Back to 1997, I became the originator of online literature

Chapter 27 Admits Having a Girlfriend

Cao Sheng's lips curled up when he heard this, and his curiosity was also aroused by Tan Lei's words, "What are you embarrassed to talk about? Tell me! What happened next?"

Tan Lei smiled self-deprecatingly, "After I got better, I wanted to go jogging with you in the morning, but I always felt embarrassed and ashamed to meet you again."

Cao Sheng: “Why?”

Tan Lei smiled bitterly, "What do you think? On the first day I came to run with you in the morning, I said I would come to run with you every day in the future, but I didn't come the next day. Just thinking about it makes me feel embarrassed! How can I have the nerve to come to see you?"

Cao Sheng smiled.

"Then why did you have the nerve to come here today?"

Tan Lei: “…”

After a moment of silence, she said, "Because I finally mustered up the courage today! After all, we are old classmates, and it is inevitable that we will meet in school in the future. When I go home, I want to take a ride with you! If I don't come to see you, wouldn't it be more embarrassing if I suddenly meet you in school in the future?"

Cao Sheng smiled.

After running silently for a while, he suddenly asked, "Will you come tomorrow?"

Tan Lei smiled bitterly: "Why are you asking me this question again? I dare not boast again this time. What if I say I will come tomorrow and then I don't come tomorrow, then I will be so embarrassed!"

Cao Sheng was amused.

After that, both of them tacitly stopped talking. After all, chatting while running was very tiring.

The addition of Tan Lei slowed down Cao Sheng's running speed. She couldn't run fast, so he could only slow down and take care of her a little.

The result was that after running the 1,000-meter race today, he felt much more relaxed than usual, he didn't sweat much, and his breathing was smoother.

Tan Lei was in the same condition as last time, breathing rapidly, sweating profusely, and looking pale.

Seeing this, Cao Sheng asked her to sit by the playground for a while, just like last time, while he went to a nearby store and bought two bottles of water.

He handed her a bottle and sat down next to her.

At this time, there were obviously more people exercising in the playground in the morning than before, and the sky was also much brighter.

"Are you tired?"

After taking a sip of water, Cao Sheng asked her with a smile.

Tan Lei's breathing had evened out by now, but her face was still a little pale. She glanced at him, nodded, and said with a smile, "Yes! I didn't have the habit of jogging in the morning before, and it's really tiring to suddenly start running. I really admire you for being able to stick to it for so many days."

Cao Sheng smiled.

Tan Lei turned to look at him and said with emotion: "You are so handsome, why do you still insist on working out? If you don't work out, you should be able to find a girlfriend easily, right? Who do you want to charm?"

Cao Sheng laughed, "Who do you think I'm trying to charm by working out?"

A smile appeared in Tan Lei's eyes, "Isn't it?"

Cao Sheng: “Of course not!”

Tan Lei was silent for a few seconds, then smiled slightly and asked, "Hey! Old classmate, we have been in this school for almost a year, and you are so handsome, you should have a girlfriend, right?"

Ask me this?

Cao Sheng looked at her, wondering if she wanted to pursue him?

It is also possible that as an old classmate, she asked this question out of curiosity.

But he doesn't want to fall in love recently, he just wants to concentrate all his attention on writing and making money.

So, in a flash, he smiled, nodded, and said "hmm".

Regardless of whether she wanted to pursue him or not, she would not confess her feelings to him as long as he admitted that he already had a girlfriend.

As long as she didn't confess, things between them wouldn't become awkward.

The smile on Tan Lei's face seemed to freeze for a moment, then she smiled and said, "Not bad! Congratulations! By the way, is that pretty girl pretty? What's her major? Is she a freshman? When can you bring her out so I can meet her?"

Cao Sheng: "Thank you. I'll introduce her to you if I have the chance."

Tan Lei: "Okay! That's settled then! I'm very curious."

