Is not being able to do as you please also called rebirth?

Chapter 20: Rookie King

After finishing their noodles, Jiang Xun and Yang Kaiyi walked to school together, a journey of only about ten minutes.

Jiang Xun casually wrapped her coat around her waist, holding two ice cream cones and taking a bite from each.

The ice cream cone is still 2 yuan, just like it was more than ten years later.

Yang Kaiyi also held one in her hand, sticking out her pink tongue to lightly lick the cream.

Her eyes darted left and right in a slightly flustered manner, her face flushed slightly, and she deliberately kept a certain distance from Jiang Xun.

Their handsome man and beautiful woman combination is already very eye-catching. If acquaintances saw them, they would most likely assume they were dating.

Jiang Xun didn't care, but Yang Kaiyi, a good student and obedient girl, was naturally afraid of being seen by her teachers and classmates.

The main thing is, they really did seem to be on a date today.

We studied together in the park, squeezed onto the bus together to eat noodles, and now we're eating ice cream cones together and walking to school together.

This was Yang Kaiyi's first time doing these things with a boy. Although the process seemed quite enjoyable, it made her feel a little flustered.

And as she got closer to the school, she became even more nervous.

Just then, Jiang Xun waved to her and said, "You go in first, I'll go to the bookstore to borrow a couple of books."

"Oh, okay." Yang Kaiyi nodded, secretly relieved.

After waving goodbye to Jiang Xun, she walked briskly towards school, eating her ice cream cone.

Jiang Xun browsed around the bookstore casually but didn't borrow any books. He hadn't finished reading the two books he borrowed last time, and he had been working on his Chinese textbook recently.

He arrived at the school gate right on time, and by sheer coincidence, he ran into Chen Shixuan again.

Calculating the time, it turns out the third monthly exam is just around the corner.

In fact, art students don't necessarily have to come back to take the monthly exams, but Chen Shixuan seems to have never missed one.

It's clear that she studies very hard on her own, otherwise she wouldn't have consistently scored above the second-tier university cutoff in every exam.

Although it is late autumn, the temperature is not low today, so Chen Shixuan is still dressed in a rather light outfit.

She wore a black fitted short-sleeved T-shirt that covered her perky, full chest, while exposing her fair and slender arms.

She wore loose black sweatpants, but they still couldn't hide her long, slender legs.

Today, she also had her black hair loose, and her fair face had delicate and beautiful features.

However, unlike Yang Kaiyi's elegant almond-shaped eyes, she has a pair of alluring fox-like eyes that seem to be radiating charm at everyone she looks at.

"Jiang Xun!" Chen Shixuan's eyes widened in surprise when she saw Jiang Xun.

"What a coincidence, Da Xuanzi, we meet again at the school gate." Jiang Xun looked at Chen Shixuan with a smile. "You didn't wait here just for me, did you?"

"Dream on." Chen Shixuan rolled her eyes charmingly, then quickly walked up to him and poked his bare arm.

"These are real muscles!" Chen Shixuan's eyes lit up, and she immediately used both hands to exclaim.

"Hey, hey, don't touch me like that!" Seeing that she was about to put her hand on her chest, Jiang Xun quickly took a step back.

"Just touch it, just once." Chen Shixuan blinked her foxy eyes, her voice sweet and charming as she flirted.

"I'm not a casual person," Jiang Xun said with an upright expression, arms crossed, then changed the subject, "Unless, it's an equal exchange."

"You pervert!" Chen Shixuan's pretty face flushed red, and she immediately dared not continue.

"What have you been up to lately? How come you've gotten such a great figure?" Chen Shixuan asked curiously as the two walked into the school side by side.

As she spoke, her gaze couldn't help but drift towards Jiang Xun's chest and abdomen, clearly dissatisfied that she hadn't been able to touch his pectoral and abdominal muscles.

“It’s normal development. You’ve gotten bigger too.” Jiang Xun glanced at her big bear and immediately distanced herself from her.

