"Life is so boring... Can we have something exciting?"
"How exciting do you want?" Gao Ling looked at her best friend next to her. "You work overtime every day. Isn't that exciting?"
“… Please don’t mention overtime, you just don’t understand the situation at all. If you continue like this, you will be beaten.”
Gao Ling yawned indifferently. Her hair was messy and there were dark circles under her eyes.
"How are you? Have you found a job recently?"
"No." Gao Ling said, "But I serialized a comic strip online. The response to that comic strip was quite good. I think it will support me for a few months."
"What comic is it? Can I take a look at it?" her best friend asked.
"It's the little cartoon I showed you some time ago. I expanded it a bit and changed it a little bit." Gao Ling said.
She reached out and tapped a few times on the computer, and a web page popped up.
"Is this what you drew?" Her bestie leaned over to take a look. "Hmm... a fanfiction of Yaoji? Oh my god, isn't this the fanfiction that's been very popular recently? The hell did you write this?"
Gao Ling didn't answer. She looked at the sky outside, as if she was thinking about something.
"Hey, what's wrong with you? Why are you suddenly silent?"
"Hmm? Ah... nothing." Gao Ling turned his head back from the window and pulled the curtains closed with his backhand.
“But you’re living a very exciting life. You’ve created a book without any fanfare. When you become a great artist in the future, remember to sign for me.” Her friend said with a smile.
"Is it stimulating or not..." Gao Ling murmured, and she suddenly turned around and asked, "By the way, have you ever seen an anime like this before? It's about a day when all the characters in the second dimension suddenly traveled to the real world, and then went to find the cartoonist who created them."
"Uh... is there such a magical show? I haven't seen it yet, I might consider watching it." Her bestie said: "It sounds interesting. If my idol really came out of the second dimension, I would go crazy."
"Uh... I think what you should consider is whether you will be killed by your male god first..." Gao Ling looked at her best friend speechlessly. If she remembered correctly, her male gods were all the kind with high combat power and perverted hearts.
"What happened next? What happened next?"
"Later... I stopped watching." Gao Ling sat on the edge of the bed, recalling carefully, "But I think... Although life is manipulated, people whose lives are extremely beautiful, referred to as life players, should not have much hatred for cartoonists. After all, their memories are basically all beautiful things, such as friends and family..."
"But some people who have a hard life..." Gao Ling suddenly paused, "What would happen if such people met a comic writer?"
"… It's a bloody storm." Her best friend said in a joking tone, "So cherish your life, be a good mother, and be careful that someone will really cause trouble for you one day."
"Ah... I'm alone, and it seems that my past experience was particularly miserable, so I'm not very popular now." Gao Ling shrugged. "If there really is such a person, handsome, with a miserable life experience, and quite stylish, who suddenly appears in the three-dimensional world... Wow, it really explodes instantly."
"If there really is such a person..." Her bestie thought for a moment, then suddenly turned around and said, "If this person still appears in the three-dimensional world, then I guess he is almost my new male god. What else is wrong? Why are you so weird today?"
“Well… I’ve recently fallen into a philosophical realm where I’m neither a fish nor an me. I’ve begun to have some doubts about the truth and nature of this world, and even considered what the structure of the society I live in is like. But I know I’m crazy, so you don’t have to pay attention to me, just continue playing your game.” Gao Ling took a sip of tea expressionlessly.
If we translate her words into human language, it means that she is curious about the relationship between monsters and humans. Why have they been peaceful for so many years without any explosion? There must be a pattern. What is it? Is the government responsible
And... Is Ji Qiu drawing comics based on what happened in reality, or is the reality she lives in actually a comic world, but the God of Creation allows mortals to glimpse a little bit of the essence of this world
The latter conjecture made Gao Ling doubt her life, but luckily she was a generous person, so apart from feeling upset occasionally, she didn't have any other reaction.
However, if... there really is such a person in the three-dimensional world who has a tragic life and is still miserable now, then what is his mood like now
You can draw anything in the two-dimensional world, its tolerance is different from that of the three-dimensional world. If you say that a family was wiped out, everyone will say "yoooooo" after hearing it, and then gather around to look at the two-dimensional character whose family was wiped out.
Although we know this is a very tragic thing, after all, it is fake, not real. So everyone has no real psychological burden and can criticize him.
However, if there really was an extermination of an entire family in the three-dimensional world... that would be something that could make the social news. Of course, if it was Yuan's case, it would most likely be concealed and become a secret of the wealthy that ordinary people wouldn't know about.
So once some two-dimensional things are put into the three-dimensional world, they become a bit horrifying.
Gao Ling had never thought about this question before, until the recent issues of "Demon Chronicles" came out, and then he began to think deeply about it.
