Zongman: Unknowingly trapped in the hatchet

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Before hanging up the phone, Su Qing thought that Yang Nai should know more about local comic publishers than he did, so he casually asked where it would be more appropriate for a newcomer to submit his works. Unexpectedly, the other party's reaction was very surprised.

"You're going to debut as a cartoonist?"

Her voice came through the phone, and her smile was replaced by shock.

In Yang Noi's opinion, with Su Qing's intelligence or mysterious abilities, he would have a better future than being a cartoonist even if he became a personal psychologist for a large family.

After all, the former has a stable and high income, and can also make friends with the powerful, while the path of a cartoonist is full of variables and requires constant inspiration and works that satisfy the tastes of the general public.

But when Yang Nai curiously asked for some of Su Qing's drawings, he couldn't help but twitch his lips after reading them.

Is it true that you have talent and can do whatever you want?

There is no doubt that Yang No remembered the oppressive feeling of being dominated by her opponent in Kyudo.

I didn't expect that there would be more than one person with such achievements in this field...

After taking a break, she suddenly remembered that her family had tried to invest in a publishing house in Tokyo a few years ago. Although it was not as good as top-tier companies like Shueisha, it had managed to squeeze into the T2 in recent years.

Maybe this is a good opportunity for investment?

"Then why don't you consider a publishing house that our family has invested in? I can personally make the decision and give you a good treatment.

Black and white pages cost 20,000 Sakura per page, color pages cost 30,000 Sakura per page. You should know that even Shueisha doesn’t pay new employees much more than that.”

Yang Nai is a businessman, and naturally a businessman will not raise the stakes to the highest level at the beginning.

"Not enough. Although I don't know how big your publishing house has grown, I think it can only survive in the cracks of those big publishing houses. I need you to prepare traffic in advance before my comics are published."

Su Qing spoke calmly.

He could tell there was no lie in the other person's words, but there wasn't much sincerity.

He was confident that Shueisha could publish his book, so the conditions offered by Yono were not equal.

"…The publishing house can't do that, but I can personally invest in you. But you have to think it through. Even if you have great painting skills, you still have to consider the audience and the market."

Yang No reminded.

This is a cruel fact.

There are many writers in Neon who spend a lot of effort to polish their works, trying to make a splash, but in the end their results are not even as good as those assembly line heroes from another world.

"If this book fails, I will give you a good work in return, or give you an equivalent in other ways."

Su Qing naturally understood the other party's concerns and promised.

"Okay, I'm relieved with your words."

Yang Nai readily agreed. Based on her experience and intuition in taking over the family business in recent years, she believed that this deal would most likely be a win-win.

Ok……

But it would be better if I lost money?

Anyway, she and her family don't need this little money, so why not just use it to threaten the other party to be with Xiao Yukino?

After Yang Nai hung up the phone, she couldn't help but start laughing.

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Yang Nai is very efficient in his work.

The next day someone contacted him to discuss the signing.

After completing a series of contracts, the editor told Su Qing that although his comics did not need any further revisions, the typesetting and other aspects would take some time.

However, due to Yang Nai's reasons, the original process time of half a month or even longer was forcibly compressed into one week.

At this point, although the comic has not yet been published, Su Qing can be considered a cartoonist.

So that night he told Mahiru the good news first.

After hearing this, the other party was even happier than himself, jumping up and down and diving into his arms. Perhaps this was one of her ways of celebrating...

The next few days were as peaceful as ever.

Hikigaya still often hunches his back, and only when Ayaka stares at him with displeasure will he straighten up properly, looking like a henpecked husband.

Whenever this happened, Su Qing would laugh at his friend.

But perhaps because he had been with him for so long, Hikigaya did not feel ashamed at all. Instead, he curled his lips and said with some disdain:

"Even if he is henpecked... there must be a 'wife', right?"

Su Qing had nothing to say and had to eat a mouthful of dog food.

Fortunately, during lunch, he and Mahiru would choose to have lunch together.

The chosen location is usually Class C where Su Qing is.

If there is any other change besides this, it is probably that Yui goes to the Service Club more often at noon, right?

Speaking of this pink girl, after the self-study trip, she still maintains her energetic appearance every day. When she sees Su Qing, she will smile and say "hello~" as usual in a strange way, and will also chat and joke with him with a natural expression.

He just stopped asking Su Qing questions he didn't understand in his studies, and the various candies that he had hidden in his schoolbag were also disappearing bit by bit.

He knew all this...

One morning, Su Qing came very early. He sat in his seat, and occasionally stared at the table of the girl next to him in a daze...

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Time flies, and it's Saturday in a blink of an eye.

Today is the day I'm invited to the Hikigaya household.

The night before leaving, Su Qingcai tried to ask Mahiru if she wanted to go with him.

After asking for details and knowing that Saturday was his club's "gathering", the girl declined on the grounds that she had something else to do.

Su Qing didn't care. He said hello to Mahiru and left.

After seeing the other person leave, the girl secretly breathed a sigh of relief, closed the door, and trotted back to her room. There was a tablet and a stylus on the desk.

As for the mobile phone, it was placed on a stand, on which was paused some basic painting tutorials from the website.

Mahiru sat down, put on her headphones and continued her self-study.

She had never been exposed to this kind of thing before, but because of Su Qing, she also learned that being a cartoonist is a very tiring and troublesome job, and usually there is at least one assistant position.

But Su Qing didn't.

She also specifically asked if he would look for her if he debuted, but he refused very straightforwardly, saying that he didn't need her and it would only slow down his production speed.

The girl thought to herself that the other party was really clumsy, why not take it if it could lighten the workload a little?

It doesn't matter if the manuscript comes out a little slowly.

If you don’t have money…she has some “points” here.

Forget it.

I seem to be quite "clumsy".

Because she started from scratch and taught herself, her progress was not smooth, and one could even say she encountered many setbacks.

Not long after, Mahiru looked down at her "failure" and sighed softly.

In fact, she had started studying secretly a few days ago, but there was not much progress after a few days, and she couldn't help feeling discouraged.

But this is normal.

Everyone has their own areas of expertise, just like a genius like Su Qing can't cook, but Mahiru can conquer his stomach.

In fact, failure and setbacks are always understandable.

Mahiru, who was lying on the table, blinked her tired eyes, looking somewhat lazy and cute.

But then she seemed to have thought of something and quickly opened a photo in the album.

Then the thumb gently stroked the face of the man above.

That was Su Qing, and in the photo she was being held lovingly by the other person.

Mahiru stared for a long while, then suddenly burst out laughing, looking very happy.

Then the girl bit her lips lightly and patted her cheeks gently, as if to cheer herself up.

Like a fish drinking water, she began to study attentively again.

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