Reborn, I achieved legendary status with a single book.

Chapter 98: Tomato's "Stellar Transformation".

After the college entrance examination, there will be a nearly three-month break.

Chen Yang asked his parents to install an internet cable.

The parents did not object and called the telecommunications company staff over that same day.

Chen Yang withdrew most of the money he had earned during this period from the bank.

The total is 9 yuan.

The 6 yuan was the royalties paid by Qidian.

The other 3 was royalties from the three books published in Taiwan.

Actually, I still haven't received my royalties for another month.

That's last month's royalties.

However, on Qidian (a Chinese online literature platform), the royalties for the previous month are usually paid out around the 12th of the following month.

"Son, what's wrong?"

When Chen Yang placed 9 yuan in front of his parents' table.

The parents were stunned.

They didn't know where Chen Yang got the money.

Chen Yang had already thought of an explanation.

He laid out all his previous writings, and also brought out his published traditional Chinese version of "The Great World".

"Dad, Mom, look, this is the novel I published."

"Don't worry, writing novels hasn't interfered with my studies."

"This 9 yuan is from my writing fees, and I can earn even more in the future. Mom and Dad, please take it."

In addition, Chen Yang also offered some suggestions to his parents.

He believes that Xinfeng is not a major timber-producing area.

Secondly, it doesn't involve much advanced technology.

You can only make a small amount of money selling furniture here.

If you make even the slightest move, you could suffer a huge loss.

That's how my dad lost money before.

Chen Yang suggested that his parents stop doing furniture business, but his father said that he had been doing furniture business for most of his life and didn't know how to do anything else.

Chen Yang suggested that his parents buy a piece of mountain land to grow navel oranges.

Navel oranges are a specialty of southern Jiangxi.

That is, oranges.

The soil here is rich in rare earth elements, which makes the navel oranges grown here large and sweet.

Xinfeng is also the place with the best soil quality in southern Jiangxi.

Mountain bikes aren't very expensive right now.

The full value of navel oranges has not yet been discovered.

Let's wait a few more years.

Navel oranges that currently sell for only a few cents per kilogram will eventually sell for four or five dollars.

If it's retail, then it's even higher.

Later, Nongfu Spring set up a navel orange factory in Xinfeng to sell premium navel oranges.

It can sell for more than ten yuan per kilogram.

Now is the prime time to start planting navel oranges.

My parents said they would think it over carefully.

Chen Yang didn't say anything more.

He only offered suggestions; if his father really didn't like the planting industry, Chen Yang wouldn't force his parents.

……

The writer training program on Qidian.com has released its announcement.

The date is June 15th.

They even bought round-trip plane tickets for Chen Yang in advance.

Chen Yang made some preparations.

After all, if you go there, you have to say something.

How can you be a mentor if you don't say anything?

of course.

Qidian (the company behind Qidian) has recently been involved in more than just training courses.

With the rise of a series of works on Qidian, Qidian's traffic has been hitting new highs every day.

Based on the original prediction from the starting point.

Their traffic should increase by 30% this year.

Take a look now.

At least a 50% increase.

This is due to factors beyond the rapid development of the domestic internet.

The biggest factor is the emergence of a series of online literary masterpieces.

Among these works, Chen Yang's "The Vast World" stands out as one of the most representative, and it was very popular with readers.

To this end, Qidian has also optimized the VIP payment channels.

Compared to the vast internet in China.

In 07, it started as a very small website.

He doesn't have his own communication tools, his own payment system, or much data.

Therefore, his VIP model did not develop so smoothly.

The most immediate problem is the inconvenience of payment.

The starting point in 07 was unlike that of later generations.

In the era before smartphones, making payments was actually quite a hassle.

Currently, the most convenient way to recharge on Qidian is through online banking.

However, not everyone has online banking now.

Actually, there is something even more convenient than online banking: paying via mobile SMS.

Mobile phone SMS payment is relatively easy.

However, China Mobile and China Unicom will take a 4% handling fee.

In other words.

If you recharge 100 yuan, you only have 60 yuan left at the starting point.

The 40 yuan goes into the pocket of the telecommunications company.

Faced with such handling fees.

This also deterred a number of readers who wanted to pay to become legitimate readers.

Of course, there is another way: to recharge via bank transfer.

That is, going to the bank to fill out a remittance form.

This looks very primitive.

However, when Qidian was just starting out, quite a few people actually became Qidian VIP users by sending money.

Another option is to pay with Shanda's prepaid cards.

After Qidian was acquired by Shanda in 2004, Qidian was also able to use Shanda Pass.

Using Shanda Points cards for top-ups has actually expanded Qidian's business.

However, these services are extremely inconvenient.

to this end.

The Qidian team has been preparing to work with telecommunications companies to overcome their challenges.

Hopefully they can lower some of the transaction fees.

At the same time, it has also begun to integrate with a series of payment tools such as Alipay.

……

On Chen Yang's side.

Now that he's on holiday, he's working at least four hours a day.

It can easily explode to 1 words.

This has made readers who could only read two chapters a day before incredibly happy during this period.

Also.

June 12th.

Qidian conducted its 11th Qidian Sanjiang Pavilion exclusive interview.

