Rekindling the Youthful Era

Chapter 856 How a Perfect Life is Forged

Monday, April 1th.

After a busy weekend, Li Luo and the others slept in late this morning, a rare occurrence. They didn't get up for their morning run and didn't get up until 9:30 a.m.

After a quick tidying up, the group found a restaurant nearby, had lunch, and then headed to the airport with their luggage. By 2 or 3 p.m., they had successfully returned to Yuhang City.

On the way home, Li Luo said to Xu Rongsheng and Cui Suling, "Uncle Xu, Aunt Cui, how about you come and stay with us for a few more days this year, just like last year?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Youyu's eyes lit up, and she nodded repeatedly, secretly nudging Xu Rongsheng's arm.

Xu Rongsheng felt somewhat helpless seeing his daughter like this.

However, since it was the Lunar New Year and there weren't many places to go anyway, Xu Rongsheng nodded in agreement: "Then let's do it on the third day of the Lunar New Year. We still need to visit relatives on the first and second days, so we can come over on the third day and stay until the seventh day of the Lunar New Year."

"Huh?" Xu Youyu was a little disappointed after hearing this, and couldn't help but mutter to herself, "Then you guys go visit your relatives. I'll go on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Anyway, I have my own car."

If this had happened in previous years, Cui Suling would probably have started nagging again.

But this year, Cui Suling's attitude was unusual. She even felt that Xu Youyu's suggestion was not enough and simply suggested, "You have such a good relationship with Li Luoxi and Xi Zhusheng, why don't you just go there on New Year's Eve?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Youyu looked at Cui Suling with a face full of surprise, still somewhat incredulous: "Really?"

"What's the difference between real and fake?" Cui Suling rolled her eyes at her. "Anyway, as long as you're all happy, it won't make a difference if it's just a day or two."

"We'll have our New Year's Eve dinner a day earlier, and go home the day before New Year's Eve to spend more time with our grandparents."

“You drive over to find Li Luo and the others on New Year’s Eve. Your dad and I will stay until the third day of the Lunar New Year before we go.”

Xu Youyu listened attentively and realized that her mother was not just talking. She was immediately filled with surprise and almost thought that her mother was possessed by a ghost.

But Xu Rongsheng instantly understood what his wife meant. After pondering for a moment, he sighed slightly and said, "You can decide for yourself, Your mother and I have no objections."

"Then I'll definitely go on New Year's Eve!" Xu Youyu said with a grin, then grabbed her father's arm and said sweetly, "Mom and Dad are the best!"

"Heh." Cui Suling pouted. "Is this the best? I've never seen you so sweet-talking before?"

"Hehe~"

Xu Youyu grinned foolishly, then turned to look at Li Luo, winked at him, and was overjoyed.

After all, Xu Youyu had never spent New Year's Eve with Li Luo in the past three years.

In previous years, we would at most call or text each other on New Year's Eve, and only on the first day of the Lunar New Year could we go to the countryside to see Li Luo.

Xu Youyu was overjoyed to finally have the chance to spend New Year's Eve with Li Luo this year, and he couldn't wait to do so.

Back at Tianlu Yaju, the elders had already left, but Xu Youyu still looked happy. She skipped and hopped to the study on the second floor, humming a little tune.

"Are you that happy?" Li Luo followed Xu Youyu into the study, picked up Ju Bao from the windowsill, held it in his arms and kneaded it for a while, and teased him with a smile.

"What? Aren't you happy?" Xu Youyu glared at him. "Aren't you welcoming me?"

"How could that be?" Li Luo walked to the desk, placed Ju Bao on the corner of the desk, then hugged Xu Youyu and kissed her. "It's just a little regrettable. It would have been nice if your parents had come to celebrate the New Year with you."

"You're dreaming," Xu Youyu muttered under his breath. "We'll have to wait until you marry me."

"Maybe it will be possible next year?"

"Huh?" Xu Youyu was stunned for a moment when she heard this, then looked up at Li Luo with suspicion, "Really?"

"I am just joking."

"Tch." Xu Youyu curled her lip. "I thought you were up to something, but you're just being stubborn?"

Li Luo smiled but didn't respond further; she simply started planning in her mind.

After sitting down, Li Luo opened the writing software and took out his phone, glancing at the Qidian app.

The moment you open the app, a splash screen appears, prominently displaying the celebratory message: "Congratulations to 'The Great Qian Night Patrol' for reaching 10 average subscriptions."

After clicking to enter the details page, you will be taken to the celebration event page.

At the top is the book title, cover, and synopsis of "The Great Qian Night Patrol Division".

Below are several buttons, representing [Favorite], [Subscribe], [Donate], and [Monthly Ticket].

