Problem Girls Strategy

Ying Lili was unwilling to casually draw a highly homogenized comic book with a perfunctory attitude, but she had to admit that the themes of the comic books had been played out so much that it was simply wishful thinking to want to draw a new theme independently.

Since there was no way to make a breakthrough in the subject matter, she could only start with her drawing skills. Eriri decided to draw a few erotic pictures to warm up her hands. After all, she hadn't drawn in the book for half a summer vacation. There were also people on the social software asking under her last update whether she had been taken to the police station.

The painter was not dead; he was just captured in the middle of collecting materials.

A joke about a comic book artist flashed through Eriri's mind, and her anxious mood eased a lot. Her white fingertips held the paintbrush and moved it flexibly, drawing a sketch of a female knight with ragged clothes and a stubborn expression.

Eriri, who was feeling hot, drew another sketch of a female magician and posted it to Kashiwagi Eri's social account, with the caption "A rough sketch for practice."

Soon, a unified reply appeared in the comment section: "Oh my god, the artist I recommended is resurrected!"

After announcing her resurrection, Eriri closed the webpage, thinking that she was now in a good state to start drawing in the book, so she picked up the drawing tablet with great interest.

Ten minutes, half an hour, an hour passed, Ying Lili stared at the blank screen, the light in her pupils lost, she still didn't make any progress. She had many ideas in her mind, but she couldn't turn them into actual pictures. She was like a novel author who was stuck in a writer's block, with a head full of nonsense, but couldn't even fart when she was actually typing.

Should I go to Jiang Zao to ask for some advice?

The paintbrush kept tapping on the drawing tablet, Ying Lili bit her lip and twisted her eyebrows.

Jiang Zao knows that I’m a comic book artist, and he’s also a fellow otaku, so it shouldn’t be a big deal to simply ask him for some advice. Besides, he’s a boy, so his opinions would be more valuable for reference.

Well, that's it, there's nothing to worry about, and I also have an anti-wolf stun gun, so I don't have to worry at all.

After hesitating for a long time, Ying Lili finally decided to seek advice from Jiang Zao. It would not be appropriate to talk about this kind of thing in the hall or in Jiang Zao's room, so she could only choose her room. Ying Lili spent some time tearing off the notes on the wall with various explicit contents, sorted them out and put them in the drawer, and then switched from the green sportswear look to the twin ponytail school uniform look.

Even if the relationship between the two is good, Eriri does not intend to meet Jiang Zao in a sloppy sportswear. Before she became a book artist, she was also a girl and also cared about her image in front of others.

After making all the necessary preparations, Ying Lili sent a message to Jiang Zao.

Ying Lili: "Jiang Zao, do you have time now?"

Jiang Zao: "Yes, I just saw your social media account update. The drawing is very good. Is it the illustration for the novel?"

Eriri: "Thank you for the compliment. That was just my practice sketch, not an illustration. Instead, could you come to my room? I'd like to get your advice on something."

Jiang Zao: "Okay, I'll come."

Walking into Eriri's room, Jiang Zao raised her nose and sniffed. The smell of instant noodles that she often smelled in Yumiko Sakaki's room hit her in the face. In Eriri's eyes, this action was absolutely perverted behavior, so she immediately took out the stun gun: "How come you smell the smell of a girl's room as soon as you come in?"

"Eri, don't get excited. I just smell instant noodles, not the smell in your room."

Ying Lili was skeptical: "Why didn't I smell it?"

"You've been in the room for so long that you naturally can't detect the smell of instant noodles. If you don't believe me, go out with me for ten seconds and then go back into the room and try it."

Ying Lili did as she was told and walked back into the room. She also smelled the faint smell of instant noodles, so she put away the anti-wolf stun gun awkwardly and apologized with a red face: "Sorry, I was rude."

"It's okay. It's not a bad thing for girls to be vigilant. Just don't punch them." Jiang Zao waved his hand to tell her not to worry.

"Boxing? What is that?"

"Well... it's not a good behavior anyway. Let's talk business. What kind of advice do you want?"

Ying Lili hesitated for a long time before finally squeezing out a barely audible sentence: "As for painting..."

Jiang Zao understood immediately.

It turns out it’s about the notebook.

To be honest, this was Jiang Zao's first experience discussing notebooks with a girl, but he was an experienced person after all, so at least he wasn't so nervous that he couldn't speak.

"Are you also producing works in your usual style this time?"

Jiang Zao said this very skillfully.

What does Eriri do? A book artist.

