I will never give in to Miss Death

The parent company of Yaedang Novel Network had been in poor management for a long time and had been losing money for a long time. As a result, the salaries of the editors of Yaedang Novel Network began to shrink. Under such circumstances, the boss's daughter seemed to need surgery or something, which would cost a lot of money. Then the boss took out all the company's assets and took out a loan, which caused the capital chain of the two companies to break instantly and Yaedang Novel Network went bankrupt.

The focus of their current discussion may be whether they should still defend their rights under this background.

Logically speaking, the boss's behavior is understandable. Any father would not hesitate to use all available resources if his daughter encountered such a thing. But from another perspective, the company employees, editors, and authors who were owed royalties are also innocent. No matter what the reason is for the boss to bankrupt the company, they also have the right to defend their rights.

Maybe Jiang Wei just doesn't want me to get involved in this kind of thing...

In everyone's eyes, I am just a little girl in my teens, and such things are a little too realistic for a child.

So Jiang Wei changed his previous attitude and just wanted to send me back home.

This feeling is somewhat similar to the scene in novels and anime... When a bloody and cruel scene appears, the powerful protagonist will cover the eyes of the child and take him away?

"I can just take the bus. It's not far."

After we went downstairs, we walked out of the Pearl Building in silence. Seeing that Jiang Wei was about to use his cell phone to call a taxi for me, I quickly stopped him: "The station is only a few hundred meters away, and there is a direct line."

Jiang Wei hesitated for a moment: "Taxis are safe."

"It's not safe at all. What if the taxi driver has bad intentions?"

I smiled and said, “The bus has so many people on it, it’s safer.”

"That's okay."

Jiang Wei seemed to think what I said made sense, so he put down his phone and said, "Shall I take you to the bus stop?"

"I'm not a child. How can I get lost in such a short distance?"

I rolled my eyes at him deliberately: "Do you think I act like a child when we play games?"

"Looks like... quite similar."

Jiang Wei scratched his head: "If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed. When we play games, you really give me the feeling of a little girl."

"Illusion, illusion."

After checking the rabbit backpack and the bag of clothes in my hand, I thought about it and put the backpack into the bag.

"Don't go out alone like this in the future, especially when meeting online friends. Don't trust anyone on the Internet."

Jiang Wei thought for a moment and asked, "Are you still writing a book? Which website?"

"Melon bag light novel."

"Oh, that one, it's the largest light novel website. If you can get your manuscript approved, you can get a full-time job. I'm quite familiar with that editor Rabbit. If you encounter any difficulties, you can come to me directly."

Hearing what I said, Jiang Wei seemed to be relieved: "Okay, go back, girls really need to pay attention to protecting themselves."

"As for the rights protection issue, don't worry too much. I will tell you if there is any new progress here."

"..."

……

No. 035 Like the ancient magic I dreamed of as a child

"The vehicle is entering the station. Please hold on to your seats. Next stop: Jianlongyuan Downward Road. Passengers who need to get off, please move to the back door and prepare to get off..."

I took the bus back along the same route. Because I was a little sleepy, I sat in the last row of the bus and closed my eyes against the window for a while.

My body as a little girl seems to be particularly sleepy now. My biological clock is very accurate and I want to sleep around 1 p.m. Just now when I was selling things in the Pearl Building, I was actually very sleepy. I was forcing myself to stay awake and talk to Pippi and the others the whole time.

I slept for more than nine hours last night, but I'm still sleepy...

In a daze, I heard the station name "Jianlongyuan Downward Road", forced myself to open my eyes, and yawned loudly in the chair.

Jianlongyuan Road is near my rental apartment. If I take a taxi from the intersection in front of the apartment to Mingzhu Square, I have to pass this road. When I come back, if the bus announces this stop name, it usually means... I'm almost home.

Ah, it can’t be called a home, it’s just a rental house.

I actually... don’t really understand what “home” means.

