I'm drawing an action-packed anime within a depressing one!

There's also Journey to the West.

Accumulating knowledge and experience before unleashing it is also a good approach.

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the other side.

Department of Comics, Peking University.

Girls' dormitory.

"Tian Xiaoxi's comics are on the bestseller list?"

"What gives her the right?"

In the dorm room of a sophomore, a girl dressed in rich clothes stared in disbelief at Tian Xiaoxi's comics, which had made it into the top 1,000 best-selling comics in the action comics category.

This is a bestseller list!

What merit does she possess to be worthy of this!

With her garbage-like plot, does she even deserve to be on the list?

Jiang Xiaoyun is from the same place as Tian Xiaoxi.

However, she was lucky. Although her family was poor when she was young, her parents suddenly became rich during her high school years, and the family was able to leave that small mountain village.

...

Despite becoming a nouveau riche, Jiang Xiaoyun's memories are filled with images of being crushed by Tian Xiaoxi.

Everyone who sees Tian Xiaoxi praises her beauty and says she's ugly.

Although Tian Xiaoxi has a neurotic personality, she is thin and small with soft cheeks, making her look very approachable and popular with elders and classmates.

Even though she has a terrible temper, doesn't like making friends, and only has Song Yaoyao as a friend, everyone else still likes her very much.

Later, she worked hard to enter the hottest and most promising comic book industry, and finally became a genius at school...

But Tian Xiaoxi's painting skills completely outshone hers!

This made Jiang Xiaoyun extremely resentful just thinking about it.

Fortunately, Tian Xiaoxi has now dropped out of school because she can't afford the tuition.

"Tian Xiaoxi?"

“I remember that her writing skills were not bad before, but she was unwilling to work with people in the writing department.”

The other people in the dormitory were also curious. They clicked on it and exclaimed, "He Zhou?"

"It seems that Tian Xiaoxi is working with He Zhou."

...

Upon hearing the name He Zhou, Jiang Xiaoyun felt it sounded familiar. After thinking for a moment, she suddenly remembered who He Zhou was.

Isn't this the name that her collaborator just complained about?

Jiang Xiaoyun is a sophomore in the Comics Department of Jinghua University. Naturally, she also collaborated with Song Yuan, a sophomore in the Screenwriting Department of Jinghua University, on a book called "Evil God". This book, "Evil God", was written by He Zhou at the same time.

[Song Yuan: Don't worry, I've checked. Publishing data only considers individual volumes. He Zhou's previous comics haven't reached that level yet, and even his most popular one, *Jujutsu Kaisen*, looks like it's going to flop. It's not a reliable indicator.]

[Song Yuan: However, his Nezha character design is quite good; we can use it as a reference.]

[Song Yuan: I've changed the character design a bit, what do you think?]

"..."

Although Jiang Xiaoyun did not know He Zhou.

But she did know about Nezha.

"This Nezha was actually drawn by He Zhou?"

She was stunned: "No, what makes Tian Xiaoxi so special? Is He Zhou blind?"

Why should we cooperate with Tian Xiaoxi?

...

When Jiang Xiaoyun learned that He Zhou's comic was from the same period as hers and Song Yuan's collaboration, she immediately opened the file that Song Yuan had sent her and took a look.

Their comics are doing very well now.

The character design of the evil god is praised the most.

[Character Design in "Evil God"]

Lin Yang: He was originally a villager in Xiaoyang Village. He was born with evil bones, and his nature was also affected by these evil bones.

Because the female protagonist, Jiang Xue, foresaw that he would become an evil god in the future, his life was very difficult.

He was looked down upon, feared, hunted down, and even villains couldn't tolerate him because he wasn't inherently bad.

The righteous cannot tolerate him, because he will become an evil god in the future.

Lin Yang, however, never backed down. He grew up in the love of his parents, and when he learned that they wanted to give him their cultivation and sacrifice their own lives to suppress the evil nature of the evil bone, he finally accepted himself.

[Main character's classic line: So what if I'm an evil god, or so what if I'm not? What right does a name have to define my life!]

Whether I am righteous or evil, good or bad, only I can decide!

"This……"

Even though Jiang Xiaoyun dislikes Tian Xiaoxi, she has to admit that this character seems very similar to the character of Nezha, Tian Xiaoxi's collaborator.

Even the lines are very similar.

This made her a little flustered.

[Jiang Xiaoyun: Will this work?]

[Jiang Xiaoyun: Isn't this plagiarism?]

