I will never give in to Miss Death

Only by passing through the entire artisan area, crossing the largest lake in Kamihama City, "Kamihama Lake", and heading east can you reach the "tourist zone" Daito District.

If I must say, there is indeed a ring road that passes through the Central District and the Dadong District, but because the journey is so far, even if you take a taxi and go straight along this road, it will take at least 40 minutes.

What's more, I'm in my current condition... If possible, I would rather not go out, as it's too attractive. I'd rather go to comic conventions or other places with a high concentration of two-dimensional elements.

What's there at the convention? Stalls selling merchandise? Cosplayers? Strangers? Cameramen with cameras ready to take photos of me and post them online?

There are.

[Can't you come over? We should have Labor Day holidays these days, right? ]

Just like before, even though it was already evening and past the editor’s working hours, the rabbit editor still responded to my question:

[We have already told the guy in charge of contracts, and he has even printed your contract for you, but the boss had a meeting at noon, and the guy in charge of this area went on a business trip, and he will not be back until the end of the month.]

[Our suggestion is that if you can come, just come to the comic exhibition. On the day of signing, we can change the status of your novel to signed. If you really can't come, we can only bring that guy back to send it to you by express delivery, but we don't have the authority to do so.]

What a strange division of labor you have!

Looking at the editor's reply, I feel speechless.

Do I need permission to send a novel contract? Do I not need permission if I just walk over and sign the contract?

If the person responsible for sending the contract does not come back until the end of the month, let's not talk about whether the Grim Reaper will come tomorrow to acknowledge the novel contract. When I send the contract over, it will probably be June before the novel is signed, and all my monthly ticket income and full attendance in May will be gone.

This is definitely a losing business!

By the way, the address of Honeydew Bag Light Novel Company is also in Kamihama City?

I realized something and tried to search the internet for the company location of this website.

"Shenbin Qingyue Network Co., Ltd.... Company address: 702, Block A, Nanhu Building, Dadong District, Shenbin City."

really……

When I submitted my manuscript a few days ago, I was basically in a desperate state. I looked up the contact information of all the editors of the novel website that I could find, and then sent the novel and the outline to these editors' email addresses one by one. I didn't pay attention to where the headquarters of Miguabao Novel Website was.

Is this a bad fate?

【Oh well】

[I will go directly to the Convention and Exhibition Center to sign the contract tomorrow]

Seeing that there was really no other way, I had to tell the bunny editor the truth:

[But I have a small question here. Can I sign the contract if I am underage? ]

After a while, Rabbit answered my question: [Minors must obtain the consent of their guardians to sign contracts]

[Do you need a guardian? ]

[It is better to bring a guardian with you. Is it inconvenient? ]

[He...he has been feeling unwell these past few days and is still in the hospital.]

[Can you bring his ID card over? ]

【Can】

[Okay, bring your guardian's ID card tomorrow and come over to sign, is that ok?]

[No problem, thank you editor! ]

(Editor Rabbit of Honeydew Bag sent you the location sharing: International Convention and Exhibition Center, Xiangyang Road, Dadong District, Shenbin City)

[On the second floor of the Convention and Exhibition Center, booths 2 and 67 are ours. When you arrive, just contact me or tell the stall owner that you are here to sign a contract.]

【it is good】

[Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, 9 am to 7 pm, don’t get the time wrong]

【OK】

[If there is no problem, I will add you to the signing group]

"..."

I was drinking chicken soup in front of the computer while looking at the computer prompt in the lower right corner. After a while, QQ showed that Editor Rabbit had added me to the group [Pigeon Spicy Hot Pot Restaurant].

Wow, this name... Is this a signing group?

[A new author has arrived, group status -1]

[I am at the bottom of the group, I cannot -1, I am a waste]

Before I could say anything, someone in the group sent several emoticons. At the same time, the group announcement of this signing group popped up on my screen.

——Don’t ask if the editor is there. If you have something to say, just say it directly. Don’t just send a “Are you there?” and there will be no reply.

——The weekly application time for recommendation is from 3 to 6 pm on Monday. No response means no recommendation. If you are eager for recommendation, please update at least 1 words every day for half a month.

