Yan Fei heard the editor-in-chief shouting Li Jiming's name, so she also turned around.

Xiaoli pulled Yan Fei's clothes, "It is estimated that Lao Li has had a headache recently." ”

"Why?"

"Did you really forget? Didn't "Y's" snatch the headline color page of "The Boy Who Chased the Wind"? Of course, the color page in the roll is also good, but it is still not as good as the color page at the head of the roll. He estimated that he also had a headache now, how to convey this matter to Teacher Gong. Xiaoli explained.

Ahem......

Yan Fei was also a little embarrassed.

Gong Yan is also an old author, a year ago, he won the first place in several survey papers in "New World" with "The Boy Chasing the Wind", and he began to play big names, and he was a little carried away.

"Chasing the Wind" tells the story of a group of teenagers who like to chase their dreams.

The progress of this comic is very fast, and in only six or seven months, the main character's team won the championship of the world student football competition, and the cool points of this comic are constantly at that time, and readers are also very enjoyable to read.

But because the plot was running too fast and was already at the end of the story, Gong Yan realized that something was wrong.

At that time, "The Boy Chasing the Wind" was a best-selling work in Yunhai City, and if it was finished directly, Gong Yan would lose a lot of money. Unwillingly, he thought of a bad trick - when he returned home, the plane the protagonist was riding crashed, and the comic naturally replaced the protagonist.

Since then, the performance of "The Boy Chasing the Wind" has plummeted, the number of readers who follow it has dropped sharply, and the magazine is also in a hurry.

In order to save the popularity of the comics, the magazine tried many ways, such as signing and selling books, looking for animation companies to make animations, and even contacting game companies, but they couldn't get up or dead. The magazine also wanted to let "The Boy Chasing the Wind" end, and then let the editor and Gong Yan polish a comic together, but Gong Yan didn't agree at first, and after three or four months of stalemate, Gong Yan showed signs of relenting.

According to common sense, even signing books and making animations can't raise the popularity of a comic, so the role that the headpiece color page can play is even more minimal.

It's just that Gong Yan used to be the signboard of "New World", and the color page on the head of the roll was suddenly replaced by a color page in the volume, and no one would be happy.

""The Boy Who Chased the Wind" is almost over, in fact, it makes no difference at all whether there is one more or one less headpiece color page. But even so, you have to tell him quickly. If you drag it out for too long, he will feel that you don't value him and will have a problem with us. Remember, don't irritate him when you say it. The editor-in-chief waved his hand and asked Li Jiming to deal with this matter quickly.

"Even if Teacher Gong has an opinion, isn't it your idea?"

Li Jiming hung his head and returned to his desk, finally unable to help but complain.

The editor-in-chief's eyes were always on him, and after half a minute, he couldn't hold on any longer, took the document bag, and immediately went to the magazine.

On the way to Gong Yan's studio, Li Jiming thought a lot, but when he arrived at the door of the studio, he still didn't think about how to explain the situation to Gong Yan, but his hand subconsciously knocked on the door.

Hey?

When Li Jiming came back to his senses, he had already heard footsteps coming from the door.

Before he could finish his words, the door opened, and a young man appeared before him.

"Ed. Li? Just now, the teacher was still saying that I finally got a bag of good tea and wanted to ask you to drink it, and it was a coincidence that you came here before two or three hours. When the young man saw Li Jiming, he hurriedly let Li Jiming into the house.

"Haha, this is...... The heart has a soul. Li Jiming laughed dryly, "By the way, is Teacher Gong busy now?" ”

"Fortunately, I'm drawing color pages, isn't it going to be handed in in two weeks? This time, the teacher was very attentive to coloring, saying that this time he would not disappoint Li Bian. ”

Ha ha......

Li Jiming sighed, he knew today, why bother in the first place.

If it weren't for dying to change the protagonist, "Chasing the Wind Boy" is now estimated to be the top three in "New World".

Although it has not yet fallen out of the top 10, the sales of the single book are already less than 50,000 copies, which is not much different from ordinary comics.

