As President Sun guessed, as soon as the news reached the city government, the reporter of Beitong Daily immediately got the news.

There are many students who are admitted to Jingcheng University every year, but there are very few who can get guaranteed places, and now the students of Beitong No. 3 Middle School have got such an opportunity, and the reporter of Beitong Daily naturally called Zhou Fangyuan as soon as possible to try to contact him.

It's a pity that all they can get is Zhou Fangyuan's phone number, and it is impossible to contact Zhou Fangyuan directly, there is no way, the reporter can only ask for the second best thing, to contact Zhou Fangyuan's parents and family.

Zhou Fangyuan had just hung up Principal Sun's phone when the phone rang again, and at first glance, it was his mother calling.

As soon as he answered the phone, his mother's excited voice immediately came from the other side of the phone.

"Yangyang, have you really gotten a guaranteed place at Jingcheng University?"

"Mom, you know all this?"

"Nonsense, the reporter's phone calls have all reached me, you kid, why don't you tell me and your dad in advance with this kind of good news, where are you? I'm going to look for you now, our family is also out of Beijing University, I want to tell your dad immediately, and I have to tell your grandparents, grandparents, and grandparents......

Zhou's mother is obviously very excited, too, Jingcheng University is one of the highest universities in China, for college entrance examination candidates, being admitted to Jingcheng University is definitely the happiest thing, there is no one, Zhou Fangyuan does not need to take the exam now, and he is 100% safe to enter Jingcheng University, Zhou's mother is so happy that she is about to explode.

"Mom, don't worry, let's not tell my grandparents about this for the time being. ”

"Ah, why? Isn't it already decided?"

"It's settled, but I think it's better for us not to publicize it for the time being, after all, other students are nervously reviewing now, if the news of my report spreads, it will affect other students, and if some students who could have been admitted to a good university can't be admitted all of a sudden, my sin will be too great. ”

Zhou Fangyuan said with a smile.

But this is not a reason at all, the reason why he is reluctant to announce the news now, after all, he still doesn't want to be too famous now. If the city really wants to interview him, it is best to put it at the end of the college entrance examination and before filling in the volunteers. There were still a few months to go, but he was willing to wait. At least when the others have finished the exam, even if everyone knows the news that he was reported, it feels that it is not more eye-catching to publicize it before the exam.

In short, in the last half of high school, he hopes that he can spend it quietly, and it is best not to attract too much attention from the outside world.

When Zhou's mother heard his reason, although she felt that something was wrong, she no longer insisted.

"Well, since you've said so. ”

"That's it, Mom, you can tell Dad the news first, and I'll take care of the rest. ”

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Fangyuan first made a phone call to Secretary Feng's office.

On the phone, Secretary Feng congratulated Zhou Fangyuan with a smile, obviously he already knew the news.

"Thank you, but Uncle Feng, I hope you can say hello to other uncles and uncles in the city, I hope to delay this interview for a while, and wait for the college entrance examination to end before the admission work begins. ”

"Oh? Why?"

Secretary Feng asked suspiciously.

Zhou Fangyuan said his "reason".

Secretary Feng smiled when he heard this, "You can deceive others for this reason, and you still want to deceive me?" But since you said so, there is no problem. Okay, I'll help you spread the word about this matter, if you don't want to be too famous now, then I'll help you suppress it. By the way, do you have time tonight, come over for a light meal?"

"Well, what's the point for today?"

"What else do you need to say when you come to my house for dinner? I got some good wine during the Chinese New Year, come and drink some with me. ”

"Eh, Uncle Feng, I'm driving......"

"Pull it down, you don't know any of the traffic police in the city now with your brand, you go and ask, who dares to stop you?"

"Uncle Feng, don't you dare to say that, I'm not the earth overlord, you say this, as if I am so domineering here. ”

"Hmph, I think it's about the same, you say, you have a good relationship with me, Lao Liu, you are also famous, you say, as long as you don't commit a big crime, how many people in our city dare to touch you?"

"That can't be said of that......"

"Okay, don't talk nonsense, come to my house at night and have a drink with me, this is an order and cannot be refused. ”

"Uh, okay, I see. ”

Faced with the unreasonable Secretary Feng, Zhou Fangyuan could only choose to compromise.

After calling Secretary Feng, he called Mayor Liu again, and Mayor Liu also congratulated him.

Zhou Fangyuan accepted the congratulations, and then said his thoughts.