What kind of content does her book have?

If these things are chatted between netizens, then of course they can be said bluntly without restraint, but when talking to girls face to face, it is obviously not possible to say them so directly.

The five words "usual style" not only showed that he understood Eriri's meaning, but also asked her what she thought in a polite way, without embarrassing the shameless Eriri.

If this were a game, just based on Jiang Zao's words, an icon indicating a plus-1 favorability level would appear above Ying Lili's head.

Ying Lili admired Jiang Zao's thoughtful behavior in her heart while answering him: "Well, but I haven't had any good ideas recently, so I want to ask you for some advice."

"Can I make a small request?"

"If it's within my ability, OK." Asking for help wouldn't come without any reward, so Eriri readily agreed.

"Then can you give me an autographed copy of your next work?"

"No problem, it's not a big deal."

Jiang Zao was so moved by her own dedicated work attitude that she almost cried.

Boss, I've got the autograph book you asked for. Please remember to bless me so that I can get something good in the next mission reward.

The two of them sat down at the small tea table. Jiang Zao took a sip of the drink that Ying Lili had prepared, and after carefully choosing his words in his mind, he asked her, "Ying Lili, have you ever considered incorporating some other elements into the subject matter?"

"I have tried it," Eriri tapped the table with a frown on her face, "There are designs for all kinds of heroines, but the results are not very ideal."

"No, no, no, I don't mean adding more girls, I mean adding some plot."

"Oh? Tell me more!"

Chapter 117: Where to download the hypnosis software?

Eriri herself is not very good at writing stories, and the contents of her books are basically aimed at practicality and social explosions. The plot can be said to be the weakest link and it simply cannot stand scrutiny. She has also been attacked by people who don't like her, saying that the books are lies that can be seen through at a glance and traps that only fools would fall into. I don't know what the author is thinking.

Jiang Zao took the initiative to mention the plot, which made Ying Lili a little excited. Although she couldn't make up a story, others might be able to do so. What's more, it was a boy who wrote the story, which should give her new inspiration.

"Let me tell you the simplest one. The three members of the brave team accidentally fell into a trap. The entire small room was sealed and aphrodisiac gas was sprayed from it. They had nowhere to escape. The devil and his subordinates were happy to check the video after 24 hours."

"Yeah, then what?"

"It turns out that there is no video as imagined, and the three members of the brave team have already died of suffocation."

"Ah? This..." Ying Lili's eyes widened. She never thought that the hero would die of suffocation. She thought about it carefully and found that it seemed to make sense. The room was sealed and the aphrodisiac would speed up a person's breathing rate. The air in the small room was naturally not enough for three people to breathe for 24 hours. It was normal to die in there.

"How about this story?"

“It’s interesting, but how does it relate to my work?”

Jiang Zao shook his head and raised his index finger and moved it left and right, with an expression that said you don't understand anything: "A good plot can add points to a good style. You only need to make some small twists in the plot, such as the hero actually did this to cure the heroine, or all this is the heroine's delusion, the story will be different immediately, and you can even have a sequel."

"That's true, but there have been a lot of hypnosis software themes recently, and they don't seem to have any plot at all."

"Tsk." Jiang Zao clicked his tongue unhappily, and said to Ying Lili with a look of deep sorrow, "Don't learn those hypnosis software. This stuff directly destroys the subject of hypnosis and training. There is no step-by-step process. You can just wave your phone at a girl and she will be hypnotized. You can do a hundred or eighty looks a day without repeating. It is simply soulless."

This kind of material is really abominable. Where is the connotation? Where is the bottom line? Where is the software link?

Ying Lili could understand Jiang Zao's words. When the hypnosis software theme was popular, many people told her that she might as well draw this kind of theme. However, such a good style of painting was stuck on the tree of humiliation, which reduced the consumption of paper a lot in vain.

"However," Jiang Zao changed the subject, "I think Ying Lili, you can try to combine hypnosis with your style. After all, the two themes are not contradictory. For example, the princess whose kingdom was attacked can only watch her body do things without her consciousness under the hypnosis magic of the enemy magician. On the contrary, under the blessing of the magic effect, she can feel the stimulation brought to her senses more clearly, and finally fall step by step."

"That's it, that's it!" Ying Lili jumped up excitedly, her delicate face full of excitement. The story told by Jiang Zao was the kind of "click" inspiration that she lacked. At this moment, a series of pictures appeared in her mind. She didn't care about other things. She took out a digital tablet from the drawer, picked up the paintbrush and waved it continuously. Her little hands were so fast that they left a trail of afterimage in the air.

