Chapter Thirty-One Hesitation and Decision

When Yan Yu heard the editor-in-chief calling Li Jiming's name, he also turned his head.

Xiao Li tugged at Yan Fang's clothes, "I guess Lao Li has a headache recently."

"Why?"

"Did you really forget? Didn't "Y's" snatch the opening coloring page of "The Boy Who Chased the Wind"? Of course, the middle coloring page is also good, but it's still not as good as the opening coloring page. He probably also has a headache now, How to convey this to Teacher Gong." Xiaoli explained.

cough cough...

Yan Yan was also a little embarrassed.

Gong Yan can also be regarded as an old author. A year ago, he won the first place in several survey questionnaires in "New World" with "The Boy Who Chased the Wind".

"Chasing the Wind Boys" tells the story of a group of teenagers who like to chase their dreams.

The progress of this comic is very fast. In only six or seven months, the team where the protagonist belongs won the world middle school football championship. At that time, this comic was constantly entertaining, and the readers enjoyed it very much.

But because the plot ran too fast and it was already at the end of the story, Gong Yan realized that something was wrong.

At that time, "The Boy Who Chased the Wind" was a big seller in Yunhai City. If it ended immediately, Gong Yan would lose a lot of money. Not reconciled, he thought of a bad move - when returning to China, the plane the protagonist was on crashed, and the comic naturally replaced the protagonist.

Since then, the performance of "Chasing the Wind Boy" has plummeted, the number of readers who followed it has dropped sharply, and the magazine is also very anxious.

In order to save the manga's popularity, the magazine thought of many ways, such as signing books, finding animation companies to produce animations, and even contacting game companies, but they couldn't afford it. The magazine also wanted to finish "The Boy Who Chased the Wind", and then let the editor and Gong Yan work together to polish a manga. At first, Gong Yan did not agree. After three or four months of stalemate, Gong Yan showed signs of letting go.

According to common sense, even signing books and making animations can't raise the popularity of a comic, so the role that the front page can play is even more negligible.

It's just that Gong Yan used to be the signboard of "New World" at any rate, and no one would be happy when the promised front page color page was suddenly replaced by the middle color page.

""The Boy Who Chased the Wind" is almost over. In fact, it doesn't make any difference whether there is one more or one less coloring page. But even so, you still have to tell him quickly. If you delay for too long, he will feel that you don't want to Pay attention to him, so you have opinions on us. Remember, when you say it, don’t provoke him.” The editor-in-chief waved his hand and asked Li Jiming to deal with this matter quickly.

"Even if Teacher Gong has an opinion, isn't it your idea?"

Li Jiming was dejected, returned to his desk, and finally couldn't help complaining.

The editor-in-chief kept staring at him, and after half a minute, he couldn't hold on any longer, and immediately went to the magazine office with his file bag in hand.

On the way to Gong Yan's studio, Li Jiming thought a lot, but when he got to the door of the studio, he still hadn't figured out how to explain the situation to Gong Yan, but subconsciously knocked on the door.

Huh?

When Li Jiming came back to his senses, he heard footsteps coming from the door.

Before he could think about what to say, the door was opened, and a young man appeared in front of him.

"Bian Li? The teacher was still saying just now that I finally got a pack of good tea and wanted to drink with you. You came here within two or three hours. What a coincidence." When the young man saw Li Jiming, he hurriedly Let Li Jiming into the house.

"Haha, this is...a heart-to-heart connection." Li Jiming laughed dryly, "By the way, is Teacher Gong busy now?"

"Fortunately, I'm painting a coloring page. Isn't it that the coloring page will be handed in in two weeks? The teacher is very concerned about coloring this time, and said that this time he will not disappoint Editor Li."

Ha ha……

Li Jiming sighed, if he knew today, why bother.

If it wasn't for dying to change the protagonist,

"The Boy Who Chased the Wind" is now estimated to be in the top three of "New World".

Although it has not yet fallen out of the top ten, the sales volume of the single book has been less than 50,000 copies, which is not much different from ordinary comics.

