Started as a comics editor

Chapter 16 Gambling and Fate
It's almost two o'clock.

Tang Yao and Li Xue finally parted ways.

One of them went downstairs and the other went upstairs.

Because the editorial offices of the two magazines are not on the same floor.

When Tang Yao returned to the editorial department of "Big Comic", most of the editors who worked during the day were out, and even the editor-in-chief was nowhere to be found.

But Kang Ming is still there.

He heard footsteps in the distance, looked up and saw that it was Tang Yao, his eyes lit up: "Good afternoon."

"good afternoon."

Tang Yao sat back at her workstation and began to designate shots for Shao Changqing's manuscript. At the same time, she glanced at Kang Ming's workstation and asked, "What are you doing?"

Kang Ming: "Reader Survey."

Tang Yao showed an understanding expression and then asked, "How do you feel?"

The so-called reader survey is similar to the 'survey supremacy' that suffocated all cartoonists in her previous life, Shonen Jump, and was born in order to effectively cope with the cruel market competition.

To put it simply, this system means that each comic is serialized until the fifth chapter, and if the votes in the survey increase and its popularity rises, then it can continue to be serialized.

But once the votes drop and popularity falls, the comic will be forcibly cut short at the tenth chapter.

No matter where the plot develops to, no matter how far the story goes, just end it.

After five chapters, there will be a last-place elimination system... If the last-place comic fails to rise in the rankings within a few weeks, it will be cut short.

In short, it's very cruel.

This is also the reason why Li Xue did not really force her to become a cartoonist.

Because she also knows that under this cruel system, it is really difficult for cartoonists. They cannot relax at all. There must be suspense and climax in every issue, and they must forcibly create scenes that readers look forward to.

“It feels different from what I imagined.”

Kang Ming looked at the questionnaire in his hand and said, "I can only say that you are still getting used to it, right?"

"Oh--"

Hearing this, Tang Yao stretched out her tone and suddenly asked, "So what do you think of mobile games?"

"Mobile game?"

When Kang Ming heard this, he turned his head in surprise.

Tang Yao nodded: "Yes."

Kang Ming hesitated for a moment, then said with a blush, "You may not believe this, but I think it's the future. Mobile phones have greater development potential than the traditional Internet. If possible, I'd like to try my hand at this kind of work. That battle platform is actually one of the products of my dream."

"That's it."

Hearing this, Tang Yao paused flipping through the manuscript and continued, "What if you were offered a job related to mobile games with an average salary? Would you take it? Ah... there's a prerequisite: this company is in its early stages."

"I will do it."

Kang Ming hesitated for a moment, but finally replied frankly, "Even if it's a startup."

"..."

Tang Yao smiled, then said softly, "It's a deal."

"?"

Kang Ming looked at Tang Yao beside him with some surprise, and then was a little confused by her smile.

……

Although salary and compensation are not linked to business ability.

But it does depend on how much you pay attention to it. The saying "Why risk your life for a few hundred dollars" is true.

When an employee has the idea of ​​resigning and decides to take action, his or her business capabilities will be greatly affected.

Tang Yao is no exception, after all, she is not a saint.

After getting Li Xue's promise and Kang Ming's answer, she suddenly felt that she could not continue with the storyboarding and wanted to go home and draw a beautiful girl right on the spot... If she hadn't considered it a bit weird to draw at her workstation, she would have wanted to draw it first as a courtesy.

Fortunately, her remaining sanity pulled her back. Although she was not a saint, she still had a basic sense of responsibility.

So she was patient and spent the entire afternoon finishing her work.

It's about six o'clock in the afternoon.

Tang Yao checked Teacher Shao's manuscript one last time, and after making sure there was no problem, she threw it together with Teacher Ou's masterpiece on the editor-in-chief's desk, then began to pack up as if relieved.

Go home and draw a beautiful girl!

"Your side is the wind of the wind~"

Probably because I was in a good mood.

As she cleaned up, she gently shook her body and hummed a song.

aside.

Kang Ming, who was still struggling with the reader survey, heard this and turned his head to look at Tang Yao, who seemed to be in a good mood, swaying gently and humming an unknown melody: "Are you going home?"

"Well, see you tomorrow."

Tang Yao waved happily and walked towards the door.

Kang Ming looked at the back of the man who exuded youth and happiness, and seemed to be infected, and couldn't help but smile.

the other side.

Tang Yao was indeed very happy. Even the long commute could not dampen her happiness, which even lasted all the way home.

"Kaoru."

Just opened the door.

Tang Xun walked out of the room holding the clothes, then turned to look at her sister, looked her up and down, and after confirming that she was fine, she turned around and went to the washing machine with the clothes.

Because she finished her get out of class early and the distance was relatively close, every time Tang Yao came home from get off work, she had basically already taken a shower and was ready to cook dinner.

to be frank.

She is really sensible. If she hadn't shared the trivialities of life with Tang Yao, Tang Yao couldn't imagine how bad her life would become after coming here.

