Reborn since 2005

Chapter 313 Professionalism

When Chen Li returned to Yangcheng, the first month had already passed.

On the day I came back, I didn't cook, I just treated guests outside, and I invited Yan Xin and Ai Lili to have dinner.

At this time, Gu Ru and Xiao Yuan were not in Yangcheng, so there were only a few people he could invite.

At this time, Chen Li already knew that Ai Lili was living with Yan Xin, and he jokingly said to Ai Lili:
"I didn't expect that my boss at the time turned out to be my younger brother and sister now."

It made Ellie feel a little embarrassed.

I came back in the morning, had a meal outside at noon, and went to Yan Xin's house for dinner that night, which was cooked by Ai Lili.

Chen Li was amazed, he didn't expect Ai Lili to have such cooking skills, and the food was much more delicious than Liang Wei's.

When eating together in the evening, Chen Li and Yan Xin talked about his new book "Shading the Sky" which has been released, and the collection has broken through the [-] mark in just two or three hours.

Yan Xin told him on the spot that Xingguang.com would give his new book a soft-text advertisement for a three-day rolling promotion.

With the traffic of their website, the three-day homepage advertisement is still worth a little money.

Chen Li also asked: "Should I give you advertising fees?"

Yan Xin smiled: "What the hell is the advertising fee? Create more groups. If there are any activities in the forum in the future, you can help me shout, and that will be fine."

Chen Li didn't say anything more.

With the friendship between two people, there is no need to worry about these things.

The book "Shading the Sky" is also a collaboration between two people, and the manuscript fee is also divided in half. This book is his and Yan Xin's at the same time. He is at ease and justified by being promoted by Yan Xin, and he will not accept it. ashamed.

In the past few months, he drove Liang Wei around in a car, and only when he returned to the hotel where he stayed at night would he take out the code words in his notebook.

Sometimes it takes an hour or two to finish writing the update of the day.

Sometimes I will code for an extra two hours, and save some manuscripts.

A day is like five or six thousand words to ten thousand words, which is nothing in terms of his code word speed.

The detailed outline has already been drawn up with Yan Xin, and there is no bottleneck in writing.

This period of time has been quite chic, so chic that he is a little uneasy-is it a bit unreasonable to be so young and only care about enjoying himself?

In the past few months, I have had enough fun, and I will open a new book when I get home, and it is still under the condition that the old book is not finished.

New books are about [-] to [-] words a day, and the update standard for old books has been raised to more than [-] words.

He also thought about winning the monthly ticket championship again in the last two months of the old book, and it would be best to win the monthly ticket championship twice, starting well and ending well.

In the past few months, because he was too salty, he was already embarrassed to ask for a monthly pass. Although he did not fall out of the top ten positions on the monthly pass list, he was not in the top three.

In the last two months, if you want to win the monthly ticket list, you have to exchange for updates.

In this way, the bottom line of one day is [-] words, which is not the same as before.

Now he has almost returned to the state when he first wrote "Fights Break Sphere", spending most of his time sitting in front of the computer and typing.

Liang Wei also has good grades in writing, but she is still in charge of cooking at home, but she doesn't do cleaning work. She just cleans the house casually, and then calls a part-time worker to come over once a week to do the cleaning.

She also doesn't have that much time to serve people.

Cooking is because you also have to eat. If you are one person, you should do it, and if you are two people, you should do it.

For other housework, I really don't have that much time to do it.

After returning home, her novels need to be updated with more than [-] words every day, and her typing speed is not as fast as Chen Li, so she will not spend less time typing than Chen Li every day.

Her novels sold very well on that platform, and the manuscript fee of tens of thousands of yuan a month was already the top stream on the platform.

Moreover, both traditional and simplified physical publications have been sold, and will be published in April, which will generate a considerable income by then.

By writing, she can also achieve financial freedom and no longer need to be attached to Chen Li.

Sometimes they would go to Yan Xin's for dinner, and Yan Xin could clearly feel that the girl's self-confidence had improved a lot.

As for whether it was becoming more and more arrogant and domineering as Chen Li complained in private, he couldn't observe it. At least in front of him, Liang Wei's performance was quite decent, and she also expressed enough respect for him. No sign of arrogance.

What happened to Chen Li in private? That was his private life, and he couldn't observe it, and he couldn't comment on it.

At the beginning of "Shading the Sky", there is the famous scene of Kowloon pulling the coffin.

Before writing this book, Chen Li, as Yan Xin said, read "The Tomb of God" which is being serialized for a while, and also learned the use of some big words.

But he is him after all, with his own writing habits. Although he wrote the same story, there are still some differences from the original "Shading the Sky".

What hasn't changed, though, is the grandeur of the story.

Moreover, when he opened this new book, his various data were at their peak, and coupled with Starlight Network's full promotion, the data exploded as soon as he opened the book.

In terms of novel platforms, Qidian.com is indeed the largest network platform, and the traffic coming over is all for reading books. Its promotion effect is higher than that of Starlight.com.