"You big pervert!" Chen Shixuan was filled with embarrassment and anger, and she clenched her little fists, ready to punch Jiang Xun.

The two chased each other into the classroom, which undoubtedly attracted the attention of the classmates, who couldn't help but feel envious.

The boys were naturally envious of Jiang Xun, while the girls were starting to envy Chen Shixuan. Only Yang Kaiyi, who had been happily chatting with Xie Xiaoqian, suddenly stopped smiling and reverted to her usual calm demeanor.

After class started, Lao Zhu entered the classroom, held a brief class meeting, and then announced the exam room assignments for the monthly exam.

In this monthly exam, Jiang Xun's ranking jumped from 9th to 1st, and he ended up in the same exam room as Yang Kaiyi.

The difference is that Yang Kaiyi's seat number is 7, while Jiang Xun's is 12.

As for Chen Shixuan, although her scores improved in the last monthly exam, they were still hovering around the teens.

After evening self-study, Jiang Xun rushed out of the classroom, heading straight for Xingkong Internet Cafe.

……

From 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., only ten hours had passed.

When Jiang Xun opened the author's backend in the internet cafe, he was shocked to see that the first chapter had reached an astonishing 8200+ subscriptions!

The other two chapters also reached 8000+, which is considered an average of 8000 subscriptions per chapter.

Keep in mind this was 2010. Getting 5000 initial orders would be considered a huge success, and even getting 3000 average orders would be difficult. Getting over 10,000 average orders would be extremely rare.

Unlike more than a decade later, when first-time orders easily exceed 10,000 and average orders easily reach 100,000.

Jiang Xun's book was released without any promotion and gained over 8000 subscriptions in just ten hours, which is truly remarkable.

This also proves the book's popularity, since market feedback is the most authentic indicator.

"Da Feng" is a phenomenal work that achieved an average subscription of 20 in later generations. Even today, its performance would not be bad.

Jiang Xun began to have some expectations: in another ten hours or so, would it be possible for the first subscription to break ten thousand?

At this moment, Jiang Xun logged into QQ, and a series of message notifications sounded.

Among them, the editor Wogua posted the most, sending dozens of messages in a row, his excitement evident in his words.

After Jiang Xun replied to the message, Wogua replied almost instantly, and the two chatted on QQ for more than half an hour.

Wogua confidently told him that as long as he didn't mess up later on, the book's average subscriptions should easily exceed 10,000.

They might even be contenders for this year's Rookie of the Year!

The Newcomer King is the author who received the most monthly votes among all new authors throughout the year.

The book "The Watchman of Qin" has already surpassed 1,000 monthly votes within 10 hours of being released, entering the third place on the monthly vote chart!

The top-ranked book is Snail's "The Thief's Journey," followed by "Battle Through the Heavens," and then "The Night Watchman."

Even works like "Devouring" and "Evil Monarch" are ranked lower, which shows how popular this book is right now, after all, the list is full of works by top authors.

As the editor Wogua said, as long as Jiang Xun's book doesn't fall apart later on, it should have no problem challenging for this year's Best Newcomer award.

After chatting with Wogua, Jiang Xun went back to the author's backend and refreshed the subscription page several times.

Seeing that the subscription numbers for each chapter were still rising at a considerable pace, he was very excited.

After all, this is just small change. If the average subscriptions can reach 10,000, the monthly income from subscription revenue sharing and reward guarantees alone could be close to 100,000!
Jiang Xun has everything he needs now, except for money.

Without money, he had to be careful even when trying to pick up girls. Today, treating Yang Kaiyi to a bowl of mutton rice noodles with extra meat cost him half a week's allowance.

Fortunately, the royalties for October will be coming in a few days, although it will only be a share of the tips.

But the five alliance leaders, plus a dozen grandmasters, and a bunch of sect leaders and elders, probably add up to tens of thousands of dollars.

This was his first payment for writing, so he was naturally full of anticipation.

　I'm eagerly awaiting your reading of this new book!!! Please recommend it, I'll do anything!!

(End of this chapter)