In winter, after New Year's Day, the climate in Hongchuan is also cold.

Pedestrians walking on the streets, wrapped tightly in cotton clothes, hide themselves in cotton clothes.

A girl in her early twenties came out of the editorial office of Comic Future, looked back at the building behind her, and sighed helplessly.

After the end of "SLAM DUNK", the sales of "Comic Future" fell all the way, and in just four months, the magazine's sales fell by 6.7 million copies, and with the end of "Demon Road", sales instantly fell below 3 million copies.

This was hard to imagine before.

But even so, "Comic Future" is still the largest comic magazine in China, and the standard of manuscript selection has not been lowered.

Even if she is already familiar with the editor-in-charge of "Comic Future", she still can't be serialized in "Comic Future".

The editor gave her two ways, first, to read and submit, as one of the top comic platforms in China, light reading is still the best choice for comic lovers; Then I work as an assistant to other manga artists, learn from the experience, and wait until the work comes out before submitting it.

Actually, there is another way, the editor didn't say, but she knows that it is to sign a studio or comic company, let them negotiate a contract with the comic platform, and draw comics with peace of mind.

But she rejected this approach from the start, citing "too low a ceiling".

The income of a work will be divided layer by layer, and the money that really falls into her hands is only a handful. Rather than that, it's better to give it a go.

Moreover, despite all the promises made by the Cartoonists Association to mediate the relationship between cartoonists and studios, the purpose of the studios or comic companies is also to make money, and the cartoonists who are really qualified to be serialized in "Comic Future" will not let go, and the contracts are signed to death.

She had learned about this from her friends, so she wouldn't take on a studio job unless she had to.

Alas, it's really hard to eat now.

The girl sighed and prepared to leave the building where Comic Future was located for a while.

Since she couldn't be serialized in "Comic Future", she needs to go to work, after all, she can't dream of starving to death before she finishes it, right?

At this moment, the door of the building behind him was opened, and a woman in a work suit hurriedly walked out of it, and when she saw the girl, she was stunned and asked, "I thought you were gone?" ”

"Well, I'm getting ready to leave." The girl was also stunned when she saw the man, and said casually, "Miss Wu, where are you going?" ”

"I made an appointment with Teacher Lu Ning and Teacher Su Han, and I am going to talk to them." Wu Xiaoli said casually.

"Is there a high probability that their works will be serialized?"

"Probably can, right?" Wu Xiaoli shook her head, "But there are other well-known cartoonists who are ready to submit, and competition is inevitable." ”

"Who are they?"

"There is also a new work by Teacher Qiu Qian, which is also being prepared, and I heard that it will also be submitted in the next few days. You can only serialize 20 manga in one magazine, how can the competition not be fierce? So, don't be discouraged, sometimes it's really not necessarily that the work is bad, but sometimes, it really takes luck. If you can stagger these two comics, your work may still have a chance to be serialized after being revised...... But...... Not necessarily. Now "Comic Future" has a lot of good cartoonists, after all, in China, there is only one platform that can produce comics with an average volume of more than 3 million copies. ”

"That's it......" After hearing Wu Xiaoli's words, the girl couldn't help but feel a sense of loss, after all, the platform and promotional works of "Comic Future" are the best among many platforms in China, and at the same time, they are also the highest income ceiling.

As long as you want to prove yourself, the best place to go is undoubtedly "Comic Future", and the absence of such a monster as "SLAM DUNK" means that "Comic Future" continues to come up with a manga to succeed "SLAM DUNK", so that everyone has a chance.

Therefore, many cartoonists are aiming at this opportunity, but it is very clear inside "Comic Future" that the only one who can really fill this hole is Shen Xin.

Wu Xiaoli saw that the girl was silent, so she bowed slightly, "I want to meet with the two teachers first......"

"Miss Wu, can you take me there? Can I meet the two teachers? Or be their assistant. The girl hurriedly asked.

"You want to see them?" Wu Xiaoli was surprised.

The girl nodded repeatedly.

"I'm sorry, I'd like to talk to them first."

It was really not polite to bring a stranger over rashly, and Wu Xiaoli didn't dare to agree directly.

The girl nodded her head, but she was very apprehensive in her heart.

If she can serve as an assistant for a well-known cartoonist, she can accept it, because she can learn something, and she can go back to prepare the comics to submit, and she can also ask the other party to check them.

After Wu Xiaoli communicated with the other party, she turned back to the girl and said: "You really asked the right question, the two teachers do lack assistants, and besides, because Teacher Lu Ning is a female cartoonist, he only needs a female assistant." ”

"Really?" The girl was overjoyed.

"Hmm. But I'm going to take the subway, so if you'd like to come along, come along, right? ”

The girl nodded again and again and followed Wu Xiaoli to the subway station.

Lu Ning also moved out of Shen Xin's studio after the end of "Crossing Girl", not because Shen Xin didn't let her work there, but because she felt that she couldn't stay any longer.

At that time, she had already saved a lot of money on the cost of rent, and now that she has the funds, of course she chooses to rent another set.

However, the house she rented was also Shen Xin's, that is, the studio where Shen Xin serialized "Chess Soul" and "Steel Refining" at that time, not because the price would be preferential, but because the environment of that house was really good, there were two floors in the big house, and there were balconies, and the workbench left by Shen Xin's original office was still there, which could save a lot of trouble.

She originally wanted to buy the house, but after asking the price, she had to stick out her tongue and stop talking about it.

After so many years, the house price has already doubled several times, and it is quite difficult for her to save money to buy this house.

Wu Xiaoli knocked on the studio, and a tall woman opened the door.

When the girl saw this woman, she was surprised that the other party's temperament was excellent, and at the same time, she also saw her identity - a famous author, a family good at reasoning, Su Han.

"Teacher Su came early." Wu Xiaoli closed the door casually.

"Where? I'm also staying here for the time being. There are more empty houses, which makes it more convenient for us to talk about name...... I knew that the room was so cheap at that time, and I had a whole set like this. Regretted it. Su Han glanced at the girl behind Wu Xiaoli, did not make a sound, but turned around and walked upstairs, "Lu Ning is also waiting for you upstairs, come here?" ”

The girl was a little restrained, but she still followed Wu Xiaoli to the second floor.

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