Chapter 23 Black Cat
In the end, Shiyu Shiyu did not stay overnight. She was not worried that Zuo Xiaoyou would be so arrogant, but that she would not be able to withstand his charm.
"The younger generation is like poppy and corn. I'm afraid I can never quit if I take a bite."
This is the original words of Shiyu from Xiazhiqiu, which makes Zuo Xiaoyou a little flattered.
However, it was a little late when I left. For safety reasons, Zuo Xiaoyou once again took on the important task of protecting the flower and sent Shiyu from Xiazhiqiu back home safely. As for Yingliri, An Yilun was also responsible for escorting him.
It would be best for Kato Kei to say that he was not far from Zuo Xiaoyou's house, so he took her to the doorstep.
When she got home, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening. Samu was not asleep yet and was huddling in her room to watch the new episodes played late at night. Zuo Xiaoyou was afraid that she would be hungry in the middle of the night, so he specially cooked a bowl of red date porridge and supervised her to drink it. Then he went to bed with confidence.
The next day was the next day. After Zuo Xiaoyou prepared a meal for Sagiri, he walked out of the house and went to the electric shock library.
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When I arrived at the place, Zuo Xiaoyou went to the reception room with a familiarity. Soon I saw Kagurasaka Kamazu and an irreconcilable young man in his thirties.
"Teacher Zuo, let me introduce you to you. This is Mr. Kanda Takashi who is responsible for drawing comics for Teacher Zuo's new books." Kagurazaka Kasumi enthusiastically introduced the two.
From Kagurazaka Kamasu's narrative, Kanda Eagle is an old manga artist with more than ten years of creative experience. He has superb painting skills and is known for his delicate and beautiful style. However, the manga he has drawn over the years is a bit tepid, and the reason is that his story is insufficient, so some people suggest that he should not draw his own creation work anymore. It would be better to draw a comic adapted from a light novel.
Kanda Eagle also knew his creativity shortcomings. Moreover, he was over thirty years old and no longer had the impulse of being a teenager or twenty years old. In order to survive, he was willing to do anything. So after negotiations between the two parties, Kanda Eagle was launched to be responsible for the drawing of Zuo Xiaoyou's new book comics.
After understanding the situation and watching Kanda Eagle's previous works on the spot, Zuo Xiaoyou was quite satisfied. Kanda Eagle's painting skills are very good, better than Sagiki, and the picture expressiveness is sufficient. The reason why it has not been lukewarm for ten years is because the plot arrangement is too obvious, but if you draw according to his novel, I believe the work will become very exciting.
Good comics and animations can drive the sales of novels, so Zuo Xiaoyou nodded and signed the contract after learning about Kanda Eagle's strength and subsequent ideas in detail.
Seeing Zuo Xiaoyou's signature, Kagurazaka Kasumi smiled, and Kada Eagle expressed his gratitude very excitedly, and repeatedly stated that he would do his best to make the comics wonderful to promote the sales of the novel.
Zuo Xiaoyou smiled slightly, asked for help, and after a few words of encouragement, he said to Kagurazaka Kamasu, "Miss Kagurazaka, it's noon soon. Do you want to have a meal together?"
Kagurasaka Kamamaru smiled bitterly: "Although I really want to agree, I still haven't finished some of my work. As agreed, let's go to night!"
Zuo Xiaoyou nodded and said, "Then I'll go to have dinner first, see you tonight."
"Teacher left and right walk slowly."
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Leaving the electric shock library, Zuo Xiaoyou ate a bowl of beef ramen at a nearby ramen restaurant. After checking the time, it was less than 12 o'clock. It was still more than five hours to wait here until Kagurasaka Kamabu gets off work. How to spend so much time has become a problem.
After thinking about it, I simply bought some snacks and drinks and returned to the electric shock library: "Miss Kagurazaka, don't you mind spending time here, do you?"
Seeing Zuo Xiaoyou carrying snacks and drinks and eating instant noodles, Kagurasaka Kamasu snorted and said, "Give me a pack of potato chips."
"Please use." A pack of tomato-flavored potato chips were delivered to Kagurasaka Kamasu. Zuo Xiaoyou smiled and said, "Do you want apple juice?"
"No." Kagurazaka Kamasu waved his hand: "It's enough for me to drink instant noodles soup."
Zuo Xiaoyou sighed: "The social animal is so pitiful!"
Kagurazaka Kamazu hummed twice and said, "It would be good for people without talent to become social animals. It would be better than not finding a job."
Zuo Xiaoyou smiled, looked for a book on the bookshelf, and sat down in an empty seat in the reception room to start the time.
