Zongman: The child next door was picked up by Qiong and taken home

Neon.

A good-looking young woman with short hair and wearing work clothes was looking at the computer screen in front of her with a nervous look on her face.

That's right.

This young woman is none other than the editor-in-chief Kagurazaka Ayame, who is in charge of communicating with Maki Hanyu!

Ever since she saw Mu Yusheng's submission in the submission box, she felt that this book would definitely be a hit, and with youth campus light novels just emerging, it would have a high probability of becoming the leader of this type of light novels.

As for why she was so nervous?

That was because she had mentioned at the end that she would complete the remaining half of the volume within a week.

After all, based on past experience, for new light novel writers, writing one volume in two months is a normal speed, and being able to write one volume in a month is a very good speed. They are like typing machines among light novel writers.

In the current industry situation, it is basically impossible to achieve a week and a half of volume.

In fact, Kagurazaka Ayame also knew that her idea was a bit unreasonable, so she added the sentence about next week's newcomer award at the end.

However, compared to the current Rookie Award, the Rookie Award next week is not suitable for the debut of this type of light novel.

Although the quality of this light novel called "How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend" should not change much if it really debuts in the Newcomer Award next week, the risks will increase a lot.

Yes.

To be fair, Kagurazaka Ayame still hopes that this light novel can debut in this newcomer award.

But after all, she didn't know Mr. Hanyu's hand speed, nor did she know Mr. Hanyu's specific ideas, so she could only put out the props for selection and sit here waiting for his reply.

What she didn't expect was that, unlike her guess of a reply message that might or might not arrive in time, Hanyu-kun directly sent her a word file titled Volume 2 and Volume 3.

"Volumes 2 and 3?"

"Are you kidding me?!"

"Has Hanyu already completed the second and third volumes of 'The Passerby'?"

"Is it a previous draft?"

"Hayuki-sensei is truly audacious to write three volumes without even knowing the light novel's performance!"

"However, considering the quality of Mr. Hanyu's light novels, it's understandable that he has such confidence."

Muttering to herself, Kagurazaka Ayame opened the document using the plug-in out of curiosity.

"The second and third volumes are of the same quality as the first!"

“I even feel like the writing and plot have improved a bit!”

"With this kind of writing skills and control over the plot, is Mr. Hanyu really a new light novel writer?"

"It feels like a top light novel writer in the industry has started a second account. It's really amazing."

"However, whether it's Senju Muramasa, whom I hired, or several other top light novel writers, they are all in the critical period of producing new works, and there is no way they can open smurf accounts."

"really--"

"Did you pick up a genius light novel writer?"

As she said this, Kagurazaka Ayame's eyes gradually became brighter.

the other side.

Sobu High School.

Second grade group a classroom.

Seeing that the word file he sent out had been received, Mu Yusheng couldn't help but smile.

What are the difficulties?

Isn’t it just writing a novel?

Could there be any more difficulties?

Is it as short as those eunuch authors who stopped updating?

Just kidding, don't underestimate a professional novelist who once worked at the most ambitious Flylu in the novel world, okay?!

With the speed at which Mu is writing, if localization is not absolutely necessary, it is very possible for him to write a whole volume in two days.

After all, voice input yyds!

cough cough.

In fact, I have now localized almost all the volumes of "The Boring Girlfriend", and now only the last volume and the single volume have not been localized.

As for why only the second and third volumes of the light novels were sent to Kagurazaka Ayame?

This involves a psychological battle between the author and the editor.

Although Mu was not planning to make writing light novels his main occupation in this life, the experience he had accumulated in his previous life in battling wits and courage with editors on various websites still existed.

The process of Neon's light novel library is more inclined towards a form of online novel called buyout that I had encountered in my previous life, as well as a traditional publishing format similar to this.

It is roughly as follows:

After signing the contract, the work will be serialized in the corresponding magazine of the library, the author will write the text, and at least a minimum number of manuscripts (or a maximum number depending on the situation) will be submitted on the fixed deadline every month.

Generally speaking, the first few steps are easy, but there are big disagreements between the author and the editor on the final deadline for submission.

In most cases, the author fails to complete the corresponding content for one reason or another, and the editor will come to urge him to update the content. Some editors will even marry the author and urge him to write day and night.

In this case, the author will subconsciously write more and submit less, as long as they can reach the minimum goal, and keep the remaining words for when they are completely stuck.

In his previous life, Mu Yusheng had done this kind of thing many times, and now he was just stockpiling manuscripts subconsciously based on his experience.

To be honest, since I only need to localize my previous life's works in this life, I don't have to worry about writer's block.

The reason why we do these things now is mostly due to the habits left over from the occupational diseases at that time.