Add "The Great Qian Night Patrol Division" to your bookshelf to receive 3 chances to win a prize.

For every 10 chapters subscribed, or 100 coins donated, or a monthly pass cast, you will receive one chance to win a prize.

The prize pool this time is quite generous, including various game consoles, keyboards and mice, Gundam models, e-commerce vouchers, and various merchandise specially customized for "Da Qian Patrol Division".

In addition to the lottery, readers can also voluntarily purchase merchandise directly.

The largest family-sized bundle includes a limited-edition hardcover collector's edition of the first volume of "The Great Qian Night Patrol".

There is also an art book and picture book, character cards and badges, acrylic standees, keychains and other pendants, mouse pads, and a journal.

The total price is 599 yuan.

There are also some other package options below, the cheapest being 69 yuan.

Li Luo wasn't sure if it was expensive or cheap, but anyway, quite a few people bought it.

Despite the abundance of good items in the prize pool, in the end, Qidian might still make a profit...

After all, it's said to have 100,000 average subscriptions, but the actual number of readers who actually read his books is far more than that.

His first paid chapter already has over 800,000 subscribers.

In other words, after reading the free chapters, the number of readers who chose to subscribe to the first chapter after it was released was a whopping 800,000.

However, the vast majority of these readers are just paying lip service to the service and then go to read pirated versions.

That's not bad.

Most readers might not even subscribe as a friend, so the number of pirated readers is likely to be more than 800,000.

Li Luo didn't care about that... After all, the higher the level of an author, the less they care about the impact of piracy.

After all, the bulk of the profits still come from copyright.

I painstakingly update "The Great Qian Night Patrol" every month, and the royalties are around one to two million.

However, the copyright price could easily reach 30 to 40 million, far exceeding the subscription fee itself.

But for 99.99% of ordinary online writers, copyright has absolutely nothing to do with them.

The impact of piracy is thus amplified infinitely.

After all, they rely on subscription fees to make a living.

"You're looking at this?" Xu Youyu leaned over for a glance, then opened her phone and said with a grin, "I bought it too, the most expensive one."

"If you want it, I'll have the editor send you a copy," Li Luo said helplessly, glancing at her.

"It's just six hundred yuan, consider it a reward from me," Xu Youyu said, patting Li Luo on the shoulder.

"Then I should thank you, right?"

"How do you want to thank me?" Xu Youyu stood up, leaned closer to Li Luo, and lifted his chin with her hand. "I'm not interested in ordinary thanks."

No sooner had she finished speaking than there was a knock on the study door. Ying Chanxi pushed the door open and walked in. Seeing the two of them flirting there, she immediately said with displeasure, "Senior, didn't you say you were going to write when we went upstairs?"

When Xu Youyu saw Ying Chanxi come in, he had no choice but to withdraw his hand and sit down in his chair: "I'm looking for inspiration."

"What kind of inspiration do you need to find like this?" Ying Chanxi floated behind the desk with a resentful look and stared at the two of them, asking. "Dual cultivation, you know," Xu Youyu said with a grin. "I need to think about the details of the male and female protagonists' dual cultivation. Xixi, what brings you here?"

Xu Youyu abruptly changed the subject, but Ying Chanxi didn't press the matter further. She simply looked at Li Luo and said, "I just came to ask about your schedule for tomorrow. I remember you're going to attend a meeting of the Provincial Internet Writers Association, right?"

“Yes.” Li Luo nodded gently. “The council members need to be re-elected. My application has already been submitted, and the application for the China Writers Association’s quota also needs to be submitted later.”

"Is your senior going too?"

“Yes.” Li Luo nodded and continued, “Although Tencent Video said they could consider the film and television rights to ‘Gu Dao Chang Qing,’ we can’t put all our eggs in one basket.”

"So this time, I also need to confirm the quota for key provincial-level support works, and then I plan to hold a work seminar within the Writers Association."

"The Writers Association's official websites and platforms will also promote and endorse 'Gu Dao Chang Qing'."

"In that case, I will invite some directors and companies in the film and television industry to hold another copyright seminar to see if anyone is interested."

Ying Chanxi listened attentively, nodding occasionally. After thinking it over carefully, she understood Li Luo's thinking: "Then I will continue to keep in touch with Tencent Video and see what their attitude is."

“Hmm,” Li Luo said, “If Tencent Video could just take it all with them, that would be perfect, and it would save us a lot of trouble.”

"So you're coming home tomorrow night, right?" Ying Chanxi asked again. "It's just a meeting in the city."

"Hmm." Li Luo thought for a moment and then replied, "It only takes a little over an hour to go back and forth, and the meeting won't go on until the evening."

