My art is too advanced.

Chapter 331 Pursuing a PhD is Making Money! (Seeking Monthly Tickets!!!)

Okay, with this room card, I can basically travel to any place without worry.

You can enjoy the hotel's most luxurious services. Let alone 20,000 a year, even 100,000 a year wouldn't be much.

In reality, these gold cards are probably only issued to people with status. After all, 20,000 yuan might not even cover the hotel's expenses, not to mention taxes and service fees.

A person of high status can earn 20,000 yuan a year and stay in a hotel every day.

It was that rich kid who told him that no more than two hundred of these gold cards have ever been issued.

With thousands of chain hotels nationwide, two hundred gold cards are really not many, especially considering they were accumulated over so many years.

That's thoughtful of you, young man.

Zhou Yue didn't say much, but added ten more chapters to "Covering the Sky" as a reward for the donation.

After all, they genuinely and legitimately tipped one million.

But at the same time, he also tried to persuade them.

Let's temper their enthusiasm a little. These tips are like giving him money directly, but he's not short of money and doesn't intend to make more money from online novels. He doesn't really need them.

Keep the money and just read books every day. The money spent on reading every day is actually quite a lot, especially for readers who read quickly.

Reading one book a day costs almost as much as three packs of cigarettes.

In fact, from the perspective of physical versus virtual, a physical academic monograph, such as an outline of philology, is priced at only fifty-odd yuan.

However, in online novels, fifty yuan might be the price of a two-million-word novel.

A web novel might be more valuable than an academic monograph, and it might even have more readers. That's just how it is.

However, this chapter was released.

Readers became even more enthusiastic.

Zhou Yue, “???”

Are you out of your mind because you have too much money?

He stopped trying to persuade him.

Anyway, even if these people don't spend their money on him, they might spend it elsewhere, so it's better to just give it all to him.

……

For the next period of time, he didn't think about anything much.

It's nothing more than working on journals and writing papers. As for the dictionary, he just reviews as many words as others send him.

Of course, he was working on a comprehensive dictionary of ancient characters; he didn't need to work on the new version of the dictionary at all.

That can be written by various printing houses and book websites.

His main task was to arrange the identifiable ancient characters according to their origins and order.

The amount of work required is actually not that much.

Only about a thousand ancient characters can be identified. And since a dictionary is to be used, it is necessary to thoroughly understand and perfect many things.

Therefore, he sometimes needs to make videos to explain certain things.

But those were all fragmented moments, just video conferences for discussion.

As for the others...

Lu Qianran's company has stopped assigning him any more work. He has practically become a figurehead for the company and will not be used lightly unless absolutely necessary. However, it is said that the company is now expanding further, and some projects worth tens of millions of yuan do not even require his involvement.

He's just a figurehead.

This can attract more projects. However, top-tier projects are always relatively scarce.

It might take some time to ferment.

In the next decade, his deconstructivist architecture may enter the mainstream.

However, whether he can enter the mainstream is unclear, after all, there was a construction company that rejected him outright.

He wouldn't have thought of being overly critical if the words hadn't been so harsh.

After all, his architecture is truly abstract.

Lin Ning followed his example and created many abstract architectural works.

That would be an undeserved disaster. In fact, to create these abstract buildings, one must thoroughly understand other mainstream architectural styles before having such ideas and approaches.

Otherwise, they simply don't have the ability.

Lin Ning and his classmates' studies are basically going well. If they want to leave, all they need is a note from him and a letter of recommendation, and they can go directly. His letters of recommendation are very useful, whether they want to go to various universities, pursue a doctorate, or even get a job at various construction companies.

But so far, no one wants to leave.

After all, his endless stream of projects does generate a lot of academic papers, and he is indeed very generous. He adds the names of the project leaders or students to the papers that are derived from these projects.

This is normal.

And most importantly, the salary he pays is indeed quite substantial.

Because his projects are completed in a short period of time, the money comes in quite quickly. Moreover, these projects are basically done by the students themselves after he explains them.

He doesn't need to invest much time at all; the students might finish a project in a month, or even half a month.

He will still choose to distribute the various profits generated.

It might take a month to complete a project with a budget of two million, and the total cost would be around one and a half million.

The remaining 500,000 yuan went directly into his account, and he would take out 100,000 yuan as a reward for them. It wasn't that he would only give it to one person, but that everyone would share it equally.

In short, those who put in the effort get more, and others get less.

So for him, pursuing a doctorate is like making money.

The doctoral student who was admitted from Yunnan University even wanted to work as a postdoc with him, since she could earn 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a month here. Although she was busy with projects every day, she didn't need to think too much.

When Zhou Yue submitted the project plan, he was able to explain it clearly to them.

This allows them to make money with almost no brainpower.

Zhou Yue didn't think it was a loss.

It's normal for students to take the money.

After all, he only sent out about one-fifth of it; he kept the rest in his own account.

He hadn't even touched the account.

There's probably a lot of money in there. If he really needs it, it'll probably be used for scientific research. For example, if there's a real shortage of funding for a certain project, he'll just take the money out of his account and invest it.

Then we can seek further approval to fill the gap.

He understands that the money in his research account is used for research.

He felt that he was now earning more money than some academicians.

After all, the main source of funding for those academicians comes from projects.

Although they may be trying to get more out of the trap.

But Zhou Yue has even more projects of his own!
(End of this chapter)