The award dinner of the "Shonen Weekly" Rookie Cup is said to be held for the purpose of awarding awards to the newcomers who won the Rookie Cup, but in fact this is only one of the purposes.

As a magazine, the staff of the company naturally needs to maintain a good relationship with those authors, so every year, the elite media affiliated to "Juvenile Weekly" will invite the authors to come to some dinners, on the one hand, to make those authors feel a sense of belonging, and on the other hand, to promote exchanges between authors.

The awards dinner of the Newcomer Cup is also a gathering of this nature, generally because it is close to the end of the year, and it is inconvenient to arrange another party, so this awards dinner has another name in the mouths of the staff and authors under the name of Elite Media: annual meeting.

Hawkers,It will be set on December 24th, that is, Christmas Eve, and I also have the intention of celebrating Christmas with these authors,After all, China has been advocating cultural integration over the years,Western culture is also within the scope of this integration,So people also learn from the West to celebrate Christmas,For ordinary people,This is probably one more day to have a happy holiday,And the author of Yingcai Media...... Although this is not malicious, it is a well-established fact that most of the authors are squatting at home, so the people at the top of the company feel that if they hold some events like this, those authors will probably be happy, so there are more such gatherings.

As a cartoonist who signed a contract with "Juvenile Weekly", Cheng Ziyao has never missed this kind of activity.

It's a bit embarrassing to say that his purpose for attending the dinner party held by Yingcai Media is quite impure: he wants to rely on this opportunity to meet a girl who can talk to him, and then say goodbye to his nearly 30-year career as a single dog......

It sounds very low, right, but Cheng Ziyao said that he is also desperate! Rushed into the cartoonist industry with enthusiasm, although it can be regarded as a success, but as a result, he also put his youth into it, and he will be 30 next year! Ben San is no longer a joke, but an imminent fact! And the saddest thing for him is that the only memory of holding hands with girls when he grew up was when he was in elementary school, and he was forced to dance with girls in physical education class because the number of boys was exactly odd!

Thinking that he was still very unhappy at the beginning, Cheng Ziyao wanted to travel back and strangle his original self!

Wake up! Cherish some! Because you will never have the opportunity to hold hands with a girl again in the next ten years!

Ahem, to put it simply, he just participated in these parties in order to find a girl who could talk a little bit, after all, he often stayed at home to draw comics, and his social skills had basically been returned to the elementary school physical education teacher, and he was not very good at talking about the topics of popular things, so Cheng Ziyao felt that only those girls who were also in the industry could talk about it a little.

No, definitely!

Standing in front of the hotel, Cheng Ziyao cheered himself up, and then walked in with firm steps.

I'm sure I'll be able to get a girl's phone number today!

I heard that the teacher who painted "The Warrior of the Confucian Forest" is a very cute single woman, how can I hook up......

Thinking about such a question, Cheng Ziyao walked towards the banquet hall on the third floor of the hotel, but inadvertently, his eyes were attracted by the gray standing in the middle of the aisle.

It was a girl in a gray coat, with a white ribbon tied up at the end of her waist-length hair, probably a high school student of her age...... Oh no, it's a little too petite, maybe it's just a junior high school student.

The girl seemed to be quite overwhelmed, shrunk up, and seemed to muster up the courage to try to talk to passers-by several times, but before she could say the target of the conversation, she had already walked away.

Are you lost......

Looking left and right, there was no other person around him, Cheng Ziyao hesitated for a moment, and forced himself to put on a slightly stiff smile but was actually his limit and walked over: "That, can't you find the way?" ”

Hearing her own voice, the body of the girl in front of her trembled as if she had been electrocuted, and then slowly turned around, and then Cheng Ziyao froze.

Although I already have some premonitions when I look at the back, this is really a cute girl who exceeds my expectations, and her still immature face is as delicate as a puppet, not beautiful but it is not enough to describe it only as cute, probably because of fear, the big inky eyes are indescribably panicked, slightly moist as if she is ready to cry out at any time, so that the girl in front of her adds a sense of weakness that makes people can't help but want to protect her...... Wait, fear?

The reason for the girl's fear was that Cheng Ziyao hurriedly shook his hand: "That, that, I'm not a suspicious person, it's just um, how to say it, I see you as if you can't find the way......"

