Chapter 419: Junior
After officially signing the contract and confirming her return to the crew as a screenwriter, it was good news for everyone in the crew of The Smile of the Rose. A large part of the reason why this drama was able to become popular was due to the screenwriter, Shion. After she had left the show, the quality of the TV series The Smile of the Rose had been getting worse and worse, and the quality could no longer be compared with before. Now, the screenwriter was returning to the crew, which was undoubtedly the best news for them.
The Smile of the Rose had already been broadcast for three seasons, and the fourth season was about to start filming, with Shion-sensei once again taking up the pen. After Shion-sensei had left this drama, it had started to follow the old path of romance dramas again, using the old tricks on this drama. A good online romance story had once again become a messy love story of the rich circle. After Shion-sensei returned, she had to reorganize the relationships between the characters inside to determine how to write the rest. Since the story of the online romance had already gone further and further off track, she might as well let the male and female protagonists meet offline. It would also be a good idea to throw out the selling point of this drama early. Otherwise, it would be difficult for this drama to generate heat in a short time.
“Shion-sensei, are you really going to do this?”
“Mmm, this is the most suitable method I can think of.”
Since Shion-sensei herself had said so, what else could the others object to? When they had signed the contract at the beginning, it had already been agreed that she could change the script as she pleased, and the investors could not influence her control over the plot. Although the people in the company had some complaints, thinking that this person had no failed cases in screenwriting, they still decided to hand this job over to her.
Besides the work on the TV series The Smile of the Rose, Yu Linna had also taken on the adaptation work of the IP Ace Gambler. The organizers’ side had asked her to change the name and then localize it, which was to say, to change the characters in the original work who were Japanese to Chinese. And the other party had indeed shown enough sincerity, hiring Yu Linna as a screenwriter for a price of 6 million.
Just these two scripts, Yu Linna’s income was over 10 million. This was probably the fastest she had ever earned. In the past, when she was writing novels and selling copyrights, where would she have gotten such a high income? Even when she had first started to make money by writing scripts, her income had not reached such an exaggerated level.
Her net worth was constantly rising, and this was not a price she had set for herself, but a price that the market had set for her. She did indeed have such a price now.
A net worth of 10 million. Who would have dared to think of this in the past? Yu Linna smiled wryly. Just two years ago, she was still a little girl who had to run around for a hundred yuan. How long had it been, and her net worth had actually increased so much.
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After leaving the company, Yu Linna went to the Wenqing editorial department. She wanted to find Qian Jiaxuan to check the manuscript, and also to give her the outline for the next volume. When her editor was Chen Xi before, she had always done this.
Qian Jiaxuan took the outline, flattered, and repeatedly nodded to her. She was still as nervous as ever when she saw her. Yu Linna sometimes wondered when this editor would be able to grow up.
“By the way, Shion-sensei, it’s a good thing you came today. There’s someone who wants to see you. She’s also in the editorial department.”
Qian Jiaxuan said.
“Who? A fan of mine?”
“In a sense, it’s not wrong to say so, but she’s also a professional writer.”
Qian Jiaxuan said with a wry smile. Yu Linna thought for a moment, a professional writer. Could it be a rival?
A moment later, she knew the answer.
Qian Jiaxuan led a girl in. This girl was over 1.6 meters tall, with a big smile on her face, her long hair reaching the back of her neck. Her appearance was the delicate and good-looking type. Although she was not a great beauty of Zhao Yuyan’s level, she was not too bad either. Especially those ivory-white long legs, they made one have ideas just by looking at them.
“Hello, senior. My pen name is Mi Xi.”
This female author, who called herself Mi Xi, said with a smile, greeting her.
“Mi Xi-sensei was the winner of the Wenqing New Talent Gold Award last year. She is your junior. Although she is not under my editorship, she has always been pestering me to see you, and you are also relatively busy. It’s a rare occasion for you to come to the editorial department today, so I thought of letting you two meet.”
Qian Jiaxuan said with a wry smile.
Yu Linna had an impression of this author, Mi Xi. The champion of last year’s New Talent Award, her long-form representative work was Moonlight Fate. In last year’s sales, she had set a good record. Although she had not been able to beat Shion-sensei’s sales record from her newcomer period, as a newcomer, she had also performed quite outstandingly, vaguely having the shadow of a great god author.
Her personality was cheerful and outgoing. She had quickly become familiar with the editorial department and had also gone out for meals with many editors. Everyone in the entire editorial department knew her. Unlike the decadent Air-sensei who stayed at home and did not go out, and the mysterious Shion-sensei who did not show her face, Mi Xi-sensei was an author whose appearance and name were public from the very beginning, and she never shied away from taking on endorsement commercials, nor did she procrastinate on her manuscript.
“Hello, Mi Xi-sensei.”
Yu Linna, as her senior, still very politely greeted her and shook her hand.
Mi Xi-sensei was flattered and held her small hand, her face blushing.
“Senior, I’ve been wanting to see you for a long time, but I’ve never had the chance. I’ve heard your story before. You’re even more beautiful in person than in the photos.”
“Thank you.”
“Senior, are you free in a bit? Let’s go for a meal!”
Yu Linna remembered that Mi Xi-sensei’s age seemed to be 22, about the same age as Zhao Yuyan. To be called “senior” by such a person, she really couldn’t handle it. One had to know that Yu Linna’s age was only 20, and her height was not as tall as hers, yet she was being called “senior” by her.
