Back to 1997, I became the originator of online literature

Chapter 3: Living with the Stewardess

That night, shortly after dinner, Cao Sheng went into his bedroom.

When I entered the bedroom, I was holding a glass of boiled water and a handful of peanut candies.

The peanut candy was made by his father today.

He closed the door and sat down at the desk.

He took out a book of unfinished draft paper from his high school days from his desk and found a half-empty pencil. While sharpening the pencil with a pencil sharpener, he was thinking about how to write the beginning of his new book.

During the day today, he has already thought about what to write for the new book.

Before traveling through time, he had been a full-time writer for many years, so starting a new book was not difficult for him.

The difficulty is to write a work that can become popular.

Like making money, is it difficult for adults?
Of course it’s not difficult!

You can make money by picking up some junk on the roadside and selling it.

The hard part is earning a lot.

The same is true for writing novels. For someone like him who has written many novels, starting a new book is not difficult at all.

The hard part is always getting results.

Now it is the end of 1997, and perhaps no one has ever written online novels on the Internet. In this era, what kind of novel would become popular?
Some people may think that any novel written in this era will be a hit.

At the beginning, Cao Sheng thought so too.

But when I think about it carefully today, I feel that it may not be that simple.

Why doesn't anyone write novels on the Internet these days?

He suspected that before the original book "First Close Contact" became popular, some novels may have appeared on the Internet.

Maybe those novels didn’t become popular until “First Intimate Contact” became popular, and then most people who like to surf the Internet noticed online novels, and then many people thought that “First Intimate Contact” was the first online novel.

He wasn't sure if that was the truth.

But he thought it was very likely.

Why is "First Contact" so popular?
He thinks there may be two reasons.

First, this book should have been published on a website where many young netizens gather, so that there is a large enough potential readership, so that it can become popular.

Secondly, it should be related to the title of the book and the overall quality of the book.

The title of the book looks a bit yellow.

Young people are generally interested in this kind of things. If the title of this book was not so ambiguous and had a "pornographic" vibe, it would probably be difficult for it to become popular in a short period of time.

Despite the title, the content of this book is very serious. It tells a pure love story, which allows readers who are attracted by the title to be moved by the story in the book.

Moreover, because the content of the book is not pornographic, people who have read it can recommend it to their friends, even relatives and elders without any psychological burden.

In this age when the Internet is not well developed, a work that cannot be passed on by word of mouth is unlikely to become truly popular.

It’s quite a coincidence that “First Contact” can be passed on by word of mouth.

Therefore, there must be a reason why this book became popular.

If you think about it carefully, in this day and age, not every story can become popular on the Internet.

Cao Sheng summarized several factors:
First of all, the title of the book should be ambiguous so as to attract the attention of young people; secondly, the content of the book cannot be really pornographic, but should be about pure love, so that readers will not feel embarrassed to recommend the book to others after reading it even if they like it very much; thirdly, the quality of the story should be solid, with enough highlights to impress the majority of literary youths of this era.

Hipster...

Literary youth seem to be mainly the product of this era.

As for literary youths, they have certain requirements for the text quality of their works. They cannot be too plain, and they cannot be like some online articles in the original time and space, with many typos in every chapter. This will make literary youths look down on them.

After summarizing several factors, Cao Sheng felt that these requirements were still quite difficult for him.

Because of the original time and space, he started writing online articles in 06.

At that time, the popular writing style was to have many beauties in the book and many borderline plots. Some authors simply wrote pornographic stories, and readers generally liked this kind of flirty writing style. For many years afterwards, he could not get rid of this influence when writing. There were always many beauties in his books, and he always wanted to write something that would make people's blood boil.

Therefore, let him write in a sexy direction, he is good at it.

Asking him to write in the direction of pure love is actually a big challenge for him.

This is like asking an old driver who often goes to hair salons and nightclubs to have a spiritual love affair with someone. It is completely unrelated to his profession.

The old driver is good at understanding people's clothes and taking off his pants as soon as he meets them.

You ask him to have a platonic spiritual love. Isn't that asking too much?

But Cao Sheng still wanted to give it a try.

The title of "the founder of online literature" is really too tempting for him.

Fortunately, he had read a lot in the past, and during the day today, he remembered another pure love novel he had read before - "Living with the Flight Attendant".

As far as he remembers, this novel was once very popular on the domestic Internet and was later adapted into a TV series, which seemed to have quite good ratings.

It is hailed as the most popular pure love work after "First Contact".

Comparing the title, style and quality, this book is exactly the same as "First Contact" and it is difficult to tell which one is better.

For example: In terms of the titles, the titles of these two books both have a "yellow" vibe.

For example: In terms of style, the content of the book is very serious and not pornographic at all.

In terms of the quality of the books, both of these books have attracted many literary young people and they cannot put them down.

and so……

Although Cao Sheng had never lived with a flight attendant, he still decided to write a book called "Living with a Flight Attendant".

Who says you can’t write a book like this if you haven’t lived with a flight attendant?

Could it be that those who wrote "Swallowing the Sky", "Tearing the Sky", "Flying the Sky" and "Covering the Sky" really did such things to the sky?
Compared to those authors who are unable to get along with the world, Cao Sheng is already petty just by writing a book about living with a flight attendant.

……

However, he had almost forgotten the specific content of the book "Living with the Air Hostess".

I only vaguely remember that the male protagonist of this book seemed a bit ruffian, a bit lazy, and like a otaku, and the female protagonist of this book seemed to be named Ran Jing.

The story of a geek and a flight attendant living together?

After sharpening his pencil, Cao Sheng thought for a while and then began to write, building the outline of the book.

First of all, it is the process of the two people getting to know each other.

Logically speaking, the flight attendant and the otaku have little intersection in life, so how did they know each other? We have to make a reasonable arrangement.

Cao Sheng thought for a while, and suddenly remembered that in the original book, the two seemed to have met in a bar? When they met, Ran Jing seemed to be in a state of heartbreak?
This made him frown a little.

Because he was used to writing cool stories, he really couldn't accept that the heroine in his novel was dumped by another man as soon as she appeared on the screen.

He believed that his previous readers would also find it difficult to accept such a heroine.

What is a cool article like?
Not only does the heroine have to be original, but it also cannot be written that she has loved other men.

Therefore, readers who like to read cool novels generally hate literary and artistic plots.

The heroine's imperfections, her having loved others, and having been deeply hurt by other men seem to be what literary authors like to write about the most, and what literary readers like to read about the most.

If you want to live a decent life, you must have some green on your head?
He found it difficult to write in this style.

He would rather have the heroine's ex-boyfriend die than break up with her.

Just like the Korean movie "My Sassy Girl" in his memory, he vaguely remembered that the heroine of that movie seemed to be her ex-boyfriend who had died when she first appeared.

So, he wrote down the setting of the heroine on the manuscript paper: Ran Jing’s ex-boyfriend died in a car accident.

(End of this chapter)