Perhaps because they had met face to face once before, she really didn't see that Yuan had any blood feud. He stood there, looking like a very ordinary boy who was a little handsome at best. He was really different from the impression of someone with a blood feud...
The kind with a deep blood feud, in my impression... well, how should I put it? They should be more... pretentious
Gao Ling recalled and found that except for a few little angels, most of them seemed to have a tendency to show off. What is this called... No show-off, no revenge? Or was she just simply judging people by their appearance
As expected... She is still not very good at judging people...
Gao Ling inexplicably began to doubt herself. She felt that she was out of touch with society. She had been out of touch for so long that she couldn't even look at people...
But... if the things in those comics are real, such as the Inquisition and the pile of dead bodies...
Gao Ling thought again about the person he had met once before.
Then he...
When you think about it this way, this person is actually quite miserable.
But this experience is truly legendary.
…
Yuan Yuanyuan was looking at a flyer in her hand while she was pressing a calculator frantically.
Tang Shi and Qiu Ling who were beside her came over and looked at the numbers on her calculator.
"25 yuan off and 25% off... Which one is more cost-effective?" Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the items on the list and kept pressing the calculator.
"What are you doing?" Tang Shi and Qiu Ling, who had just finished an exam, were lying nearby and watching. They had just finished their exams and had been bored for the past two days, so they came to Yuan Yuanyuan's place.
Tang Shi's family situation is that her parents are not at home all year round. I don't know about Qiu Ling's situation, but Yuan Yuanyuan has never seen her mention her family on her own initiative.
Yuan Yuanyuan handed the list in her hand to the two of them and asked them to read it from top to bottom.
"Oh my god, boss, you are going crazy. This is the first time you are so generous." Tang Shi, who knew Yuan Yuanyuan's way of making small concessions very well, looked at Yuan Yuanyuan's list and said with a little surprise.
Yuan Yuanyuan said excitedly, "Is it necessary to spend a lot of money during the Chinese New Year?" and then continued to look for things on various discount apps.
This has always been their family’s custom. Before every Chinese New Year, they would go out together to do some shopping.
Before every Chinese New Year, Yuan Yuanyuan would go to the supermarket to buy something, as if it would not be Chinese New Year without some "extravagance and waste". One year before Chinese New Year, she only had 300 yuan in cash and a train ticket, and she just went into a store and bought a can of chewing gum. That year's New Year was extremely bleak.
This year, after deducting all the miscellaneous things, Yuan Yuanyuan still has some pocket money left, and now she is in a strange state of excitement.
To be honest, she hasn't done any shopping during the Chinese New Year for many years.
As she looked at the items on the list, she continued to add and calculate.
"Boss, if I do well in the exam, can you buy me a gift? I don't ask for much, just the cake will do." Tang Shi said with a sly smile as he looked at the cakes on the list.
"Get lost." Yuan Yuanyuan pricked up her ears alertly and pushed Tang Shi's head away. "You didn't even get first place in the exam, and you still dare to say that you did well? You still want a gift? Come back when you get first place."
By the way...it seems like she herself has never gotten first place in the exam.
After listening to Yuan Yuanyuan's words, Tang Shi seemed to want to say something, but suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Who is it? Who's outside?" Yuan Yuanyuan shouted outside, but no one answered.
"Liu An, please help me take a look who it is." She said casually, then lowered her head and continued to look at her list.
Liu An stood up, pulled open the curtains, and looked outside. Standing outside was a stranger he had never seen before. He was wearing a thin white suit, standing at the door, holding a box in his hand.
Who is this person? Why is he here in the middle of the night? Liu An looked at him and felt a little puzzled. He turned around and shouted behind him, "Boss, there is a stranger outside."
"You don't know him? Is he a guest?"
"No." Liu An said, "It's a man, wearing a white shirt."
What the hell, which idiot wears a white shirt in the middle of winter? Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the snowflakes floating outside.
Although the clothes she gave to Liu An were always criticized for being extremely ugly, they were just right for keeping him warm when he wore them, which proved that she, as a boss, was actually very kind-hearted.
Wearing a white shirt on this day... Who is it, the little boy who buys matches
Tang Shi joined in the fun and went to take a look. As soon as she stuck her head out, she suddenly blurted out, "Oh my god, so handsome."
"Is he handsome? Where are you?" Yuan Yuanyuan, who was sitting on the side, suddenly jumped up and ran to the window.
She took a look and suddenly froze.
"Four, four, four..." Yuan Yuanyuan spoke unclearly for a while. The people around her turned to look at her. Tang Shi asked, "Boss... are you okay?"
"No, I'm fine." Yuan Yuanyuan quickly ran over, rushed forward to open the door, and the little match boy appeared at the door.
The four people at the door glanced at Yuan Yuanyuan who opened the door, with a timid look that Yuan Yuanyuan was very familiar with, and then immediately lowered their heads again.