Chapter 256: Chapter 240: Insane Luck_1
Creating couplets was merely a fun and casual action, just like the previous “Balloon Challenge”, such internet trends always come and go quickly.
However, the impact this incident has brought will not easily fade away.
Many netizens remembered deeply about the level of couplets created by Xian Yu and Chu Kuang.
The following few days,
numerous spectators started discussing something related to the couplet event
Between Xian Yu and Chu Kuang, who has superior literary talent?
Such a discussion is destined to be endless.
Because both Chu Kuang and Xian Yu have excellent writing skills, yet their styles are unique.
The former excels at writing novels, both long and short, and is skilled at arranging some exquisite and striking narrative plots.
The latter is good at crafting beautiful sentences, mainly in the form of poems and song lyrics. His talent lies more in rhythm and he has a script for a film that may not be heavy on plot but is hilarious.
Similar discussions resurfaced ever since “Flirting Scholar” was released.
It’s just that with this couplet event, the number of participants in the discussion has increased.
Those who enjoy making jokes always bring up the existence of a third person, Shadow, in these discussions, always full of mockeries:
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“Does Shadow have no reputation?”
“Obviously Chu Kuang, Xian Yu, and Shadow are three different people.”
“Do they actually think he is just a shadow?”
“At least Shadow is also a member of the trio.”
“Shadow has such a low presence, haha.”
“As everyone knows, there’s always an invisible one in any trinity.”
The only remaining presence of Shadow is probably these kinds of teases.
After all, compared with the reputation of Chu Kuang and Xian Yu, Shadow is just a relatively excellent newcomer to the comic circle.
The number of Shadow’s tribe followers is just over ten million.
Among them, some popularity was borrowed from Xian Yu and Chu Kuang.
This is the best evidence of Shadow’s low presence.
It should be noted that the number of fans following Xian Yu and Chu Kuang has both exceeded 50 million due to the couplet event.
If it weren’t for Xian Yu, Chu Kuang, and Shadow following each other in a closed loop, many netizens wouldn’t even care who Shadow is.
Luo Wei is very clear about these things, so she feels a little upset.
For some reason, Luo Wei feels empathetic with Shadow, probably because she manages Shadow’s tribe account, or maybe because of the information Lin Yuan revealed…
What frustrated Luo Wei was that Lin Yuan, the person involved, seemed completely unaffected.
Even in the couplet event, Xian Yu and Chu Kuang flirting with each other, this guy turned a blind eye, as if he were invisible.
Luo Wei felt both pity for his misfortune and anger for his inaction.
On this day, as usual, she uploaded the comic “King of the Net”, pushing it a step closer to completion.
Luo Wei suddenly called Lin Yuan, who was about to leave the studio.
“Anything urgent?”
Lin Yuan asked.
Luo Wei sighed: “The serialization of ‘King of the Net’ is almost over. Don’t you have any plans for the future?”
One worries more than the one who should.
Why could he be so calm?
On the contrary, even though she was just an assistant, she was always concerned for Lin Yuan, or rather, for Shadow.
“Just continue to draw comics.”
Lin Yuan naturally responded.
Since he’s been drawing every day, of course, he knew that that “King of the Net” is about to end.
But for Lin Yuan, this is not a complex problem, he just needs to continue publishing new comics under the pseudonym Shadow.
As for where to get the content for the new comics?
Of course it’s from the System.
Lin Yuan has confirmed this with the System. The System can customize comics.
Coming back to the point.
Actually, Lin Yuan attaches great importance to the Shadow pseudonym.
Because the existence of Shadow is the most important way for Lin Yuan to obtain drawing popularity!
Whether it’s gouache, sketch or traditional Chinese painting…
When it comes to gaining popularity, comics are always the fastest!
“I understand.”