However, it is impossible for this website to give such a large exposure to a new book that has just been released.

Accomplished authors open new books to give a lot of exposure, which is the treatment that will only be available after many years.

There is no such treatment now, and top masters can only rely on their own traffic to open books, and don't think about the exposure given by the website.

Under such circumstances, Xingguang.com promoted the book on its homepage for three consecutive days, and the effect was obvious. It left all the competitors of the same period behind at the beginning.

Chen Li's own traffic is already higher than other authors, not to mention the strong recommendation of this website.

No other author can compare.

From the beginning, this book has been setting records.

The beginning of the new book also allowed Chen Li to find the passion for writing again, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to it.

Speaking of leisure time, it is probably after dinner, walking in the community.

At this time, I will be with Yan Xin, and the two of them will discuss the next plot of the novel while walking.

Yan Xin will also read the content he updates every day, and then make an assessment and give his own suggestions.

The character design, world structure, and storyline are similar to the original, but it feels different when written by Chen Li.

Yan Xin can't say which one is better, but he can only say that he thinks that Chen Li's current version is also very good, and can be written as a fantasy classic.

He is still optimistic about the future of this book.

It lost some of the advantages of the original, but it has its own characteristics.

Whether it can reach the height of the original work, he is not sure in terms of the quality of the novel.

But from the perspective of sales, he feels that it can be achieved, and even surpassed.

The starting points of the two versions are different.

After the book was changed to a contract status, it received more than a dozen rewards from the leaders that day, which caused a sensation.

——This is still in 07, and the leader at this time has a high gold content.

Some leading novels may not have more than a dozen leaders until the end of the book.

As for his book, he received more than a dozen leaders on the same day after he changed his signing status, which is no longer comparable to other authors.

And there are more small rewards. On the day when the status was changed, this book received more than 1000 rewards, and the total amount of rewards exceeded 500 million starting coins.

This also gave Chen Li a lot of confidence - such data shows that his novel has been recognized by the market.

The two books are being written at the same time, and the number of words released every day exceeds [-] words, and he still saves some manuscripts every day.

In fact, the number of codewords exceeds [-] every day, and sometimes it feels like it is coming, and it may even reach [-].

Yan Xin knew that he was like this, so he couldn't help feeling that this guy was too fierce, and he was inhuman when he became crazy.

At the same time, I also advised him not to fight so hard and pay attention to his body.

He also asked Liang Wei to supervise him.

But Liang Wei said that she couldn't supervise at all: "He didn't listen to me, and you said it was almost the same."

Chen Li also said to Yan Xin: "If we live together, you can remind me at any time, don't write too tiredly, or you should move back?"

He sincerely hoped that Yan Xin could live with him, so that it would be much more convenient to talk about novels.

Although they are in the same community now, they only see each other after dinner every day. When it rains, there is no chance to meet each other, which is very inconvenient.

But Yan Xin didn't accept him.

He doesn't want to live in someone else's house all the time, it's too inconvenient.

It's just that it's okay for two men to live together, but it's very inconvenient if there are female relatives.

What's more, they each have girlfriends, which is even more inconvenient.

—Anyway, he finds it inconvenient.

Just having Ellie with him makes it easier to relax at home.

Ai Lili had to go to work, so she didn't cook at noon, either the two of them went out to eat, or bought food from outside and went home to eat, and occasionally Yan Xin would cook by herself.

Although the taste is worse, it is still edible.

Ai Lili will also tell him where the failure is and how to correct it based on the finished product he made.

His cooking skills are also improving.

But he has very little time to cook, just once or twice a week.

Every night, Ellie goes home to cook, and sometimes she cooks extra meals for several people.

After Chen Li came back, he would come to his house once or twice a week for dinner.

Yan Xin used to eat and live at Chen Li's place, but now he wants to come over to eat, of course it's no problem.

Sometimes other guests come.

For example, several signed singers of the company.

In the first month, those singers were busy performing in various places, taking advantage of the heat to open up markets in other places, and they were basically not in Yangcheng.

But in the second month of the lunar calendar, there are not so many performances, and they gradually return.

They both bought a house in Baijingyuan last year and finished the decoration. Now they have moved in one after another, and they have become neighbors.

Sometimes I will come to the boss's house to have a meal, and to enhance our relationship with each other.

Maybe if you're lucky, the boss will write a few hit songs for you to sing, that's better than anything else.

Of course, they won't come in vain. Every time they come to eat, they will bring gifts, or they will simply bring expensive ingredients.

Sometimes I have to cook meals for six or seven people.

But Yan Xin doesn't reject such things, they are all the people who make money for him, it is of course best for everyone to have time to get together and increase their relationship.

Ellie also likes such excitement.

She didn't have any friends for more than twenty years, because her mother didn't want her to have friends.

But she still likes to make friends personally, and she envied those classmates who had many friends since she was a child.

In her more than [-] years of life, she spent most of her time eating at the same table with her mother, which was very deserted.

She thinks it's good to have more people eating together.

