The spring is bright and the winter snow has melted. The world, which has been silent for a winter, is alive again.
The weeping willows swayed in the spring breeze, stirring up ripples of sunlight and casting sparkling water light on the walls of the classroom.
As soon as the get out of class was over, some people couldn't wait to stop and take pictures. However, Lu Shien, who was sitting by the window, squinted his eyes, a little unhappy with the light.
"Have you seen it? The Sixteenth Madam's book signing event has officially begun."
"Where, where? Is there a place like ours?"
"It seems not... City B was officially announced just now. Wasn't it because City B is quite close to us that they didn't come here last time? But it doesn't matter. I saw that the book signing event is this Friday. We can skip Lao Liu's class and take the train there. We can have lunch there and then go to the venue full of motivation to grab a seat!"
"As expected of you, really good. But the class on Friday is taught by Lao Liu, isn't that a bit bad..."
The classmate next to him was talking about the latest hot topic with great interest, and he turned his attention to Lu Shien with some concern: "Shien."
Lu Shien immediately knew what they meant. While typing the code, he said, "I say, seniors, can we focus on our studies?"
"Hey, I'll bring you something delicious." The girl rubbed her hands and tempted her nonchalantly, "How about I also bring you a comic book signed by Mrs. Sixteen? It just so happens that I bought an extra one."
"It's fine if it's delicious, but there's no need for a personal autograph. I'm not interested." Lu Shien said without even raising his head.
She had no interest in anything other than programming. She took the college entrance examination in her second year of high school and was admitted to the Computer Science Department of S University with excellent results. She did not follow the progress in course selection and often skipped senior classes. She had a good relationship with many seniors.
The senior turned her head slightly to look at the program that Lu Shien was typing, which she couldn't understand at all, and advised: "Shien, please don't always immerse yourself in the sea of knowledge. You are so beautiful, you should use your beauty to commit crimes. This comic is really good-looking, and the style is super cute. Here, I'll give you the first volume. Go back and take a look. I won't lie to you."
As she spoke, the senior student took out a comic book from Ziyun Reading Network and placed it in front of Lu Shien.
The monotonous desk piled with various professional books bloomed with a bunch of bright and brilliant flowers. Lu Shien glanced at the comics on the desk, then at the eager expectation of the senior sister. He did not refuse, but said: "Then I want to eat the exploding plum blossom cake, the unique duck feet in B City, and the roasted taro milk tea in Gangxi Road."
"Okay." The senior agreed immediately, "Then it's settled. Old Liu is now in your hands. But if you change your mind after reading the comics, I'll take you to the book signing event."
"Yeah." Lu Shien nodded, but still not interested in the second half of the sentence.
The backs of the senior students disappeared in the classroom. Lu Shien packed up his books and finally picked up the comics on the table.
She looked at the cover, which looked particularly crowded, and didn't really want to put it together with her own book, so she just held it in her hand.
The sunshine today is very nice, the sun is bright and the sky is clear.
Willow branches swayed across the lake, and the wind blew in the face, filled with the laughter of community gatherings and activities.
The excitement and joy of the gathering surrounded Lu Shien, who was alone, as if to make her feel lonely, but she didn't care.
This morning during the leisure class, she accidentally cracked the most difficult encryption program. The most urgent thing was to go back and do the integration test.
Over the years, with the financial support of Xu Shiyue, she has been working day and night to decipher these things, just waiting for this moment.
Lu Shien walked to the south gate of the school carrying a comic book and saw Xu Shiyue's car approaching from a distance.
The sunlight falling on the pure black Maybach was particularly eye-catching. Lu Shien was already accustomed to it. He opened the door and got in the car, but paused.
There is one more person in the back seat of the car today than usual.
Shen Yanxing was sitting in the car in a casual suit, with her long legs bent in front of the seat, looking a little too full.
Shen Yanxing keenly caught Lu Shien's pause, looked at her slightly stinky expression, and said: "Why, do you feel so stinky when you see me?"
"Half and half." Lu Shien said and threw the comic in his hand into Shen Yanxing's arms.
"Comics?" Shen Yanxing was a little surprised by what Lu Shien gave him.
"They insisted on recommending this to me, saying that I would definitely like it." Lu Shien said disdainfully, "What? Really, if you have this time, you might as well do a few more tests, so that you don't have to come to me again when you have to hand in your homework at the end of the semester and find bugs in the debugging."
Shen Yanxing pretended to be surprised when he heard this: "You still have to do your homework now?"
Lu Shien couldn't understand the meaning of her words, and replied with a long tone: "Yeah, you didn't expect that I'm still a student."
The two of them started to argue with each other again, and the comic book that was casually placed in the middle storage space in the front seat of the car was taken away by someone.
