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  A couplet to describe the current Su Rixian: The sound of wind, rain and reading, I won't make a sound. Family affairs, national affairs, world affairs, none of my business. This is the current state of Su Rixian, no matter how noisy it is outside, Su Rixian focuses on drawing his own comics, unmoved.

  "It's been several days and I haven't even finished a single episode, this is exhausting!" Su Xichen also felt the immense pressure, completing an anime by oneself was indeed a very challenging task.

  In fact, whether it's the previous world or this world, most well-known cartoonists have assistants, ranging from two to five, and there is even a comic book "Cartoonist and Assistant" that specifically depicts the work of a comic assistant.

  Takeshi Kitano is a good example of challenging such high-difficulty things, Takeshi Kitano has a nickname called "The King of Suspension" and is affectionately referred to by fans as "Kitano the Old Thief".

  Jumping tickets and escaping drafts are completely a pitiful image, and finally even developed to the point where only ten episodes were drawn in a year. In fact, Su Rixian had fallen into a giant pit called "Full-time Hunter".

  Su Shi didn't want it to be like this, his integrity had already been questioned in the matter of "Hong Huang" and "Sherlock Holmes", he didn't want to become a rich old thief, so finding an assistant was inevitable.

  Inviting a comic assistant is easy if you say it's easy, but hard if you say it's hard. The key point is that there's no way to do it, so I still have to go find Wang Ni.

  When she arrived at Xian Shi Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., Wang Ni happened to be leaving the company.

  "Aunt, where are you going?"

  "Xiao Chen, you're just in time. Come on, I'll take you to see someone." Wang Ni was swift and decisive, and Su Xiao Chen didn't even have a chance to ask who it was before being pulled into the car.

  "Who is Aunt going to see?"

  "When you get there, you'll know." Also, when you arrive, you'll understand, so don't ask too many questions. Wang Ni drove the car for about ten or twenty minutes and stopped in front of an office building. Judging from the height and decoration of the building, it was not as good as their Xianyue Cultural Broadcasting Company.

  Take the elevator to the seventh floor, their destination this time is Xuan Man She, and thinking about his "Slam Dunk" which will be published two months later can guess the purpose of coming here.

  The boss of the company is a middle-aged man in his forties, with hair on top of his head forming a Mediterranean shape, and a pair of small eyes revealing a businessman's unique astuteness.

  "Xiao Chen, this is Liang Yin, the president of Jiaman Society. Our company, Shan Shi Cultural Transmission Co., Ltd., has partnered with Jiaman Society, and two months from now, 'Slam Dunk' will be operated by them," Wang Ni introduced: "President Liang, this is Su Xiao Chen, the talented author and pillar of our publishing company."

  Wang Ni calls Su Rui Chen the pillar of the company, a title that Su Rui Chen fully deserves. Among the top three best-selling books of Xian Shi Cultural Broadcasting Co., Ltd., all are works by Su Rui Chen: "Huang Yu" with sales of over 32 million, ranking first; "Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection" with sales of 27.3 million, ranking second; and "First Intimate Contact" with sales of 18 million, ranking third.

  Actually, the president of DeYun Press didn't know that Tian En was Su LeiChen, and didn't know that "The First Intimate Contact" was also a work by Su LeiChen. However, he is extremely regretful now. If at that time he wasn't so greedy for money and had offered more to sign the rights to "Sherlock Holmes" and then signed the rights to "Huang Yu", those huge profits would have belonged to DeYun Press.

  But there is no regret medicine in this world, and it's not a big deal. When Su Rensheng's books sell even better in the future, the intestines of the president of De Yun Publishing House may turn green with regret, or he might even feel like banging his head against the wall to commit suicide!

  "So this is the one who's known as China's greatest genius, Su Xichen. I've read both of your detective novels, 'The Holmes Case Files' and 'The Four Signatures', they're absolutely brilliant, a masterclass in plotting, right at the pinnacle of world detective fiction." Liang Yinyin grasped Su Xichen's hands tightly, looking like a die-hard fan.

