Back to 1997, I became the originator of online literature

Chapter 139: The attraction of the opening, someone wants to organize a class reunion
Cao Sheng smiled and nodded, "Okay! I'll try my best to cooperate."

The school needed to do something on its own, and he had no reluctance.

What's more, Lu Xiangwei has always been very caring towards him, so he would agree even if it was just for Lu Xiangwei's face.

Lu Xiangwei smiled with satisfaction and said, "There is one more thing I want to ask for your opinion on."

Anything else?
Cao Sheng: "You say!"

Lu Xiangwei: "It's like this. Recently, the Department of Literature told the principal that they want you to transfer to the Department of Literature. What do you think? Do you want to go?"

Cao Sheng was surprised, then shook his head, "Forget it, I'm already in the second semester of my sophomore year, and I'm going to graduate in June or July next year. Why should I change my major? If I change now, I won't be able to keep up with their teaching progress. Forget it! Let's not bother with it, okay?"

Lu Xiangwei nodded with a smile on his face, "That's right, OK! In that case, I'll help you reject the literature department."

Cao Sheng nodded.

If he were asked to upgrade his junior college degree, he would be somewhat interested, but if he were asked to change his major at this time? He had no interest at all.

However, their school currently does not have the policy of upgrading from junior college to undergraduate.

In the original time and space, it was only after he graduated from university that he gradually heard people say that one could be promoted from a junior college to a bachelor's degree.

But it seems not possible now.

He doesn't care.

For him, academic qualifications are just something that sounds a little better when he talks about them, but he writes for the Internet, and readers care about whether his work is good-looking and exciting. It has nothing to do with whether he has a junior college degree or a bachelor's degree.

Only those who need others to give them job opportunities need academic qualifications as a stepping stone.

In the online literature industry, there are no doors or thresholds, so what stepping stone is needed?

……

When Cao Sheng and Lu Xiangwei were talking.

Magic City.

Under the banyan tree.

The editor in charge of the review suddenly shouted, "Ah! 'God's Tomb' was posted last night, and I haven't approved it yet!"

This shout attracted the attention of all colleagues.

The office area was quiet at first, and then a cacophony of voices began to rise.

"Where? Where?"

"What? You haven't passed the warehousing inspection yet? Why don't you hurry up and pass it? Hurry up!"

"That's right! Lao Zhang, you are really capable! You dare to block Mr. Cao's new book from entering the warehouse? Don't you want to do this anymore?"

"Lao Zhang! Stop wasting time. You don't really want to review it again before letting it enter the warehouse, do you? I advise you not to commit suicide!"

"Hurry up and pass through!"

……

How could Mr. Zhang, who was in charge of the inventory review, dare to say anything more?
Quickly pass the warehousing review, and then announce: "Okay, okay! It's already been put into the warehouse, can you guys stop arguing! I didn't mean it."

There was laughter and chatter in the office area for a while, and then gradually quietness returned.

Almost all of them are trial reading of "God's Tomb", which has only two chapters serialized so far.

Wang Jing is no exception.

She still remembers the astonishment she felt when she first read "I Want to Become an Immortal" at the beginning of the book. She hopes that this book "God's Tomb" can give her the same feeling.

The simple description of the scene inside the tomb of the gods at the beginning surprised her so much that she immediately became interested in reading on.

As the protective formation above the Tomb of the Gods began to vibrate, a corpse that seemed to have been dead for a long time slowly opened its eyes among the ruins of the Tomb of the Gods, which completely aroused her curiosity.

Resurrection of the dead?

When the resurrected "corpse" slowly stood up and some fragmented memories flashed through her mind, Wang Jing had a rough guess about the background story of this book: this tomb should be the site of a great battle between gods, immortals, and Buddhas and the demons from outer space. It is unknown how much time has passed since that battle, but in this site a "corpse" has been resurrected.

This resurrected guy should be the male protagonist of this book.

……

It didn't take long for Wang Jing to finish reading the only two chapters.

After reading it, there was a look of surprise in her eyes.

Although the subject matter of this book did not surprise her, the opening made her want to continue reading.

She believes that many readers feel the same way.

She could faintly hear two colleagues talking in low voices not far away.

“This is a good start!”

"Well, it's really good! What's wrong with Cao Sheng's brain? How can he come up with such an interesting beginning?"

"What did you just shout? Cao Sheng? Don't you know he is a shareholder of our website? How dare you shout his name?"

"Shh! Keep your voice down. Didn't you shout just now?"

"I, I was repeating what you said."

"Then you shouted too!"

……

Wang Jing smiled, and then stopped paying attention to what the two colleagues were talking about. Instead, she returned to the main page of "Shenmu" to see if there were any book reviews in the book review section.

She estimated that readers didn’t know that the book had passed the library review, and no one had posted a book review yet. How about I make the first post?
She thought so.

But I saw that there were already a lot of posts in the book review section.

Judging from her visual, there were at least 20 or 30 book reviews. At a glance, she saw the book review section like this:
"Damn it! I can finally see this book. Was the review editor late for work today? Deduct his salary! Deduct his salary!"

"I've been searching for this book since I got up this morning. I finally found it, right? Friends downstairs, tell me if I'm the first one to post this."

There are several replies to this post.

"No! You're not!"

"Do you think you're the only one who's been searching for this book?"

"Want to be the first to post? Have you asked me?"

"You're not even in the top ten!"

