Rebirth, Starting from 2005

Chen Li worked very hard during this time. Every morning after get off work, he would go to the Internet cafe and press the crackling code words on the keyboard.

From three o'clock in the afternoon to ten o'clock in the evening, I went back to the dormitory to sleep.

He didn't even go back to the cafeteria for dinner, Yan Xin went to the cafeteria to bring it to him, and ate it in front of the computer.

I stay in the Internet cafe for more than six hours a day, coding, revising, publishing, browsing comments, checking my ranking on the new book list, and interacting with readers occasionally, all included in these six hours.

His hand speed is very fast, and he can basically type out about 10,000 words a day. After signing the contract, he will post two chapters and save one chapter, and the number of manuscripts will become more and more.

This book entered the new book list, and it was also recommended. The data kept rising, and soon broke through 3,000 favorites, then broke through 5,000 favorites, and broke 10,000 favorites within a few days.

On the night when he broke through 10,000 collections, Chen Li was very excited. He even invited Yan Xin to have a barbecue with blood. They spent fifty or sixty yuan on food and drink.

Although he hasn't made any money from this book yet, in Chen Li's heart, he doesn't care so much about the fifty or sixty yuan.

While eating barbecue, he said to Yan Xin: "Now the collection has exceeded 10,000. According to this trend, when it is on the shelves, the average order may reach 1,000. We can eat this bowl of rice."

Yan Xin almost spit out a sip of beer, looking at him:

"One thousand average order?"

Chen Li nodded vigorously: "Yes, a thousand uniform order! I think it is very possible!"

Yan Xin was speechless, and thought: "I gave you the representative work of the son of the plane of the web text world, just to let you make a one-thousand-average subscription?"

Laughed: "Are you sure you can eat this bowl of rice with a thousand average order?"

Chen Li nodded: "Definitely and definitely!"

He calculated for Yan Xin:

"The VIP chapter subscription price of the starting point is two cents per 1,000 words of high V, and a chapter counts as 3,000 words, which is six cents. The author and the platform share equally, and a subscribing author can get three cents, with an average of 1,000 chapters per chapter. Subscription, that is 30 yuan, 900 yuan a month, which is equivalent to my current salary."

"This is just the income from publishing one chapter."

"If I post two chapters a day with 6,000 words, I can earn 1,800 yuan a month, which is double my current salary."

"If I quit my job and write novels for a living, I can post three or four chapters a day."

"What kind of concept is that?"

"That means I can earn more than 2,000 to 3,000 yuan in royalties a month!"

"Isn't this considered eating this bowl of rice?"

Chen Li calculated the bright future, and the more he calculated, the more excited he became. If it wasn't for the lack of money, and the new book issue was only two months away, he wished he could quit his job immediately and write full-time.

Yan Xin looked at him, shook his head, very helpless:

"You are still an author of online novels, why is your imagination so small? Can't you think about getting more subscriptions?"

"How tall do you think it can be?" Chen Li asked.

"Young people can't aim too high. It's not a good thing to set the goal too high. We can set a small goal first." Yan Xin stretched out a finger, "Let's say 10,000."

"10,000 manuscript fees?"

Chen Li stared at him blankly, thinking that you are crazy!

A little transparent author with no foundation, still wants a monthly fee of 10,000 yuan?

Yan Xin said slowly: "10,000 orders!"

He didn't want to scare Chen Li, so he proposed a relatively low goal.

After all, it is now 2005, and the development of online novels is not that prosperous. If it is said that such an online novel will generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, no one will believe it.

An average order of 10,000 is a goal that can never be lowered.

"You...you have too much imagination..."

Chen Li smiled wryly.

He has a lot of confidence in this book, but he doesn't have that much confidence.

There may be online novels that are subscribed by 10,000 people this year, but the number will not be too many. That is definitely an achievement that can only be made by top masters.

It is a bit whimsical for a new author to achieve such an achievement.

Yan Xin smiled and didn't argue with him, but said:

"You can use your imagination to go up to this number, you can go above this number, but don't go below this number."

It's not like he didn't understand the current situation of online articles.

But the book he took out is absolutely unprecedented in terms of sales data, and it cannot be measured by common sense.

He said something very pretentious to Chen Li:

"I have spent so much effort not to produce a book that cannot even reach 10,000 orders."

Chen Li looked at him with a strange feeling.

Reason told him that it is impossible to achieve the score of 10,000 averages. This young man is too arrogant and a little ignorant.

However, looking at the young man's determination, he felt that it was really possible to achieve this goal.

I thought secretly in my heart: "If it is really possible to reach an average subscription of 10,000, wouldn't it be possible to have a manuscript fee of 20,000 to 30,000 a month? Even if I give half of it to him, then I will be rich!"

I don't know if it's because of drinking too much beer, but suddenly my heart feels a little fluttering.

Instead of arguing with Yan Xin, he raised the beer bottle:

"I hope so! Come on, let's go!"

The small goal proposed by Yan Xin that night made Chen Li more motivated to code.

The data of this book is very popular, making the whole site pay attention to this novel written by a newcomer.

No one doubts that this is an old author opening a new account, because this kind of writing style has never been seen before, and it can't match any old author who everyone is familiar with.

Judging from this passionate writing style, only teenagers can write it.

The editor-in-chief and Chen Li also communicated more, and they chatted a few words almost every day, and they talked about the future of this book.

The editor in charge is also very optimistic about this book, saying that he will get him a better recommendation.

——For an editor, if the author under his hand writes a blockbuster book, that is also their achievement, and if they say "I brought up XX" in the future, they will also have more face in this industry.

As Chen Li wrote more and more smoothly, Yan Xin was able to give less and less guidance. When the two of them discussed together, they discussed more about the follow-up plot and character design.

Yan Xin has a feeling that Chen Li seems to have adapted to the way of writing online articles in the future, even if he doesn't have the creativity provided by himself, he can still get along in this industry.

——Even if the imagination is still not enough to come up with new settings, at least you can repeat the routine of this book, write two or three books, and eat for a lifetime.

However, it doesn't matter if there is such a day.

He is just having a hard time right now, and when he gets through this period of difficulty, based on his understanding of the future world, he can choose one or two nodes to start, and then he can achieve financial freedom.

His future does not lie in plagiarizing online articles, but in other places.

As long as Chen Li can give him a certain amount of benefits from this book, it will be regarded as reaching his goal.

Therefore, he didn't have to look forward and backward so much, and just worked hard to finish this book well.