Reborn, I achieved legendary status with a single book.

"Hey guys, the website will be launching something fun in a few days."

"what's that?"

"Commentary on the paragraphs."

What is paragraph commentary?

"Just like the bullet comments in a video, readers can post bullet comments on the chapters we publish."

"This is interesting. However, the barrage of comments might affect the reading experience."

"Don't worry, the effect won't pop up like in the video. It will provide hints after each segment. As for the specific performance effect, everyone will know when the time comes."

Chen Yang talked to some authors he was familiar with about the matter of paragraph comments.

Many authors in the industry are quite looking forward to this.

A few days later.

Chen Yang's commentary has officially appeared.

Many authors in the industry noticed it immediately.

"The official website of Qidian has updated the paragraph reviews."

"Oh, where, where, how do you see it?"

"Open your book, and you'll see the paragraph comments."

"No."

"Uh... some readers might not have realized it yet."

Actually, it's not that no readers realized it.

It depends on the number of readers.

If your work has too few readers.

Even if this feature is released, some readers may not know how to use it.

So it's normal that this feature wasn't shown in some books at the beginning.

However, for many popular works, the introduction of the paragraph comment function has attracted the interest of many people.

"This thing actually appeared! Haha, interesting."

"I'll post a paragraph comment."

"I'll send one too."

At first, people didn't know how to use paragraph comments.

Some readers who tried out the book posted rather conventional comments.

But slowly.

Soon, a group of users discovered how to use the segment comments.

"This part is poorly written, thumbs down."

"Author, is it that you can't write? If you can't write, I'll write it for you."

"Author, let me teach you. You should write the rest of the plot like this."

The comments in the book review section are different.

Although the paragraph comments also appear to be comments.

However, most of the comments in the book review section are about the most recent chapters or the entire book.

In addition, some readers will post long reviews expressing their opinions on the book.

But the commentary is different.

Paragraph comments can provide evaluations for each paragraph, or even each sentence.

This mechanism clearly surpasses the usual book review section comments.

Many readers don't like to leave comments after finishing a book, nor do they read other people's reviews.

However, a commentary was published.

Because it appears right in the chapter, people naturally click on it after seeing it.

Especially when the author writes something fun or exciting... many readers can't help but either post their own comments or read others' comments.

This creates a more intense interaction while reading.

Even this interaction is real-time, facing a large group of book lovers.

This is actually quite similar to the function of bullet comments.

The reason why bullet comments are so attractive is...

Besides the series of reviews that everyone can see, its biggest feature is its powerful interactivity or immediacy.

It's like watching a movie.

What's the point of watching a movie alone?

It's more fun to watch a movie with a big group of people.

I used to watch videos, read novels... and most of the time I was alone.

Even if you finish watching and leave comments, these comments are not real-time and cannot record your feelings at the time.

This is the time to evaluate the machine.

It's like turning on the barrage of comments.

The most exciting, the most thrilling, the most fun part... and thousands of book lovers appeared instantly.

"Wow, that's fucking well written."

"The author is a genius, awesome, thumbs up!"

"The author is making suggestive remarks again."

These comments are not necessarily all positive things said about the author.

There were also some criticisms of the author.

"Author, I've already taken my pants off, and this is what you show me?"

"If I were here, I'd have several children by now."

"You've driven us crazy with worry."

It's not just about complaining.

There are also many paragraph and sentence comments that have resonated with countless people.

It's like a novel about rebirth.

A novel is a novel.

However, many readers, while reading this rebirth novel, also began to dream of being reborn, just like the author.

"If I were reborn, I would definitely buy penguin stock and buy a house."

"If it were me, I'd punch Mark Gor and kick Jack Ma."

"Sigh, it's over. I don't know anything. I don't know what I can do even after being reborn."

"Oh, so you can be reborn and write novels, without plagiarizing the works of the gods."

"Haha, that's a good idea."

Some of the comments were actually quite abusive.

Some of these criticisms come from readers who are criticizing the author.

Some readers even criticize other readers.

Some of these are fans who defend the author by criticizing the readers.

Some are even helping readers criticize the author.

Some authors even got involved and argued with readers.

Some authors even engaged in verbal battles with each other.

As for your question about how two authors could appear in the same book?
Too normal.

Besides writing books, authors also read books; in fact, a large number of authors read books.

Some authors, after finishing their own work, will also go to other works to offer criticism and suggestions.

Thus, this kind of banter arose.

"Haha, the section reviews on Qidian are so much fun."

"Yeah, I spent the whole day on Qidian Book Review, and I even had a PK with a bunch of people."