The huge number of sticky notes that were originally pressed under the drawing tablet by Ying Lili were scattered all over the floor when she took out the drawing tablet. Jiang Zao saw her entering a state of painting as if no one was around, and skillfully started doing his old job - cleaning the room for the girls.

It didn't take Jiang Zao much time to put away the notes. He quickly stacked them neatly together. Ying Lili was still drawing seriously. Worried about disturbing her, Jiang Zao didn't want to put the notes back in the drawer beside her, so he had to put them on the small coffee table for the time being. He played with his phone silently, and from time to time he checked to see if Ying Lili had finished drawing.

Jiang Zao had read the contents on the notes when he was collecting them. The delicate handwriting described bold ways of playing that would make ordinary girls blush at the sight of them, which opened his eyes.

He is indeed a professional book artist.

Only when her empty stomach began to growl with hunger did Eriri stop painting. She only roughly drew the beginning of the story, where the kingdom was conquered and the princess, wearing clothes covered in words, was brought to the magician with her noble, arrogant and disdainful head raised.

Eriri wrote down the rest of the story on a blank page, just in case she forgot what would happen next. She went back and checked the beginning twice. Eriri admired the princess's thighs, which looked particularly sexy when surrounded by men and wearing white lace stockings. She praised herself narcissistically, "I am worthy of this. This picture and thighs are so well designed!"

"I think so."

"Wow!" Ying Lili was startled by the voice that suddenly appeared beside her, and almost threw the drawing tablet at Jiang Zao's face. She seemed to be immersed in painting and completely forgot that there was someone else in the room.

"Jiang, Jiang Zao, don't look at it!" Ying Lili hurriedly reached out to turn off the computer screen. Her little face flushed and she didn't dare to look directly at Jiang Zao.

Why did I start drawing in front of the boys?

Ying Lili knew that she would be too immersed in her own world when she was drawing a book. She would make strange laughs when things were going well, or she would dub a few lines for the male protagonist or narrator of the story when she was in the mood. These very bad behaviors were probably seen by Jiang Zao.

It’s over. I was so excited for a moment that I didn’t even remember that Jiang Zao was right next to me.

Now the image of me in his mind should be more than just a book illustrator. He won’t think that I’m still a nympho, right? What should I do?

Jiang Zao pointed to the dinner on the table as if nothing had happened: "I was just cooking, and I made one for you as well. You must be hungry, so why don't you eat quickly?"

So he went to cook. That’s good. Cooking takes time. Maybe he didn’t notice my weird look.

Ying Lili could only comfort herself in this way, otherwise she didn't know how to survive here on Earth. She picked up the bowl and chopsticks stiffly and started eating in small bites. Jiang Zao also left the room while she was eating.

After being healed by the delicious food, Ying Lili's panicked heart, which had finally been calmed down, was stirred up again when she saw the note next to the computer desk.

Isn't that the note I put in my drawer?

Ah, it seems I made it when I was using the drawing tablet.

Sure enough, Jiang Zao saw everything, right?

Ying Lili swallowed the last bite of food with mixed feelings, then walked to the table and checked the notes. The top one was deliberately turned over with the side without writing facing up, as if to explain for Jiang Zao that he did not read the contents.

"Hmph." Faced with an excuse that could be exposed at a glance, Ying Lili curled up the corners of her mouth. She felt that getting along with Jiang Zao was quite relaxing. After all, he was very understanding.

Chapter 118 What Classic Female Victim

As a light novel writer, Kasumigaoka Utaha, who pen-names Kasumiga Utako, is now in a state of creative exhaustion, just like her bickering rival Eriri. The difference is that Eriri has already had an idea for her new work with the help of Esaza, while she is still painfully searching for materials.

Although it is said to be a source of material, in fact, Kasumigaoka Utaha is just focusing on Eza, and wants to accumulate material for her new novel by observing his every move with his girlfriend Sakaki Yumiko.

Ever since Yumiko Sakaki reminded her that her concept of love was just talk, Kasumigaoka Utaha has been observing secretly. However, the more she observes Jiang Zao and the girls around him, the more she feels that something is wrong between them.

Let’s start with Suho Tenon. After obtaining the [Jiang Zao Meal Voucher] from the Girls’ Club, she dragged Jiang Zao to Kazama Ichihime’s villa and stayed there for a whole day and night. The next day, she came back staggeringly and explained to everyone that she had eaten too much and had a little indigestion.

