Long Sijia successfully joined the music company that afternoon. When Chu Ge received the good news, he was happy for him too.
He was a shy, introverted, clean-cut young man, and one of their own from the Black Room. Though they had hardly interacted, Chu Ge had always had a good impression of him. Naturally, he did not want to see him grow increasingly dispirited under the pressure of finding work, getting cheated and scammed at every turn, or heading down some crooked path.
These days, with an esper ability, straying down the wrong path really could happen in a single moment, because bullying people was the easiest way to make money.
People like Du Lianfeng might not have been that bad at the beginning, which was why Zhong Yi had once associated with them... But once they started using their abilities for profit, certain things changed, and the farther they went, the harder it became to turn back. They could only head deeper.
That included Zhang Qiren... Even now, Chu Ge had very mixed feelings about him. Judging by their last phone call, he ought to be in the middle of a rapid rise; even the forcefulness of his speech had changed a little. But did that mean he had more blood on his hands? Even if he was screwing over Japanese people... Hmm...
Speaking of which, had he screwed Zhang Qiren over this time by stopping him from recruiting talent? Presumably, Zhang Qiren was not short of one newcomer just starting out.
He scratched his head.
Forget it. There was no point thinking about this. He might as well focus on the comic script.
Writing a script was not quite the same as writing a novel, because images expressed things differently from words. Adapting a novel into a