Even though he's just a student, Lin Feng's self-discipline is definitely better than most of the authors Mitsugetsu Miyako has worked with.
Before this, she'd seen some authors who were incredibly slow.
You'd practically need a feather duster to chase them around and get them to hand in their work.
But sometimes, it was really because of a lack of inspiration, which caused the author to spend a lot of time thinking about the subsequent setup and plot.
As the saying goes, even the cleverest woman can't cook without rice. Sometimes, these editors couldn't push the authors too hard.
In short, the relationship between an editor and an author is like that between a star and their agent. They have to worry about the author's daily life, and sometimes they even have to outsmart the author to urge them to submit their manuscripts on time.
However, this approach didn't seem to work very well with Lin Feng and Mitsugetsu Miyako.
Lin Feng was generally very self-disciplined, so he wouldn't likely miss a deadline.
And it seemed Lin Feng didn't need Mitsugetsu Miyako to worry about his lifestyle, as he was already used to living alone.
For Lin Feng, as long as he had money, his life was generally not a problem.
Besides informing him of the good news about the sales figures, Mitsugetsu Miyako's call was also to let him know that the royalties from the publisher had been deposited into the account he had provided.
Compared to the soaring sales of Weekly Shonen, Lin Feng was more concerned about the royalties.
Hearing that his royalties had arrived, Lin Feng was even happier than when he heard about the explosion in Weekly Shonen's sales.
After all, this was something that directly concerned his own interests.
If it weren't for the lack of money, Lin Feng wouldn't have ended up a third-rate manga artist in his previous life. To put it in a more fashionable way that people on the internet use to describe those who scrape by on the website's minimum wage, they were outright internet beggars.
Fortunately, Lin Feng abandoned the "internet beggar" title forever after he transmigrated to this world.
With the golden finger system, Lin Feng is now more than capable of thriving in the world of Doraemon.
According to Mitsugetsu Miyako, Lin Feng submitted the first three chapters of Demon Slayer to the publishing house.
The first three chapters, combined, totaled over a hundred pages. Based on Yu Rong Publishing's previous royalty standards, at 10,000 yen per page...
Lin Feng could earn over a million yen just from the first three chapters.
Even after taxes, he'd still have over 900,000 yen!
This means that Lin Feng can now be considered to be at the middle-class level in the world of Doraemon.
Although he might still be a little short of the high-class level that Suneo's family represents, don't forget, this is just the beginning!
Moreover, Lin Feng is only receiving basic royalties at the moment.
The most lucrative aspect of drawing manga or writing novels is always the profit-sharing component.
If the profit sharing is included, along with Lin Feng's continuous updates...
He believes that in the not-too-distant future, he'll surpass Suneo's family's wealth and become a magnate.
It's just unfortunate that the technological advancements of this era are still somewhat behind. All Lin Feng can see right now is a bank card.
Even though he knows his bank balance has gone from zero to over nine million yen, he can't fully grasp the impact of those numbers.
It would be much more convenient in his previous life. He could simply link his smartphone to his bank card and instantly check his balance.
Basically, after Mitsugetsu Miyako finished explaining what she needed to tell him, she hung up the phone.
However, before hanging up, she still told Lin Feng to make sure he rested and didn't need to stay up all night rushing his drawings like before.
Now that his work was officially published and released, the deadlines for submissions were much more relaxed.
After all, the current plan was to release only one chapter a week. Even if Lin Feng submitted more drawings in a short period, they would just be stored for later publication.
As for those anonymous reader fans who wanted Yu Rong Publishing to change the release time of the Weekly Shonen and the update speed of the new manga, it was naturally not an easy matter to decide.
After all, Yu Rong Publishing, as the largest comprehensive publishing house in Kyoto, needed to consider interests far beyond just this weekly manga.
Changing the publishing house's update rules simply because of some reader letters would definitely not be easily approved.
Of course, this was also because the number of reader fans who had made such suggestions was not very large at the moment.
If, in time, the influence of Demon Slayer reached a higher level, and when the number of readers also reached a quantity sufficient for Yu Rong Publishing to change the rules.
It's possible that the publisher might actually change the release schedule of Weekly Shonen based on reader suggestions, all for the overall benefit of the company.
But that's a problem for another day.
As for the current situation, the new work, Demon Slayer, is gaining more and more attention.
This is a good thing for both Yu Rong Publishing and Lin Feng, the original author.
After ending his call with Mitsugetsu Miyako, Lin Feng put down the phone and began to think.
It was one thing when he didn't have any money.
Now that the royalties had been paid, totaling over nine million yen, he needed to do something with it.
Looking at the somewhat old furniture and the landline phone, Lin Feng started to come up with some ideas.
Moving wasn't necessary for the time being. After all, he was living alone, so a large house wasn't needed. Besides, he'd lived here for quite a while and was used to it.
However, furniture and some office supplies might need replacing.
The furniture was a given. The old refrigerator, washing machine, and television could be replaced with new ones.
Most importantly, it was time to get a new phone and computer.
Although the age of the internet and computers hadn't fully arrived yet, there were already many computer users.
The internet was sometimes very useful.
And Mitsugetsu Miyako's father, Dr. Mitsugetsu, wasn't he a high-end talent mainly engaged in scientific research and computer technology research?
With these top scientists, the internet age would surely arrive soon.
Lin Feng was just ahead of the curve, that's all.