Chapter 25

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was only 100 books.

The two volumes of “The Coiling Dragon” had been reprinted several times, so the supply of the books was going up.

As for Fang Yuan’s signature, Dunbar would never ask for it from Fang Yuan himself. He only needed to buy an autographed copy online.

Then, he could just imitate his signature for the rest of the 99 copies.

This was not a big problem.

After thinking of a solution, Dunbar said, “So what if it was one hundred?”

The girl in the lead continued to speak.

“But I feel that just an autograph is a little too boring. Since it’s an autograph book from a friend, it should be more personal and more customized, right? Otherwise, it would be the same as those autograph books we can queue to get!”

“That’s right!”

“That makes sense!”

The crowd responded and the leading girl said again, “Since we’re here for the Fall Cup, it means that we’re all authors. Every author must have a common goal, which is to write better works. Why don’t we get Fang Yuan to write us a message to wish us all the best in our writing? What do you think? It can be considered a memento for all of us for participating in this competition.”

Everyone cheered again.

They all agreed that this was a good idea. Just as the leading girl said, everyone here was an author. However, before they became an author, they were first excellent readers and had writers they looked up to. Being encouraged by a writer that they liked was such an inspiring thing.

“Okay!”

Dunbar watched as the discussion continued to go out of hand.

He was afraid that they would come up with some crazy idea and cause trouble again.

Thus, he immediately agreed to their current request. “I promise you that I’ll ask Fang Yuan to autograph the books for you. Don’t mention other unreasonable requests anymore. It’s settled then. There will be no more changes.”

All the beautiful women nodded.

It seemed that Dunbar had snapped back to his usual self.

Next, it was time to settle this autograph book.

It was not difficult to get an autograph.

Unlike what Dunbar told the girls just now, Fang Yuan was a very approachable author. Generally speaking, if someone asked him for his autograph, he would just sign it.

Dunbar asked someone to get a copy of “The Coiling Dragon”.

Fang Yuan’s signature had both Chinese characters and English letters.

Although the Chinese characters were somewhat unfamiliar, the two characters in Chinese, “Fang” and “Yuan”, were relatively easy. There were not many strokes and it was easy to learn. It was also relatively easy to imitate.

However, the custom autographs that those girls asked for were a little difficult.

They wanted Fang Yuan to write some words of encouragement, but Dunbar did not know how to express it in Chinese.

Dunbar has considered using translation software to translate English into Chinese, but machine translations were not very reliable and the grammar would be a bit strange.

Moreover, in case there were Chinese readers among this group of girls, Dunbar would be exposed and it would simply be embarrassing.

Dunbar would never embarrass himself in front of others. He could not afford this risk.

Of course, it was not impossible if he were to go to Penguin Publishing and find a Chinese person to write this sentence, but everyone said that the Chinese language was broad and profound.

The same sentence could be expressed in several different ways.

Who knew what kind of expression Fang Yuan was used to?

Dunbar thought about it and found that the best way was to find Fang Yuan personally for a signed book.

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On the other side, Fang Yuan was talking happily with the two future great writers, Stephen King and Neil Gaiman.

He saw Dunbar walking over from afar.

Dunbar regarded Fang Yuan as his lifelong enemy.

Naturally, Dunbar would not humble himself to tell Fang Yuan that his fans came to him asking for a bunch of autographed books.

This was too much for Dunbar, so he hid the truth and casually made up a story. “I recently made a friend from China who’s about to celebrate his birthday. I wanted to give him my new book as a birthday present, but it won’t be nice to just give him a book without writing anything on it. I’d like to write a paragraph in Chinese that roughly goes, I wish you all the best in your writing. This will give him a small surprise.”

Seeing that there were many authors participating in the Fall Cup next to Fang Yuan, Dunbar added, “Do you think you can help me write this sentence? We’re all classmates, so this small favor shouldn’t be a problem, right?”

Dunbar thought that in front of so many people, even if the two of them had a rocky past, Fang Yuan would not reject him rashly.

Fang Yuan looked at Dunbar from head to toe.

[ Psychological Insight (special agent level) ] had already seen through Dunbar’s real motives.

What friend?

Dunbar clearly made up this friend out of the blue.

Also, Dunbar was too arrogant, so how could he make any Chinese friends?

Seeing Dunbar’s act at his table just now, Fang Yuan had already guessed what was happening.

“Sure, that’s not a problem.”

Fang Yuan smiled and continued, “I can write this on the book if you have it.”

Dunbar’s smile was naturally very bright.

When the time came, he only needed to copy the Chinese characters on the paper a hundred times according to Fang Yuan’s handwriting.

It would be able to satisfy those girls’ requirements.

Anyway, he had already planned to imitate the signature of the two Chinese characters “Fang” and “Yuan”.

Now, it was just a matter of writing a few more words. It was totally doable!

“Yes, that’ll be great!”

Dunbar placed the paper and pen in front of Fang Yuan. “You can just write it here. Thank you.”

“No problem. We’re classmates anyway.”

Fang Yuan nodded and lifted the pen.

On the piece of paper, Fang Yuan wrote a line of the most complex Chinese characters he could think of in small, beautiful handwriting.

“In Chinese, this means, I wish you all the best in your writing.”

Dunbar was baffled. “WTF???”