Upon hearing this, Ying Chanxi nodded in relief: "Then you guys keep writing, I won't disturb you any longer, I'll go to the company first."

After watching Ying Chanxi leave, Xu Youyu took out his phone, turned on the home security system, and glanced at the surveillance cameras in the living room and basement.

After discovering that Ying Chanxi had indeed gone downstairs and driven away, he couldn't wait to stand up again and straddle Li Luo.

"What are you doing?" Li Luo steadied her slender waist with both hands, saying with a mix of amusement and exasperation, "Didn't you just say you were going to write? You came up here as soon as Xixi left?"

"Hehe~ That's what makes it exciting." Xu Youyu hummed and said, "I was just teasing you a little, but Xixi got jealous, so I couldn't be polite anymore."

"...What kind of twisted sense of humor is this?"

"Never mind." Xu Youyu wiggled her hips against him, then leaned down and said, "Kiss me."

……

The next morning, Li Luo woke up in bed and looked around at the girls sleeping in his arms.

Since the start of winter break, Li Luo has mostly stayed at home, except for one trip to attend the company's annual meeting.

I got up in the morning and called Xixi and Zhusheng to go for a morning run.

After returning home, Butler Liu had already instructed the kitchen to prepare breakfast.

After breakfast, Yan Zhusheng went to the piano room on the fourth floor to practice, while Ying Chanxi went to the company office.

Li Luo then went to the study on the second floor to work on his writing.

It wasn't until around 10 a.m. that Xu Youyu would get up, wash up, and leisurely go to the study on the second floor to work with him for a while.

But in reality, he just sat in front of the computer doing nothing, and would occasionally stretch his legs out to bother Li Luo.

At noon, Ying Chanxi returned from the company, and the four of them had lunch together.

Then Xu Youyu went to take a nap, while Li Luo was dragged by Yan Zhusheng to the fourth floor to flirt.

Xixi continued to go to the company and keep busy.

After Xu Youyu woke up from her afternoon nap, Li Luo was pulled by her to continue working in the study.

In the evening, Xixi would come back and they would have dinner together. Then Li Luo would accompany Ying Chanxi, take a walk in the neighborhood, go home to watch TV, and chat with her while holding her.

When they were bored, they called Xu Youyu and Yan Zhusheng to go to the entertainment room on the fourth floor to play mahjong and sing.

At 10 p.m., Xu Youyu had to go to his study and frantically type on the keyboard.

Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng went back to their room to wash up and go to sleep, pulling Li Luo to bed for a hug and kiss.

It wasn't until late at night, after Xu Youyu finished writing, that he would scroll through his phone in the study until one or two in the morning before quietly sneaking back to his bedroom and getting into bed sometime later.

Such blissful days made Li Luo feel a little dazed.

If things continue like this for the next few decades, it would be too perfect.

Li Luo lay in bed thinking like this until her phone alarm finally went off.

So he woke up Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng, and after they went out for their morning run, he returned to the bedroom and picked up Xu Youyu.

"Ugh... I'm so sleepy~"

"The Writers' Association has a meeting this morning, so go wash up and go downstairs for breakfast."

"Sleepy~ Let me sleep for another five minutes."

"Go have breakfast first, I'll drive later, you can sleep for another half hour in the car."

"No, please~ I'll sleep a little longer."

"Be obedient and good."

"Ah~ then give me a kiss."

"mua~"

"Not enough."

"Why are you acting like a little kid?"

"You're disgusted with me?"

"mua~"

"Hehe~"

After being kissed, Xu Youyu finally obediently landed on the ground, went into the bathroom to wash up, but still looked a little listless and leaned on Li Luo's shoulder as they made their way to the restaurant on the first floor.

After breakfast, Yan Zhusheng went upstairs to practice the piano as usual, but before Li Luo left, she threw herself into his arms and asked for a kiss.

After watching Yan Zhusheng go upstairs, Li Luo put his arm around Xu Youyu and Ying Chanxi and walked to the underground parking garage.

Ying Chanxi followed suit, and before getting into his own car, he held Li Luo in his arms for a long time and kissed him for a while before letting him go.

After Ying Chanxi drove away, Li Luo also got into the driver's seat. Looking at Xu Youyu in the passenger seat, who had already reclined his seat back, taken off his shoes, and curled up to catch up on sleep, Li Luo chuckled and said, "You're already asleep?"

"Drive your car." Xu Youyu yawned and waved his hand.

"Want to kiss before bed?"

"No."

"You weren't like this when you first woke up."

"Ha, you stinky man." Xu Youyu rolled her eyes at him. "You've already kissed other women, and you still want to kiss me?"

"If that's what you're saying, then we have no choice but to kiss."

"Ah! No~"

"It's not up to you."

(End of this chapter)