I lived in an orphanage when I was a child, lived in a dormitory when I went to school, and lived in a rental house after graduating from college.

I heard others say that home is where your family is.

Various magazines that produce inspirational quotes have also said...If your heart has no place to rest, it will be wandering everywhere.

If I have to say something, it's that I have always been walking forward in a daze, being chased by time.

When I reached the age, I went to school, attended classes and exams every day, and after completing all my studies in college, I entered society. Like most people, I first found a low-level job and rented a small house. My attitude towards love was to go with the flow, and because housing prices were too high, I didn't have a strong desire to buy a luxury villa or something like that.

This kind of personality has resulted in me never having been in a relationship and not having much savings even though I’m almost 30 years old.

If I hadn't met that Death Girl, even if I hadn't died suddenly at that time, I would probably still be running around looking for a job now...

"Ugh..."

After checking the things on my body, I stretched in my seat and looked out the window.

Now that I've received my royalties, and I still have more than a hundred dollars more than I planned, I'll have something delicious to eat tonight.

It’s a bit embarrassing to say this, but as an uncle, what I look forward to most every day is going to the market to buy vegetables in the evening and then going home to cook my favorite dishes.

I buy the groceries by myself and select them carefully. Then I use seasonings to make them into an exquisite dinner. Finally, I happily eat dinner on the cushions while watching the lovely Shishino at the dining table - this is the happiest moment of my day.

In the past few months after I lost my job, I discovered another thing: as a freelancer, I can go to the market earlier than ordinary office workers. I can buy all kinds of ingredients without having to wait until rush hour and squeeze with everyone else.

Now that I'm a little girl, cooking has become a lot more troublesome. For example, I have to use a small stool to reach the stove, and it takes more time than when I was an uncle to lift the knife to cut vegetables... But little girls' appetites are relatively smaller, so I can buy less when buying vegetables to save money.

And the biggest advantage is that girls nowadays are obviously in better physical and mental state than when they were older, and mental strength is very important for an author.

Of course... I don't like being a little girl, nor do I think being a girl is better than being an uncle. I'm just stating some... facts.

"I am back!"

After the bus arrived at the station, I walked along the zebra crossing back to the rental apartment and ran all the way to the third floor. I entered the password to open the door, and put the cute bunny backpack, a set of nightgown and socks in the closet in the room. I felt the urge to defecate, so I went to the bathroom and took off my pants out of habit...

——Then he reached out and grabbed nothing.

Well, girls’ bodies also have many inconveniences.

After solving my physiological problem in a somewhat depressed mood, I returned to my computer desk and pressed the power button.

[I've finished reading this, it's a cliché, I've given up on it]

[What kind of pen name is this author? Isn't it too vulgar? ]

[Come to support from the group, we promised 1000 subscriptions for women's clothing, uncle, don't break your promise when the time comes]

[The plot is okay, when will it be updated? ]

After turning on the computer, I almost immediately clicked on Miguabao Novel Website and went into the author’s backstage to check out the comments and complaints about the novel.

This is also my little happy moment every day.

As an author, I carefully savor every message, every comment, and every barrage from readers. Seeing praise and compliments often makes me happy for a long time, while those that are critical, dissatisfied, or even abusive will make me depressed for a long time - this is life, you never know what will happen tomorrow, and you never know how much malice those passers-by readers will have towards you when you open your computer every day.

However, life and writing books are often colorful because of these contents. As the saying goes... the ups and downs, laughter and anger are all part of life.

The collection of this book on the first day was 29, which is a relatively ordinary start.

Apart from very unstable genres like transformation novels, the collection-subscription ratio for ordinary authors of works with male protagonists is about 10 to 1 or 15 to 1. For authors like me who are relatively new, I estimate that the collection-subscription ratio will be around 20 to 1, which means that only one reader will be willing to subscribe for every 20 collections. Based on this number, I can infer that if I want to achieve an average subscription of 1, I will need at least 1000 collections to achieve this goal, and this is based on the normal development of the book.

