Huayu: Were you ever a top star before writing nonsense?

[Dian Niang Ba].

A forum primarily discussing the website "Dian Niang" (a popular online novel platform), it is one of the most important platforms for communication between online novel authors and readers, and also one of the most influential communities in the online novel circle.

Currently, there are over 8 followers.

At this moment, all netizens on Tieba were in an uproar; the entire Tieba exploded.

The discussion thread at the top of the forum.

"Holy crap, Tomato posted a separate chapter! He's actually a fan of Shen Can?"

"Yue Guan also posted a separate chapter!"

"Tang San, Dancing, Chen Dong, Fried Buns, Dream Enters Divine Machine... My God, so many top authors are recommending Shen Can's books?"

"Is Shen Can a succubus? Does he have that much charm? Or did he bribe all the top guys with money?"

"Not only top-tier authors, but I also glanced at some of Shen Can's novels, and many lesser-known authors were recommending his work!"

"Shen Can is so popular! I suddenly remembered a line from 'Bright Sword': 'My 358th Regiment will definitely lend a hand!' Are all the authors on the platform supporting Shen Can? That's insane!"

"I'm a long-time reader of Qidian.com, and this is the first time I've seen something like this!"

"Wow, that's awesome!"

……

Shanghai, standing by the window.

Shen Can held his phone and received an international call.

"Alright, since you're interested, we can discuss it in more detail after you return to your country."

On the other end of the phone was Mu Xiaoguang.

He first called Blue Phoenix Company, and then contacted Shen Can.

Mu Xiaoguang meant that Fan Xiaopang was somewhat interested in Shen Can's marketing plan, but because he was filming "Shinjuku Incident" at the moment, he couldn't spare the time... and wanted to wait until he returned to China to discuss it further.

Shen Can agreed, since exposing Fan Xiaopang's future marketing strategy would not benefit him at all, at most it would just be a bit of fun.

Mu Xiaoguang said on the phone:

"Thank you. I will contact you after I return to China."

The two then hung up the phone.

Shen Can stood by the window, gazing at the night view of Shanghai, and thought to himself:

"We'll try to recoup the marketing costs of getting the novel published by getting it back from Fan Xiaopang by doubling it."

If the cost of materials for 5000 albums is 20 yuan per album, it would cost approximately 100,000 yuan.

And the marketing plan I sell for will definitely be more expensive than this amount of money.

Fan Xiaopang is rich, so there's no need to feel sorry for her.

Of course, Shen Can wouldn't care too much if he and Fan Xiaopang ultimately failed to reach this special deal.

He's willing to spend 100,000 yuan.

Those who aspire to great things must not be stingy.

As for why such a large cost is incurred to get the novel published.

The reason is simple: Shen Can desperately needs popularity points.

Previously, in "The Artist," he set up ten rewards for the protagonist, including songs, scripts, talents, fighting abilities, and so on.

The protagonist is very fortunate, as they can directly obtain items by opening treasure chests. However, if they want to redeem items from the system, they need to consider more factors and use popularity points to redeem them.

According to the exchange prices displayed on the system panel after setting the novel chapters to a timer, the cheapest option is songs, which require 10,000 popularity points per song, while the exchange price for talent abilities ranges from 50,000 to 800,000.

Among them, the [Mind Reading] skill has the highest exchange price, requiring 80 popularity points!

Fortunately, Shen Can had been working hard to gain popularity points, so he was able to immediately exchange for "Big Fish", "City of Horse Herding", "Chang'an 30,000 Miles", [Absolute Pitch], [Emotional Resonance], [Stage Magnetism], Tyson's fighting ability and top-level hacking ability as soon as the exchange prices were released.

However, after redeeming these rewards, there were not many popularity points left in the system, only 28.2.

Shen Can wanted to redeem the [Mind Reading] ability as soon as possible, so he had to come up with some ruthless measures.

If a cost of 100,000 yuan can lead to a surge in popularity points, it's definitely a worthwhile deal.

"Knock knock knock".

A knock sounded on the door, followed by Zhao Ji's gentle voice.

Are you busy?

"They're here."

Shen Can went over and opened the door.

Zhao Ji and Jin Ming appeared before Shen Can.

To be honest, every time Shen Can sees them, she always feels like she's living in the sitcom "iPartment".

This feeling is very strong.

"What's wrong?" Shen Can asked.

Jin Ming glanced at Zhao Ji and gave her a look that seemed to say, "You tell me."

Zhao Ji's beautiful eyes blinked.

"We wanted to ask you about the ending of your book launch speech... We're sorry, but we just couldn't help it."

Shen Can understands the feeling of being hooked by fragmented narratives and driven to ecstasy.

The story of "Starting from the Guhuoniao" was still unfinished before his rebirth.

Pity.

"It's alright." Shen Can waved his hand. He knew Zhao Ji was still his top richest woman, so this small request was easily granted.

"As for the ending, the wife is the adopted daughter of the old father-in-law. Her biological father sacrificed his life during the 98 flood relief efforts, and her biological mother died of illness due to excessive grief shortly afterward. So, when she was two years old, the old father-in-law adopted her. She has no blood relation with the protagonist of the story."

Orthopedics and related topics definitely cannot be written about.

In fact, the story in the launch message was adapted from a segment of the 2019 movie "The Storm Riders 3". Later, some film and television bloggers cut out the segment and made it into a video clip, and the line "Hou Guifen, you are a ruthless person" went viral on the Internet.

Shen Can was deeply impressed by this plot and thought of it when he was writing a very elaborate post for the book's release.

"So it was a happy ending."

"Pretty good."

Zhao Ji and Li Jinming smiled beautifully.

Shen Can smiled and walked towards the living room, with Zhao Ji and Jin Ming following behind.

Jin Ming bit her red lips and asked cautiously:

"Junior, with your amazing screenwriting skills, have you ever thought about becoming a screenwriter yourself?"

"Of course I've thought about it. Love O2O could be adapted into a TV series."

"But you haven't written it yet."

"I'm very busy and don't have time right now."

Shen Can paused, sat down on the sofa, and looked at Li Jinming with a half-smile, his eyes full of amusement.

He suddenly understood why Jin Ming had asked the question earlier.

Speaking of which, this girl did have a rather tragic past life.

If Wan Qian is a late bloomer, then this girl is a case of "ups and downs, downs and downs..."

After graduating from university, she was unemployed and could only take on minor roles, earning only about 1000 yuan a month. How could that be enough to live on in Shanghai? She couldn't bear to turn on the lights, ate poorly, and couldn't afford to pay rent and electricity bills. I heard that she lived like this for a long time.

Actually, Li Jinming's family was not bad off, but perhaps she "only reported good news and not bad news", or perhaps her parents thought she could support herself immediately after graduation... In any case, she had a very miserable time, and no one knows how she got through it.

Later, when the "iPartment" production team was preparing, a teacher from the Shanghai Theatre Academy recommended her to the team.

Thus, the classic character "Chen Meijia" came into being.

However, Meijia was both her strength and her weakness. After leaving "iPartment," she tried to get rid of the "Chen Meijia" label, but she failed.