I will never give in to Miss Death
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The world is big and there are many people. It is impossible for every one of the billions of people to be reasonable or gentle to others. Some people yell at the waiter if he is slow in serving the food, some people will find ways to find fault because they have nothing to do all day, and some people will be sarcastic to their colleagues even if the waiter does nothing. You see, those who work here are lazy and subordinates, and we can't learn from them.
Train your mindset and give yourself several layers of protection so that when you switch jobs to work in the industry you want or love, you won't be too vulnerable.
The same goes for maids. Being a maid in a coffee shop is essentially the same as being a waiter, and maids are even less likely to retain their value than waiters. Being a maid is a job that requires one to work during one's youth, and the income is lower than most other jobs that require one to work during one's youth, so it is extremely demanding on one's mentality.
So I plan to learn some skills of other professions, such as chef, while working as a maid.
Even if it doesn't come in handy at work in the future, I can cook for myself at home - let me make it clear that I'm not learning this for Yin Xiamo.
In order to allow a "little girl" like me with little strength and small hands to learn the chef's cooking method, Ouyang Xue specially bought a smaller and lighter pot. Otherwise, I could only watch the chef in the kitchen flipping the pot with one hand and holding the spoon with the other - I simply don't have the strength to lift the pot with one hand when there is so much food in it.
Chef Wang Jie of the coffee shop's main cooking method is of the more traditional type. Clean the pot, boil off the water on it, heat the pot, and then put cold oil in the hot pot. Then it depends on what dish you are going to cook. If you need garlic, star anise, etc., wait until the oil temperature is right and add the seasoning to "fry it". Then, while the pot is full of fragrance, put the main dish in, then shake the pot and turn it over to let the flavor spread to every corner of the ingredients.
If there are not many customers outside, I will go to the kitchen to help out, such as helping to cut some ingredients to practice my knife skills, or marinating food.
Ouyang Xue can learn marketing strategies by being a virtual anchor and learn computer programming by being a logistics manager. I believe that I can also learn advanced cooking techniques by being a waiter.
In comparison, Yin Xiamo is not that interested in cooking, but she is quite responsible for her work. During work hours, I mainly make milk tea on the second floor, and Yin Xiamo receives customers on the first floor and takes care of the cats in the cat living area. Ouyang Xue plays the role of connecting our work.
There are no customers in the store at around two or three in the afternoon, so I can take a nap for about twenty minutes. After five in the evening, it is the dinner peak, and I am busy until seven or eight. After the customers leave, there are only a few customers left in the store who are still petting cats or doing live broadcasts. Then I can continue to learn cooking from the chef. When it is almost time, I go to the massage chair on the first floor to sit and relax. Finally, at around nine o'clock, Elodi comes to the coffee shop, and we pack up and go home.
Yin Xiamo and I had originally agreed that our working hours would be from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. However, due to the special circumstances of the coffee shop and catering industry, there were few customers after 8 or 9 p.m., so we basically left work three hours earlier this month, and Ouyang Xue didn't say anything.
After get off work, Yin Xiamo and I would take a short walk to the Shenbin River, then go to the Nannagi Tower to chat, listen to the sound of the sea breeze, take a few photos together, look at the neatly maintained lawn and garden by the old man under the tower, and finally go home.
Night is Yin Xiamo’s main battlefield.
Not only does he stick to me when I take a bath or shower after I get home, but every time he acts like a little child and insists on asking me to apply shower gel and wash my hair. After that, he even applies body lotion on me with his own hands and then takes the opportunity to take advantage of me.
After taking a shower, I will have about two hours to type. During this period of time, the rental house will be relatively quiet, with only the sound of me typing on the keyboard and using the mouse in the room, and the sound of Yin Xiamo washing clothes in the bathroom or watering the flowers in the living room.
During this period, I finished my previous book of several million words.
The book was almost finished. If it weren't for the sudden bankruptcy of Yaedo, which disrupted my pace, I would have finished it by the end of April. Now that I have finished it, I can say that I have a beginning and an end.
Moreover, I finished it at a time when it just happened to coincide with the "completion award" proposed to the editors by the authors at the previous authors' conference: completed works with more than 100 million words can receive a one-time reward of 800 yuan, and works with more than 200 million words can receive a one-time reward of 1200 yuan.
