Back to 1997, I became the originator of online literature

Chapter 215 The Starting Point of Early Birth

Many readers may not be familiar with the name Lin Tingfeng, but Cao Sheng is not unfamiliar with it at all.

Because he knew that this was one of the founders of Qidian.

Many years after the original time and space was born from Qidian, this person was the webmaster of Qidian, with the online name: Baojianfeng.

It can be said that if this person did not exist, the starting point would most likely not appear.

And now this person sent Cao Sheng an email like this, asking him to join the fantasy literature association they founded?
It was even said that he could be made the president.

Cao Sheng was very surprised.

At the same time, I am a little confused.

Because he remembered that Qidian was founded in 2002, and Qidian's predecessor, the Fantasy Literature Association, was probably founded in 2001.

And now it is only the year 2000 and the Spring Festival has just passed.

The Fantasy Literature Association founded by Lin Tingfeng is about to appear ahead of schedule?

Is the butterfly effect getting bigger and bigger? Has it already affected the birth process of Qidian?
Cao Sheng sat in front of the computer, squinting at the email, frowning slightly. He was wondering if he should give it a push? Let Qidian be born two years earlier?
If Qidian was born two years earlier, what impact would it have? Would it have made online literature develop better?
Probably so?

In his heart, the starting point and the place under the banyan tree had completely different meanings.

When Rongshuxia invited him to invest, he was somewhat interested, but not very interested. He felt that it was okay to invest, but it didn't matter if he didn't.

Because when he started writing online articles in the original time and space, Under the Banyan Tree had already declined, and its popularity was not even a fraction of Qidian. Not only was it not as popular as Qidian, there were already many websites in the industry that were more popular than Under the Banyan Tree.

And the starting point?

Although Qidian.com was established later than many other novel websites, its development speed was very fast after its establishment. One year later, it became the second largest website in the industry.

Then it pioneered the VIP subscription system, was the first to find a way to make profits, and became the number one in the industry.

In the twenty years since then, many websites have wanted to challenge Qidian, but no one has actually succeeded.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is a holy place in the minds of many online writers and readers.

The importance of such a website in his heart is naturally incomparable to that of Under the Banyan Tree.

This is also one of the reasons why he did not think of establishing a starting point in advance after his rebirth.

He was not sure he could do better than the starting point of the original time and space.

But today he received an email from the founder of Qidian, inviting him to join Qidian’s predecessor, the Fantasy Literature Association.

This is equivalent to asking him to intervene when the starting point is established.

Do you want to get involved?
Cao Sheng didn't need to hesitate, he already had the answer in his mind.

When Rongshuxia invited him to invest, he had thought that he might be able to invest in Qidian in the future.

You don't need to own a lot of shares either.

Since he has some shares in his hands, he will have a lot of autonomy when he publishes his works on Qidian in the future.

After pondering for a moment, he replied to Lin Tingfeng's email.

……

Magic City.

Lin Tingfeng, who has been working in Shanghai for some time, did not go to work today because it is the Lantern Festival holiday.

That afternoon he stayed at home, sitting in front of his computer, refreshing his email box from time to time.

Ever since he mustered up the courage to send that email to Zhongyuan Yidianhui this morning, he has been refreshing his email page every once in a while.

Anxiously waiting for a possible reply.

He hopes Zhongyuan Yidianhui can respond.

This was the best way he could think of to start.

If they could get Zhongyuan Yidianhui to join the fantasy literature association or cultivation literature association that they were about to establish, their association would be able to quickly gain popularity in the circle and attract more authors.

He had wanted to write the book "Legend of Magic Knight Heroes" before, and he finally managed to write a few tens of thousands of words some time ago, and then tried to submit it to a publishing house in Taiwan.

Unexpectedly, it actually passed the review of a publishing house and was successfully published.

Let him earn royalties.

It's just that he found it a bit painful to write this book.

It’s always Calvin.

Typing every day is a torture for him.

I always feel that I am not very good at writing novels.

Then, another idea gradually grew in his mind - he wanted to find people to set up a literary association, and when there were enough authors gathered, he would try to create a novel website.

He felt that the technical requirements for opening a novel website were not high and the investment was not large, so it should be possible.

Recently he met several like-minded friends on the forum. He told them his ideas and they were all very interested.

As everyone was chatting, someone said with emotion: "It would be great if we could get Zhongyuan Yidianhui to join our association! With his reputation, it would be hard for our association not to succeed!"

These words made him feel moved.

In the past few days, I have become more and more unable to contain myself and want to contact Zhongyuan Yidianhui.

In terms of his status in the industry, he is not well-known now and is far from being comparable to Zhongyuan Yidianhui.

But he just wanted to try it.

Anyway, even if Zhongyuan Yidianhui rejected him, he wouldn't lose anything.

But what if Zhongyuan Yidianhui agrees? That would be a huge profit!

