"Look, we're in third place." Tang Rui suddenly threw away the Fantasy magazine in his hand, and excitedly pulled the tall Tang Xuan beside him, his excitement was difficult to express in words.

However, Tang Xuan's reaction was the opposite of the other party, his face that seemed to have been coated with wax, as if there had never been any expressions such as "proud", "happy", "excited", etc., he leaned down, picked up the Fantasy magazine that fell on the ground, and turned to the page about the selection of the Red Dragon Award.

"It's just the third place, are you so happy to use it, the editor's score is not very good."

As we all know, the selection of the Red Dragon Award is cross-selected by four popular authors of Fantasy magazine, and will be scored according to the six scoring criteria of artwork, narrative structure, storyline, expressiveness, character charm and originality, and Tang Xuan and Tang Rui's entries "Naraku" The final score is-

Art: 3, Narrative Structure: 4, Storyline: 5, Expressiveness: 3, Character Charisma: 4, Originality: 5. The total score is 24 points.

According to the previous scoring standards, as long as the score is 20 points, even if you can't get the top three, you can basically mix in the masterpiece award, no wonder Tang Rui is excited, after all, for him, last year's Red Dragon Award was simply a humiliation, and now, he and Tang Xuan's first cooperation won the third place in the Red Dragon Award, with a bonus of 30,000 yuan.

For Tang Rui, this is not only to wash away the shame of the past, but also an opportunity to jump into the dragon gate, this time the editor contacted them in advance and asked them to try to make a storyboard that can serialize comics. Although the third place is not guaranteed to be serialized, they are already in the lead compared to the newcomers who have nothing to submit.

Tang Rui even couldn't wait a little impatiently, such as Liang Yu, or Mr. Lu Chuan, the editor in charge who had rejected him in the past, and their surprised expressions when they saw the return of their kings.

Turning his head to look at Tang Xuan beside him, who was holding his chin with his hand and pursing his lips to read the information, Tang Rui felt that his vision was too poisonous, even he couldn't help but admire himself, if it weren't for himself, who would have thought that this arrogant guy would have so much energy, how could he think of moving all his ideas that were not seen in literary magazines to comics, the Red Dragon Award is just a small test of the waters, and the next thing is the main event, Tang Rui thought proudly.

He looked forward to the day when he would trample on Liang Yu and Chen Nan, who had looked down on him, under his feet.

"Lord Tang Rui, I was wrong, forgive others, it's a big deal for someone to be your girlfriend." As soon as he thought of Liang Yu's beautiful face, Tang Rui couldn't help but feel a spring in his heart, and his heart was half crisp, but he was focused on thinking about some content that was not suitable for children.

But at this moment, a cold voice interrupted him. There are only two people in this room, him and Tang Xuan, so it is self-evident who is speaking.

"Are you satisfied with this result? There are only 3 points for the painter, only 3 points for expressiveness, and only 4 points for the charm of the characters and the narrative structure. "This Wen Qing naturally didn't have good words as soon as he opened his mouth, but fortunately, Tang Rui was more or less used to it, because he was counting on him to eat, so he was quite submissive, otherwise according to his temper a year ago, he immediately jumped up and broke with the other party.

"You can't blame me for this, I painted it according to your requirements, besides, your subject matter is dark, and it ...... with my painting style itself," Tang Rui defended, but he saw that Tang Xuan's expression on the side was getting darker and darker, so he quickly stopped.

He remembered that the eyes in front of him couldn't tolerate a little bit of sand, and he couldn't listen to a word of criticism, the only lord in heaven and on earth, told him this, didn't he look for death, and judging from the feedback of the rating, it was indeed his painting that dragged down the other party.

Tang Rui could only accompany him with a smile and said: "Don't worry, don't worry, we just started to cooperate, and we won the third place, and people have been preparing for this ranking for more than half a year, even a year or two." Although the Red Dragon Award is important, but that's also a ladder, didn't our editors say, this time we can get the third place, which means that half of our feet have stepped into the door of Fantasy, and when we run in for a while, we are still worried about serialization or something, and then we will be the top popular authors in the magazine, as well as the guys who are higher than us this time, let them know how good we are. ”

After this call, Tang Xuan rarely refutated, Tang Rui's heart breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that this sycophant has slapped the other party's heart. He sighed in his heart, I don't know what you, a guy like you who wants to turn the world upside down, is thinking, so let me make good use of your talent.

The lunch break passed quickly, and Tang Rui left the meeting place first, although they were both juniors in high school, the classes of the two of them were not the same.

After seeing Tang Rui leave, Tang Xuan's nostrils snorted lightly, and then locked his eyes on the first place introduced by the entire page on the first page, last year, Fantasy magazine also promoted Chen Nan and Liang Yu's award-winning works.

There was only a strange name on it called Batma, who was 25 years old.

The name of the comic is "The Dream of Flying", which is a comic full of reality and fantasy cross-realism, telling the dream of a teenager in a wheelchair to fly, the story tells the story of people in a steel-lined city, people do not expect miracles, do not believe in miracles, just fly camp dogs are alive, lifeless. And a wheelchair boy who couldn't even stand up on his legs got the ability to fly, he was so surprised and surprised that he told the people closest to him about it, but all he got was ridicule.

The unwilling boy wanted to prove himself with facts, but he failed in the performance, and was given the titles of "liar", "big talker", and "poor worm" by other friends, he was puzzled, it turned out that the "god" who gave him this power stopped him, and told him that he must keep the secret that he can fly, and once the secret is discovered, his ability will be canceled.

From then on, the boy could only feel the joy of flying in the dead of night, and he gradually became silent and silent, and finally even he could not tell whether the thing he had learned to fly was in reality or in a dream.

At the end of the story, the boy used his ability to fly in order to save a child who fell from the roof of the building, and in full view of everyone, he held up the little life that was about to fall, but God said that this ability given to him cannot be known by others, and once it is known, then the ability to fly does not exist.

The boy fell from the sky, but he smiled contentedly, because for for the first time he felt that he was not living in a lonely dream, that he had fulfilled his dream of flying. The story ends abruptly here, but it leaves the reader with plenty of room for imagination.

Take a closer look at the ratings and comments given by the judges and teachers in the back, they are all amazing, and even more outspoken, reminiscent of the famous "Chess Soul" duo last year.

But last year was the result of the joint efforts of two people, and the author of this Red Dragon Award winner is alone.

Is that really the case?

"Toot toot." Tang Xuan's mobile phone rang suddenly, he looked down at the number and connected the phone.

"It's me."

"I'll call you for half of the Red Dragon Award, and today the editor asked me to talk about the plan for the next serialization, and I'll ask you what you mean."

"Give me a week and the original author adds my name."

"Naturally, there is no problem with this, but didn't you say before that there are people who cooperate, and there is no problem over there?"

"I can't count on that waste, although I'm grateful to him for bringing me into the comics circle, but if you want to join forces, it's better to find someone stronger."

"It's really unkind, but it should be a good thing for me, by the way, what name would you use if you added a name?"

"Let's call it the Heavenly Tree."

The other party was stunned: "Why do you use this name, does it have any special meaning?" ”

"It's nothing, Tianshu Tianshu, every day makes enemies." Tang Xuan said a serious joke that was not funny.

The other party said "What's that" and hung up the phone.

Tang Xuan's gaze returned to the comment column of the Fantasy magazine held in his right hand, and a reflection reflected in his glasses: "Chess soul......