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Chapter 526 A Way to Get Tickets That Makes Your Legs Break
The news quickly reached the ears of Bao Jianfeng, the person in charge at Qidian.

The secretary reported this matter to Bao Jianfeng.

Upon hearing this, Bao Jianfeng looked surprised. A large number of works on Qidian had lost monthly votes? This was no small matter! If it was true, Qidian would have to deal with it as soon as possible.

After a moment's hesitation, he said to his secretary, "Go and call Li Bin to come here. Go quickly!"

"Ok!"

A moment later, Li Bin, who was in charge of technology at Qidian, arrived at Baojianfeng's office.

"Mr. Bao, you wanted to see me?"

"Mr. Li, please have a seat!"

Bao Jianfeng gestured for Li Bin to sit down first, then gestured to his secretary to make a cup of tea.

"Mr. Bao, what are your orders?"

After Li Bin sat down, he asked jokingly.

Bao Jianfeng frowned, his tone serious, "President Li, I've heard that many works on our website have recently lost their monthly votes. Are you aware of this?"

Li Bin nodded. "I've heard about it."

Bao Jianfeng leaned forward. "Is it really true?"

Li Bin frowned and shook his head. "I have just led all my colleagues in the technical department to carefully check the data on our website over the past two days. So far, we haven't found any anomalies. The technical department is still investigating."

Baojianfeng: "..."

Li Bin looked at Bao Jianfeng with a serious expression. After thinking for a moment, he said, "President Bao, I heard that President Cao was the first to say that the monthly tickets were lost. Why don't you call him and ask if he really lost the monthly tickets?"

Bao Jianfeng raised an eyebrow. "President Cao? A speck of dust in the Central Plains?"

Li Bin nodded.

Bao Jianfeng's eyes darted around, and after a moment's hesitation, he picked up his phone and dialed Cao Sheng's number.

But no one answered the phone.

Putting down his phone, Bao Jianfeng smiled wryly. "President Cao should be typing right now. I'll ask him later. Your technical department should continue checking the database. I'll let you know as soon as President Cao has any news."

Li Bin nodded and stood up. "Okay, I'll get back to work then?"

Baojianfeng nodded.

After Li Bin left, Baojianfeng's secretary came over with the brewed tea.

……

It’s noon this day.

Huizhou.

After finishing writing the second chapter of the morning, Cao Sheng took his phone downstairs for lunch.

While eating, I checked the missed calls and unread text messages from this morning.

He saw Baojianfeng's call log and the message he received: "Mr. Cao, I heard your work lost over a thousand monthly votes? Is that true?"

This information startled Cao Sheng for a moment, and then he couldn't help but chuckle.

He never expected that the joke he made in the monthly ticket chapter would attract Baojianfeng's inquiry.

At this time, he was unaware that after he posted that chapter, it had inspired hundreds of other authors to follow suit, with everyone posting their own chapters saying how many monthly votes their works had lost.

He thought he was the only one who made this joke!

Completely unaware that their joke had gone a bit too far.

Without thinking much of it, he casually replied, "No! It was just a little joke to ask for monthly votes."

Magic City.

Bao Jianfeng, who was eating a boxed lunch in his office, received Cao Sheng's reply and couldn't help but chuckle, feeling somewhat speechless.

At the same time, we gained a deeper understanding of Cao Sheng's influence.

It's unexpected that Cao Sheng's casual joke would have such a big impact.

As far as he knew, this morning, not only were there more works on Qidian making such jokes, saying that the works had lost monthly votes, but this trend... also spread to other websites in the industry.

For example, websites such as Rongshuxia, Moukong, and Huanjian.

This morning, some authors on these websites also posted individual chapters saying how many monthly tickets they had lost in the past two days, asking readers to return the monthly tickets they found.

"Oh, I see. Then it's alright, thanks for letting me know."

After replying to Cao Sheng, Bao Jianfeng didn't forget to send a message to Li Bin in the technical department: "President Li, President Cao said he didn't lose any monthly tickets; he was just joking."

In the starting computer room.

After spending most of the morning checking Li Bin's information with a few colleagues, we received a reply from Bao Jianfeng, leaving us speechless.

……

After that day, the ranking campaign of "Mad God" did not stop.

The Third Young Master is still updating a large number of chapters every day.

The daily update volume of "Mad God" leaves many writers speechless.

On average, I update more than 20,000 words every day.

This update volume is roughly equivalent to the amount of words some writers produce in a week.

"The Mad God" was able to release a large number of new chapters from the beginning of the month to the middle of the month, and it is still continuing.

The resistance to "The Legend of the Little Soldier" continues.

While "Legend of the Little Soldier" doesn't update as frequently as "Mad God," it still manages to produce over 10,000 words per day. Thanks to its novel subject matter and amazing creativity, "Legend of the Little Soldier's" monthly ticket growth rate hasn't been surpassed by "Mad God."

The battle for monthly tickets between these two books has attracted the attention of countless authors and readers in the industry.

Many people are curious whether the rapid update method of "Mad God" can defeat "Legend of the Little Soldier".
Some people are also curious whether "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts," which is currently ranked number one on the monthly ticket chart, will join this monthly ticket battle. If Zhongyuan Yidianhui also joins this monthly ticket battle, can "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts" still maintain its rapid update schedule while Zhongyuan Yidianhui is simultaneously serializing two books?
result?

More than a week has passed, and Cao Sheng has shown everyone what "elegance" truly means.

Whenever the total number of monthly votes for "Legend of the Little Soldier" and "Mad God" is less than two thousand votes behind "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts", "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts" will post a short request for votes.

