Chapter 792: Author, Assistant, Editor
“The opening ceremony will be held in the auditorium tomorrow at 9 a.m., which is also a general assembly for the third. The committee members from our class must be present no matter what.”
The class leader, who was wearing a blue-and-white striped school uniform with her long hair hanging straight down her back, said as she sat at one end of the conference table.
Of course, ordinary classrooms wouldn’t have a luxury goods like a long conference table. Class 3-3’s conference table was made by combining five desks from the second row. The ones who contributed their strength to do this were Niu ShiLi and Winnie. I wanted to help, but the class leader stopped me.
“Class leader, you’re biased!” Winnie, who still wore shorts despite the cold weather and revealed her tanned thighs, complained, “Why don’t you make Ye Lin work? Did Ye Lin secretly treat you to ice cream?!”
Shu Sha frowned slightly, she probably thought: Summer has already passed, and it’s also been cold due to the rain the past few days, so who would still eat ice cream right now?
Zhuang Ni once sarcastically said with malicious intent, “Xiong YaoYue’s life goals combined are probably only worth a Häagen-Dazs three-scoop cup.” Her statement was definitely a bit too harsh, but it wasn’t entirely baseless or without reason.
Complaints aside, Xiong YaoYue still diligently helped Niu ShiLi to push the desks together. She enjoyed being physically active, making her sit still and do nothing would only likely make her anxious.
At this moment, she was sitting to my right and already looking a bit restless. She would occasionally tap on the desk, then play with her phone, looking like a restless monkey that wants to climb back up a tree.
The class leader, as the host of the meeting, sat at one end of the long table, while the others were evenly distributed on both sides. Since Xiong YaoYue and I were both PE committee members, we sat next to each other.
Hearing the class leader say, “The committee members from our class must be present tomorrow,” Xiong YaoYue noticed a flaw and raised her hand, “Zhuang Ni is the arts committee member, but can she come tomorrow? If she can’t come, why don’t you just appoint someone else to be the art committee member?”
Zhuang Ni made it clear that although she was a lesbian, the tomboy Xiong YaoTue was not her type, and Xiong YaoYue didn’t like Zhuang Ni very much either——so it’s true that those who are well-versed in literature and arts and those who are well-versed in sports don’t share a common language?
The class leader was slightly curious: “Who do you want to recommend as the new arts committee member?”
“Do you even need to ask?” Xiong YaoYue said proudly, “Of course it’s Xiao Qin, a master who has serialized her works online!!”
I almost spat the water in my mouth out onto Gong CaiCai’s face. Gong CaiCai was scared when it looked like I was about to spit, so she backed away from me.
Despite practicing the “law of attraction” every day, her courage still hasn’t grown much. During today’s meeting, she even proposed to resign from her position as a committee member, but the class leader didn’t agree, so she didn’t insist and sat there with a sullen expression.
The Happy Science Cult, which is was run by Fang Xin and his father, Professor Bai, seemed to be only focused on scamming people out of their money while also feeling the psychological pleasure of being worshiped. Currently, they still haven’t show any signs of tricking others into performing sexual acts.
Gong CaiCai’s family has a lot of money, so it was fine being scammed out of some money. The worst part about the Happy Science Cult is that its teachings are very positive. If you can put their teachings into practice and persevere with it, then it can really make life more fulfilling and happy —— from this perspective, the class leader has failed to make Gong CaiCai more cheerful, but the cult has made Gong CaiCai move towards cheerfulness by 0.01 microns.
I could take care of Gong CaiCai once I infiltrate the cult to prevent her from being tricked too badly, but I’ll let nature take its course for the time being.
When Xiong YaoYue recommended Xiao Qin to be the new committee member, Niu ShiLi, who was sitting next to Gong CaiCai laughed before the class leader even said anything.
“Xiao Xiong, are you joking?! I sit to the right of Xiao Qin and I’ve seen her draw on her textbooks before, she’s basically a vegetable artist! We’re not an agricultural school, so we don’t need our chalkboards filled with eggplants and potatoes!”
I felt a strong connection to Niu ShiLi’s words. As expected of a comrade who drank Fu Yan Jie with me, he expressed everything I wanted to say.
“Call me Winnie!” Xiong YaoYue shouted angrily, “Call me by my nickname without ‘Xiong’! How dare you criticize Celery-sensei’s drawing skills! Watch out, her fans might come and beat you up!”
Niu ShiLi was stunned, “Is Celery-sensei referring to Xiao Qin? She has fans?”
“Of course she has fans! Quite a few of them!” Xiong YaoYue slapped her smartphone, which was modified by Dr. Yu, onto the table, “Look! This is what Xiao Qin has been publishing online! She has plenty of fans! For example, those at the top of the fan list, ‘Long Live Celery-sensi’, ‘Victory to Celery-sensi’, ‘Celery-sensi, the World’s Number One’, ‘Celery-sensi for Thousands of Generations’…”
Why do none of these usernames sound serious? Is it because Xiao Qin’s drawing skills are so bad that people came to make these accounts to ridicule and mess with her?
