Back to 1997, I became the originator of online literature

Chapter 277: Work Linkage, 60 in Exchange for "Honghuang Romance"

It's early December.

The new book "The Linglong Tower of Heaven and Earth" is now available in Taiwan.

The plot of the latest two episodes made many Taiwanese readers open their eyes wide.

These readers have read Cao Sheng's "God's Tomb" before, and the plot of the latest two episodes of "The Linglong Tower of Heaven and Earth" has come to the movie world of "The Legend of the Demon Lord in the Tomb of God".

When the words "God's Tomb" came into the eyes of these readers, many of them could not believe their eyes. Some blinked hard, some raised their hands to rub their eyes, and some shook their heads hard, wondering if they were in a trance and wanted to be more sober.

Why is there a "Tomb of God" in this book?

No one gave them an answer.

But the plot in the book is indeed related to "God's Tomb".

As the plot of the book unfolds, they gradually realize that the plot of this movie is an excerpt from the life experience of the demon lord Yang Mingxiu in "The Tomb of the Gods".

This is a complete surprise for readers who have read "God's Tomb".

Especially now that "God's Tomb" has been completed, for those readers who have not yet had enough of it, being able to see the plot related to "God's Tomb" in "The Linglong Tower of Heaven and Earth" is very familiar and emotional.

That morning, some readers came to Rongshuwei and posted in the book review section of "Shenmu".

For example: "The author understands us. He must know that we haven't seen enough, so he wrote a part of the "God's Tomb" plot in Linglong Tower. The author is thoughtful!"

"I was watching "God's Tomb" in Linglong Tower, and I felt mixed emotions. I didn't expect that Yang Mingxiu, the big devil, would one day be the protagonist. However, his movie world is really cool! This devil's life is simply so cool!"

"Those who want to watch "God's Tomb", hurry up and watch the latest content of "The Mysterious and Yellow Linglong Tower of Heaven and Earth"!"

……

These Taiwanese readers who post in traditional Chinese characters have confused many book fans in the mainland.

You should know that although "God's Tomb" has been completed and the finale has been published, the serialization progress online is slower than that of the publishing house and is still being serialized online.

At this time, these Taiwanese readers suddenly posted something like this, saying that "God's Tomb" had been completed, and that the plot of "God's Tomb" appeared in Linglong Tower.

It directly confused some readers who were not well-informed and did not know that "God's Tomb" had been completed.

But at the same time, it also surprised mainland readers who had read the finale of the physical book of "God's Tomb".

As for these readers who have clearly finished reading "God's Tomb", why are they still paying attention to the book review section of "God's Tomb"?
the reason is simple!
Some people are out of books to read, so they come back to read a book a second or third time.

Some people are simply used to posting and reading posts in the "Shenmu" book review section to kill time.

……

More Taiwanese readers came to the book review section of "The Linglong Tower of Heaven and Earth" to post and discuss the latest movie world - "Legend of the Demon Lord in the Tomb of the Gods".

It soon sparked heated discussion in the book review section.

That afternoon, when Cao Sheng was reading book reviews, he saw some such posts.

For example: "If "God's Tomb" can create a movie world in Linglong Tower, then can "I Want to Become a Fairy" or "Living with a Stewardess" also create a movie world?"

"It's so cool to take Yang Mingxiu's story out on its own. When I watched "God's Tomb" before, I always regarded him as the villain."

"God's Tomb" ended too early! I wish I could have watched it for a few more years!"

"I suddenly realized that the worlds of Ah Hui's three recent books are all connected. Some of the sects in I Want to Become an Immortal continued into God's Tomb, and some characters also appeared in God's Tomb in the form of legends. Now God's Tomb appears in Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Linglong Tower in the form of a copy. Is Ah Hui trying to connect all the books?"

……

In front of the computer.

Cao Sheng looked at these posts with a slight smile on his face.

Finally, a reader discovered his ambition.

It can be seen that he wants to link all the works.

At the same time, he felt a little regretful - the book "Honghuang Romance" could not be published under the pen name Zhongyuan Yidianhui. In a short period of time, no one would know that there was another such work in his universe.

He currently has more than 6 words of manuscripts for his new book, The Legend of Hong Huang.

In theory, it can be published to Qidian.

But he never published it.

Because he recently realized a new problem.

——If he uses a pseudonym to publish this new book, he can conceal his identity on the Internet, but what about when he publishes the physical book?

Should I use a pseudonym when talking to the publishing house?

Or does it mean that even the publishing house needs to be changed?
But even if he changes publishing houses, his true identity will still be exposed when signing the contract unless he does not use his ID card.

