Back to 1997, I became the originator of online literature

Chapter 9: Thoughts on Publishing

Two days later.

early morning.

On the playground shrouded in mist, Cao Sheng, thinly dressed, was running alone. In fact, there were other teachers and students doing morning exercises on the playground, but he didn't know them.

In the original time and space, he did not have the habit of fitness.

When others told him that life lies in movement, he always said that life lies in stillness and cited the example of the longevity of turtles.

But he actually knows the benefits of exercise.

I'm just lazy and don't want to move or work hard.

But now he wants to develop the habit of morning exercises.

He wants to have a strong body and firm muscles. He hopes that the woman in the future will blush, breathe rapidly, and swallow her saliva when she sees his muscles.

In short, he wanted to change his attitude towards life.

Positive attitude towards life.

However, running is really tiring. The more he ran, the more tired he became. In the chilly morning, he worked up a sweat and his legs were already sore.

But he still gritted his teeth and insisted on finishing the 1,000-meter run he had planned for today.

When he returned to the dormitory all sweaty, his seven roommates were still sleeping soundly in their beds.

Cao Sheng smiled, picked up his washbasin, took the towel and soap, and picked up his thermos, went to the bathroom to wash up, washed his hair, and scrubbed his entire upper body.

Although I am physically tired, my mental state is very good.

……

After having breakfast in the cafeteria, I came to the classroom with my textbooks and notes. There were already a few classmates sitting in the classroom.

There are exactly 42 students in their class.

Eight of them are girls.

Among the eight girls, only two can be considered pretty, and that is only compared to the other six girls in their class.

Compared with the girls in other classes in the school, the girls in their class are very ordinary.

Let's put it this way! Among the eight girls in his class, none of them could surpass his high school classmate Tan Lei in terms of appearance.

For this reason, Cao Sheng was quite disappointed on his first day of university.

He originally thought that after entering college, there would be more and prettier female classmates around him than in high school.

Who would have thought that there was no comparison at all.

This made him regret choosing accounting as his major.

As far as he knew, the major with the largest number of female students and the most beautiful girls in Huizhou Teachers College was the Tourism Management major in the Tourism Department.

It is said that the tourism class is a land of girls. There are only a handful of boys in each class. How happy they are.

Unfortunately, he found out too late.

After entering his own classroom, Cao Sheng randomly chose an empty seat at the back row and sat down. He casually flipped through the two books he brought with him, looking uninterested.

He had long been tired of the accounting profession.

I don't want to be an accountant anymore in my life.

Therefore, he has no interest in the courses he is currently studying.

If he didn't need to give an explanation to his parents, he wouldn't even want to go to college.

At this time, he was sitting in his seat, frowning and looking at his textbook. After reading for a while, his mind became wandering.

I thought to myself: Every time I go to the Internet cafe for a night, I have to use up three or four days of my living expenses. At this rate, my living expenses for this semester will definitely not last until the end.

I have to find a way to make some money as soon as possible.

He didn't want to live frugally for the entire semester. As a time traveler, it would be a huge joke if there was no meat in his dishes every day and he ate vegetarian food every day.

only……

Before traveling through time, he was just a stay-at-home guy who spent all year writing.

Apart from typing, he has few skills.

He thought of finding a small restaurant outside the school and using his spare time to work and earn some living expenses.

But I also feel that this way of making money not only doesn’t make much money, but is also very hard.

Not the best strategy.

Find a rich girlfriend and live off her for a while?
This thought popped up in his mind again.

He couldn't help but smile at himself, thinking: Why do I always want to eat free meals? Is it because my stomach was not in good condition before I traveled through time?

Just then, a fragrant breeze came beside him. When he smelled the fragrance and looked over, Wu Can, the most beautiful girl in their class, sat down next to him.

When she sat down, she turned her head and smiled at him. This girl was indeed quite pretty.

Although she is not tall, about less than 1.6 meters, her skin is as white and delicate as cream, and her face shape and facial features are all good-looking.

She is quite fashionable, with dyed yellow hair.

In terms of dressing, she is obviously much better than other girls in the class.

Looks like he comes from a well-off family.

But she is not the type that Cao Sheng likes.

In the original time and space, Wu Can chased Cao Sheng.

Not only did she often take the initiative to sit next to him during class, she also asked him out privately, but he always refused.

At this moment, looking at Wu Can who was sitting next to him, Cao Sheng, who had just been thinking about whether to find a rich girlfriend and live off her for a while, suddenly made up his mind: A real man would rather take the straight path than the crooked one! I will never live off her in this life!
He found that he still couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart.

He felt very resistant when he thought about having to please a woman every day just to have three meals a day.

"Here! I bought one extra box and I can't finish it anymore. Can you help me finish it?"

At this time, Wu Can put a box of milk on the desk in front of him and said with a smile.

Cao Sheng chuckled, but did not refuse. He reached out and took it, inserted the straw, and put it in his mouth.

"Thanks!"

He thanked her casually.

Although he has decided not to live off others, he will not deliberately refuse Wu Can's milk.

Just remember not to be a freeloader.

……

It's midnight today.

Cao Sheng came to the Starry Sky Internet Cafe again and booked a night.

Today is the day he updates the second chapter of his new book.

By the way, upload part of the saved manuscripts to your email address.

After turning on the computer, the first thing he did was to log into Under the Banyan Tree to check the status of the new book he published two days ago.

Soon, he found his book "Living with the Air Hostess".

As he expected, the current data for this book is bleak.

Read by 44 people.
But there are 16 comments.

Cao Sheng read through the comments curiously.

"Is this true? Did the author really live with a flight attendant?"

"Chapter One? There's going to be a Chapter Two? Chapter Three? What about the sequel? Why isn't there a sequel yet?"

"Is this a story? Or a diary?"

"What about Chapter 2?"

"Live together? When will we live together?"

“Isn’t it illegal to live together in our country?”

……

After reading these comments, Cao Sheng smiled.

I find it quite interesting that these readers can't even tell whether this is a story or a diary.

He laughed at her inexperienced look.

I thought: Is this everyone’s reaction when the first online article appeared?
Thinking that these readers had waited for two days and still hadn't seen any update, which was quite pitiful, he didn't delay any further. He logged into his email inbox, retrieved the draft of the second chapter, and sent it to Under the Banyan Tree.

Then he opened the document and began to input the manuscript on the manuscript paper into the document.

As he typed, he was thinking: This book probably won't make any money in the short term, so why not start another one that's suitable for publishing? Try submitting it to a publishing house in Taiwan to earn some royalties?

He remembered that before the original Qidian Chinese website introduced its charging system, online writers who wanted to make money would submit their works to publishing houses in Taiwan for publication.

Around 2000, many online writers made money by publishing in Taiwan.

only……

It is now early 1998.

The book he wrote, "Living with a Flight Attendant," is considered his first online article.

The publishing houses in Taiwan have probably not started publishing online novels yet.

How about... submitting "The Days of Living with a Flight Attendant"?
(End of this chapter)