……

Wang Jing watched with a smile on her face, and was also a little surprised at Cao Sheng's current influence.

The new book published last night has just passed the inventory review. She has only read two chapters, but there are already twenty or thirty reviews in the book review section. Which author in the industry can compare with such influence?
That morning, she couldn't help but look at the book review section of "God's Tomb" every once in a while.

I wonder what readers think of the content of these two chapters as time goes by?
And every time she refreshed the webpage, the content of the posts in the book review section changed.

She saw some posts like this:

"Are all the gods and Buddhas dead? This is a scary beginning!"

"Chu Yun? The hero of the previous book was named Chu Feng, and this time he's named Chu Yun. Could this Chu Yun be Chu Feng's son?"

"Three-pointed double-edged sword? Golden hoop? Mountain and river map? Eight-scene palace lantern? Is this protagonist going to defy fate? He gets so many things in the first chapter? Isn't that too exaggerated?"

"After reading so many novels, the beginning of Zhongyuan Yidianhui's novel is still the most interesting. Zhongyuan Yidianhui really didn't disappoint me! It's a pity that he only updates one chapter every two days. It's too slow!"

"I've given you all the flowers! Ah Hui! Please update more chapters! How can one chapter every two days be enough? Can you update at least one chapter every day?"

"Isn't the speed of this male protagonist's cultivation too exaggerated? When he was meditating, many spiritual energy vortices appeared around him? Was he really just a temple guard before? What temple is so awesome? Could it be the Lingxiao Palace?"

……

That night.

Song Chao went to an Internet cafe near the school and turned on a computer.

During the break this afternoon, he heard classmates say that Cao Sheng’s new book "God’s Tomb" was published under the banyan tree.

He still remembered Cao Sheng's evaluation of his book "Peerless Demonic Sword" a few days ago.

Although it was he who asked Cao Sheng to speak the truth and give his real opinions, Cao Sheng's comments kept echoing in his mind.

It's like a spell.

"Your writing has improved. I can see that you put a lot of effort into writing this introduction, but..."

"The subject matter is a bit old-fashioned, and most importantly, the gimmicks are not enough! There is nothing outstanding in the first chapter."

Especially the line "not enough gimmicks".

This has been bothering him and confusing him, as he doesn't understand what Cao Sheng meant by the gimmick.
What do you mean by not having enough gimmicks?

Is he implying that as a new author, I didn't write some erotic plot in the first chapter, so it's not attractive enough to readers?
Or are you saying that the first chapter is too bland because there are no intense fighting scenes?
This afternoon he heard that Cao Sheng’s new book had been published under the banyan tree, so he decided to go online and check out what the gimmick was at the beginning of Cao Sheng’s new book.
He has read both of Cao Sheng's previous books.

"Living with a Flight Attendant" begins with the hero and heroine meeting in a bar. Song Chao feels that such a plot should be a hint that there will be erotic content later, so it may be the gimmick that Cao Sheng mentioned.

In "I Want to Become an Immortal", at the beginning, the male protagonist was on his way to the Yu Jian Sect to become an apprentice. On the way, he seemed to see two beautiful girls and a beautiful senior sister flying in the sky?

Are these also hinting at some erotic plots to come?
With these questions in mind, Song Chao found "God's Tomb" under the banyan tree. He read it very carefully, spending more than twenty minutes reading two chapters.

After reading it, there was even more confusion in his eyes.

This time the male protagonist is resurrected from the dead, and there doesn’t seem to be any hint of erotic plot, but why is it so good to watch?

Is it because treasures such as the three-pointed double-edged sword, the golden cudgel, and the map of mountains, rivers, and the country appeared in the first chapter?

Or is it because of the tragic battle in the protagonist's memory? It makes people want to know the truth of that battle?

Is there really no hint of any erotic plot?
He repeatedly reviewed the contents of the first chapter, and finally, he discovered that when the male protagonist Chu Yun left the Tomb of the Gods, he glanced at the exploration team that was still trying to open the protective formation. There were two women in this team, one with very long legs and the other with a large bust.

Is this a hint of a sexy plot?
But isn't this a hint too subtle?

Song Chao narrowed his eyes and frowned in thought.

As he was thinking, his eyes suddenly fell on the title of the book - "God's Tomb".

He finally understood what Cao Sheng meant by the gimmick.

The title of the book is Tomb of the Gods, and the opening chapter describes what happened inside the Tomb of the Gods. Even the male protagonist died and came back to life in the Tomb of the Gods.

With such a title and such an opening, how many readers would not be interested?

Thinking about the first chapter of "Peerless Demonic Sword" he wrote, he sighed, but his confidence increased a lot.

He felt that he had figured out how to begin a new book.

……

The next day, Saturday.

Magic City.

Qian Zhenyu went to an Internet cafe outside the school, browsed the news for a while, and then logged into his personal email.

I saw an email in my mailbox from the girl who sat next to me in my senior year of high school.

The content is: "Old classmates! How have you been recently? Is the holiday coming soon? Are you going back to your hometown during this holiday? I miss you old classmates a lot recently. I want to organize a reunion this summer. I plan to invite you, Fang Zhui, Cao Sheng and others. I heard that Cao Sheng is now a famous writer. Have you heard about it?
If you are willing to participate, I will count you as one and wait for your reply.

——Thinking of your old classmate, Ge Jingying."

(End of this chapter)