My daily life of cultivating immortals and removing spirits in Chiba

Chapter 4 Light Novel Writer

After sending Aunt Keiko to the station and watching her get on the car and leave, Asama Haha also returned to the room in the old apartment.

The two envelopes given by Aunt Keiko each contained fifty thousand yen bills, which was similar to what he had guessed before, totaling 100 million yen.

Among them, 60 yen is the living expenses that Aunt Keiko gave him for a year, which is 5 yen a month. For ordinary people, this figure is neither too much nor too little.

However, for Asamaha, he is already very satisfied.

The remaining 40 yen was the "rent" given to him by Aunt Keiko.

Looking at the thick stack of banknotes in his hand, rubbing his thumb gently, feeling the texture of the delicate lines of the banknotes, Asamaha couldn't help but reveal a "money obsessed" smile at the corner of his mouth.

100 yen!

With this money, from now on, his hard days will finally be over!
Although, Aunt Keiko also gave him 60 yen in living expenses last year.

However, although this old apartment looks old and small, the monthly rent is not low. The monthly rent is 25000 yen, and the annual rent is 30 yen.

Then, the remaining 30 yen is his real living expenses. In addition to water, electricity and other expenses, there is also the second-hand laptop he bought for work and the mobile phone he uses for daily communication.

He usually only has less than 24 yen left for food and beverage expenses, which is an average of 2 yen per month.

If converted according to the RMB he used in his previous life, 2 yen is about 1 yuan.

The monthly living expenses of 1 yuan, if he had saved a little more based on the local price level in the place where he lived in his previous life, he could still barely survive.

However, the price level here is on average at least twice as high as in the previous life!
Therefore, according to his consumption level in his previous life, it was almost equivalent to three to four hundred yuan.

It was just a struggle between hunger and food and clothing, so Asamaha could not remember the last time he ate meat.

It's okay for him to live in the wild. After all, he can still use the concept of "do it yourself, have enough food and clothing" in the wild and learn from the former world's best "jungler", Mr. Pei.

Find some ubiquitous chicken-flavored free protein in the wild to improve your quality of life.

However, living in the city, apart from breathing, he cannot do without "money".

If he wants to get some free protein nutrition, he can only go to the sewer to catch rats!

Therefore, every day is a very challenging life for him.

If Asamaha had not wanted to stand out and lacked professional video production experience, he would have had to make a video program and put it online, and the title would be:
"Do you feel life is boring? Do you want to know the meaning of life? Do you want to truly live? Then come and try the city survival challenge of 2 yen per month!"

This program will definitely cure the depression of a large number of island people who feel that their lives are stressful. When it is released on YouTube and Facebook, it will become a lifestyle blogger with hundreds of thousands of fans.

In fact, Asamaha didn't have to live such a "challenging" life.

After the original mother passed away, she still left him a deposit of about 400 million yen. However, before the original person gave up all hope and chose to commit suicide, he donated all of this savings through various channels.

Although "Asama Ha" has been reincarnated for so long now, she still can't remember many memories of her "original body" clearly.

Not to mention that Asamaha, who had just been reincarnated into the "original body" at that time, had an extremely vague reception of the original memory. He had no idea that there was such a thing.

Until he left Aunt Keiko's house and went to the bank ATM to withdraw money, when he saw that the 400 million that was supposed to be displayed on the display screen changed to 400.

While he was rubbing his eyes in shock, he suddenly recalled that the original person had actually done such a thing of "doing good deeds and accumulating virtue".

Asamaha wanted to cry but had no tears.

You are noble!You are amazing!Donate all 400 million at once!Do you know what kind of life I am leading now?

Just because there is no money!I can only make instant noodles and bread every day!I don’t even dare to add an egg!
…………

When he saw that there was only 400 yen left in his bank card, he complained in his heart.

But he also understood that the original person didn't owe him anything, and after complaining a little, he calmed down.

Of course, Aunt Keiko didn't know that "he" had donated all 400 million yen, so he only gave him 60 yen in living expenses every year.

