Chapter 96 - An Explanation (2/2)
If he laughed, people near him would pull a muscle. That’s ridiculous!
Seeing Meng Cai Wei’s expression, Meng Fan knew that the difficult times had finally passed. He then took another cranberry cookie and stuffed it in his mouth. “I’m going home tomorrow, do you want to come? You’re doing nothing at home anyways, why not head back and eat some food from mom.”
“Screw that, mom’s cooking can’t be eaten!” Thinking of the dark days of eating his mom’s strange concoctions, Meng Cai Wei shuddered. She then remembered something and said to Meng Fan. “You don’t have to go back, mom went to find dad I think. Dad… where is he?”
Thinking for a while, she couldn’t remember.
‘Forget it. Running around the world studying different kinds of architecture, who knows where he is.’
“Not home? I already told them I was going back, why didn’t they say anything?” Meng Fan was dismayed.
Meng Cai Wei smiled and said, “Obviously because they want you to return to an empty house, then have you call to ask her where she is, so she can say ‘guess’?! That is a picture mom is very happy to see. Aiyo, I shouldn’t have told you.” She paused, then turned solemn. “I’m just teasing you, mom’s home.”
“Meng Cai Wei, you want to become the queen of actresses based on these acting skills, keep dreaming!
“What do you mean want, I already am!”
“Yes yes yes, you’re the queen of high heels!”
Meng Fan took the remaining cranberry cookies into his bedroom.
After hesitating for a while, he sent a WeChat message to Wu Tong. “My mom’s not home, so I’m not going to WenZhou before returning to Hangzhou.”
After about five minutes, Wu Tong responded. “I looked at the tickets, there’s still a few left for tomorrow afternoon. Want to head back together?”
“Alright!”
Meng Fan was overjoyed, but not enough to ask her if her brother was driving her.
“Send me your personal ID.”
“33038119…”
“33038119…”
“I got it. Tomorrow afternoon at 1:30, boarding at south station. It will arrive at the station before 1:00.”
“Alright, how much does it cost?”
“I didn’t see, ask me again!”
“Hey, what just happened?”
Meng Fan felt feeble.
After chatting for a while, Meng Fan began to draw his illustrations. He finished the illustrations from before, and on his thirteenth one, an alert sounded in his mind.
“Ding! You’ve completed task phase 3 of [Illustrator]; reward: points +500, drawing skills +3, imagination +1.”
At this point, Meng Fan was at 500 illustrations.
From the beginning of the task to now, only a month had passed. To produce 500 drawings in a month while maintaining their quality was a terrifying feat.
Although Meng Fan didn’t know many illustrators, he could still confirm that few people in the industry could do what he did.
After the +3 increase in drawing skills, Meng Fan had gained a total of +6 experience in the category. In addition to his existing drawing skills, Meng Fan’s competence could smack 90% of the people in the industry.
“Drawing skills improve another step, just in time for the creation of my manga.”
As for the metaphysical attribute of imagination, Meng Fan felt that it just improved the frequency of his inspirational bursts. Only god knew when to produce results.
“Bang! Bang!”
Knocking at the door, Meng Cai Wei shouted from outside, “Are you asleep yet? If you’re not, come eat something with me.”
“I’d be awake from your screaming regardless, alright?”
Meng Fan gave her a stink eye, but as soon as he sat down at the dining table he began to drool.
“Honestly, if you didn’t become an actress, you could make a good living cooking.” Meng Fan began eating and gave her considerably high praise.
Meng Cai Wei returned a stink eye. “With my good looks, if I didn’t become an actress, my only other path would be forced marriage into a wealthy family as a mistress. Then how will I cook?”
“Do you have some misunderstanding regarding ‘wealthy’ people?”
“Do you have some misunderstanding regarding my temper?”