Chapter 383: Partner
This guy was named Lu Renyi, a freshman. It was unknown from where he had gotten to know Fang Jiangning, but he respectfully called her “senior sister.” Plus, Fang Jiangning had a super high popularity in the school and was also the famous Little Angel. Now, she might even have to add “professional competition commentator” to her personal tag. In short, Fang Jiangning’s popularity was much higher than before.
This junior, from the very beginning, had seen that she was beautiful and famous, and had come running over to get close to her, even wanting to have a toad eat swan meat. Unfortunately, Fang Jiangning had always been polite but distant to her.
“Hello, junior Lu Renyi. What a coincidence.”
“Yeah, to be able to meet senior sister here is really too much of a coincidence. Do you want to eat together? My treat.”
“Hehe, no need. I’m with my friend. We’re leaving in a bit.”
Fang Jiangning was polite but distant to him and didn’t want to get too close to him. She also didn’t plan to have too much contact with him. After all, this junior was just a junior in the end, not someone else. Plus, this junior’s nature was not bad. He just simply wanted to get to know her. She hadn’t been too harsh on him.
“Eh, I don’t think I’ve seen this person before. Senior Sister Jiangning, is she a child from your relatives’ family?”
“No. She’s my friend.”
Fang Jiangning said with a smile.
Classmate Lu Renyi carefully looked at Yu Linna, this girl who had been drinking sweet soup from the very beginning and hadn’t said a word. Why did she look so familiar? Classmate Lu Renyi thought carefully for a while and finally found a related memory in his recollections.
“Ah! You’re Little Na, which is to say, Senior Sister Yu Linna!”
How should she put it? Although she would be very happy to be called “senior sister” by someone, to be called “senior sister” by this junior, she didn’t feel happy.
“Hello.”
Yu Linna, out of courtesy, still decided to greet him, although her appearance was very cold. This classmate, Lu Renyi, had long known from Weibo that this person, Yu Linna’s, personality was cold. To this, he also said it was very normal. Compared to her cold attitude, he was more excited to finally see Little Na in person. This girl, who had been a hot topic since her streaming days but had never shown her face, had left a deep impression on many fans. Even later, when Fang Jiangning had brought Xiao Yanhan over to stream, she hadn’t been able to leave a deep impression on the fans. Yu Linna was really an exception.
“Hello, senior sister. Can I have your autograph!?”
“…It’s fine, it’s fine. What name do you want me to sign? Should I sign ‘Little Na’ or my real name?”
“Either is fine! It would be even better if you could sign your real name!”
“As long as you’re happy.”
Yu Linna, who had always been used to signing the pen name “Shion,” had signed her real name for the first time today. Well, this could also be considered a novel experience. This name had been with her since she was born in this world. She had never thought that one day she would sign this name for someone else. It was really unexpected.
“Ah, we still have things to do, so we’ll be leaving now, junior. We’ll chat again when we’re free.”
Fang Jiangning quickly finished her sweet soup, pulled Yu Linna, and ran off, not delaying for a moment. Although the junior wanted to keep her, he was also helpless and could only watch the two girls leave in front of him.
Afterwards, Yu Linna just wanted to give her good friend a thumbs-up. To do so was really great. She just liked this kind of Fang Jiangning. Decisive and straightforward, without any hesitation.
“Listen, Linna, it’s right to leave early when you meet this kind of person. I’m almost annoyed to death by this group of so-called fans. These people are really sick. They often run to my classroom to stake out, and before, they even organized a protest downstairs at our girls’ dorm. So annoying!”
Originally, the girls’ dorm building where Yu Linna and the others lived was entered by swiping an electronic key. As long as it was a dorm key from the same building, it could be swiped in. Later, after Fang Jiangning’s and Xiao Yanhan’s identities were dug up by fans, there were often die-hard fans staking out at the school, and also irrational fans who had stolen a female classmate’s electronic key and swiped into the dorm building, running to dorm 383 to show their love. At that time, it had scared Fang Jiangning to death. Lan Ranyan had unceremoniously given these few die-hard fans a set of military gymnastics.
Then, the school, considering that there was also the great god Shion-sensei, had made up its mind, drawn out funds, and torn down the old lock of this girls’ dorm building, replacing it with a new one. In the future, the girls living in this building could only use their registered student cards to swipe into the dorm’s main entrance, completely copying the dorm where Zhao Yuyan used to live.
Before, it was because there was only one Zhao Yuyan. Now it was different. This girls’ dorm had the legendary dorm 383, a group of monsters and demons.
“Jiangning, I still remember that in your third year of high school, you didn’t often tell me that you wanted to show your face on stream, to let more fans know what you look like.”
“That was a long time ago. Now, it would be good if I wasn’t annoyed to death by this group of fans. No, those people can’t even be called my fans. How can a fan run to harass their idol!”
Fang Jiangning poured out her grievances to her, speaking of all her bitter tears. It was not so easy to be a public figure. The most feared were the die-hard fans. These people often came to harass her life, causing her to not even dare to leave her dorm for a period of time. It was only at that time that she truly understood how difficult it was for Zhao Yuyan to be a public figure. How could she have been so foolish back then to long to become a big star like Zhao Yuyan?
