Chapter 355: Her Days Without Him
Although she wasn’t used to Japanese food, she didn’t completely dislike it. At least, the dishes she had eaten were not bad. For example, this eel rice.
Mmm, she had the idea of learning how to make Japanese food.
After returning to her home country, she wanted to make Japanese food for her friends to eat. They would surely be very happy.
After they had eaten their fill, Miss Sakurai said she wanted to take her to see the major bookstores in Tokyo, to experience how developed the Japanese light novel industry was. And she had indeed seen how developed the Japanese commercial novel industry was. Just the number of readers who bought light novels in the bookstore was no less than in China. One had to know that China was a country with a large population.
The commercial novels in Japan were really powerful. The sales volume of the novels alone was strong enough, and there were also mature animation, peripheral, and manga adaptations, like a mature assembly line. It had to be said that the novel and animation industries in this country, Japan, were really developed. No wonder it was hailed as a great animation country, second only to Hollywood. Mmm, the third was China.
“Take a look at these books. They should be helpful for your career. But the ones sold here are all in Japanese. There are no English ones for you.”
Miss Sakurai said with a wry smile, and also went to ask the young lady at the front desk of the bookstore if there were any English versions of the novels.
For a professional writer, referring to others’ works was indeed very helpful. At least it could let her understand where the gap was between herself and the world.
“This is my work. Please take a look.”
Hase Yuki silently took a novel from the bookshelf, covered her small mouth, her face slightly red, and stuffed it into her hand.
Yu Linna strangely took the novel she had given her. She tried hard to look at the Japanese on it, but no, she couldn’t understand it. But she could still see the cover.
“Hikikomori Little Sister?”
This book, she seemed to have some impression of it. She had also watched the animation of this novel when she was in her home country, watching it on Bilibili at that time. It was quite famous.
It was just that the author was always being spammed, being called “Watase the Old Thief.”
“Are you Watase Mako-sensei?”
It was really surprising. This strange person was actually a bestselling author, and this novel was also a famous sis-con novel. When the author was serializing her previous work, she had even been sent razor blades, being cursed as an old thief.
And the novel was also otaku-pandering. No matter how you looked at it, it didn’t seem like the work of a female author. It was really unexpected.
She had thought that this person’s works would be a very serious type.
“Don’t underestimate how dangerously perverse this person is. She’s only a little behind me..”
Miss Sakurai really couldn’t bear to tell her that this woman was actually a pervert. She remembered that this pervert, in order to write the effect in the novel, had specially run to an elementary school to watch the elementary school girls leave school, and had even followed them. In the end, she was caught by the police and given a lecture. If the fans knew about this dark history, they would be so sad.
Di di.
Yu Linna was just browsing when her phone vibrated. She opened WeChat and saw a small red dot on the top message.
◇ Leaf: How are you considering it?
If she hadn’t seen this message, she might still have been immersed in happiness, having completely forgotten about this matter.
Speaking of which, she had indeed been considering it for a long time. But she still didn’t know how to reply to her.
Ye Zhiyun liked her, but did Yu Linna like Ye Zhiyun? This she did not know. If she had known, she would not have said, “Let me think about it.”
From the very beginning, she had never thought of having a relationship with Ye Zhiyun, nor had she ever thought that this person would have romantic feelings for her.
It had always been Ye Zhiyun who had been giving, always. What had she, Yu Linna, ever done that was worthy of her liking? It seemed there was nothing.
She was still very lost…
“What’s wrong?”
Miss Sakurai saw that she seemed absent-minded and asked.
“It’s nothing, it’s nothing. Let’s continue browsing.”
There was nothing to be done about it. Yu Linna really couldn’t answer her at the first opportunity. She also wanted to reply sooner, but it wasn’t an easy thing to do. She had never been in a relationship before, and she didn’t know what it felt like to like someone else. Although she had been confessed to before, the feeling of her heart being moved seemed to not be there.
Her feelings for Ye Zhiyun, more than that, were probably just dependence.
Yes, she didn’t want to become a single person, so she relied on her, not wanting to be abandoned.
She didn’t want to hurt her, nor did she want to lose her, but she didn’t know how to fall in love with her.
Yu Linna felt that she was really becoming more and more of a scumbag.
She only replied with this one sentence…
◇ NA Nana: I’m sorry, please give me some more time.
She would always only say this…
…
And Ye Zhiyun in her home country went crazy after receiving this message. She scratched her head, still not understanding why she hadn’t replied to her at the first opportunity. Now Yu Linna had flown to Japan. It was even more impossible for her to be by her side. Even if she wanted to pursue her openly, she wasn’t there.
“Really, what would happen if you just accepted it…”
She lay on the table, saying such a childish thing.
She really liked Yu Linna and wanted to have a special relationship with her. But what she was thinking, she didn’t know.
