Two days later, Wednesday.

The entire cover design work has reached a tense level where the arrow is on the string and has to be shot. Chu Li doesn’t even dare to think about what kind of expression will appear on Teacher Xia’s amiable face when she asks her about the progress of “Luohe Divine Book” at the morning meeting next week and she replies that it is making no progress…

So during these two days, Chuli and Ah Xiang worked as hard as ever, and found about five ancient style painters for Zhuchuan.

Four of them were eliminated during the draft review process, and only the last artist named "Ming Jiu" passed the scrutiny of Master Chuchuan and entered the draft trial stage.

To be honest, in fact, in Chu Li's opinion, the completion and color control of the work of the painter "Mingjiu" are not as good as any of the other four who were eliminated;

In addition, the drafts she sent were all fan works of characters from various ancient games, such as Xianjian, Gujian, Jiansan, etc. Fan works are based on the original works, so the artist who draws fan works well may not necessarily draw the original character design well...

Chu Li was reserved about the painter's originality.

To put it simply, Chu Li didn't know what Chu Chuan saw in her——

Maybe it's because the name is cuter?

[The sailors hired by Monkey: Teacher, some fan artists have a small problem that sometimes their control over the characters in the original works is not as good as expected... Are you sure you want to use fan artists? ]

【Zhuochuan: Didn’t Empress Yu also start out as a fan artist? Aren’t you guys forcing me to use her?】

[The Monkey's hired navy: If I could really hold your head down, I would have already...]

"The other party withdrew a message"

[The soldier hired by Monkey: Well, I'm just giving you a heads-up! Her overall level is still good, otherwise she wouldn't have been invited by Elephant, right? Let's just be mentally prepared...]

【Zhuchuan:. 】

[The navy hired by the monkey:. ]

[The monkey's hired soldiers: Then I'll let you, Ah Xiang and this little painter form a group together, okay? ]

This was the last sentence Chu Li said to Chu Chuan that day. Chu Chuan did not answer her "yes" or "no". The question fell on deaf ears, and Teacher Chu Chuan himself did not know where he had gone to let himself go...

…

Thursday morning, work time.

Finally, when she opened QQ at work, she received a "." from Zhechuan at five in the morning as a response. Chu Li breathed a sigh of relief and immediately created a group for herself, Axiang, Zhechuan and Mingjiu.

Ah Xiang is usually taciturn, but Mingchu is lively. The first thing she does when she joins the group is to confess to Zhuchuan, "I love you," "I love your writing," "I grew up reading your books," and so on... Chuli is used to it. After all, she was also so excited when she first met Zhuchuan and before he spoke. When Zhuchuan really spoke, this little painter would naturally feel the evil from this world——

【Zhaochuan: Thank you:) Good luck with the draft, looking forward to working with you! I will sort out the character settings and send them to you later. 】

【Mingjiu: Okay, okay! Thank you, sir. Oh my god, I am about to cry. You are so nice! ! ! !】

Chu Li: "..."

This actor.

Really hypocritical.

Chu Li sneered and watched the "loving interaction" between the author and the artist with the attitude of "I just watch and don't say anything" and "If I don't say anything, then no one will notice me"... After watching for a while, he found that the cross-century joke of the gentle and jade-like Mr. Chuan was not groundless (under the new definition of the word) - Chu Chuan was really good to people he didn't know, and his work attitude was also upright. He was very likable. When he said "I'll prepare the character settings and send them to you in a while", he really meant "in a while". When he sent out the character settings of the two main characters, Chu Li deliberately looked at the lower right corner of the computer. It took less than ten minutes...

——In contrast, last night Chuli left a message asking Zhuchuan if he could form a group of four with painters and artists, but Zhuchuan only replied to her with a "." in the early morning this morning...

It really is a haunted place.

Is it that my monkey avatar is not as likable as this little artist's bird avatar or what?

Chu Li's eyes were almost rolled up to the sky. It would be a lie to say that she didn't feel jealous. However, no matter how jealous she was, she still had to work as an editor. She could only force herself to compile a document for the character setting sent by Zhu Chuan.

[*The male protagonist Xunchuan is a 19-year-old young man in white clothes, with a slender figure, black hair and black eyes, and a cheerful personality. He has an ancient scroll hanging around his waist, which is the original version of the "Luohe Divine Book", which can summon supernatural powers, birds and beasts in the world;

*The male supporting character is unknown, his age is unknown, he was the male protagonist's mount in the early stage, and later he transformed into a humanoid, with long white hair, red eyes, and a strong and powerful figure. He holds a big sword, and he is a man who can stop ten thousand men. 】

After the settings were sorted out, a copy was sent to the little artist, who then chirped and flapped his little wings to go paint.

Chu Li closed the group and discussed with Yu Yao on QQ which of the books Ah Gui had sent for review was easier to publish. He received a notice from the landlord that the three-month advance rent had expired and that according to the contract, he had to pay the new quarterly rent next week.

Chu Li smiled and replied "I know", and began to calculate how much she would have left after deducting the rent to cover how many times she could eat meat in a month... The number she calculated was pathetic, and Chu Li dealt with some other trivial matters with a sad heart. About two hours later, the four-person QQ group of "Luohe Divine Book" responded -

The first gift is opened.