The relationship between Mayor Liu and him is also very good, but it is not as natural as the relationship between him and Secretary Feng. Of course, there are also reasons why Secretary Feng took the initiative to pull down his body, but I have to say that this method is very good, at least if Zhou Fangyuan really has anything to do now, the first thing that comes to mind must be Secretary Feng, not Mayor Liu. Not to mention that Secretary Feng is still Zhou Jialu's uncle, just this relationship is destined to be closer between him and Secretary Feng.

"Xiaoyuan, what about your idea, I think it's still good, it's important to have a clear understanding of what you want now. Well, I support your idea, you want me to help you press this matter, no problem, I will say hello to all sides. ”

"Then thank you, Uncle Liu, I'll invite you to dinner when I have time. ”

"Haha, it's free to eat, you're the big boss now, if I go out to eat with you casually, I can't explain if someone reports it. ”

"What, what a big boss, I'm not a big boss. I'm just a junior, and it's not natural for the juniors to invite the elders to dinner?"

"You say that, but others don't necessarily think so, okay, I understand your kindness, and I'll talk about it when I have a chance in the future. ”

Mayor Liu said with a smile.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Fangyuan breathed a sigh of relief, he thought about it for a while, and dialed the phone back to Principal Sun.

He told the other party what he thought, although Zhou Fangyuan was reluctant to accept the interview immediately, which made Principal Sun somewhat disappointed.

However, Zhou Fangyuan is not completely unavailable, and his statement is actually not unreasonable.

Now is really the time for college entrance examination students to review nervously, everyone is nervous, at this time, if it suddenly breaks out that a student who usually doesn't come to school often gets a place to report, even if the other party is really good, it will also have some impact on the hearts of other candidates. If it really leads to students who could have been admitted to a good university but don't do well, it will be a bit more than worth the loss.

Anyway, what Principal Sun needs is to be famous, as long as Zhou Fangyuan can be interviewed in the end, he will already be satisfied.

In terms of specific timing, a few months earlier and a few months later is actually nothing remarkable, as long as it does not affect the school's enrollment this year, then everything will not be a problem.

After informing all aspects, Zhou Fangyuan finally exhaled a long breath, he put his mobile phone back in his pocket, thought about it, and drove towards the company.

Ten minutes later, his car stopped steadily downstairs in the company and took the elevator upstairs, but he didn't go to the distant game, nor did he go to Alipay and the distant network, but directly turned around and entered the distant literature and distant comics.

Although these two companies are two companies, their offices are located on the same floor, and even the areas are superimposed.

Nowadays, the development of distant literature is quite smooth, with millions of paying users, and the annual income of the top authors is close to the level of 100,000. The library has also accumulated a number of good works and IPs, many of which are very famous works in the previous life, and have the potential for adaptation.

However, the development of distant comics is really slow, mainly because domestic parents' cognition of comics has been stuck at the level of children's drawing, and at the same time, they rarely support their children to read comics. Their ideas have even influenced their children, and most of the students who are in high school will think that reading comics is a good behavior. Because the atmosphere of the whole society is like this, the development of comics has not improved. Even if there is an IP like Miao in front, and the cartoonist who draws is a skilled manga artist like Okubo, but even so, because of the general environment, the traffic of the manga website has not been large.

However, Zhou Fangyuan already has a plan to develop a comic website, as long as the plan goes well, the development speed of the comic website will definitely not be too slow.

So he's not in a hurry now, he's still waiting.

He came to Yuanfang Comics today, not to provide a new method direction for the comic website, this method already exists in his heart, but it still needs to be brewed. He came here today mainly because he had other things to do.

Zhang Bing called him yesterday afternoon and conveyed Okubo's thoughts.

The ethereal one is already over, and the manga is progressing quickly, after all, the script is ready-made, and Okubo only needs to choose the form he likes and copy it into a manga.

So he had actually finished creating comics before the Spring Festival, and he had been busy conceiving his own comics during this time. Until yesterday, the last word of Ethereal has been uploaded, and Okubo's own manga that he has been thinking about has also been prepared, so there will be that phone call yesterday afternoon.

Zhou Fangyuan walked into the company, and after greeting the employees below, he walked straight to the creation department, and then walked into the creation room exclusive to Okubo.

"Boss, you're here. ”

Zhang Bing immediately stood up and said hello.

