Big Manga

In January, the cold air from Siberia enveloped the sky of Suhua. In this cold season, Li Qin asked Alice to bring a cotton coat to Meng Huo.

"Thank you, I'm sorry to trouble you." It was the weekend, Meng Huo's rare rest day, and Alice arrived at noon.

"No trouble, I was going to take a look at it, and I brought the clothes for you." Alice smiled, but what she said was not the truth. Since Shen Jie was arranged in the manga island, Alice returned to Suzhou. Hua's time is getting less and less, and the work here is basically handed over to Shen Jie.

Alice seldom has time to leave Ninghai. In fact, Xu Jing has already handed over most of the work to her. Her power is basically the same as that of the president. Many people know that she is being trained to be the next president.

Next year or the year after, Xu Jing will officially hand over the job to Alice and choose to retire—the old man has nothing else to ask for and is already thinking of leaving the company. Of course, he also sought Meng Huo's opinion and asked him if he would like to let Alice take over as president. Of course, Meng Huo did not object.

He is not interested in the position of president, so handing it over to Alice saves worry and effort.

However, although the two met less, their relationship was not very unfamiliar, and Alice didn't feel too uneasy in her heart. This is a completely different psychology from the past, and she will not spend less time with Meng Huo now. And feel uneasy.

Even so, Alice still misses Meng Huo occasionally, and she cherishes every opportunity to meet him. When she came here this time, Shen Jie knew that she hadn't seen Meng Huo for a long time, and she took the initiative to avoid it today—of course Meng Huo didn't know about it.

When he invited Alice to lunch, he thought that Shen Jie had something to go out today.

Meng Huo prepared the lunch himself. Alice saw that he was dressed casually, and asked, "Don't you need to go out to socialize today?"

"Well, I want to take a day off. Think about the thesis by the way."

"paper?"

"Graduation thesis."

Meng Huo said that he usually worked as much as before, but in the first two weeks. The graduation thesis topics of the three schools have been determined. There were still several months before the deadline for the papers, but Meng Huo wanted to finish them sooner.

If everything goes well. He planned to pass the dissertation review after the Chinese New Year, so that his study pressure would be greatly reduced next semester, and he would not need to worry about the internship.

"The three schools will give priority to sending teachers to help me review the thesis,

I was also able to accept defense earlier than others. Meng Huo laughed and said, "Principal Xing said that I don't need to wait for everyone to answer together. The commotion is too great." "

"Indeed, it's easier to handle your graduation alone." Alice nodded.

Every year, the graduation season is a busy season for the university, and the review and defense of the thesis is also a troublesome thing, if Meng Huo and other students participate in the defense at the same time. Maybe because of his identity, he will cause a lot of trouble for the school.

But in this way, Meng Huo's time is a bit tight, the preparation of the thesis is a very professional activity, plus he still has the status of "the number one scholar in the college entrance examination" and "the big star", it is impossible for ordinary thesis to pass—— The quality of the papers must be very high.

Alice came up with the idea of ​​helping: "Do you need me to give you some pointers? Graduation thesis is a very delicate subject, and you may not be able to do it well if you look at the template. My graduation thesis that year was rated as an excellent thesis , I can help you a little bit."

Naturally, Meng Huo would not refuse, and nodded with a smile: "Then I'll leave it to you."

In fact, he wasn't too worried about his poor writing of the thesis, but he was really at a loss now. Having a skilled person to help saves a lot of trouble and avoids detours. Neither Shen Jie nor Qin Ya can help her. Alice is a good choice.

In this way, after lunch, Alice instructed Meng Huo on how to write his graduation thesis. After a busy afternoon, Meng Huo memorized all the points that needed attention, and came to a conclusion on the outline and content of the thesis. It's almost time to start.

His efficiency exceeded Alice's expectations. It took her more than half a month to determine the high-quality thesis topic and outline, but Meng Huo determined the structure of the three thesis in half a day.

