R book.

Late spring.

After Liu Wanqing hung up the phone, she silently looked at the bustling streets outside the window.

The streets are bustling with people and traffic, and everyone is working hard for their own lives.

She lowered her head again and looked at what she was about to draw...

There were so many disgusting things that made her feel breathless, and the mental pressure was extremely great.

This is the place she had always dreamed of coming to, and now she is working in the career she has always dreamed of.

but……

Dreams are beautiful, but reality is cruel and terrifying.

When the young girl heard that a comics company was recruiting, she immediately went there with pleasure.

Everything was fine at first, but later, the company realized that orthodox comics were no longer making money, and instead some comics with strange moods became popular. The company immediately changed its strategy and ordered her to draw those comics.

Then……

Everything started to change.

She rebelled against the company and wanted to resign, but when the company offered her a five-year contract, she was stunned.

Then she was trapped in this country and became a tool that could only draw some messy comics according to the company's requirements.

She fell into endless fear every day and dreamed of all kinds of messy things every day.

This moment...

She really wanted to escape from this company called Jiaochuan, and even wanted to escape from this place that stifled her hopes and dreams.

But……

Where did she get the five million yuan in liquidated damages?

Five million may not be much for others, but for her...

But it is tantamount to a sky-high price.

At the most desperate moment, she suddenly remembered a number from her time in China.

A call from Lu Yuan that I don’t know if it’s real or not.

She tried to dial the number and explained the reason to the person on the phone.

"Wait a minute..."

"good."

This was the man's final reply to her.

Then the person on the other end hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Liu Wanqing fell into an anxious wait, waiting like a life-saving straw.

As time passed, Liu Wanqing felt her heart was a little depressed. When she turned around to look at the messy drawings again, she closed her eyes.

Five million...

How much is five million?

This is not a small amount at all!

So, what can she do?

About an hour later, her cell phone suddenly rang.

She quickly answered the phone.

"I have asked someone to contact your Jiaochuan company to help you pay the penalty. Congratulations, you are a free man from now on."

"Ah?" Liu Wanqing was so excited that she couldn't breathe after hearing the voice from the other end of the phone.

"You can go back to the company to confirm..."

"Thank you...thank you...Mr. Lu, I...I...I will make money to pay you back..."

"We'll talk about the money later. What are your plans next?"

"Next, I...want to go back to China and draw comics about passionate young men."

“Do you have any ideas or thoughts?”

"Ah? A little, but not much..."

"How about this, you don't have to go back to China yet. After handing over your stuff to that comic company, come to Los Angeles first."

"ah?"

"I have a few immature comic ideas that I need to discuss with you face to face. It's not very convenient to talk on the phone..."

"How many comic ideas?"

"Yeah, that's right."

When Liu Wanqing hung up the phone again, she suddenly found herself in a daze.

She quickly put on her clothes and walked towards Jiaochuan Company.

When she arrived at Jiaochuan Company, she found that everyone in the company looked at her strangely...

She walked to the leader, and Kawashima, the leader who always looked down on people, glanced at her and gave a polite smile, but his eyes were a little complicated.

"Congratulations, this is your contract. Now, you no longer have any employment relationship with the company."

"Thanks!"

"Bon Voyage."

"Thanks."

When Liu Wanqing was leaving the office with her termination contract, Kawashima suddenly called her.

"Ms. Liu Wanqing..."

"What's wrong?"

"When did you meet Mr. Lu Yuan?"

"I was...at a book signing."

"Book signing?"

"yes."

"Oh." Kawashima still looked at Liu Wanqing with complicated eyes, then nodded and said nothing more.

After Liu Wanqing left, Kawashima silently opened the drawer and pulled out a photo of Lu Yuan singing.

There is Lu Yuan’s crooked artistic signature on the photo.

She closed her eyes, turned on the player in the computer, and played the piano piece "Wedding in a Dream"...

In the end, she still didn't tell Liu Wanqing what was in her heart.

After Liu Wanqing walked out of the company, several colleagues surrounded her...

"Ms. Liu Wanqing, I heard that Lu Yuansang personally called to pay the whopping five million yuan in liquidated damages for you?"

"Are you friends with Lu Yuansang?"

"I really like Lu Yuansang's piano music. Can you get an autograph for me in the future?"

"I want one too. I like Lu Yuansang, too. I think he is the best and most legendary of all the Chinese stars..."

“…”

Liu Wanqing looked at her colleagues who were talking at once and didn't know what to say for a moment...

Liu Wanqing was very unhappy with the company's top management, but her colleagues were all very nice and friendly.

She could only smile and respond to everyone. If she had the chance, she would ask Lu Yuan for an autographed photo...

night.

Liu Wanqing's colleagues held a farewell party that was not grand but very warm.

After the welcome party, Liu Wanqing saw four girls coming to her silently. They looked a little timid, but they mustered up their courage.

"Um... Miss Wanqing, we... we also want to go to Los Angeles... Our contract with the company has expired, and we don't want to stay in Japan anymore..."