……

After that, the two chatted for a while, and then she got up and said goodbye and left.

Cao Sheng also got up and went back to the dormitory.

On the way, he decided that no matter who asked him if he had a girlfriend, he would admit that he already had one. There was no other purpose, just to avoid falling into the whirlpool of emotions, wasting his time and distracting his energy.

He remembered that there was a saying circulating among the great writers in the online literature circle: You can't survive without being crazy.

It seems that all the great people who have reached the pinnacle of their careers have had a long period of time in which they were able to concentrate on writing.

During this period, the stories they wrote occupied their entire minds, as if they were crazy.

Under this condition, the quality of their works became better and better, and gradually, their works became masterpieces in the eyes of many readers.

Therefore, good works require full concentration.

No one can succeed easily.

This sentence is very obvious in the field of online literature.

Authors whose minds are not pure enough and whose energy is not focused enough can only achieve mediocre results even if they write every day. Year after year, they will not be able to stand out from the countless authors.

In the original time and space, after Cao Sheng became a full-time writer, he had been tepid for many years. He was not starving, but he also did not make any money.

Until he proposed to his girlfriend, she took off his pants and smiled and said to him: "Don't propose to me, I don't want you to be responsible, and you don't have to consider me as your marriage partner. When I find the right one, I will get married, and I hope you will do the same."

Not long after, she took the initiative to break up with him.

He was stimulated by this incident, and he wrote a book carefully afterwards. After it was put on the shelves, he updated tens of thousands of words every day for several months.

During that time, the only things on his mind were the characters and plots in the book.

The performance of the book did not disappoint him.

For the first time, he experienced the feeling of earning over ten thousand yuan a month.

After reading that book, his income was no longer as low as before, and he gradually saved money to buy a house and a car.

It was precisely because he had made money by writing novels before his rebirth and really improved his life, so after his rebirth, the first way he thought of to make money was to write novels.

He also always felt that with his abilities, he should be able to make a lot of money if he started writing novels in 1997. At that time, he had never thought about how to improve his writing skills.

I just want to take a shortcut - every time I open a new book, I bring up a completely new topic.

But lately, he's had bigger ambitions.

He hopes that the quality of his works will get better and better, so that the name "Zhongyuan Yidianhui" will be remembered by more people.

Therefore, he wanted to seize the time and work hard to improve his writing skills while there are not many people writing online articles, and try his best to increase his first-mover advantage.

During this period, he didn't want to fall in love.

He wanted to wait for the great players in his memory to enter the industry and then compete with them.

……

He thought so and did it.

Throughout the entire month of May, the only things on his mind were the characters and plot of the book "I Want to Become an Immortal".

I only go back to the dormitory after meals and when I go to bed.

The rest of the time, he is either in class or typing in the adult education building. Every Friday and Saturday night, he would stay overnight in the Internet cafe to upload his manuscripts.

By the way, after he admitted that he had a girlfriend that day, Tan Lei never came to the playground to jog with him in the morning again.

In mid-May, he accidentally saw the title of the book "First Intimate Contact" in his book review section.

After searching on the Internet, he was surprised to find that Piaozi Cai's "First Intimate Contact" had already been published online, and the time of publication was not much later than his "Living with the Air Hostess".

His "Living with a Flight Attendant" was published in February this year.

"First Intimate Contact" was published in March this year.

The two books were published within a month of each other.

Before, he always thought that his book was published much earlier than "First Contact", but he didn't expect that the two books were published so close to each other.

It was not until recently that both of their books became increasingly popular online and someone mentioned "First Contact" in his book review section that he belatedly realized this reality.

He was not sure whether the original book "First Close Contact" was also published in March 98.

But at this moment, their two books were published so close to each other that Cao Sheng was a little worried: If the popularity of "First Intimate Contact" is higher than that of my "Living with the Air Hostess", will the public in this moment still think that "First Intimate Contact" is the first online novel?
(End of this chapter)