The clean windshield filters the sunlight into a glass-like brightness, giving the quiet front row a layer of gloss.
The long black hair is neatly tucked behind the ears, giving a soft yet oppressive look, revealing a clean face without any concealment.
Her long black eyebrows merged into her hair, her slightly drooped eyelashes were as thick and black as crow feathers, and her thin lips were tightly closed with a light red tint.
Obviously, this appearance does not look aggressive, at most it can be regarded as cold and aloof, but the light can't penetrate into her eyes. Even if she doesn't say a word, it is already written all over her eyes that "keep away from strangers".
The car slowly traveled through the narrow single-lane road around the old city school. The sunlight shone through the greenery and flickered in front of the window.
Xu Shiyue didn't care about the noisy quarrel between the two people in the back row. She seemed to be casually flipping through the comics she had brought over to kill time.
The story begins when the girl just wakes up, with flowers blooming in the small frame, and the next shot focuses on the girl's face.
It is indeed a beautifully crafted face, and readers can easily read from her eyes that she is panic-stricken and full of surprise at the moment.
Xu Shiyue was watching, but his gaze gradually paused.
She closed the comic again, and placed her finger on the nine characters of the relief, "The Girl Who Lost Herself into a Fantasy World", interrupting the bickering in the back row: "Who is the author of this comic?"
"I don't know..." Lu Shien's eyes were blank, trying to recall what she had heard these days, "It seems that it has just become popular in the past two years? I seem to have drawn commercial inserts before, and then this comic was her C at the beginning, and then it became a comic. This style of painting looks quite relaxed and beautiful, and the human body is not broken, which may be the reason why it has become popular."
As Lu Shien spoke, he looked up at Xu Shiyue who was sitting in the front row and said, "Why, are you interested in this?"
"Just asking." Xu Shiyue said calmly, and put the comic book in his hand aside.
"Oh." Lu Shien pursed his lips and said nothing more.
Anyway, she couldn't guess what Xu Shiyue was thinking, and there was no way to guess.
She thought that if she could guess what Xu Shiyue was thinking, she would be close to becoming a lunatic.
The industry has had mixed reviews on this person over the years, but no one disagrees that she is indeed quite capable, and Lu Shien is no exception.
Ever since Xu Shiyue handed her the cell phone with an unknown program inserted into it five years ago, she has continued to study it and has indeed discovered a program algorithm that is far more advanced than that of their world.
She didn't know where Xu Shiyue got this thing from, and Xu Shiyue refused to say anything.
She didn't understand why Xu Shiyue wanted to crack this by himself, and even thought that this person wanted to use this technology to copy her sister.
The sunlight danced among the densely-leaved trees along the road, making Lu Shien's face flicker.
As she thought about this, she lowered her eyes and looked out the window.
She really missed her.
She has gradually forgotten many things about their past.
Everyone's memory is fluid. The past is fading away, and only then does the new flow in.
But because there is no influx of new memories, the passing and disappearance of old memories is particularly obvious.
Lu Shien once thought that coming back to life from the dead sounded ridiculous.
But if the person who said this was Xu Shiyue, then it should be possible.
The car drove out of the somewhat congested two-way single lane and the speed increased.
The rarely bustling bookstore flashed past the window but did not attract Lu Shien's attention.
She didn't know that the book these people were rushing to buy was the one she was recommended today, nor did she find out that the author of the book's real name was Lu Shizhen.
Five years ago, Lu Shizhen was successfully admitted to the top art academy in the capital, fulfilling his unfulfilled dream in his original world.
Later, Lu Shizhen was noticed by many clients because of her unique and exquisite painting style, and she accumulated considerable popularity on a certain big-eyed platform while still in college.
The protagonist of "The Girl Who Lost Herself in a Fantasy World" was also a character that Lu Shizhen drew for fun at the beginning.
Lu Shizhen knew that if he brought the completed works from the original world, he would definitely be a great success.
But to draw the same story again would have no meaning other than success, and that was not what she wanted.
So she incorporated the inspiration she had gained from traveling and exploring during her vacations over the years, and created a new character. She often updated some simple, incomplete short stories in Big Eyes. Unexpectedly, she received many people's likes after just a few chapters were published, and she also received an invitation to serialize her works from the top domestic comics platform.
C accidentally became the anticipated protagonist, and Lu Shizhen did not want to disappoint the character he created.
She started out with a simple idea of adventure and fighting monsters, and slowly began to learn how to conceive, outline, and design. She wanted to use her brushstrokes to tell a large, independent, and self-consistent story like many comic masters.