"I didn't, but I was just watching you guys fight each other, hahaha, I feel like your commentary is more interesting than reading a novel."

Yes.

If there were no paragraph comments.

It takes about 5 minutes, or even less, to read a chapter of a novel.

But after the paragraph comments were added.

Then the time spent reading will more than double.

Some works with more paragraph comments can sometimes take more than an hour to read just one chapter.

……

As for Chen Yang's new book that is currently being serialized.

The works of other authors also have many such comments.

Chen Yang's new book is so good that every single paragraph and sentence is worth 99+ points.

Uh...okay.

It started at 99+.

But there are actually more than 99 comments.

This is the starting point setting.

The original poster thought that 99 comments per paragraph was already a lot.

In no mood.

Chen Yang's new book broke 99+ views in just a few hours.

This is just the beginning.

Everyone knows.

Such paragraph reviews will continue.

In the future, other readers will continue to leave comments and reviews.

That night.

However, the data personnel at the starting point increased the number from 99 to 999+.

result.

In Chen Yang's new book, the number of comments on each paragraph has increased from 99+ to 999+.

"Wow, every paragraph has 999+, that's awesome."

"There are too many readers who don't praise the gods."

"What do you think? These are just readers from Qidian. If you really add readers from the entire internet, Qidian's servers might not be able to handle it."

"No way, it's just a short comment."

"It's not just about posting paragraph comments. Besides posting them, I heard from Qidian that a lot of readers of 'Bu Yangshen' have started frantically registering accounts because they saw the paragraph comment feature. With so many users registering at the same time, Qidian's servers are starting to struggle."

"Is Qidian's server really that bad? It crashes even when I'm registering an account?"

"It's not that bad. Just think about it: within a few hours, thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people are constantly posting comments and submitting registration applications. When such a data flow is released, it's like a hacker attack. Which company's servers can withstand that?"

"Thank goodness, Qidian was acquired by Tencent, and the servers were connected to Tencent's, which helped us withstand this wave of attacks."

Those unfamiliar with online literature may not understand the meaning of this passage.

In fact, many book lovers read books online, and besides having a lot of friends who read pirated versions, there are also many others who read books online.

There are even more people who don't even register an account.

Yes.

They just don't want to register.

Anyway, there are about 20 words of free chapters on Qidian's public platform.

You can watch it for free, and then you can watch pirated versions.

As long as they don't pay, it doesn't matter whether they register an account or not.

But now.

Because of the commentary.

And these paragraphs of commentary

Seeing that many friends were able to post comments, some book lovers who hadn't planned to register an account before suddenly started registering.

As for why you need to register, it's like seeing someone else post a comment but not being able to post one yourself.

How can this be tolerated.

Many users are itching to try it out.

Anyway, registering an account doesn't cost any money.

In order to send bullet comments, I also registered.

This performance has caused "Rebirth of the Urban Immortal" to start its rapid rise in popularity again, after it had entered a period of relative calm in terms of readership.

40 million.

50 million.

60 million.

70 million.

Such a rapid increase in collections has completely exceeded everyone's expectations.

"Bu Yangshen's new book has 70 favorites."

"I saw it. It already has 70 favorites before it's even officially released."

"Yes, I think it should get over 100 million favorites before it goes on sale."

“It’s more than 100 million, take another look.”

Collecting this kind of thing isn't anything special.

For those who are unfamiliar with it, collecting doesn't require money.

There is absolutely no difference between having a lot of collections and having a few.

On the surface, yes.

but.

Once a collection reaches a certain size, it becomes a money-printing machine.

It's almost fair to say that his collection of every phenomenal work is terrifying.

at this time.

The number of people adding "Rebirth of an Urban Immortal" to their collections continues to grow.

even.

His growth rate is much faster than before.

"80."

"90."

"100."

It didn't stop after it reached 100 million.

"110."

"120."

No wonder Chen Yang's new book has such impressive sales figures.

As the first person to start from scratch, he is the benchmark for the entire industry.

What do the markers represent?
This does not represent the entire industry.

This also means that Chen Yang has countless book lovers.

Sometimes you might think that there are only tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of readers who read the official version of the book.

but.

If you include those who watch pirated content...

That's millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions.

Even if we exclude different platforms.

This also excludes those friends who absolutely refuse to register an account.

But the remaining book lovers are still incredibly terrifying.

Previously, for many book lovers, it didn't matter whether they registered an account or not when reading Chen Yang's books.

You can see it anywhere anyway.

Especially Chen Yang's books.