"Aren't you a little too cold towards your sister who's back home, Xun?"

Tang Yao was half lying on the sofa. After the cold girl came back, she gently patted the seat next to her and teased her.

"What do you want me to say?"

Xun sat down next to her sister, gently smoothed her hair, and replied, "Sister, welcome back?"

"That's not necessary."

Tang Yao smiled softly, looking at the girl next to her who seemed to be getting ready to tie her hair into a ponytail and cook. "I'm just curious what you mean by looking me up and down every day? Are you confirming that your sister is still alive?"

"Almost. I'm worried about your mental state."

The girl let go of her hair and turned to look at her sister, who usually came back exhausted but was surprisingly relaxed today: "If one day you break down and don't want to go to work and want to stay home, I need to make some preparations in advance."

Tang Yao half-jokingly asked, "What preparations? Preparations to kick me out of the house?"

The girl looked away and didn't answer her sister.

"That's pretty cold, but don't worry, Kaoru."

Tang Yao didn't mind at all. She just moved closer to her, rested her head on her shoulder as if relaxing, and smiled, "Adults are stronger than you think, because they complain a lot to relieve stress, often lie to deal with various interpersonal relationships, and do despicable things.

If it doesn’t work, I can just stay in the car and cry and then go home, that’s totally fine.”

"The adults in your eyes are so pathetic."

"Adults are such pathetic beings, so don't look so stern and long to grow up. The adult world is not fun."

"Then why don't you grumble to me? Do you come back every day after crying?"

"..."

Tang Yao smiled softly. Her sister was quite good at talking. "That's not the case. Your sister hasn't officially entered the ranks of adults yet. Besides, your sister doesn't have a car, although she has experienced it before."

"Then you might as well go home and cry."

Tang Xun was silent for a moment after hearing this, then slowly said, "At least there are people at home. Although it's not as private as in the car, and although it's embarrassing, I know all the embarrassing things you've done since you were a child. It's better to say that you had already embarrassed yourself in front of me a week ago."

A week ago was the time when Tang Yao came to this world.

Tang Yao's expression froze, then she took her head off the girl's shoulder and turned around.

Tang Xun looked at her sister with an expressionless face.

"Do you really like exposing your sister's scars?"

But Tang Yao would not be forced back by her gaze. She reached out her hand and gently pinched her soft and smooth little face with a little force.

Tang Xun was facing her sister, her pretty face was deformed, and she was forced to pout her cherry lips... The cold feeling disappeared instantly, and she looked a little cute instead.

“…Go take a shower.”

Tang Xun glared at her sister gently, and finally lost her indifference. She broke free from her sister's hand and stood up: "I'm going to cook."

Tang Yao looked at the girl whose steps were larger than usual, tilted her head and smiled knowingly.

After taking a shower.

The two sisters had dinner together.

As usual, Tang Xun took the initiative to carry the bowl to the small semi-open kitchen and took the responsibility of cleaning up.

Tang Yao did not share the burden, mainly because she had more important things to do.

She returned to the two sisters' room, sat down at the table again, and took out a piece of drawing paper, but this time she was not drawing any comics, but drawing portraits of beautiful girls.

Of course, I said it after get off work.

But it’s definitely not okay to just draw randomly right from the start…even though her experience in her previous life showed that card-drawing mobile games were indeed very popular in the early days of mobile Internet and could indeed make a lot of money.

Even those who followed the trend later on made money, as if everyone could get a piece of the mobile game pie.

But it was Square Enix that launched Million Arthur, the originator of the card-drawing second-hand game. Although Tang Yao had become very bad before the time travel... it was still a major game company that owned the Final Fantasy series, Kingdom Hearts series, and Dragon Quest series. The relevant experience and resources were simply unmatched by any studio, let alone an individual.

The issue of matching gameplay alone cannot be solved by art resources. Although early card-drawing games were notoriously neglectful of gameplay, it would definitely not work without it.

Don’t even think about those gameplays that are too difficult to do.

There are many other aspects that need to be considered, let’s not talk about the plot and dubbing for now.

Just the resources available in the game...that is, the free card drawing resources and the input resources outside the game - how to distribute the krypton gold card drawing resources, is enough to give her a headache.

Fortunately, she has many successful examples to refer to.

The first thing she had to do now was to piece together from the huge game library of her previous life a mobile game that had a balance between production difficulty and revenue, and was suitable for this world, so as to obtain investment and earn the first pot of gold, which was the most important thing in her life.

This requires carefulness and cautiousness.

Because if she fails, she will have to make a living by drawing comics.

Of course, if she succeeds...she can probably temporarily break free from the shackles of money and do more things.

It's a big gamble.

"Then first... we need to confirm the basics of the game."

Tang Yao gently turned the pencil in her hand, thought for a long time, and then wrote a word on the drawing paper - Fate.

The famous Fate series.

(End of this chapter)