Is this cartoonist mentally ill?

Four years later.

The neon lights of the bustling city of Magic City are reflected on the French windows. As the light and shadow flow, a spacious and bright office is revealed.

This is the office of the CEO of Manjie Culture Co., Ltd., which is decorated with luxury but taste.

A huge oak desk occupies the center of the room. Benya Rothschild is sitting on the leather chair behind the desk, holding his brows with his hands, frowning, and showing a headache.

His deep eyes stared through the window at the prosperous capital of the Republic, as if looking for an inspiration to solve the problem in front of him.

There was a trace of fatigue in his eyes, and he looked at the two contracts on the table.

One of them was... the original contract signed by Dao Weiyixian. Even though the contract signed by Manjie has changed again and again, it took away the copyright at the beginning and only left the copyright dividends to the cartoonists.

Later, it began to sign cartoonists directly, and the copyright of all their works belonged to Manjie.

But the contract between Lin Qingshan and "Dao Wei Yi Xian" has never changed. Even if the comic industry intends to freeze "Dao Wei Yi Xian" and not promote it, Lin Qingshan has not changed his mind.

Moreover, "Dao Wei Yi Xian" has become a popular comic book because of its reputation and Lin Qingshan's reputation.

Even if the comic industry does not promote it, it is still the number one in sales and popularity, which is almost unshakable.

"Dao Wei Yi Xian", this super popular masterpiece that has completely become the face of comics in the past eight years, is about to usher in its grand finale.

"Dao Wei Yi Xian" has not only led the sales of comics in recent years, but even the animations, TV series, movies, and folk games adapted from it have all been a great success.

This work is already a masterpiece of the same level as the original "Purple Qi Coming from the East", and it is like Lin Qingshan's "Seven Dragon Balls" in his previous life.

It's just that because the subject matter is thrilling and relatively not passionate, the audience is not so wide, and the influence is slightly smaller.

It is probably equivalent to the popularity of "Attack on Titan" in the previous life, and it is somewhat weak.

But the reputation is still extremely explosive, just like Lin Qingshan's own reputation.

Later, Lin Qingshan created "JoJo" Pentalogy, "Death Note", "Cowboy Bebop", "Ajin", "Kaguya-sama: Love is War" and other good works at C Station.

Now his fans' words "Aoyama's products must be fine works" are no longer just casually said, but are recognized by everyone.

No matter how bad it is, it will not be too bad, at least it has a medium to high reputation.

For example, the two prequels of "JoJo", "Phantom Blood" and "Battle Tide", have a slightly worse reputation.

Because the first "Stardust Crusaders" had such a good response and reputation, and the setting of the Stand User was eye-catching, but why are the two prequels so retro?

Those stone masks and ripple qigong, as well as those plots are too old.

However... the famous scenes that were not well-known, such as "JOJO, I am not a human being!", "Thomson's ripples running", "Perfect JO-level creatures", "I'll run first (Chinese version of Lu's oil)", "JOJO, this is my last ripple", etc., are masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.

This provides a lot of interesting jokes for the ACG circle.

But the reputation and viewing experience of these two "JOJO's Bizarre Adventure" are really not good, and can only be regarded as above-average.

After all, the times are different. Lin Qingshan also thought that the reputation of "Phantom Blood" and "Battle Tide" would be like this after they were broadcast, so he directly released "Stardust Crusaders" first, making the first and second parts of these two parts become prequels.

Finally, after the two inexplicable prequels were broadcast, the original fourth "JOJO's Bizarre Adventure", this world became the second "JOJO's Bizarre Adventure" - "Diamond is Unbreakable" returned to the setting of the Stand User.

Then it returned to the popularity and reputation of the first part, and the third part "Golden Wind" was even better.

Lin Qingshan's reputation has completely returned, and the two prequels themselves also explain some foreshadowing of the main story, so fans suddenly realized that it was because of this that the prequels had a bad reputation.

The broadcast of "Death Note" also made fans and audiences shout "Old Thief Niu Chop", and the battle of wits and the famous paintings handed down from generation to generation opened the audience's eyes.

It turns out that reasoning and battle of wits can also add fantasy elements. When Light Yagami got the Death Note and turned into "Killer", everyone thought that this kind of superpower murder case was invincible.

However, it was unexpected that the mysterious genius boy "L" directly used a special method to calculate the area where Light Yagami was located, and also happened to deduce the city where he was located.

