The comic's successful debut finally lifted the greatest weight from both their minds.
All they needed was confirmation that this path would work. As content creators, what else could they do? Chu Ge neither concerned himself with the subsequent operations nor knew how to. In any case, he trusted how seriously Xie Wenyuan took the entire project. The comic was only an initial test of the waters; Xie Wenyuan would steer it in the right direction.
All they had to do on their end was keep supplying material.
The brief flurry of excitement actually meant that the days ahead were settling into a regular rhythm, and their ordinary daily routines would begin repeating once again.
Besides writing his novel, Chu Ge continued adapting scripts for several more installments, while Qiu Wuji finished the original artwork and handed it to the studio to fill in the details and colors. Zhu Mengmeng handled the studio's day-to-day management. She seemed quite excited about this new venture, visiting the company every day to watch the handsome young men and pretty young women draw. She had even skipped several spa visits.
For Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji, it seemed all that remained was to wait for feedback on each installment's performance, with nothing else to do.
Over dinner, they exchanged a glance and saw the meaning in each other's eyes.
"Once the studio here gets on track and we release our comic to see the feedback, if everything's going smoothly, we'll go have some fun in the book. Nanjiang doesn't get snow. We'll go see the snow over there."
Chu Ge's words from a few days ago still rang in her ears.
There had been so many distractions lately that they had never felt settled enough to leave. Now that everything was on track, it