Luo Wei sighed: “I was asking about the content for our next comic. I’ve done some research recently. Chu Kuang has two works that can be adapted into comics: ‘Zhu Xian’ and ‘Ghost Blows Out the Light’. Are you planning to pick one of these novels to adapt into a comic? To be frank, I’m afraid the effect of adapting these two novels into comics won’t be comparable to ‘King of the Net’.”
“No need.”
Lin Yuan also didn’t plan to adapt these two novels into comic, it’s not that they are incapable of being adapted, it’s just, as Luo Wei had mentioned, it’s likely that the effect of adapting these two novels into comics will not surpass the currently serialized “King of the Net”.
Luo Wei’s eyes widened slightly: “You mean, for the next manga, you want to go with an original storyline?”
“Yeah.”
Lin Yuan nodded.
Luo Wei started to feel a little nervous.
For a manga, the plot is very important. The blockbuster popularity of ‘King of the Net’ certainly had to do with Lin Yuan’s character design and art style fitting well with the original story.
But the storyline provided by Chu Kuang was also a very important factor.
How many manga artists are there with good drawing skills?
But the ones that make it big are those with awesome stories!
Luo Wei trusts Lin Yuan’s drawing abilities, but she’s not sure if Lin Yuan has the plotting skills to match his artistic talents.
But she didn’t voice these thoughts out for fear of undermining Lin Yuan’s confidence.
She could only hint delicately: “Why don’t we discuss things when you have an idea for your new manga?”
“Ok.”
Lin Yuan did not underestimate Luo Wei simply because she was his assistant.
Luo Wei was far more important to Lin Yuan than an average manga assistant. Her drawing skills, roles, and abilities were equivalent to half a shadow.
It was also because of Luo Wei’s reminder.
When he got home, Lin Yuan summoned the System: “I want to create a new manga.”
He had calculated it.
There was less than two months until ‘King of the Net’ was finished.
If he ordered now, he could create the new manga earlier and be ready to replace ‘King of the Net’.
“System customization in process…”
This time the system didn’t lag.
About three minutes later, three virtual boxes appeared in front of Lin Yuan:
“Host can independently choose a box. Each box contains one manga. Choose one of the three. The custom-made price this time is 10 million. Do you accept?”
Manga customization is also so expensive!
Even though Lin Yuan’s income isn’t low right now, each customization still feels like he’s cutting off his flesh.
Fortunately, this time the system wasn’t randomly choosing, but gave three options.
Three boxes, pick one.
It was time to rely on his luck.
Lin Yuan sent a hundred dollars cash gift in the group chat with the least number of people on his phone, then frantically tapped his phone screen
The phone screen was almost crushed.
“Congratulations, you’ve grabbed Lin Yuan’s cash gift of 100 yuan.”
A prompt appeared on the phone, Lin Yuan calmed his wildly beating heart and heavily breathed a sigh of relief.
He wasn’t sniped!
I am the king of luck!
In the group chat, a series of question marks appeared.
Sister: “Self-touch???”
Xia Fan: “Are you happy???”
Jian Yi: “Are all you rich people so disgusting???”
Lin Yuan pretended not to see these messages. Anyway, since he was feeling lucky, he should be able to make a good pick.
“I’ll choose the one in the middle…”
Lin Yuan mumbled to himself. Because of his OCD, he really wanted to choose the one in the middle.
But-
Before his voice had finished, Lin Yuan’s hand rapidly clicked on the third box!
Surprising, isn’t it?
Lin Yuan was afraid the system would try to trick him, so he pretended to choose the middle box, but actually chose the one on the right.
Swipe!
A flash of light passed through his eyes, and Lin Yuan heard a prompt in his ear: “Congratulations to the host for obtaining the manga ‘Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma’!”
At the same time,
Lin Yuan saw the dull hues of the manga in the other two boxes, which he hadn’t chosen.
The first box contained ‘Dream Eater.’
The second box contained ‘Himouto! Umaru-chan.’
At this moment,
Lin Yuan almost wanted to laugh out loud.
He had not fallen into the system’s trap and chose the manga that would sell the most.
I am the insanely lucky one!