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Chapter 359: Chapter 338 South Xian Yu North Chu Kuang_1

The poem “A Tranquil Night Abed” itself is neither overly popular nor overly elegant, it’s more like Li Bai’s casual exposition and expression.

It’s like Jay Chou casually singing “Confession Balloon”.

If you really want to evaluate Li Bai’s poetic level, you should look at his other representative works.

Such as “Bring in the Wine”.

Such as “The Road to Shu is Hard”.

Such as the well-known Milky Way falling from the heavens.

I won’t list them all here.

That’s because Li Bai’s wonderful works are so abundant, and some of them can astonish people at first glance.

Otherwise, Li Bai wouldn’t be recognized as the Poem Immortal.

Of course, there is a Li Bai in this era too, but this Li Bai’s works are completely different from Earth’s Li Bai’s works.

In fact, Chu Kuang’s exhibition of calligraphy and verses has had the greatest impact by letting the public see that Chu Kuang has skills beyond writing novels, and these skills are pretty exceptional.

Witnessing this, people’s past impression of Chu Kuang as “good at writing novels” has been changed.

Those who had experienced the couplet incident also knew that Chu Kuang and Xian Yu were both “masters of matching couplets”.

Now, Chu Kuang puts forth two more impressions to the public.

The first one is “a calligrapher, whose talent was wasted on writing books”.

The second one is “a poet”.

Added up, Chu Kuang was really impressive.

He was not only able to write poems, good at writing couplets, but also adept at novels and skilled in calligraphy.

Two words: Universal talent!

This naturally made many netizens associate with Xian Yu.

“May I say, as expected of close friends, have you guys noticed, what Chu Kuang can do, Xian Yu can do too!”

“Wow, you’re right when you put it that way!”

“Xian Yu definitely excels at composing music, but Xian Yu’s screenwriting talent is also undeniable. The verses from ‘Flirting Scholar’ were just amazing, not to mention Xian Yu’s last performance in the couplet war…”

“Non-kin doesn’t live under the same roof.”

“The friend of a genius, is usually a genius too.”

“I can’t stand it anymore, I’ll only say two words: Shadow, those who understand will understand.”

“Hahahahaha, Shadow’s daily invisibility.”

“Shadow really is, becoming more and more invisible.”

“Shadow is somehow a significant figure in the comic industry; ‘Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma’ is very hot, it’s just that these two buddies of his are too weird.”

“So frustrating, when will Shadow stand up?!”

“…”

Shadow was indeed becoming less visible.

But now, as Chu Kuang and Xian Yu partner up more and more, Shadow is teased by netizens more, which somehow gives him some bizarre presence.

emmmmm.

Existing in everyone’s jokes.

Some even jokingly called Xian Yu and Chu Kuang, “Southern Xian Yu, Northern Chu Kuang”.

Don’t ask how north and south are distinguished.

It’s just that everyone thinks this sounds more rhymic.

If you must figure it out, possibly, “Xian Yu” sounds relatively gentle, giving a sense of southern elegance.

“Chu Kuang”, on the other hand, implies braveness and has an old jesters-like charm, giving a sense of northern wildness.

Then, this way of saying spread around somehow.

Regarding the saying “Southern Xian Yu, Northern Chu Kuang”, it surprisingly left profound impressions!

Some even tried to add candidates to the “east” and “west”.

But unfortunately.

Everyone found out that there really weren’t any names in “east xx” and “west xx” that could be compared with Xian Yu and Chu Kuang.

The two of them are indeed oddities!

So there are only the South and the North, the West and the East, probably they will appear in the future, or maybe they will never appear.

…

When Lin Yuan saw the comments in Xian Yu’s section, many people were typing “Southern Xian Yu, Northern Chu Kuang”, he was a bit flabbergasted.

He had only ever heard the names “Southern Murong and Northern Qiao Feng,” so “Southern Xian Yu and Northern Chu Kuang” was a first for him.