  Su Xichen disliked Liang Yin, a hypocritical person who pretended to be affectionate. He obviously hadn't read it but said he liked it particularly. At most, he might have roughly read some reports about him and didn't even know that "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Sign of Four" were the same book.

  However, in interpersonal relationships, such hypocritical flattery is also indispensable. So Su Rui Chen, although not fond of it, didn't expose it either. He stretched out his hand to shake hands and said, "Thank you, Director Liang, for your support. With a capable person like Director Liang liking my work, I'll have even more motivation to write books in the future."

  "Modest modest, speaking of great abilities, President Wang Ni is the one with great abilities."

  "What does President Liang think about the 'Slam Dunk' matter?" Wang Ni asked directly.

  "It's great to be able to cooperate with your company, and just having the name 'Su Rui Chen' on the comic is already a shining brand. I believe that after two months of publication, not much promotion will be needed. As for other aspects, President Wang, please rest assured, I will definitely manage well."

  "President Liang's words naturally made me feel very at ease. After all, Comic House is the most powerful comic book publisher in our Yang City."

  "It's nothing, compared to the prosperous Shang Rui Cultural Broadcasting Co., Ltd. under President Wang, this small temple of mine is really not worth mentioning." In fact, what Liang Yin said was also humble, although the comics in the Huaxia world were more advanced than those on Earth, they didn't have a cultural circle that was so popular.

  The entire Yangcheng has few comic book publishers, so the strongest comic book publisher in Yangcheng, Huaman She, doesn't have much to be proud of and can't compare with Xianyue Cultural Broadcasting Co., Ltd. which has Su Rixing Town Scene.

  Working with a too-large comic publishing house, Wang Ni couldn't grasp the initiative, which was very unfavorable; while working with a too-small comic publishing house, the resources channel was too narrow and even worse, Xian Man She could be said to be just right.

  "Director Liang doesn't know if he can help me with something." Su Xichen hadn't forgotten about this matter.

  "What's the hurry? As long as it's within my power, I'll definitely help." Liang Yin's tone was like a guarantee, but in fact, Liang Yin's words were very skillful. Don't think that someone like Liang Yin would go all out to help you at first sight. What he said was within the scope of his power, and what exactly is within his power depends on how Liang Yin puts it.

  "Generally when drawing comics there are several assistants, but I'm alone now, so I don't know if President Liang Yin can introduce one or two assistants to me."

  "Of course, cartoonists need assistants," said Liang Yin with a somewhat embarrassed expression. "Those who come to submit manuscripts to our company are all aspiring cartoonists, and the salary of being an assistant can't compare to that of being a cartoonist. Although I'm the president of the company, it's not good for me to force people either."

  Indeed, even the remuneration for being an assistant to some comic book gods is not high. However, Liang Yin said so much that it can be summarized in four words: "Love cannot help".

  He is indeed an old slippery fish, unwilling to lend a helping hand with even a small favor.

  "Director Liang, we won't disturb your work then. We'll leave first." "I'm really sorry about that." Liang Yin's face seemed to be filled with shame for not being able to help Su Xichen, and the old fox's acting skills were still quite good.

  "Bang!" Just as soon as he came out of Liang Yin's office, an employee ran into Su Shicen's body head-on. Fortunately, it was a slender female employee. If it were a sturdy male employee, the one who would have been knocked to the ground by now would definitely be Su Shicen.

  "Sorry, sorry!" The female staff apologized repeatedly and picked up the documents on the ground.

  "No big deal, I'll help too." Su Xichen also followed to pick up and found a stack of drawings.

  "Are these drawings going to be published?"

  "Oh, Su writer, you don't know this, these are manuscripts submitted to our Rong Man Society but were not passed, and then sent back to the authors." Liang Yin also came out of the office to explain.

  "Oh?" Su Xuechen's mind moved and she said "Director Liang, how about this? Hand over these manuscripts to me and I'll help you return them to the authors, what do you think?"

