Chapter Seventy-Seven: Confusion
The conversation with Weng Ruyu should be regarded as an unhappy break up in terms of the result, Weng Ruyu conveyed to Yuemi from the "Juvenile Weekly" magazine Yuemi did not accept it, and Yuemi's insistence on continuing to paint also did not get Weng Ruyu's approval.
Although Yuemi herself actually understood what Weng Ruyu meant, and she was very grateful to Weng Ruyu for her kindness, she still didn't want to give up like this.
So in the end, Yuemi only thanked Weng Ruyu who said to her, "I won't tell anyone else in the editorial department what you think for the time being, if you change your mind, call me", and then separated from her and got on the bus home.
Rejecting other people's kindness is a very heavy thing, so along the way, Yuemi felt a little depressed in her heart, and her mood couldn't get better anyway, until she was in front of the house, she patted her face hard, pulled her cheek and tried to make herself look no different from usual.
Even though he knew that his disguise would probably not last long before Lin Lin would see through it, Yuemi still didn't want her to worry about herself as much as possible.
He took out the key and opened the door, and suddenly a tempting fragrance poured into Tsukimi's nose, followed by an untimely cooing sound from his abdomen.
[Ah, it's time to order......]
Yuemi thought about it later, rubbed her stomach that suddenly had a strong sense of fasting under the lure of the fragrance of Lin Lin's cooking, smiled shallowly, pulled off the scarf around her neck and hung it on the sofa, and then trotted straight towards the kitchen.
"Lin Lin~I smell the aroma of tomato beef~"
"Yuemi, wait a minute...... Yes? What's wrong? ”
Lin Lin, who was holding the soup spoon, was about to turn around, but she suddenly felt the girl hugging her tightly from behind and putting her face on her back. Immediately sensing something, she slowed down, and then continued what she was doing, asking in a nonchalant-sounding tone.
Yuemi increased the strength of her arm as if she wanted to merge herself and Lin Lin, and said in a very brisk but somewhat weird tone: "It's nothing, I'm sorry Lin Lin, don't turn around for the time being, just let me hold it for a while, okay?" ”
"Absolutely."
"Well, thank you......"
Listening to the girl's words, Lin Lin shook his head a little helplessly, turned off the small fire on the stove, let the pressure cooker spray the pressure, and picked up the bowl next to it and covered it on the fried ham with baby cabbage that was still hot.
Then he stopped what he was doing and looked intently at the safety valve on the pressure cooker, which was still slowly rotating.
I don't know how long it took, in fact, it was only about five or six minutes, Yuemi suddenly let go of her arm, and shouted energetically: "Lin Lin's energy is replenished~"
"Am I some weird charger?" Hearing this, Lin Lin subconsciously complained, "Then again, Yuemi, you are so cunning!" I also want to hold Yuemi to replenish Yuemi's energy! ”
Grimacing at Lin Lin, who turned around, Yuemi ran to the kitchen door and stuck out her tongue at Lin Lin: "Cai~ Don't be held by a strange ghost, can you eat anyway?" I'm so hungry! ”
With an expression that he really can't help you, Lin Lin casually removed the safety valve on the pressure cooker and said to Yuemi: "Go to the table and wait, it'll be fine right away." ”
After a while, Lin Lin brought the tomato beef and the baby cabbage fried ham that had been prepared before to the table, and thoughtfully put the rice bowl and chopsticks in front of Yuemi.
However, Yuemi, who was still shouting that she was hungry just now, stopped her movements after picking up the rice bowl, and looked directly at Lin Lin who was picking up the rice in her mouth.
"What's wrong?"
Keeping an eye on Yuemi with his afterglow, Lin Lin swallowed the food in his mouth and asked.
Biting his chopsticks, he hesitated for a while and finally said, "...... Lin Lin, don't you ask? What just happened ......"
The way you want to confide in me and want me to take the initiative to ask makes me want to bully you!
However, considering the occasion, Lin Lin still suppressed this slightly bold idea.
"Yuemi, if you want to tell me, I'll listen to it." But sure enough, I still used a slightly ill-intentioned statement.
The girl didn't reply, she picked up a piece of beef and stuffed it into her mouth with a little dissatisfaction, chewing it fiercely as if she was treating her father's killer, while Lin Lin was the old god, or she watched Yuemi eat with interest to vent her anger.
In the end, it was probably the idea of wanting to confide that prevailed, and Yuemi spoke a little reluctantly: "Today, I met with Editor Weng, Lin Lin should know, right?" ”
"Well, and then what?"
Although in general, Lin Lin can also guess Weng Ruyu's purpose of looking for Yuemi today, it is nothing more than to liquidate the financial transactions during this period of time, and he has asked to draw a halved ending for "Death Note".
However, in order to cooperate with Yuemi's words, Lin Lin still pretended to be stupid.
"Editor Weng told me that the editor-in-chief of the magazine had been replaced, and the new editor-in-chief asked me to draw a half-cut ending of "Death Note", and then she said that she wanted to fight for me the rights to serialize the new work in "Shonen Weekly......"
Eh~ It looks like the editorial department is going to be replaced with a wave of blood, and if it's the new editor-in-chief, generally speaking, newcomer comic groups like Yuemi and Lin Lin, whose first work was blocked, should stay away, right?
Weng Ruyu said that he wanted to fight for Yuemi's right to publish his new work in "Juvenile Weekly", probably in order to stabilize Yuemi first, after all, even if the editor-in-chief was not changed before, this is not something that can be done easily, let alone a new editor-in-chief now, according to what Lin Lin learned about the relationship between Weng Ruyu and the former editor-in-chief Su Zixuan, Weng Ruyu is afraid that he will be marginalized, right? In that case, it is even more unlikely.
Thinking like this, she didn't interrupt Yuemi's words, and listened to her continue.
"Of course I refused, but because Editor Weng had been my editor for a long time, I told her that I wanted to continue drawing Death Note, and she got angry......
"Well, is that Yuemi dissatisfied because she was angry?" Although Lin Lin knew that Yuemi would never be dissatisfied with this kind of thing, she still asked.
Sure enough, Yuemi shook her head: "No, Editor Weng is angry because he is worried about me, I can still tell this, so I won't be dissatisfied or anything......"
"So what is it about Tsukiya that makes you depressed?" Lin Lin asked patiently.
“…… Probably, confused, right? After a moment's hesitation, Yuemi finally found a word that could roughly represent her mood, "I know that I am very willful, and it makes me feel very uncomfortable to trample on the kindness of Editor Weng under my feet, but what makes me sadest the most is that when Editor Weng logically and clearly tells me why I am preventing me from continuing to draw "Death Note", the only answer I can give her is that I want to continue drawing." ”
"It's so blank and powerless, I can't find any words to resist other than this, it's like saying that I don't know anything about it except drawing, and that's probably why I'm so unhappy now."
As the conversation progressed, Yuemi gradually calmed down, and slowly found out what he was thinking in his heart, so the expression on his face gradually calmed down.
"So Lin Lin, can you tell me what we should do next? I know I probably can't help me with anything other than painting, but at least I want to know what I need to do and what I should do, rather than leaving everything to Lin Lin to handle. ”
It's not what I'm supposed to do next, it's what we're supposed to do next. Such a statement made Lin Lin very happy.
"Since it's Yuemi's request~" Lin Lin smiled, "Then of course I will meet you." ”