Chapter 252: Are They Like You?
For Shion-sensei, who only appeared online and never in public, and never disclosed any information, most onlookers only knew his name, not the person. Although Shion-sensei had been interviewed, it was all on QQ. There were basically no offline interviews.
So when Air-sensei talked about this person, it was believed that most people wanted to dig out useful information from her mouth.
“You and Shion-sensei have a very good relationship, right?”
“We are very good friends in private.”
Zhao Yuyan did not deny this at all.
“Air-sensei, what are your thoughts on a successful person like Shion-sensei? I mean, you two are of similar age and both became famous at a young age. Do you have any thoughts about him that are more than just a friend?”
“Haha, we are just very good friends.”
Zhao Yuyan did not answer directly, only emphasizing this point.
How could she not know the host’s little scheme? Come to think of it, she didn’t know when it started, but people online had habitually assumed that Shion-sensei was a man, and a literary youth at that. Before his age was revealed, many people thought Shion-sensei was an uncle in his forties.
Why was there such a perception? It was now unknown.
But Zhao Yuyan felt that these people were simply idle and had nothing better to do.
“Air-sensei, let’s talk about your story. Everyone is actually quite interested in the background story of your novel creation.”
Seeing that there was no major progress on this topic, the host decisively changed the subject.
“Well, that would have to start from my…”
Zhao Yuyan also told her story according to the rules. This was all for the sake of the show’s effect, and the fans were happy to see it.
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When this episode was broadcast online, Xiao Yanhan finished watching it on her computer at the first opportunity. For the convenience of watching live streams and playing games, she had bought a desktop computer. Just after finishing Air-sensei’s interview, she got up to get herself some water. She herself was a fan of Wenqing and was familiar with Wenqing’s well-known authors. Especially Air-sensei, who was known as Wenqing’s number one beauty, she also watched her often.
“Air-sensei is so beautiful.”
She even sighed with such emotion after watching.
“Linna baby, what is Air-sensei usually like as a person?”
Yu Linna was currently typing her novel. Hearing her ask this, she stopped her fingers and thought for a moment.
“Just a lazy person.”
“????”
Zhao Yuyan indicated that she didn’t get her point.
Ever since she found out that her idol, Shion-sensei, was her roommate, she had become even closer to her, even bringing her delicious food from time to time, pestering her for drafts, or wanting spoilers.
And Yu Linna had never paid her any mind, even asking Lan Ranyan to drag Xiao Yanhan away when she was working, not allowing her to look at her manuscripts.
Xiao Yanhan felt very sad.
But Yu Linna was only cold.
“I say, can you let me see your manuscript?”
“Of course not. Just be a good girl and buy my book to support me. Isn’t the release date coming up?”
“I can’t wait!”
“Endure it. Two more sets of books will be published next month. If things stabilize in the future, I estimate you’ll be able to see a serialization every month.”
“Wuwuwu…”
As the number one female fan, Xiao Yanhan’s appetite was whetted to the point of suffering. She really wanted to know what happened next, what the story was about. Shion-sensei’s book was too addictive. How could she stop?
Her idol had become her roommate, but this roommate refused to give her spoilers or let her see the manuscript. Besides being a little closer to her idol, it seemed nothing had changed.
“But, Linna, are all the people in your novel circle like you? I never see you idle. You should rest once in a while.”
That was true. Ever since Xiao Yanhan came back, Yu Linna had basically been at her seat. When she had no classes, she was always typing on her keyboard. Not to mention on holidays, she could sit for a whole day, and her roommates would even bring her food.
It was completely different from the time of military training.
“I don’t know about others, but I’m different,” she replied.
If she were like Zhao Yuyan, slacking off every day and pulling all-nighters to play games, then it was really hard to say how much she could write each month. If she weren’t diligent, how could she serialize two volumes of a novel in a month? One had to know that besides writing manuscripts, she was also responsible for the illustrations. One could imagine how large her workload was.
Xiao Yanhan enjoyed reading her books. She could read them all the time. But reading was one thing. When she saw her idol, Shion-sensei, working hard on her manuscripts every day, still typing on her keyboard after midnight, and waking up early to find her still sitting at her seat, and after a whole day, she hadn’t moved except to eat and go to the toilet, she would also feel with emotion that this person must be working too hard.
Reading her books was enjoyable, but seeing Yu Linna working so hard, and seeing her dark circles getting heavier and her face getting paler, made her heart ache a little.
“Linna, how about taking a break?”
“Yeah, I will. I’m a little hungry. Bring me some food.”
“Okay, what do you want?”
“The Hua Liang noodles at our school gate are good. Bring me one.”
“Okay.”
Xiao Yanhan couldn’t do much now, only bring her some food, some drinks, and support her from behind. Before, she didn’t understand. It wasn’t until she got to know Yu Linna and her work mode that she gradually began to understand the profession of a novelist.
