There's a black hole inside me

On the digital tablet, a beautiful ancient man in flowing white clothes and black hair gradually took shape under Wei Ming's pen.

The last coloring is done.

Wei Ming put down his pen, packed the document, and sent it to the client via Penguin.

"This is the Seventh Husband you want. The last painting is finished and the final payment is settled."

Wei Ming said in Penguin, rubbing his sore wrists, twisting his neck, and stretching his body.

He worked continuously for more than ten hours today and completed three and a half original character paintings, which is equivalent to three days of normal work.

Even he himself felt very strange, why he suddenly became so diligent and hardworking, just like the person he was when he just graduated from college.

Could it be that the little black in the body swallowed up the lazy and salty self?

Or do you want to be more aggressive because you suddenly have some hope?

Regardless, this is always a good thing.

Didi~

Customer Tao Su quickly replied: "Received, the quality of this original painting is very good, all up to standard! It is indeed the work of the well-known original painter 'Lumen', I believe book fans will like it!"

"By the way, seven original paintings and a balance of 1,200, I'll call you right away!"

After a while, Wei Ming's Alipay account received 1,200.

This urgent order, which took him two days to complete, was finally completed.

"Tao Tao, your new book "Did My Husband Make a Mistake Today" is gaining momentum quite well. It is very likely to be another hit. It is entirely possible to get an appointment with a major star with this book. Congratulations."

Wei Ming said in Penguin again.

He and Tao Su are good Internet friends, and they have collaborated many times. As a god-level Internet writer, most of the original paintings in several novels written by Tao Su were drawn by Wei Ming, and their relationship has long been established. Quite familiar.

Naturally, Wei Ming is concerned about the development momentum of each new book by Tao Su.

However, Tao Su is a female author who writes about women. Wei Ming generally cannot appreciate her books. For example, in this book "Did My Husband Admit My Mistake Today?", the heroine in the book actually has seven husbands, seven days a week, every day. In another style, it is really unbearable to look at.

But among female readers, this book is very popular and has a tendency to explode, just as some male readers are extremely popular about harem novels.

"Hahahaha, I'll lend you some good words."

Tao Su smiled heartily and said humbly: "It doesn't matter whether you are a great person or not, as long as you can make a little money. Besides, I can achieve my current success because of your contribution. Those paintings you drew The original painting has added a lot of popularity to me. ”

"It has nothing to do with me."

Wei Ming shook his head: "Besides, every original painting I draw is paid for. If you spend the same money and find other original painters, you can get works of similar quality. Your success mainly depends on yourself."

"Ming, you should be more confident~"

Tao Sudao: "There are quite a few of my readers who became interested in my novels after seeing the original paintings you drew. Some readers collected them without even thinking after knowing that the author of the original paintings was you, Lumen. My book... shows that you should not underestimate your talent."

Talent?

Wei Ming muttered, am I a talented artist?

"By the way, Ming, you said you were developing in Hanghu City. I happen to be a local. Why don't we make an appointment and find a place to meet? I want to meet you in person."

Tao Su said suddenly.

"Meet, meet offline?"

Wei Ming was taken aback and quickly typed: "Why do you want to see me suddenly?"

"We've known each other for a few years, so we should be considered friends, right? We're in the same city, so wouldn't it be natural to treat you to a meal when we meet?"

"This, this..."

"The other thing is to discuss cooperation. A cultural company wants to buy the comic copyright of "Did My Husband Make a Mistake Today"? It will probably be turned into a cartoon. Aren't you my original animator? You can also participate in the cartoonization. Come in, complete some work, and help promote the smooth progress of comics. You can even learn some knowledge about comic creation from this. It is not necessary to switch from a single original artist to a cartoonist. "

"I believe that if you, a well-known original artist, and I, a well-known writer, join forces and cooperate in depth, we will definitely achieve greater success!"

"There is no problem in cooperation. If we meet..."

Wei Ming shook his head and said: "I don't think it's necessary. Besides, in my profession, I can work according to written requirements without face-to-face communication, and I'm not very good at interpersonal communication."