That is to say, if there are no unexpected events in June, I can get the completion bonus of 1200 yuan.
After some "guidance" from the editor Maomint, I finally accepted her suggestion and re-registered an author account with my current mobile phone number. I used the neutral name "Biyiyi" that I thought of at that time as my pen name, and found a cuter avatar of Izumi Sagiri on the Blue APP. Then I changed the signature of this account to "29-year-old fat uncle who dropped out of school and stayed at home. I lack writing experience, so please be gentle."
Considering that I couldn’t be careless about the first book of this new author account, I spent two full days “scanning the list” and read all the books on the “Migua Yaetang” list which was formed after the merger of Miguabao and Yaetang. I mainly looked at the new book list and the monthly ticket list, and read the beginning of all the books related to “female protagonist” and “yuri” to figure out the approximate audience of this website.
Just like what the editor Maomint said, there are still quite a few readers in the "Yuri" section of Yae Miguabao, so if you write well, there is a great chance that you will be on the list. Plus, my own writing style is not really suitable for stories with male protagonists, so if I start a story with female protagonists... at least the competition won't be that fierce.
I hesitated for a long time between the two themes of "Lily" and "Transformation into Lily", and finally chose "Transformation into Lily".
Because I think this subject is very suitable for my current self. As someone who has experienced the life of an uncle and was turned into a little loli by Yin Xiamo, it shouldn't be difficult for me to write it.
After determining the subject matter and general writing direction, I began to research the name of the new book.
Times are different now. If a new author wants to stand out, the most important thing is the name of the novel. If the title of a book does not match the mainstream of the website, then no matter how well it is written or how much the editor recommends it, the book is unlikely to stand out.
Just like the short names of online novels in the past, such as "Asking the Way" or "I Desire to Cover the Sky", these names looked very domineering and tasteful back then, and if they could be adapted into movies or games, they would sound very classy and could create IPs. Or they could be "His Scarf" or "Love You 1994" that literary youths like very much, etc. Such book titles would surely fail in today's fast-paced society.
I studied the mainstream naming format of the Yae Miguabao website for a long time, and finally decided on the new book title - "After I became a lolita, I stuck in a world full of girls"
This is what I came up with based on the suggestions of the catnip editor, combined with the style of the website and the mainstream of today's society.
The background of the novel is set in an alternate world, because if it is written about the real world, there will be a risk of "political warning". Now the inspection is very strict. Many years ago, in order to avoid "mirroring reality", all novel websites banned the mention of real place names. If the novel is set in the real world, no matter how much the author claims that this is a virtual world and has nothing to do with reality, even if the author writes the cities in the novel as "S City" and "A City" and the countries as "C Country" and "F Country", some readers will associate it with the real world and analyze the background of the novel.
Immediately afterwards, different readers will express their opinions, claiming, "This is not the city you are talking about, right? I think the city in the book is more like XX city."
If things get out of hand, you could easily get a "Mapping Reality" warning.
However, there is no such problem for stories about different worlds, so you can write with confidence.
The main theme of the new book is what the editor of Catnip calls the transformed lily. Let me first mention the background. In the real world, the protagonist and his girlfriend are childhood sweethearts. They have a very good relationship and fell in love when they went to college. However, his girlfriend fell ill. The protagonist borrowed a lot of money for her treatment, but his girlfriend still left. The protagonist began to pay back the money. The protagonist became an uncle. The protagonist died. The protagonist traveled through time and space and came to the world where his girlfriend was.
Because the girlfriend came to this world first, she is older than the protagonist and knows this place better than the protagonist. In addition, the little loli that the protagonist turned into is very cute, so she is always bullied by her girlfriend.
I intend to design the model of this different world to be a bit more relaxed, without so many conspiracy theories, or darkness and knives or anything like that. Just like the title of the book suggests, it would be just girls being affectionate and cute with each other.
The world view is similar to "Minecraft" and "Plants vs. Zombies". There is only girls in the world. If you want to have children... well, you can learn a little about the reproduction method from the elves.
After all, in today's society, people are very tired from going to school or work. If the plot is made too complicated, with deaths, heartbreaking stories, or tangled wings, readers probably won't like it. So it's just a casual daily show, like "Would You Like a Rabbit Today?" or "Daily Life" or "Love Killing Baby".