You can see it in almost any corner of the internet.

And once they started registering for the section review... a flood of traffic poured in like a tidal wave.

"130 favorites".

"150 favorites".

"170 favorites".

"200 favorites".

"250 favorites".

"290 favorites".

……

"290 million favorites, my god, am I dreaming?"

"What do you say?"

"I feel like I'm dreaming, but why isn't the book in my dream mine?"

The number of 290 million favorites has truly shocked countless fellow authors in the industry.

"I want to ask, is 'Rebirth of an Urban Immortal' the most popular online novel right now?"

"Yes."

Is it even more popular than "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality"?

"Overall, it may be a bit worse, but currently, it's more popular than 'A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality'."

"Hey, didn't someone say before that the urban skill ceiling is low?"

"Hehe, as Bu Yangshen said, that's all in the past. Let me tell you a secret: just for the role of Chen Beixuan, a film and television company offered 3000 million."

"Nima..."

These figures have once again stirred everyone's interest.

However, the book lovers were not envious.

Although they knew it.

Their works are not as good as Chen Yang's.

However, every time Chen Yang's new book's IP rights explode, it brings them huge benefits.

Like some other authors who write about cities.

Many film and television companies have already extended offers to them.

Ok.

To know.

Previously, for authors who wrote about urban life, no matter how good their works were, they could only dream of obtaining IP rights.

Even for some top-tier authors, the IP rights are not high.

It's an urban setting, after all.

You write about superpowers and other things, who would dare to film that?

But now.

Under Chen Yang's influence.

The IP rights of urban fiction authors, however, have seen a surge in value.

“I think Chen Beixuan’s value is more than 3000 million.”

"Damn, bro, isn't 3000 million a lot?"

"It is certainly high. But, think about it, even if we don't have gods, there are still dragons and snakes."

"A dragon and a snake are dragons and snakes. Just because a dragon and a snake are incomparably valuable doesn't mean that other things can keep up."

"They're really keeping up. Haven't you all heard that DragonSnake 4 is getting a new hero?"

"You're not going to tell me that Chen Beixuan is going to appear in Dragon Snake 4, are you?"

“That’s right. When Bu Yang Shen was auctioning off the rights to Dragon Snake 4, he had already made a prediction.”

"I think I understand now. The online novel universe of Bu Yangshen is really coming."

Everyone felt an overwhelming surge of emotions within them.

Although some people mentioned back then that Chen Yang wanted to create an online novel universe.

Although many people did see it in the work.

However, many industry insiders also believe that the universes of novels and films are different.

Even if a novel can create a web novel universe, it may not be possible in the film and television industry.

But now.

There is a super IP like Dragon and Snake.

Many people could think of that.

All other IPs will be gradually promoted by Dragon and Snake.

It's like Iron Man leading a group of heroes in Marvel.

……

"When do you plan to release 'Unpraised God'?"

"How did you arrange it?"

"I was planning to put it on the shelves for you next week, but I'd like to postpone it for another week."

"To break 300 million favorites?"

"Hehe... I do have that plan."

Raccoon, who was promoted to editor-in-chief, sent Chen Yang a message.

Chen Yang smiled and replied, "Forget it, 300 million favorites and 290 million favorites are actually the same."

"Although they are the same, 300 million collections sounds better, and the slogan is more impressive."

"That makes sense. However, delaying the release by a week will mean losing a lot of royalties."

"Pfft... Bu Yangshen, what level are you at that? You still care about such low royalties?"

"I care too much."

to be frank.

Many people have always believed that a web novel can only make a fortune if its copyright is sold.

But actually, copyrights aren't that expensive.

For ordinary authors, copyrights can cost hundreds of thousands of yuan.

There are some in the millions, but that's not a lot relative to the overall number.

As for tens of millions, you can count them on your fingers.

but.

Based on Chen Yang's research on the current data.

He knew, however.

Even without copyright, just through subscriptions, it could potentially surpass countless copyright prices.

Just like the number one bestseller on Qidian in later years.

Every day, we make hundreds of thousands in sales.

Such sales can generate millions in royalties per month.

That's tens of millions a year.

With that kind of money, copyright issues are completely irrelevant.

This is also what Chen Yang believes to be the most valuable, stable, and widely accessible form of online literature.

Then again.

Why did Chen Yang write "Rebirth of an Urban Immortal"?
On the one hand, it's to make up for my own regrets.

on the other hand.

Chen Yang wanted to use a pure subscription model to push "Rebirth of an Urban Immortal" to its absolute peak. (End of Chapter)