Even so. The two were still busy until seven o'clock in the evening, and Meng Huo saw that it was so late. I took Alice out for dinner. They didn't have to go far to find the restaurant on the local street of Manga Island. After eating, I didn't do anything else, and walked home while walking.

There are not many pedestrians on the streets of Manga Island. The main reason is that it is too cold. The cold wind makes most tourists walk into the shops beside the street.

"It's hard to see such a quiet street." Alice pulled the scarf to cover her face, but the breath she exhaled still showed a white mist in the air, which showed how cold the air on the street was.

Meng Huo looked at Alice quietly. Her blond hair, which looked soft under the light, was now as warm as moonlight, so that Meng Huo could not feel the chill in the air.

For some reason, he is happy now.

Alice and Shen Jie were different in height, but because of this simple difference, Meng Huo would never confuse the two of them. Shen Jie has the height of a female in China's standard. She is half a head shorter than Meng Huo. When standing beside him, she looks like a golden height match to outsiders.

And Alice was taller than Shen Jie, and she was almost the same as Meng Huo, but when she stood with him, she would steal some outsiders' attention. The Caucasian figure is too tall for the Chinese, which is a natural charm, and this charm is the most profound in Meng Huo's eyes.

When he looked at Alice, he always looked at Alice at a level. In front of her, Meng Huo felt that he had no upper hand and was always easy to be seen through by her.

"This woman is special..." He would always think so when looking at Alice, no matter his height or appearance, he couldn't see Alice in the same way as other women.

Sometimes Meng Huo's eyes would be taken away by Alice without him noticing. Perhaps it was because of her height that Meng Huo could never put Alice and Shen Jie on the same level in his heart, because Alice had always been taller, more mature and older in his heart.

"I probably..." During this walk, Meng Huo suddenly understood why he fell in love with Alice in the first place. It was probably because what he longed for in his heart was someone older than himself—perhaps, he had a kind of Oedipus love .

In his previous life, Li Qin died when he was a teenager. This caused quite a shadow in his heart. He longed for someone who could take care of and lead him like his mother, and Alice happened to be this kind of person.

If he didn't succeed in saving Li Qin in this world. It might be difficult for Meng Huo to let go of Alice...

"No, it's impossible to let go!" He shook his head secretly. In fact, Meng Huo is already having a hard time letting go of Alice. If Li Qin wasn't around and he still met Alice when he was fifteen, he would definitely have married her back home.

But that was impossible after all—Meng Huo followed Alice and found that she had stopped moving suddenly.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"That..." Alice pointed to a figure shop on the street, and said with a smile, "Let's go in and have a look. I happen to have something I want to buy."

Meng Huo nodded, and followed her into the store: "What do you want to buy?"

"Black Prince Lelouch... bought it and put it in the bedroom of the apartment." Alice said. I searched it in the store: "Maybe I can buy one for Shen Jie..."

Meng Huo followed and looked around the small shop. The small shop was packed with figurines and all kinds of accessories, and there was a very warm feeling standing inside.

He didn't care about Alice's actions, and he was also curious to observe the products in the store. On the most conspicuous cabinet, there was a place with a 'Hot' label. There were figures that had just been released recently. fate/" and "Shakugan no Shana" are the main ones.

Meng Huo walked over curiously, reached out and picked up a sample of Shana to look through it, and it felt very good. The details are also very delicate, not inferior to the figures of the same period in the previous life. Some people always treat figurines as ordinary toys, but this is actually a misunderstanding. The real hand-made figures are very particular about the workmanship and materials, and the price is not cheap.

The popular figures in the store cost several hundred at the lowest, and thousands of expensive ones, especially the two limited edition figures placed in the middle: one is Saber standing with a sword, the other is Shana who draws a sword, The price of these two figures is 1899, which is quite expensive.

"Are you going to buy it too?"

At this time, Alice had already selected the products, walked over to Meng Huo to have a look, and said, "These are the two most popular figures recently, and they are out of stock."

