Peninsula: I run a bed and breakfast on Jeju Island

She tried using a translation tool and finally got a general idea.

While it may not be considered faithful, expressive, or elegant, at least I can understand the meaning of a few chapters of Li Ran's novel.

She sat on the sofa and started reading.

Li Ran continued peeling oranges beside her.

These oranges are quite sweet; he's already eaten several.

However, there are quite a lot of seeds, and eating too much can easily cause internal heat.

There were apples and other things on the coffee table, but he didn't even glance at them.

How so?

He always felt that apples were a very "boring" fruit, a "backup plan" when he really had nothing else to eat.

After eating several oranges, he felt full.

He rubbed his fingers together, feeling that his hands were a little sticky after peeling so many oranges.

Even wiping with toilet paper wasn't enough to get it clean, so Li Ran got up and went to the bathroom to wash her hands.

When he shook the water off his hands and came out, he found that Lee Ji-eun was still staring intently at her phone.

It seems this novel is quite appealing to her?

Li Ran blinked.

After a while, Lee Ji-eun finally raised her head.

"Finished reading?" Li Ran tilted her head slightly as she looked at her.

"Yes." She nodded.

"How was it? Give me a rating!"

"My assessment is, why aren't you hurrying up and updating?" Lee Ji-eun stared at him with her arms crossed.

"Uh..." Li Ran scratched his eyebrows.

Has he created a reader who can urge him to update anytime and is a real person to him offline?

She doesn't even need to send razor blades; she can just grab any kitchen knife from the kitchen.

"Four thousand words a day is my limit. I just can't write any more!" he said bitterly.

"So short?" Lee Ji-eun raised an eyebrow.

"Hey! You can urge me to update, but don't resort to personal attacks! I'm quite confident in myself!" he said, somewhat dissatisfied.

Seemingly realizing the ambiguity in her words, Lee Ji-eun pursed her lips and then subconsciously glanced at it.

cough cough.

"If I were you, I wouldn't be able to sleep at all until I've finished writing every day," she said.

"Tch." Li Ran curled her lip.

Ok?

Seeing his expression, Lee Ji-eun raised her eyebrows.

"You write novels every day, how much do you earn in a month?" she suddenly asked.

What do you mean?

He scratched his head and took out his phone to check the backend of the writer's assistant app.

"I'm currently in the free period and haven't officially launched the app yet. My income comes entirely from tips. Let me check the tips I've received so far: a total of 69.99 yuan. I've only received half, which is a little over 30 yuan. That's about 7,000 to 8,000 Korean won."

"Once it's published, we'll have to see how well it performs in terms of subscriptions. There's a guaranteed minimum of 1500 for the first three months with full attendance bonus. After that, there's a full attendance bonus of 1000 yuan per month that you can only receive if you meet certain performance requirements."

He roughly calculated that "it would be around 200,000 won at the very least."

"The maximum amount depends on the specific subscription performance."

"Why are you suddenly asking this?" he asked curiously.

Upon hearing this, Lee Ji-eun didn't reply, but instead took out her phone and started operating it.

Seeing her action, Li Ran felt a sudden surge of anticipation.

Could it be...?

"Ding-dong~"

His phone vibrated.

₩2,000,000

One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand...

He looked down and counted the string of zeros that appeared on the screen.

The last time he saw so many zeros was in a famous city.

Two million Korean won!

That works out to over 11,000 yuan!

"What does this mean?" He glanced at the screen, then at Lee Ji-eun, somewhat uncertain.

"I'll give you two million won a month, and I won't ask for much more. Just send it to me as soon as you finish writing. Four thousand words is too little."

"I don't care how many chapters you publish. I just want to see the latest ones, you know what I mean?" She looked at Li Ran, her index finger lightly rubbing her chin.

"I understand! Of course I understand! I get what you mean!"

Li Ran immediately revealed a fawning smile.

"Don't worry. I'll personally translate the latest chapter into Korean and forward it to you as soon as I finish writing it," he said, patting his chest.

Listening to his still noticeably accented Korean, Lee Ji-eun shook her head. "Forget it. I feel like your Korean translation is worse than a machine translation."

"Don't waste my writing time looking back. I still need to read the latest chapter."

Li Ran was not angry upon hearing this.

My workload has decreased, but my pay hasn't decreased either, so why be angry? I'm overjoyed!

Does this mean I've been taken advantage of?

Didn't he say before that he doesn't really like being a kept man, feeling that it's sticky and doesn't taste good?

He wanted to say that he knew absolutely nothing back then!

Soft rice is the ultimate rice!

Really fragrant!

Li Ran's smile stretched almost to her ears.

Two million Korean won a month—it sounds wonderful!

"I'll go start writing now," he said, waving his phone.

Lee Ji-eun shook her head. "There's no need to force in fluff for the sake of quantity. Just focus on writing good content."

"As long as you don't deliberately delay or stop updating, and send me the latest content on time, the money will be transferred to you on time every month."

"I promise to keep updating! No filler content! No slacking off!"

Li Ran immediately sat up straight, her attitude becoming exceptionally upright.

Just kidding, the person in front of him is his sugar daddy!

She raised an eyebrow and looked away.

Only then did she realize that there was only one orange left on the coffee table.

All that was left were a few red apples.

She clearly remembered having a lot of oranges on the coffee table before she started reading the novel.

She glanced at the overflowing trash can, a knowing look flashing in her eyes.

"You really like eating oranges?"

Li Ran glanced in the direction of her gaze, then smiled awkwardly, "It's alright."

Have I almost finished eating all the oranges?

It seems like Lee Ji-eun didn't eat much?

"I'll buy some more this afternoon. What would you like to eat?" he asked.

"That's not what I meant. Anyway, you bought them all." She shook her head.

"I see you've planted quite a lot of things in your yard, like tomatoes, cucumbers, and leafy greens."

Haven't you thought about growing some fruit trees?

"Grow fruit?" He blinked.

Li Ran followed her gaze and glanced into the yard. "It's not that we haven't thought about it, but the main problem is that fruit has a long cycle. Tomatoes and cucumbers can be harvested in one season, but fruit has to wait for several years."

"As for fruit trees, like apples and pears, you won't see any fruit for at least three or four years after planting them."

Lee Ji-eun thought for a moment, "What about strawberries?"

"Strawberries must have a relatively short growing season, right?" She blinked. "And it seems like the climate here in Jeju Island is quite suitable for growing strawberries."

Li Ran raised an eyebrow. "You know about these things?"

"I've seen it before!"

"I see." He rested his chin on his hand and looked out the window. There was a vacant patch of land against the wall in the yard. "Is it too late to plant strawberries now?"

"I don't know about that, you'll have to look it up yourself." She shook her head.

Li Ran took out her phone and searched for a while. She glanced at the results and said, "In Jeju Island, they usually plant in the fall. It's only March now, so we'll have to wait until the second half of the year to plant."

"Then you still have time to prepare," Lee Ji-eun nodded, "If you plant strawberries then, maybe you can eat them around this time next year."

He put his phone down. "That will take a long time."

"That's how growing things is," she tilted her head slightly, "Your tomatoes took a long time to ripen too."

Li Ran turned to look at the empty space outside the window, thought for a while, and then searched for strawberry planting methods.

He flipped through two pages and then saved it to his favorites.