I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 62. The Comic Book Project
"Brother Qingfan, is this okay?" Lin Wanning showed Xu Qingfan the character sketches that he and Yiyi had drawn over the weekend.

"Don't draw it so cute! You can draw the eyes, nose, and mouth bigger. Make it funny!" Xu Qingfan said, pointing to the character with the words "dumbhead" written on the paper.

"That's so ugly!" Lin Wanning pouted and said softly.

Xu Qingfan cast a death stare at him.

"Why are you being so fierce? It's funny, so be it. Brother Qingfan is a big bad guy!" Lin Wanning took out an eraser and immediately started revising the drawing according to the client's requirements.

He continued scrolling down, and apart from the father who also needed reform, the other characters were basically fine.

Xu Qingfan remembered that the A-Shuai comic was released after 08. However, when he was collecting information in the early stages, he unexpectedly discovered that the A-Shuai comic had already started serialization in 01, but there was no single volume yet.

Having failed to derive ideas from the other party, Xu Qingfan turned to another comic he had seen in his previous life—"Hilarious Campus".

Although this comic wasn't as popular as A-Shuai, and its content was full of scatological humor, no one can deny its success.

After confirming that the anime hadn't started serialization yet, Xu Qingfan decided to go for it!
Although he only had memories of Daitou, Daiba, and Wangcai left in his few remaining memories, he could easily recite such a simple plot, having joined the drama club in college in his previous life.

Putting everything else aside, this is a good opportunity to include some personal reflections on school bullying in the book. If this comic really becomes popular and raises people's awareness of school bullying, then Xu Qingfan's second life will not have been in vain.

"Thank you for your hard work, Wanning and Yiyi!" Xu Qingfan handed the manuscript back to Lin Wanning and patted the two little girls on the head to encourage them.

"This is the first volume of the script manuscript. Go back and see how to draw it." Xu Qingfan handed them two printed copies of A4 paper.

"Brother Qingfan, do you think our comic will be as popular as Doraemon?" Lin Wanning happily took the manuscript, touching the cover of the paper and couldn't help but daydream.

Xu Qingfan naturally wouldn't say anything discouraging: "If you keep going, you can definitely succeed!"

"Good!" Lin Wanning raised her two little pink fists in encouragement.

After reading the first short video, Zhang Yiyi couldn't help but burst out laughing.

The stories above are basically jokes he'd seen while surfing the internet in his past life. The first one is about repairing an air conditioner. Da Tou's air conditioner broke down, so he booked a repairman. The repairman rang the doorbell, and Da Tou opened the door and asked who it was. The repairman said he was an air conditioner repairman. A few minutes later, the doorbell rang again. He went to open the door, and it was the same repairman, but with a bruised and swollen face. Da Tou asked again who it was, and the man said he was an air conditioner repairman. Da Tou: "Hey, someone just came in?" The repairman: "That was me. I accidentally fell down."

The two little ones hid the A4 paper behind their Chinese textbook and read it with great interest throughout the morning reading session, occasionally coughing because they couldn't suppress their laughter.

[If I can make them laugh, I think being popular with elementary school students won't be a problem.] Looking at the smiles on Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi's faces, Xu Qingfan also gained confidence in his manuscript.

As the morning reading session ended and Xu Qingfan was leaving the classroom to get water from the water dispenser, he saw Wu Lingyu running towards him from afar.

Upon seeing Xu Qingfan in the corridor, Wu Lingyu's eyes lit up with joy, and she quickened her pace and ran over.

"Huff huff huff~ This huff huff~ Here you go!" Wu Lingyu handed him the red plastic bag she was carrying, panting.

"Duck necks again?" Xu Qingfan asked with delight after taking them. Wu Lingyu gasped for breath, "Huff huff~ Yes! Thank you."

"Thank you too, Mom. The duck neck was delicious!" Xu Qingfan said with a smile.

Seeing the smile on Xu Qingfan's face, Wu Lingyu smiled from the bottom of her heart: "I'm glad you like it. My family can't offer you anything else to repay you."

When she said the second half of her sentence, the little girl's voice was much lower.

Xu Aiguo naturally wouldn't accept the 10,000 yuan, and he found some time during his workday on Sunday to return it to Li Meijuan.

Just as Xu Qingfan had predicted, the money in the envelope was deliberately left by Li Meijuan because she felt that it was all obtained through Xu Aiguo's connections and had little to do with her, so she couldn't take it!

The two sides engaged in a tug-of-war, pushing and shoving each other. As more and more onlookers gathered and rumors began to circulate, Xu Aiguo blushed, threw the envelope onto Li Meijuan's lap with a "thud," and sped away in his car.

It was Li Meijuan who instilled in her the idea that her family owed Xu Qingfan's family a lot, which made the little girl always feel inferior whenever she faced Xu Qingfan.

"No way! This braised duck is so delicious, I wouldn't trade it for a thousand pieces of gold!" Xu Qingfan hugged the plastic bag tightly with both hands, pretending to be possessive of his food.

"Okay!" Wu Lingyu nodded with approval. "Then I'll head back now, thank you!"

The little girl came and went in a hurry, and soon Wu Lingyu could no longer be seen in the corridor.

The plastic bag weighed more than twice as much as last time. Xu Qingfan thought to himself: If gratitude could be quantified by duck necks, this gratitude would be twice as precious as last time.

After getting the water, Xu Qingfan discreetly carried the plastic bag back to the classroom.

"Brother Qingfan, what's in the plastic bag?" Lin Wanning asked curiously as soon as he saw it.

"Shh!" Xu Qingfan stuck out his index finger to cover Lin Wanning's mouth. "The duck necks from last time were made by Wu Lingyu's mother. We shared them after school, and each of us took one home for our parents to try."

"Oh~" Lin Wanning cooperated and immediately whispered, "No problem, let's keep it down and not let anyone else know! Brother Qingfan, can Ningning have one first?"

Xu Qingfan flicked the little girl's forehead: "Eat it when you get home. If you open it in class, the other students will smell it and come to get it!"

"Waaah~ Okay, okay, don't hit Ningning!" Lin Wanning angrily covered her forehead where she had just been flicked.

“Our Ningning is the best girl. Have you finished looking at the manuscript? Can you draw it?” Xu Qingfan pushed the other person’s hand away and stepped forward to blow on the spot where he had just played.

"Definitely! No problem at all!!" Xiao Wanning raised her head and tilted it to look at Xu Qingfan.

(End of this chapter)