Rurouni Kenshin: Remembrance

"What... is this?"

"Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal?"

Chu Yu, who often browsed information on various works from the Earth Plane within the System Space, naturally knew of Rurouni Kenshin.

It was a work that left its mark on Earth's manga history. The complete Rurouni Kenshin had a sky-high exchange price in the System Space.

But if "Trust and Betrayal" were added after the four characters "Rurouni Kenshin," the situation would be vastly different...

In other words, the work Chu Yu had drawn this time was not the complete Rurouni Kenshin, but merely... one of its chapters.

"I got excited for nothing... I thought the system finally had some humanity, but unexpectedly, it dug a pit for me here!"

Chu Yu stepped forward to the work Rurouni Kenshin. As expected, the chains wrapped around it were only partially broken. Chu Yu reached out and touched the title of Rurouni Kenshin.

The next second, a wondrous stream of information flowed into Chu Yu's mind.

In the depths of his consciousness, Chu Yu could see the plot of Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal...

Soon, Chu Yu was immersed in reviewing the plot of Trust and Betrayal in the depths of his consciousness...

Two hours later.

Chu Yu's consciousness returned to sobriety, back to the real world.

His eyes held a trace of shock and lingering emotion!

"So, it was this kind of work?"

Chu Yu's emotions were still immersed in the ending of Trust and Betrayal, in the death of Xuedai Ba.

The Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal he had obtained this time was a tragic chapter. After finishing it, Chu Yu felt he couldn't quite shake it off.

Generally, Chu Yu only had such feelings when he encountered truly excellent works.

After a long while, Chu Yu finally calmed his mood.

As a long-time manga fan, Chu Yu could basically discern the quality of a work.

Setting aside the main story of Rurouni Kenshin, just based on the quality of Trust and Betrayal, he considered it an undeniable masterpiece.

And because it was a prequel to the main story, it could be fully understood even without having read the main story.

Chu Yu felt that the eighty thousand World Points he spent were well worth it!

The only problem was...

"Trust and Betrayal only has sixteen chapters of content!"

"Although its length is double that of The Garden of Words, it's still a short story."

"That's a far cry from the medium-length story of at least half a year's serialization that Su Ruo mentioned!"

Although the main story of Rurouni Kenshin is a long-form manga, Chu Yu didn't believe he could earn enough World Points to redeem the main story of Rurouni Kenshin solely by publishing Remembrance.

The Garden of Words was an example. At a value of two million World Points, it had only earned him over eighty thousand World Points by its fifth chapter. Even with the World Points he would gain from the two unreleased chapters and the long-term revenue from this work, Chu Yu felt it was still a long way from recouping the two million World Points.

Of course, the low revenue was also related to the publishing platform and the promotional efforts...

"Sigh, I'll worry about it later!" Chu Yu was having a headache and couldn't think of any solution.

"It's already like this, so I'll just have to push through!"

"Su Ruo only said that short stories have a small chance of being serialized on Man Ying, not that there's no chance at all."

Chu Yu shook his head, no longer dwelling on the problem.

Since he had already drawn this work, his primary concern should be to restore it to this world as perfectly as possible.

Taking a deep breath, Chu Yu checked the time.

It was still early. Su Ruo had asked him to draw three new chapters for serialization within two weeks. To be honest, this was a demanding request.

Many manga artists work themselves to death just to complete one chapter a week.

Although the original work of the manga was in Chu Yu's mind, and he didn't need to spend too much time on storyboarding or plot creation, simply restoring the work, inking, and applying screentones were not simple tasks.

Moreover, Chu Yu's situation was different now compared to when he was drawing The Garden of Words. Back then, it was during summer vacation, and he had ample time to do these things every day. But now, he had to attend classes at school every day. Honestly, his time was quite tight.

However, it wasn't impossible. He could only say that working himself to death was unavoidable.

With that thought, Chu Yu wasted no more time. He went directly to his drawing desk and began to draw the first three chapters of Rurouni Kenshin.

"Chu Yu..."

"Chu Yu..."