After deciding on the title of the book, I thought of an introduction that fits the mainstream of the website, went to the Blue APP to find a picture of a cute little girl as the cover, wrote the first chapter in an elegant style, created a new book, and uploaded it.
[Your novel has entered the review process and will be completed within 1 to 3 working days. Please wait patiently.]
When I saw this sentence, I breathed a sigh of relief in front of the computer. Then I opened QQ, clicked on Catnip’s avatar, took a screenshot of the review information of the new book, and clicked Send.
[Have you decided yet? ]
What I didn’t expect was that at around 10 o’clock in the evening, Catmint was actually online. She responded to my message immediately: [The title of the book is good. I thought I needed to change it for you.]
This book title...is it good?
I couldn't tell for a moment whether the catnip editor was making fun of him or approving him. I thought about it for a while in front of my computer desk and replied: [Boss, are you sure? No need to change it?]
While typing, I took the time to look at the titles on the website rankings again -
"Can you guys be considered male besties? Not as good as my female brother"
"I'm really lying down, don't force me to chase my husband to the crematorium"
"Principal Wang, you don't want your wife to go crazy, do you?"
Well, after such a comparison, I feel that I am indeed "perfectly integrated into the website style".
[No need to change, just like this]
A little while later, Catmint sent me this message, along with a "Cat Whirlwind" emoji: [One more thing, are you interested in dubbing? ]
Dubbing?
I thought for a while before replying: [I have never done similar work before]
For a long time, the online evaluation of my voice has been "Little Water Seize".
Because I often watch anime, I know the voice actor "Minase Tsuyoshi". She first seemed to be the voice actor of Okamoto Tomo in "Century End Supernatural Academy", and then she voiced the heroine Kafu Chino in "Excuse Me, Is the Order a Rabbit Today?", followed by Noelle in "Order of the Celestial Bodies". If we say the most famous role dubbed by this voice actor, it is Rem in "Re: Life in a Different World from Zero".
Her voice is like that of a loli or a girl, giving people a lazy, soft and sticky feeling.
Anyway, I usually can’t hear myself clearly when I speak, but most of the time I do sound… lazy.
Just like when Yin Xiamo came over to pinch my face while yelling "Nuo'er is so cute!", I would half-close my eyes, look at her with contempt, and then lazily say "Sorry, please let go, pinching my face is prohibited."
Because I've gotten used to Yin Xiamo's "crazy girl" behavior towards me.
Similarly, as an uncle who has lived for nearly 30 years, I have become open-minded about many things. When I am working in a coffee shop, if a customer comes over excitedly and says, "Yin Nuoer, I am your dog!", I will just respond lazily, "Ah... Thank you, but I like cats more."
Or when facing those who tell dirty jokes regardless of the occasion, I will just look at them with contempt and respond with a few words like "You are so naughty" or "That's really incredible".
If it is a more formal occasion, I will try to speak politely, and in most cases my voice is not too loud. Plus, my main job is to make milk tea and coffee, and the maid outfit I wear is similar to the ones in the anime. I guess this is the main reason why people think my voice sounds like "Kafu Chino" or "Rem", and thus give me the nickname "Little Minase Xi".
[It doesn't matter, just speak in the tone you normally use]
Catmint didn't seem to mind that I was a novice in dubbing, and quickly sent a reply: [You know, recently both Elodie and Lan Jiajia were poached by you, and my and Qiyue's voices are not good, and there are no female editors with good voices in the editorial department. You...you have to take responsibility, right? ]
[Now that the author conference is over, the author benefits and reader benefits are almost confirmed. Yae Miguabao is preparing to hold a large-scale essay contest and needs to promote it on Tongmeng.com]
[I will send you a manuscript in a while. If you have time, start recording and read the contents of the manuscript, and then send the recording file back.]
[You won’t work for nothing. You can get the best recommendation position for the new book and get a bonus of 1000 yuan. How about that? ]
What? I get paid for reading the script once?
Seeing this, I was a little surprised, and after a while I replied: [Can I read it any way I want? ]
[It's all right. Your voice is the kind that's naturally silly and cute. Just read it into the microphone in your normal speaking tone and send it over.]
