Rebirth 07: Start adding points from elementary school students

Chapter 224 A Cultural Phenomenon

"Haven't you noticed?" Yang Chengzhang paced around the room, "The names of the works that can be hung in art galleries and auctioned all have a sense of 'high-end'."

Hiss... This was one of the words Li Yan hated the most when he was studying architecture in his previous life.

"In the final analysis, it is to give people room for association, not only in terms of content, but also in terms of emotion. Either the narrative is very straightforward, but the corresponding object already has emotions. For example, in my "Yellow Earth Farmers", everyone already has some impression of these four words. Or the writing is very vague, with fewer words and vague concepts, preferably adjectives."

Routines...you still have to learn them. After all, auctions are all about making money from other people. Only when others think it's worth it, is it truly worth it.

"'Colorful', let's call it that."

Li Yan had no objection. The auction field was still a new field for him, so he just listened to whoever was more professional. The painting was already signed by Yang Chengzhang, so why bother about the name of the painting?

"I'll tell you what Red Dragon has planned for the future." Yang Chengzhang said with a smile, "You don't have to have too high expectations for this painting. Although my name is on it,... never mind. I'll tell you the truth later."

"Okay, thank you Master!"

"Don't rush to draw the next one. First find out what you want to draw the most. When you are particularly interested, then start drawing."

It must be said that Master Lao Yang is very dedicated and attentive in teaching.

"I won't rush, Master, because it may take until the end of May to finish the painting."

"Oh? What's the plan?"

"I will participate in the provincial selection for the Informatics Olympiad on May 1st. I will practice with my teammates next. There will be a basketball class competition after May 1st."

"Your life is so exciting, kid?"

"I'm just trying to gain some experience in painting."

Yang Chengzhang laughed out loud.

Li Yan swore that when he left the studio, he really wanted to start practicing the questions from the Informatics Olympiad with Chen Fan - after all, there were questions that required actual computer operations, and when the two of them teamed up, they always had to practice their tacit understanding and also to test each other's bottom line.

But! How come the sky becomes dark after chatting about novels and reading the review section of my own books every day!

As soon as it got dark, how come it was already early morning when I was just writing a few drafts?

It's early morning, so you have to go to bed...

If you want to blame someone, just blame these readers for being too talented. Li Yan couldn't stop reading all the long reviews. It was more enjoyable than reading a good article.

It seems that the author Li Yan is as impatient as the readers and will not wait until the climax on the 22nd. The readers want to read the main text, and the author wants to see the readers' reactions after reading the main text. There is no solution.

Li Yan even wanted to write more chapters at once to finish the climax early, but was stopped by Kaiyuan. Kaiyuan was happy to see the increasingly intense messages from readers and wished that Li Yan could keep writing like this.

Finally, at four o'clock in the afternoon on April 4, Li Yan updated the last chapter of the third volume, which successfully integrated seven or eight plot lines, ended the stage-by-stage climax, and recycled the foreshadowing that readers had expected and unexpected, while also providing enough suspense for the next plot.

It has come to an end for him, but readers say it has just begun.

By April 4, it took only a week for the "master of foreshadowing" Shen Fei Tang Qi (also known as Li Yan) to go from being an initial discussion among individual readers that "something seems to be wrong" to becoming a hot topic sweeping the online literature circle.

In online writer forums, BBS, and discussion areas of Qiyuan Chinese website, "foreshadowing" has become a high-frequency word.

There are technical posts discussing how to write foreshadowing well, and there are also discussions on "Does online literature need foreshadowing?" and "Super-long serialized articles destroy foreshadowing"...

Many popular books have readers who “search for foreshadowing” and even make it a daily task: “Discover foreshadowing (3/4), the author recycles 1 foreshadowing in this chapter”…

As for Li Yan's book review section, it has gradually become a bit abstract. It is just a basic operation to list the foreshadowings recovered from the three volumes of Li Yan's content. This group of people even take apart any sentence written by Li Yan and study it to find foreshadowings. Some people even typed out his entire book by hand, annotated the foreshadowings and threw it into the book club...

“So I said that actually reasoning has a big market, but the mystery writers are too obsessed with solving the problem itself.” Li Yan sent a message to the 66 editor and looked at the editor in confusion.

Fans of Li Yan's book call themselves "Grass Snake" and "Gray Line", and call those who lay the foreshadowing "foreshadowing thief", which seems to have formed a cultural phenomenon in the online literature circle.

