Chapter 31 - Your Family Owns Coal (2/2)
“Okay, thank you.”
Meng Fan was itching to ask why the hell he didn’t update his novel and went to do this sort of thing last night, but then stopped himself. It was better to diss him on his QiDian APP account.
Mr.S sent over three books, all of which had character counts between 500,000 and 800,000. They were all fantasy types, two of which the authors Meng Fan was familiar with, and one Meng Fan had not heard of but was also a god-tier author.
It made sense; if they weren’t god-level or near god-level authors, one, they wouldn’t have the number of public followers, two is they wouldn’t have the thought to consider illustrators, and three… They wouldn’t have the money; at least, the kind of money to freely spend 1500 a month on illustrations alone.
After adding all three books to his bookshelf, Meng Fan did not read them immediately, for the same reason as before: He had time to draw, but not enough to read as well.
Out of these three, Meng Fan could only take on one at most, in the next few days at least. Perhaps once he finished the novels on hand, he could consider accepting another job.
Doing business for web novel illustrations, Meng Fan was confident he could do it. High income aside, the key was the high amount of followers coming to his stream, and it was a fixed flow of traffic too.
This would be a crucial boost for completing [Famous Streamer].
Thinking of this, a person appeared in his mind. If he could find her, he could bring an unimaginable flow of viewers to his channel in just a short time, but… Nevermind, it’s probably best to not bother her, who knew what conditions would await him.
He swept the devilish woman out of his thoughts and continued to read ‘The Supreme Sword’.
“F**k, how come reading books doesn’t trigger a task?”
Half an hour later, Meng Fan stretched his neck, which after the last few days of running had emerged from being covered by his chin and the fat around it. From the task that had been triggered, he’d thought there would be at least one achievement that was related to reading books, but the system refused to unlock it for him. He’d been reading e-books as well as physical books. Could it be his posture was wrong?
Buzz.
His phone showed a notification from WeChat. He clicked into it, and his mouth jerked a bit.
He’d just been thinking about her when she decided to message him herself.
“Fan Fan, I’m in Hang city, I want to see you.”
“I don’t.”
Meng Fan recalled their last unpleasant meeting and decisively refused. He didn’t mind that they had to sneakily meet, nor did he mind that it took him an hour of commute to meet up for 15 minutes, but when she had put wasabi in the food he loved the most, that was the bottom line!
“You are so unwilling to see me, maybe you’ll want to see…”
She sent a photo message.
“I asked my friends to bring them from Nippon, they’re all souvenirs from the Shonen Jump fifteen-year anniversary event; two big boxes.”
“Gimme your address, I’ll be there soon.”
Meng Fan saw the photo and immediately changed his attitude. At this point, it was impossible to move his giant mass and escape the teacher’s prying eyes. He could only fake an expression of pain, clutching his stomach and scurrying away.
Two and a half hours later, Meng Fan’s taxi arrived downstairs of the dormitory. Zhang Zhou Wei who had come down after receiving his call was waiting for him to help carry the two heavy boxes into their room. Once they opened it, their screams rang through the first floor.
Zhang Zhou Wei calmed his emotions and stared at Meng Fan. “Fatty, your family got some coal or what?”
“My family not only has minerals…. mineral water, potato chips, jerky and spicy dough sticks!” Meng Fan said as he sorted out the figures, special periodicals, out-of-print cards, posters, illustrations, single books, cups, T-shirts, signatures, and three original manuscripts and organized them around himself. He was in a great mood, even if he had been exploited by that woman.