"Yo, Lao Li, are you here?" On the side of the hall, a bald middle-aged man who was coloring with a marker pen immediately put down his pen and stood up from his seat when he saw Li Jiming coming in. It’s not time for submission, is it?”

"Oh, I'm just looking around casually."

"Are you still worried about the quality of my coloring?" The bald middle-aged man said with a big smile.

"Mr. Gong, of course I believe in the quality of your coloring pages, but your progress...is really too slow." Li Jiming said perfunctorily.

Gong Yan's level of coloring is more than enough than the above. After all, he is not a professional art student, and he is an older generation of cartoonists. No matter the style or technique, he is very different from the young people. What's more, after becoming famous, because he didn't pay much attention, his coloring level has always been kept below the standard, which also caused Li Jiming quite a headache.

Now the rankings of the questionnaires and the number of volumes are kept at a very low level. Gong Yan finally realized his problem, but no matter how hard he tried, the level could only return to the average level.

The same is true for the coloring page this time. It can only be said that the coloring page is qualified, not too good.

"How is it? Don't worry?" Gong Yan's face showed a smug expression.

"Hmm..." Li Jiming nodded, "By the way, Teacher Gong, do you have time now? I want to have a word with you."

"Coincidentally, I also want to invite you to drink two cups of tea. This pot of tea is brought back from abroad by one of my students. You must have never drunk it."

Li Jiming felt a little helpless, even if there was good tea, he was not in the mood to drink it now.

Gong Yan's reception room is very simple, a set of red solid wood sofa and coffee table, and a set of purple sand tea set.

Gong Yan cherishes this set of tea sets very much, and usually would not take them out for practical use, but today, this set of tea sets was placed on the tea table before Li Jiming went in.

Is there anyone here today?

Li Jiming was puzzled, but Mr. Gong didn't communicate much at ordinary times, at least, in the past year, he hadn't seen anyone coming.

When Gong Yan saw the tea set on the table, his face turned pale instantly, "Well... this morning, people from my hometown came over, and I treated them to two cups of tea. By the way, Lao Li, didn't you have something to say just now? "

"Ah? Is that so..." Li Jiming's throat felt a little dry, he thought again and again, and bowed deeply to Gong Yan first, "I'm sorry, Mr. Gong, the editor-in-chief changed your front color page to the middle color page ..."

"Ah? Why?" Gong Yan's hand holding the tea set was trembling, and his eyes were wide open.

"It's nothing... the editor-in-chief said that he will give you another front page next month to make up for it." Li Jiming quickly explained.

"Next month? Who knows if there will be "The Boy Who Chased the Wind" next month!" Gong Yan was furious.

"Eh? Is "The Boy Chasing the Wind" coming to an end?" Li Jiming was a little different, he had never heard Gong Yan mention this matter.

"Ah?" Gong Yan suddenly realized that he said something that shouldn't be said, and quickly waved his hands, but his movements seemed stiff, "Didn't the editor-in-chief always want me to draw a new comic? I've been thinking about it recently. By the way, Who did the editor-in-chief give the front page to?"

"Oh, a newcomer. The performance of "New World" has declined recently, and the editor-in-chief wonders if there is a chance to stop the decline."

"Only relying on one newcomer? Can it really stop the decline of "New World"?" Gong Yan sneered.

"That's not clear. By the way, if you really draw new comics, which genre do you plan to develop?" Li Jiming asked.

"Not sure yet, shall we discuss it with you later?" Gong Yan's expression returned to normal, but his tone was blunt.

"Okay then, we'll talk about it later."

After clarifying the most important thing, Li Jiming was not in the mood to drink tea, so he hurriedly left the studio on the grounds that he would not disturb Gong Yan's painting.

Gong Yan put away the tea set with a gloomy face, and after thinking about it, he took out a business card from a book, with a line written in the middle, "President of "Weekly Dreamer", Luo Zhi".

After pondering for a while, Gong Yan finally made up his mind and dialed the other party's phone number.