——It is strictly forbidden to have pornographic and political plots, and it is strictly forbidden to have human relationships such as brother and sister, and the description should not exceed below the neck. The maximum degree of emotion in Danmei and Yuri plots is holding hands. Kissing and the above descriptions are prohibited for normal BG. After the signed authors in this group finish their new books, if the new books are about male protagonists, they can directly contact me for signature after the book is published. The contracts for transformation, Yuri, Danmei, and female protagonists will be increased by 5 times on the original basis. It is not recommended to publish such themes.

——Recently popular themes: Xianxia master-apprentice style, system style, breakup style (chasing husband to the crematorium), simulator style, the threshold for signing novels of this type has been lowered.

……

After carefully reading the group announcement and figuring out the general rules here, I changed my group name card to the author's name "Uncle Loves Lolita".

I took one last look at the group file and confirmed that there were no major issues. Then I switched to the chat window of the signing group with more than 700 people.

[Brothers, I am going to stop writing this book.]

[It’s what you deserve. I’ve said it so many times. Don’t write about transformation. Don’t you know that the payment rate of transformation novels is the lowest in the whole network? ]

[You write a story with a male protagonist, and now it takes off with 10,000 collections. What's the point of turning it into a novel with 20,000 collections? Is the subscription money enough to pay your rent? ]

The people in the group didn’t seem to change the topic just because I was an ordinary author. They were still discussing what they were discussing before I came in.

[There is a reason why there are so many harem-themed websites. Don’t be stubborn, brother. Let’s focus on male protagonists.]

[Is anyone going to the comic convention tomorrow? I'm going to see if there are any lolita girls I can take pictures of]

[I don't hold out hope anymore. There are no cute lolis in the three-dimensional world. The two-dimensional world is still better.]

【Why doesn't the new author speak? 】

[He must be a big shot. He will probably rush to the best-selling list in a few days, and then come back to mock us losers]

Seeing that the topic in the group somehow turned to me, I just randomly found a panda man emoticon in my favorite emoticons and sent it out, saying "This is not something I should care about when I make 3000 yuan a month."

[Uncle loves Lolita? This pen name of the new author is OK, but it’s quite vulgar]

[The new author is a man, right? Why is he using an anime girl as his avatar? What’s his idea?]

[Why do you have to control what avatar others use? ]

[Fuck, the author Qianjun has popped up and is gone]

……

I stayed in the signing group for a while and read the chat messages of the authors in the group. I felt that there was nothing that needed a reply, so I returned to the dining table with the chicken soup.

For some reason, while I was eating, looking at the lighted computer screen in the room, I felt a little empty inside.

"..."

I have been living like this all along...

My eyes turned to the dining table.

On the desktop, the loli girl Shisino from "Date A Live" is sitting obediently on a small chair, holding the rabbit doll Shisino.

This girl...whenever she feels lonely when she is alone, she will talk to the rabbit doll in her hand and treat it as her ideal self.

And it seems that I have always been alone since I was a child...

Thinking of this, I picked up the bowl of chicken soup.

There was still a lot of chicken and small white mushrooms in it, and it seemed that the Death Girl before didn't eat much.

You can see what you look like at this moment from the soup.

A little girl living in a small world.

"..."

……

No. 040 You tell me these, but I don’t understand them.

After dinner, I cleaned up the dishes as usual, went back to the computer, opened Miguabao Novel Network, and clicked on the books on the best-selling list and the new book list one by one.

In the author industry, such behavior is called "sweeping the charts."

To put it simply, you need to read all the books on the best-selling list and the new book list... at least the top ten, a total of twenty books. You don't need to read too much, just read the first ten or twenty chapters to understand the beginning of these authors as well as the direction of the story, outline and world view.

The best-selling list represents the sales power of the book and also represents the general style and direction of the website, while the new book list represents the latest novels and trends of the website.

A qualified author who wants to make a living from this must understand these contents no matter what.

For example, the "Yajentang Novel Network" where I used to work mainly focused on urban literature for men. Some fantasy and fan fiction were also quite popular. The titles of the books were mostly "retro". Titles like "The Unrighteous Lord", "Heavenly Tribulation", and "The Rainbow Stars" could all become hot-selling books.

