You are not monster girls!

Chapter 162 Qingyi: What about me? (Edited, please refresh the page, 4k)

Afterwards, Lin Muran entered the two documents into the computer, did a simple proofreading, and then sent them to her mobile phone, asking Yun Yifei to submit them to the client for review.

Xia Li went to the dining table to enjoy the meal that Lin Muran had prepared for her in advance, and also to deal with the jelly from yesterday.

To clean the oil stains remaining on the table, the eel was also moved over.

"There's still some jelly left, but Big Brother isn't eating it?" Di Hou asked, puzzled.

Xia Li, holding her bowl which was about the size of a dog bowl, took a couple of sips and felt the cold air emanating from the side, only then noticing the two pieces of slime.

"After everyone tried it, they found it a bit hard to get used to. Since you can eat it better, I'll give it all to you," Lin Muran hurriedly declined.

This dish is clearly something Celie used to kill people; only Kasumi or Unagi could digest it.

"I just ate hot food, it's not good for my stomach to eat cold food." Seeing Xia Li's gaze on her, Qingyi waved her hands incessantly.

As for Bai Mengqing, Xia Li saw that she kept her head down as if she was thinking about something important, so she didn't ask her.

Hahaha~
Eel Wave, who was originally using its slime to clean the grease off the desktop like keyboard cleaner, couldn't help but squint and chuckle when it saw the reactions of the three people over there.

[Foolish spirit beasts and mortals are too afraid to even eat a jelly, how pretentious!]

If she were a spirit beast, she would eat 100 plates of jelly, let alone this one.

Unfortunately, I am not one of them.

Xia Li glanced at Man Bo, then stopped the spoon that was about to reach for the slime jelly and instead scooped up a spoonful of gravy and poured it over the rice. She then slowly savored it, her tail swaying incessantly with the sound of her chewing.

After a while, Yun Yifei also came out of the room, her expression somewhat solemn. She glanced at Xia Li, who was enjoying her meal, then pulled Lin Muran and the others aside and whispered:
"The client refused."

"Rejected?! Why?" Lin Muran was a little confused.

"Perhaps because it's our first time working together, the client is unsure and still hopes to include this order in the updates of Monster Ramblings, so the price remains unchanged."

Qingyi asked, "Then what should we do now?"

Even now, she could feel the unprecedented surge of emotion in her traitorous disciple. If he were rejected, it would probably take him years to recover.

"Let's give Xia Li a heads-up first; lying to her won't work."

Ha~ Guh! ?

Eel, who was breathing on Kasumi from the side, had just opened its mouth to breathe out a sound when Kasumi quickly stuffed a piece of dark slime into its mouth. Its body shuddered and instantly wilted. A few seconds later, it started spitting out colorful bubbles like a crab.

"Quiet down," Emperor Roar said, indicating that he was eavesdropping.

Xia Li's cat ears stood up and twitched twice, her body tilted slightly to one side, and her tail slowly softened like the eel's wave, ceasing to wag.

Gugu ga ga
The low-frequency noise emitted by the eel wave made it difficult for her to hear the specific content, but Yun Yifei had already explained the situation very clearly.

This kind of thing actually happened many times when I was writing with Lin Muran at the very beginning, so it's perfectly normal.

This time, being rejected left me feeling inexplicably irritated.

She became increasingly annoyed by what she heard, so she simply drooped her ears and focused on eating.

"So you really aren't going to try?" Yun Yifei asked, somewhat surprised.

She had already argued with the client, but they simply couldn't trust Lin Muran, a relatively small content creator, to start a new series with someone they were collaborating with for the first time.

Lin Muran glanced at Xia Li and, after seeing the drooping cat ears, pondered for a moment, then turned around and patted Bai Mengqing's shoulders, who was still looking down, and said, "Bai Mengqing, would you like to be with me?"

Yun Yifei's expression darkened, and Qingyi was also somewhat confused and shocked.

"One, together? What, together?!"

Bai Mengqing then came to her senses and realized that Lin Muran had completely occupied her vision. Thinking about what had just happened, her pretty face turned red and it seemed as if a mist was rising from her head.

Aren't we already living together?
Why ask such a question?

Could it be that kind of relationship?
But isn't his sister still here?
"It's about doing it together."

Fine, I've already said it!
"Yes, I'm willing, okay? Just let me go."

She felt that if things continued like this, her head was more likely to melt off on the spot than if Yun Yifei, with a dark expression, came up and strangled her.

Lin Muran breathed a sigh of relief, released Bai Mengqing, patted her corner, and said, "Okay, then let's work on comic storyboards together tonight, let's work overtime."

