Chapter 087 (1/2)
The Complete Guide to the Use and Care of a Personal Assistant
Translator: Jury
Editor: NomNom
First Published on Chaleuria
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Chapter Eighty-seven
The next day, the audio and text transcripts of Su Yuyang’s interview were released on his microblog and the web novel discussion forum. Su Yuyang hadn’t even had time to look at the comments when Mu Yu called.
Ordinarily, Mu Yu contacted Su Yuyang through QQ unless the matter was urgent. Su Yuyang remembered that the last time Mu Yu had called him was to discuss the tie-in game for Demonic Song Defying Heaven. Surely this call wouldn’t be about the rights to Massacre of the Nine Heavens?
Su Yuyang answered the phone with trepidation.
The call went through and Mu Yu’s gentle voice came: “Congratulations, Shu Yang.”
Su Yuyang asked uncertainly, “Congratulations for what?”
Mu Yu laughed happily. “Demonic Song Defying Heaven’s game is going into beta, you and Ling Miao are together, and, most importantly, you’re taking him to meet your parents.”
On hearing this, Su Yuyang could tell why Mu Yu had come looking for him. He glanced at the calendar and guessed, “You’re asking me to go to the Authors’ Gathering?”
The Authors’ Gathering was an event the web novel site hosted every July. The purpose of the event was to get their authors out of the house and do something outside, and to network with each other and their editors. Mu Yu had invited Su Yuyang many times to participate in the Authors’ Gathering, and also the Authors’ New Year’s Party at the end of the year, but Su Yuyang had refused without exception every time. This time, Su Yuyang wanted to refuse again, but Ling Miao was staring at him hopefully. Su Yuyang asked, “You want to go?”
Mu Yu hesitated. What do you mean, I want to go? I have to go! On second thought, Su Yuyang didn’t seem to be asking him. He remembered that the other person in Su Yuyang’s house was also a web novelist and instantly realized who Su Yuyang was asking. Mu Yu coughed and said meaningfully, “Shu Yang, you can bring a plus-one to the Authors’ Gathering.”
Hearing Mu Yu’s words, Su Yuyang said resentfully, “Yu-ge, you’re being underhanded!”
“So what? You’ve already accepted an interview from your fangroup. It won’t matter if you participate in one more company event, right?”
Su Yuyang was still hesitant, but Ling Miao very much wanted to see what the mythical Authors’ Gathering was like. He would also be able to mingle with several authors, other than Shu Yang, whom he also liked very much. Ling Miao folded his arms and stood in front of Su Yuyang. His voice was calm but his tone carried a threat as he said, “You decide whether you’ll go or not, and I’ll also decide whether I’ll go or not.”
The two phrases ‘go or not’ were referring to different destinations. Mu Yu wasn’t listening too closely, so he didn’t give his opinion, but Su Yuyang understood what Ling Miao meant. But Su Yuyang didn’t understand: it was a very ordinary Authors’ Gathering. Why did Ling Miao want to go so much?
“You want to go so much?”
“I want to network with successful authors!”
“There’s a successful author in your house. Where else do you need to go to network?” Su Yuyang asked suspiciously.
Ling Miao rolled his eyes at Su Yuyang and huffed, “You say it like you’re the only successful author. There are other successful authors I like, so don’t get too cocky.”
“There’s a difference between like and like,” Su Yuyang said, like he didn’t mind.
Ling Miao found this surprising. Since when is Su Yuyang this generous?
(Su Yuyang, generous? Change ‘other authors’ to Ji Linxi and see if he’s still generous.)