Provocation

The moment the video started, Chu Yu saw a familiar face!

When Tianxing Animation Company had come to recruit Chu Yu, its chairman, Yin Tian, had brought along several underlings. Chu Yu couldn't remember their names or what positions they held at Tianxing.

But when he saw the nearly six-foot-three man in the video, wearing a rather fierce expression, he remembered him. After all, when he'd first seen the guy, Chu Yu had wondered whether he'd be able to get away if they got into a fight!

He hadn't expected the man to hold such a high position at Tianxing Animation Company, though. He did most of the talking throughout the video, and the employees around him seemed to regard him with awe.

Qingxian. That was the key word in this promotional video.

The name of a work...

Chu Yu watched for nearly ten minutes before finally figuring out what was going on!

In short, Tianxing Animation Company had teamed up with Li Xiaoyun, a well-known young adult fiction writer from the Mainland, to produce a romance anime.

There wasn't much to say about that. What era was this? Things like this happened all the time.

Take Jun Maeda in the Parallel World, for example. Though he was a game scenario writer, he occasionally worked directly as a screenwriter for anime.

After graduating with a literature degree, Makoto Shinkai had gone to work for a game company, only later switching careers to become an anime director and screenwriter. He'd even made both opening animations for Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two, a game that had caused a sensation in the industry! Back when games and anime still had terrible graphics, the two openings he made for Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two already boasted visuals that few works