Zongman: The Qilin Child of Xuanyuan Family

Utaha Kasumigaoka is well aware of this, but editor Machida is already pushing for the manuscript to be submitted. If Utaha Kasumigaoka doesn't produce some actual content for the second volume, her fame will probably continue to decline.

Kasumigaoka Utaha had thought about giving the manuscript of the second volume that she had written earlier a try.

"Teacher Kasumi Shiko, with all due respect... If the second volume of 'Love Metronome' were to be released at this quality, your career would probably be over."

Machida Sonoko frowned and forced herself to finish reading the manuscript of the second volume of "Love Metronome", and spoke to Kasumigaoka Utaha earnestly.

Compared to the sweetness of the first volume, the second volume is messy.

It's a mess, too messy, I have no idea what Kasumigaoka Utaha wrote.

Machida Sonoko couldn't believe that the two volumes of Love Metronome were written by the same person.

She did not blindly suppress Kasumigaoka Utaha. When Machida Sonoko returned the manuscript to Kasumigaoka Utaha, her eyes were complicated: "Teacher Kasumigaoka Utaha, I will help you with the manuscript urging. I hope you can return to your form as soon as possible."

After careful consideration, Machida Sonoko chose to use the return status to cover up the fact that Kasumigaoka Utaha's second volume was not good.

"What price are you willing to pay?"

Seeing that Kasumigaoka Utaha offered to pay the price, Xuanyuan Ning became interested.

In the previous transactions between the two, it was always Xuanyuan Ning who took the initiative to propose the price and told Kasumigaoka Utaha what the price was so that Kasumigaoka Utaha could weigh the pros and cons.

"Junior, what's the price I have to pay for the inspiration for the second volume of 'Love Metronome'?"

"Senior, this time you took the initiative to ask me to trade. You shouldn't wait for me to make an offer and then bargain. Instead, you should make an offer that you think is appropriate, and I will decide whether to trade or not."

Instead of giving Kasumigaoka Utaha a clear price as before, Xuanyuan Ning chose to raise the price.

If someone takes the initiative to find me and is interested in me, the price will be different.

Kasumigaoka Shiyu was choked, not knowing what price to propose to satisfy Xuanyuan Ning.

The deal between the two was not equal. If the price proposed by Kasumigaoka Utaha made Xuanyuan Ning slightly dissatisfied, then the other party might turn around and leave.

If the price is too high, Utaha Kasumigaoka will feel that it is not worth it.

Not knowing what Xuanyuan Ning's psychological value is, Kasumigaoka Utaha cannot please him.

Kasumigaoka Utaha is under tremendous pressure.

Xuanyuan Ning was not in a hurry to leave and waited patiently for Kasumigaoka Utaha's offer.

Let me see what else you have to trade, Senior Shiyu.

"Senior, you said 'Love Metronome' is your child, right?" Xuanyuan Ning continued to add chips to the situation, putting more pressure on Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Then how far would you go for your child?"

Should I collapse and run away, or grit my teeth and make a bid?

Xuanyuan Ning is looking forward to Kasumigaoka Utaha's performance.

Xuanyuan Ning had a rough guess about what Kasumigaoka Utaha was thinking.

I have said before that Kasumigaoka Utaha has never been in love, but I have been in multiple relationships. It is very likely that Kasumigaoka Utaha used myself as an observation object and wrote my own actions as the protagonist in the book.

Although I don’t know what stage Kasumigaoka Utaha has reached in her writing, it seems that she has encountered a big problem now.

When you encounter a problem that no one else can solve except yourself, the "reality representative".

This also means...I can raise the price even higher.

"sugar..."

"what?"

"Junior, give me a candy."

Candy to relieve stress?

Xuanyuan Ning took out a candy from his pocket and handed it to Kasumigaoka Utaha, who looked a little haggard.

Fortunately, we are in class now, otherwise there would be rumors flying all over Sobu High School in the afternoon about the "school bully" Xuanyuan Ning bullying the "talented girl" Kasumigaoka Utaha.

It seems...it’s not really a scandal?

Putting the candy handed to her by Xuanyuan Ning into her mouth, Kasumigaoka Utaha forced herself to calm down.

