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Chapter 35: Exaggerated Pre-sale Figures

That night, Cao Sheng and his friends ate until after 1 a.m. before returning to the dormitory.

As for returning at this time, will they be unable to enter the dormitory?

That's absolutely impossible.

The girls' dormitories in their school have walls, gates, and gatekeepers, but most of the boys' dormitories have no walls, let alone gates.

Although there are dormitory managers in the boys' dormitory, the managers don't care what time you come back at night.

As for the school gate?

There was a small door that was open all night, so people could come in and out freely.

It’s just that it’s a bit inconvenient to wash up after coming back so late. Except for the water room and toilet, which still have lights on, all the lights in the dormitories are off. If I want to wash up, I can only go to the water room in the dark.

As soon as Pang Yunhai and others came back, they went to bed one after another. They all drank a lot of wine, and some of them were even drunk.

Cao Sheng was not drunk, nor was he in a hurry to go to bed. He used the moonlight outside the window to find his washbasin and towel and went to the bathroom.

When he washed his face with cold water, the cold water on his face made him more alert.

He spent more than 200 yuan on the hotpot meal tonight.

He didn't feel bad about the money, but when he thought about how he had earned so much royalties after his rebirth, the first people he gave to them were not his parents, but his roommates. Then he thought about how his father went to the brick kiln every day in the hot summer and could only earn two or three hundred yuan after working hard for a month, while he treated his roommates to a hot pot meal tonight and spent more than two hundred yuan, so he felt a little bad.

Thinking that tomorrow is Saturday, he plans to go to the clothing store tomorrow to buy some clothes, shoes and other things for his parents, and then bring them back to them when the summer vacation starts next month.

Also, he suddenly thought of the old house.

Suddenly he wanted to use his royalties to rebuild the house in his hometown and improve his parents' living environment. As for the house he wanted to buy?

He felt that he was still young and was currently making money quite quickly, so he could buy later.

The next morning.

He went to the clothing store and picked out two sets of summer clothes and shoes for each of his parents. Before his rebirth, he had started buying these things for his parents every year when he was about 30 years old. Because they were always reluctant to buy things for themselves, he knew exactly what size clothes and shoes they wore.

There is no embarrassment of wanting to buy clothes or shoes for parents but not knowing what size they wear.

After buying these, he also bought a suitcase to put all these things in.

When he dragged his suitcase into the dormitory.

Wei Dongming looked at the suitcase in Cao Sheng's hand in surprise and asked with a smile: "Hey, Boss Cao! Did you buy a suitcase? Is there anything in it?"

Cao Sheng smiled. When they were eating hot pot last night, they gave him the nickname "Boss Cao", meaning that he is very rich now.

"I bought some clothes and shoes."

Cao Sheng responded casually.

Wei Dongming said "Oh" suddenly.

That evening, Cao Sheng came back from the bathroom and put his changed clothes into the washbasin. When he was about to wash them, Zhai Jun in the dormitory asked curiously, "Hey! Boss Cao! I heard that you bought a box of new clothes and shoes today. Why aren't you wearing them?"

Cao Sheng was a little surprised to hear this question.

He laughed and explained, "Oh, those were all bought for my parents. I didn't buy any for myself."

Zhai Jun, Song Chao and others were very surprised.

Song Chao: "Is that true? You didn't buy any for yourself?"

Cao Sheng: "I have clothes to wear."

Zhai Jun: "Your clothes are all old."

Cao Sheng laughed again, "Old clothes are comfortable to wear."

In fact, he wanted to keep a low profile.

He knew that people's hearts were complicated. His classmates were all just slacking off and few of them were studying seriously. He, Cao Sheng, had published a novel and earned royalties before finishing his freshman year. It could be said that he had both fame and profit, which was very enviable and eye-catching.

Besides, he is handsome to begin with. If he dresses himself up to look decent, who knows how many people will hate him.

He doesn't want that.

What is there to say?

——Don’t say anything that is not conducive to unity.

Cao Sheng felt that he should not do anything that was not conducive to unity. For the time being, he did not want to be so high-profile.