This morning he finally plucked up the courage and wrote an email to Cao Sheng.

After sending the email, he became more and more anxious and began to have wild thoughts.

Sometimes I wonder: Is the email address I inquired about really Zhongyuan Dianhui? Is it possible that I inquired wrongly?

Sometimes I wonder: Will Zhongyuan Yidianhui pay attention to me? I guess he won’t even read my emails.
Sometimes I wonder: When he reads this email, will he be amused by my boldness?
So, the time came to around 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

When he refreshed his email again, he suddenly saw Zhongyuan Yidianhui's reply.

At that moment, he subconsciously held his breath for a moment.

Then my heartbeat started to speed up.

I was so nervous that my palms started sweating.

When he opened the email with his right hand holding the mouse, he found that his hand was shaking.

He saw Zhongyuan Yidianhui's reply: "Thanks for the invitation! But I'm not interested in joining any association."

Seeing this, his heart instantly sank.

I thought to myself: As expected, Zhongyuan Yidianhui refused. How could a super popular writer like him agree to play with me?

But there is more to this email than just this one sentence.

"If you are interested in opening a novel website, I would be interested in investing in it. You can consider opening a novel website directly. If you really plan to open one, please give me a detailed plan and I will consider investing in it."

He was already feeling disappointed, but when he saw this, his eyes suddenly widened.

My breathing became much heavier.

The association is not interested, so if we want to do something, why not just build a novel website?

That's right! With Zhongyuan Yidianhui's current status, position, and financial resources, how could he be interested in joining an association that hasn't even been established? If he wants to play, it must be a novel website!
is my problem!
I am too timid!
What is the difference between inviting Zhongyuan Yidianhui to join a fantasy literature association that has not yet been established and inviting Bill Gates to join a certain rural mutual aid association?
It would be strange if others would look down upon it!
He became excited.

I quickly sent emails to several other friends who were planning to set up a fantasy literature association together, telling them about the email I had sent to Zhongyuan Yidianhui and Zhongyuan Yidianhui's reply.

Although these friends have not responded yet, he believes that when they learn that Zhongyuan Yidianhui is interested in investing in the novel website, they will definitely be interested in starting a novel website with him.

Who is Zhongyuan Yidianhui?

Maybe in other industries, some people don’t know this name.

But in the field of online literature, are there really still people who don’t know about Zhongyuan Yidianhui?

If Zhongyuan Yidianhui said he wanted to do other business, perhaps people would not have much confidence in him.

But if Zhongyuan Yidianhui says it wants to invest in a certain novel website, then everyone will definitely believe that the novel website will be popular. It is hard to say whether it can make a profit in the end, but it will definitely be easy to increase its popularity in the early stages.

If Zhongyuan Yidianhui serializes another work on this novel website, then the website won’t have to worry about the number of readers in the early stages.

……

at the same time.

Still a magical city.

In a room with thick curtains, the light from a computer screen was reflected on the greasy face of a man.

The man was wearing glasses with very thick lenses.

The ten fingers of both hands tapped quickly on the keyboard.

As his hands continued to tap on the keyboard, lines of code appeared on the computer screen in front of him. Judging from the speed at which he typed, he was definitely a master in this era.

He continued typing like this for more than ten minutes, and then he suddenly slowed down his typing speed.

With the last few keystrokes, the image on his computer screen changed.

It becomes the main interface after booting.

Only then did a relaxed smile appear on his face.

He twisted his stiff neck and relaxed his whole body.

After thinking for a while, he opened the browser and logged into his email.

When logging into his email, he entered his account name and password with one hand and used the other hand to pick up the teacup next to the computer.

When the teacup was brought to my lips, my email account had already been successfully logged in.

While taking a sip of tea, he controlled the mouse with his other hand and opened the email sent to him by Bao Jianfeng.

When he saw in the email that Zhongyuan Yidianhui suggested that they not set up an association but open a novel website, and that Zhongyuan Yidianhui was interested in investing in it.

The sip of tea he had just taken suddenly spat out.

It sprayed all over the computer screen.

He quickly reached out for paper and tried to wipe the water off the screen, but he started coughing.

I coughed for a long time before I finally stopped.

At this time, he finally wiped the water off the screen.

Looking at the content of the email again, he still couldn't believe it.

Zhongyuan Yidianhui suggested that we open a novel website? He also wants to invest?

He quickly put down his teacup, sat up straight, and started typing away on the keyboard again. This time he was sending an email asking whether this was true or false.

He suspected that Bao Jianfeng was playing a joke on him.

But I hope what the other person says is true.

if it is real……

When he thought of this possibility, his heart began to beat faster.

I couldn't help but let my imagination run wild.

Thinking about it, Li Bin has been wasting time since he graduated from university. He lost his job and his girlfriend ran away with someone else. Now he can only make ends meet by taking some small jobs online. Is his luck really going to change?
(End of this chapter)