It didn’t rhyme at all.

Some even truncated the names to “Southern Fish and Northern Mad,” which was full to the brim with adolescent pretensions.

Lin Yuan felt if he fell off his horse at this moment, the embarrassment would knock out a whole two-bedroom apartment from his toenails.

Jin Mu, however, seemed quite excited:

“Southern Xian Yu and Northern Chu Kuang, actually, it seems pretty apt. One pen name committed to the field of novels, the other focused on composing. Moreover, both pen names have diverse ventures, Xian Yu in movies and Chu Kuang in calligraphy, perfect.”

Lin Yuan: “…”

Could he at least save some face for Shadow?

Although they are all pen names, and there is no favoritism, being teased so much made Lin Yuan inevitably affected by online opinions, feeling that Shadow seemed a little underappreciated.

Fortunately, “Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma” is about to end.

The next comic series is “Death Note,” and it’s sure to explode in popularity. Shadow must catch up with Chu Kuang and Xian Yu, at least not to be completely unnoticeable, right?

With this in mind, Lin Yuan immediately called Luo Wei and the assistants in the studio to discuss the new comic.

“New comic?”

Luo Wei sounded somewhat nervous: “Have you decided the theme yet?”

Lin Yuan took out the materials he had prepared in advance. He prepared these when he was idle at the company: “Story summary, character settings, from image to drawing style, everything is designed. You guys have a look first, ask me if you have any questions.”

“OK.”

Luo Wei said: “Just in time, ‘Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma’ is going to end next month, so we can slightly prepare now to start the serialization of the new comic.”

With that, Luo Wei looked nervously at the new comic material in her hand.

Just as she felt nervous when “King of the Net” finished.

What if the new comic isn’t good? What then?

This is a common worry for writers of novels, comics, and creators of any art form: Will the next work be as successful?

However, these anxieties gradually disappeared as Luo Wei started reading “Death Note.”

Unless one is naturally disinterested in this type of cult, any boy who loves to act cool, or girl without much princess mentality, will hardly resist the allure of this story!

Not to mention, Lin Yuan made slight adjustments to the art style of “Death Note”…

Like the image of the Shinigami, Lin Yuan has made it akin to the hellish ghost image in the mythologies of Blue Star.

Also, the drawing style of some characters in the story has been tweaked a bit by Lin Yuan to suit the aesthetics of Blue Star.

This so-called aesthetic of Blue Star, is basically the aesthetics of his previous life’s Celestial Dynasty.

The aesthetics of Neon manga, though also Eastern in style, have more Japanese-style details, so changes are necessary.

Lin Yuan has got the hang of it already.

Not only did Luo Wei like this story.

The other assistants in the comic studio who were nobodies also got excited when they saw the textual version of the story. Their eyes shined brightly –

“This story is great!”

“I feel like it’ ll be amazing when drawn out!”

“It might be even more exciting than ‘Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma’!”

“Can’t say about the popularity, but it should be highly rated, Yagami Light is too cool!”

“This Lin is also very handsome – is Lin the boss?”

“…”

This was Lin Yuan indulging in vanity, satisfying his wicked humor.

In “Death Note,” the man who loves and fights with Yagami Light is L.

Replacing names with letters is influenced by Western culture. Lin Yuan has tried it, but it doesn’t suit him.

Blue Star rarely does this, even though Blue Star has its own set of alphabetical letters.

So Lin Yuan changed the “L” to “Lin.”

“Lin” also starts with “L,” and, what a coincidence, it exactly matches Lin Yuan’s surname—

He also wanted to increase his involvement in “Death Note.”

Of course.

He is certainly not inviting a real Yagami Light with a Death Note aiming for justice to this world.

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ps: Once again, thank you [Willow God Whisper] for the Alliance Hierarch’s reward; it feels especially intimate as an old friend. Recently, Polluted White knew he wasn’t updating well, but something did come up in reality. I won’t explain the details, but will catch up once things settle.