Hard work pays off. Lu Shien became a well-known cartoonist with "The Girl Who Lost in the Fantasy World", which also won the Best Newcomer Award last year. The protagonist of the story, Lillian, also became the most popular comic protagonist of the year.
Everything seemed like a dream, but Lu Shizhen walked out step by step.
God knows how many war scenes she had seen in different worlds in order to complete a grand enough battle scene. A stray bullet grazed her earlobe, and she was so scared that she almost fainted. From then on, she would never allow Lu Shizhen to do such risky things again, and directly applied to the main system to ban this function of hers.
Lu Shizhen's comic series is getting better and better, and its popularity is evident.
The comic publisher also decided to press on with the victory and prepare to hold another book signing event to build popularity for Lu Shizhen and the comic during the renovation period after the second part of Lu Shizhen's story is completed.
Lu Shizhen did not refuse such an arrangement, as this way, she, a workaholic, finally had the opportunity to force herself to relax and travel.
"Just right." Lu Shizhen leaned back in his chair, thinking about where to go for his autograph session, his legs hanging down and swinging in the air.
She was wearing a very simple home outfit, and her hair, which was not too long, was barely tied into a small ponytail at the back of her head.
The bunny-ear-shaped headband for washing clothes kept shaking as she moved. I don’t know if it was to prevent her hair from falling and getting stained by paint, or if she forgot to take it off after washing her clothes one time, so it became her recent semi-permanent hairstyle.
At this moment, the sound of the smart lock opening the door was heard in the quiet apartment.
A petite girl came in carrying a large bag of food. While changing her shoes, she shouted, "Teacher Sixteen, I bought you boiled pork chops and added extra bean sprouts. Where are you?"
"Thank you, Xiaoning!" Lu Shizhen also responded loudly, "I'm in the studio, the floor is a bit messy."
The room is well soundproofed and human voices are muffled.
Xiaoning came over when she heard the sound, pushed open the door and looked at the room which was filled with all kinds of things. For a moment she didn't know where to start.
She just looked at the unkempt man in front of her and sighed, "Teacher Sixteen, although I don't really want to say it, shouldn't we give ourselves a better creative environment?"
Lu Shizhen didn't think so, and looked at her room with great pride: "I think this environment is pretty good, the Syrian style is very suitable for our Lililian."
Xiaoning didn't dare to agree, but she didn't nag further or take any substantive action.
She knew that this chaotic yet orderly environment was what Lu Shizhen was used to. Last time, she had been kind enough to clean up a clean environment for Lu Shizhen, and Lu Shizhen's manuscript was stuck for three days, and he almost stopped writing. From then on, she never dared to touch anything in this room again.
Apart from…
Xiao Ning thought about it, and looked up at the Siamese cat with a muddy face that was resting on the cabinet. Without saying a word, she reached out and picked it up: "Qiuqiu, how did you get up here? Is this the cat's superpower?"
Qiuqiu, with eyes slightly narrowed, did not resist the embrace of humans at all. She curled up lazily in Xiaoning's arms and even stretched out lazily like a real cat: "Meow~"
Over the years, it has been cheating people out of food and drink at the comic book publishing house with its cute appearance. Except for Lu Shizhen who knows that it is a system, no one else has ever doubted its identity. It has been living a very comfortable life.
Rather than cat food with no taste, she prefers to be fed homemade cat food, especially the one with more chicken breast. Dried fish is also good.
Qiuqiu sniffed its nose and keenly captured the aroma of food in the air.
In addition to her cat food, there seems to be starch sausage!
But its owner didn't seem to smell the scent and continued to draw on the paper with the pen.
The cat was very dissatisfied, so it called out to the landing Zhen: "Meow~Meow~"
To the others, it sounded like a cat's voice acting coquettishly, but to Lu Shizhen, it sounded like Tang Seng muttering: "Host, I'm hungry. You don't want to lose your cute little kitty, do you?"
"Host, data shows that irregular meals can cause serious illnesses. Many painters died young before the age of fifty because of physical illnesses caused by overwork. Although the host's body belongs to the system, if a physical illness is caused, it will cost a huge amount of points to repair. Although we have a lot of points, it is right not to squander them. Host, I'm hungry..."
Lu Shizhen couldn't stand the threatening words anymore. She bit her lip in hatred towards Qiuqiu, but finally put down her pen helplessly: "I know, I know. Let's go eat now."
Seeing Lu Shizhen walk out of the room, Xiaoning followed her and said expectantly: "Teacher Sixteen, can we add another location for this book signing event? The main reason is that we didn't have this location last time, and now the fans are calling for it very much. Would you consider going around one more place?"
Xiaoning's eyes were so sincere that Lu Shizhen felt a little embarrassed to refuse and asked, "Which city?"
"S City."
(End of this chapter)