The plot of Light Yagami and "L" fighting wits and courage is unstoppable. Later, "L" failed and was killed by Light Yagami, and it was replaced by Nia who finally successfully caught Light Yagami, which also had a perfect ending.

"Cowboy Bebop" is a typical happy space road movie, although there are also sad stories, Spike's past, Jet's ex-wife, Faye's hometown... Everyone has a secret in their hearts.

But they can eat green pepper and pork without pork together, squeeze together in this shabby spaceship, and even risk their lives for each other.

However, they will not share these secrets with each other, and they also keep silent about these secrets tacitly.

Slightly sad and happy, that is the charm of "Cowboy Bebop". Even if the same plot and setting are a bit old, it still makes the audience feel very good and gives it a good rating.

Later, Lin Qingshan continued the horror genre of "Ghoul", "Parasyte", and "The Way of the Immortal" and created "Ajin".

There is also the love drama "Kaguya-sama: Love is War", which he tried for the first time for the C station's girl love event.

After it was broadcast, it also made the audience feel sweet.

Many people joked that Lin Qingshan had become enlightened after marrying the stationmaster.

However, it is regrettable that "Kaguya-sama: Love is War" directly stopped at the moment when the president and Kaguya confessed their love, and the subsequent plot could only make the audience regret and wanton reverie...

What they don't know is that it is best for "Kaguya-sama: Love is War" to stop there, and the subsequent plot can only be said to be...

It's better not to watch it.

Lin Qingshan's reputation is also because of this, which really surpassed the previous uncrowned kings, and was called the real god of comics by comic fans.

The key is that many fans of other comics find it difficult to refute.

Because there are really too many masterpieces and masterpieces, and there is no black history, this is simply invincible.

Even the super long comic masterpiece, "Dao Wei Yi Xian", has been serialized for a full eight years, which is enough to become a masterpiece.

After all, not all comic works have to be serialized for twenty years like "Purple Qi from the East" in this world and "One Piece" in Lin Qingshan's previous life.

However, according to the popularity of "Dao Wei Yi Xian", it must be serialized for another five or six years before it is finished.

However, the unexpected thing happened, but the story suddenly gradually approached the end, all the puzzles were solved, and Li Huowang began to enter the final battle with Fu Shengtian.

It looked like "Dao Wei Yi Xian" was about to end, and many comic fans were a little confused.

It's only been... a few years, and it's over?

Someone went to Lin Qingshan's account to ask, and the result... Lin Qingshan directly issued a notice, saying that he thanked the comic fans for their support over the past eight years, and "Dao Wei Yi Xian" had the last two chapters to be completed.

This caused an uproar instantly.

The popularity of "Dao Wei Yi Xian" is still at its peak, and it's just... finished?

Some comic fans expressed their reluctance, while others expressed their understanding. With Lin Qingshan's peak creative ability at the age of 40, he certainly doesn't want to continue to rely on "Dao Wei Yi Xian".

He must want to create new works, but Lin Qingshan said, no, I'm going back to draw the second part of "Chainsaw Man".

The comic fans were all numb in an instant. They remembered that "Chainsaw Man" was on hiatus but not finished, but Lin Qingshan drew "Dao Wei Yi Xian" during the hiatus.

Some comic fans who like "Chainsaw Man" very much are still a little happy, but they also think it's unnecessary.

The main reason is that the plot of the first part of "Chainsaw Man" has been well interrupted. In the eyes of most comic fans, it has been perfectly concluded.

There is no need to draw a second part like this. Instead of drawing a second part, it is better to draw more "Dao Wei Yi Xian". I haven't seen enough.

They just love the thriller of Lin Qingshan's madness combined with the traditional culture of the Republic.

It's not that the second part of "Chainsaw Man" is not good, but the traditional folk horror of the Republic is more popular than the so-called Western demon setting.

So the comic fans would rather Lin Qingshan, or continue to draw "Dao Wei Yi Xian".

However, Lin Qingshan said that he was very determined and said that he must draw the finale at this point, so that it would be the most exciting.

So he also said hello to the comic world. Although the comic world has always been because Ben Ya, the executive president, and Lin Qingshan are not harmonious, they have no intention of stopping Lin Qingshan.

Moreover, it is clearly written in the old contract that the cartoonist has the right to finish his work at any time.

Therefore, the comic world can only agree with tears to finish this facade and cash cow for these years.

This is actually not bad, but when the comic world asked Lin Qingshan about the time to resume the serialization of the second part of "Chainsaw Man"...