[Mingjiu: I drew a rough sketch, please take a look to see if it is correct! ]

【Name: "Screenshot"】

Chu Li sighed in her heart, "Yes, it's really fast," and casually clicked on the sketch. Then, when the picture was enlarged on the computer desktop, she was dumbfounded -

For a moment, she suspected that she was looking at the character design pictures of DNF (a certain RPG online game)!

“Cang Wu” was supposed to be a tall and strong man with white hair and red eyes, a handsome man like Takeshi Kaneshiro, who formed a sharp contrast with the slender and handsome protagonist in white. But when he got to Mingchu, he became a big and strong man with explosive muscles, and when he disagreed with someone, he became like Sammo Hung!!!

What I want is Takeshi Kaneshiro, not Jin Bao! ! ! ! ! !

I could only pretend to be away from the group for the time being. Chu Li clicked on the Plague God avatar on the Q list with shaking hands and started a private chat.

[The navy hired by the monkey: I fucked the teacher, this is wrong! ! ! ! ]

[The Monkey’s hired army: If a cover like this is drawn, not only will boys and girls not buy it, even ghosts won’t buy it! ! ! ! ! ! ]

【Zhuchuan: ...I saw it.】

[The Monkey’s hired navy: Fuck you! You are here! Why don’t you say anything and pretend to be a corpse, leaving me alone to face this embarrassing moment! ! ]

【Zhuchuan: ...You didn't say anything either?】

[The water army hired by Monkey: I told you that hand-painted original works may not be good. Why don’t you believe me? ? ? ? ? ? ]

[The monkey’s hired navy: What should we do now?! ]

【Zhuchuan: Type "Luohe Divine Book Online" in the lower right corner of this picture to pretend that the game in this article has been released simultaneously?】

【The monkey’s hired navy: . . . . . . . . . You’re still in the mood to joke! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 】

Just as she was going crazy, Chu Li suddenly found a message from Xiao Niao in the lower right corner -

This girl never comes to visit someone unless she has something important to do.

Seeing the same bird avatar as her Mingchu flashing, Chu Li felt a headache: now she was going to suffer from bird allergy.

【Little Bird: I got the sample of the August issue. Have you read it? The launch page of Huali says that there are 4,000 metal bookmarks that come with the book. Is that a misprint?】

[The Monkey's hired navy: It's not printed wrong, it's exactly 4,000 copies.]

【Little Bird: Isn't it 12,000? I remember Lao Miao told me it was 12,000. The order form sent to the surrounding factory yesterday also said 12,000, right?】

Chu Li looked at this line of words, his heart skipped a beat and he took a deep breath -

[The Monkey’s hired navy: What the hell is twelve thousand? ? ? Aren’t the random peripherals of “Hua Li” four thousand? The first print run of this book is only twelve thousand! Lao Miao set the number of peripherals himself. I checked the invoice yesterday. The first print run of the book is twelve thousand. Could it be that you missed a line because you are dazzled? ]

【Little Bird: Wait a minute, I'll ask the finance department.】

[Little Bird: I asked the finance department, and they gave me a total price quote. I calculated it based on the price quote for the metal bookmark sample, and the total price quote is indeed 12,000 for the production of the metal bookmark...]

【Little Bird: But I remember Lao Miao said that the bookmarks cost 12,000!】

【Chuli: Lao Miao said four thousand! ! ! ! ! ! ! 】

At this moment, he finally had no time to care about Zhuchuan and his name. At this moment, a more terrible accident seemed to be about to break out. Chu Li stood up from the chair and patted Lao Miao, who was sitting in the seat playing Bubble Bobble with trembling hands: "Lao Miao, have you read the quotation you showed me yesterday?"

Without even looking up, Lao Miao cheerfully fired off a message: "I've seen it. Xiaoniao sent it to me and I confirmed it with you later. You didn't know who I was talking to on the phone before that I showed it to you?"

Chu Li looked at Lao Miao and wondered why this person was still living in this world and wasting air. He stood on tiptoe, stretched out half of his body, and quickly pressed Lao Miao's space bar to let him game over. He bravely looked at the other person's angry eyes and said, "I was with Zhou at that time... Forget it! Xiao Niao said that the metal bookmark peripherals were made for 12,000. Didn't they say that the peripherals were a bit expensive to make and only 4,000 were made for random gifts?!"

Lao Miao was stunned: "Ah?"

Lao Miao: "Twelve thousand?"

Lao Miao: "The order form is wrong? How come you didn't notice it was wrong?"

Seeing that confused face, Chu Li wanted to drag him to fill the sea!

The blows came so fast that it caught people off guard. Chu Li grabbed at the air helplessly, as if grabbing the neck of Fate, and said in a suffocating voice: "At that time, there was a Chu Chuan waiting for me on the other end of the phone. I was a little anxious - how come you didn't notice that there was also a Jiang Yucheng waiting for you on the other end of your phone????"

Lao Miao stopped talking, stood up with a sullen face, and hurried to the Finance Department; Xiao Niao also stood up and fled like a truly frightened bird... leaving Chu Li and his colleagues in the editorial department with only a desperate back view -

Um.

That's good.

Chu Li thought expressionlessly—

Everyone instantly became a grasshopper on a rope, and no one can escape the blame this time.