After Chu Li finished her attack, she had a feeling that Niangniang would not let it go - sure enough, when she launched a burst and was about to take the opponent's QW combo to full health, Niangniang calmed down instead. She did not continue to argue with Chu Li, but sent two words: Wait a minute.
Chu Li: "..."
Just wait a moment, if you have the guts, bring your Xujia Army to crush me to death - to be honest, I used to be the leader of your Xujia Army, don’t I know your fan fighting ability?
Chu Li sneered. In his heart, he was not only like an optimistic monkey, but also like the Monkey King Sun Wukong who had just returned triumphantly from a big commotion in the Heavenly Palace: No matter what kind of heavenly soldiers and generals you send out, I, Sun, will naturally meet your challenge!
So, Chu Li waited patiently for about half an hour, and finally Queen Xun reappeared. This time she brought dozens of screenshots with her. Without saying a word, she threw them in Chu Li's face. Chu Li clicked on a few of them and took a closer look at the contents of the screenshots. He was immediately mesmerized... These screenshots were not something else, but Xun holding two pictures and asking the whole world what they thought of them, for example -
[Breaking the Cocoon: "Screenshot" "Screenshot" Dear, what do you think of this picture as a commercial publication? 】
[Friend A: It’s great! Which book is it? I want to buy it! ! ]
…
[Breaking the Cocoon: "Screenshot" "Screenshot" Dear, what do you think of this picture as a commercial publication? 】
[Friend B: Wow, it’s very beautiful. I saw the mosaic picture on the official Weibo of Yuanyueshe’s “Moonlight” a few days ago and said it looked very much like you. It really is you! ]
…
[Breaking the Cocoon: "Screenshot" "Screenshot" Dear, what do you think of this picture as a commercial publication? 】
[Xindun Editor A: It’s nice, is it the picture of “Luohe Divine Book”? ? It’s really nice! ]
[Breaking the Cocoon: However, the editor of Yuanyueshe asked me to brighten the faces of the two people in the photo, and to make the faces of the people in the backlight look like the built-in lighting board.]
[New Shield Editor A: Huh? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha that’s really…]
…
[Breaking the Cocoon: "Screenshot" "Screenshot" Mom, what do you think of this picture as a commercial publication? 】
[Mom: It looks good. What’s wrong? Who said it doesn’t look good anymore?]
[Breaking the Cocoon: The publishing editor felt that it was unreasonable. It was clearly backlit, but he asked me to brighten the face...]
[Mom: Nowadays, non-professionals like to point fingers at professionals. If you are a professional in this kind of thing, then stick to your professional opinion and don’t be swayed by it.]
【Breaking the cocoon: Thank you, Mom:)】
Chu Li: "..."
Chu Li: “…………”
I couldn't believe my eyes. Even my mother came out. Can the "My Relatives and My Friends Series" in the love legend be used like this? !
Chu Li right-clicked and saved these pictures one by one, and put them into a folder named [Work Progress of "Luohe Divine Book"] on the computer desktop. After saving, he started typing——
[The water army hired by the monkey: Teacher, are you kidding me? Why are you showing me these? To prove that I have no taste? No aesthetic sense? I have said all the good and bad things. If your drawings are not good-looking, I don’t have to work overtime in the library to find a designer to make up for it... Oh, forget it, you won’t believe it even if I tell you. ]
[The Monkey’s hired naval forces: I still say the same thing. Either you change the color tone of the picture, or we can do whatever we want. If you can’t change it, we really can’t accept this picture. But I see that the editor of Xindun has a face full of envy…]
[The Monkey’s hired navy: Besides, your body proportions are not scientifically Asian. When it comes to drawing, I think science can compromise with art…]
[The trolls hired by the monkey: If you have time, please send screenshots everywhere to ask for opinions. The pictures have been revised long ago. ]
Chu Li typed out such a long string of words, and he didn’t know where he touched the girl’s sensitive spot. After responding to her with “What do you know? I will never change even if I die,” he disappeared directly.
At this time, Chu Li felt that the play of the silkworm was not over yet.
But Chu Li didn't go and ask her what she was going to do. She just went to the work group to report the matter to her leader, and then confirmed with Ah Xiang to start Plan B. The matter was over - she returned to her job of proofreading Ah Gui's article...