"Yo, Lao Li, are you here?" On the side of the hall, a bald middle-aged man with a marker to color, after seeing Li Jiming come in, immediately put down the pen and stood up from his seat, "It's not time to receive the manuscript yet, right?" ”

"Oh, I'm just going to take a look."

"You are still not worried about the quality of my coloring?" The bald middle-aged man said with a laugh.

"Mr. Gong, of course I believe in the quality of your color pages, but your progress ...... It's really too slow. Li Jiming said perfunctorily.

Gong Yan's coloring level is more than the upper than the bottom, after all, he is not a professional art student, and he is an older generation of cartoonists, both in style and skills, there is a big difference from young people. What's more, after becoming famous, because he was not very attentive, his coloring level was always below the level, which also gave Li Jiming a headache.

Now that the ranking of the questionnaire and the number of single books have always remained at a very low level, Gong Yan finally realized his problem, but no matter how hard he tried, the level could only return to the average level.

The same is true for the color page this time, it can only be said that the color page is qualified, which is not too good.

"How? Relieved, right? Gong Yan's face showed a look of pride.

"Hmm......" Li Jiming nodded, "By the way, Teacher Gong, do you have time now?" I would like to say two words to you. ”

"Coincidentally, I also want to treat you to two cups of tea. This pot of tea was brought back from abroad by one of my students, and you must not have drunk it. ”

Li Jiming felt a little helpless in his heart, even if there was good tea, he was not in the mood to drink it now.

Gong Yan's reception room is very simple, a set of red solid wood sofa and coffee table, and a set of purple sand tea set.

Gong Yan cherishes this set of tea sets very much, and usually does not take them out for practical use, but today, this set of tea sets was placed on the coffee table before Li Jiming entered.

Could it be that someone is coming today?

Li Jiming was puzzled, but Mr. Gong didn't usually communicate much, at least, he hadn't seen anyone come in the past year.

Gong Yan saw the tea set on the table, and his face turned pale instantly, "That...... This morning, people from my hometown came over and I invited them to two cups of tea. By the way, Lao Li, didn't you have something to say just now? ”

"Huh? That's ......" Li Jiming's throat was a little dry, and after thinking about it again and again, he still bowed to Gong Yan first, "I'm sorry, Mr. Gong, the editor-in-chief changed your color page to the color page in the volume......"

"Huh? Why? Gong Yan's hand holding the tea set trembled a little, and his eyes were wide open.

"It's nothing...... The editor-in-chief said that he would give you another roll next month to make up for it. Li Jiming hurriedly explained.

"Next month? Who knows if there will be "Chasing the Wind" next month! "Gong Yan was angry.

"Huh? Is "The Boy Chasing the Wind" coming to an end? Li Jiming has some differences, he hasn't heard Gong Yan mention this matter.

"Huh?" Gong Yan suddenly realized that he had said something that he shouldn't have said, and hurriedly waved his hand, but his movements seemed stiff, "Didn't the editor-in-chief always want me to draw a new comic?" I've been thinking about this lately. By the way, who did the editor-in-chief give the headpiece color page to? ”

"Oh, a newcomer. New World's performance has been declining recently, and the editor-in-chief is wondering if there is a chance to stop the decline. ”

"Just a newcomer? Can it really stop New World's decline? Gong Yan sneered.

"That's not clear. By the way, if you do draw new comics, what genre are you going to go to? Li Jiming asked.

"It's not decided yet, I'll discuss it with you then, right?" Gong Yan's face returned to normal, but his tone was stiff.

"Okay, we'll talk about it later."

Picking out the most important thing, Li Jiming was not in the mood to drink tea, so he hurriedly left the studio on the grounds of not disturbing Gong Yan's painting.

Gong Yan had a gloomy face, put away the tea set, and after thinking about it for a while, he took out a business card from a book, and a line of words was written in the middle, "President of Weekly Dreamer, Luo Zhi".

After pondering for a while, Gong Yan finally made up his mind and dialed the other party's phone.