"Huh?" Bai Mengqing was taken aback and asked, "You mean I have to go to bed after midnight tonight?"

“It could even be all night.” Lin Muran shrugged.

"No, I refuse."

"what?"

"Sleeping after midnight will affect my energy the next day, and why should I work overtime for no reason?"

Bai Mengqing thought about it for a moment. Even if Lin Muran's job was rejected, as long as she didn't have to choose a new topic, she didn't need to stay up all night to work on her painting.

Lin Muran was speechless for a moment.

Qingyi couldn't help but laugh, and Yun Yifei finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Being together isn't okay, but working overtime together is fine.

"Oh dear, my little Azure Dragon."

Lin Muran whispered in Bai Mengqing's ear, "If you just need to get some emergency treatment, your allowance will be doubled."

He didn't actually want to give up on this script, besides the fact that it contained Xia Li's hard work.

The most important thing is to ensure that the launch of the new series does not affect the update schedule without the support of the client. Even if the response is not good, it will not leave a bad impression on the audience.

With the launch of the new series, we can take on more commercial orders at the same time, increasing our income and making life more comfortable for the spirit beasts.

"No." Bai Mengqing turned her head to the side.

She felt that enough pocket money was sufficient and there was no need for more; she would only use it when there were good anime merchandise releases.

Lin Muran gritted her teeth. "How about I hear one more request from you?"

"any?"

"Correct."

"Then let's sleep together one more night."

"you sure?"

Lin Muran still felt a lingering pain in her abdomen from the kick Bai Mengqing had given her last time, so she could only force a smile and say, "You've already made the same request once before, it would be a huge loss to make it twice."

It wasn't that he was afraid of sleeping, but he just thought that, according to Bai Mengqing's thinking habits, she would definitely put the two of them together.

Even Superman's steel body couldn't withstand the roughness of this dragon.

"Too."

Bai Mengqing flicked her tail and puffed out her cheeks, saying, "Then I'll do to me what Xia Li did to you in the room yesterday, and I'll also add three more truths."

! ! ?

My dear great-aunt.

You're really good at setting conditions. Lin Muran felt as if she were in a frozen wasteland, the surrounding cold air piercing her skin like sharp swords.

Is this the legendary battleground?

"That's it? No problem." Lin Muran's lips twitched uncontrollably as she agreed.

He's a monster expert, someone who can coordinate relationships between more than 50 monsters of different sexes at the same time, and he's only got two so far.

He gritted his teeth and said, "As long as you agree to help me work on the new video, anything is negotiable."

"The deal is done?"

"make a deal!"

Lin Muran forced a smile and turned to Yun Yifei, saying, "Bai Mengqing said she agreed to work overtime."

This works too! ?

Did Lin Muran find something to hold over this spirit beast, that it would agree to such a non-human request?

Could it be that she has feelings for Lin Muran?
Yun Yifei watched as the hostility in Bai Mengqing's eyes grew stronger and stronger. She never expected that a spirit beast could have such thoughts about a human.

Aren't you afraid of reproductive isolation?

Seeing that Yun Yifei was acting strangely, Qingyi immediately tried to comfort her.
"Xiaoyun, money can make the devil turn the millstone. Look at the ugly expression on Lin Muran's face when he turned around. He must have spent a lot of money to give Xiao Qinglong a huge bailout."

"Do spirit beasts also love money?" Yun Yifei asked with some skepticism.

Seeing that she still didn't believe her, Qingyi leaned close to the other person's ear and whispered:

"Loving money is one thing, but spirit beasts have a high sense of morality. Xiaoyun, try to think from the little green dragon's perspective. Humans rely on others for food, clothing, and daily necessities, and they can't work. So, wouldn't the only way to make some requests for daily benefits, like buying figurines, be to help Lin Muran with more tasks?"

“That makes sense.” Yun Yifei glanced at Bai Mengqing and nodded in agreement.

With Bai Mengqing's looks and figure, and having met a rich guy like her younger brother, if she were truly a female con artist, she would probably pack up and run away as soon as she heard the word "overtime".

Instead of actually coming to work overtime.

“Right? I guarantee with the name of Daoist Qingxiao that the spirit beasts are all kind and genuine beings.” Qingyi continued to bolster her claim.

"Alright. Lin Muran, you can't just steal someone's spirit beast wages just because they like you."

Who spread the rumor that I stole someone else's salary?!

"That's definitely not the case."

Lin Muran was internally screaming with frustration, but he could only nod and bow in agreement: "Then I'll go and talk to Xia Li."

He fled to the dining table as if escaping Tarkov, only to find that Xia Li had been watching him the whole time.

