A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

The best thing about being your own boss is the freedom of working hours.

Looking at the current Xia Tang Animation Company, Xia Yan's hard work can make the company develop faster, but he can stay at home with his wife and put down part of his work, which will not cause any problems in the company's operation.

His subordinates took over his work seamlessly, and he only needed to regularly hand over the scripts of each work currently being serialized to his subordinates immediately.

The news of Tang Yin's pregnancy spread throughout the Tang Yin family in just a few days, and Song Lingjun and Mo Ran also knew it soon, and they came together to see Tang Yin immediately.

Of course, the atmosphere during the process was rather weird, but at least the two people's concern for Tang Yin was very real.

It was early spring, and the flowers and plants in the courtyard garden of Xia Yan's home were blooming and butterflies were flying. Xia Yan, who had been busy for nearly ten years, sat in the house and looked at the mottled eyes and spring scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. Behind him, his wife Tang Yin and Song Lingjun and Mo Ran were talking about something with serious expressions.

Suddenly there was a small feeling in my heart
Having been immersed in work for too long, Xia Yan could only think about how to build Xia Tang Animation into a benchmark for Two-dimensional culture in the Dragon Kingdom.

But being forced to calm down and accompany his wife to have a baby at home, the last time Xia Yan felt that kind of mental and spiritual relaxation was in high school.
At that time, I didn't understand anything. I just studied in class and played after class. I had no goals, but it was the happiest time.

Of course, pursuing one's own life goals is also another kind of happiness, but there is a difference between the two.

"Hey, tomorrow." Xia Yan turned around, looked at his wife and two best friends behind him, and said with a smile.

"Would you like to drive somewhere together and have a spring outing?"

"Spring outing?" Mo Ran's eyes lit up when he heard this.

Now she is the main artist and co-creator of three major works: Naruto, Pirates, and Hunters. She cannot be said to hate her job, but day after day, year after year, she is immersed in comic creation, and she is also energetic. Very tired.

In the parallel world, cartoonists like Oda and Kishimoto, who are responsible for serializing works for decades, are not bad, and work conscientiously after making money, which is definitely a different kind of talent.

Mo Ran's ability to withstand stress is not that strong. The pressure accumulated during the serialization process of three major works is also very terrifying. Even if she forgets all this for just one day, it is still a huge attraction for her.

As for Song Lingjun, she thought for a few seconds and then agreed with a smile on her face.

"It just so happens that the four of us haven't gone out together for a long time."

"Alas, Xia Yan, you and Sister Tang Yin are too fast. This may be the last time the four of us go out together. Next year, we will have to add a baby." Mo Ran agreed from the side.

The next day, Xia Yan and the four of them wore masks and spent a whole day playing in the busiest spring outing area near Magic City. Fortunately, no one recognized them, so the four of them had a good day and had a good relationship with each other. The feeling of embarrassment has also been eliminated.

After all, everyone knew about Song Lingjun's past thoughts about Xia Yan. They didn't need to mention it, but it didn't mean they had forgotten it.

But now, Song Lingjun's thoughts are entirely on how to defeat Xia Yan's fate in the new work, and the emotions in her heart are basically suppressed by her at the deepest level. After all, her love brain will only last for a while, and her relationship with Tang Yin She also values ​​friendship very much.

Spring passes quietly under such circumstances.

April is coming
Since Xia Yan serialized Pirates and Naruto, there has been little news about the company's new works.

In the field of animation, Slam Dunk has entered the national competition storyline, Sword Art Online is currently producing its final season, Initial D has finished airing, and Hunter.
After the animated version started airing, the plot entered its climax.

Nowadays, what really makes Xia Yan's popularity continue to rise in the market are the two comics One Piece and Naruto.

Hunter's popularity itself is very high, and it doesn't change much after reaching a peak, but the two comics of Naruto and Pirates are completely different.

In the early stages of One Piece, from defeating Bucky the clown to meeting Sanji in the restaurant, the plot has ups and downs along the way, and the character-related memories are so tear-jerking. The work style of sea adventure and men's romance is very popular in the Dragon Kingdom. Attracted a large number of young fans.

As for Naruto, its audience is actually more elementary school students and junior high school students. After all, Naruto's early plot is typical of royal blood. After Shiro and Zabuza's chapter of the Land of Waves, there is a Chunin examination plot.

Orochimaru, Gaara, Xiao Li, Ningji and other characters appeared one by one
In fact, strictly speaking, Naruto's popularity is indeed a little higher than that of the pirates at this stage.

