Chapter 567 (2/2)
At the same time, she also entertained the possibility of randomly entering a regular, urban world. She could still find a path by joining the culinary artists of that world. She would directly mess up the original idea of the story, which was an urban love story, and turn it into a gourmet one. That would work too, right?
However, it would be very difficult to create an iconic character when a story is forcibly deviated from the original storyline. The biggest taboo for creators would be an unclear storyline. It was best to set the tone of the story at the beginning, and then write around it.
Zhao Youyue had repeatedly thought about trying to create a work focused on delicacies. After all, she was very good at tasting food. Whenever she “ate books” with the Wen Qingyu card activated, she could even describe the taste of the books as various types of delicacies, at a level that surpassed the heroine in the original work.
However, because Zhao Youyue often interacted with many creators, she understood very well that the process of creation was truly no easy task. The literary girl Wen Qingyu moved on to creation herself, only because she ran out of books to eat. However, reality had so many more books to offer, that Zhao Youyue would never be able to finish reading all of them. How could she possibly gain the motivation to start creating?
Zhao Youyue actually regretted it very much. Wen Qingyu’s character was evidently more of a reader. She was better-suited as an editor, to advice creators and help them broaden their imaginations. She would have been very good at her job. Either way, she would not have to do it herself…
If she had known this earlier, she would have given Wen Qingyu similar settings as Xu Jing, who would be “uncomfortable and would feel like dying if she did not study.” However, if she did this, Wen Qingyu might not have turned out as demure and cute as she was. A creator like her who did not suffer from “laziness,” did not delay her updates, and did not look for various excuses to go and gather materials would be too dull.
This was similar to how some people like a hard-working genius was not a genius at all. Only people who relied on their talents entirely could be considered geniuses. In the real world, the former would always trounce the latter.
Among the many creators in the world, quite a few genius authors were really weird and were plagued by various problems. However, those who could really reach the peak were those that were born talented and equally hard-working…
Wen Qingyu’s quirk was that she loved reading more than writing. Whenever Zhao Youyue used this character card, she was always ready to write, but if there was a book beside her, she definitely had to pick and chew on it. Whenever she was with Han Leng, she would never resist eating the things he wrote. Why write a book by yourself, when you have so many books to eat?!
Zhao Youyue felt truly helpless. If she forced herself to write something and tasted it, the experience would have been most awful. Works had to be written from the heart, or they would never reach the heart, or in this case, the stomach of the insightful.
If a book was not iconic, it should have never been written, in the first place. It was not like she needed to earn money from books. It was like she had a father-son relationship with creators. They could just point at her, and she would be rewarded…
Perhaps, her best option was to look for creators who had great potential and invest in them ahead of time.
Just as Zhao Youyue got busy imagining things, she finally saw the name of this new world —- —- “Everyone in the World Other than Myself is in A Deep Sleep.”
Translation Note:
[1] “African headman” is a Chinese internet slang, used often in card games to refer to the unluckiest of all unlucky people.