Shadow Weaver

Chapter 52: Qingqing suddenly got it?

Help - how could she forget something so important?

She vaguely remembered...Ms. Lan seemed to have told her that she would contact her again after the contract was finalized...and what did she say in response?
It seems like... "Uh-huh, okay, okay"?
…Fuck! How could she be so perfunctory!!
How could she! Kiss her idol! Her perfect Ms. Lan! So! Perfunctory! !

what! ! !
Xu Yichi squatted at the door with his head in his hands and screamed silently. He looked like a screaming chicken that had been whistled at.

Fortunately, the hope that Lan Xuesheng had left her before, that they would meet again in two days, restored her precarious sanity in time.

The little girl stood at the door of the B&B for a long time, finally shook her head to calm herself down, stood up, humming, and slowly opened the door.

"Hey, you're back, Xiaoyi. How was the talk with your idol today? Did Ms. Lan agree to cooperate with us?" Bai Miaomiao, who was immersed in painting, had the rare leisure time to look up at Xu Yichi. However, An Qing, who usually loved to slack off and couldn't write three lines of plot without a small dark room, was busy typing today.

"We're done talking, and it went well." Xu Yichi blinked, temporarily putting aside the confusion in his mind about An Qing's abnormal behavior today, and instead carefully answered Bai Miaomiao's various questions about her idol.

"She admires our determination to create a non-legacy game... and she also likes our current creative atmosphere."

"So, she decided to cooperate with our studio in her own name and invest 500,000 yuan for the production and promotion of the game... Her contract will be drafted in two days. I have already told her that we will go together on the day of signing the contract."

"Personally." Bai Miaomiao thought for a moment after hearing this word, "It means that she doesn't want other people from 'Lansheng' to interfere with the normal production of the game, and doesn't want to do advertising placement?"

"I didn't expect that the general manager of such a large high-end brand is actually such a sentimental person." The Hanfu girl smacked her lips repeatedly, "Xiaoyi, you have a good eye for idols——"

"Of course. Don't you see how much of a stir Ms. Lan caused in the piano world back then... She had very high pursuits in art." Xu Yichi raised her head proudly - now when she heard others praising her as an idol, she, as a "Yuncewei fan", felt a little proud of it.

"Anyway, we've finally found some real big shots this time...and we've got two of them at once, both of them are wealthy women." The little girl shook her head, took out her cell phone and opened the photo album.

"Also, I also took a lot of photos of handsome men and beautiful women wearing fursuits from her... Here, Xiaobai, take a look. I think we can use the following as a reference to draw them as NPCs and put them into the game. I have also explained the portrait licensing issues to them."

"Handsome men and beautiful women in furry costumes... let me take a look." Upon hearing this, Bai Miaomiao couldn't help but show a little more doubt about Xu Yichi's aesthetic level, and took the phone she handed over.

Xu Da's photography skills are still hard to describe, but she can still see the delicate features of the people in those slightly distorted photos.

"Wow! They are all very good-looking, and the fursuits are so exquisite... the two bird costumes are even a bit cyberpunk!" Bai Miaomiao exclaimed with a quirk of her eyebrows, and for once she affirmed Xu Yichi's aesthetic taste, "Not bad, Xiaoyi, where did you get so many top-quality ones... why can't I usually see them on the street?"

"Oh, these are all Ms. Lan's relatives and friends... Maybe they are like birds of a feather, and beautiful women always like to play with beautiful women!" "Tsk, that's right." Bai Miaomiao, who had forwarded all those pictures to herself, closed the album reluctantly, "Then Xiaoyi, do you know which races these furry costumes belong to? Or do they have any private settings of their own?"

"I just thought about it carefully. It seems inappropriate to directly draw other people's appearance into the game, but it is okay to add their furry design and slightly change the outline of the character's facial features - this can at least protect people's personal privacy."

"Hmm... I remember that they all seemed to be ancient beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas." Xu Yichi pretended to ponder, "The one with double pupils, Ah Si, was dressed as a '颙鸟'; Tu Tu with pigtails was dressed as a '鵸鵌'; the one with blue hair seemed to be a 'Shu Hu', and the last cute little boy was a 'He Luo Fish'."

"They told you not to feel too burdened when you were drawing, just follow your understanding of the appearance of the strange beasts in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and feel free to draw them boldly - after all, their images are just 'derivatives'."

——A faithful derivation from a real object is also called a derivative, yes, that’s it.

Xu Yichi grinned implicitly. Bai Miaomiao rubbed her chin and thought about it carefully. After a moment, she nodded decisively: "Make a derivative based on the images of the strange beasts in the Classic of Mountains and Seas..."

"Okay, that's easy. I'll just try to make the beasts look cooler, and then make the humanoids look better based on their general images. It's not a difficult task - and having their photos as a reference can reduce my workload!"

"Yeah, that's what I mean." Xu Yichi nodded like a chicken pecking at rice when he heard it.

Now that she had finished talking to Bai Miaomiao, she finally had the energy to bring the topic to An Qing - this girl hadn't raised her head once since she entered the room today. This was simply bizarre for someone like her who loved to join in the fun everywhere!
"Speaking of which, why is Qingqing so quiet today?" Xu Yichi winked at Bai Miaomiao, "Have you suddenly become enlightened and love your work?"

"Don't worry, even if I love you, I won't love work." An Qing, whose keyboard was making so much noise that it almost shook the sky, took a break from his busy schedule and quickly turned back to glance at Xu Yichi, "There must be something wrong with the brain of someone who loves working."

"I just want to finish the work I planned for today quickly so that I can have some free time in the evening to catch up on the puppet show I didn't finish watching before. Xiaoyi, you know, I can't control my puppet addiction. Even if I get killed by Ren Piaomiao, I will still hold up my keyboard and say, 'Emperor Wen, you bastard!'"

An Qing raised her arms and shouted, then turned around and started typing on her little keyboard again.

Xu Yichi listened thoughtfully: "Oh, the two puppet shows next door in Wan Chai that have been updated for decades are still being updated - the puppets are really beautiful. Sometimes when I see them, I also have the urge to buy two to keep at home."

"But, when you mentioned glove puppetry... I remember that it seemed to have originated in southern Fujian."

The little girl frowned more and more as she spoke: "Xiaobai, did puppetry originate from southern Fujian?"

(End of this chapter)