"Sorry, the teacher does not plan to continue serializing the second part of "Chainsaw Man" in the comic world."

Ito Ayumi, who has already resigned and is preparing to switch to become the editor-in-chief of the emerging Qianli Comics Network, directly informed him and said this with a smile.

Because the original cooperation period of the "Chainsaw Man" series was limited to a time limit of only about five years, and now the time has come.

And in this way, the cartoonist can buy the copyright back at the current copyright price.

"Chainsaw Man" has now reached the deadline, and the cartoonist can force it to buy it back.

This was an equal cooperation agreement proposed to treat cartoonists well when the comic world was established. Ben Ya was angry when he thought of this. The old and stupid people in the comic world before made such a charity contract.

These guys really don't know how to do business. What kind of philanthropists are they, and now they leave a mess for them.

Now that Lin Qingshan has made up his mind to leave, everyone knows that he will not maintain a hypocritical cooperative relationship with the comic world, but will jump back to the C-station comics founded by himself and Gu Qianli.

"Damn it... This is clearly intended to deliberately target me and us, so he finished "Dao Wei Yi Xian" ahead of time!"

Ben Ya was extremely angry, and he thought of another thing, "And the guys who finished Absolute Strongman, Akutami Gege, Goto Koyoharu, and Itchy Mouse one after another during that period... They finished so quickly and didn't start new works, it must be because of this!"

"Forget it..."

He took a deep breath and said, "Even if you go there, you may not be able to rise. The traffic that the comic world has been operating for decades is the biggest reliance. You guys who draw comics are nothing..."

"The comic world can support an uncrowned king, of course it can support a second one..."

Ben Ya suddenly thought of an excellent candidate for a cartoonist, "Tang San Shao... This guy's Douluo series is pretty good, and he has recently taken the initiative to sign a new contract... Not bad, then it's you."

He made up his mind to let go of those guys who didn't know how to appreciate him, and then create a new god.

He didn't believe it. When the time came, he would give all the traffic and publicity that originally belonged to cartoonists such as Lin Qingshan, Akutami Yuta, and Yang Shuzhun to Tang San Shao, and he didn't believe that he couldn't create a new god.

Comics, like celebrity idols, can all be packaged by traffic.

Ben Ya was very confident and immediately approved the publicity of the finale of "Dao Wei Yi Xian", and also said that he knew that Lin Qingshan would not renew his contract.

...

The other side of the magic city.

The sun shines on the carved iron gate of the manor, flashing golden light.

A magnificent courtyard comes into view. The layout of the garden is exquisite, and the trails are planted with neatly trimmed roses and jasmine, and the fragrance of flowers is curling.

In the central fountain pool, water droplets sparkle under the sun, and several sets of gold-plated outdoor furniture are placed by the pool, which is gorgeous and leisurely.

Passing through the path covered with fine sand, it is the main building.

The exterior wall of the villa is mainly light yellow, with white decorative lines, which looks particularly elegant.

On the spacious balcony, there are a row of rattan chairs and a long table, the table is covered with embroidered tablecloths, and several exquisite ceramic vases are filled with flowers.

The curtains fluttered gently in the wind, and the dark wooden floors and soft carpets in the room were vaguely visible.

"Dad..."

A cute little girl wearing a gorgeous Hanfu skirt rushed into the arms of a handsome man.

"Hey... Ningning, good girl..."

Lin Qingshan smiled and hugged his daughter Lin Yuning. Because Lin Qingshan usually took care of her more, his daughter was very close to him.

Even Gu Qianli was a little jealous, saying why he was so close to his daughter, and his daughter didn't kiss her, so Lin Qingshan paid less attention to her.

Of course, it was just a joke.

The family relationship is quite harmonious. Lin Qingshan can't be a full-time father, but he has more free time than Gu Qianli, so he takes care of him more.

Gu Qianli has embarked on the same old path as his father Gu Hongxiao, traveling around to discuss business, or busy at C Station.

Lin Qingshan is actually busy too, after all, he also produces a lot of animation series, plus serialized comics, so he doesn't have much time.

So they hired a professional team of nannies and security guards to protect and take care of Lin Yuning.

Just as Lin Qingshan and Lin Yuning were playing and enjoying the father-son relationship, the doorbell suddenly rang.

"Teacher, it's me."

Ito Ayumi's voice came in.

"Xiao Chen, help open the door."

Lin Qingshan gestured to the security guard beside him.