completed for a month, the male protagonist David and the female protagonist Lucy of this work still firmly occupy the second and first popularity rankings of animation characters this quarter.

Everyone had assumed that this quarter would be shrouded in the aftermath of Edgewalker's popularity, and was thinking about competing for the honor of being the third most popular character in the animation industry this quarter.

Inexplicably, Dragon Country ranked third in the popularity ranking of animation characters this quarter, and a "Code Geass" popped up?

Damn, this animation is still in the concept stage!

The company hasn't even started production yet, and they only made a character design picture. Are you fans sick? They pushed him to the third place in the character popularity ranking?

In more than 90 new animations in October, no character's popularity can surpass David and Lucy, the protagonists of the already completed animation Edgewalker. It's embarrassing enough.

Now it's even better, even the popularity of the protagonist of an animation that will only be broadcast next year, Code Geass: The Rebellion, is not as good as it.

Is this a joke?

This is too embarrassing.

Although Xia Yan didn't deliberately humiliate them.

But there will always be people who will take it personally.

That night, Xia Yan gained several more jealous and black fans in Dragon Country.

The so-called competitors are enemies, this is the truth. Xia Yan is relatively low-key in the industry and never slanders any competitor, but competition is like this. You don't need to do anything. Others only see that you make money, and they always think that the money is taken from them, which is very ridiculous.

Mid-October passed in a flash.

Time has come to late October.

At this moment, Beizhou Comics Club has gone all out and started to promote the publication date of Hunter x Hunter in the industry.

The posters of Hunter x Hunter can be seen everywhere in the two-dimensional commercial streets and subways of major cities in Longguo.

This strength is several times stronger than when Xia Yan's Initial D was serialized.

The senior management of Beizhou Comics Club also understands that if the comics club wants to move forward now, the necessary investment at this time is necessary.

In this month, the investment in the promotion of Xia Yan's new comics has exceeded 30 million Longguo currency

This kind of publicity for a new comic is extremely rare in the history of the entire Longguo comics industry.

Adjust the status as soon as possible and strive to resume the 6,000-word update. Although I have said this two or three times, I will still work hard!