Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Celebration Banquet
"Pre~prepare, cheers!"
The glass cups collided with each other with a crisp sound, and several people drank the different colored liquids in the cups and sat down.
"So, as the head, Ji Kaiwei, don't you say a few words?" Anna teased Ji Kaiwei, who was sitting next to her, squinted her eyes and poked Ji Kaiwei's arm, "Today is a celebration banquet to celebrate the official launch of our webtoon platform comic bookstore." ”
But before Ji Kaiwei could speak, Yuemi's voice had already sounded: "Can you not mention that name!" ”
"Eh~ Tsukimi is shy?"
"Of course! That's why I chose this name, I just mentioned it casually! ”
Although it has almost become an established fact now, Yuemi is still blushing for this matter, striving for the glimmer of hope that the name of this platform will be replaced at the last moment - knowing that the name he casually proposed will be adopted by his friends, Yuemi will not say it rashly.
After nearly three months of hard work, the planned webtoon platform was finally officially launched, and before it was officially completed, Anna proposed to celebrate, and then there was the current celebration banquet.
And the name of the platform was also decided because half of these people wanted to tease Yuemi, and at the same time, the other half also felt that the name of the comic book bookstore was unexpectedly quite impressive, and it was decided in this way, well, everyone except Yuemi also unanimously approved, including Bai Qiongjiu, Weng Ruyu and Su Zixuan.
In the end, Yuemi's weak resistance was ignored, so Yuemi could only sit down slightly sulking, while Anna continued what she had just said: "So Ji Kaiwei, say a few words." ”
Ji Kaiwei, who has always been expressionless, rarely fluctuated a little bit today, and his tone was finally no longer so cold, with a little human touch: "...... Well, hard work, guys. ”
“…… Finished? ”
"Hmm."
“…… Although it is very your style, I suddenly feel that the people who work under you in the future must be very tired, and my boss is always so cold, and it is stressful to imagine. Anna, who is usually a little happy when she gets along with friends, seems to be particularly bold today, and even stretched out her hand to pull Ji Kaiwei's face, and then was slapped away by Ji Kaiwei as a matter of course, and continued stupidly, "You see that He Qiuzhi, who usually doesn't deal with you, is so desperate to help you work, don't you say a little?" ”
"Hey! Wait a minute! Hearing this, He Qiuzhi couldn't sit still, and stood up patting the table, "I can't treat this as if I didn't hear this, I helped design this platform just for Yuemi, don't misunderstand that facial paralysis girl over there!" ”
"Oh oh~ It turns out that our Qiu Zhi unexpectedly has tsundere attributes~" Pushing her glasses, Anna squinted her eyes and smiled like a fox.
"Don't ......" He Qiuzhi subconsciously wanted to refute, but before she could say it, Ji Kaiwei's consistently cold voice stifled her words: "As a noisy idiot monkey, this time I did a good job." ”
“…… I'm! Bastard face paralyzed girl, do you want to quarrel! I think you've been a little overhorned lately! ”
"Hmph~"
The usual quarrel over there was again, but although it sounded fierce, this was already the norm among several people, although he didn't admit it verbally, but Yuemi knew that both He Qiuzhi and Ji Kaiwei had already regarded each other as their friends, so they would make faces to each other without scruples, otherwise, with the personalities of the two, He Qiuzhi would most likely restrain himself from quarreling, and Ji Kaiwei would ignore He Qiuzhi as he usually ignored passers-by.
So looking at the two people who were arguing and Anna who was still fanning the flames next to her, Yuemi just smiled, and then talked to Weng Ruyu next to her: "I didn't expect Editor Weng to come to work here on Kaiwei......
Weng Ruyu, who was whispering to Su Zixuan, was stunned when she heard Yuemi's voice, and then nodded with a wry smile: "I didn't expect it at the beginning, in fact, after being snubbed by the new editor-in-chief of "Juvenile Weekly", I originally planned to leave this industry, but I didn't expect to stay in the end." ”
"That...... I'm sorry, Editor Weng, if it weren't for me...... "Before, Yuemi didn't know exactly why Weng Ruyu left the magazine office of "Juvenile Weekly", but later Anna explained it to her a little, and Yuemi learned about Weng Ruyu's resignation.
lowered her head, Yuemi still felt a little guilty in her heart, in fact, if Weng Ruyu hadn't insisted on standing on her side at that time, neither Su Zixuan nor she would have had to leave the magazine of "Juvenile Weekly".
Suddenly feeling his hair being lightly **, Yuemi raised her head in surprise: "Don't think too much, it's not your fault that Zixuan and I will leave the magazine, there are many, many open and secret battles in the workplace, even if you don't appear Yuemi, probably we will be forced to leave that place one day sooner or later, so in fact, Yuemi, you don't have to take it to heart." ”
"And if you really want to talk about it, Ruyu and I chose to help you by ourselves, and we don't regret giving ourselves support for such an excellent manga, so even if it leads to our departure in the end, it has nothing to do with you, Satsuki." Su Zixuan took Weng Ruyu's words and continued.
It's about our professional ethics, and we're going to be angry if we're still guilty about it! The two looked at each other and smiled, and added.
Not knowing what to say for a while, Yuemi felt a little sour in her heart, but she still held up a smile: "Thank you." ”
"Well, we accepted it unceremoniously if we thank you, and we will give you more advice in the future, Sanchuan~" took Yuemi's hand and held it gently, and Weng Ruyu also smiled back.
At this time, the three people who were fighting over there almost calmed down, Ji Kaiwei clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention, and then said in a tone that has always calmed people down: "This time, really, hard work, everyone, very, thank you, but unfortunately, although we have done what we need to do for the time being, there is still a lot of heavy work to ...... ahead."
"Yes, yes, not to mention the need to contact those cartoonists who are willing to publish comics on the Internet, at least you have to get the authorization of some cartoonists first, and then get some finished comics to fill the empty library on our platform, and then there are various places to promote them, open channels and so on...... If you think about it this way, the next work will be much more tiring than it is now...... Anyway, more than half of this part is in charge of me? Su Zixuan said and suddenly pretended to be bitter, "Wow, I'll die if I think about it like this!" Boss, I ask for a raise! Then I need more people to help! ”
"The application is invalid, those who can work hard, and besides, you are the only man in the room, do you want women to take over so many jobs?" Ji Kaiwei made a joke with a cross with his arm.
Next, Su Zixuan's crying and laughing sentence "I feel like I willingly jumped into the thief's cave" made several people couldn't help laughing.
"In short, the work after is the next thing, now you can, don't worry about it for the time being, be happy, spend this time, thank you, cheers."
I don't know when, Ji Kaiwei's face also vaguely appeared a little, really a little, if you don't look closely, you can hardly find a smile, she once again raised the glass with orange juice.
"Cheers~"
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Bai Qiongjiu: Obviously, I'm also here, why do I always feel that my sense of existence is almost zero?