Chapter 98 - To Start a Manga Series (2/2)

After 9:00 in the morning, students began returning to the academy. Meng Fan spent the morning in the studio, and when noon came, the campus had began to recover its liveliness from the holidays.

“Fatty!”

As he was heading for the cafeteria, Meng Fan heard someone calling his name. Of course, it had to be the couples of Chen Da Qiang and Zhang Zhou Wei, carrying several bags, with fatigued but joyous expressions on their face.

“F*ck! When did you lose so much weight?!”

As they approached, Zhang Zhou Wei suddenly screamed, scaring meng Fan into a cackling laughter.

He remained modest. “Really? Am I that thin? I don’t feel different.”

Chen Dan Qiang and his girlfriend also smiled as they nodded. “You really have slimmed down a lot, before we saw you everyday so we couldn’t tell, but it’s been a few days. It seems your running has paid off!”

“Really?”

Meng Fan snickered as he confirmed with them repeatedly. He waved his hand. “Then hurry and put your things down, I will treat you guys to lunch. I’ll head to the water shore restaurant and order first to wait for you guys. I’m happy today, so I have to eat two bowls.”

“Can’t you stand some praise?!”

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At 2:00 in the afternoon, Meng Fan revived his stream.

The contents of the stream had been from the manga, but they had been adapted to be drawn as illustrations.

At this hour, there was nobody else in the studio aside from Meng Fan. Even the administrator was not present. He did not have to worry about disrupting people with his voice and chatted with his netizens as he drew.

Meng Fan conversed with them about the interesting events he ran onto his way to Shanghai, while all the fickle netizens were asking about the concert. Regardless, one talked about himself while the rest asked about him, and it was quite a harmonious scene.

Running from Hangzhou to Shanghai, the event at Shan Jin brother’s concert, and the resurfacing of his ‘thumbs’ up dance video. Meng Fan did not realize it himself, but he had become an ‘internet sensation’.

The number of online viewers that day easily broke 100,000, and when he logged out at five o’clock, the day’s viewer count had reached 370,000. It seems his all-time total views were at 4 million, which was still far away from completing the 10 million required for task phase 4.

Xing Ta Ge returned at night, quite late as well. He had hit the bed snoozing the moment he returned and evidently came back from an eventful evening.

All the members had returned to the dorm and everything was on the right track.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed. Meng Fan and Xing Ta Ge had finalized the details of the first ten chapters of their manga, covering all the issues regarding scriptwriting and the story. Meng Fan began to modify the illustrations he had prepared and came out with art for four chapters in one go.

They had changed the name of the manga as well. Xing Ta Ge’s original title had been ‘Guide to Campus RoMANce’. Ro-Man-ce was okay, but it was too easy to be reminiscent of Mr. Kato.

But the change was not big, changing the ‘man’ character to regular romance; ‘Guide to Campus Romance’.

The scripts for the first ten panels were basically solidified, and they had the artwork for four of them. Meng Fan naturally wanted to upload it online for serialization, for this was required for the [Manga Artist] task.

Xing Ta Ge did not care for this, so he followed Meng Fan’s decision.

Penguin Animation network was the serialization website Meng Fan decided on.

He registered his screen name as “Meng Fatty opened a server” successfully. But when it came to the title of the manga, the name was already in use.

They then changed the name to ‘Campus Love Directory’, but it was also taken.

He then changed it back to ‘Guide to Campus RoMANce’. Heh. Success!

“They won’t censor us for this right?”

“Who cares, worse comes to worst the editor would tell us first right? As long as our content is not too explicit, it should be okay.”

Seeing the name return to his original intention, Xing Ta Ge was particularly happy, smugly looking at Meng Fan to deal with it.

“Alright.”

After successfully creating the work, they uploaded the first chapter to wait for a review.

After two or so hours, their examination was successful.