Kagurasaka Kagumazu didn't care about him. Zuo Xiaoyou is in the limelight now. He is the author who is trying hard to win over the electric shock library. It's not a problem to pass the time here. On the contrary, some editors saw Zuo Xiaoyou, a beautiful boy sitting here and reading the book leisurely, and couldn't help but pick up his phone and take a few photos.
Nowadays, Zuo Xiaoyou's photos are popular, so it is always beneficial to take more photos.
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Time passed without realizing it, and it was soon 2:30 in the afternoon. Zuo Xiaoyou, who had just finished reading a book, stretched his waist, got up and went to the bookshelf to change the book. He was about to go back and read the book again, but he saw that there were more people in the reception room.
Seeing this person, Zuo Xiaoyou was stunned.
Snow-white skin, a black Goth loli outfit, long and straight black hair, and obvious tear moles at the corners of the eyes.
"Miss Black Cat!"
The black cat, who was nervously lowering his head, was startled and hurriedly got up, turned his head to look over: "Yes, I am Hei...oh?" When he saw Zuo Xiaoyou's appearance clearly, the black cat was shocked: "Zuo...left teacher!?"
"Why, don't know me anymore? I remember you, my first beautiful girl reader." Zuo Xiaoyou nodded with a smile and said, "How come Miss Black Cat is here?"
"I...I'm here to contribute." Hearing that Zuo Xiaoyou still remembered himself, Heimao was secretly happy, but was more shy, and lowered his head and said, "Where is Zuo... Teacher Zuo?"
"Ha, I just signed a comic book contract in the morning and planned to invite the editor to have a meal in the evening, so I'll kill time here." Zuo Xiaoyou smiled and walked to the black cat and sat down, saying, "I didn't expect Miss Black Cat to come to the library to submit the article. If we can pass the article, we will be the relationship between the previous and the juniors in the future."
"Well... I... I'm just entertaining myself, I don't know if I can write the manuscript." The black cat's face turned red, but he had a lot of longing in his heart: it would seem good if he could become a junior of the teacher.
"Miss Black Cat is too modest." Zuo Xiaoyou smiled slightly, glanced at the file bag in front of Black Cat, and said, "The editor is not here now, I don't know if Fang is not convenient to show me?"
"Please... please be sure to take a look." Heimao couldn't ask for it, so he immediately opened the file bag and took out the original manuscript.
Zuo Xiaoyou took it with a smile and began to browse it quickly.
However, after watching for two or three minutes, Zuo Xiaoyou's brow frowned, making the black cat who had been paying attention to him very nervous.
After that, Zuo Xiaoyou accelerated his browsing speed and flipped the original manuscript almost in ten lines. It took only ten minutes to finish reading the original manuscript with a total of 100,000 words.
Zuo Xiaoyou gently closed the manuscript and closed his eyes to rest.
"How...how?" Although he had a strong ominous premonition in his heart, the black cat still asked with a hint of expectation.
Zuo Xiaoyou opened his eyes, looked at the black cat calmly, smiled bitterly, and said, "Miss Black Cat, can you ask you a few questions?"
"Please...ask." The black cat became even more nervous.
"First of all, Miss Black Cat is sure that she is writing a light novel, not a story setting?" Zuo Xiaoyou asked.
"Um..." The black cat bit his lip and said, "I...I'm sure."
"..." Zuo Xiaoyou covered his forehead with one hand and said, "Secondly, has Miss Black Cat ever had any experience in submissions before?"
"There has been...one time." The black cat curled up slightly and replied in a low voice.
"What was the editor's comment?" Zuo Xiaoyou asked.
"..." The black cat curled up even more.
"Oh!" Zuo Xiaoyou sighed and said, "Miss Black Cat, your writing style is actually very good. Although it is not beautiful enough, it can clearly describe the environment and the psychological activities of the characters. And make such detailed stories and character settings, and write them easily, and the possibility of bugs is minimized."
"Hey?" Heimao thought Zuo Xiaoyou would continue to criticize her without any mercy, but unexpectedly he suddenly praised her. This surprised her head and asked, "Is Teacher Zuo serious?"
"Of course it's serious." Zuo Xiaoyou nodded and said, "Even if I tease someone, I won't tease my first beautiful girl reader."
These words made the black cat's face turn red and his head hangs down again.
"But!" Zuo Xiaoyou said: "Miss Black Cat, I'm bluntly speaking, although your settings are very exciting and your writing is also very good, the story arrangement and expression skills need to be strengthened. As long as this problem can be solved, I believe Miss Black Cat is not far from her debut."