Until it was almost time to get off work.
Chu Li's Q rang again. This time the person who came was Mr. L. Historical events have proven that when this crow-like person shows up, nothing good will happen. Sure enough, he came up with a series of weird "Hahahahahahahahaha" and then said--
[The disappeared Mr. L: Hello, woman with her own lighting board. 】
[The Monkey’s hired naval forces: Why does this line sound so familiar to me? ]
【The disappearance of Mr. L: "Screenshot"】
Screenshot content:
A Weibo post was published about 20 minutes ago, and its content is:
"Breaking the cocoon and becoming a butterfly: A tree hole, the most frustrating thing during the manuscript commissioning process is to encounter an editor who is impossible to communicate with and who forcibly interferes and finds faults... The moment the other party signs the contract, they start to rush for the manuscript, as if the manuscript was conjured up by magic!
You stayed up late to draw the draft, but you were dissatisfied with this and that, and looked like you were trying to compromise... I don't even know what the grudge between you two is!
The funniest thing is that I was forced to revise the manuscript because of the wrong professional knowledge! ! The characters with backlight were asked to whiten their faces and said they were too dark. Damn, this is OK, you think everyone is like a star with a lighting board wherever they go! He also argued: Your body proportions are not scientifically Asian. When it comes to drawing, I think science can compromise with art. "
【Disappeared Mr. L: Haha ...
Chu Li: "..."
Is she feeling wronged?
I clicked on the comments and saw over 3,000 in just 20 minutes. Most of them were comments from fans such as "I feel sorry for my wife", "23333333", "If you don't have professional knowledge, you should have some common sense", etc. There were also a few illustrators who looked like they had orange V certification, saying "please give me a name, I'll take a detour later"...
I clicked in to take a look, and found that they were all unknown little artists with only a few thousand fans. I won't talk about whether their works were good or not, but if Chu Li dared to invite them to draw the cover for Zhu Chuan, Zhu Chuan would strangle her to death with a belt at the head of the bed in the middle of the night... It would be better for Chu Li to draw it herself than to invite them.
Uh, okay—
As the saying goes, the winner is the king and the loser is the Weibo king.
Chu Li accepted Mr. L's ridicule and told him that the person that Niangniang was talking about was indeed her. Although she did not have professional knowledge, she also had common sense. If the person is backlit, the face of the person is indeed dark. However, if the printing factory says no, then it is not allowed. Even if it is wrong, it has to be brightened. It's that simple. During the process, she also took a screenshot of Niangniang's crazy words asking the printing factory to improve its technology and showed it to Mr. L. Mr. L was overjoyed and continued to say 23333.
Sitting in front of the computer, Chu Li found it rather boring.
You see, you are jumping up and down in anger, complaining to your relatives, friends, parents, and Weibo, and everyone is talking about "feeling sorry for your wife", but how many people really comfort you? To most outsiders, it is nothing more than a joke that people will say "hahaha, there is such a thing" when they have some free time.
——If you, Queen Xu, want to be the clown, then go by yourself. I won’t accompany you.
Thinking of this, Chu Li rolled his eyes and prepared to put the matter behind him... His mind was full of thoughts: Forget it, just treat it as a past love. It doesn't matter if you scold me for rejecting my manuscript. I still have a piece of meat.
Chu Li had other things on her plate. She also had to push forward with the cover design of The Divine Book of Luo River. She hadn’t thought of wasting her time with Zhu after all, the manuscript had been rejected and they would not work together again… However, she hadn’t expected that Zhu was not done with her Weibo post after all the insinuations and accusations, and she wanted to continue the war, as if to say, “If you dare to mess with me, I will make sure you never get a manuscript again.”
afternoon.
Chu Li was proofreading Ah Gui's crappy article and drinking afternoon tea with a biscuit in his mouth when Lao Miao came to visit him. He reached out and pushed Chu Li's shoulder: "Chu Li, didn't you explain this matter to Xun? It's just a rejection of a manuscript, why is there such a big fuss, as if everyone in the circle knows about it..."
He shook his body and quickly took the cup of hot milk tea away from the proofreading copy. Chu Li looked up with a biscuit in his mouth, looking confused. His eyes swept over Xiao Niao's unhappy face. Chu Li paused and said vaguely, "What's wrong?"
