Compared with "Margalilyn", which barely managed to sell 30w, "Shonen Weekly Fantasy", which has a weekly circulation of about 5 million copies, is obviously more competitive.

In the editorial department, Guo Pinyuan holds the results of this issue of this newspaper in his hand, and "Chess Soul" ranks third.

That's right, the ranking is a little bit back, but last week because of the reissue and the lottery, I took the second, and this week without anything was able to beat the other works and maintain the third, which is already a big surprise.

It seems that Chen Nan desperately redrew the original manuscript, and Liang Yu accelerated the pace of the storyline, which is feasible.

If you look at the comments on the Internet, most of them are also such positive content.

"Ah, Ah Guang, the showdown that has been lost in sales for a long time, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time, and I'm excited."

"Not yet, Xiao Liang has become a professional chess player through the academy, and Ah Guang is about to take the exam."

"Anyway, it's still supportive, Ah Guang and Xiaoliang, the pair of CPs, are so cute to fall in love and kill each other."

"Zuoguang Party said that Zuo Wei and Ah Guang are true love."

"I've seen Zuoguang, Guangliang, why is there no Zuoliang faction."

"Zuo Liang is an evil way!"

"It's really enough, don't just talk about CP at every turn, even if it's CP, don't forget whether the heroine Xiao Ming is good or not, the rotten girl retreats, the rotten girl retreats."

"The cultivation method of the passerby heroine ......"

Ahem, he withdrew his gaze from the screen, although it has to be said that these netizens who are bastard have too big brains, but what Guo Pinyuan saw was basically a positive evaluation, which also made him a little more relaxed.

Hey, it's obviously a very good result, why do you want to use such a bad feeling, don't hide it from you, in fact, after Guo Pinyuan came back from receiving the manuscript from Chen Nan last time, he faintly felt a kind of anxious uneasiness.

Especially today, "Margalilyn" called again, saying that she wanted to talk about Liang Yu's contract again.

He already knew that "Friends' Account" had single-handedly boosted the magazine's sales, and he was even more surprised that Liang Yu had never told him that she had ever serialized webtoons and had such a huge fan base. Of course, he really blamed Liang Yu for this, and it is estimated that Liang Yu, who received the news, was also inexplicably confused.

But something has happened, and it is obviously a great thing worth celebrating, but Guo Pinyuan's brows have been tightly locked.

If he, the editor in charge who watched Chen Nan and Liang Yu all the way, Liang Yu was too good, although he had already given the other party such an evaluation, but he suddenly found that he only saw where the lower limit of the other party was, but he didn't see where the limit of her ability was.

On the contrary, Chen Nan is also very good, but this kind of excellence is controllable and can be seen and touched.

Guo Pinyuan gradually began to be able to understand why Chen Nan was in a hurry, he always thought that Chen Nan's urgency came from her character, although he did not deny that there was such a reason, but Guo Pinyuan only recently discovered that what Chen Nan really cared about, or that she herself may not have discovered, was her inferiority complex for Liang Yu's dazzling talent, and her fear of dependence on Liang Yu.

Objectively speaking, Chen Nan is a very good cartoonist, with an indomitable will, first-class painting work, working harder than 99% of people, and now there is another popular work in his hand that is being serialized, and the negative words of inferiority and fear should not be applied to her at first glance.

No one can understand, but Guo Pinyuan, who has been the editor in charge of Chen Nan's contributions from the beginning, will not know how difficult Chen Nan's road to success is, and she entered the attention of the editorial department at about the same time as Gu Chengfeng. Because of that solid painting skills, Guo Pinyuan is convinced that as long as she polishes well, she Chen Nan will one day become an indispensable popular author of Fantasy (I don't expect "Chess Soul" to be so successful).

But Chen Nan's ability to create stories as another cartoonist is really mediocre, so that Gu Chengfeng won the Golden Apple Cup in one fell swoop, and the road of cartoonists is soaring, and Chen Nan is still repeating the vicious circle of drawing, submission, and rejection, and even Guo Pinyuan feels that this will be too big a blow for a newcomer, but in the middle of every month, he will still receive Chen Nan's contributions on time.