Utaha Kasumigaoka discovered her current problem, which is internal consumption.

Xuanyuan Ning used words to make her start to seriously burn out, and she frantically calculated in her mind what would be the most appropriate price to offer.

"Junior..." Kasumigaoka Utaha looked up at Xuanyuan Ning, intending to continue asking him for candy.

One candy was far from enough. The slight sweetness could not relieve her racing brain. She needed more candy.

Even if she didn't continue with the deal with Xuanyuan Ning, she still needed to use candy to induce her brain to secrete dopamine to relieve her tired brain.

Xuanyuan Ning peeled a candy and fed it into Kasumigaoka Utaha's mouth himself. Looking at Kasumigaoka Utaha who was standing in front of him in a disheveled state, he said with a smile.

"Senior, can we go to the rooftop? You have already paid the price."

Chapter 173 Take my candy, remember to give me some points

As the rusty rooftop door was pushed open from the inside, a cool breeze blew towards her, making Kasumigaoka Utaha's dizzy head feel much better.

Xuanyuan Ning sat down leaning against the wall, and Kasumigaoka Utaha sat next to Xuanyuan Ning without any shyness.

This position is quite clever, as if it is exactly the same position where the two sat when they first met, except that this time Kasumigaoka Utaha and Xuanyuan Ning are closer.

"Junior, do you need to take a look at my manuscript first?"

Pushing her messy hair behind her ears, Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at Xuanyuan Ning with burning eyes.

As Xuanyuan Ning said, "Love Metronome" is the child of Utaha Kasumigaoka.

She had paid the price for her child, and now it was time for the child to be reborn.

"can."

Xuanyuan Ning nodded in agreement. He also wanted to see how Kasumigaoka Utaha wrote the second volume and why it was rejected so directly.

Taking the laptop handed to him by Kasumigaoka Utaha, Xuanyuan Ning flipped through the original manuscript of "Love Metronome".

"Senior, you shouldn't be so resentful just because you've been single all your life... Or have you failed to find someone to confess your feelings to?"

After quickly scanning the last line, Xuanyuan Ning looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha in surprise.

In the first volume, the male and female protagonists were in a sweet 1V1 relationship. In the second volume, a second female character was added. However, the second female character did not receive a response from the male protagonist, and there was no scene where the second female character and the first female character were jealous of each other.

In this original second volume, the industrial saccharin that belonged to the first volume is gone, and the focus is purely on the second female lead giving up on herself.

Like a... well, a lonely woman in the boudoir.

It's impossible to write something like this without some personal experience.

Kasumigaoka Utaha: ...

She didn't know whether to praise Xuanyuan Ning for his keen sense of smell or to hate herself for not being good enough.

"Junior, please take a look at the newly written second volume first."

Kasumigaoka Utaha didn't want to talk too much about this topic. She leaned forward with her plump body and moved in front of Xuanyuan Ning. Her right hand covered the back of the boy's hand, and she controlled the mouse to open another document.

"Senior sister, this is a bit ambiguous." Xuanyuan Ning let Kasumigaoka Utaha control his right hand to click the mouse.

"You didn't refuse, did you?"

Without loosening her hand from Xuanyuan Ning's back, Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at the newly written manuscript on the laptop screen, glanced through it to make sure there were no major problems, and then moved her body away from blocking Xuanyuan Ning's view.

Although Kasumigaoka Utaha had checked the new manuscript countless times, she was still nervous when facing Xuanyuan Ning, the "original owner".

Without permission, he used Xuanyuan Ning as the protagonist template, wrote him into his own light novel, and even asked him to give him feedback...

Even Kasumigaoka Utaha would feel embarrassed.

Xuanyuan Ning did not raise any objections to this, but looked at the new manuscript with great interest.

"Senior, are you planning to use my personality as the prototype for the male protagonist?" After reading the original manuscript of the novel, which was not very long, Xuanyuan Ning closed the notebook and returned it to Kasumigaoka Utaha.

"That's right." Kasumigaoka Utaha nodded in agreement, and the uneasiness and embarrassment in her heart had disappeared.

