Chapter 10 (2/2)

Her reputation in the Doujinshi circle, had prompted her to gain the invitation of “Wind Manga”, a manga magazine. She first released several short mangas as trials, which had received quite a good feedback from the readers. As a consequence, she had earned the opportunity to collaborate with Qidian, while attaining full rights to the serialization. She would have the freedom to serialize her mangas on both the internet and in magazines. In this way, not only she was able to earn royalties from the magazine, but she could instantly obtain subscriptions and tips from the readers, albeit only a quarter of the whole amount.

Anyway, Su Li was always glad to interact with her readers on internet, and had built a fans groups of her own. At times, she noticed some readers in the group pointing out that her drawing style was close to the ones of “Master Wang Li”. At that moment, her heart would be infused with apprehension, fearing that her carefully-concealed identity in Doujinshi circle would be unfolded. She might have been acting as a new and innocent mangaka, but the mellowed erotic scenes in “Pure Romance” had always aroused ridicules from the readers — How could Master Su Li be so expert in this!

The online readers were able to give immediate feedbacks on mangaka’s work, and then, the mangaka could figure out the upcoming plot based on their opinions. As for her school harem manga, she would first observe which female characters were more popular among the readers. Then, Zhao Youyue would present them with more plots, as well as some preferential treatments.

Su Li had a personal editor, who instead of giving her opinions on plots, preferred to contribute ideas of various erotic scenes…

In fact, Su Li was not really satisfied with her “Pure Romance”. To her, there was little difference between this manga and her past Doujinshi works, except that Doujinshi contains more erotic scenes. Well.. that even included the scenes of making love. In comparison, this manga did not feature any erotic scenes, not to mention any scenes showing the women’s nipples. Besides, all the “critical” moments were censored. That being said, the underlying sexual hints were still obvious enough, that the male readers could have a sustained erection while reading them!

Su Li was weak in her plot description and character molding. The characters that she had created were lack of distinctive facial features. Earlier on, she aimed to overcome her weaknesses by writing an ordinary manga, but obviously, “Pure Romance” did not help her to accomplish such a goal.

However, Su Li had no choice but to keep on writing. This manga was quite popular, especially among the male readers. Additionally her royalties were also pretty good, at least for now, she could confidently address herself as a “mangaka”.

At the same time, she was aware that the popularity of a school harem manga like this, would not go any further, let alone being elevated to an anime. Perhaps, it was already a miracle if it could be rearranged into a broadcasting play. Such a manga would usually be forgotten after it was finished. Well, it was lacking of its own uniqueness, and of course, it could easily be replaced by the other works.

Unless, a female character made her appearance in the manga, who could mesmerize all the male readers and top the chart of the most adorable manga characters. But, how could this be possible?

Su Li had prepared to conquer the world with her very first manga, but all of a sudden, her assistant Zhang Ziqiang who was editing the background images spoke out, “Master Su Li, the main character’s sister who happens to also be his bestie, this character is simply interesting. Will she become another member of the harem?”

“The sister’s bestie?” Su Li responded subconsciously, “That character was nothing more than a side character, what’s so special about her?”

Zhang Ziqiang was a 30-year-old uncle who is bald and fat. He was still single and dreamed to become a mangaka. Due to his lack of talent, he could solely be an assistant of a young and talented mangaka like Su Li for now.

Despite her weakness in writing plots and molding characters, she had become one prominent mangaka of the Harem genre, owing to her “fresh and juicy” drawing style, coupled with her superior techniques in giving fan services.

Zhang Ziqiang hesitated for a moment. He then shared his personal views about this side character, “Xu Jing”.