Over a period of more than a week.

The novel "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts" published two chapters requesting votes.

The title of the first chapter requesting votes is: "Stop! Robbery! Hand over your monthly votes!"

The content of this chapter is: "This road is mine, this tree is mine, if you want to pass, leave your toll!"

Stop right there! Hand over your monthly pass!
I promise I won't assault you or sexually assault you! Please cooperate!

After this chapter was published, the book review section of "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts" was filled with joy.

The various humorous book reviews have amused countless people.

For example: "Damn it! I was sitting at home surfing the internet, not even leaving the house, and I still got robbed! You little speck of dust in the Central Plains! I'll remember you! Here's your monthly pass! Get out of my way!"

"Just a quick question, I don't have any monthly passes, Ah Hui, could you rob me of my virtue?"

"It seems that writing online novels is a dead end! Even a top author like Zhongyuan Yidianhui has to resort to robbery to make a living. It's too tragic!"

"Ah Hui! You're going to ruin the atmosphere of Qidian sooner or later! Last time you said you lost monthly votes, at least a thousand books on Qidian said they lost monthly votes, and now you're saying you're going to rob people, sigh!"

"What kind of world is this? You can even get robbed online! It's outrageous!"

This single chapter has garnered over 1600 monthly votes for "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts".

……

The title of the second chapter requesting votes is: "Behold my monthly vote summoning magic!!"

The message reads: "After 18 years of secluded training, I have finally mastered the Monthly Ticket Summoning Technique! Heaven and Earth are boundless, the universe is at your command! All monthly tickets are mine!"
Everyone! My monthly pass summoning spell has been cast. How effective it is depends on whether you all give it your time. Thank you!

As soon as this chapter was published, the book review section of "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts" was once again filled with joy.

For example: "Monthly ticket summoning spell? Is this the legendary forbidden spell? I'm so scared, it's terrifying! My monthly tickets are flying uncontrollably towards the book 'The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts'."

"Am I reading a fantasy novel? They're even using a monthly pass summoning spell?"

"I thought Ah Hui was a very serious author, but I didn't expect him to have such a funny side. You really went to great lengths to get monthly tickets! I'll give you mine, okay?"

"Others ask for monthly tickets and update their chapters like crazy, but you, Ah Hui, ask for monthly tickets and then release a whole new chapter asking for tickets? You're amazing!"

"I suddenly feel so sorry for Third Young Master and Xuan Yu. They've been working their butt off by updating like crazy lately to get monthly votes, but Ah Hui is using a separate chapter to ask for votes. How shameless! But I like it, so here's your monthly vote!"

"First time: lost monthly tickets; second time: robbed monthly tickets; third time: monthly ticket summoning spell, Ah Hui, what excuse are you planning to use next time?"

……

The vote-seeking effort was quite effective this time. In just one day, "The Legend of Chinese Martial Arts" gained more than 1400 monthly votes, further widening the gap with "The Legend of the Little Soldier" and "The Mad God".

In fact, every time "The Legend of Chinese Martial Arts" releases a chapter asking for votes, "The Legend of the Little Soldier" and "The Mad God" also release chapters asking for votes.

But the effect was far less than the vote-seeking chapter of "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts".

This made the Third Young Master and Xuan Yu extremely depressed.

Actually, if they could get enough monthly votes just by asking for votes in a single chapter, they wouldn't want to update so frequently.

But what can you do when their individual requests for votes weren't as effective?
The two of them, who have been updating their content daily lately, are unaware that the plot of "The Legend of Chinese Martial Arts" has recently reached another climax.

Cao Sheng's previously written "Heaven-Turning Seal" plot has finally been released recently. The protagonist, Wang Chao, who has mastered the Heaven-Turning Seal, is almost invincible.

Specially designed to cure dissatisfaction!

No matter how powerful a master is, when faced with the Heaven-Turning Seal, their head will be smashed into their chest cavity.

Extremely brutal.

Yet it was extremely enjoyable for readers.

The original version of "The Legend of the Dragon and the Snake" by Shenji was published on Qidian's urban fiction category.

Back then, the top ten on Qidian's monthly ticket ranking were almost entirely dominated by fantasy and Xianxia works, which were recognized as works that gained momentum in the mid-to-late stages.

Its popularity during the new book season may be overshadowed by works in the urban fiction category.

However, in the later stages of a work, popular works in the fantasy and xianxia (fantasy/martial arts) categories can generally suppress popular works in the urban category.

Because urban fiction works need to be realistic, the plot cannot be too exaggerated, so the sense of excitement is naturally not as great as fantasy or xianxia (martial arts) works.

Because urban fiction has the most restrictions—this can't be written, that can't be written—it also limits the creativity of urban fiction authors.

In the mid-to-late stages of fantasy and xianxia novels, the grand background of the story is basically laid out, the cultivation system and various main characters are successfully developed, and the attraction to readers becomes stronger and stronger.

However, Shenji's "The Legend of the Dragon and the Snake" broke the dominance of fantasy and xianxia works over urban works on the Qidian monthly ticket rankings during that period.

What is the reason?

One of the most important reasons is the book's cultivation system, which is close to reality yet far surpasses it, and its action plot, which is comparable to fantasy and martial arts works.

Cao Sheng's "The Romance of Martial Arts" was an imitation of "The Romance of Dragon and Snake".

The thrill of the storyline intensifies as the game progresses.

That's why the vote-seeking chapters for his book were so effective.

(End of this chapter)