"Chu Yu!!!"

A voice filled with authority rang in Chu Yu's ears.

In his sleep, Chu Yu was like a startled cat, almost jumping out of his skin.

Looking at the English Teacher with an unfriendly expression in front of him, Chu Yu felt very awkward.

He had fallen asleep again!

"This week, this is the third time you've fallen asleep in my class!"

"Do you dislike listening to my lectures that much?"

The English Teacher was a middle-aged woman in her forties. She talked a lot, but she was very dedicated to her students.

"Teacher, he doesn't dislike listening to your class. He's like this in other classes this week too!"

The surrounding classmates kept jeering...

After class, Chu Yu forced himself to stay awake, though he was still very sleepy.

Ever since he agreed to Su Ruo last Wednesday to strive for a Serialization Seat at Man Ying, Chu Yu hadn't had a good night's sleep for five consecutive days.

Every day after school, he would pick up his Drawing Pen and fight until midnight. This week alone, he had been caught sleeping in class and called out by the teacher at least ten times.

If Chu Yu could maintain this pace of Artwork, he should be able to finish the Three Chapters Manga manuscript about one or two days before the Serialization Meeting.

But judging by his current state, Chu Yu felt that if he continued to sleep only four hours a day, his body would likely not be able to take it.

Qin Qianyv, sitting in the front row, turned her head to look at Chu Yu, who was slumped in his seat, looking exhausted. Her face was full of curiosity.

Qin Qianyv hadn't told anyone about her suspicion that Chu Yu was Shui Xin, the up-and-coming, well-known manga artist in Ming City.

After all, she had only seen the manuscript of The Garden of Words in Chu Yu's Desk Drawer back then. She hadn't seen Chu Yu create Artwork with her own eyes, so the certainty of this guess was still somewhat uncertain.

However, Chu Yu's state this week had basically confirmed Qin Qianyv's guess.

Although no one around her had experience in the manga industry, Qin Qianyv, who loved reading manga, had some basic knowledge.

A page of manga had at least five or six panels, and a chapter of manga was basically over twenty pages, which meant over a hundred panels.

To complete the design of these panel drafts, then draw the original art, and after such a massive amount of work, to also do post-production like applying tone paper, making revisions, while also attending school normally and handling matters with the manga company.

If Chu Yu was indeed the author of The Garden of Words, then his current state was normal. On the other hand, if Chu Yu was still acting carefree like an ordinary person, Qin Qianyv would truly doubt her guess.

Qin Qianyv took out several manga magazines from her Desk Drawer. They were the manga periodicals under Ink Fish Manga Company, Ink Shadow.

After suspecting Chu Yu was the author of The Garden of Words, Qin Qianyv had later bought all the issues of Ink Shadow that serialized The Garden of Words herself.

She didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but this work truly suited Qin Qianyv's taste. At least after reading all the serialized chapters of The Garden of Words up to that point last week, Qin Qianyv had reread The Garden of Words more than three times this week.

Now, she was eagerly anticipating the plot of the sixth chapter of The Garden of Words, which would be released this Wednesday in Ink Shadow...

She seemed to have become a manga Fan of her own classmate.

Thinking of this, Qin Qianyv felt it was somewhat amusing and interesting.

She silently withdrew her gaze from Chu Yu.

In the evening, Chu Yu bought three cans of Red Bull and three cans of coffee. Tonight would be another night of battle.

It was only eight o'clock, but Chu Yu heard a knocking sound at his door.

Who is it!

Chu Yu put down the pen in his hand.

He opened the door.

"Ding dong ding dong ding!"

Outside the door, Su Ruo looked at Chu Yu with an expression that said, "You didn't expect it to be me, did you?"

"What are you doing here?" Chu Yu asked.

"What do you mean? I'm your editor, isn't it normal for me to come visit you?"

"Besides, didn't you say last week that you were going to participate in the Man Ying Serialization Seat competition next week? So I specifically came to check on your work progress!"

(So embarrassed, I'm watching the S9 group stage while writing chapters, my speed is too slow!)