[This is what you said, Boss]
I replied: [Then send the manuscript over so I can see what it is about]
[System prompt: The enterprise account "Yahe Miguabao Editor Catmint" sent you the file "Promotional Manuscript"]
take over.
In less than three seconds, the file came over and I clicked on it.
[Hello everyone, I am Xiao Mi from Mi Gua Bao Niang, from Yae Mi Gua Bao Novel Network...]
[This essay contest is the largest one so far, with a prize of nearly two million, and various prizes, medals, decorations and other gifts. Participants may also win a Xiaomi pillow! ]
"..."
After taking a quick look at the manuscript, I found that the contents were indeed the same as those discussed at the previous author conference, such as essay writing competitions, lucky draws, improvements in author attendance, and improvements in readers' reading experience.
If nothing goes wrong, Miguabao should ask me to read the script once, and then they will edit the audio and make a video to post on Tongmeng.com.
It’s kind of like… outsourced video narration.
[I have never done dubbing-related work before]
After reading the manuscript, I replied to Catmint: [It’s quite late today. If I have time tomorrow, I can try it, but I can’t guarantee that it will meet your expectations.]
Actually, if you think about it, we were indeed in the wrong.
Whether it was Elodie or Lan Jiajia, they were both people that Ouyang Xue dug directly from Miguabao at my signal.
The sudden loss of two editors will have some impact no matter how big Miguabao is.
What's more, reading the manuscript once earns you 1,000 yuan plus a recommendation spot for the new book, which I think is quite a good deal.
[It’s okay. This is also the task assigned to me by the editor-in-chief. Once you complete it, I’ll just hand it in with the documents. Let the editor-in-chief and others decide whether it’s appropriate.]
Looking at the message from Catnip on the computer, I quickly typed in the chat box: [OK, I'll try it tomorrow]
"Noel!"
At this time, the door of the room was pushed open, and Yin Xiamo, wearing only a snow-white triangle panties, rushed in from outside: "Have you finished writing the novel?"
"What are you wearing? Aren't you afraid of being seen by Lan Jiajia up there?"
I turned around and saw Yin Xiamo's look and couldn't help but feel a headache: "Go put on your pajamas quickly."
"Oh? Am I making Nuoer embarrassed by this?"
Yin Xiamo ran over in her slippers, hugged me from behind, and rubbed my face with the two rabbits on her chest: "Then I'll add a pair of white stockings next time?"
"Um... eh... is this a sock problem?"
I quickly pushed the girl away from me: "What if someone in the next building is looking over here with a telescope..."
"Don't worry, my breath and vision can easily cover the entire community. If something like that really happens, that person won't survive tomorrow."
Yin Xiamo pinched my face as usual: "Now that the work is over, can we..."
"No, I refuse."
Because my face was being pinched, my words were a little slurred: "I have to go to work tomorrow."
"Nuo'er has a strong ability to recover, so it will be okay."
"Please allow me to refuse."
"No, kitten, kittens are born to be eaten."
The girl continued to rub my face: "Resistance... resistance is useless, hehehe..."
"You look like the... um, the Great Elder of the Soul Palace."
"What is the Soul Palace?"
“A character from a novel.”
I pushed Yin Xiamo, the octopus-like creature, away, turned around and controlled the mouse to turn off the computer, stood up and stretched, and glanced at the date in the lower right corner before turning off the computer.
May 5th, well, it’s only a few days until June 27st, and Xingguang Primary School is going to be busy.
By the way, Li Denghua seems to have been quiet these days. Has she reconciled with her parents?
And Lu Xinmeng, should she be discharged from the hospital these days? I don't know how her body is recovering.
"Noer, we still have two days of vacation, and I want to use it at the end of the month."
Seeing me stand up, Yin Xiamo, who was only wearing a pair of panties, said in a serious tone: "Go find the mayor to discuss the island matter."
I was a little surprised: "Are you really planning to build a portal there? Won't it have any impact on the laws of the world?"
"No, I am the god of death in this world. Even if some strange creature comes, I can control it."
Yin Xiamo looked me in the eyes: "And even if I didn't do this, I doubt that the black dragon princess would come here on her own."
"Are you...are you serious?"
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