The CEO is Too Fierce: My Adorable Wife Needs Taming

Chapter 190 Fortunately

Chapter 190 Fortunately

Li Chenxu's sudden words made Mu Xiaoyu's face flush red. Even though she couldn't see Li Chenxu's affectionate eyes through the phone, Mu Xiaoyu still couldn't help but feel her cheeks burning.

She mumbled a vague reply, then muttered, "Why are you suddenly saying these things... You've been acting more and more like a child lately, always saying these kinds of things to me..."

Li Chenxu could imagine that Mu Xiaoyu was shy, and a doting smile involuntarily appeared on his lips as he said, "I just wanted to call you that... I usually just say what's on my mind, and besides... what I usually say can't really express what I truly want to say..."

The more Li Chenxu spoke, the hotter Mu Xiaoyu's face became. If this continued, she definitely wouldn't be able to stand it. So, before Li Chenxu could continue, Mu Xiaoyu quickly said, "Okay, okay, let's not talk about that anymore. Didn't you say you had a meeting this morning? Go to your meeting. I also need to finish my manuscript. Bye-bye!"

After speaking, Mu Xiaoyu hung up the phone immediately without waiting for Li Chenxu's reply. She thought this would make things better, but to her surprise, her heart was still pounding wildly, completely out of her control.

Thinking about her recent interactions with Li Chenxu, Mu Xiaoyu felt as if she had returned to her teenage years.

At that time, Mu Xiaoyu's world revolved entirely around studying. She desperately wanted to escape Mu Pengzheng's unbearable life. Meanwhile, her classmates and friends lived happily every day. Girls her age chatted about which boy in school was handsome, who they had crushes on, who they were with, and what it felt like.

At the time, Mu Xiaoyu couldn't understand them at all, but now, after so many years, Mu Xiaoyu finally understands, and all of this was brought to her by Li Chenxu.

Thinking about this made Mu Xiaoyu's heart soften even more.

As for the phone call Xu Sulin had given her earlier, Mu Xiaoyu didn't take it to heart. She no longer cared about provocations from people like Xu Sulin. It wasn't that she'd become indifferent; rather, she knew very well that Xu Sulin was targeting her precisely because he couldn't get anything from Li Chenxu, and because she was afraid.

And all of these are the actions of the weak...

Mu Xiaoyu's new book is currently being serialized online and simultaneously by a comic book publisher, and has been running for almost a month. The content of this comic is much better than her previous one, and with the added buzz from the recent book signings, Mu Xiaoyu's new comic has already garnered over 100 million views online, even though it's only less than a tenth of the story has been serialized.

After working on her manuscript for a while, Mu Xiaoyu was called by the president of the comic book club to discuss the new comic book.

Originally, most of the comic's matters were handled by Mu Xiaoyu's editor, who discussed and negotiated with Mu Xiaoyu herself. However, Mu Xiaoyu's comic has far exceeded their initial expectations in terms of popularity. The original plan was for the comic to be released online for a fee in the middle of next month, but now the comic book company wants to move it forward.

Upon hearing this news, Mu Xiaoyu hesitated.

Going live means charging, and as someone who has been drawing comics for so many years, she knows very well how many readers she will lose when she starts charging. However, this is not Mu Xiaoyu's biggest concern. It's just that in the past, the comics she serialized online were all started charging when they were about one-fifth or one-sixth of the way through.

She was worried that if she started charging so early, her long-time readers would object.

After thinking for a moment, Mu Xiaoyu finally shared her thoughts with Xu Shu. Since arriving in SQ, she hadn't had much contact with Xu Shu, but from those few interactions, she could tell that Xu Shu was an extremely thoughtful person. Many of her actions were based on the author's perspective, not on being a businesswoman corrupted by money.

Mu Xiaoyu's reaction seemed to be exactly what Xu Shu had expected. Hearing Mu Xiaoyu say this, Xu Shu chuckled and then said to Mu Xiaoyu, "I knew you were going to say this. Mu Xiaoyu, your worries are completely unnecessary. Although our SQ is one of the top comic book publishers in the country, the benefits for new comic book authors are not that good. You know that the free part of your contract with us is not paid like the old comic book publishers. Everything starts from when you start charging."

"But those were all drawn by you with great effort. Nowadays, people are more and more aware of copyright, and if they are true fans, they will definitely not have any objections. After all, they are the result of your hard work, drawing stroke by stroke. Besides, for most people, this amount of money is nothing."

Xu Shu's words were perfectly correct, and Mu Xiaoyu understood them instantly. The genres and plots of the comics she drew were very mature. Leaving aside the online ones, just looking at the book signings these past few days, it's clear from the fans who came that most of them were working adults with independent financial means, with only a very small number being students.

For these people, spending a little money to read her comics is really nothing.

Thinking of this, Mu Xiaoyu felt much more relaxed. She stopped being coy and, after discussing the listing locations with Xu Shu, hung up the phone with him.

Considering that this book has only been published for less than a month, it is already going to be available for purchase soon, which is shorter than usual. Thinking about it now, Mu Xiaoyu is quite excited.

To be honest, the results she has achieved from the last book to this one are something she never expected.

In her previous life, until her death, all she could think about was who killed her and why her painstakingly painted pictures had failed. These were the only thoughts she had.

But at that time, she didn't consider anything from her own perspective at all.

Looking back now, she really brought it all on herself. She only hurt those who loved her, wallowed in self-pity all day long, and was incredibly stupid, easily believing the slander of a petty person like Wu Qianru. In the end, she ended up in that situation, and she really had no one to blame but herself.

Fortunately, in this life, she realized her mistake in time and didn't miss out again...