"That Xia Li, here's what happened."

"Has the project been cancelled?" Di Hou asked, sounding somewhat disappointed.

"Well, the client thinks your proposal is too advanced, too ambitious, and our family's expenses have been a bit over budget lately."

Lin Muran dared not meet Xia Li's gaze and could only fix her eyes on the cat ears that kept rising and falling.

“This is a common occurrence in our work,” Di Hou said understandingly. The steel spoon in Xia Li’s hand began to slowly bend.

"Therefore, I've decided to launch your script as a separate series to take on more commercial orders, but this might require working overtime to finish the copy first."

The steel spoon landed on the table without any resistance, and Xia Li just stared blankly at the somewhat embarrassed other person.

"Really?" Emperor Roar asked incredulously.

Lin Muran's heart tightened: "You're not going to have to go to bed before midnight like that dragon, are you?"

Xia Li shook her head, tilted her head gently, and pressed it against the other person's lower abdomen: "I can work overtime for a hundred days straight. Di Hou said that he could go a long time without sleeping."

"Then you should get some more sleep."

As Lin Muran complained, she gently brushed Xia Li's short hair and cat ears, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Anyway, I'm the main writer this time, so you can polish a version first and then go to sleep."

“Yes,” Emperor Roar said happily.

Xia Li's cat tail swayed happily. She knew that her older brother would definitely resolve these problems easily and was someone she could completely entrust with.

I want to kiss you again.
But the eldest brother cares a lot about what other people think.
Let's wait until tonight.
Seeing this, Qingyi couldn't help but say, "Only a monster expert can subdue this rebellious disciple."

In the past, if the sect's guardian spirit beast was unhappy, it would cause unrest across several mountains.

Lin Muran, however, easily fooled the traitor.

The traitor was right to keep calling him "Big Brother."

She was about to turn to ask Yun Yifei what she thought, but the other woman was clasping her hands like a praying nun, secretly muttering, "Thank you to this other world for turning my brother into such a responsible man."

At this point, Bai Mengqing's head was completely comparable to that of Pang Ke Ding.

She could easily do something like sticking the horn to Lin Muran's lower abdomen if she just plucked it off!
The entire Lin family then returned to work.

Because Lin Muran's copywriting was being used, he asked Xia Li to polish his copywriting first. Then, he selected an interesting plot from Xia Li's script and had Bai Mengqing draw it into a comic and insert it into this monster tale.

This is done to see how the audience reacts to the image.

Secondly, the process can be carried out on two fronts. While the production is underway, Yun Yifei can help contact suppliers, saving the trouble of having to go back and revise the order later.

Xia Li finished polishing the script quickly, in about 40 minutes. After the draft was approved, she thought she would watch Lin Muran and Bai Mengqing work, but she was directly sent to Yun Yifei's room to sleep, to conserve her energy for continuing to polish the script the next day.

Lin Muran also began teaching Bai Mengqing the panel layout concept for comics. Xia Li's script was very detailed, so she basically only needed to draw the scenes based on the description.

Lin Muran simply watched the effects and revised her draft storyboard.

The only problem now is that drawing comics on the computer requires importing the storyboard base image first, and then drawing. But I don't know why Bai Mengqing always makes mistakes in this step. After finishing, she forgets what the storyboard is for and has to look at the script again to understand it.

He had no choice but to switch computers with Bai Mengqing, adjusting parameters and layer information after each drawing.

Although the progress has slowed down, at least the project is able to proceed smoothly.

During this period, Yun Yifei also tried to contact several clients she was familiar with, planning to send them the sample drawings and script together for review after Bai Mengqing's work was completed, which would increase the success rate.

She was speechless when she saw Lin Muran and Bai Mengqing switching back and forth on the chairs like they were doing a strange dance: "Couldn't you have gotten her another computer?"

The idea of ​​"productivity before purchase, iQiyi after purchase" only applies to ordinary people.

For someone like Bai Mengqing, who is passionate about drawing and is also a key figure in video production, having a dedicated computer can instantly increase the speed of project progress by 200%.

"I'd like to, but sis, look where there's room for her computer in this room," Lin Muran shrugged and complained after making room for Bai Mengqing.

The studio wasn't very big to begin with. After putting in a bed, a workbench, and a computer, there wasn't much space left to put in another table or computer.

Yun Yifei's bedroom has space, but it's clear she won't allow Bai Mengqing to work in her room.

"That's true." Once her income increases further, she feels she really needs to rent a bigger place.

"You all have things to do."

Qingyi, holding the bubble-blowing eel, watched the conversation between the three people inside like an outsider:
"what about me?"

(End of this chapter)