"You even know this kind of thing?"

"Zhou Qian specifically reported it to me."

Alice explained. With the popularity of the two animations recently, the figurines of Saber and Shana are very popular—and these two are new products. In addition to them, figures of other characters are also selling well.

Since the new animation aired. In a few weeks, the turnover of hand-made figures has approached one-third of animation copyright revenue.

"I see. Zhou Qian did a good job!" Meng Huo smiled. The peripheral industries of Phoenix Company are growing rapidly, and figures are only a part of it. Zhou Qian has slowly opened up the market for handles, but there is still more room for growth in the future.

The benefits of animation peripherals that Meng Huo has seen in his previous life are much greater than they are now. Basic animations do not rely on the copyright fees for broadcasting to make money, but rely on subsequent bds and various peripheral products—even many animation companies are selling peripheral products. Just to do animation.

Huaxia's surrounding markets have not yet been developed on a large scale. Except for Manga Island where Phoenix Company is located and Zhongxia Company's base in Ninghai, other cities have just started activities such as comic exhibitions, and there is still a lot of room for development in the future. .

After buying the figures, Meng Huo and the two went out.

"ah!"

They suddenly met an acquaintance at the door, He Qian. Although Meng Huo and Alice had already put on makeup, He Qian and Meng Huo were so familiar, and Alice's figure was also very conspicuous. She recognized them at a glance : "Teacher He Xi, Miss Alice, why are you here!?"

"He Qian, good evening."

"Did you come to buy handmade ones too?"

Alice asked.

"Yes, let me see what new products are available..." He Qian smiled, then suddenly remembered something, turned to Meng Huo and said, "Teacher, the game is almost finished, I have invited you several times, how do you Don't come to us to check."

"Sorry, I don't have much time recently!" Meng Huo apologized. There is still a long time before the game is released, so he is not in a hurry now, and has been letting the game department to modify it first.

"The game you are talking about is "White Album 2", right? It is almost finished?" Alice asked He Qian. This new text adventure game has not been announced to the public, but Alice knows the name, "White Album" 2", a love triangle theme game.

"Yes, it's the strange "White Album 2"!" He Qian said with a smile: "Even though "White Album 1" hasn't been released yet, the teacher directly named it 2, isn't it strange!"

"really……"

Alice glanced at Meng Huo. The name of "White Album 2" caused quite a controversy among insiders of the Phoenix Company. Many people suggested changing the name: "Meng Huo, you really don't plan to be in the game. Before launching, remove the word 2 in the name?"

Meng Huo shook his head: "I haven't considered it yet. There is a 1 game before 2. I don't know if it will be released in the future..."

"Since you are not sure whether you will release 1 work, why do you think so much... 1 hasn't released any 2 yet, or you can just change the order and turn this "White Album 2" into "White Album 2" "White Album", when 1 is released in the future, let's change it to "White Album 2"!" He Qian said.

"This is not acceptable, the timeline of 1 is before 2..."

Meng Huo said, but after thinking about it, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it, just like "fate/" is the predecessor of "fate/". In fact, he doesn't need to worry about 1 or 2. If "White Album 1" is released in the future, he can write it as a predecessor.

"I seem to be turning a corner." Meng Huo patted his head and vetoed what he said just now: "What you said makes sense, I'd better change "White Album 2" to "White Album"."

He looked at the joyful He Qian and asked, "But will changing the name cause trouble to the game production?"

"No, it's not troublesome at all!" He Qian shook her head immediately, the game was almost finished, but it wasn't finished yet. She only needs to ask the staff to change the title, and the content does not need to be greatly revised.

Meng Huo felt relieved: "That's how it is, you change it next week."

"No problem!" He Qian replied happily, then looked at Meng Huo and the two, and said with a smile: "Then I won't bother you, Teacher, and go ahead."

She waved her hand, then walked into the handicraft shop, Meng Huo and Alice walked side by side to the apartment, and the ordinary day passed like this. (to be continued)