"Fantasy Night of the Tang Dynasty" magazine club, conference room.
It’s another weekly meeting, and the editor-in-chief is reporting the ranking of comics from the previous week. Wang Yinghu is in a nervous mood, worried about the ranking of “Coco”.
This morning meeting every week is the most difficult for them as editors. They feel uneasy, like criminals waiting to be sentenced.
Only the two editors of "The Devil's Tower" and "Flowers in the World" sit firmly on the Diaoyutai and feel at ease.
Of course, they also compete, but they are competing against each other, not with other editors, because the two comics they are responsible for have always been the best, and it is too difficult for other comics to catch up, and they are almost invisible.
The end.
Moreover, these two comics have great stamina, and the quality of the plot has not declined, but has steadily improved.
Thanks to the healthy competition between the two comics, the comic authors are also competing.
This is a good thing, but it only makes others suffer and makes them more desperate.
Wang Yinghu glanced at the little girl sitting on his right and saw her frowning face.
Although Wang Yinghu feels uneasy, he is not too worried because the performance of "Coco" has slowly increased in the past three weeks and has escaped from the danger zone of being cut in half.
The "Prince" that the little girl is in charge of is very dangerous. If it still comes in at the bottom this time, then there will be no need to publish it in the magazine next week and just prepare for the finale.
But there is also a possibility that the comic was not even given the opportunity to publish the finale, because this comic was published on the same day as "Coco" and it was only three weeks old. With such low popularity, how many people would care about the finale?
Rather than giving up precious space to such a comic that no one reads, it would be better to give it to a new comic, where there are countless possibilities.
"The last one is still "Prince", who is the editor in charge?" the editor asked.
The little girl next to Wang Yinghu raised her hand sadly: "It's me, the editor-in-chief."
The editor-in-chief looked at her expressionlessly, lowered his head to write and draw in his notebook, and said, "Tell the author that this comic will not be published next week."
After saying this, the editor started to talk about the next topic. The little girl raised her hands tremblingly and did not put them down. It took a while for the editor to notice and asked her if she had anything else.
"Editor-in-chief, I would like to ask, will the finale of "The Prince" be published in the monthly magazine?"
The editor-in-chief said impatiently: "We won't publish it."
In other words, "The Prince" didn't even have a chance to write a finale.
What's even worse is that according to the contract between the comic author and the publisher, the other party is the exclusive authorizer, and the comics can only be published by the "Fantasy Night of the Tang Dynasty" publishing house. If it is unwilling to publish, then the comics cannot be given to others.
In other words, this comic called "Prince" will completely disappear from the public eye, and the author's hard work will be in vain.
This is also the reason why many well-known comics disappear suddenly. Most of them are not because the magazines stop publishing them, but because the magazines are poorly managed and go bankrupt. Then the comics signed with them may also die out.
After the meeting, Wang Yinghu comforted the little girl for a few words, but was suddenly stopped by the editor-in-chief.
The editor-in-chief asked about the situation of "Coco" and Little Red Horse Comics Studio, and then said that he was very optimistic about this comic.
"Ask them, can they update it twice a week? They can give them a better layout," the editor said.
Double updates a week is a common term for serialization on online platforms, that is, updates twice a week.
The magazine "Fantasy Night of the Tang Dynasty" is a weekly magazine and is published once a week, so of course the comics cannot be updated twice a week and there is no place to update them.
What it means is to publish twice as much in each issue of the magazine.
Wang Yinghu perked up. After the editor left, he made fists with both hands and wanted to wave them vigorously. He suddenly stopped and instead just shook his hands tightly. The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard.
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Xiaobai was sitting on a small stool, his little body upright, watching TV, but he was frowning and muttering, looking very dissatisfied.
There was a small bench next to her, and Dunzi was sitting on it, and he was watching attentively.
Xiaobai kept looking at him sideways, and then looked at the TV. It was hard to believe how Dunzi was watching this so seriously.
It's the news broadcast on TV.
"What the hell, uncle, let me show this to my little friend." Xiaobai muttered and waved his hand in front of Dunzi. Dunzi was not affected at all and continued to look at him.
"Dunzi~~Dunzi??? Where do you live? Are you lying in bed?" Xiaobai shook Dunzi's chubby shoulders.
Only then did Dunzi react. He wiped his nose, pointed at the TV with his shiny finger, and said, "Xiaobai, you asked me to watch TV~~"
He was called by Xiaobai to watch TV together. Before Xiaobai left the village, they often played together and were almost inseparable except for sleeping.
The TV set at Xiaobai's house was broken. I called Bai Jianping to fix it in the evening. When I turned it on, I could only watch the news network.
Xiaobai seriously suspected that her uncle had tampered with her TV set, because her uncle liked to watch the news broadcast. In Pujiang, Xiaobai often competed with him to watch cartoons on the TV set.
Xiaobai was so angry that he really wanted to ask his uncle what happened to his claws. He was bullying his little friend.
In the past, you could watch "Windmill and Fake Sophistication" and other cartoons. At that time, when the sun was about to set, she and Dunzi would bring small stools and sit in front of the TV to wait for the cartoon to play.
Whatever they watch, everything is beautiful and they can't stop having fun.
Xiaobai is still the same Xiaobai, but Dunzi is no longer the same guy. Dunzi actually watched Xinwen Network without taking his eyes off it.
It was difficult for her to understand and she completely lost interest in Xinwen Lianbo.
The brazier next to me was burning brighter and hotter, it was so warm, and grandma was embroidering in the light of the fire.
She was wearing reading glasses, her eyes were far away from the cloth, she was holding an embroidery needle in her hand, and she was threading the needle skillfully but slowly.
When grandma was young, she had a pair of dexterous hands. She was best at Shu embroidery. She could embroider dragons and phoenixes, flowers and birds, fish and insects, landscapes, etc., and she would be snapped up at the market.
Almost all the clothes and shoes that Xiaobai wore when she was a child were made by her grandma. On ordinary fabrics, she embroidered a golden flower, a bee with wings spread, and a cute little person, which instantly made her look different and make people feel happy.
Xiaobai was happy for a long time.
But now grandma’s eyesight is dim and she has stopped embroidering for a long time.
At this moment, she was embroidering tiger heads on a pair of tiger-head shoes.
"Ouch~~~Grandma, you are such a smart embroiderer." Xiaobai was not interested in TV, so he came to grandma and looked at her embroidered tiger-head shoes.
Grandma ran out of thread in her hand and was re-threading the needle into the eye of the needle. She tried threading it several times but still couldn't get it through.
"This is my strength, grandma, give it to me and I'll do it."
Xiaobai took the embroidery needle from grandma's hand, holding the needle in his left hand and the thread in his right hand. They staggered and failed to thread it through.
Xiaobai rolled his big eyes, glanced at grandma, and said with an awkward smile: "Hoo ho ho~~Grandma, I was just teasing you~~~Hey!"