“You, you really make people anxious to watch…”
Dai Wenqian silently approved a document on the table, looking at her speechlessly. Once upon a time, Miss Ye was a majestic existence, but now she had become a love idiot.
…
With the end of the movie Auntie is Here, the movie entered post-production. It should be no problem to release the movie within this year. Now they were just preparing for the final work. Ye Zhiyun was not on the set, but she was still busy dealing with the post-production of the movie, as well as the various major and minor affairs of the company.
But on the matter of love, she was still in a lot of pain. Because Yu Linna had not replied to her.
But even if she was anxious, it was useless, because she herself had said at the beginning that she would wait.
…
In Guangnan University, after Yu Linna had flown to Japan, dorm 383 was one person short. Every time Xiao Yanhan returned to the dorm, she would subconsciously want to ask the person sitting in that seat if they wanted her to bring back food. When she saw that empty seat, she would only then remember that that person was not in China, that she had flown abroad.
The days without her, she really missed her.
There was not much said at the school. They knew that Shion-sensei was on a “business trip,” so they were very magnanimous and didn’t care at all that she was on leave. After all, Yu Linna’s academic performance was still not bad, and she wasn’t the lazy bum Zhao Yuyan who only crammed at the last minute.
“What are you looking at again? Still haven’t given up?”
Lan Ranyan knocked her on the head and said faintly.
Xiao Yanhan pouted, a look of grievance on her face.
She really liked Yu Linna.
Unfortunately, it was impossible for them to be together, because there was no place for her in Yu Linna’s heart.
“Yan, didn’t you say you were looking for a partner to cooperate with on a manga? Have you found one?”
Seeing her like that, Lan Ranyan didn’t say any more discouraging words and asked about her work.
“I’ve found one, but the other party is an online manga artist. Her drawing skills are terrible, like a primary school student’s graffiti. She’s never even drawn before.”
“Then you’re not planning to cooperate with her?”
“Of course I’m going to cooperate. Although this person’s drawing skills are terrible, her screenwriting level is very high. I’ve still decided to adapt her manga, to repackage her manga with my outstanding drawing skills, and to draw a qualified commercial manga.”
Xiao Yanhan was full of enthusiasm. She had already found her own goal. She was confident that this time she could get her work officially serialized and become one of the top manga artists. It was just that the partner she wanted to cooperate with was five or six years older than her. She didn’t know if they could communicate well. She was just afraid of a generation gap because of the age difference.
But if they could sit down and talk properly, they still had a chance. Didn’t her dad also cooperate with others to draw a super awesome manga before?
…
And Yu Linna in Japan was continuing her study life.
Her life in Japan was very ordinary, very plain. Besides not being used to the Japanese food and not being able to understand Japanese, she didn’t have anything she wasn’t used to. She went to the exchange meeting every day, attended lectures, and accumulated learning experience. After it was over, she would go to eat with Miss Sakurai. Her days were very ordinary.
But…
At a lecture one day, the lecturer asked the authors present to try and write a short story and hand it to him to read.
He also called on a few authors to come up and talk about their works, among them Yu Linna.
“To be honest, Shion-sensei, your basic skills are no problem. Your writing is also very smooth, simple, and easy to understand, and your description of feelings is also very good. But your work really can’t be said to be interesting. You are too stuck in the status quo, always afraid to break through. Your style only shows conservativeness, and you dare not seek innovation.”
The lecturer, through the translator’s mouth, very unceremoniously criticized her work.
Yu Linna took back the short story she had written. Her heart was naturally a little disappointed, but she felt that all of this was to be expected.
In the past, she had always said that others’ works were not good, cliché, would not change, and always used old tricks. But what about herself now…
When on earth did she start to become the person she hated the most? Afraid to innovate, afraid to break through, stuck in the status quo, stubborn. These things that should not have appeared on her had all appeared.
Have I really become unable to write novels…
“Don’t take it too much to heart. That teacher is a little strict, but he is for you to be able to discover your own problems and shortcomings. Just write better next time.”
Miss Sakurai also always comforted her like this.
But this was not the first time Yu Linna had been criticized.
Thinking of the past, Yu Linna, who had only ever received praise from others in school, was now being severely criticized on the road of writing novels. It was truly a sigh-worthy moment.
But Yu Linna would still pull herself together. If she gave up just because she was criticized a few times, that would not be her style.
“Among the works this time, the best written is Yamada-sensei’s Fairy Forest. Although it’s just an ordinary love story, it successfully attracted my attention and made me want to continue reading. To put it simply, it has an interesting appeal that makes people feel interested. Yamada-sensei has done very well. But because of the length, it seems a little rushed, but the flaws do not obscure the virtues. This story is very good.”
The lecturer also kept praising Sakurai Reina’s work. To everyone, this was to be expected, because that was Yamada Yui. No one would doubt her work.
After the lecture, Yu Linna, as usual, went to eat with Miss Sakurai. And just like that, a week passed very quickly.
