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Chapter 381 Snow Mountain White Phoenix! (Seeking monthly votes!!!)
The completion of three novels had a significant impact on him, meaning he would basically have no further income from them. These three novels were essentially like a retirement fund, and their influence might continue to grow for a while. However, since he had already chosen his version, he wouldn't pay attention to anything else afterward.

After these three books were completed, editors immediately contacted him to ask if he wanted to start a new book. They were willing to spend a lot of money to buy the copyright or just stay on the site. These companies basically wanted to invest heavily to create a super hit book.

There are also some newly emerging websites that basically want to create entertainment content, and novels are part of their entertainment content; they want to solve this problem.

"Brother Yue, the traffic on the comic website has been pretty good lately. Why don't you continue to promote the comic website? It just so happens that your novel has been completed, and these readers will probably continue to catch up on the rest of the plot during this period of time."

"Okay."

He simply nodded, not saying much. For him, this traffic was basically meant to support the comic website. If the comic website could rise to prominence, it would greatly benefit him, most notably in terms of money. Although he didn't care much about money, he felt too empty without making any, and there were many things he wanted to do.

If you don't do anything and just want to live off your savings, then there's really no point in doing anything.

Zhou Yue didn't think much of it and quickly posted the chapter. From then on, the traffic would flow into the comic company continuously. All the traffic from the three books would basically converge on the last book, since the protagonists of the three books would finally reunite in the last book.

So it still has a lot of traffic and is almost a complete hit.

The entire internet is paying attention to these three books. After the edition is released, many people will probably have to reread them. This means a lot of money for him. Putting aside everything else, in terms of influence and sales, he is basically in a leading position.

He's basically invincible. No one can compare to him, not even Chengfeng or Wangchuan. These veteran gods and supreme gods pose no threat to him. He spent two years writing these three books, totaling nearly six million words each. So, together they're almost twenty million words.

He wrote 20 million words in two years.

On average, he writes ten million words a year!

This is hard for many authors to accept, after all, they see him appearing at various press conferences and academic reports every day, but you're telling me that such a person can write around 30,000 words a day?

Is this even human? This is practically a god!
Moreover, it's not just any ordinary god; even an ordinary god wouldn't be able to reach this level!

With three novels already completed, he no longer needs to worry about other things. He now focuses all his work on lecturing and handling affairs at Huaguo University of Science and Technology.

These are actually quite good for him, because he likes these things. Otherwise, he wouldn't have spent so much effort perfecting so many things and turning them into a series of videos.

He glanced at the short video platform and saw that each of these courses had about three million followers and a number of views.

Three million views is actually quite good. Compared to those short video bloggers, whose super videos may reach around ten million views, videos with more than ten million views are basically considered to be viral across the entire internet.

Basically, many people can see and remember it. However, it's not a short video, but a long video, about 45 minutes long. It's hard for many people to watch all 45 minutes. The 3 million views are basically from the beginning to the end.

After all, once they clicked in, they were just endlessly watching the classes, like normal people binge-watching TV shows. They would probably listen to one of his classes with great interest while eating or when they were bored.

However, after glancing at the comments section, he realized that the person seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the content and had already fallen asleep.

But it doesn't matter. It's already great to be able to plant a seed of architecture. Some veteran academicians basically have similar ideas to him, wanting to plant a seed for young people in China.

That's why some senior academicians, even after achieving great success and being quite wealthy, don't usually accept commercial promotions. They simply focus on popularizing knowledge and talking about things that are beneficial to national development and people's livelihoods, and they usually do so in a gimmicky way.

These gimmicks can attract many people to click in and watch the whole thing, but in reality, aside from these gimmicks, the content of these short videos is basically just academic content produced by an academician that many people might not watch.

However, some short video content produced by an academician, that is, content that aligns with their ideas, makes them feel that they have some resonance with these senior intellectuals, or that there are some things they can discuss.

After planting a seed, it will encourage more people to develop and differentiate within the industry. This is their ultimate goal, which is also their initial goal. They have already achieved success, and short video platforms are often criticized.

They risked their reputations by throwing themselves into the public eye.

So, they are also a very great group of people, Zhou Yue. I still admire them quite a bit, after all, these people, like him, have good original intentions. Whether or not everyone can accept these short videos, if you come across them and can watch them to the end, then they will definitely have some benefits for you.

Knowledge, even if you forget it after you've learned it, will leave a trace that can make you feel quite comfortable at many times.

The rewards came down quickly.

"More than a dozen national-level excellent courses, Professor Zhou is truly unbeatable."

"It has been directly included in the national-level database of high-quality works, and many websites will promote it. Of course, these promotions are mainly researched by architecture students."

"But this does not diminish Professor Zhou's immense merit. To be able to produce such high-quality courses in the field of popular science, and even to have professional academic knowledge support so many people, is simply a blessing for the industry. And art, the high-quality art courses are also selected by experts. Professor Zhou must know some of these experts."

