"So... she's still leaving?"
The next day, at Wenxin Hall.
Zhao Fang Sheng looked at Shang Tao, still unable to believe it.
Shang Tao gave a bitter smile. "Yeah... I contacted Editor Tang yesterday, and she insisted on resigning. She also said she was going to submit her resignation letter today."
"..."
Zhao Fang Sheng frowned slightly and muttered, "Why... Ding Yilong has already left, and I even promised her the position of deputy editor-in-chief."
"She's probably disappointed."
Shang Tao heard him and hesitated before speaking softly. "Think about it. The incident with Ou Congquan alone was enough to give anyone a headache. That feeling of being isolated and helpless must have been awful. Even though the matter was resolved in the end, it still dealt a huge blow to her spirit... But I think what hit her hardest was Fate/Zero.
"It was obviously an exceptionally good work, yet it couldn't even get a chance to test the waters through magazine serialization. You saw how Ding Yilong refused to admit in the conference room, even when he was on the verge of ruin, that Tang Yao had ever applied to serialize Fate/Zero... He probably knew how outrageous what he had done was.
"I think Editor Tang must have doubted herself too, especially when Fate/Zero failed to get serialized in the magazine. That was why she took the opportunity to recommend it to our new media department. She was unwilling to accept it and wanted to use the Manga Award to show it to the readers.
"And the readers' reactions proved that... her judgment had been right. She wasn't the one who was wrong.
"Facing that result, and remembering what she had experienced in the Editorial Department before—such a popular work, yet the editor-in-chief had stubbornly refused to let it be