In the publishing industry, his name Cao Sheng is not much less well-known than the name "Zhongyuan Yidianhui".

So, he hesitated.

I have been considering whether to publish this new book under a pseudonym account recently?
While thinking about this issue, he also paid attention to the various lists on the Qidian homepage.

I want to see if there are any good quality works on these lists? Are there any great authors who are very impressive in my memory?
As a result, he actually saw a few of them.

Lao Zhu and Xuan Yu both came into his sight.

What surprised him was that Lao Zhu did not write "Zichuan" but wrote a book called "Jiu Zi", and Xuan Yu did not write "Legend of the Little Soldier" but wrote a book called "Starry Sky".

He also noticed the name "Xuehong".

When Cao Sheng saw the word "Xuehong", he was stunned.

Because he remembered that in the original time and space, "Xue Hong" should have entered the industry around 03. Now he entered the industry 3 years earlier?

Then, he thought that Xue Hong seemed to be the same age as him.

Even if you haven't graduated from college yet, you should be a senior now.

This period is the time to dare to try new things.

It is entirely possible to try to write a novel on a whim.

The work that Xue Hong is currently serializing on Qidian is called "I am a Gangster".

There is one less word than the book "I Am a Gangster" in the original time and space.

Cao Sheng clicked on it and read two chapters. He felt that the writing style was somewhat familiar, but it was very rough. The writing was very capricious and there was no structure, as if he just wrote whatever he thought of.

When Cao Sheng noticed this book, it was ranked fifth on the new book list of Qidian.

Judging from Xue Hong's writing style alone, Cao Sheng doesn't need to care about it at all.

But he had seen the horror of the blood-red blood in the original time and space.

In the original time and space, Xue Hong, as the first writer in the online literature circle to earn a million dollars a year, has never won by his writing skills, but by the speed of updating.

When most authors generally published one chapter a day, one chapter every few days, or even one chapter every half a month, Xue Hong started to publish chapters rapidly.

The update speed of tens of thousands of words every day has overwhelmed other authors.

Some authors who thought their writing skills were better than his, could not bear to see their works ranked below his on various lists, so they began to speed up their work.

There was another great player with abnormal hand speed - Yun Tiankong.

There is also the third young master.

These three people forced other authors to increase their writing speed.

Gradually, daily updates became the norm in the industry.

Authors who want to become gods set the standard of updating over 10,000 works a day for themselves.

After these three people became gods, subsequent great writers in the online literature circle were basically able to update more than 10,000 works per day for a long time.

There are very few exceptions.

Therefore, Cao Sheng did not relax because of Xue Hong's rough writing style.

He had a hunch that Xue Hong's early entry into the industry would greatly accelerate the development of online literature. This was the king of the king of volumes!
It is said that this guy's highest record is typing 9 words in one day.

With such hand speed, how could you not get rich?
Even if 10 words is 100 yuan, 900 words is yuan, and words is yuan.
In the early 2000s, with this kind of income, you would definitely become rich.

However, after seeing that Lao Zhu, Xuan Yu, Xue Hong and others had already settled on Qidian, Cao Sheng suddenly stopped being in a hurry to publish his works on Qidian.

Because he believes that with these authors, Qidian's popularity will gradually increase.

Unless the website editor does not arrange recommended positions for these authors.

But is this possible?
……

Time passes day by day.

The works of Lao Zhu and others are becoming more and more popular.

The number of Cao Sheng's manuscripts of "Honghuang Romance" increased day by day, but he still did not publish it.

In a blink of an eye, it is mid-August.

He received a call from Bao Jianfeng, who hesitantly made a proposal to him on the phone.

"Mr. Cao! Are you financially well off recently?"

Is this the rhythm of borrowing money?
When Cao Sheng heard this, he frowned. He didn't like borrowing money from others, nor did he like lending money to others.

Because before his rebirth, he had lent out several sums of money, and he had never recovered two of them.

One of those two people was his relative, and they had a good relationship.

Also because of their good relationship, when the other party asked him to borrow money, he did not refuse. He borrowed 10,000 the first time and 5,000 the second time.

But five or six years have passed, and the other party has not yet paid back the money as promised.

Another one is his old classmate, and they used to have a good relationship.

I only borrowed a few thousand from him each time.

Moreover, if you borrow, you will pay it back.

But he never paid back the full amount. For example, he would borrow 5,000 this month and pay back 2,000 next month, and say he would pay back the remaining 3,000 later. But after a few months, not only did he not pay back the 3,000, he also asked for money again.