I actually checked out Xiao Qin’s “Cthulhu Also Wants Love” on u17 a few days ago. In less than ten days, she had already published three chapters. The plot had progressed to a bizarre scene in front of Cthulhu’s office, where a group of monster workers are demanding for their wages…
The readers all laughed! The editor was absolutely right to categorize this manga as a comedy! The childish plot gives readers a feeling of intellectual superiority, and the terrible drawings have become a source of humor. Even if readers take just one glance, they can’t help but say “The drawing is so bad!” It led to the manga ranking in the top 15 of the works to ridicule list, attracting quite a bit of attention.
I picked up Winnie’s phone and saw that Xiao Qin had updated “Cthulhu Also Wants Love” to the fourth chapter. The drawings were still a tragic sight and the screen was filled with reader comments ridiculing it. On the top right corner, other than “Author: Celery-sensei”, there was even an editor and assistant!
Winnie said earlier the class leader didn’t make me do any work was because she was bribed… I think she was the one who was bribed! I don’t remember you being able to draw! You’re only an assistant in name, right? You probably think it could make you seem cooler and if Xiao Qin’s manga gets even more popular, then you will also get popular along with it.
As usual, the readers on u17 began to roast the appearance of an editor and assistant:
“Shen EnNiu, what’s your relationship with the editor, No EnYang, why does your name sound like a imitation?”
“I bet it’s a new editor, never seen him before. Or maybe it’s too embarrassing being Celery-sensei’s editor, so it’s an old editor using a new name.”
Celery-sensei A: “Why would it be embarrassing to be my editor?! Are you guys jealous of me?! Who sent you guys! How many people are working for you!”
“Everyone, come look! The 14 year old loli author is acting up again! Don’t let her get away!”
“Stop dreaming, what makes you think the author is a loli?”
“The gender and age is listed in the author’s introduction! Also, the speech bubble are written by hand in chapter four. The handwriting is so beautiful so it has to be a girl!”
It’s true Xiao Qin’s handwriting is beautiful. I guess even though you need a pen for both writing and drawing, but it’s not related at all.
“Fool! Who can guarantee those words were written by the author? Maybe the assistant wrote it! I think the assistant, Winnie, was asked to write the words since there’s been no improvements in the drawings in chapter four!”
“I agree with the above, upvote.”
“Upvote +1”.
The readers who thought Winnie wrote those words were all wrong: Winnie’s handwriting is only a tiny bit better than mines. At first glance, it would seem like it was written by a boy who doesn’t like to study.
“Hahaha, did anyone notice? The author, Celery-sensei, is a plant. The editor, Shen EnNiu, is a cow who eats grass. The editor is Winnie the Pooh. The three of them form a perfect food chain!”
“Sounds great, but I don’t know if cows like to eat celery.”
“Your mom’s a bear! My name is Winnie, not Winnie the Pooh! Take out the Pooh!”
The one with the ID of ‘Emperor Winnie’ was obviously made by Xiong YaoYue.
“Call for reinforcements! The second 14 year old loli that’s in charge of the writing has appeared! Let’s all tease the author and assistant!”
“What makes you think Winnie the Pooh is also a loli?”
“Because her handwriting is beautiful! I bet the two of them are classmates!”
“Take off the Pooh! You stupid m************!!!!”
“A loli with beautiful handwriting swearing, what a incredible gap moe. I, I can’t take it anymore, I’m coming…”
“OP above is broken. Also, assistant Pooh deserves praise.”
Malicious readers kept adding Pooh behind the word assistant. Even the author, Xiao Qin, couldn’t keep up with deleting these comments at Xiong YaoYue’s request, as people added them faster than she could remove them.
As I watched this spectacle, other members of the class committee also checked out “Cthulhu Also Wants Love” on their phones. Their expressions immediately became indescribable, similar to Cthulhu itself.
“I object,” said the English class representative, a serious girl wearing glasses. “If we put her drawings on our chalkboards, will be looked down on by both the teachers and the students!”
The thin, frail boy sitting next to her was the math class representative, and he nodded in agreement.
The others didn’t express their opinions for the time being, probably thinking that speaking the truth might offend me since Xiao Qin was my childhood friend, so they let the class leader make the final decision.
“How could you have such a lack of appreciation for art?” Xiong YaoYue stood up in pain and frustration, “Letting Xiao Qin be the art committee member is better than leaving the position vacant! For our second year, we were barely getting by with Gong CaiCai’s artistic writing!”
“There’s no need to discuss this issue further.” The class leader gestured for Xiong YaoYue to sit down, “I just confirmed with Geng YuHong via text that Zhuang Ni will officially return to class on September 3rd. She might even attend the opening ceremony tomorrow —— she will continue to serve as the art committee member.”
Xiong YaoYue sat down in disappointment and asked, “What if Zhuang Ni doesn’t want to be the art committee member anymore, or what if she takes another leave of absence after just a few days of classes?”
The class leader’s face darkened, “Then it still won’t be you or Xiao Qin’s turn. Even if I have to use a ruler to draw a hexadecahedron, I won’t let you two ruin our class’ chalkboard art…”