What does 2 collections mean? For example, if I publish a book today and it has 29 collections, and if I continue to update it every day at this rate, it will take 689 days to reach 2 collections without any recommendation.

Generally, the new book period is one month. If calculated based on 30 days, 30 collections per day, and 2000 or 4000 words updated every day, then after 30 days, the book will have 6 or 12 words, and about 900 collections.

At this time, the editor will give a trial recommendation, which usually lasts for three days, and can increase the number of collections by about 500 every day, for a total of 1500 collections. After the first month, the book has passed the new book period and has about 2000 to 3000 collections. When it is put on the shelves, it will be given another small recommendation, pushing the number of collections to 5000. According to the collection-subscription ratio of Xianyu authors, 20 collections equals 1 subscription, so when it is put on the shelves, there will be about 250 subscriptions, which is four times the goal of 1000.

250 subscriptions. Currently, the subscription price of Miguabao light novels is 5 cents for 1000 words. If you are a high-level VIP, you can get a 5% or 2000% discount. According to the most expensive 1 cents, a chapter of 250 words is 15 cents. The website and the author share the profit 45% and 1500% respectively. The author's income comes from subscriptions. One person earns 500 cents for subscribing to a chapter of the novel. With 2500 subscriptions, the author earns yuan. Assuming I update three times a day, I earn yuan, which is about yuan a month, and yuan for full attendance. Add in some rewards from caring readers and monthly ticket income, and my estimated monthly royalties are around yuan.

In other words... based on this opening, I can already see the future of this book.

In fact, it makes sense that the editors of those big websites refused to sign this book. After all, a book that only charges one or two thousand yuan for monthly subscription even if it is put on the shelves, and the website has to pay hundreds of yuan for full attendance, is very tasteless. It is a pity to throw it away. It doesn't matter whether to sign it or not. If you sign it, the website won't earn much traffic. If you don't sign it, the book won't become a masterpiece anyway, so there is no loss.

But when writing novels, the most important thing is participation.

I am not some high-end or popular author. The right thing to do is to keep my feet on the ground and write about my own things.

【Thank you for your support! 】

[Pen name doesn’t matter, just read books, read books]

[1000 orders will get women's clothing, but it looks like there's no chance anymore, hehe]

Because the website has an anti-screen spamming setting, when the author replies, the interval between the previous and next comments must be more than 3 minutes, otherwise the reply will be invalid. It took me almost ten minutes to reply to the messages from novel readers, then I stretched on the computer desk, took the pen and paper on the side, and tried to write down the three words "Yin Nuoer".

Sure enough...even the font has changed, just as I thought before.

I looked at the cute lolita font on the letterhead paper on my desk and fell into a brief contemplation.

Fonts, swimming, cycling, these are all part of "muscle memory" and will not change just because I am the soul of an uncle. My own font style is probably designed by the god of death. Now I can no longer write in the same flamboyant style as before. No matter how hard I try to make my handwriting sloppy, it's still that... soft loli style.

"..."

Forget it, let’s not worry about this for now. The right thing to do is to write and save the drafts.

I stood up and got myself a glass of water from the kettle. Then I returned to my computer chair, stretched out my hands and patted the chubby little face twice.

--come on.

No. 036 Our youth is engraved on the ring

I spent the entire afternoon typing away in my small rental apartment.

This May, the average temperature in Kamihama City has reached over 25°, the air is filled with the smell of roasted earth, and it is extremely hot and stuffy.

Under normal circumstances, as an old man, I would probably be sweating profusely even if I sit naked for a while. However, the little girl's body did not seem to be very sensitive to the heat, or petite children are generally more resistant to heat and afraid of cold. In short, the temperature is still within my tolerable range. Except for the little sweat that occurs when my little hands cannot keep up with my brain's thinking speed due to my frequent thoughts, I did not feel particularly hot.

This is actually a good thing for me.