"Well," Zhou Fangyuan nodded, and then looked at Okubo, "I already know what you think, I heard that you already have your own idea?" That's good, but I want to take a look at the script you conceived, you don't know much about the situation in China, I need to check for you, if it's okay, I can get your manga published smoothly." ”

"Okay," Okubo nodded, and then took out the first draft of his comics, as well as the design drawings of various character drawings and proper noun explanations, etc., and handed them all to Zhou Fangyuan, "This is the new comic I designed, please take a look." ”

Zhou Fangyuan took the comics, then walked to the sofa next to him and sat down, and began to read it carefully.

It didn't surprise him at all, this comic is the "Grim Reaper" created by Okubo in the previous life, and it seems to have been translated as "Drifting Spirit" in the mainland? Zhou Fangyuan can't remember it, anyway, he doesn't feel as domineering as the name "Death".

The synopsis of the story is about a high school god named Ichigo Kurosaki, who seems to be a violent and thin person, but in fact he is a kind, brave, family-loving teenager, and has a physique that can see spirits.

He has a father who runs a clinic and two younger sisters with normal personalities, Natori and Yuko, and Ichigo must come home on time at 7 o'clock every day, otherwise his father will use the house rule of "body language lessons".

The noisy father and son, the sensible sister, and the ordinary life that is not much different from other ordinary people, until the female god of death, Rukia Kuchigi, is kicked into the corner by him and looks at him with a look of surprise and asks, "Can you see me?" The prologue of the manga is officially revealed. Since then, everything around Ichigo Kurosaki has changed dramatically.

All kinds of magical slashing knives, Hu Ting's thirteen teams, virtual, masqueraded, broken face...... In the previous life, it was known as the "Three Major Migrant Workers", and "Death" also led various lists for a period of time, and even suppressed "One Piece" and "Naruto".

round the plot, the plot in the early stage of "Bleach " is no worse than the other two, and even surpasses. But when the broken patch is over, "Bleach Grim Reaper" seems to be going downhill.

It doesn't feel interesting to finish the chapter, but it's even more so in the thousand-year bloody war chapter, and the invisible empire of the last exterminator, it feels like a joke. made "Death", which was originally called a masterpiece, only be reduced to an ordinary first-class comic in the end, and even infinitely close to the second-rate level.

Zhou Fangyuan once read relevant reports, it is said that it is because the editors and publishers on Neon's side feel that "Death" has a strong ability to make money, and they don't want Okubo to stop casually, they want the manga to continue to be launched and make more money for them.

As a result, the manga that was supposed to be finished, but was forced to add hundreds of words, and the result was that the quality of the manga declined, and Okubo seemed to be interested, and he may have taken the initiative to bring the manga in a bad direction, and he just took the manga away.

This kind of thing exists in any era and in any country, after all, the former "Grim Reaper" was so good, if it ends at that time, I'm afraid that readers of the comics will not agree. It is only after seeing the comic that the level has dropped and feeling disappointed that the reader will feel that it would be better if it had been finished earlier, and at least it will give them a perfect memory.

The reader is so contradictory, the publishing house is also contradictory, and in the end, it is a pity for the author, racking his brains or thankless.

Just like the comic that appears in Zhou Fangyuan's hands now, the plot has continued until the defeat of Aizen, which can be said to be completely no different from the first half of the original comic.

"Very nice. ”

After a cursory flip, Zhou Fangyuan made such an evaluation.

Okubo's face on the opposite side was happy, and when he was about to say thank you, Zhou Fangyuan shook his head gently.

"Mr. Kubo, I don't know if you've been paying attention to your domestic manga lately? I don't know if you've read a manga called One Piece, which is very popular right now?"

"Well, is that Mr. Oda's copy?"

"Yes, that's what I'm talking about. ”

Zhou Fangyuan nodded.

"I've seen it," Okubo also nodded, "It's a very good manga, the plot is very rich, and the mission shaping is also very full, it's a very, very good manga." ”

"Now that you've seen it, it shouldn't be difficult for you to see that Oda has unknowingly laid a lot of foreshadowing, which can promote the continuous development of this manga, if my judgment is right, this manga is at least more than a thousand words, do you agree with this?"

Zhou Fangyuan asked softly.

Okubo was stunned when he heard this, lowered his head and thought for a moment, then nodded gently.

"I agree that with Mr. Oda's strength, a thousand words, it is possible. ”

"Okay, since you agree, let's talk about your comic now, how many words do you think your comic can draw? Without deliberately dragging the plot, how many words do you think your comic can last?"

"Well, if you don't forcibly drag the plot, I think it's a few hundred words at most......"