These high-quality courses were selected by the most professional scholars. The fact that they chose them proves they have excellent judgment. Zhou Yue also considered this when recording these courses; if a course is selected as a high-quality course, there must be some significance to it, since official promotion and consistently creating science videos on one's own are definitely different.

Although he posted it from their official platform account, it's already good enough if that short video platform gets any views at all, and many of them are just there to cause trouble.

Although most people come because of its reputation, without professionals doing or promoting these things, they certainly won't reach the eyes of professionals.

If these online courses are promoted in a forced manner, that's not really a good idea. So it's better to put them on the official platform so that people can find them when they search for them. And since he's made such a big fuss, he's sure to get a lot of attention, which he thinks is pretty good.

After all, it's a national-level high-quality course.

……

There's one more small thing.

Someone had dragged Mr. Chen over, wanting to buy one of his paintings for eight million, but he got busy and forgot about it, so the matter was put on hold.

Moreover, he didn't think his words were worth that much money now. Although he was a tutor at the art academy, even other tutors didn't charge that much. They were basically only worth a few hundred thousand at most. Some famous painters, although they also worked at the art academy, were also paid that much.

However, their paintings won't circulate in the market. They might be sold at some art exhibitions, but definitely not at auction houses. Zhou Yue didn't think much of it. To him, his paintings weren't famous, and he figured this person was just trying to bribe him by bringing Old Chen over. After all, he felt it was very unusual to want to buy one of his paintings for eight million, since his paintings weren't worth that much money, whether by market standards or other criteria.

Of course, whether it's valuable or not isn't something he can decide for sure. There might be other factors at play, and these other factors refer to his current status. But since this person asked Old Chen to come, he had to give Old Chen face, so he made a painting and sent it to Old Chen.

When Mr. Chen saw this painting, his eyes widened in amazement.

The painting has almost only one signature, and then a title for the painting.

"White Phoenix in the Snow Mountain".

"I've sent you the message, Mr. Chen. Ask him if he'll buy this painting for eight million. If he does, then just give it to him. If he doesn't, then forget about it."

He didn't paint this person's picture, nor did he offend Old Chen, but the painting really had nothing in it.

It's just a blank sheet of paper.

If that person wants to buy it, we can just give it to him directly. After all, there are only a few words on it, and the calligraphy score doesn't mean much. Besides, giving it to him directly would be a good deed.

Of course, more importantly, he made his attitude and stance clear: if you want bribes, then forget it; if you have any issues, you can talk to me, and we'll try our best to resolve them. If you want to use connections, then forget it.

When Old Chen looked at this picture, he almost had a stroke.

Goodness, this picture is supposed to be a snow-capped mountain and a white phoenix, right? The snow-capped mountain is white, and the phoenix is ​​also white—that white sheet of paper seems to be true. If you look at it from a distance, that's probably what it looks like. But what is this?

He then gave the painting to his old friend.

The old man stood like a flagpole, in a standard posture.

"Is the kid joking with me?"

"But it really is very funny."

The old man couldn't help but burst into laughter; he felt he hadn't laughed so heartily in a long time.

"Okay, young man, get this done for me."

"Then I'll return the favor with a gift."

"Let the crows of the night ride wild boars."

Soon, Zhou Yue received the painting. He couldn't help but chuckle, not expecting anyone to paint a return gift. Of course, he simply covered it up with ink.

"Hang it on the wall for me," Zhou Yue said.

Zhou Yue was slightly surprised by this person's name.

"Old Chen knows this kind of person?"

This person's status was very high, or rather, very high in the past. He has now retired, but even in retirement, his influence is still very large. Of course, he was only slightly surprised. He had even seen the Top of the Peak Tournament, so the others were just so-so.

He hadn't expected that Professor Chen would have such resources. Of course, as the former dean of the School of Architecture, Professor Chen must have had some old friends.

“My old friend said your painting is hilarious, and he hasn’t laughed this heartily in a long time.”

"How did you even come up with that? A white phoenix from the snow-capped mountains."

"Well, there's nothing I can do about it. I thought this guy was trying to bribe me with eight million." Zhou Yue also felt a bit wronged, since eight million was enough to get him sentenced.

Old Chen simply sighed; indeed, their status was different now.

Many things are different.

For example, if someone wants to spend money to buy him a painting, he will think a little more carefully, which is something that can't be helped.

After all, he is now the vice president of Huaguo University of Science and Technology, which is a very high position, basically equivalent to a high-level position in some provincial competitions.

This was a normal thing, so Old Chen didn't pay much attention to it, and neither did the other old man. They all thought that the young man was just joking with them.

Of course, after all, they returned the gift, which was quite humorous.

A crow riding a wild boar in the night is a perfect match for a white phoenix on a snowy mountain.

There's really not much that can be done.

"I'll redraw it," Zhou Yue said, since it really wasn't right to do it this way. "No need to spend any money, I'll just give it to that person."

He felt it was necessary to redraw it, after all, even though this kind of person is retired, they are still a valuable asset.

Although he had no intention of currying favor, it would be good to get to know him.

(End of this chapter)