The same thing applied here: first impressions stuck.
As for Shui Xin, the cartoonist who had risen to the top of Mo Yu, only a handful of employees in Mo Yu's Contract Management Department who had signed confidentiality agreements knew Shui Xin's true identity, along with Shui Xin's editor, Su Ruo, Editor-in-Chief Pang Feng, and a few others.
Although people outside Mo Yu were curious about Shui Xin, Shui Xin had risen to fame far too quickly and seemed to have little contact with other cartoonists in Luo Province. Nobody knew whether Shui Xin was a man or a woman, young or old.
Even so, most people had come to the following conclusions about Shui Xin.
First, Shui Xin was probably a woman. The pen name and the fact that Shui Xin's previous work was a youth romance comic gave people that impression.
Second, Shui Xin had to be fairly old.
The setting of Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal was RB Island more than a century ago, around the time of the Meiji Restoration.
Could a bunch of young people who couldn't even make heads or tails of Dragon Kingdom's history really draw a historical RB comic with such a strong sense of the era? Most people didn't think so.
That was why rumors online that Shui Xin was a middle-aged woman had grown more and more prevalent.
So when Chu Yu volunteered his identity, everyone burst out laughing, assuming he was joking around to amuse them.
But after that commotion, everyone forgot the original reason they'd asked Chu Yu about himself.
After all, they'd all been drinking. It was a trivial matter, and once the conversation moved on, everyone forgot about it.
Chu Yu blinked. If that was how it was, then—
So be it!
It would save him