Chapter 15 (2/2)

Pei Qian lamented to himself internally.

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After the meal, they strolled back to the dormitory.

Ma Yang climbed to the upper bunk energetically and got to work passionately, filling the requirement form.

As for Pei Qian, he turned on his laptop and entered the resource website – his previous message had gotten a reply.

Ruan Guangjian: “How many pieces do you want? What are the general requirements?”

Pei Qian noted down his general requests including the number of cards and generic style et cetera.

Of course, the detailed requirement form was not done yet so Pei Qian could only describe it simplistically.

“Art style must not be cartoonish. Everything else is up to you.”

“There’s a total of 50 characters. Each one of them would come in a set of four original arts. A total of 200 pieces.”

“Still working on the requirement form. I’ll give it to you later.”

After three whole minutes, Pei Qian received no reply – he presumed that Ruan Guangjian must be stumped.

My portfolio is filled with cartoonish drawings and the first thing you tell me is that you don’t want anything cartoonish?!

After a period of time, Ruan Guangjian replied.

“Alright. The price would be 2,000 per set, is that okay? I know that this price may seem a little steep for a newcomer artist. But, don’t worry. My quality is definitely top tier. It’s just that I don’t have much of a portfolio because I’m still schooling.”

2,000 per set? Doesn’t that mean every piece costs just 500?!

Pei Qian was displeased right away – that was too cheap!

Doesn’t that mean he wouldn’t be able to spend his money completely?!

He had initially planned on paying for 3,000 per set and now the price had dropped to 2,000.

For 50 characters, won’t he be spending 50,000 yuan less?

No, that won’t do!

“I think that the price needs further negotiating,” Pei Qian replied.

Ruan Guangjian: “How much do you suggest then? That’s more or less my bottom line.”

Pei Qian: “The situation is a little special on my side.”

“That’s because what we want to achieve is a style that no one else has done before. We want an image that’s going to be disruptive! So, the difficulty level is actually higher, do you get it?”

“Besides, we’re not too good with art on our design side. So, our requirements are going to be more vague.”

“Because of that, I’m going to need you to work harder on designing it.”

“With those considerations, I think that 2,000 per set is too unfair for you. 3,000 per set would be a more suitable price!”

“That includes the initial design of the original arts along with modifications later on. At the same time, I hope that you’ll be able to draw more detailedly, how’s that?”

Ruan Guangjian’s side fell into silence once more.

It was clear that he hadn’t met much clients like Pei Qian who bargained in reverse…

This guy had just given him an additional 1,000 yuan per set!

However, Pei Qian’s behavior was not a violation of the rules and hence the system did not sound out any warnings.

That was because Pei Qian’s demands were perfectly reasonable. The additional amount of money covered the troubles stemming from the unclear specifications, raising of the work’s quality as well as future amendments.

Ruan Guangjian only replied after a few minutes, “Alright. A total of 50 sets and 200 original art pieces at 150,000. This will include 20 major and 50 minor amendments.”

Pei Qian grinned.

I can indeed use money to purchase amendments options, but I can choose not to use them as well!

After all, it’s for the best if the art pieces come out to be undesirable.

The both of them agreed on it and prepared to complete the digital contract on the resource website.

Suddenly, Pei Qian recalled something. “How many original pieces can you produce in three weeks? I’ll edit the total sum on my end of the contract.”

The system stated that Pei Qian must not have any unannounced products a week before settlement.

If Pei Qian wanted to publish his game a week before settlement, that leaves Ruan Guangjian with three weeks of time to work with.

Ruan Guangjian: “I definitely can’t produce 200. However, I can share this job with my same dormitory schoolmates. Don’t worry, I’ll be supervising so that will not only guarantee their quality, I’ll ensure the style is consistent as well.”

Pei Qian was delighted. “That’ll work! I’ll hand everything to you then!”

Ruan Guangjian was still schooling. Even if he could reach the standards required by the resources website, that didn’t mean that his schoolmates would be able to!

This could be considered as a small loophole as well, to spend the money while objectively decreasing the quality of the original arts.

Amazing!