[Jiang Xiaoyun: I think we should stick with the previous character design. And isn't that line, "I'm the one who decides," just Nezha's line?]

...

But the Song and Yuan dynasties on the other side were clearly repeat offenders.

[Song Yuan: This doesn't count as plagiarism.]

[Song Yuan: At most, I just borrowed some character designs. Who can say it's plagiarism? Plagiarism requires at least 20% similarity. My protagonist is an evil god with evil bones, and Nezha, the Red Lotus Demon Child, is a demon orb. The Chaos Pearl splits into two, the Demon Orb and the Spirit Orb. The setting is completely different from the evil god. No matter who it is, I don't consider this plagiarism.]

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"do not worry."

"This is absolutely not plagiarism."

Song Yuan took a drag of his cigarette and chuckled when he heard Jiang Xiaoyun's worry on the other end of the phone: "I checked, and both Tian Xiaoxi and He Zhou are broke. They definitely don't have the money for marketing."

"When the time comes, we'll spend a lot of money on marketing, and once people have formed a preconceived notion, our readers will speak up for us."

"Besides, we can say that we're just copying each other's ideas."

"How can it be considered plagiarism?"

"Does that mean all people with similar personas are plagiarizing? There's no such logic."

Song Yuan intended this comic to achieve instant fame.

They even prepared millions in marketing expenses.

Of those millions, Song Yuan and Jiang Xiaoyun each contributed two million.

...

Will this work?

On the other end of the phone, Jiang Xiaoyun was still worried: "Our results are already very good. We've already reached an agreement with the editorial department. As long as we can get into the top three after the app's homepage, we can get it published."

"Although Jujutsu Kaisen is popular now, if it doesn't have money for marketing, it definitely won't be as popular as our marketing."

"You don't want our comics to be inferior to Tian Xiaoxi's, do you?"

"..."

Once Jiang Xiaoyun thought about it, she felt relieved.

"Row."

After hanging up the phone, they started spending money to influence him again.

She can influence the market by paying for her own work, while He Zhou and Tian Xiaoxi's comic book relies purely on word-of-mouth readers. How can it compare to their mature system?

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the other side.

In the comics.

He Zhou spent the whole night drawing spells to fight back.

It directly condensed a lot of the subsequent plot into a drawing.

Because it was done with crayons, a drawing was completed very quickly, just a few quick strokes and it was done.

For sixteen days straight, after Gojo Satoru was gone, the whole place descended into chaos.

The plot of the Nine Phases of the Cursed Fetus has finally unfolded.

After losing Gojo Satoru's protection, the main characters grow individually and try their best to find a way to unseal Gojo Satoru.

The middle part is almost entirely combat scenes.

It reduced a lot of the battle scenes, keeping only the main storyline, making it like a condensed version of Jujutsu Kaisen with no dull moments.

I kept drawing until the early hours of the morning before finally getting ready to rest.

Manga readers were shocked by the rapid pace of the Jujutsu Kaisen main storyline.

Is Lao He drawing comics using an outline-based approach? That's incredibly fast!

[After Gojo Satoru is unsealed, he should realize it was a fake Natsuyu Suke who's behind it, kill those villains, and that should be the end of it, right?]

But how do we unseal this prison gate?

Even while everyone was discussing, He Zhou could hear the notification sound of "[Popularity value increased by 15 points]" constantly ringing, even while he was lying in bed.

The popularity score, which had dropped from 1700 to 1500, has rebounded.

...

the next day.

He Zhou went with Song Zhenyu and the others in the morning to prepare for cleaning the Central Hospital.

The Central Hospital is located in the northeast corner. It is a very large hospital, and you can see its European-style architecture from a distance.

There is also a fountain in the center.

The sign for "Kirishima Central Hospital" had several characters fallen off, and the white walls were dilapidated, indicating that it had been abandoned for some time.

"Don't worry."

"Back then it was just..."

Song Zhenyu was silent for a moment: "We should only need to clean up some of the corpses here later. There shouldn't be any problems today."

Hearing Song Zhenyu's assurance, the other students also breathed a sigh of relief.

"The hospital has been abandoned for so long, and there were no problems before, so it should be different from last time."

"After cleaning this place, will the people from the healing association stay?"

"It should be."

Everyone's eyes were filled with hope, except for the guy with the afro whose expression was particularly conflicted. Before He Zhou went in, he lowered his voice and tugged at his sleeve: "This hospital is not normal."

"It was sealed off before because someone mysteriously disappeared here, so it was sealed off."

...

He Zhou raised his alertness to a new level.