The meticulous and energetic painting style has never cut corners, but the fun of the story is just as lackluster.

If Fantasy is a company that can succeed with hard work alone, then Chen Nan's comics would have been published a long time ago, but unfortunately, even if Guo Pinyuan knows how hard she has worked, it still doesn't work, and the workplace in the real world is so cruel.

At this time, Guo Pinyuan had actually begun to look for someone for Chen Nan who could help her create the script, but because there was no good candidate, he didn't say anything to Chen Nan. At this time, something happened that should be clear to everyone.

A female high school student who has never had much contact with manga and only started reading reference books for 3 months to teach herself, brought her first work to the reception room on the first floor of Fantasy.

Even now, a year later, Guo Pinyuan still remembers when he met Liang Yu and asked why the other party wanted to submit it to Fantasy magazine, but the other party actually replied that this magazine was placed in the most conspicuous place in the newspaper, and she asked the owner of the newsstand what comic magazine sold the most, and the boss recommended this one to her.

This story sounds like a joke about a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, but in fact, from this little thing, it reflects Liang Yu's character and her natural disposition of not taking difficulties seriously.

Liang Yu has long proven her own ability, and it is far more than that, although some are hearsay, but Guo Pinyuan also knows that Liang Yu and her club have reached new heights on Comiket, and she is not Gu Chengfeng's creative and enterprising genius, nor is it Chen Nan, a genius who is only good at diligence in one aspect, but another all-round genius.

Now let's look back at her relationship with Chen Nan and the cooperation of "Chess Soul", we can understand where Chen Nan's worries are.

At the beginning, Liang Yu, as a newcomer, was a super newcomer who couldn't even draw storyboards, and at this time there was nothing to say, all she could do was the ability to create stories, so she cooperated with Chen Nan, who had first-class painting skills, although Chen Nan could be said to have hitched a ride on the gold prize of Liang Yu's SD script competition, but at that time, it should be said that it was a strong alliance, and complementing each other was insufficient.

But within a month, Liang Yu's storyboard began to look like it, but it was still too far from Chen Nan's level, and Guo Pinyuan made many efforts here, temporarily dispelling her idea of wanting to create independently.

When half a year passed, "Chess Soul" began to stabilize, but Liang Yu's heart that had been pressed to create became restless again, and this time, she got a chance.

She and her community slaughtered all corners of the Comiket, making the East a trend.

If Chen Nan at this time could still comfort herself with the fact that she was only focusing on creating stories, then as time went by, getting the news that Liang Yu was taken by Huang Yuan to "Margalilyn" to start serialization was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

At this time, Chen Nan can no longer deceive herself, she has to face a very cruel problem, Liang Yu's painting level does not have to be comparable to herself, she only needs to reach the level of being able to serialize, her story, her ability can still bring her success, just like she has proven again and again.

But what about yourself......

Even if no one told her, she would be able to know who was more dependent on each other between her and Liang Yu.

Guo Pinyuan can already think of Chen Nan recalling his past experience of failing miserably, when people are in a good situation, they don't care about that, but once they succeed and lose it, the pain will be magnified 10,000 times, biting the nerves and corroding the heart.

It is not difficult to understand why Chen Nan has become more and more strict with himself recently, almost harsh to the point of torture.

She didn't want "Chess Soul" to end, and she didn't want the dream that she had finally caught to fall to the ground.

And she already felt that Liang Yu, who had been walking beside her and walking side by side with her, was too far ahead of her, almost so far that she couldn't catch up with her as hard as she could run.

Guo Pinyuan understands all of this, but although he understands, he is powerless to change anything.

That's the sadness of being editors, who are also participants in the story, but it's up to the author to decide how the story should be written.

"Let's hope things get better and don't go for the worst."

A shot finally turned into a red-hot spark and a wisp of green smoke, and was finally snuffed out in the ashtray.