Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“My family is a bit special.”
ng Fan’s lodramatic expression wasn’t outside of what Wu Tong was used to. As she stretched her chest, she said, “My grandpa had seven siblings, each one having three or four sons. My dad alone has 25 siblings, and not one of them is a girl. When it ca to , it was the sa. Because of the one-child policy, my uncles all only had one kid. So had more, but they were all guys. I’m the only girl.”
ng Fan’s expression amplified even more. “Are you sure you’re not a stand-up codian?”
Wu Tong shifted into a lunge and smiled at him. “It sounds like a joke, but it’s true. Let tell you sothing even more ridiculous. When I was in elentary school, the boys in my class liked to stick Xanthium in girls’ hair. It’s that spikey plant that is so hard to get out of your hair. A guy grabbed my hair and stuck so on, and I couldn’t get it off for a long ti so I cried.”
After switching legs, she continued, “Then, several guys from different grades including ones from middle school rushed out and blocked the boy. That also included nurous uncles that ran out from the teacher’s office. Even the principal couldn’t stop them. It got so bad they had to call the education board.”
ng Fan thought about it hard. This gag sounded familiar to him. He seed to have heard it before. Could it be that this speedy girl was a prototype for a codian?
“Then….” ng Fan didn’t know how to continue his sentence. After a mont of thought, he finished it, “Then it must be hard for you to find a boyfriend, right?”
Wu Tong paused her actions, then switched to another warm-up position. She nodded. “Yep. Thirty-one brothers basically cover all kinds of guys. They’re all really good to too. It’s not that I’m comparing my boyfriend to them, but… How do I put it, so qualities that guys think are an advantage seem normal to , so it’s hard for to be curious or interested. Don’t people say curiosity and worship is the first step to liking soone? That kind of thing rarely happens to .”
“The horror of being supported by my brothers.”
ng Fan wanted to tell her that she should just find a girlfriend instead, but he thought better of it and swallowed his words. He then found a more suitable on-topic subject to chat about, “It’s good you’re a girl with so many brothers, they must love and spoil you like a princess. They wouldn’t ever let you touch anything relating to those playboys and their fake sincerity, right? If you were a guy, and your brothers were sisters, you’d still be spoiled, but the thod would be different. If anything, they would definitely try everything to dress you up… Hm, seems like it would be the sa. They’d treat you like a princess too.”
After completing her daily stretches, Wu Tong added another set. After hearing ng Fan’s rambling, she looked towards him, as if her eyes were saying, ‘Please share your story now.’
ng Fan took off his headband and touched his hair. He sighed and said, “I have four older sisters and three younger ones. The four older ones especially, their favorite thing to do was to dress up…” He lifted his head and rembered all the tis that he had been dominated by his sisters. From a young age, he had just been a big woman.
“Of course, I refused that sort of thing… Finally, when I turned ten, they decided it was no longer fun to make wear dresses, so they stopped the annual tradition… But they never stopped loving , so they quickly switched from dressing to feeding .”
ng Fan rubbed his belly, then said with emotion, “Who says love can’t be felt? There’s nothing in this world that is more concrete than love.”
“So, this is the reason why you’ve “grown” so strong?”
This ti, it was Wu Tong’s turn to stare in awe.
ng Fan nodded and finished his last stretch.
Wu Tong held back her laugh and completed her last warm-up exercise. Like the wind, she ran off, and as she ran, she couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Weird, why did I tell him all that.
…..
“This fast?”
FlatHeadBro received ng Fan’s drawings around two o’clock in the afternoon. He downloaded them to find 12 illustrations awaiting review.
After rushing to write two chapters, with a cappuccino in hand, FlatHeadBro had watched about 30 minutes of yesterday’s stream. Although he didn’t quite understand art, he had seen his fair share of artwork in the past few days of searching for an artist. He was at least able to distinguish between good and bad, so he was not worried about ng Fan at all.
Of course, after watching his stream, he was not surprised or intrigued by ng Fan’s speedy ‘submission’. In fact, he was very pleased with ng Fan’s brilliant work ethic.
“I will recomnd you on my social dia as well as the new book chapter that’s coming out today. ”
FlatHeadBro was very pleased with the illustrations, as well as ng Fan’s professional attitude.
“Thank you.”
ng Fan grabbed a copy of ‘The History of Ancient Chinese Weapons’ after responding to FlatHeadBro and began reading. He just bought it not long ago and was more than halfway through it when he died. Now that he went back on ti, he could skip forward and save a few days of reading.
Toward books that were ‘not professionally related to art but could assist in art-related professions, ng Fan had always been diligent. He read more of these than he had academic textbooks and professional art collections, so he was quite the ‘non-professional’.
The witch always said that no matter what kind of expression the character carried, it would ultimately communicate the source of its creation and the culture behind it. This sentence had been drilled into ng Fan’s head by his mother since he was just a boy. Before he had found it annoying, but slowly he ca to realize how much sense it made. Especially right as he left the world of imitation and entered one of creation and independent thinking.
“Do you have extra ti?”
After about twenty minutes, FlatHeadBro sent another WeChat ssage.
“I showed your illustrations to a few of my friends. They think you’re really good; the key being your high level of production.”
“They’re also web novel authors, in need of so illustrations.”
“They wanted to ask if you have so extra ti to draw so more sets, around the sa amount as .”
Having had his work recognized by his boss, ng Fan was pretty happy, only… He thought about it for a mont and replied, “I’ve got no problem drawing more sets, but I’m afraid that I won’t have enough ti to read all the novels.”
“*Bitter smile emote* I didn’t think about that. You’re right, it takes you a few hours to draw a set, but to read the novels would probably take you days.” After a few minutes, FlatHeadBro ssaged again. “I asked them, two are long-term contracts, one of which has just started, so it only has around 300,000 characters. The other one has a bit more, around 2 million, but he updates slow, so he’s got about 2 million characters left. At the least, it’ll take two years. He says you could probably just draw what you’ve read, and you’ll catch up to him, eventually. Besides, those two are willing to find people to help you manage your content. If you think it’s suitable, I’ll send you their contact info.”
“Ok.”
ng Fan deduced that a long-term contract would be doable. His illustration task had to be completed. More drawings ant more money to be made. In addition, there was a huge possibility that those guys could boost his stream views. What more could ng Fan ask for?
If he had enough ti to read all the novels, he would have accepted FlatHeadBro’s offer in an instant.
Imdiately, FlatHeadBro sent two contact cards along with another ssage. “Oh right, can you send the original drawings that you did for my book?”
“Of course.”
This was already paid for by the big boss from the beginning, so if he needed the originals, ng Fan had to comply.
FlatHeadBro sent over an address, and ng Fan sent a WeChat ssage to the delivery brother responsible for the school’s packages.
He successfully added the other two authors and ca to a decision after so hasty negotiations. The conditions were exactly the sa as the ones for FlatHeadBro. Soon, both of them had sent him their social dia handles and their book titles.
“F**k!”
ng Fan almost cursed out loud when he saw one of the titles.
The one that FlatHeadBro had said was already at two million characters, but ng Fan could still catch up to!
That was also a novel ng Fan had painstakingly been following, a horror type story with terrifying content, as well as a terrifying update rate. Three years, and he was only at two million characters!
How many tis had he considered giving up because of the author’s slow update rate?
ng Fan changed the WeChat nickna to the author’s na, then sent a ssage. “Do you want to send you the originals?”
“Could you? That would be aweso, thank you!”
An address followed imdiately.
ng Fan was already wrapped in his thoughts. When he sent the originals, it would be reasonably fitting to put so sharp pieces from a blade in the envelope.
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