At the beginning of "Swordsman", Xu Qingru quickly settled with the new senior artist she was working with, and asked her editor, or professional errand boy Zhou Fang, to send it to the editorial department.
Although many editors were not optimistic about the completely fictional setting of "The Swordsman", when the first few chapters of this new series were sent to them, the editors still started to review them with a look of extreme disdain on their faces. An expectant look.
The same is certainly true for the editor-in-chief Ding Yixiang. He has been under a lot of pressure recently because his various concessions to Xu Qingru have made the senior management of the magazine very dissatisfied.
Xu Qingru's behavior of taking Jiang Xue to publish works in other girls' comics magazines aggravated the dissatisfaction of the senior management. They always felt that Xu Qingru and Jiang Xue became famous through "Legends of Modern and Ancient Times. Martial Arts". If they went to other magazines to publish their works, then It's a betrayal, even if it's a different type of work.
The senior management of the group also believes that the author Xu Qingru has no loyalty to "Legends of Modern and Ancient Times. Martial Arts". Such an author will change jobs sooner or later, so she should be tied to the most demanding contract!
Ding Yixiang felt that these senior executives underestimated Xu Qingru. He was not an ordinary little author. He had such a family background and was a giant of a fast-growing two-dimensional game company. How could a comic magazine like theirs be possible? Feel free to manipulate the other person, and if they don't like it, you can start a new magazine in a minute!
Therefore, editor-in-chief Ding Yixiang has taken it all on. He can only hope that Xu Qingru's "Swordsman" can surprise him as always...
However, when he and other editors read the beginning, they almost vomited out blood - the beginning was about the "protagonist" being wiped out. What kind of fuss was going on?
This is clearly a poorly played plot in third-rate martial arts comics... Will the main character climb off a cliff to gain magical power and then take revenge?
Perhaps many readers will directly regard "Lin Pingzhi" as the protagonist when they first watch "The Swordsman". After all, the first three chapters are all about the Lin family - Fujian Lin Yuantu uses seventy-two ways to ward off evil spirits. The swordsmanship dominated the martial arts world, and he established the Fuwei Escort Agency and traveled across the world. After Yuan Tu's death, his descendants were incompetent, and heroes from all over came in droves to covet the sword manual to ward off evil. Lin Zhennan, the chief bodyguard, and his entire family were massacred by the Qingcheng faction. Lin Pingzhi is Lin Zhennan’s son.
In this comic by Xu Qingru, Lin Pingyi appears as a handsome young man in troubled times. His appearance is definitely first-class, and he also has a chivalrous heart and a sense of justice. No matter how you look at it, he is The standard setting of the Shaoxia template protagonist in martial arts works.
Xu Qingru, who is best at painting handsome men and beauties with good looks, always makes readers fall in love with her characters at first sight. Only when Lin Pingzhi at the beginning is compared with Lin Pingzhi at the end can we really give readers a taste of the characters. Such shocking tension, what made the once passionate, righteous, and graceful young hero transform into the pervert who killed his wife in cold blood?
Lin Pingzhi's family was wiped out at the beginning. If it follows the routine of general martial arts works, this is clearly telling the readers that he is about to be given the "halo of the protagonist". After being suppressed for so long at the beginning, he will either accidentally Falling off a cliff to obtain magical skills, or meeting an expert, one is considered to have extraordinary bones and is a unique martial arts prodigy, so he is accepted as a disciple by the expert, who also has a daughter as beautiful as a flower...
After the protagonist achieves great feats, he finally gets his revenge and gets to know many beauties, including a righteous chivalrous woman, a demon witch, a top oiran who works in a brothel without selling her body, etc. The ending is naturally a happy ending.
To be honest, this kind of routine in martial arts works is still the mainstream of most martial arts works. Even those martial arts cartoonists, after being inspired by Xu Qingru's "new martial arts" works, their settings may have caught up with the trend. They are all about light skills, internal skills, magical skills, secrets, etc., but the plot is still the same. This is the so-called "old wine in new bottles".