The two comics have been challenging Hunter's journal for first place, and comic-related issues are flooding the Internet.

"So who is Orochimaru? Why is he so awesome? What is the purpose of being so awesome and sneaking into the Chunin Exam?"

"I don't understand, this update is too slow, old thief."

"Last year, I thought it would be a problem for Lao Pirates to create three comics at the same time, but now I'm really convinced. I feel more and more that if Lao Pirates and Naruto comics are serialized later, the results will be better than Hunters!"

"It's unlikely to surpass Hunter. Hunter is the kind of comic that will be developed later. I feel like Naruto and Pirates will be difficult to draw in the future."

"Come on, you just need to know that the author of these works is Xia Yan. You don't have to think too much about whether to post it or not."

"And it is said that Xia Yan is planning to draw these two comics into super-long works, with hundreds of chapters. It's really scary."

"Is it fake? Hundreds of chapters? How can there be so many plots? Look at One Piece now. Hawkeye of the Shichibukai has appeared in just a few dozen chapters. Naruto is only a genin, a chunin, and a jounin. He can How can water produce a plot of several hundred chapters?"

"Who knows? Anyway, it just depends on how the old thief arranges the plot. I have confidence in him."

"Do you all like to discuss Naruto and Pirates? I am still obsessed with the hunter plot. The ant king is really scary. I can't understand why the protagonist team can fight him. It feels like there will be a war. Completely abused."

"It feels like there will always be endless discussions about the works of Chai Lao Pi. When the One Piece Naruto anime is launched next year, the influence of his comic works will definitely be even greater."

"It's not all comics anymore. The second generation of the old thief's Pokémon game is also about to be released. Damn it, the market response has been huge. My son made an agreement with me three months in advance. If he gets into the top ten in the class, I will I bought him genuine games when I was young. My son, who refused to learn even though I was beaten with sticks, now reads on his own until [-] o'clock every night, and he looks stupid to me."

"Pokémon in the elementary school group, Naruto in the junior high school, pirates in the high school, college, and adult bodies depend on hunters and steel to capture them. Anyway, I can see it. The old thief is the whole Dragon Kingdom from children to middle age. People don’t let any group go at all. If he can’t create works that everyone can like, then he can just create many, many works and let everyone choose the ones they like to follow.”

"That's true, but I still can't figure out where the old thief's energy comes from? Is he really an alien? There is a creator like him who is indirectly or directly responsible for more than ten works. There is no one like this before, and there will probably be no one in the future.”

"This is already the biggest unsolved mystery in the creative world of Dragon Kingdom. Anyway, after so many years of discussion, there is no result. In short, the word "genius" sums up everything."

After Xia Yan had almost finished today's work, he used his laptop to browse news about himself on the Internet.

"What's wrong? Today, you're still checking online messages all day long as if you just debuted?" Tang Yin, who had a slight bulge in her abdomen and a smile on her snow-white cheeks, sat directly beside Xia Yan and asked softly.

"Well, after all, I have to consider the market reaction." Xia Yan put his arm around Tang Yin's shoulders and smiled.

"But now, basically the messages about me on the Internet are all one-sided praise. If there is even a little opposition, I will be attacked by the fan group. If you do this for a long time, there will always be problems." Xia Yan had an expression on his face. Say it solemnly.

"What do you mean?" Tang Yin asked.

"I mean, the more they love my work now, the more violent they will be if the plot is slightly unsatisfactory in the future."

He is not worried about the three works that Xia Yan is now mainly creating: Naruto, Pirates, and Hunters.

But it will be different in a few years.

In two years, the plot of Hunter will be serialized to the end of the Ant King chapter, while the plot of Hunter in Memory Fragments will only reach the Dark Continent chapter.

Will he be urged to update by fans sending him blades?Xia Yan is actually worried about this.

Xia Yan knew very well that this comic would most likely follow in the parallel world, and fans would continue to urge it to be updated in the next dozen years.

Judging from the current serialization progress of the two Naruto and Pirates comics, they will basically enter controversial plots in ten years.

The quality of Naruto's Ninja World War and the plots of One Piece after the War on Top have also been declining. Fortunately, Xia Yan himself knows where the problems in these works lie. Major changes to the plot in the later period are unlikely, but minor changes will definitely happen.

For example, in the serialization of the Naruto manga, Sakura's character creation will not be completely copied. After all, she is indeed not likeable. Her obviously controversial plots, such as mocking Naruto for being an orphan, are slightly softened. Some, so that the fans of the Dragon Kingdom will not hate her too much, causing the popularity of the work to disappear. In the same way, the role of the real heroine Hinata will also increase.