Yu Linna indicated that she didn’t know anything. She never showed her face.
“Look at that, it seems to be Little Angel. Eh, who is that blonde girl? Could it be Little Na?”
“Don’t say it, she does look quite like her.”
Yu Linna’s inner thoughts: …
Alright, she was now also half a public figure. Because she had run off to Japan for a trip, she also had some heat.
Although her heat and search volume were far from Fang Jiangning’s, her current heat, no matter how you looked at it, was not like an ordinary female university student’s.
To put it bluntly, she was an internet celebrity.
…
Xiao Yanhan did not go to the airport to pick up Yu Linna this day, but went to the studio instead. Coincidentally, she was free this day and could discuss the progress of the manga with her partner. Ever since she had started collaborating with her partner, their manga’s heat had been getting higher and higher, and the paid chapters online also had a lot of clicks. When the single volume was officially published, it was estimated that it would sell for a lot of money.
In the studio, a short-haired woman was working hard at her desk. She was wearing a simple T-shirt, her hair casually tied into a small tail, and most importantly, she wasn’t wearing any pants underneath, just a pair of panties. If it weren’t for the fact that their studio only hired women, the male compatriots would probably be ascending to heaven watching.
“Zijin, you’re wearing that again. What’s that supposed to look like? At least wear some pants.”
“What does it matter? We’re all girls anyway.”
“That’s not the problem. It’s too indecent for you to wear that.”
Xiao Yanhan had advised her many times, but this woman had always ignored her like air, always liking to wear just her underwear when she was working alone. To the point where Xiao Yanhan even felt that this person was definitely possessed by Yagami Hikari.
Zhang Zijin, pen name Baihua Zhengyan, was formerly an online manga artist, 23 years old this year. Before she had met Xiao Yanhan, she had been serializing her own manga online, completely for her own interest. Because she had never learned to draw, her art style was very rough, with no perspective or proportion at all, like a kindergarten child’s graffiti. But her stories were very interesting, and she had gained a group of fans online. Many die-hard fans would even rush her on her Weibo, but because she was not a professional manga artist, she did not have the habit of updating diligently.
She had originally worked at an airport and was planning to take the exam to be a formal flight attendant. Later, Xiao Yanhan had found her and said she wanted to cooperate with her on a manga. Originally, Xiao Yanhan had also just been trying her luck, having found such an online manga artist. After all, she couldn’t find a better partner for the time being. She had also thought that if she still couldn’t get a serialization this time, she would give up and calm down to continue to settle down until she had the ability to serialize a long-form manga.
After talking for a while, Zhang Zijin had unexpectedly felt that she got along well with Xiao Yanhan. She also wanted to try to live a different kind of life, because she quite liked to write stories. So Zhang Zijin had quit the airport job she had worked so hard to find, and had discussed with Xiao Yanhan. They had used up a lot of draft paper back and forth, and had finally settled on the manga Violent Witch District, a manga with a female hero theme. After submitting it to the Man Shijie magazine, they had been lucky enough to get a chance to be published. After that, their popularity had soared, and their readers had become more and more. The publication of a single volume was also in preparation.
After this, the manga artist duo, Yan Yu and Baihua, had officially rung the first bell of their dream in the manga world and had embarked on their journey.
“Yanhan, it’s not that I’m talking, but the matter of you having the protagonist take in a disciple in the new chapter, I don’t think it’s very good. She’s already the strongest. She should just be living a stable life on the path of a dragon.”
“In that case, besides being cool, it’s just cool. The interest of the story will drop. Zijin, I think I’m right. You just have to arrange for that robot to be the protagonist’s disciple. Isn’t this robot quite weak? Following the protagonist to level up and fight monsters, I think it will be great.”
“Is that really okay? In fact, I think for a man-made hero to have such a big role in such a hero story, if it collapses, it will be hard to wrap up later.”
“What are you afraid of! The robot girl is quite cute. I’ll be responsible for drawing her a little more moe, a little more cute, and also drawing her personality a little softer. There will definitely be people who like her!”
“Hey, hey, hey, I don’t want to write a yuri plot. If we do this, it will become a girl and a girl being affectionate with each other.”
The two of them had their own opinions on the issue of the manga, and could be said to be at a stalemate. But this was also a good thing. If a manga’s plot was decided so rashly, then the story would not have much of a highlight. Only through constant disputes and discussions could the story tend towards perfection. Violent Witch District was Xiao Yanhan’s and Zhang Zijin’s first manga. They both wanted to draw it well. If possible, they even wanted to have the manga animated and brought to a bigger stage. But before that, they had to get the serialization right.
“Alright, if you want to arrange it like that, that’s fine. But Yanhan, I also have my own ideas.”
“You say.”
“I want to arrange for a male character to like the female lead. What do you think? Of course, just liking her. They won’t be together.”
“This, it’s a bit of a headache… I personally prefer a story with a girl and a girl.”
“I’ve already said I’m not writing a yuri plot! If you dare to mess around, I’ll mess you up!”
In the midst of the stalemate, the popularity of Violent Witch District was also rising…
