Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
ng Fan returned to the dormitory, visibly upset. He took a shower to cool down but saw that he had run out of shower gel. He borrowed Zhang Zhou Wei’s Liu Shen cooling shower gel and ca out feeling cool like a breeze. His skin was firm from the chill.
“Fatty!”
ng Fan had just stepped out of the washroom when Zhang Zhou Wei ca in the dorm. He circled around ng Fan, who was still fantasizing about the layer of muscle just beneath his robes that was close to appearing as he poked around. Zhang Zhou Wei laughed. “That was just you right?”
“What was ?”
ng Fan heard this and lightened up even more. These last few days of running had not been in vain; he lost a lot of weight!
Zhang Zhou Wei suppressed a laugh. “Just now a couple was fighting, it was you who tackled the guy, right?”
Hearing this, his mood imdiately beca less beautiful. “Is art school really this small?”
“Hahaha. I guessed it. You’re the only one at this school who would be out at this hour and looked like a chonk. I heard it from Zhang at the neighboring dorm. He almost died laughing… He said so girl was screaming theft, then a fat blob of a guy with iron willpower appeared and tackled the guy, before realizing what he had stolen was the girl’s ‘heart’. The girl was even blaming this iron hero for being too rough and hurting her boyfriend’s knee. That crucifying scene was not just the result of kneeling…”
As he saw ng Fan’s face drained of all emotion, Zhang Zhou Wei realized what he was saying and imdiately changed his tone, justifying to him. “Girls these days don’t have better things to do so they pull these shenanigans. If this got out, nobody will ever display heroic courage in the face of theft again! It’ll ruin our social reputation; this is how it starts! How could she bla you? Soone as brave and caring as general ng, who is she to judge you!?”
“If it weren’t for your rouse, not many people would have known in the first place.”
ng Fan poked himself so more but failed to feel any muscle. He didn’t feel too great, so he turned to his other two roommates Chen Da Qiang and Yan Ta Ge and said, “The witch told my drafts were accepted, I just got paid, I’ll treat you guys tomorrow.”
“That fast!?”
The two spectators perked up, but not at the sound of a free al or a hefty paycheck. The important thing was that ng Fan is now XiaoTi’s illustrator!
Zhang Zhou Wei slinked back over.
“Oh, I almost forgot about you. You just got a girlfriend, right? As proud parents, we should get you a gift. I think for a girl as feisty as Wang Ya Nan, so leather whips and candles would be a suitable gift. Hey Qiang, Pigeon, what do you guys think?”
“You have our support!”
“Doesn’t the tradition say gifts should co in threes? Whip and candles? You can get that. Qiang should gift so handcuffs at the least.”
…
In the next few days that followed, the weather danced between different temperatures. The rain fell sporadically. It sotis rained so hard it felt like soone was pouring water from above. It brought cool weather as well, but ng Fan was not happy.
Originally, ng Fan would run 5 kiloters every morning and evening, but now he could only go when the weather was cooperating. He also had to consider if the track was dry or not, which was why he barely even ran 10 kiloters in two weeks’ ti.
At the mont, his total numbers added up to 48 kiloters.
With the rain prohibiting his exercise, obviously, all he could do was draw. The [Illustrator] progress was indeed amazing. Outside of the ‘animal ear special and maid special’ on his stream where he did about 12 drawings each, he had also managed to draw about fifty more pages during class.
Of course, even at such speed, he was still a whopping 500 drawings behind from completing task phase 3.
As he drew, ng Fan tried not to display all of his newly gained drawing skills at once. He was aiming to drag out the process to make it seem like growth and developnt. Every day, he demonstrated a bit more, hence he wasn’t performing at his best only after two days. The feeling of suppression did not feel good of course, but at least it left his iffy audience in awe and wonder.
These few days, his total views went up, but the number of viewers each stream stayed the sa. The viewers in the past two days didn’t even match the previous days.
The engagent was great, but there were not that many new viewers. The channel no longer received any ‘center spot halo’ badges anymore, but he did get a lot of smaller gifts.
Currently, the progress for [Famous Strear] was at 9400/10,000. He was so close to receiving the prize.
Streaming was not as easy as it seed. It sounded easy to beco famous overnight, but when it ca down to it, only a handful of people actually achieved overnight success. If not, there wouldn’t be so many strears that focused on current events and reviews.
Beneath those who gained overnight fa were the strears and hosts who pulled an all-nighter after all-nighter until their dark circles beca permanent and contracted insomnia… Each profession was a golden tower. There were a few people on the top who could be seen, and the majority clustered below, unknown to the world.
Guess he’ll have to climb his way up. ng Fan didn’t expect to blow up overnight; he just wanted to gain so more views.
At the mont, he already signed a contract with 8th station. He was hoping he could strive for a spot on the recomnded list. This would attract way more people than a ‘center spot halo’ would.
On the third day, the weather finally cleared up, and in a burst, ng Fan ran an extra 2 km after his usual 5 km. After decreasing his speed, he didn’t feel as pressured as before.
He was only 5 kiloters away from completing the 60 kiloters from task phase 3 of [Travelling Deity]. If the weather was good in the afternoon, he would be able to claim his reward of speed 1 and 50 points.
“Fat ng, can you illustrate a novel?”
Shortly after the morning class ended, user BeeBuzzbuzz from his “stream channel managent group” sent ng Fan a WeChat ssage. He was also a good friend.
“Why are you asking that all of a sudden?” ng Fan was curious.
“I have a buddy who’s writing an online novel, he could be considered a small guru. Currently, it’s popular for internet authors to open accounts on public platforms, so he gave it a shot. Normally, he just posts about his progress and occasionally so favorited pictures. His follower count and reader count aren’t bad, and his monthly advertisent pay is very impressive as well.”
“Right now his series is pretty popular, so he’s pretty close to reaching the title of ‘guru’. He blew up, so naturally that more people are paying attention to his social dia accounts, so he’s willing to spend more resources to manage his accounts. Recently, he’s been looking for an artist to illustrate his novel, so I recomnded you the mont I found out. I showed him your streams lately, and he thinks you’re pretty good, not to ntion fast. He thinks you can satisfy his needs.”
ng Fan suddenly asked, “Does he want a lot?”
BeeBuzz hesitated for a long ti and sent a row of ellipses, then continued, “He needs about 10 drawings a week, so he’s looking for a long-term partnership. The normal artists he t with weren’t good enough to him, and the better ones definitely won’t be just drawing for him alone, so they can’t produce fast enough. Will you take it? He will pay a lot.”
“Of course, I’ll take it. I just helped Xiao Ti finish the art for his book “Floating Dream in a Millenium”. ng Fan couldn’t help but bluff a bit. “I an, there are too many web novels after . I don’t know if I can fit all of them.”
Bee responded, “It’s not a lot since it’s a new novel; there are only around 800,000 characters. Besides, if you think it’s too long, just read the beginning. I can summarize for you the character designs and styles.”
After processing for two seconds, Bee suddenly sent a voicemail. He sounded excited. “Wait what did you just say? Xiao Ti! Xiao Ti’s new book! You are the illustrator?! When did that happen? Why didn’t you say sooner? So, you know Xiao Ti? That’s insane!”
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