Lao Miao pointed to his computer screen and asked, "Look?"
Chu Li stretched his neck to look and found that there were several Q dialogue boxes open on Lao Miao's desktop, each from a different artist.
[This afternoon, in a group of artists, I almost named and cursed the editor of Moonlight magazine...]
[Lao Miao, is the editor you mentioned yours? She has indeed been drawing manuscripts for you recently. Who is that editor? Please do not cooperate with her in the future.]
[繭 is also pitiful. She emphasized many times that it had nothing to do with the publisher or the author. It was just that editor who picked a fight with her... What a big grudge. The artist worked really hard, and the manuscript was rejected just because he said he didn't want it? ]
[I am scared just looking at her. Who would dare to make an appointment with such an editor? She always says "the contract says that it must meet the requirements of commercial publishing". What exactly these so-called "commercial publishing requirements" are is still up to everyone's own judgment...]
[So is the editor from Yuanyueshe? ]
Chu Li crunched the biscuit in her mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it down - it was a bit dry and a bit choking - she stared blankly at the many questions from other artists on the screen, with a blank face, and in her ears, Lao Miao kept asking her "what's going on" and "what should I do"...
Chu Li put down the cup of milk tea, thought for a moment, and then asked calmly, "Are we sure we won't cooperate with Xun in the future?"
Lao Miao moved his lips, but before he could say anything, Yu Yao said, "That's right. She had already offended Teacher Xia because of the manuscript, and now she's spreading this rumor online. Although she emphasized that it was the editor's problem and not the publisher's, when people mention you, they still say 'the editor of Yuanyue Publishing House'... What's the difference?"
Chu Li turned around and looked at Yu Yao.
Yu Yao felt her gaze while he was writing, raised his head and smiled at her: "This girl is not very smart."
Chu Li rolled up his sleeves and said "hmm".
Beneath his calm expression, there are thousands of alpaca horses galloping in his chest.
——Since you, Queen Xun, have put a letter of challenge on my head, I have no choice but to accept it, right?
Yeah, okay, sure.
You like posting on Weibo, right?
Just wait and I’ll make you rich.
The war has begun.
…
Staring at Lao Miao with a sullen look on her face, Chu Li closed all the dialogue boxes that she had opened on purpose, and sat back in her seat. It was four o'clock in the afternoon, and she sat down and saw a flashing head of a certain plague god. Chu Li clicked on it, and a line of concise words jumped into her eyes -
[Zhuchuan: Why is the fight so ugly? Some people are gossiping to me, what's going on. 】
[The soldier hired by Monkey: There is a problem with the coloring on the second cover. The dark complexion of the character's face may cause excessive absorption of ink and make it look like a dead person's face. I asked her to change it but she refused, so I had to let her go.]
[The monkey's hired navy: Did she come to see you too? ]
【Zhuchuan: Do you think she came? 】
[The monkey's hired navy: Sorry. ]
【Zhuchuan: What are you apologizing for? 】
[The Monkey's hired navy: I didn't expect this matter to be brought to your attention, so I apologize.]
[Zhu Chuan: You sound so aggrieved that I can't help sniffing even through the screen. If I really told you to admit your mistakes and go home, wouldn't you put rat poison in my food? Forget about acting. ]
[Zhao Chuan: I am here to remind you that the foot-washing maid has thousands of fans, and you alone cannot beat her - are you thinking at this moment, you have more fans than her, why don't you join the army and fight? You are so naive, in this matter, I am just a cold salted fish corpse. ]
Chu Li: "..."
This situation——
In the girls' comics: The male protagonist leads millions of fans to crush the vicious female supporting role to help the female protagonist clear her name. Afterwards, he gives the female protagonist an evil smile and says, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
Display: The male protagonist crossed his legs and shook them, saying big words, "How naive! I am just a frozen salted fish corpse."
Girlish heart? It doesn't exist.
[The Monkey's Navy: So why are you here, Teacher? ]
【Zhaochuan: Just remind you, don’t let both sides suffer losses. 】
[The naval forces hired by Monkey: She has a million fans, and my Weibo account is just a zombie account that sells zombie fans. So here comes the problem. If we have a big fight, what benefit can she get from me? She didn't show me the manuscript and struggled with it herself, and she was unwilling to correct it. Where did she get the courage to confront me head-on? I have screenshots of the chat records. She doesn't dare to do that.]