But no matter what, these long-form works will definitely be criticized by fans when they are serialized in the later stages.

Xia Yan is now too much of a myth in the Dragon Kingdom, and he is also on guard against blackmail when the time comes, and can't bear to see his interested parties taking advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble.

"No one will be praised forever. But as long as there are no big problems, that's all." Tang Yin probably understood Xia Yan's thoughts and smiled.

"Throughout the past and present, not to mention you as a two-dimensional literary creator, emperors and scientists have all kinds of private life problems. The great writers in history also have their own peaks and valleys in life, and their works are also good and bad. You have created dozens of excellent works, and your fans will not turn against you just because of a small flaw."

Xia Yan thought about it and smiled.

"It's true. I'm worrying too much."

"But even though I am the deputy director of Xia Tang Animation, I still don't know what your future plans are." Tang Yin asked curiously.

"You are too obsessed with that work called Pokémon. Although its game sales have exceeded [-] million, the actual revenue is less than one-third of Lelouch. And your investment in Pokémon is Lelouch is several times bigger, and more will be added in the future. So is Doraemon, the two comics of One Piece and Naruto, and Fate's novel." Tang Yin was very curious. "Do you think so highly of these works?"

It was not easy to ask about these things before, but now that she is married to Xia Yan, she doesn't worry too much.

"That's natural." Xia Yan didn't hide it.

Let me talk a little bit about my future expectations for Pokémon and other IPs.

In the parallel world, the two major works of Naruto and One Piece have IP values ​​of more than tens of billions of dollars each, Pokémon has hundreds of billions of dollars, and Doraemon is an island country's national treasure IP. In the Dragon Kingdom, to be honest, Xia Yan is now With the blessing of influence and financial resources, the development of these works will be stronger than starting from scratch in the parallel world, but there is no way to accurately predict how far it will develop, but Tang Yin just listened to Xia Yan The idea she described was actually a bit confusing to her.

After all, Xia Yan has a world-class IP at every turn, with an investment plan that spans ten years and 20 years. In the future, there will be dozens of games, animations, novels, comics, and live-action dramas. Why just sit back and collect money? Give the child in her belly a money-making factory that she will never be able to build for ten lifetimes.

It sounds quite magical, but this is Xia Yan's idea.

Judging from the past ten years, Xia Yan's words have always been so magical, and the final results have come true. It is difficult for Tang Yin not to think too much.

but
"The money you have now is enough to support our family for ten lifetimes. With your character, if it's just for money, you won't work so hard, right?"

"That's natural." Xia Yan smiled when he heard this.

"But now that we have reached this point, how can we give up halfway. Money does not mean much to me, but building Xia Tang Animation into the world's two-dimensional industry benchmark has made the reputation of these works in my mind spread throughout the world. , this will still give me a sense of accomplishment." Xia Yan thought for a moment and then said.

“Just like some people’s hobby is fishing, but my hobby is to spread these works.”

"Your hobby is indeed a good thing for your fans." Tang Yin smiled after hearing this.

"What your fans fear most is that you will retire after making enough money."

"How is that possible? As long as I don't die, I will definitely not retire. At most, I will be lazy when I get older and imitate Hayao Miyazaki's works every ten years." Xia Yan laughed.

"Miyazaki Hayao, who is that?" Tang Yin asked in confusion upon hearing this.

"Oh, one I know, the elderly creators who are not famous in the Dragon State." Xia Yan said.

Tang Yin lost interest after hearing this.

There are a lot of creators in Longguo Two-dimensional industry. Since they are not famous, they are too lazy to get to know them.

The conversation between husband and wife ends here.

Summer is coming
A live-action TV adaptation of Initial D was also aired.

Once it was launched, the popularity it had accumulated for five or six years was completely released.

Although the drag racing in the live-action drama is not as immersive as the cartoons and the animations, the pleasure of watching the protagonists act cool will not diminish at all.

In the summer, the plot of Xia Yan's new novel Fate Zero became a huge hit.

The nature of the Holy Grail War, Artoria’s purpose, and the childhood of the hero Kiritsugu
After this dark and cruel plot came out, many Xia Yan fans felt a familiar atmosphere.

That's right, it's the aura of Madoka Magica.

To this end, fans have also quarreled in the forum for several days to discuss whether Fate novels will end.

