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"Have you eaten yet?"

"Not yet? The dishes are ready, but I haven't started eating yet." Chu Yu said.

"That's just right. Let's eat first. There's something complicated to say. Let's chat while eating." Su Yu let out a long breath.

The dinner table.

"You said you have something to say, what is it?" Chu Yu asked.

Su He took a sip of hot tea and looked up at Chu Yu.

"I don't know if you've heard of... the Dragon Star Award!"

Chapter 41 Dragon Star Award

"Dragon Star Award..." Chu Yu thought for a while, and finally nodded.

"I've heard that it seems to be a comic awards competition held in Shanghai."

"What's the matter, why are you bringing this up?"

"That's good. Since you know more about this award, it will be much easier for me to explain it." Su Yu said while eating.

"The Dragon Star Award is initiated by the seven major comic clubs in Shanghai, and it is an award aimed at selecting outstanding cartoons in the Dragon Kingdom outside the Shanghai area."

"Selected once a year, entries are eligible for...."

.......

After half an hour.

"You mean I have... no, is Rurouni Kenshin Reminiscences eligible to sign up for this award?"

"You're wrong?" Su Yu shook his head.

"It's not that you are eligible to participate, but you are eligible to participate in the competition for this entry..."

With Su's continued explanation, Chu Yu finally understood what she was going to say!

Long Country, a total of more than 16 provinces, has a total population of over [-] billion. In this land, the comic industry is in its golden age, and there are countless comic companies, large and small.

But excluding the RB Island area, looking at the land, the entire Dragon Kingdom, except for the seven major comic companies in Shanghai, basically the comic industries in each province only publish in their own provinces. Many times, some provinces have excellent cartoonists. But due to the influence of the platform, it is difficult for such a cartoonist to gain fame in Longguo.

In order to prevent these outstanding cartoonists and their works from being buried, the seven major cartoon companies in Shanghai invite influential cartoon works from various provinces to gather together every year to hold a cartoon award selection.

This award is the selection of the Dragon Star Award!

"In Los Angeles Province, there are three places for the competition, and the right to allocate the places is in the hands of the three major cartoon clubs in Los Angeles, one each for Fengyu, Cuttlefish and Longya."

"Originally, according to the usual practice in previous years, our cuttlefish's participation quota was obtained by the Demon Realm, but this year's situation is different..." Su Yu said.

"After the results of the popularity vote in the last issue came out, the entire Squid Comic Club has four works in Manying, including Shen Xin's Demon Realm, Dong Yun's Hidden Girl, Chu Yu Your Rurouni Kenshin Reminiscences, and Wang He's Tianshu. It can be regarded as a comic work of another dimension."

"So this year, the editorial department had an afternoon meeting to discuss which work should be selected for this award..."

"Let's not talk about Tianshu. For three years, it hasn't surpassed the Demon Realm even once. Its editor is also in an indisputable situation as in previous years..."

"The point is that our Rurouni Kenshin Reminiscences and the Secret Girl have shown a strong upward momentum, so the performance of the Demon Realm this year is not convincing."

Chu Yu knew in his heart that what he couldn't convince the public was probably because of the dissatisfaction of the two guys who didn't see each other like Su Yu and Song Jiayu.

"So after a whole day of discussion today, Editor-in-Chief Pang has also made a decision, and the discussion has resulted in a result."

"There is still one month to go before the Chinese New Year, and the deadline for submitting entries is also before the year."

"So Editor-in-Chief Pang said, with regard to our three works, Demon Realm, Hidden Girl, and Rurouni Kenshin's Reminiscences, this week is not counted. In the next four weeks, which work won the first popularity vote? If there are many names, then choose which work to participate in.”

Three works, four voting opportunities in four weeks, that is to say, if any work can get No. 1 in the popularity vote three times in the next month, then that work will definitely be eligible for this competition.

If Su Yi didn't ask Chu Yu if he would like to participate in the competition, he would be a fool if he didn't take this kind of opportunity.

An opportunity to let your work go out of the province where it is located, so that fans all over the country can pay attention to your work. As long as you are still wanting to work hard in this industry, it is impossible not to seize this opportunity.

The next four weeks?

Chu Yu nodded. It just so happened that in the following January, the third episode of Rurouni Kenshin's Memories will be serialized.

"Dragon Star Award..."

Chu Yu let out a long breath.

"By the way, Sister Su... Has the result of today's popularity poll come out?" Zhao Qinyin, who had been silent all this time, asked suddenly.

"It's out." Su Yu nodded, she dug out the text message, and handed the phone to the two of them.

The ranking is still the same as the result published in the fifth chapter last week.

No.1, Demon Realm, 940 four votes.

No.2, the secret girl, 110 votes.

No.3, Remembrance of Rurouni Kenshin, [-] votes.

......

Chu Yu also looked strange.

The top three in this period, while maintaining their rankings, all achieved an increase in the number of votes.

But from No.1 to No.3, the difference is not even a thousand votes.

It can be said that the current gap between these three works is completely negligible.

Of course, compared to Chu Yu's calm and breezy situation, Song Jiayu at home could hardly calm down looking at the analysis report in front of him.

On it, there are a series of statistics and folded charts of the three works.

Among them, the trend chart of Rurouni Kenshin's Remembrance Chapter, which is almost soaring into the sky, always makes him look dazzling.

He didn't pay too much attention to the work of Demon Realm.

But what about Rurouni Kenshin: Memories of Rurouni Kenshin?From more than 4000 votes for the first episode, more than 4000 votes for the second episode, and now more than 8000 votes for the sixth episode....

Every time an issue is serialized, the number of voting fans of this work ranges from five to six thousand to tens of thousands.