To some extent, I have worked very hard to be able to publish three volumes, which is more than the two volumes mentioned by the Kagurazaka editor!

cough cough.

With a light cough, he suppressed the many thoughts in his mind, and Mu Yusheng moved his hands slightly, typing directly on 1ine to ask -

Is this enough?

Just like before, the reply from the Kagurazaka editor came almost instantly—

Enough is enough, it is definitely enough.

Seeing this message, Mu Yusheng smiled slightly and continued typing to ask——

That's good.

Anything else?

If nothing else, I will continue writing light novels.

Originally, he thought there was nothing else to do today, so he said this and prepared to end the chat with the Kagurazaka editor.

But to his surprise, the editor of Kagurazaka sent him this message:

By the way, does Mr. Hanyu have time?

Can we discuss the plot for a moment?

Plot?

Is there anything wrong with the plot?

We have clearly localized the film based on the original novel, and the plot hasn't changed much, so how could there be a problem?

Is there something wrong with the formatting of the content I sent out?

But it shouldn’t be!

Although there are some differences between the word documents exported by WPS on mobile phones and those on computers, the differences are not so big that they can affect the viewing of the content.

After being puzzled for a long time, Mu Yusheng typed and asked with a puzzled look on his face -

Is there anything wrong with the content?

After these words came out, as if he was organizing the appropriate words, a while later, the message from the Kagurazaka editor came through.

By the way, Mr. Hanyu, I always feel that the protagonist named Midoriya Aki is a bit of a scumbag. Can you give us a little hint about the subsequent development?

Did the protagonist realize the feelings of the two heroines towards him a long time ago?

When he saw the message from the editor of Kagurazaka, a look of understanding suddenly appeared on Maki Yusheng's face.

So it’s a question about Midoriya Aki’s character?

It is normal to have doubts about this character. After all, the male protagonists of today's isekai novels tend to be upright, and the male protagonists of other types of light novels all look decent. It is rare to see a scumbag character like this.

But there is always a first time for everything, maybe we can achieve very good results?

What's more, the plot of this novel is like this, and I can't make any major changes.

Thinking of this, he moved his hands again and started typing a reply directly -

That's right.

In less than a second, Kagurazaka Ayame's reply came through—

Wouldn't that be a bad idea? I'm afraid readers would find it hard to accept this kind of character design.

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Without directly answering the question from the Kagurazaka editor, Maki Hanyu typed back:

Editor Kagurazaka, what do you think is the most popular category of light novels right now?

What kind of people are its target audience?

That's right.

The male protagonists of romance light novels usually have special features or are more sublime or decent characters.

But everything has its extremes.

not to mention--

This is neon!

If the otakus/2D fans in Kyushu are independent people who are self-reliant and unwilling to go out and participate in social activities, the otakus/2D fans in Japan are pure and simple people who rely on their parents for support.

Of course, this statement is too absolute. We can only say that most of the otaku/2D fans in these two countries have such characteristics.

It is precisely because of Neon’s special situation that the author chose to respond to the market, and then there appeared many plots and characters in which the female protagonists are great but the male protagonists are not worthy of them.

Among them, the male lead of "Rent-a-Girlfriend", Midori Aki, is also a relatively famous one.

Thinking of this, Mu Yusheng added again -

Apart from that, the characters had already been decided from the very beginning, and this light novel was almost finished in my mind, so it was impossible to change it at the last minute.

As an author who tends to be more lazy in the future, in addition to localizing the plot, he only changed the name of the male protagonist, and everything else remained the same. The names of Sawamura Eriri and Kasumigaoka Utaha are still the same.

Anyway, according to my various searches, there are no heroines like Eriri Sawamura and Utaha Kasumigaoka in this world, so there is no problem in taking out this light novel.

At this moment, Mu Yusheng looked like an old general on the stage, with flags all over his body.

After seeing Maki Yuyu's last message, the Kagurazaka editor couldn't help but give up communicating with him about changing the male protagonist's character.

Just like what Mr. Hanyu said, in this era when the Isekai genre is very popular, more boys read light novels.

In this case, targeting the audience of romantic light novels at the male side is a relatively good strategy.

Ever since——

With this thought in mind, the short-haired young woman could only type back:

I understand. Then, Mr. Hanyu, you go ahead and get busy.

Seeing that the editor of Kagurazaka had recovered, Maki Yusheng ignored her and closed 1ine and continued typing.

……

now.

Inside Kadokawa Library.

Editor Kagurazaka was carefully reading the contents of the second and third volumes sent by Maki Yusheng, trying to find any obvious places that needed to be revised.

She just read it many times but didn't find any mistakes. She could only sigh that this newbie, Mr. Hanyu, is indeed a genius light novel writer!