Since that day, she was like a large husky that wanted to stay by Jiang Zao's side 24 hours a day. Everyone could see in her eyes the desire for him to touch her head and play with her.

At first, Kasumigaoka Utaha thought that the food cooked by Jiang Zao was too delicious, which made Zhou Fang Tianyin pester him to cook it again. But her subsequent intimate actions did not seem like asking for anything in return, but more like she simply wanted to get close to Jiang Zao.

What did Zhou Fang Tianyin do? During her lunch break, when she was eating with Jiang Zao, she licked the rice grains from the corners of his mouth with her tongue. Although Jiang Zao was startled, he did not show any surprise, but just smiled helplessly.

Kasumigaoka Utaha really wants to ask Suho Tenon how to use your [Jiang Zao Meal Coupon], is it serious?

Why do I feel like you used the meal vouchers to poach Sakaki-san?

Kasumigaoka Utaha has gambled her entire career to guarantee that there is definitely something wrong with the relationship between Jiang Zao and Suho Tenon.

The second is Matsushima Mitsuru, a girl with huge breasts who is so ruthless that she wears blonde and tsundere twin ponytails.

Every time Jiang Zao took the initiative to chat with her, she would say in a standard arrogant tone: "No, no, it's not that I want to chat with you about these things. I just saw that you don't have anyone else to chat with, so I'm just saying a few words to you."

Kasumigaoka Utaha, who was familiar with Eriri, naturally knew that Matsushima Mitsuru's attitude was just a show of strength in words. Just from her frequent blinking and the rising tone at the end of her words, one could tell how happy she was that Jiang Zao took the initiative to chat with her. She must be very happy in her heart.

Matsushima Man was not just passively waiting for Jiang Zao to find her. She would occasionally put on emerald green contact lenses and actively join in the conversations of the girls around Jiang Zao as if she had become a different person. She would then try to find ways to chat with Jiang Zao. Even if it was about cosmetics that had nothing to do with boys, she would still say something to him like "Why don't you try a facial mask?"

Matsushima-san and Eriri are truly textbook examples of tsundere.

Does it mean that everyone with blonde twin tails has a tsundere personality?

Utaha Kasumigaoka suddenly felt that she could add a similar tsundere character as a supporting female role in her new novel. Needless to say, her fate is that she will definitely be a loser who likes the male protagonist.

Matsushima Mitsuru's attitude towards Jiang Zao is not as obvious as Suoh Tenon's. The reason why Kasumigaoka Utaha was able to notice it is because she and Eriri have been enemies for a long time, so when facing tsundere characters, it is easy for her to see through the meaning behind some of their actions.

However, Kasumigaoka Utaha did not find it surprising that Suoh Amane and Matsushima Mitsuru wanted to poach his boyfriend. After all, she was a romance novel author and was accustomed to the fact that outstanding boys would be noticed by other girls. It would be better to say that this was a normal phenomenon. Even in novels, if you want to write that the male protagonist is popular, there must be other girls who have a crush on him to set off his popularity.

Otherwise, if you write about the male protagonist's advantages to great effect, but the female protagonist is the only one interested in him, then are the other girls blind or are there no other opposite sex besides the female protagonist?

What is most unbelievable to Utaha Kasumigaoka is that her observation object, classmate, and girlfriend of Ezao, Yumiko Sakaki, did not react at all to the actions of Matsushima Mitsuru and Suho Amane, and they did not try to hide their thoughts in front of this real girlfriend. This is the most incredible thing.

Yumiko Sakaki kept her eyes closed just like the one in the little movie. Even if her wife and the yellow-haired man were having a earth-shattering battle beside the bed, it did not affect her exquisite sleep at all. The main point was that she would not even wake up even if the bed collapsed.

Sakaki-san, open your eyes and take a look. Suoh-san's hoe is almost digging through your wall. Why are you still sleeping?!

Kasumigaoka Utaha saw it all and felt anxious, as if she was the one who watched her lover being taken away by someone else.

Are you not only an ice beauty, but also a blockhead who can't even spot your love rival? !

Fortunately, today Yumiko Sakaki seemed to have heard the inner call of Kasumigaoka Utaha, and finally closed the mystery novel in her hand and walked to Suho Tenon who was having lunch with Jiang Zao.

Yes, that's it! Go and drive away your love rival!

Yumiko Sakaki tucked her black hair behind her ears and asked, "Amane, how did you make this dish?"

"Yumiko, do you want to learn?"