  "That's naturally very good, then trouble Su writer you." Liang Yin instructed the female employee to hand over all the materials of these returned cartoonists to Su Shicheng.

  Holding a large pile of manuscripts on the bus, Wang Ni suddenly asked while driving in front, "Is Xiao Chen planning to find an assistant from these returned manuscripts?"

  "That's natural, Auntie is really formidable, nothing can escape your notice." Su Xichen smiled and said, since the comic that passed the audit was not possible to agree due to price reasons, then these returned manuscripts would be more easily accepted.

  "These little tricks of yours, Liang Yin is actually aware of them too. However, these unpublished manuscripts are useless to the Mei Man Society as well. By handing over the manuscript to you, he can save on postage, so that's why he's being so generous."

  When Wang Ni said this, Su Xichen couldn't help but think of a phrase: Ginger is still spicy when it's old.

  "Has Xiaochen found a suitable person among these drafts?"

  "These drafts all have some problems, most of which are in the arrangement of the plot. For example, this comic 'Signing War God' starts with a fight, although the fighting scenes are extremely brilliant, but there is no plot at all, and there are also some flaws in the brushwork. It's strange that such comics can be published."

  "Xiao Chen, you're just an assistant, as long as your drawing skills are qualified, that's enough. In terms of the plot, it's also up to you to grasp it well."

  "This is okay, but I also need to find a pen that suits me better."

  In the past, there was a notable example of Masashi Kishimoto, the author of "Naruto", who had an entire studio working behind him to help with his work. Although he was the main writer, some readers felt that the style of his assistants was quite different from his own, leading to speculation that the author had been changed, and even a bit of a commotion ensued. Su Ruo Chen does not want this to happen.

  "Seriously looking at these drafts... 'The author's writing is very good, the painting skills are also quite high, why would such a work be rejected?'"

  Upon closer inspection of this draft, I discovered a major issue. If the previous comic "Signing with the War God" seemed to lack plot, then this one has a plot that's too complex and incomprehensible. Su Rui Chen has only just started reading it and already threw out a huge pile of background settings.

  Whether writing or drawing comics, one thing to note is that the beginning of a chapter can't dump a large amount of baggage and background settings all at once, readers will get impatient.

  Although the story is messy, to be honest, this painter is very powerful, and his painting style is a bit similar to that of Takehiko Inoue, the original author of "Slam Dunk". If he can imitate it a bit more, the similarity should reach 80%. The author's name is Chen Xin, which also has a "Chen" in it. Is this considered fate?

  Su Shengchen took out a dozen or so returned manuscripts from Ruan Man Society and selected three of them.

  All three were quite good in terms of painting skills, but because the constructed story was too poor, they were rejected.

  First send back the remaining unselected manuscripts to the authors by express delivery, and then find the three selected ones one by one.

  According to the distance of the journey, the first house found was knocked on. The person inside was a young man about 24 years old, who didn't open the door but instead opened the peephole and asked in a rather cold tone, "Who are you?"

  "Excuse me, are you Xiao Feiyu, the author of 'The Flying Fish'?"

  "Ah, I'm Xiao Fei Yu. Are you people from Jiaman She? Has my 'Fei Yu' been approved and can be published?" The author's tone immediately became enthusiastic.

  "That's not it, your work 'Flying Fish' was rejected by the publisher due to some plot issues, and I'm planning to draw a manga, so I wanted to ask if you're interested in being my assistant. Your drawing skills are still quite..."

  "I'm not going to be your assistant, I'm going to be a manga artist in the future. How can I be an assistant for just one of your kids? Go wherever you like." The passionate tone immediately turned into cold words.

  "That..."

  "Hurry up!"

  "Wait, return my manuscript first." The author Fei Yu opened the door and stretched out his hand for the manuscript. After Su Xichen returned it to him, he slammed the door shut again, as if saying one more word to Su Xichen was a kind of failure.