Chapter 20 It's a boutique product on the shelves!
The life of the crew is fulfilling but also short.
On a new day, Zhong Yunqing had finished filming. When he got up, others had already gone to film, so he could only silently pack his luggage and prepare to leave.
How should I put it, this is just how it is for small supporting roles to be completed, there is no farewell party. That is, a few familiar people from the crew gathered together the night before, chatted with each other, drank a few drinks and had sex.
Then when saying goodbye, everyone wished each other a bright future. It was very simple and unpretentious.
After packing his luggage, Zhong Yunqing walked to the window and once again looked at this familiar street after staying there for a month and a half.
It's still a bit sad. After all, this is his first supporting role, and it's also the first time he's officially finished filming, so there's naturally a lot of emotion. But in his body, after all, he has an older man in his thirties.
Taking a deep breath at the white snow outside, he picked up his luggage and walked out of the hotel with a calm expression.
When I arrived at the station, I was holding my suitcase and preparing to enter the ticket gate when my cell phone rang in my trouser pocket.
He stopped and took out his mobile phone and looked at the caller ID. The 010 landline number at the beginning made him think it was a bit like a scam call, and he was about to hang up. But after thinking about it, he pressed the answer button.
"Hello."
"Hello, is this Zhong Yunqing, right?"
A girl's voice came over the other end of the phone. Well, whether the voice sounded good or not is another matter, but the pronunciation used was quite standard in Mandarin.
Once he heard such standard Mandarin, Zhong Yunqing could basically rule out that it was a scam call.
Because he came from a later generation and knew that most of the scam calls were made by people from Wanwan’s side, and the ones they used were the ones that people would be attracted to after listening to them!
For example: I am from Northeast Heixiahui! This is the pronunciation.
So Zhong Yunqing felt that since this girl could speak such Mandarin, she must not be a liar! He temporarily lowered his guard and responded to the other party softly:
"Well, I'm Zhong Yunqing, who are you..."
The girl on the other end of the phone, after hearing his reply, once again said to him in very standard Mandarin:
"Hello, I am XX, your editor at Qidian.com. I am calling this time because I want to remind you of something. Your novel "Infinite Film and Television Elegance" has reached the shelf standard of 300,000 yuan, but this
I haven’t seen any news about your application for listing in a few days, so I called to ask what you think..."
Oh, that's what happened.
In fact, when he signed the contract with the website, Zhong Yunqing knew that his editor was a girl, and the two of them also added each other as friends. However, because of their busy schedules every day, they didn't chat much with each other.
Now after receiving her call, Zhong Yunqing remembered that her book had already written 300,000 words!
In fact, we can’t blame him for not caring about his work. It’s just that he was too busy filming during this period!
He leaves early and comes home late every day, and he usually comes back at eight or nine o'clock. In order to keep updating during this time, he only concentrates on updating and forgets to pay attention to his word count.
And this is actually normal. Although he also wrote novels in his previous life, he always fell into it after writing for a year. Many of the details of the novels he wrote were not understood after they were published, and he was slowly exploring on his own.
What's more, this is the first book he has written in this time and space. He actually doesn't understand whether many of the rules for listing in 2004 are different from those in the previous life.
But now that he has written it and put it on the shelves, he still needs to know more information:
"Then what do I need to do to apply for my book to be put on the shelves?"
What surprised him was that the other party obviously cared more about the book than he did, and explained eagerly:
"The reading data of your book is very good, and it will not be difficult to put it on the shelf. I can help you arrange it immediately."
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhong Yun originally wanted to ask her to watch it, but he heard her continue:
"But I think if you want better results, you should put it on the shelf tomorrow. You can try to write as much as possible in the past few days, and then post a few more chapters to make updates when it is put on the shelf. This will be a good way to attract readers.
Seeing your sincerity in updating will make more people become your loyal fans."
Hey, what she said seems to be no different from the listing rules more than ten years later.
"Okay, I will start saving the manuscript in a moment. Thank you for reminding me! Then you can help me arrange to put it on the shelf tomorrow, thank you."
"You're welcome. As your editor, these are all my duties. At the same time, I hope you can keep updating. Your book is very creative. If you stick to it, you will have a chance to publish it."
She said this not as a compliment. 11 years ago before smartphones became popular, fine novels would have publishers contacting websites to publish physical books.
This situation is the same as when classic novels in later generations will have film and television rights. It’s just that the money earned by physical books these days is not as much as the money made by adapting film and television dramas.
"Well, I understand. My books will definitely not be updated, so don't worry."
After chatting with my editor for a while, he hung up the phone because he had to catch the train.
After passing the security check, he carefully boarded the train amid the crowd. Fortunately, he had reserved a sleeper berth in advance last week, which made it easier for him to code on the train.