Who can stand this?

If this work keeps rising like this in the next issue, it will break the record of Cuttlefish's popularity votes unprecedentedly, and it will also be Cuttlefish's first work with a popularity vote exceeding [-].

At that time, on Cuttlefish, who can compete with this work of Rurouni Kenshin Reminiscences?

Who else can compete with it for the Dragon Star Award?

Thinking of this, Song Jiayu felt depressed.

Thinking that when he came to Los Angeles, it took a lot of time and energy to get Dong Yun to agree to cooperate with him. He never imagined that Su Zhe, a person he had never put in front of him before, would find the water. Heart such a freak cartoonist.

One operation, and now he has become his biggest enemy in Cuttlefish.

Why is this girl so lucky?

Reminiscent of her pursuit of Su Zhe, she was ignored instead, and the behavior of suppressing Su Zhe along with the rise of Rurouni Kenshin's Memories is already a joke. Now, even her work ability is inferior to her!

Why is this plot so different from what I imagined?

Song Jiayu has always refused to admit defeat, let alone losing to a woman named Su Yi who dared to look down on him!

water heart...

It's all about that guy.

When that guy serialized the Garden of Words, he should have been decisive, press him to death, and don't give him the chance to serialize.In this way, there will be no such works as Rurouni Kenshin Reminiscences.

Song Jiayu took a deep breath.

But it's too late to say anything now, he can only believe that the secret girl can maintain her momentum, and her colleagues who have surpassed the Demon Realm can still suppress the memory of Rurouni Kenshin.

......

Chapter 42 Summit

The editor-in-chief of Cuttlefish Comics Club's selection method for the entries for the Dragon Star Award spread throughout the industry in a very short period of time.

Regarding the struggle between Manying's several works in the two months at the end of the year, not to mention the people from other comic agencies, even the people inside Squid were a little dumbfounded.

At the beginning, everyone thought that Dong Yun deserves to be Dong Yun, and the new work is so fierce, Mr. Shen Xin probably won't be able to hold on for long and will give up the number one position.

But a few weeks later, everyone looked back and found that the real dark horse was still to come.

Rurouni Kenshin's Remembrance Chapter, although everyone gave it a very high evaluation during the serialization meeting, but no one expected that once this work was serialized, it would turn out to be so fierce.

From Manying's eleventh to third place, this work only used five episodes.

And how long does it take to go from the third in the series to the first?

two weeks?

three weeks?

Or, just today?

......

Although Song Jiayu was very calm at work these days, some cuttlefish employees who went to Song Jiayu's office to report to work could feel that Song Jiayu was very upset from the cigarette butts in the trash can in his office and the strong smell of smoke in the air.

He himself could feel the anxiety of the situation.

If things continue like this, the Dragon Star Awards will be gone, and the secret girl's dream of reaching the top will also be gone.

But he has nothing to do.

Rurouni Kenshin Reminiscences has already used his greatest strength in this work, giving it a cold shoulder in promotional resources and manga layout.

In the entire Ming City, buses, subway stations, comic exhibitions, and bookstores, among all the promotional resources that Cuttlefish spent money on, the secret girl definitely got the best resources.

This is also an important factor for the secret girl to be able to push the devil to a desperate situation in just a few episodes.

On the contrary, Rurouni Kenshin's Memories, not only does not even have the basic publicity of the new serialization practice on Manying, but also the characters on the cover of the manga, under Song Jiayu's hint, after so many issues, this work has not even shown a single character.

But even so, this work was able to kill, what can Song Jiayu do.

Originally, according to Song Jiayu's vision, with the development momentum of the secret girl, it is a certainty that the popularity vote will surpass the Demon Realm in a week or two. By then, the qualification for the Dragon Star Award will not be at hand.

However, the birth of Rurouni Kenshin's Memories seems to be to make the work of the secret girl difficult from the very beginning.

It lost to Rurouni Kenshin's Memories of Rurouni Kenshin in the serialization meeting, and now, at the critical period when the secret girl is about to reach the top, this work has emerged again.

And it was at the critical period of competing for the qualification for the Dragon Star Award.

Song Jiayu was really disgusted by this work during this time.

Song Jiayu looked at the time, it was already past six in the afternoon.

Immediately, the results of the votes for this issue will be released. After the results of the votes for this issue are released, it is very likely that there will be a new manga that will reach the top of Manga.

Will Rurouni Kenshin Reminiscences reach the top, or will the secret girl win, or will the Demon Realm continue to defend the challenge?

Many editors of Cuttlefish Comic Club, although they have nothing to do with themselves, still focus on this matter.

After all, although Song Jiayu had many people who flattered him in the comic club, there were also many people who wanted to see him make a fool of himself.

Although these people did not suffer as badly as Su Bao, Song Jiayu did not take less anger from them.

.......

Soon, the text message of Manying's popularity voting ranking, which was automatically sent by Cuttlefish's voting system, was sent to the mobile phones of Moying's editors at this moment.

Su He who was at Chu Yu's home, Song Jiayu who was smoking a cigarette in the office after work, editor-in-chief Pang Feng, and all the editors of the Cuttlefish Comics Club received this text message at the same time.

"How?" Chu Yu asked.

There was no emotion on Su Zhi's beautiful face, but... Her eyes had become dull the moment she saw the text message.

Soon, her breathing became short of breath.

Seeing Su Bao like this, Chu Yu and Zhao Qinyin almost guessed what the result would be.

Although both of them had a premonition of this result, but things really developed as imagined, and they still couldn't calm down in their hearts.

"Climbed to the top?" Chu Yu asked.

Su He took a deep breath and looked at Chu Yu.

"Ok!"