"Fool!"

Tao Su was furious and stamped her feet angrily: "I'm a girl. Do I have to say that I want to see you in person? You can't have a higher emotional intelligence and understand what we girls are thinking. Besides, I'm not afraid of you. What are you afraid of?"

"I know."

Wei Ming explained: "The main reason is that I don't have much confidence and I'm afraid of letting you down."

"What did you let me down for?"

"I'm not very handsome, I'm a bit ugly." Wei Ming said.

"you!"

Tao Su became even more angry and typed quickly: "Do you think I, Tao Su, am such a superficial woman?"

Yes, it can be judged from the hundreds of pictures you drew of all kinds of beautiful men when you placed an order with me, that you are a superficial woman who values ​​appearance.

Wei Ming wanted to answer like this. He remembered very clearly that Tao Su had a strong ability to judge handsomeness. She could describe the characteristics of different handsome guys in great detail, even to the point of many small details. During the description, her infatuated tone and deep yearning were no less than the fanatical pursuit of beautiful women by men.

If Tao Su saw him with this appearance, I'm afraid his enthusiasm would instantly cool down by three points, and the disappointment on his face would be difficult to conceal.

This was definitely not an unwarranted slander of Tao Su's character, but a conclusion based on her nature.

"No, no, you know, I'm a little socially anxious, and I've been busy recently, so I can't spare any time to meet offline... Let's do it next time, definitely next time!"

Wei Ming laughed and made up all kinds of excuses. In the end, he relied on "definitely next time" to temporarily dispel Tao Su's invitation to meet.

The two ended their chat.

Wei Ming picked up his phone and ordered a takeaway. After eating the takeaway, he played on the computer for a while and watched a few episodes of anime. It was past 11 o'clock in the evening before he rubbed his sore eyes and went to the bathroom to take a big bath.

After taking a shower and changing into loose pajamas, Wei Ming paused as he passed the mirror above the sink, looking at his image in the mirror.

A question popped up in his mind: Am I really ugly?

If he answered this question himself, it would definitely be "not ugly", after all, he has long been accustomed to it, and ugly has become not ugly anymore.

But he is definitely not handsome.

He has clear eyebrows and eyes, sharp edges and corners, handsome and fair complexion. Due to genetics, his face is relatively large, his chin is thick, and his whole face is round.

Small ears, narrow and squinting eyes.

He is 30% similar to the famous crosstalk actor Yue Yupeng, but Wei Ming is thinner than him, so Wei Ming's appearance is still higher.

In addition, although Wei Ming spends most of his time indoors, his skin is still yellowish, and there is a bean-sized mole in his right eyebrow, a peanut-sized black mole under his chin, and several fast-growing hard hairs on the black mole... Although it is difficult to notice these things on the surface, once they are seen, the senses will definitely be greatly reduced, as if serious flaws have been discovered.

In this era of appearance, it is these flaws in appearance that make Wei Ming not confident to meet Tao Su offline - he has seen Tao Su's photos. She is a beautiful woman with a 70% appearance and an 80% temperament. She is also a local from Hangzhou, with a good family background, a high degree of education, and outstanding talents and abilities.

For such a high-quality girl, he doesn't need to have any fantasy in his mind.

Tao Su took the initiative to invite him to meet, but she imagined him as a weak and handsome guy with outstanding painting skills and a shy personality, and then she had a strong curiosity to meet him.

But...

"Is there really no room for improvement on my face?"

"The yellowish skin is caused by the excessive pigment in the skin cells; the face is too round, so the cheekbones can be thinned to make it a square face; the chin is too fleshy, so the excess fat cells can be removed. As for the mole in the right eyebrow and the black mole under the chin, it is even simpler to deal with, just remove them as a whole."

"After all these operations, it shouldn't be a big problem to increase the four-point appearance to six points?"

And the most important thing is that Wei Ming doesn't need to spend a penny to achieve the adjustment effect that would cost at least hundreds of thousands of yuan to go to a plastic surgery hospital.

Because he has a little black in his body that can devour everything.