Since Xuanyuan Ning, the person involved, doesn't mind it, the author, Kasumigaoka Utaha, certainly won't think it's a big deal either.

"The first volume of 'Love Metronome' has been released and is quite popular. If you were to use my character as a prototype, how would you like to make the male protagonist grow?"

"The release of the first volume means that you, Senior Sister, have no way to change the early male protagonist's settings."

"Senior, how will you help me grow?"

Xuanyuan Ning quickly recalled everything he had just seen in his mind and raised his own questions.

The male protagonist in "Love Metronome" written by Utaha Kasumigaoka has a very classic problem, which is also the biggest problem in the current Japanese light novel industry.

"Azazi".

He treats everyone gently and gets acquainted with the heroine in this way, and the two gradually fall in love.

This kind of personality would not work on Xuanyuan Ning. Xuanyuan Ning was very curious about how Kasumigaoka Utaha would change the male protagonist's personality back.

Or,

Kasumigaoka Utaha just wanted to observe her daily interactions with her female companions to make up for the fact that she had never been in a relationship and could not deeply understand love.

"There's also a female villain in the original manuscript who likes the male protagonist."

"Senior, if my guess is correct, are you planning to be the female villain yourself?"

When talking about the female villain, Xuanyuan Ning looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha meaningfully, and understood why the other party was stuck here.

Thoughts are beautiful, reality is skinny.

In Kasumigaoka Utaha's opinion, the female villain should be equally powerful as the male protagonist, or even be able to surpass him. Only in this way can the desired effect be achieved.

The female villain created by Kasumigaoka Utaha based on herself could not achieve this effect at all, and would only be suppressed to death by Xuanyuan Ning.

If I can't figure out how to suppress myself, my inspiration will be cut off.

"I have this idea." Kasumigaoka Utaha said frankly.

"Then how do you plan to suppress me, senior sister?" Seeing that Kasumigaoka Utaha admitted it, Xuanyuan Ning became interested.

I want to hear what Kasumigaoka Utaha has to say and what methods she will use to suppress me.

Kasumigaoka Utaha shook her head, a hint of frustration in her tone: "I can't think of it."

She had thought about how to suppress Xuanyuan Ning.

But even if we put aside Xuanyuan Ning's background and put herself in the same conditions as the other party, Kasumigaoka Utaha couldn't figure out how to suppress Xuanyuan Ning.

"So senior sister is stuck here." Xuanyuan Ning pointed out the key issue to Kasumigaoka Utaha.

"I know..." Kasumigaoka Utaha hugged her knees, lowered her head, and muttered in a low voice: "But I really can't think of how to suppress my junior..."

This girl, who has a sharp tongue comparable to Yukinoshita Yukino, no longer looks like a perfect senior in front of Xuanyuan Ning. Instead, she looks like a little girl who has suffered a lot of grievances.

"Do you want to cry?" Xuanyuan Ning looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha with amusement, looking at her aggrieved look.

"think..."

"Then cry, but crying also counts as time."

I'm sorry, Xuanyuan Ning doesn't like crying and complaining.

If this method was effective, Eriri Sawamura wouldn't have been beaten so much.

"Junior, do you know that you will lose points in the eyes of girls if you talk like this?" The aggrieved expression disappeared from her face, and Kasumigaoka Utaha's eyes became resentful.

Xuanyuan Ning leaned against the wall and looked up at the clouds of various shapes in the blue sky. They were not connected to each other, but they all wanted to block the sun.

"My score in the senior sister's heart is positive?"

"Negative!"

"That's it, that way we can make a positive out of negatives."

"Junior..." Seeing that Xuanyuan Ning was not moved by her soft or hard words, Kasumigaoka Shiyu decided to increase her strength.

"Senior, do you want some candy?"

Reaching into his pocket and taking out a few candies, Xuanyuan Ning placed the candies in front of Kasumigaoka Utaha without turning his head.

When Kasumigaoka Shiyu grabbed the candy from his hand, Xuanyuan Ning said, "Senior, since you took my candy, remember to give me some points."

"Humph!"

Kasumigaoka Shiyu snorted softly and turned her head away without looking at Xuanyuan Ning.