But it wasn’t wrong to call her that. Yu Linna had debuted earlier than her, and had also become famous earlier. Mi Xi-sensei was now just in a steady upward trend, still far from the position of a great god. And Yu Linna had been famous for a long time and was about to sit on the position of a supreme god, completely incomparable to a newcomer author.
That was also true. She was no longer a newcomer.
In the end, she still agreed to her request to go out for a meal. Mainly because Mi Xi-sensei’s appearance was really too hard to refuse, so Yu Linna had no choice but to agree.
Mi Xi-sensei’s real name, she remembered, seemed to be Mi Aili. As for the rest, she only knew that her hometown was in Sichuan. This was all information from the internet.
Mi Xi-sensei, or rather, Mi Aili, she enthusiastically took Yu Linna and her editor, Qian Jiaxuan, to order hot pot to eat. Originally, Mi Aili was going to call her own editor, but her editor had something to do and couldn’t find the time, so she didn’t call. Mi Aili patted her chest and said that this meal was her treat. She wanted to take her senior to eat all the meat in this shop. Then she ordered a yuanyang pot and added a lot of chili sauce to her own plate.
Yu Linna was a little flustered just looking at her plate. Then she looked at the other half of the spicy hot pot base. It was bubbling, and it looked scary.
“Senior is from Guangnan, right? You probably can’t handle spicy food. It’s fine. You two can just eat the clear soup.”
Mi Aili kindly indicated that the two of them didn’t have to eat the spicy hot pot base with her.
Yu Linna turned her head to look at Qian Jiaxuan, only to see Qian Jiaxuan covering her own eyes, not even daring to look at that spicy hot pot base.
“Haha, Editor Qian, you probably rarely eat spicy food. I can tell.”
“Who on earth invented this thing, chili? This is definitely the worst invention!”
“What are you saying? Spicy is what’s delicious. Without spicy, where’s the soul?”
“I don’t understand the taste of a Sichuan girl!”
Speaking of which, Mi Aili’s hometown seemed to be in Sichuan, but her mother had married to Guangnan. Her ability to eat spicy food would definitely not be bad. Even if Yu Linna loved to eat, the only thing she absolutely could not accept was that perverted spiciness, because she really couldn’t eat it! As soon as she ate it, her eyes, nose, and mouth would all be watering like crazy.
“Mi Xi-sensei, you really love to eat spicy.”
“I can’t eat without a little spice. This is my taste, hahaha. But you, senior, don’t be so polite with me. Just eat as much as you want.”
“Mmm, thank you.”
“Senior, eat more~ You’re so small. You probably eat very little usually. Or is it that you’re not used to Chinese food? You have to eat more.”
“…”
Yu Linna felt a full of malice.
Why did she have to say she was small? She hadn’t grown in so many years. Could she be blamed?
“Mi Xi-sensei, I grew up in China. Please don’t treat me as a foreigner. In fact, I rarely go abroad.”
“Is that so? I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Seeing your blonde hair, I always think you’re a foreigner. Here, let me add some meat for you, senior.”
Yu Linna ate her hot pot and chatted with this junior. It felt not bad. This junior was also quite lively, with an outgoing personality, completely not the dead shut-in type like Yu Linna and Zhao Yuyan. For such a person to come to Wenqing to write novels, it felt quite surprising, because she gave people more of a feeling of a diplomatic type of girl.
This girl who loved to eat spicy, had a lively personality, and was also proactive, had left a deep impression on Yu Linna. Just that one sentence of “senior” could make Yu Linna feel very proud. It was really impossible to hate her. And she herself was also very modest, saying that she would continue to work hard, to write better stories, and that her future goal was to surpass Shion-sensei.
“Mi Xi-sensei is just that kind of personality. Shion-sensei, you don’t have to mind. She’s a good child. She has no malicious intent.”
After eating, after they had parted ways, Mi Aili had called other friends to go out and play. The remaining Qian Jiaxuan and Yu Linna went back together.
Qian Jiaxuan had spent more time in the editorial department. She naturally knew Mi Aili’s personality. After all, she often ran to the editorial department. Other authors would be at home, waiting for their own editors to come and rush their manuscripts. This Mi Aili, on the other hand, didn’t need it. She would directly come to the editorial department to hand in her manuscript. Although her editor had said that it was fine to just send her the file, Mi Aili still liked to bring it over on a USB drive and also to drink tea in the editorial department. If she didn’t become an author in the future, it would be very suitable for her to be an editor at Wenqing.
“Of course, Shion-sensei. I am your editor. Although Mi Xi-sensei is much more reliable than me, I will also work hard.”
“I know that. I haven’t thought of changing my editor.”
This Qian Jiaxuan was always afraid that she would report to Wenqing and ask to have her replaced. Really, what on earth was she afraid of?
Yu Linna took out her phone, checked her messages, and after confirming that no one was looking for her, she finally went for a walk outside. There was no helping it. She had been too busy recently. She had to keep an eye on her messages at all times. At the same time, on the big screen of the advertising building, news about Wenqing and Qidian was being broadcast.
Yu Linna looked up, looked at the news on it, and also paid attention to whether her mask and sunglasses were on properly.