Readers still eat the same thing, for no other reason than it’s fun.
At the beginning, the protagonist's family was wiped out, and a main line of revenge was established. Then based on this main line, many branch lines can be derived, including harem line, friend line, skill line, equipment line, etc. There are some well-understood routines. The martial arts cartoonist even summarized the so-called "nine-line drawing method"...
This kind of "nine-line drawing method" is difficult to detect for readers, but for the editors of "Jingu Legend. Martial Arts" magazine who are here now, they are very familiar with it. In fact, they When choosing which works to submit to the serialization meeting, I will also subconsciously choose those routine martial arts comics.
Because facts have proven that routines are enduring. Brand-new settings combined with classic routines are the only way for martial arts cartoonists to achieve the highest level of enlightenment. Unfortunately, how can new settings be so easy to come up with?
After reading the first three chapters of "The Swordsman", the editors were all silent, and the whole venue seemed quite depressed. Apparently, this was because everyone subconsciously believed that Xu Qingru had "degenerated" and actually went to draw. That kind of routine martial arts work.
But to be honest, this kind of stability-seeking approach is understandable. For many top cartoonists, the best works in their lives are the works before they became gods. In the later period, they were unable to break through themselves. He can only draw some routine works to continue making money. Anyway, he has accumulated a group of die-hard fans.
The number of Xu Qingru's fan base and die-hard fans is absolutely unimaginable. Just look at her random photos or videos, and the comments below are all crazy fans, and you can see the whole story at a glance.
Therefore, if Xu Qingru also creates routine martial arts comics, some readers may be disappointed, but most readers will definitely continue reading with interest.
Because they firmly believe that even if Xu Qingru creates a routine work, it will still be the best routine work. Just because of the style of work she controls, it is worth pursuing...
After all, Xu Qingru's artistic aesthetic is always very online. The reason why the games of "iyou" company are so competitive is because the games it produces, no matter how unfun they are, their "skin" and "appearance" are top-notch. The game art and music sections are filled to capacity!
In the midst of this depression, there was a deputy editor-in-chief named Liu Liqun who was relatively close to the senior management of the group. He had always disliked Xu Qingru, so he said: "I didn't understand the first three chapters of "The Swordsman" Any bright spots, this kind of clichéd beginning is really disappointing. Why not continue the third part of "The Condor Shooting" instead of starting such a new routine martial arts work with no bright spots? I really can't understand this, I just It can be said that the privileges given to Xu Qingru by Editor-in-Chief Ding actually harmed him! If a senior editor cooperates with Xu Qingru, we can definitely create better works!"
Ding Yixiang's heart was naturally full of bitterness. In fact, he felt that his position as editor-in-chief was almost over. It could be said that success or failure may be clear.
Because of the emergence of Xu Qingru, the "Legends of Modern and Ancient Martial Arts" magazine has reached a new level, truly establishing its position as the industry's leading martial arts comic magazine. However, Xu Qingru's enviable copyright income from each of his previous works has made the group Some people in the top management are coveting it, but those copyrights are in the hands of Xu Qingru himself...
This gradually formed an irreconcilable contradiction.
Some people at the top of the group believe that without the platform of "Legends of Modern and Ancient Times. Martial Arts", it would be impossible for Xu Qingru to succeed!
And as long as "Legends of Modern and Ancient Times: Martial Arts" maintains its current momentum, they can praise as many authors as Xu Qingru!
When Liu Liqun said what he just said, several deputy editors immediately stood up to express their agreement. These were obviously members of his department.
Some editors also spoke for Xu Qingru: "I think we should believe Xu Qingru. How can we make such an arbitrary conclusion based on just one beginning?"
Very few responded.
In the end, Ding Yixiang made a bitter decision and approved the new serialization of "The Swordsman". However, the recommendations and publicity in all aspects are far less than before. Some people think that this method can be used to "beat" Xu Qingru. .
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