So again and again.

The money was never fully repaid.

From then on, Cao Sheng was annoyed when people asked him to borrow money.

But Bao Jianfeng was not talking about borrowing money.

Cao Sheng: "You want to borrow money?"

Bao Jianfeng: "No! No! I don't want to borrow money, but I want to acquire a few small websites. I want to enrich our Qidian library in this way. If you have enough money, can you lend us some money? Or I can give you some shares as an additional investment, what do you think?"

Want to buy a small website?
Cao Sheng’s first thought was: Did the starting point of the original time and space acquire any small websites shortly after the website was established?
He couldn't remember.

I have no memory of this.

Because he didn't pay attention to it when the original time and space starting point was first established.

"How much do you want?"

Bao Jianfeng: "6."

There was a hint of caution in Bao Jianfeng's tone, as if he felt the number was a bit high and was worried that Cao Sheng would refuse it outright.

And 60 is indeed not a small number in this era.

Cao Sheng laughed.

When Cao Sheng first heard about the acquisition of several websites, he thought Bao Jianfeng was going to borrow several million.

The result was 60.

Cao Sheng suddenly said jokingly: "If I lend you this 60 yuan, I don't need to serialize my works on Qidian.com, right?"

Bao Jianfeng: "..."

After a moment of hesitation, Bao Jianfeng thought that such a long time had passed. Although Cao Sheng verbally agreed to consider publishing his works on Qidian, he had not published anything yet, so it was obviously not a promising prospect.

So, he gritted his teeth and said, "Sure! As long as you are willing to lend me the 60, I promise not to urge you to come to Qidian to serialize new books, I promise!"

What he didn't know was that when he said this, Cao Sheng suddenly felt relieved.

Cao Sheng has been hesitating recently whether to publish "Honghuang Yanyi" on Qidian using a pseudonym?

Deep down, he felt that he had a lot of shares in Qidian, and as one of the shareholders, he should support the development of Qidian.

However, the work "Honghuang Romance" can be linked with "I Want to Become an Immortal", "God's Tomb" and "The Linglong Tower of Heaven and Earth".

It is one of the works in the universe of his desired work.

Before, on a whim, he wanted to publish this work under a pseudonym.

I have calmed down recently, but I am becoming more and more reluctant to let go.

Bao Jianfeng's assurance finally made him stop worrying.

I thought to myself: I’d better publish this book under the pen name “A Little Gray in the Central Plains”.

Anyway, it seems that now that Qidian already has authors like Lao Zhu, Xuan Yu, and Xue Hong, its popularity should be able to increase little by little.

If it really doesn't work, think of another work and publish it on Qidian using a pseudonym.

Thinking of this, he readily agreed, "Okay! 60, right? I'll lend it to you. Prepare a loan agreement and send it to my assistant. Once the agreement is signed, the money will be deposited into your company's account."

Bao Jianfeng was very surprised, "Really? OK! OK! Thank you! Thank you!"

Then, he emphasized, "But, Mr. Cao! This money is not lent to me personally! It is lent to our company! Company!"

Cao Sheng smiled, "Yeah! Okay! I understand."

……

He then told this matter to his assistant Wang Jing and asked her to contact Bao Jianfeng.

60 is nothing to Cao Sheng now.

I earned more than 20 million in the first half of this year, and after paying taxes, I still have almost 20 million left.

He has so much money and he hasn't found time to spend it yet!

Thinking of the money, he wanted to buy a house.

He had previously bought courtyard houses, shops and office buildings in Beijing and Shanghai, and this time he wanted to buy a house in Shenzhen in the south.

I wonder if 20 million yuan can buy a building in Pengcheng now?

He estimated it to be about the same.

……

Magic City.

Bao Jianfeng, who had no idea what he had missed, urged the copyright lawyer to quickly draft a loan agreement after receiving an affirmative response from Cao Sheng.

There seemed to be a fire burning in his heart.

I thought that after using this money to acquire a few small websites, Qidian's library would be much richer and would soon reach a new level.

No longer a small shrimp in the industry.

He felt aggrieved when thinking about the fact that every time he approached those websites to negotiate exchanging friendly links as the head of the company in recent times, he was repeatedly rejected.

After all, those websites think that Qidian.com is not qualified to discuss friendly cooperation with them at present.

Once Qidian's library is enriched, this situation should change, right?
Bao Jianfeng doesn't want to spend money to buy other people's friendly links anymore. He would rather use the money to buy other people's library.

(End of this chapter)