And Asamaha, who insisted on renting, had already increased the expenses of Aunt Keiko and her family, so he was naturally embarrassed to ask Aunt Keiko for money again.Therefore, he has always lived an extremely poor life.

If it weren't for the "spiritual power" in his body that tempers his body, or with his eating habit of only eating carbohydrates every day, his body would have already suffered from problems.

However, after being in this world for so long, the situation is finally improving!
Because, his "fee" is finally coming to his account!

After learning about his financial situation, he decided to find a part-time job to support his family. However, convenience stores and supermarkets generally recruit at least high school students for odd jobs.

Because junior high school students have immature faces and are too young, generally no one is willing to hire them.

After all, they are recruiting employees to work and make money, not running a summer camp for teenagers.

Therefore, after much thought, Asama decided to make money by submitting light novels.

After more than half a year of hard work, even though he is only a high school student, he has already made his debut as a best-selling light novel writer!
Although this world is very similar to the previous life, it is not actually the same world, but something similar to a parallel world.

Therefore, this gives Asama a lot of "room to play"!
After all, Mizuhashi Kouma, who is called the same kind of person, was actually a "otaku" in his previous life, although the concentration in this aspect was not as high as Mizuhashi Kouma's.

However, I am still very familiar with many light novels that do not exist in this world.

Relying on this, Asamaha, who couldn't find a job at the time, decided to make money by submitting light novels!
Before writing, he also conducted research on the light novel market.

Speaking of the light novel market in the island country, it is very different from the previous life. The most popular category is still the light novel with the theme of traveling to another world.

However, although it is the most popular category with the widest audience, light novels such as world travel are basically poorly written and are seriously homogenized.

Although the submissions for different world time travel have reached new highs every year, it is extremely difficult to produce excellent works. It can even be said that 99.9% of the submissions are similar to "toilet paper", and no hit works have been produced for a long time.

After Asama Ha's research, he decided that as a newcomer, his first debut would be a light novel with the theme of traveling to another world, titled "I Want to Become a Shadow Powerful One!" 》

If you want to stand out among the thousands of "toilet papers" with the theme of "travel to another world", you naturally need to write something unique.

And "I want to become a powerful shadow person!" "Among them are "Dihua", "Behind the Scenes", "Decisive Killing", etc... These are generally not yet popular elements in different world travel light novels on the market.

There are also "invincible flow", "beautiful girl harem group", etc... popular elements that are loved by the people of the island country and have been verified by countless examples in the market.

Therefore, he believes that as his debut work, it will definitely become a hit!

The fact was just as he imagined. After he submitted his work to Dengeki Bunko, he quickly signed the contract for production and distribution.

Originally, as a new author, the first light novel is usually published and sold as a trial release. The number of printed copies is about [-], and then it is decided whether to print more copies based on subsequent market response.

However, it is said that the editor-in-chief also took a fancy to "Want to Become a Shadow Powerful One!" "The potential of this light novel that is different from ordinary toilet paper travel through other worlds.

For the first trial sale, the printing quantity was set at [-] copies!At the same time, increase publicity efforts!
And "I want to be a powerful shadow person!" " did not live up to their expectations. The [-] printed copies were quickly sold out in various bookstores and received rave reviews.

For every copy sold, excluding the tax rate paid, the profit he can get is 50 yen, and for 50 copies, the profit he can get is [-] yen.

50 yen, this is the profit from the trial sale of the first publication.

After the editorial department sold out [-] copies, based on feedback from readers and market research, it was decided to print an additional [-] copies!

Thirty thousand copies, which is a profit of 150 million yen.

However, the 150 million yen royalties will not be available until at least next month.

Of course, the 50 royalties for the initial release were paid today.

With the 100 million yen in cash in his hand and the 50 yen in his bank card, he now has 150 million yen in assets!
With such a sum of money, he can finally improve his living conditions!

Looking at the small, cramped room where he had lived for a year, Asamaha felt inexplicably emotional.

I have really lost face as a time traveler. It has been more than a year since I came to this world, and I have lived in such poverty before.

Must move!
(End of this chapter)