"What about hundreds? Two or three hundred is a hundred, four or five hundred is a hundred, eight or nine hundred or a few hundred...... Let's put it this way, Mr. Kubo, I like your art style, and I feel that you are also a very talented manga artist. And what about the plot you come up with now.,It's pretty good.,I feel like if everything goes well.,The popularity of this manga may not be worse than "One Piece". But your problem now is that the depth of the plot is too poor, your foreshadowing is too little, the plot is all a single-line plot, follow the story step by step, and the plot will soon come to an end.

Just like here, the Ishida Yulong you set is the Exterminator, and the Exterminator has been extinct because of the previous battle, so is this setting really appropriate? As a force that was once on par with the Grim Reaper, do you think they can be exterminated so easily? This is unlikely, even if the Grim Reaper suddenly becomes stronger, there is no reason to completely exterminate the Exterminator at once, so the Exterminator should be able to continue to develop, and here can be a foreshadowing, so that the plot has the possibility of a new twist.

And here, in terms of the void, in addition to the void that has been transformed into a broken face, isn't there any other strong man? For example, the most powerful void Watt Stord in your setting, is there only the first thirty blades? Couldn't there be more Watt Stord? Your comics have great potential, and if you want to become the most famous cartoonist, you have to make your plot more in-depth, which is very important.

Of course, I'm not telling you this to deliberately pick on you, I just want to tell you that you should work harder to think more about the plot. Don't be in a hurry to create comics, make the plot fuller, and let your comics have a longer life. And if your manga plot is rich enough, I can adapt it for you. Games, comics, fandom, and even live-action TV series, these are all possible. ”

Zhou Fangyuan said slowly.

Having said a lot, Okubo was already dumbfounded.

He looked at Zhou Fangyuan blankly, and it took a long time to react, "This, to be honest, this is a little difficult to ......"

"It's challenging when it's difficult, if it's not difficult at all, it's not challenging at all, how can your comics be the strongest? And I want to mention one more thing, what about your story, the neon wind is too strong, I hope you can modify the character design a little. In this regard, "Pirates" has done a good job, the names are all the kind that are neither east nor west, and readers can read them smoothly. And your setting is too restrictive for Western readers to read, and in Huaxia, to be honest, it's not too pleasing, so I hope you can make some changes in this area as well. ”

Zhou Fangyuan continued.

"Uh...... Mr. Zhou...... I'm not sure ......"

"No, you have to be sure, I want you to do it, and if you have any needs, I can meet you. But only if you need to come up with something that satisfies me. I won't interfere too much with your creation, but I'd love to hear more from me on the most basic canon sidekicks. Of course, I'm not trying to make you completely unrecognizable.

It's nothing more than changing the name and making some changes to the costumes, in fact, there is no need to use neon traditional costumes, make something modern, and make something that doesn't make people have obvious preferences or dislikes, which is the most important thing for you, I hope you can understand this. ”

Zhou Fangyuan said in a deep voice.

Okubo stopped talking, he thought silently for a long time before finally nodding.

"Well, I'll consider your suggestion and come up with a new setting as soon as possible. ”

"That's right, if my advice really doesn't work, you can not listen to it. But I'm looking for a bigger outlet for you, to please as many readers as possible so that you can be more successful. ”

Zhou Fangyuan patted Okubo's shoulder, then turned around and walked out.

"That's right," Zhou Fangyuan suddenly stopped when he walked to the door, "I want to contact more neon cartoonists, I'm really not familiar with this aspect, Mr. Kubo, I need some help from you, if you have any connections, I hope you can provide it, rest assured, if there are more neon cartoonists coming to China, come to one, I will give you a commission, and I will guarantee that you will not suffer." ”

Zhou Fangyuan said with a smile.

"That's no problem, I have a lot of phone numbers and contact information for editors and cartoonists, and I can provide you with them if you need them. ”

"That's good, okay, you can change the settings first. When the revision is done, I will come over and look at it again, and when the time comes, you will not give me the contact information of these people. ”

Zhou Fangyuan said with a smile, turned around and walked out.

After he left, Okubo let out a long sigh.

"Kubo-san, what Mr. Zhou said to you is also for your own good, and I also hope that you can become one of the most famous manga artists, and I hope you can understand his suffering. ”

"Of course I understand, otherwise I wouldn't have acceded to such an unreasonable request. However, his suggestion is really good, and I will pay attention to the revision. ”

"It's great that you can think so, and if you need help, I'm always there to help. ”

"Of course you need to, you come and help me work with you. ”

"Absolutely. ”

Zhang Bing smiled, walked to the creation table with Okubo, and began to revise the setting of the manga.