……

only……

Although Cao Sheng wanted to keep a low profile, he was very high-profile under the banyan tree.

On Monday at noon, after lunch, Cao Sheng went to the Internet cafe to update "Living with the Air Hostess" when he saw that the banner announcement above the homepage of Under the Banyan Tree had changed.

The original banner announced that Living with a Stewardess would be published soon and available for pre-order.

Today, the banner Cao Sheng saw read: "Warmly celebrate the number of pre-orders for the physical book "Living with the Air Hostess" exceeding 100000!!!"

When Cao Sheng saw the number "100000", he was surprised and suspected that he had seen it wrong. He closed his eyes and carefully counted the "0"s again, only then was he sure that he had not seen it wrong.

But he still couldn't believe that so many copies of his book could be pre-ordered in just a few days.

It has only been half a year since Under the Banyan Tree was established.

His book “Living with a Flight Attendant” is his first online novel. How could the first online novel become so popular?

Unable to believe it, he immediately logged into his email account and sent an email to Wang Jing.

"Sister, the announcement on the homepage of the website says that the number of reservations has exceeded 100,000. Is that true? Are there really so many people who have made reservations?"

After sending this email, he thought he would not receive a reply for the time being.

After all, it's lunch time now, and Wang Jing should not be in front of the computer.

She might have to wait until she gets to work in the afternoon before she can see his email.

But surprisingly, within a few minutes, Wang Jing replied.

——"Haha, I can understand your doubt, yes! Although the number of pre-orders for your book is not small, it is indeed far from 100,000. The actual number of pre-orders is more than 20,000. But for publicity, you have to exaggerate it a little, right? This will have a better publicity effect and should stimulate the sales of your book, which is good. By the way, you must not tell the real number to anyone! You must keep it confidential!

Also, the royalties you will receive in the end will definitely be based on the actual sales volume. You should be mentally prepared for this. It cannot be calculated based on the number we advertise. I hope you understand.

However, I think the actual final sales volume should be able to exceed 100,000 copies. After all, we have only been on pre-sale for a few days, and so many copies have been pre-ordered, right?

Oh, I almost forgot to tell you that after Huacheng Publishing House learned about our pre-sale situation, they changed the original first print of 5,000 copies to 50,000 copies. If the pre-sale number here can reach 40,000 or 50,000, I estimate that the first print quantity there may increase, and maybe the first print can reach 100,000 copies.

Finally, I want to say congratulations! You can wait to count your money, haha. "

After reading this email, Cao Sheng smiled.

I thought to myself: I was wondering how it was possible that 100,000 copies were pre-ordered so quickly.

Of course, he also had some doubts as to whether Wang Jing was lying to him.

Maybe the actual number of pre-orders is really 100,000?
Does Under the Banyan Tree want to take his royalties?

But reason told him that the numbers Wang Jing said should be true.

In just a few days, 100,000 copies were pre-ordered. This number is too exaggerated.

He thought that maybe after this summer vacation, the number of pre-sales here under the banyan tree could exceed 100,000, but now? The possibility is extremely small.

……

The pre-sale figures announced by Under the Banyan Tree were soon known to Cao Sheng’s roommates.

Their entire class, teachers, and counselors all knew about it.

During the self-study class on Tuesday morning, Cao Sheng's seat was filled with other classmates, all boys, and there was no way for girls to squeeze in.

The students sitting around him had different expressions. Some asked him for sample books and even wanted his autograph.

Some shouted that he should treat them.

Some people jokingly asked him if he really had a girlfriend who was a flight attendant and if he could introduce her to everyone.
The girls in the front row turned around from time to time and looked at Cao Sheng with strange eyes.

Cao Sheng originally thought that was it, it couldn't possibly get any more lively.

Unexpectedly, counselor Lu Xiangwei came to the classroom, stopped beside him with a smile, and asked, "Cao Sheng! I heard that you recently wrote a novel and are going to publish it? And it sold 100,000 copies? Is that true?"

Cao Sheng looked at Lu Xiangwei in surprise, his expression quite stunned. He didn't expect that counselor Lu Xiangwei had also heard about it.

(End of this chapter)