So writing novels is so hard?
She hadn’t worked so hard drawing manga. She would spend a whole month grinding on one manga.
Although it was also very hard, compared to Yu Linna, it seemed to be a bit far off. Fans always said that Shion-sensei was omnipotent, responsible for both illustrations and novels, and was also serializing two novels and writing a TV series script. But doing all this, wasn’t the author herself working hard? The answer was no.
Yu Linna was working very hard, but she didn’t say it.
Her answer was always to respond with her works.
“I say, Linna, you’ve been sitting there since you woke up at 6 o’clock, and you only had a bun for breakfast. Aren’t you tired?” Lan Ranyan asked, biting into a donut.
“I’m not tired. It’s my job, after all. Besides, isn’t it Saturday today?”
Lan Ranyan said nothing more.
“I’m going to buy some food too. Jiangning, let’s go together.”
In the 383 girls’ dormitory, besides Yu Linna, who hadn’t been going out much recently, these three would basically act together. Yu Linna seemed to only go out when she needed to, for example, when she ran out of daily necessities, or her sanitary pads, shampoo, and shower gel. Then she would take the initiative to go out.
Most of the time, she stayed in the dorm, writing.
“Jiangning, you’ve known her since high school. Was she like this before?”
When the three of them went downstairs, Lan Ranyan couldn’t help but ask Fang Jiangning this question. Before, she had never seen how a novelist worked, nor did she know what kind of group novelists were. But looking at Yu Linna’s lifestyle, it should be like this, right?
Thinking like this wasn’t without reason. After all, her novels sold well, her popularity was high, and her updates were powerful. Being so diligent behind the scenes wasn’t hard to understand.
“I don’t know about that. We didn’t live on campus in high school. She was also an actress in the entertainment industry for a while. I’m not sure what her work mode was like when she became a novelist. At that time, weren’t we all in our third year of high school, busy with our studies?”
“The entertainment industry?”
Lan Ranyan caught the key words.
Xiao Yanhan also stopped smiling and tilted her head.
“What do you mean by the entertainment industry? She was also an actress?”
Oops, did I say something I shouldn’t have? Looking at Lan Ranyan’s puzzled face, Fang Jiangning felt that she had been a bit too talkative.
But since they were all in the same dorm, it shouldn’t be a big problem to talk about these things, right?
“I’m not sure about the details. It was just for a period of time, before she became a professional writer. She participated in a few auditions and even went to a film set to get an autograph from a big star, but she never got a role. By the way, she was also an extra in a movie before. I’ll go back and find it for you guys to see later.”
Xiao Yanhan and Lan Ranyan looked at each other.
They didn’t know this person, Yu Linna, before and didn’t know much about her. Their perception of her now was based on her being a novelist. To say that she had once been an actress was something they had never thought of.
“I don’t think it’s surprising that she was an actress. She’s good-looking, so it’s understandable that she went into the entertainment industry. But she never got a role, which I find a bit hard to understand. Normally, shouldn’t there be a bunch of directors looking for her to film? Even if I assume she has no acting skills, I think she’s good enough to be a ‘vase’ actress.”
Not only was Lan Ranyan unable to understand, but Xiao Yanhan also couldn’t understand.
With Yu Linna’s looks, as an actress, even if she wasn’t very famous, she should still have some exposure. How could she have no fame at all? In the end, she was so down and out that she had to change her career to become a novelist.
This was a bit unscientific.
“I’m not sure either. She never took the initiative to talk about it. I only heard that a company looked for her to shoot a commercial and wanted to sign a long-term contract with her, but for some reason, they parted on bad terms. After that, she disappeared for a while. When she came back, she had left the entertainment industry and never mentioned it again.”
Fang Jiangning’s understanding of this matter only went this far. She didn’t know more, because she wasn’t clear about it herself.
Lan Ranyan felt very strange. This Yu Linna, was her background story that complicated?
It felt like she was very unusual.
…
Yu Linna was currently typing. She had just finished a chapter. She stretched and kneaded the back of her neck. She thought that she really needed to get a massage or something recently. The soreness in her neck was becoming more and more obvious.
At this moment, a window popped up on her computer screen. It was actually an advertisement. If it were a normal advertisement, she would have closed it long ago. But when she saw the words “National Singer Competition City-Level Auditions Officially Begin” on the advertisement, she hesitated to click it away.
All the stories started from here. The flyer for the National Singer Competition. If she hadn’t taken it back then, there would be no story today. If it weren’t for Nangong Ying bringing her into the entertainment industry, she wouldn’t have left with disappointment and come here.
It turned out that a year had already passed. Was it that fast?
Whenever she thought of that time in the past, her heart was always filled with many emotions. If she hadn’t taken that flyer back then, she might still be that little girl who worried about her livelihood and rushed around every day. Where would there be a character like Shion-sensei?
It could only be said that it was all fate’s doing.