He also experienced what it means that a big fan will be blackened and a big tree attracts the wind.

These book fans who jumped out to other places naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of other book fans. If you like to see foreshadowing, go ahead and read it. But coming to a love story to complain about too few foreshadowings, aren't you crazy?

There is also a group of people who focus on foreshadowing in the previous text, just to destroy other people's reading experience. As for the person who typed out Li Yan's book and threw it on the forum... Li Yan expressed his gratitude to his whole family.

Mr. Shenxu was confused as soon as he went online at the weekend. He quickly wrote a few rules and pinned them to the top, and kept adding new rules afterwards.

But with little success.

Let alone him, Li Yan personally wrote a separate chapter, hoping that everyone will have a friendly discussion in the book review section of this book, try not to disturb other books, do not spoil the plot, and do not leak his paid chapters.

The first comment I received was: There are so many foreshadowings here, let’s look for them.

There was also a sentence following it: “What? There is a good person providing a free version, so I will take the lead” - this was deleted and blocked immediately by Mr. Shenxu.

Li Yan felt helpless and even at a loss as to what to do, so she could only look for Kaiyuan.

Kaiyuan said: Awesome.

"This is all your traffic. Your book already has the foundation to go to the next level. Don't worry about these messes. Many authors dream of having the situation you have today. Just write with peace of mind."

Li Yan: That being said...

Kaiyuan: Data won't lie. You've been at the top of the popularity list for several days. Do you know what that means? Master, your average subscription is over 8,000. If it weren't for the excessive updates and too many chapters, you might have already had 10,000 subscriptions!
Li Yan: How much money can I make?

Kaiyuan: This is not just a matter of money, brother. Do you know what 10,000 orders means?

Li Yan really didn't know. He only knew that when he was in college and had a brief taste of online literature...it seemed like a great achievement? But now it's 09, maybe it's really quite impressive?
Kaiyuan: You are still serializing! Did I save the earth in my previous life to be able to pick up a treasure like you!

Li Yan: Okay, okay, don’t take out a loan. Let’s wait until we really place the order.

Kaiyuan has already started looking through the list of authors on Qiyuan whose works have over 10,000 subscriptions. He firmly believes that there is only one possibility that Li Yan could be so calm, and that is that he himself is one of the few authors with over 10,000 subscriptions.

Li Yan let out a long sigh and told Mr. Shenxu not to pay too much attention to these comments. As long as they were not overly aggressive, he could just leave them alone and not do anything about it.

Kaiyuan is right. Now he just needs to write with peace of mind and ensure the quality, the upper limit of this book will continue to be raised.

He has used this outbreak to prove his ability to handle a large amount of foreshadowing, so readers will have confidence in the "lost two hundred years" of history and the long-forecasted plot of finding the truth through contradictions in history books.

The desire to continue reading will naturally be high, and things like "finding foreshadowing" can, firstly, bring about a lot of heated discussions, and secondly, even if Li Yan writes a transition chapter, everyone will have a strong desire to read.

It’s really a good thing.

Let everyone discuss the rest. Li Yan will write at his own pace and wait for the subsequent explosion to directly put this book on the altar.

Ambition is developed step by step.

It's a pity that Chen Fan is the only roommate who has a computer, and he doesn't look like he reads online novels. To read novels on a mobile phone, one has to log in to the webpage first, and the small screen is also very uncomfortable to look at. It's really not a good choice.

"Everyone, do you usually read online novels?"

Li Yan thought she was hallucinating. The sound actually came from Chen Fan in the bed next to her?

"I watched it when I went home during the holidays. Did you watch it too?" Zhu Qinglun replied.

"I don't have much chance to read it now since I'm not on holiday. I have a lot of TXT documents stored on my computer at home." Lin Heng said proudly, "I'll send them to you if you need them."

Lost, pirated readers!
"Ayan, you must have watched it, right?" Li Ruofei's tone was filled with hidden excitement, and he seemed to want to show off for Li Yan.

"Look."

"I read it when I get home, too." Liang Ban's answer surprised Li Yan. "I actually really like reading stories."

"There's a book that's very popular recently," Chen Fan said, "It's called 'Nangong Youth'. Many people say that the plot is very detailed and the layout is very ingenious. I wanted to read it when I got tired, but... I'm sorry, Li Yan."

Huh? Li Yan was shocked. How did you cue me? How did you know I wrote it?

(End of this chapter)