Even if Maggi didn't look like a suspicious person at first, isn't she a suspicious weirdo now! Cheng Ziyao really wanted to cover his face to calm down, but wouldn't he be more like a weirdo if he still covered his face at this time!

Say something! Isn't your protagonist super eloquent?

Cheng Ziyao, who was racking his brains to say something, suddenly heard a voice behind him that he was used to hearing: "Yes, Teacher Orange Tea and Sanchuan-swe?" ”

…… Saved!

"Weng editor! What, there's a lost kid here......"

Cheng Ziyao was a little anxious and wanted to explain this matter to Xiang Weng Ruyu and then ask her to help, but what made him dumbfounded was that before he finished speaking, the girl had already gone straight to Weng Ruyu, and then hid behind her back, grabbed her clothes, poked her head out, and looked at herself carefully.

"Huh? Mikawa ...... Ah, I know......" Weng Ruyu, who was still a little confused, quickly reacted, and then showed a crying and laughing expression, touched the girl's hair to appease, and then glared at Cheng Ziyao with a straight face: "Teacher Orange Tea, you scared Sanchuan, please apologize!" ”

I really just want to show her the way......

Cheng Ziyao shouted in his heart, but he still apologized obediently: "I'm sorry, it's my fault, I scared you......"

Seeing that Cheng Ziyao's attitude was quite sincere, and Weng Ruyu was his editor-in-charge, he still knew how much he was a person, so he dragged the girl out from behind and explained: "Okay, Sanchuan, Teacher Orange Tea has apologized, can you forgive him?" ”

Standing up a little hesitantly, the girl looked at Weng Ruyu, and then glanced in other directions, and then nodded.

"So, let's introduce it a little, Sanchuan-san," since the atmosphere has eased, Weng Ruyu simply plays the role of the peacemaker, she took the girl's hand and pointed at Cheng Ziyao, "This is the orange tea teacher, and his painting of "The Godslayer Knight" is now being serialized in "Juvenile Weekly". ”

Cheng Ziyao scratched his hair and smiled shyly: "I'm Orange Tea, I'm a cartoonist, it's great if you've heard of me." ”

After grinding for a while, the girl, that is, Yuemi, grabbed her coat with her right hand, opened her mouth slightly, and finally whispered: "I am, that ...... My pen name is Chuan Chuan Chuan, and for the time being, I am not considered a manga artist...... That one...... Hello ......"

It's like a frightened little animal.

"Okay, that's even if you know each other, Sanchuan-san, this uncle who looks a little scary is actually quite good, can you reconcile if you shake hands with him?"

Letting go of Yuemi's hand, Weng Ruyu clasped her hands together, bent down and said softly in Yuemi's ear, and then gave Cheng Ziyao a look.

…… I'm a scary-looking uncle, I'm so sorry! I'm only 29 years old! It's definitely not the age of an uncle! And are you really Weng Ruyu! Where is the usual venomous snake that likes to spray venom! Suddenly changed to the painting style of the gentle big sister, I was super uncomfortable!

However, Weng Ruyu was also speaking for himself, so Cheng Ziyao propped up a smile that was still very stiff, and stretched out his hand according to Weng Ruyu's meaning.

“…… Well. ”

This is the girl's low response, she finally mustered up the courage, tremblingly stretched out her hand, and held Cheng Ziyao's hand, but it was only an instant, Cheng Ziyao almost didn't feel the temperature of the girl's soft palm, the girl had already withdrawn her hand and hid behind Weng Ruyu's back.

I'm not a monster, am I?

This time, Cheng Ziyao finally couldn't cry or laugh, but he didn't get angry because of Yuemi's rudeness, after all, this is a cute child, and he scared her first.

Looks are privileges! Cuteness is justice!

And Weng Ruyu's voice sounded at the right time: "Then, Teacher Orange Tea, I'll go to the banquet hall with Sanchuan first, and you should go over early." ”

As she spoke, Weng Ruyu took the girl's hand again and walked towards the elevator.

Watching the two disappear around the corner of the aisle, Cheng Ziyao stared at his right hand in a daze.

Oh no, it's not good, I didn't know I got my Christmas present early!

It didn't go well at first, but isn't it a conversation with a super cute girl! And there was a handshake!

That's not good! If this is a Christmas present, then I won't be able to contact the contact information of those single female cartoonists today!

…… Anyway, you won't wash your hands today, will you?

Well, this is the story of a single dog.