[The water army hired by Monkey: At worst, Yu Yao can just make an announcement to the public - we will resign that editor...]
[The water army hired by the monkey: Then the editor "the water army hired by the monkey" disappeared, and the "water army hired by the banana" came online - changed the vest, and became another good man. 】
【Zhuchuan: . . . . . 】
[Zhuchuan: I came here to teach you, but now I am convinced by your evil. 】
[The Monkey's hired navy: I didn't intend to do this, but she insisted on opening Pandora's box. Just wait and see what surprises I can give her.]
Chu Li closed the Q chat box and consulted with Ah Xiang: "Ah Xiang, we have spent so much time and energy following the cocoon, and my class has also worked hard and submitted it. It is not scientific to just reject the manuscript. I think we should just use this manuscript."
Ah Xiang: “???”
Ah Xiang: "She's like this now, and you still want to pay her for her writing?"
Chu Li gestured to Ah Xiang to go back and sit down and wait for the news. He turned his chair back to the computer, opened QQ, clicked on the portrait of the goddess, and typed with his fingers flying -
[The water army hired by the monkey: Teacher, how are the breach of contract fees prepared? It is twice the deposit, which is 4,000 yuan. Please transfer the money to the designated bank account... If you are too lazy to go out, you can also pay by Alipay, 1760**, note: breach of contract fee for "Luohe Divine Book". ]
Then the cocoon exploded.
[Breaking the Cocoon: I can't possibly give you this money - what about the "complying with commercial publishing standards" clause? It's up to you publishers to decide. I don't agree with this kind of regulation that doesn't have a hard and fast standard. I've drawn so many commercial publications before and nothing happened. How come this doesn't meet the standards? !
At best, we'll see you in court. You may not win the lawsuit!
I think you guys just want to play tricks on the author! Or to cheat money!
There will be no other artists who dare to cooperate with you in the future! 】
Chu Li looked at the string of words sent by Lady Xun, and the corners of his lips curled up: I knew you would say that. Your statement of "conforming to commercial publishing standards" is untenable.
【The trolls hired by Monkey: Oh, this doesn’t count. What about the confidentiality agreement? The manuscript cannot be disclosed to any third party before the official announcement. Who did you send it to? You don’t know if it was your friends in the industry, your family… Oh my god, there was even a fellow editor in the industry!】
【Breaking the Cocoon: ………………………………】
[Po獲: You are talking nonsense! I didn’t! ]
[The trolls hired by Monkey: Those screenshots were given to me by you. I saved them all. I did not spread rumors or slander you.]
[The Monkey's hired navy: Either you pay the penalty now, and then we, Yuanyue Society, will take the lead in exposing what happened in the past few days, focusing on discussing whether the artist has the right to leak the entire commercial draft to a third party for their opinions before the draft is officially used, especially to Party A's competitors.
[The water army hired by Monkey: How about we discuss the second plan, that is, I will not return the manuscript, we should do what we want, sign a supplementary agreement, and I will use your two pictures to make peripheral posters - the price is of course not calculated according to the cover, but can only be calculated according to the peripheral commercials, that is, the price of the entire manuscript is the same as the deposit. ]
【Breaking the Cocoon:…………………………what did you say? 】
[The water army invited by the monkey: We have invited a calligrapher to write the title for the cover of Mr. Zhuchuan's "Luohe Divine Book". When the time comes, we will not only use your picture on the periphery, but also the cover characters will be superimposed on your picture, and then hollow out the middle to let the picture color penetrate the characters to create a "transparent character" effect, and then use the flowers and plants in your picture as decoration...but the picture will not be used in its entirety. ]
[Po筭: Then you don’t have to use all the pictures as the cover? ? ? ]
[Po繭: You didn’t even give me the final payment???]
[The Monkey’s hired navy: Or I also like the third option, the one you just proposed: See you in court.]
【Breaking the cocoon: ……】
Once again, the cocoon fell into corpse-like silence.
