For the entire industry, authors are undoubtedly a vulnerable group, large companies and big websites pay attention to reputation, and they are relatively formal, and when it comes to those small websites, they are purely bullying the author as a cow and a horse.

It sounds like too much exaggeration, but in fact it is the case, the cattle and horses help the landlord's family to work, and they can eat two handfuls of concentrate feed during the New Year, and when they are tired and beaten, they can also "moo" twice, but the author was deducted from the manuscript fee by the website, and he can't even resist!

If you dare to resist, you will either be released for free and have no income, or you will be directly sealed and the book will be killed.

This is something that all authors who have experienced the events of "Dark Stone" are extremely clear.

Lin Mu was silent, doing things for the author and seeking justice, which made an author like Yang Ming who discovered the truth very moved and was full of hope for the future.

It's just that Lin Mu has always been very good to the circle, and everyone has gotten used to it, so they just keep these gratitudes in their hearts.

And the other kind of author is really crying with joy!

For example, Ai Juan, now she just wants to hug Lin Mu and cry happily.

Ai Juan is a comic book author.

Guoman, it seems to be very inconspicuous in the hearts of many people, because most people regard "comics" and "animation" as the same thing.

There are many animation studios through various plagiarism、Abuse,A large number of animations are produced,The state is very supportive of Guoman,After stipulating more than a certain period of time,Every time you have more time,A certain amount of money will be rewarded,Many studios use this to obtain subsidies from the state to Guoman,This is already the inside story that many people know,It is also mentioned in "Love Apartment"。

But for ordinary manga authors, anime seems too far away, and more of their income comes from manga.

Ai Juan is only 22 years old now, but she is already a "senior cartoonist" who has been in the circle for several years.

……

Lin Mu still remembers the scene when he first met Ai Juan a year ago.

It was noon two days after he and Modao agreed to create a "page",The cold snow is all over the sky,Ethereal snow like feathers,Even the little Loli who used to like to play in the snow in the yard,Obediently hid in the heated bedroom in the east room,Or play in the warm kitchen。

"Please...... Excuse me, this ...... Here's a page of the book...... Calligrapher...... Home?"

A trembling voice came from outside the kitchen window, and as soon as Lin Mu, who was helping Lin Mutuan's twisted face, turned around, he saw Ai Juan standing timidly in front of the window.

She was about 22 or 23 years old, of average height, and her figure was very thin, and she still looked a little big in a very thin, snow-white down jacket on her body, a timid face with large black-framed glasses, her lips were bruised, and although her whole body was trembling, her eyes still looked a little cute, and she was carrying a suitcase in her hand, as if she couldn't find the focus point.

Lin Mu was startled when she saw it, she obviously went on a long journey, if it weren't for the rapid development of "one-page online games" in her hometown this year, it is estimated that it would be difficult to find a car here.

Mother Lin in the kitchen, and other aunts and sisters-in-law who came to help were also stunned, and then quickly pulled her to the small bench in front of the stove.

"Poor little girl, where did you come from?"

Mother Lin's heart-warming words made Ai Juan's eyes turn red all of a sudden, seeing that Mother Lin had misunderstood, and was about to blame Lin Mu, she took a sip of warm water, lowered her head and said with red eyes: "My name is Ai Juan, I draw comics, you can help us......

Drawing comics?

Lin Mu was stunned, he hadn't paid much attention to this.

A page of small H books once serialized the comics of "The Legend of the Son of Heaven" on "Legend", Lin Mu has read it, but it is limited to this, and the most he reads on weekdays is still text.

The warm environment made Ai Juan, who had drunk hot water, feel a lot more stable, and seeing that Lin Mu didn't understand, he talked to him about the situation in the domestic comic circle.

……

In China, more and more comic authors have appeared in recent years, and related comic websites and studios have naturally emerged in an endless stream, including a studio called "Summer Island".

It is said that it is a studio, and it is no different from a company, and its painters can paint in the studio or create in their own homes.

This studio is very famous in the comics circle,It is one of the studios that has presented the most outstanding cartoonists and comic works in Guoman in recent years,Many comic authors are created in this studio for one reason or another,It has just recently received 25 million financing,Valuation of 5 billion,It is one of the comic CP companies with the highest valuation at the moment。

Ai Juan is drawing comics in this studio, and the reason why she is here is because her comic idol "Xia Da" is also here, and she is the signature painter of Summer Island, and she has influenced many people in the circle, and it can even be said that people all over the country have seen this girl named "Xia Da".

"Shada?"

Lin Mu was a little puzzled, he had never been in contact with the comic circle, and he didn't understand "the people of the whole country have seen Xia Da".

Ai Juan took out her mobile phone from her pocket, clicked it a few times, enlarged a photo, and her voice was full of adoration: "This is 'Xia Da', my idol, I entered the comic circle because of him!"

When Lin Mu saw it, he smiled: "Isn't this the 'most beautiful audience' in the Year of the Rabbit." ”

In the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Rabbit in 2011, there was a program in which Li Xiaoran's four beauties came to the stage with four paintings, and when Li Xiaoran held a painting of "Rabbit Holding a Paintbrush", the photographer of the Spring Festival Gala pointed the camera at the baby-faced beauty under the stage several times, this intellectual beauty has an extremely outstanding temperament, which is unforgettable at first sight, and many viewers rated her as "the most beautiful audience of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Rabbit".

Ai Juan saw that Lin Mu recognized her idol, and immediately became happy, and her originally cute face became lively and vivid: "Yes, yes, she is Xia Da, the author of Li Xiaoran holding that painting, originally the Spring Festival Gala was going to let her go up, but Xia Da was too shy and timid, so she was replaced by Li Xiaoran, and a group of us laughed at her when we chatted!"

Speaking of her idol, Ai Juan's words have become a lot more, and Lin Mu also understands Xia Da's power from what she said.

To sum it up in one sentence, Xia Da's status in the Chinese comic circle is quite similar to that of Modao in the circle, with high prestige and good popularity.

At the age of 21, she won the Excellence Award for Chinese Comic Short Story Comics with her old "Winter Fairy Tale", and since then she has been out of control, and after publishing "April Story" at the age of 22, she began her life as a full-time painter.

In the end, Shada chose to work on Summer Island, which is becoming the most painful thing for her now......