She is also very happy to be able to make delicious food for others and get their praise, and she has never shown any impatience.

But those people also know that they should leave their private living space, and they don't come here every day.

Most of the time, Yan Xin and Ai Lili still live in a world of two.

During the Qingming Festival, Yan Xin went home once.

This time, he went back alone - he didn't dare to take Ai Lili home now, for fear that Feng Xi would find out that it would affect her college entrance examination.

But this time I didn't stay for a long time when I went back, and I didn't drive there. I just went to a grave, stayed at home for one night, and then returned to Yangcheng the next day.

Two days after the Ching Ming Festival, Gu Ru also returned to Yangcheng.

She came back alone, but Xiao Yin didn't follow her.

She gave Xiao Yin a long vacation, and personally gave her a red envelope of 5 yuan, allowing her to rest and have fun during this period.

Because I accompanied her in various performances some time ago, and I had to take care of her life and career in all aspects, and it was quite tiring. Now that there are no performances, I can take a good rest.

She's hot now, a real star, and she's been offered a lot of acting opportunities, but she's turned down a lot of them.

I was busy before the Chinese New Year and after the Chinese New Year, rushing to various places, and I made a lot of money, but I was also very tired and wanted to rest for a while.

If there are no important performances, there is no need to accept them.

After she performed for the last time, she went back to her hometown to sweep the tomb in Qingming, spent two days with her parents, and then returned to Yangcheng.

On the day she came back, she didn't even go back to her own house, so she went directly to Yan Xin's house and had dinner at his house.

That night, he didn't go back to his home, but stayed at Yan Xin's home for one night.

Now Xiaoyin is not around, and Xiaoyuan has also moved into the house she bought. She is the only one in such a big house, and she doesn't want to go there.

She didn't want to be busy outside for such a long time, only to be alone at home.

So on the night of her return home, she stayed at Yan Xin's house.

During dinner, Chen Li and Liang Wei came over.

Xiaoyuan didn't come over, because Xiaoyuan had to perform at night, so she didn't have time to come - she bought this house and owed hundreds of thousands of mortgages, and spent some money on decoration, although she earned a lot of money during this period, but After deducting these, there is not much left.

Although the mortgage can be repaid slowly, she still has a lot of cash in her account, but when she thinks that after offsetting the mortgage, there will not be much left, and she feels insecure, so she must earn money as much as she can while she is young. money.

And she also wants to buy a house for rent.

Her dream is to earn two houses, one to live in and one to rent out.

Then save another 200 million.

In this way, eating interest and collecting rent, you can live a relaxed and decent life.

Before this dream is realized, she can't slack off.

Her dream, Gu Ru, has come true. Now she has two houses in Baijingyuan, one is the two-bedroom house she lived in before, and the other is a large house of more than 100 square meters bought in the second half of last year. It has been renovated, but it has not been moved in yet.

In terms of deposits, Gu Ru also has several million in deposits, and also owns [-]% of the shares of the promising company Starlight Entertainment. Now, she can enjoy life beautifully without doing anything.

That night, while having dinner, she said to Yan Xin: "I seem to be able to enjoy my life without doing anything now, but I feel that a life of doing nothing is not so interesting, and I am quite confused now." of."

Before Yan Xin answered, Chen Li nodded in agreement:
"It's really boring to do nothing. I can live that kind of life now, but when I think about that kind of life, I feel quite boring. It's better to do something to feel at ease."

He has a house, a car, and millions in deposits.

Even if he doesn't write novels now, that "Fights Break Sphere" will bring him a steady stream of income, enough for him to eat for a lifetime.

Many people will never earn as much money as him in their entire lives.

It's not that he never thought about not writing anymore, and enjoying life well.

In the past few months, I drove around to travel, and I felt that this kind of life was quite comfortable.

But after a few months, it felt like that again.

He still prefers the current days full of creative passion, which makes him feel at ease.

Gu Ru looked at him, and said after a while, "I'm different from you. You're still chasing dreams. I've been chasing dreams for more than ten years. Dreams are worthless to me. I'm really tired of singing, but I stopped singing, and I don't know what to do."

During this meal, they all drank wine.

Even Yan Xin, who couldn't drink enough, had two glasses of beer.

Gu Ru and Ai Lili even drank red wine.

This is to cleanse Gu Ru, and Gu Ru is arguing for a drink, so Yan Xin is of course not good at saving her face.

He could feel that when Gu Ru came back this time, her mentality was different from before, and she looked very depressed.

He didn't know why either.

If drinking makes her feel better, drink it.

Gu Ru drank a lot.

As we drank and drank, we talked more.

He said to several people at the table: "This time when I came home for the Ching Ming Festival, my parents advised me not to sing and urged me to get married early. I originally wanted to quarrel with them, but suddenly found that my parents and my mother have hair on their heads. There's a lot of gray hair already, they're old."

As he spoke, he sighed: "They are old and still worried about me. I suddenly thought that I have been going against their wishes, doing what I like to do, making them sad and worrying, right? Too disrespectful?"

(End of this chapter)