Chapter 177: Torture to the Deepest Part of the Soul

The person who spoke was Gu Nana.

A veteran female editor in the contemporary comics world.

When Gu Nana's voice fell, a group of editors were all stunned, and then Hou Jinqiu was surprised and said: "Nana, why are your eyes so red?"

Everyone looked at Gu Nana, and found that Gu Nana was holding a manuscript in her hand at the moment, with slightly red eyes, as if she had just encountered something and cried hard.

Gu Nana did not answer why her eyes were red, but raised the comic in her hand and said very seriously: "I don't agree with Gong Xueyi's work being the first, or rather, this comic in my hand disagrees!"

"Nana, what are you kidding..."

"Is there anyone in Tiandu University who is stronger than Gong Xueyi?"

"That's right, Nana, your state is strange and worrying, why don't you take a rest."

The editors thought that Gu Nana had encountered something, so she suddenly became so abnormal, and they all spoke out to comfort her.

Other editors didn't believe that any comics could surpass Gong Xueyi, and the editor-in-chief Hou Jinqiu didn't believe it either, but he still said, "Let me take a look."

"I like this comic very much, but I especially hate this author. I admit that he is a genius, but he also completely played with my feelings!"

Seeing Hou Jinqiu coming over, Gu Nana bit her lip, handed the comic to Hou Jinqiu, and walked out of the editorial department without looking back.

A group of editors looked at each other, and Hou Jinqiu's eyes flashed with a strong gleam of curiosity!

As the editor-in-chief, Hou Jinqiu knew very well that Gu Nana was a relatively weird editor.

She had a habit of reviewing manuscripts, that is, it was easy to substitute comics, which led to her successful excavation of many famous comic masters, but also made her emotions easily affected by some comics.

But, he didn't know what kind of comics could affect Gu Nana's emotions to this extent?

Sitting in Gu Nana's seat and opening the manuscript, Hou Jinqiu saw the name of this comic that made Gu Nana lose her composure - "Five Centimeters per Second".

What could affect Gu Nana's mood should be a love comic, but nowadays popular boys' comics are mainly about fighting, and there are few love comics worth reading.

However, he still frowned and read on, because he knew that comics that could make old editors like Gu Nana lose their composure were rare in the current market.

This comic begins with the acquaintance of the male and female protagonists.

"Hey, do you know? I heard that the speed of cherry blossoms falling is five centimeters per second."

With the tone of the heroine Mingli, the title of the comic was embellished, and the plot was slowly unfolded.

Then, as the plot gradually deepened, Hou Jinqiu's eyes began to light up, but the speed of turning pages became slower and slower.

Finally, he turned to the end of the first volume, and suddenly... a picture attracted Hou Jinqiu's attention.

The picture showed a huge cherry tree, with hazy moonlight and scattered cherry blossoms.

Time seemed to stand still, and the boy and the girl left a beautiful kiss under the tree that was suffocating!

When he saw this picture, Hou Jinqiu almost cried out, because this picture was simply amazing!

Hou Jinqiu believed that it would not be out of place to exhibit it in the gallery, but it was just an ordinary comic manuscript.

"At this moment, I seemed to understand the meaning of eternity, heart and soul. The strong emotion made me want to share everything I had experienced in the past thirteen years with her.

Then in the next moment, I was too sad to suppress it.

That's because I don't know how to cherish Mingli's warmth, nor do I know where to take her soul. I clearly understand that we can't guarantee that we can be together forever in the future.

What lies before us is the heavy life and long time, which makes people feel powerless."

This exquisite picture, accompanied by such a sentence that makes people's whole heart throb, the use of this illustration and lines really stunned Hou Jinqiu.

After a while, he stood up, supported the table with both hands, and murmured: "Genius..."

"Editor-in-chief."

"Brother Monkey..."

The other editors saw that Hou Jinqiu looked strange and spoke up.

"You keep working!" Hou Jinqiu waved his hand, and then continued to read the comic in his hand without looking up.

The more Hou Jinqiu read, the more excited he became. When he saw the end of the comic, he completely understood why Gu Nana suddenly lost control of her emotions just now, because the plot of this comic called "Five Centimeters per Second" was too cruel!

Yes, it is cruel, and the cruelty is natural, which makes people unprepared and cruel to the depths of their souls.

The first volume of the comic tells the story of two childhood sweethearts who fell in love with each other when they were young.

But because of the transfer, the hero and heroine were forced to separate. Then, in order to see each other, the hero overcame all difficulties and finally met the heroine for the first time.

The author's rendering power is so powerful that it easily drives the reader's emotions and makes people moved by their persistence and companionship.

But in the second volume, the author separated the hero and heroine again, and arranged a new female character to appear next to the hero.

Seeing this, everyone would definitely think that this new female character is not likable, but the fact is the opposite. The character of this female character is so simple that it makes people heartbroken. She obviously likes the male protagonist in her heart, but she never confessed to him until the male protagonist graduated.

The story reaches the third volume, which is the most classic moment of this comic.

After going through so many things, the hero and heroine still didn't get together, but missed each other in an unexpected but reasonable way...

The whole comic ended in a missed opportunity.

The author spent a lot of energy to make everyone fall in love with every character in the comic, and then made them miss each other very willfully. As a reader, I was angry and sad, but I couldn't refute it!

This sense of powerlessness is the culprit for the story that made Gu Nana, an old editor, cry.

"It's so deceiving..."

Hou Jinqiu sighed, and for a moment he was a little sad, and his eyes were slightly sour.

The author is really like a magician who plays with people's hearts. He makes you fall in love with the heroine, and then ruthlessly destroys her with his own hands, makes you feel sorry for the second female lead, and then kills her lightly in the blink of an eye...

"I like this comic very much, but I hate this author very much. I admit that he is a genius, but he also completely plays with my feelings!"

At this time, Hou Jinqiu finally understood what Gu Nana meant.

"But in fact, we all know rationally that what the author wants to express is... just the great power brought by time, space, distance and growth. He is not deliberately playing with people's hearts, he is just using art to express his own views."

"So everyone who hates the author after reading the comics, on the surface, hates the ending arranged by the author, but in fact, they hate their own deep sense of powerlessness in front of those powers..."

This is Hou Jinqiu's understanding, or, if this comic is shown to the public, there will be greater, more and more different understandings.