"What? I... this... Mr. Lu Yuan only invited me... this..."

"Even if you want to draw comics, you need an assistant. I'm willing to be your assistant..."

"Me too……"

"I hope I can help you too..."

“…”

Liu Wanqing felt complicated after looking at the eyes of the girls.

There is hope and expectation in the eyes of these girls.

They all look forward to the future.

Just like my former self.

"Then... I'll call Mr. Lu Yuan..."

"good."

…

evening.

The sun sets.

After Lu Yuan finished filming the first scene of "The Legend of 1900", he returned to the company and saw five girls sitting in the company's conference room, looking at everything in the conference room curiously.

Lu Yuan felt strange.

It feels a bit like a big fruit sale at a shopping mall at a loss, buy one get four free.

And they are four Japanese girls.

"ah……"

"Mr. Lu Yuan..."

"Lu Yuansang..."

"Hello……"

"Mr. Lu..."

When the girls saw Lu Yuan, they all stood up excitedly and greeted him with red faces.

Lu Yuan smiled.

but……

His smile was a little awkward.

Apart from Liu Wanqing's voice, he couldn't understand anyone else's voice.

He could only understand some inexplicable words in R language from some small movies of the island countries, such as good morning, I am going, no no...

cough.

Anyway…

These words are really profound, so profound that Lu Yuan is unable to describe them in words.

"Mr. Lu...they are all members of the 'Er Gouzi Island Country Movie Fans Club'. They are your fans..."

"ah?"

After hearing about the Japanese movie fans' support club, Lu Yuan suddenly thought of the Japanese action movie fan club...

He was a little stunned, and his eyes changed inexplicably.

I don’t know why, but for a simple person like Lu Yuan, when he heard the word “island country”, some images that shouldn’t have appeared in his mind inexplicably emerged.

These scenes made Lu Yuan feel a little uncomfortable for a moment, but...

A little exciting?

Lu Yuan criticized himself in his heart for a long time and finally returned to normal.

I am a serious person, a promising young man who grew up under the red flag of the new society. I absolutely cannot do anything messy, pretentious and disharmonious.

"Mr. Lu, although you have never been to R Japan, you also have a fan group in R Japan..." After seeing Lu Yuan's puzzled look, Liu Wanqing hurriedly explained the situation in R Japan to Lu Yuan.

"Oh, I see. Everyone, sit down first... no need to stand..." Lu Yuan nodded at the girls, motioning for everyone to sit down.

The girls looked at each other, and then after Liu Wanqing's translation they understood what Lu Yuan meant. They nodded excitedly and sat down. Although they were sitting, they all looked at Lu Yuan with fiery eyes, their expressions were still very excited.

"Mr. Lu, they are all people with dreams... Just now on the plane, we talked about many things, and we all hope to work in your company..."

“My company…”

"Yes, aren't you planning to set up a comics company?" Liu Wanqing looked at Lu Yuan.

"Ah?" Lu Yuan was stunned.

"Isn't it? You set up an entertainment company, and you have other companies at the same time. I thought about it, you should also have the idea of ​​setting up a comics company, right? I... I thought about it, except drawing comics to help you make money, I can't do anything else..." Liu Wanqing looked at Lu Yuan nervously.

"this……"

Starting a comic book company?

He really hadn't thought about this.

In fact, the reason why he agreed to help Liu Wanqing was because he liked Liu Wanqing's comics very much, he simply liked comics.

But starting a comic book company...

It seems that it is not impossible to consider?

"Mr. Lu, you... am I wrong?" After Liu Wanqing remembered what her aunt had said to her before, she suddenly began to doubt herself.

Could it be that Auntie guessed wrong too?

"What do you think about the comic company?" Lu Yuan was silent for a while and looked at Liu Wanqing.

His expression gradually became serious.

"Opened in R Japan... There are many large and small comic companies in R Japan, and it doesn't cost much money to open one... I don't have many channels in R Japan, but they are native R people, and they have certain magazine channels..." Liu Wanqing took a deep breath and said this as if she had mustered up all the courage in her body. After she finished speaking, she lowered her head timidly again.

“How much investment is required?”

"About... 500,000 RMB."

"Five hundred thousand..." Lu Yuan watched silently. Just when he was about to say something, his cell phone rang again. "Sorry, I need to take a call..."

When Lu Yuan took out his cell phone...

Fatty Wei's hoarse voice came from the other end of the line.

"We won awards, all of them! A Yuan...we were nominated for the Golden Rooster Awards, I was nominated for Best Director again, you received four consecutive individual nominations for Best Actor, Best Screenwriter, Best Director, and Best Music, as well as Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Actress, and...Old Lu also won an award, nominated for Best Actor. When Old Lu heard the news, he was so happy...he was saying some stupid shit about being able to run for a runner-up again this year..."

"Me? Nominated for an award again? So many winning projects this time?"

Lu Yuan dug his ears which were buzzing with noise.

Suddenly...

A little surprised.

This time…

Feel……

There are quite a lot of nominations!