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Chapter 74 Hot Sales in Taipei
Taipei.

early morning.

15-year-old Ah Shu was riding his bicycle on the way to school. In order to ride faster, he would leave the seat from time to time, stand up and pedal hard.

It was just a breezy morning, but because he was riding his bike fast enough, his hair flew backwards and his white shirt made rustling sounds.

When passing a bookstore, he suddenly stopped his bike, propped his feet on the ground, turned his head and shouted to the bookstore: "Boss! Has the new copy of I Want to Become an Immortal arrived?"

The boss’s response came from the store: “No!”

Ah Shu's originally high spirits suddenly turned into disappointment.

I continued to pedal my bike to school listlessly.

That evening.

Ah Shu rode his bicycle past the bookstore again, still at a very fast speed, but when he passed the bookstore, he stopped again, propped his feet on the ground, turned his head and shouted into the bookstore: "Boss! Has the new copy of I Want to Become an Immortal arrived?"

The boss’ response came again, “No!!”

"Dry!"

Ah Shu cursed, raised his middle finger towards the bookstore, then rode home listlessly with a depressed look on his face.

The second day, the third day...

Day by day.

Every morning when he passed by the door of this bookstore, he would stop his bicycle, turn around and shout into the store, "Has the new book "I Want to Become an Immortal" arrived?"

I will ask again when I pass by here after school in the evening.

Twice a day is much more than many men pay their dues.

This went on for about a week.

That morning, Ah Shu once again rode his bicycle like a gust of wind to the door of the bookstore, braked again, propped his feet on the ground, turned his head with a wooden expression and shouted to the bookstore: "Boss! Has the new copy of I Want to Become an Immortal arrived?"

The bookstore owner's voice came: "It's here! It just arrived last night..."

"Dry!"

Ah Shu cursed out of habit, raised his middle finger towards the store door, and pedaled his bicycle dejectedly to go to school.

But just after he rode two meters, his eyebrows suddenly raised, a look of surprise appeared on his face, and he turned to look towards the door of the bookstore.

"We're here, we're here? Didn't you just say we're here, boss?"

he shouted excitedly.

The boss limped to the door of the store with a bowl of noodles in his hand and cursed angrily: "You don't want to work anymore? You don't want to give me the middle finger anymore? You bastard! The book hasn't arrived yet, but you worked and gave me the middle finger. Now that the book has arrived, you still work? And you still give me the middle finger? Are you bullying me because I'm lame?"

Ah Shu's face was already filled with excitement. He hurriedly jumped off the bicycle, pushed it to the side of the road, and rushed into the store in a hurry.

How could I have the energy to argue with my boss?

I just said a few times in a hurry: "Sorry, sorry..."

A moment later, he came to the checkout counter with two brand new copies of "I Want to Become an Immortal" in his hands.

Looking at the two copies of "I Want to Become an Immortal" with different covers from the previous ones, he readily took out the pocket money from his pocket and handed them to the boss.

Episode 9, Episode 10.

These two new books have these words marked on their covers.

Just because Cao Sheng defined the tenth episode as the first episode of "I Want to Become an Immortal 2", it was not actually labeled as such.

This evening.

When Ah Shu passed by the bookstore again on his bicycle, he saw a long line of teenagers lined up in front of the bookstore.

He could faintly hear the people in the queue talking excitedly about something.

Words like "I want to become an immortal", "Episode 9", and "Episode 10" came into his ears.

Ah Shu chuckled and was not surprised.

Because he has seen many such scenes in recent months. Every month when the new book "I Want to Become an Immortal" is on the market, there will be many people queuing in front of several nearby bookstores.

He had lined up like this before.

But twice, because he was at the back of the line, the newly released "I Want to Become a Fairy" in the store was sold out before it was his turn. He was very depressed.

That's why he has been coming here every morning and evening recently to ask whether the new book "I Want to Become an Immortal" has arrived.

This is very troublesome.

But today, seeing so many people queuing up, and that he had already bought the latest ninth and tenth volumes of the new book this morning, he felt so happy that he couldn't help humming a little tune.

He lifted his butt off the bench again, stood up, pedaled hard, and rushed home at lightning speed.

He couldn't wait to get home and watch the tenth episode.

Today at school, he finished watching the ninth episode and only watched a little bit of the tenth episode.

……

On the evening of the same day, Ke Jingteng, who was born in 1978, walked onto the street in a depressed mood, ready to find a place to fill his stomach and take a walk to relax.

He hasn't been in a good mood lately.

He studied management science in college and recently wanted to apply for a graduate degree in sociology. Since he didn't know how to write a sociology paper, he used his writing skills to write a novel with sociological concepts as his paper.

then……

He failed the postgraduate entrance examination.

Maybe in the future when his name Jiubadao becomes well-known, he can use his novel as a thesis and maybe he can pass the postgraduate entrance examination, but it’s not possible now.

So, he has been very depressed recently.

Looks a bit decadent.

With his hands in his pockets, he walked lazily on the street, looking around aimlessly. Suddenly, he noticed that there were many students queuing in front of a bookstore, and the line was quite long.

Queuing in front of the bookstore?

He was very surprised. While in Taiwan, he had seen people queuing in front of music and video stores many times before, but he had never seen such a queue in front of a bookstore.

Are there any best-selling books released recently?
Because he likes writing, his curiosity was aroused. He subconsciously walked closer to the line, forced a smile and asked a teenager in the queue, "Handsome boy! What books are you waiting in line to buy?"

Several teenagers who were queuing looked over.

Some people laughed, and someone else answered: "I Want to Become an Immortal! Zhongyuan Yidianhui's I Want to Become an Immortal is on the market, and you didn't know about it? You are not a fan of the book, right?"

Another teenager said, "If you want to line up, go to the back! If you don't want to line up, just leave!"

Ke Jingteng was a little confused.

"A little bit of dust in the Central Plains? "I Want to Become an Immortal"? Is this book good?"

he asked.

A girl in a red dress in the line rolled her eyes at him and said unhappily, "Nonsense! It's not nice for so many of us to line up here? Uncle! Go away! It's so hot, you're blocking my wind!"

Ke Jingteng walked away a few steps in a daze.

He stared blankly at the thirty or forty boys and girls in the team for a while, then hesitantly walked to the end of the team and joined it.

He wanted to see how good this book "I Want to Become an Immortal" was and why it was liked by so many students?
As a writer, he couldn't bear the fact that there was a bestseller that he hadn't read.

When he returned to his residence with the two copies of "I Want to Become an Immortal", he was surprised to find that he had bought the ninth and tenth volumes of "I Want to Become an Immortal".

There are still eight episodes ahead?

I haven't seen it! How can this be?
Forget it! I just had a full stomach, and if I go to the bookstore again, I will be hungry again. I'd better save my energy! I'll just take a look at the writing of this ninth volume first. If it's good, I'll buy the first volume tomorrow. If not, forget it.

With this mentality, he lay down on the sofa in the living room with the ninth episode of "I Want to Become an Immortal" and watched it patiently.

At first he frowned.

Because he had not watched the first eight episodes and started watching directly from the ninth episode, he found it difficult to understand the plot of the book and to put himself in the shoes of the male protagonist in the book.

but……

Soon, his frown relaxed.

The surprise in his eyes grew more and more intense.

(End of this chapter)