At the same time, Song Lingjun's new novels are also coming with force. At least Xia Yan continues to read them. For his taste, he does not feel that the plot of Song Lingjun's new novels is much worse than that of fate novels. In fact, fatezero is in Liuli Book Club. The internal voting was indeed threatened by Song Lingjun's new novel.

The news media did not take it too seriously and directly hyped up related topics, forcibly hyping up Xia Yan's challenge to Song Lingjun in the field of novels.

At the same time, in the field of comics
Several comics imitating pirates, hunters, and Naruto appeared in the Dragon Kingdom.
Although it is an imitation, the plot is remarkable, and it even has the prototype of its own style.

As for the animation field, Slam Dunk and Sword's ratings dominance is still unshakable.

But in the entire Two-dimensional market, Xia Yan can clearly feel that the competitiveness is much stronger than in previous years.

The changes in the industry do not come from the old creators, but from the teenagers who have grown up watching Xia Yan's works in the past ten years.

From April to May, the awards for newcomers in the fields of Dragon Kingdom novels, animation, and comics, such as the results of this year’s selection of Xia Yan’s debut, New Gods, were revealed one after another.
Again, several young people in their 20s, [-]s, and [-]s won awards.
Standing on the stage to receive the award, they said with smiles that they had been fans of Xia Yan for many years, and that their biggest dream was to one day defeat Xia Yan and reach the top of the Dragon Kingdom.
As a guest judge, Xia Yan, who was invited to invigorate the popularity of the award, was also in a daze.

When I think back to the birth of my first work Youth Journey, it feels like it was still yesterday. If I think about it carefully.
It was almost ten years ago.

Xia Yan, who was only 25 or [-] years old, was inevitably touched.

This summer season is over.

Come July, the Millennium Actress animated film is released nationwide.

However, due to scheduling issues, Millennium Girl's box office did not explode like Howl's Moving Castle, and it was released at around one billion.

But even so, it is the highest-grossing movie outside of Dragon Kingdom’s Spring Festival release this year.

Xia Yan, who works from home, in addition to occasionally participating in some activities, spends more time with his wife Tang Yin.

As for the box office revenue of Millennium Actress, I don’t care too much.

The total of his past dozens of works has provided Xia Yan with a stable passive income of 20 to [-] million a year. Adding in Xia Yan's current series of works, Xia Yan's annual income is nearly [-] billion or more. , this box office share can hardly cause his mood swings.

While the adaptation of Naruto and One Piece animations was proceeding in an orderly manner, Tang Yin's belly also grew a little bit bigger.

The due date is the end of the year or early January, which also makes Xia Yan more tense.

On the contrary, Tang Yin was completely not panic, and she was sleeping well. She was boring and obsessed with online games because she was bored during pregnancy.

Completely opposite to Xia Yan's mentality.
at last
At the end of the year, it was another winter, and Tang Yin gave birth smoothly.
Outside the window, there was a biting cold wind and heavy snowfall. Xia Yan, who was in the obstetrics ward, was emotional and uncontrollable.

Tang Yin lay weakly on the bed, with a smile on her beautiful and pale face, looking at the little baby girl lying next to her.

"I remember you said that everyone, regardless of gender, would give her this name."

"Xia Yu." Xia Yan said.

"I haven't changed my mind and her name is Xia Yu."

"Really?" Tang Yin looked at the sleeping baby with its eyes closed.

The baby inherited the genes of Xia Yan and Tang Yin. He was cute and beautiful when he was born, and his expression when he fell asleep was extremely healing.

"Xiaoyu, I am your mother, and that silly big guy next to you is your father." After Tang Yin said this weakly, she fell asleep due to exhaustion.

The news of the birth of Xia Yan and Tang Yin's daughter set off the entire Dragon Kingdom Two-dimensional industry on the same day.

Even if it ranks first on the hot search list for related news, the forums are filled with posts congratulating Xia Yan on the birth of her daughter.

There are hundreds of thousands of posts.
This battle directly suppressed the people in the Longguo entertainment industry.

After all, they are insiders and know that this is not the result of Xia Yan buying hot searches, but that he really achieved this effect by relying on his own traffic.

Less than half a month after she was recuperating in the hospital, Tang Yin started shouting that she wanted to go home and was restrained in the hospital.

Xia Yan couldn't resist her and followed her home.

In January, the goose hair was snowing out of the window. Xia Yan hugged her daughter and coaxed her to sleep softly.

Tang Yin was lying on the sofa, watching the father and daughter's actions with a gentle look on her face.

The three of them tacitly agreed not to make a sound, however.
The atmosphere in the air became warm.

(End of this chapter)