Back to 1997, I became the originator of online literature

Chapter 71: Deposits Soar, Writers Association Visitors

Two days later, Cao Sheng received an email from Wang Jing of Under the Banyan Tree, informing him that Huacheng Publishing House had deposited the advance payment for the second reprint of 20 copies into his account and asked him to check it.

Checking the manuscript fee was something Cao Sheng liked to do. When he went to school for class that afternoon, he checked it at the ATM on campus.

Before buying the house, he had more than 80,000 yuan in his account.

But after buying the house and the computer, he had more than 24,000 yuan less in his account. After buying the house, he also bought some furniture, bedding, pots and pans, etc., so he only had about 50,000 yuan left in his account.

In fact, if you count the 50,000 yuan he gave to his parents before, he still earned a lot of money in the first half of this year.

However, it is difficult for poor people to save money when they suddenly become rich.

Unless you become rich, you won't improve your life.

But if you don’t improve your life after becoming rich, what’s the point of being rich?

Fortunately, the balance in his account increased again today.

It rose to more than 110,000.

Huacheng Publishing House paid an advance of 60,000 yuan in royalties this time.

Cao Sheng looked at the numbers in his account and thought: My savings have finally exceeded 100,000.

A few days later, he received another email from Xinchang Publishing House, also informing him that his royalties had arrived and asking him to check it.

So, the next morning when he went to school, he went to the ATM to check again.

There was another 14,000 yuan in the account.

Four thousand of them are the royalties for the ninth episode of "I Want to Become a Fairy", and the other ten thousand are the royalties for the first episode of "I Want to Become a Fairy 2", which is the tenth episode of "I Want to Become a Fairy".

The total amount in his account became more than 130,000.

Thinking that he had earned an extra 6,000 yuan from the manuscript for the tenth episode, and that he would get an extra 6,000 yuan for each manuscript in the future, a smile appeared on his lips.

With so much money, he thought about investing.

He understood that keeping money in the bank would not be able to beat inflation, and that he should invest the money to make it make more money.

But he doesn't have the energy now.

I don't want to distract myself from investing.

I decided to finish writing the novel first and earn some royalties. When I have more money and have more time during the holidays, I will consider where to invest the money.

He thinks the simplest and safest way is to invest in real estate.

The years of soaring housing prices in the original time and space left a deep impression on him.

Many people who sold their houses to invest in business worked hard for more than ten years, but the money they earned was not enough to buy back the house they sold that year.

He also thought about investing in a novel website and then attracting popularity with his own novels, but after careful consideration, he felt that this was not a very good option.

Firstly, managing a website will inevitably distract him from a lot of his time and energy. If he leaves it all to others, there’s no telling when the management will take most of the employees and authors to start a new business, and he would then be doing the bidding of others.

Secondly, the little money he has now is a considerable sum if he lives alone, but it will soon be all gone if he uses it to open a website, rent a house, buy a server, pay for water and electricity, and pay for employees, etc. He doesn't want to spend all his hard-earned royalties on rent and employee support.

Three times...

He really likes a sentence in "The Return of the Condor Heroes", a sentence describing the male protagonist Lang Fanyun - because he is able to reach the extreme of love, he can also reach the extreme of swordsmanship.

Because he likes this sentence and the life philosophy contained in it, Cao Sheng always likes to do things wholeheartedly, and firmly believes that only by concentrating on one thing can he do it to the extreme.

Except for the accounting job.

In the original time and space, since he started writing full-time, he no longer paid attention to other things.

We never do things like double or triple opening.

Even if he writes a flop, he will persist in writing until he has gained some insights and is confident that he can write a better work. Only then will he choose to finish it and start a new book.

He knew that what he was doing was stupid.

I've also heard that some authors who often cut their books end up writing a profitable work and earn a lot more than him.

But he remains the same.

Always stick to the path you choose. Is there any benefit in doing so?

Sometimes, he would be shaken and want to learn from those smart people. As long as the performance of the new book was not satisfactory, he would cut it off immediately and then quickly start a new book. Perhaps while cutting, he would catch the trend and make a fortune.

But he never did that.

Because every time he looked back, he always found that there were fewer and fewer authors who were in the same period as him, and those smart people disappeared as time went by.

Although Cao Sheng is still a failure, he can occasionally write one or two books with good results. After more than ten years in the industry, countless authors have been eliminated, but he can still continue to make a living from this.

Now, he is reborn.

I still want to focus my main energy on writing.

He knows the prospects of this line of work.

In the future, there will be authors who earn millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

As long as Cao Sheng becomes one of them, he will never lack money in his life.

So, what's the point of going to great lengths to run a website?

He thought: If he opened his own website and published his works on it, he would become a competitor to other similar websites and would be suppressed and excluded by all of them.

Otherwise, he will become the target that all novel websites want to win over.

Maybe, if he has the chance in the future, he will consider investing in websites like Rongshuxia or Qidian, but it would only be an investment.

In the future, he will also invest in companies like Alibaba and Tencent if he has the chance.

Also, when the stock bull market came, I would just take the opportunity to multiply my assets several times.

Will he ever be short of money in his life?

Rather than racking his brains to make money, he would rather continue to improve himself in the online literature field where he has worked hard for many years, and then compete with other experts in the world.

……

Time passes day by day.

Cao Sheng basically spends his spare time coding "I Want to Become an Immortal" every day, and in class he basically spends time building the outline of "Tomb of the Gods".

His book "God's Tomb" and the "God's Tomb" in the original time and space have the same title and similar introduction.

As for the content of the book, since he really couldn't remember how the original work was written, he could only write the outline based on his own ability.

This cannot be accomplished in a day.

During this period, two things happened.

One incident was that one evening when he was on his way to the cafeteria after class, he was stopped by his first love Chen Shuyun from the original time and space, who then handed him a love letter with a blushing face.

Another incident was that at noon on the day when the freshmen’s military training was about to end, two fellow villagers blocked Cao Sheng outside his classroom door.

Cao Sheng had some impression of these two fellow villagers.

One of them was the senior student who helped him with the registration procedures and took him to the dormitory when he first came to Huizhou Teachers College.

One of them was a student union cadre. Cao Sheng had met him once at a fellow townsmen’s reunion shortly after he entered school, and later encountered him several times in school.

The purpose of their visit to Cao Sheng this time was very simple - to invite Cao Sheng to participate in this year's hometown gathering.

But Cao Sheng remembered that in his original time and space, he was only invited to attend a hometown gathering once, which was when he had just entered university.

Why are they inviting me to participate at this moment?
Is it because I’m famous now?
Is it so realistic?
He declined politely, but the two fellow villagers were very persistent. They followed him all the way and kept persuading him. They followed him all the way into the school cafeteria and they still didn't give up.

Cao Sheng was not rescued until his counselor Lu Xiangwei and class monitor Geng Yong showed up with a charming young woman. The charming young woman wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and had a face like a silver plate. As soon as she appeared, she attracted Cao Sheng's attention.

Because this woman reminded him of peaches.

As we all know, old drivers generally like this type of women, and he, Cao Sheng, is no exception.

Lu Xiangwei said with a smile: "Cao Sheng! Let me introduce you to this Secretary Huang, she is from our city's Writers Association, she came here specially to invite you to join our city's Writers Association, please don't neglect her!"

(End of this chapter)