The author of this interview is Flash.

That's the one who updated all at once, causing the Qidian server to crash.

"Hello, Flashy Master."

"Hello to you as well." "Your recent work, 'Sea Soul,' can be considered a representative work that has broken into the mainstream of the military field. However, according to data analysis, your work did not have many readers before it broke into the mainstream."

"Yes, back then, the monthly royalties were around 500 yuan, or even less."

Have you ever thought about stopping writing?

"Have."

"So what made you keep going?"

"I just have this competitive spirit, I want to give it my all. So I started stockpiling manuscripts, hoping to produce 10 words a day, I wanted more people to see my work. If by then no one reads my work, then I'll give up."

"Blink, your efforts have paid off."

"Thank you. But compared to many of my seniors, I'm still far from good enough."

Chen Yang also read the author's interview with Shan Shuo.

He greatly admires authors like Flash.

Judging from Shanyao's current state, Chen Yang sent her countless flowers during the Sanjiang Pavilion interview.

The flashing characters represent the vast majority of authors on Qidian.com.

Chen Yang back then was actually quite similar to Shan Shuo.

He does have some talent, but not much.

It's just ordinary.

But no one gave up and persisted in this industry.

Of course, it's not that I haven't considered abandoning the project or not writing it at all.

But it was this indomitable spirit that kept me going.

Perhaps Flash didn't manage to write those blockbuster works.

But online, he left many traces of himself.

Not to mention anything else.

Many times, after finishing writing, I look at the titles of chapters in the table of contents.

Chen Yang felt a surge of relief.

I wrote all of these myself.

These, several thousand words a day, tens of thousands of words... all added up.

It suddenly became hundreds of thousands of words.

If it continues serialized for a while longer, it will reach over a million words, or even several million words.

Chen Yang wrote for more than ten years in his previous life.

He calculated that he had written approximately 3000 million words.

In this case.

Let's not even talk about grades.

Let's start by setting a small target.

It probably exceeds the 3000 million words I wrote in my previous life.

……

Far away in Jiangsu, there is a boy named "Tomato".

I am a junior in college.

In high school, he wrote a novel called "Legend of Star Peak".

Although the results were not particularly outstanding.

But as Tomato's first online novel, this novel has brought him a continuous source of strength.

After sophomore year.

Tomato created his second work, "A Glimpse of Light".

This work is the first of its kind.

It broke the subscription record at the time.

It's not a category record, it's a general category record.

This book was also completed a few months ago.

After it ends.

The tomatoes rested for a while.

He is preparing to create his third work.

In order to fully dedicate himself to creating his third work, Tomato applied for a leave of absence from school.

Although the school didn't understand it at the time, and my parents didn't support it either.

But Tomato still requested a leave of absence from school.

After a period of rest.

Tomato picked up the pen again.

He prepared a completely new story.

The story is called "Stellar Transformation".

The birth of Stellar Transformation was a major event for Qidian.

Although he is not like Buddha who is the Tao, or infinitely terrifying... who created a completely new school of thought as soon as he appeared.

But on the first day of the publication of "Stellar Transformation".

He then achieved the top spot on the weekly new book chart, the weekly recommendation chart, and the weekly click chart... achieving the top ranking on three charts.

Such results.

Even Chen Yang, who is currently at the moment, has never won it.

On the first day of Tomato's book launch, Chen Yang also started reading "Stellar Transformation".

It still tastes the same.

It's still the same tomato.

Chen Yang knew.

If "Inch of Light" established his divine status...

Then.

"Stellar Transformation" is truly meant to make Tomato a household name.

There's a saying from a past life.

If you haven't read *Stellar Transformation*, you can't call yourself a bookworm.

That's a bit of an exaggeration.

But this shows the influence of Tomato's "Stellar Transformation".

In a novel, that would be a chosen one blessed with great fortune.

Some time in the future.

Chen Yang might just meet Tomato on the overall monthly ticket ranking.

but.

This should be several months from now.

If it was before.

Chen Yang may still have some concerns.

They even felt that they might not be able to beat him in a PK.

but now.

Chen Yang, on the contrary, became somewhat expectant.

He really wanted to meet Tomato on the monthly ticket ranking list.

Just don't know.

This day in the future.

Will Tomato win, or will I be able to defeat this chosen one?
This is quite an exciting thing.

……

6 month 14 number.

Chen Yang said goodbye to his parents, saying he was going to Shanghai.

After his parents gave him some instructions to be careful, Chen Yang went to Ganzhou to catch a plane to Shanghai.

the other side.

The authors in the Qidian Training Program also started their journey from all over the country.

Thirty-two, Tiger, Dangdang, Lao Wang, Sleeping Aunt, Liao Shuhua, Xiao Chao, Wuma Xing... also set off.

Other authors who went to Shanghai also posted several articles on SkyNet.

[Departure, to Shanghai.]

[Starting Point Training Program, here I come!]

[I'm so excited, I'm finally going to see the God of No Blindness!]

I'm going to listen carefully to the lectures and become a god when I get back.

Brothers, let me confirm for you whether Bu Yang Shen is indeed a 17-year-old boy.

(End of this chapter)