However, it is different for a website called "Tomato Novel" that I scanned when I submitted my manuscripts. If the novels from the Yaedang Novel Website are put there intact, they will not adapt well to the local environment. The titles of the books on the Tomato Novel Website are relatively long, and the pace is extremely fast. Nine out of ten books have systems, and the best-selling books are basically named "I'm Revealing: I Have Ten Trillion Deposits", "Rebirth: Possessed by the Divine Doctor System to Become a Son-in-Law", "The Urban Emperor is Reborn as a Street Vendor", and the introductions are written in an extremely attractive way. After clicking on it, the first chapter will be ridiculed by the enemy, and within ten paragraphs, words such as "Ding! Binding to the Invincible System" will appear.

Similarly, Miguabao Light Novel Network also has a unique style. The books here are mainly about male protagonists, and the names are also very long. The style is a mixture of light novels and Chinese online novels. The most popular categories recently are... simulator genre and the empress and fairy master genre.

After understanding these, I can make my novel more in line with the "taste" of the readers here based on the style of the website.

Although it seems that it is not a big problem for me to get more than 2,000 yuan per month after the contract and the book is put on the shelves, it is always a good idea to make more preparations. When the novel is finished, if I imitate the writing style here for my new book, maybe the royalties will be higher?

Times are different now. To put it bluntly, the author is just a waiter.

"Keywords... Empress, Demon Lord, Ancient Style..."

After eating and drinking, I took a pen and paper from the computer, quickly read the best-selling and new book lists of Miguabao Novel Network, and quickly wrote down what I saw.

"On the best-selling list, six books have male protagonists, three have gender-swapped protagonists, and one has a female protagonist. Currently, ancient style, master-disciple, empress-turned-adult, and fairy-demon-fallen are leading the pack."

"The new book list has seven ancient master-disciple books, two urban breakup books, and one gender-switch book..."

"The more popular categories are yandere, harem, and the type of love that comes with being a lover. Among them, the type of chasing after the husband in the crematorium, the simulator type similar to Re:Zero, and the type of breakup are more popular."

I feel like this website would be a little better if it were written in an ancient style?

I looked at my ordinary fantasy novel about a different world.

Forget it, now that I've signed the contract, I'll just keep writing.

After accumulating some popularity, if I want to write a new book in the future, I will consider whether I should switch to a style similar to this website.

After scanning the novel list for more than half an hour, I stretched, took out my notebook, and compared the font of the previous page with the page I had just written.

Did the Grim Reaper really design the muscle memory for me based on the legendary loli font?

I looked at the unusually cute handwriting on the notebook helplessly.

Because I have taught myself software like PS, I am quite sensitive to the "fonts" of computers. Now the words I write by hand... are obviously the legendary "Lolita font" or "girly font".

These characters look very cute. For example, I would instinctively write the radical “口” like a circle, without too many edges or corners. The font is fat and crooked, as if it was written by a ten-year-old kid, but not too artificial. It is very cute.

I tried to search for "girly fonts" on a search engine and compared the examples with the words I wrote.

You can't say they are exactly the same, they are simply carved from the same mold.

Is this also the evil taste of the god of death?

With mixed feelings, I closed my notebook, turned off my computer, and sat on the soft cushion in the middle of the living room.

I pulled the small dining table aside and started my routine warm-up by jumping up and down. Then I drank some salt water and lay down on the cushion.

The next step is waist exercises to train the lower abdominal muscles and the curves of the legs.

Each of these exercises takes less than a minute and is not difficult to do. Even if you do the whole set of movements, it will not take ten minutes. The difficulty lies in the need for persistence.

Ten minutes a day for a week may not be difficult, but what about a month? A year?

Although according to the Grim Reaper, my body will not show any obvious development now, but I can feel that this kind of "positive" exercise is effective.

Every time after exercising, there will be a lot of sweat on my lower abdomen, the flesh will be a little firmer, and the muscles in my legs will be a little stronger.

Anyway, what the Grim Reaper said... you can listen to it, but I don't think you can believe it completely.

"..."