Afterwards! All the editorial staff of Moonlight magazine found themselves witnessing a war without gunpowder inadvertently——
From the moment Chu Li was questioned by Lao Miao, to the moment she sat down at her seat and typed for someone unknown, after she finished typing, she sat there in a daze for ten minutes with an expressionless face.
Ten minutes later, she fiddled with the mouse and received a new message.
Then she stood up and informed Lao Miao to ask the people in the legal department to make a supplementary agreement for the original cover of "Luohe Divine Book", and to take the two finished drafts at the original deposit price, and then asked Niangniang to continue to cooperate with the book promotion -
Another five minutes later.
Ah Xiang cried out in surprise, and was shocked to see such a new Weibo post on the Weibo homepage. It was a repost of a previous promotional post about "Luohe Divine Book" from the official Weibo of "Moonlight" magazine, with the caption:
[Breaking the Cobweb and Becoming a Butterfly: Looking forward to this cooperation! Don’t make blind guesses, the partner mentioned this morning is not Yuanyueshe. Happy cooperation! ]
People who understand the situation can read between the lines how frustrated and sad Queen Xu felt as she typed these words with gritted teeth and tears in her eyes.
Ah Xiang: “…”
Turning his head, Ah Xiang looked at Chu Li as if he was looking at a new species that had emerged in the editorial department. At this moment, Chu Li was holding up the landline, humming a song and poking the banana figurine on his desk with his finger, while discussing with the people in the legal department what to rewrite, what to stipulate, and what to pay attention to in this supplementary agreement...
At the same time, Lao Miao received a wave of apologies from artists on Q, saying that they shouldn’t have made blind guesses about the professional qualities of the Yuanyueshe editors that morning, etc.
…
In the evening, when the lights come on.
After dinner, the man in City C took out his phone, checked Weibo, and then switched to QQ to open a conversation box where he had been sent more than a dozen messages at around 4 p.m. The messages he had read were all one person's complaints.
[Po筭: Sir, your editor is targeting me. It’s not my fault, but she keeps asking me to revise the manuscript. She even threatens to reject it if I don’t revise it. I worked hard for two or three days to draw it! I even stayed up late!]
[Po繭: Master, you have to make the decision for me. You also said that my pictures are beautiful, so what's the problem? 】
[Breaking the Cocoon: I am an art student who graduated from a serious art school. I have spent almost half of my life learning the entry-level professional knowledge of light and shadow application. Why should I be criticized by an amateur editor and told that I am wrong in this or that? 】
[Po筭: I sent it to editors from other publishing houses and they all said there was no problem!!!]
[Broken Cocoon: Dear Sir, the editor of Moonlight Magazine is too much. Not only did he reject my manuscript, but he also asked me to pay a penalty for breach of contract because I couldn't draw a qualified commercial manuscript and delayed their work progress! ]
[The Detective: Did they deliberately delay until the contract was about to expire, then tell me that the manuscript was not up to standard, and then defraud me of the penalty for breach of contract? ]
[Po繭: QAQ, are you here? I really wanted to draw this manuscript for you, but I didn’t expect the editor of Moonlight to be so troublesome...]
…
There are more than a dozen of these things, all of which made me cry.
The man did not reply a single word, just like he did a few hours ago when he received these messages. Instead, he quietly exited the dialog box and clicked on another monkey avatar.
【Zhuchuan: Is the problem solved?】
A few seconds later, the other party responded immediately——
[The navy hired by the monkey: Justice will prevail. ]
[The navy hired by the monkey: I am cooking for Ergou. I will add chicken breast to the meal tonight. ]
"Tsk." The man snorted and laughed, with the corners of his lips raised, his brown eyes full of indulgence.
Closing the dialogue box with the monkey and reopening the dialogue box called "Breaking the Cocoon", the man typed slowly -
[Zhuchuan: Ah, what's wrong! What happened! I didn't check my phone this afternoon! Why are you guys quarreling? Don't quarrel. It will affect the progress and harmony. Oh, is it resolved now? ! ]
Sent.
Lock your phone and put it back in your pants pocket.
He wasn't lying. He really had spent the entire afternoon acting like a salted fish corpse that couldn't speak and didn't respond to poking at people. It was the kind that was completely frozen.
The author has something to say:
Zhuochuan: Life is like a play, it all depends on your acting skills.