Because I really can't bear to turn on the air conditioner. It consumes several kilowatt-hours of electricity for one hour, which is enough to buy a few bottles of Coke.

Writing novels requires a certain level of talent. This profession is different from most routine jobs. If you have poor talent, you cannot make a living from this. Authors with average talent can slowly accumulate readers and fans through hard work, but the upper limit is very low. Only those who are very talented and can see at a glance what everyone wants to read in this era can easily get rich by writing books.

To put it bluntly, this thing is the same as "business acumen", "musical talent" and "artistic talent".

The reason why I thought of "talent" is that during the past two days of typing, I found that my ideas and inspirations are almost endless, which is a world of difference compared to my uncle's time.

This makes me wonder if the god of death deliberately maxed out the skill of "literary talent" when he created this body.

So what was she planning to do? Wasn't it just to punish me? To turn me into a girl and give me a boost in my career?

[Uncle, I read your new book. It’s off to a good start, much better than your last book.]

[Indeed, the previous book was too bland, but this one at least has a beginning that makes people want to read on]

【Uncle, move quickly! 】

【YYKDA! 】

I typed for forty minutes, then stopped for ten minutes, went to the window to breathe some fresh air, looked into the distance, listened to some music and took a break, then continued to type for another forty minutes. I also chatted with everyone in the book club and answered their various questions about the new book. An afternoon passed like this uneventfully.

The heroine of my first book is called "Yin Nuoer". Everyone in the reader group knows her, but because the word "Yin" is very similar to "Yi", some people don't know how to pronounce it, and people often pronounce it as "Yin Nuoer". Later, in order to make a deep impression on new readers, the old readers in the group would just call her "Yin Yin" or "Yi Yi".

Afterwards, I don’t know if this group of people saw the picture that said “There are no girls in our group, but we need girls, so we have to create girls artificially”, but they forced me, the “uncle” author, to be a girl, that is, the heroine of the novel, Yin Nuoer, and started playing role-playing games. A large group of people expressed their desire to be the protagonist of the novel “The Little Yellow-haired Minotaur”, and often joked with me in the group, saying things like “Yiyi, has your husband left?”, “When will your wife Yin Yin update?”, “Yin Yin, hurry up” and so on.

Gradually, this trend developed into that whenever I didn't update or show up in the group, someone would send a message saying "Yin Yin, hurry up and update your novel", which meant both "Your novel is updated too slowly, hurry up and update more", and also meant to tease "Yin Yin, come up and move yourself"... It felt quite erotic.

In the end, this group of guys were too lazy to even type the complete sentence "Yin Yin, move quickly", and it turned it into pinyin abbreviations like "YYKDA" and "EEKDA". Every time I updated a chapter of my novel, someone would post a comment in the comments at the end.

I remember that when I recommended the novel not long ago, a lot of new readers came. Because they couldn’t understand the meaning of the pinyin at the end, they specially posted a reward on Baidu Knows. The most outrageous thing is that someone actually answered it.

[I’m writing, I’m writing. I can’t update too quickly during the new book period. Otherwise, if no one recommends it, the editor will beat me to death.]

[And what does "quick move" mean? Be serious! ]

[Give me today's monthly vote for you guys! ]

I don’t really mind readers posting all kinds of memes or fast-motion comments in the comment section or complain section of a novel.

Rather... I hope they brush more.

For a novel, in addition to data such as clicks, collections, likes, and monthly tickets, comments and barrage are also one of the evaluation criteria.

Even comments and barrages are more important than clicks and collections in the eyes of editors. After all, clicks and collections can be boosted by robots and internet trolls, while comments and complaints are more "real".

If a book has many comments and complaints, it proves that the readership is high and there are many active readers. They are not "dead collectors" nor "book lovers who just keep reading after a while". These data can be seen by the editor's backend. The high activity of a book proves that there are many readers who are following it. The higher the popularity of the book, the higher the "weight" of the book in the editorial department. In the future, if there are recommendations or audio or comic adaptations, books with very active readers will be given priority.