After hearing this, the words not only pointed out the weaknesses of Heimao and pointed her in the direction. Heimao nodded repeatedly: "Thank you for your guidance from the teacher left and right, I...I will work hard."
"Don't be nervous." Zuo Xiaoyou smiled slightly, put the original manuscript into the file bag, and said, "After all, it's just my own words. You have to wait until the editor has read it before making a decision. Maybe the editor will review it!"
Heimao knew that this was just a comforting statement. With Zuo Xiaoyou's current status, the comments he made must be very consistent with the author and readers' views. The editor only reads one thing, which is commerciality. Heimao knew his shortcomings, but he had never given any qualified instructors to give her guidance, so he had to struggle by himself, and suffered a lot of hardships for this. But after suffering so much, he finally took out a work that he was quite satisfied with and mustered up the courage to send a submission to the library. Unexpectedly, before he saw the editor, he was commented by Zuo Xiaoyou, and every sentence of the comments was reasonable, which benefited her a lot.
"Teacher Zuo Ji's words." Although he knew that 90% of the time had no chance, before he saw the editor, Heimao was unwilling to give up, so he still sat here patiently waiting. Fortunately, Zuo Xiaoyou chatted with her here, so he would not be bored.
"Miss Black Cat doesn't look big, is she a high school student?" Zuo Xiaoyou asked.
"Yes." Black Cat nodded and said, "Chanba High School second year."
"Huh? Then we are the same." Zuo Xiaoyou seemed very happy: "I am also a sophomore, but I am a student of Toyonosaki Academy in Tokyo. I am sixteen years old this year. Where are you, Miss Black Cat?"
"I...I am also sixteen years old." Black cat said shyly.
"What a coincidence, but I'm my birthday in April, where is Miss Black Cat?" Zuo Xiaoyou asked.
"I'm July." said Black Cat.
Zuo Xiaoyou smiled and said, "It seems that he is going to call Black Cat Sister."
"Um..." The black cat's face turned red again.
After that, Zuo Xiaoyou talked about homework with Black Cat. Although he had seen related animations before and knew the general situation of Black Cat, many detailed things were still unclear. Through this conversation, he gradually learned about Black Cat's family and living conditions. Although the overall situation was similar to what was said in the animation, the details were still somewhat different.
For example, the Black Cat in this world did not fall in love with Kyosuke Takasaka. Kyosuke Takasaka is just her good friend's brother. In addition, the financial situation of the Black Cat's family is indeed a bit nervous. There is no way out. Who made her have three children in her family? The father's salary alone cannot support his life, and his mother has to do odd jobs to subsidize the family. When Black Cat was in junior high school, he secretly did odd jobs without hiding the school.
In addition to being entertaining, the reason for writing novels is actually to earn royalties through publication and subsidize their household income. Of course, there is nothing shameful about this. Zuo Xiaoyou thinks that her approach is understandable.
However, the two of them had not been chatting for a long time and were interrupted by Kagurasaka Kamasu.
"Is this the Black Cat Miss?" Kagurasaka Kasumi walked in and saw the petite black cat, smiling: "Are you going to contribute?"
"Yes...yes." Facing the sudden appearance of editor, Black Cat stood up nervously and bowed: "I am Black Cat, hello."
"Hello." Kagurazaka Kagurazaka Kagurazaka Kagurazaka, then, let me see the works of Miss Black Cat!"
"Okay... OK." The black cat immediately sent the file bag to Kagurasaka Kamasu with both hands.
Kagurasaka Kamazu took it and smiled at Zuo Xiaoyou, "Teacher Zuo is so amazing. I just left for a while and hooked up with such a beautiful girl."
These words made the black cat blush and steam emerged from his head.
Zuo Xiaoyou said helplessly: "Miss Kagurazaka, please read the manuscript!"
"I'm really bored with the teacher left and right." Seeing that Zuo Xiaoyou was not fooled, Kagurasaka Kasumi curled his lips, sat opposite the two of them, and began to look at the black cat's manuscript.
Like Zuo Xiaoyou, Kagurasaka Kasumi frowned after just two minutes, and then he turned the manuscript faster and faster. In less than ten minutes, he finished the manuscript of 100,000 words.
After closing the manuscript, Kagurasaka Kasu pinched his eyebrows and said with a bad look: "Miss Black Cat."
"Yes." The black cat was nervous and had no blood on his face.
"I'm sorry, this review has not been passed, please continue to work hard." Kagurazaka Kasumi gave a reply from Wanjin Oil.
Although he had been mentally prepared, when he heard this news, the black cat still shook his body and sat weakly on the chair, lowered his head, and gently bit his lips with his teeth.
Chapter completed!