The return trip took almost twenty hours. But this time he wasn't with the crew, so he didn't sleep at ease and was typing all the time.
After coding today's content, he coded a few more chapters and saved the manuscript. In the writer's message, he passionately coded a brief summary of the release:
"Da Zongzi's book will be on the shelves tomorrow. I hope all readers will subscribe and support it. If you are rich, you will be rewarded. If you are not rich, you will be rewarded. After subscribing, you can vote more. Recommended votes and monthly votes, one vote is two
Votes are also love. Thank you in advance for Da Zongzi! With your support, Da Zongzi will work hard to update more from now on, and we will update every day and night!"
After posting today's update tasks on the website, in order not to make himself sleepy, he started to log in to Baidu and watch short movies with headphones on to pass the time.
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In the evening of the same day, Liu Sisi had just returned to the dormitory after dinner with two friends.
After taking a shower, the girl habitually opened the Qidian website to see if Zhong Yunqing's novels had been updated.
As a result, as soon as I opened his book, the girl felt like she had discovered a new world:
"Did his conscience discover it today? This two-update beast actually updated four chapters today!"
But these were just the girl's inner jokes, and she quickly watched them "while it was hot".
As a result, after reading the latest chapter and seeing what Zhong Yunqing said "will be on the shelves tomorrow", the writer said she was a little confused.
After all, this was Sisi's first time reading a novel, and she had not developed the habit of paying to read books.
So the girl quickly opened QQ and sent a message to Zhong Yunqing:
"Lao Zhong, what does it mean at the end of your novel that the novel is on the shelves?"
Zhong Yunqing was watching the highlight of the short movie when Sisi's message popped up on the screen. He quickly turned off the movie and explained to her attentively:
"The listing means that from now on, you have to pay to read the new chapters. This is my first time listing it. I don't know how much each chapter costs, but it's probably ten cents per chapter." (I couldn't find the listing in 2004.
Chapter prices. Don’t worry about these details)
"Oh⊙?⊙! It turns out you have to pay." The girl replied, and then she replied again:
"We will definitely support you all the time! Please write well!"
After saying that, probably thinking of something, she pouted and continued to send new messages:
"You can't let us down. We will vote for you every day during this period!"
After reading Sisi's message, Zhong Yunqing felt happy for no reason. His face was full of smiles, and he replied to her righteously:
"Well! I will definitely update it carefully and make sure to be a good author who keeps updating!"
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It was already nine o'clock in the morning when Zhong Yunqing returned to Hengdian. However, he was very sleepy, so he handed over the four VIP chapters he had prepared before falling asleep.
After all, there was a reason why he didn't sleep on the train.
You must know that the train was not monitored at this time, and all kinds of people were mixed in the carriage. He was afraid that when he woke up, his notebook and luggage would be gone! So he never dared to sleep.
Now that I have finally returned to my rental house, of course I have to catch up on my sleep first regardless of the situation.
Sisi had no class in the morning, and she always remembered what Zhong Yunqing said last night about putting it on the shelves. As soon as she got up, she opened the starting page and saw that the latest four chapters had the words "paid reading".
After all, Sisi is a young rich woman who just got paid. According to the website's paid viewing requirements, she entered her bank card account number...
It took more than ten minutes to read the latest chapter. Sisi did not rush to exit the starting point, but continued to study something on the paid page.
After a while, she looked under the author's profile and saw what fans of the work had:
"Trainee", "Apprentice", "Disciple", etc. fan classification.
She curiously clicked on these introductions and saw that other fans had different names.
For example, the trainee was rewarded with one or two yuan, the disciples and deacons were rewarded with twenty-fifty yuan. I also saw the top one who was the fan of the helmsman who was rewarded with one hundred yuan.
Sisi thought this was fun, so she immediately clicked the "Reward" button and saw that the highest fan level was: "Leader".
She thought for a while, and the corners of her mouth rose.
To be honest, she liked this book written by Zhong Yunqing very much, and she also knew the author.
So in order to show her support, this girl acted boldly without thinking and directly rewarded the leader with a thousand yuan for this book!
Anyway, she just got her salary, so this girl is still very rich.
As a result, a text message indicating that the deduction was successful was sent. Looking at her wallet that had shrunk by one-third, Sisi thought viciously in her heart:
"Hmph! This girl spares no expense to support your novel. How dare you not update it properly or stop updating it and become a eunuch! I won't take care of you!"
Of course Zhong Yunqing, who was sleeping, didn't know about Sisi's mental activities!
He also doesn’t know the results of his novel after it is published.
The editor changed the status at nine in the morning, and until two in the afternoon, in just a few hours, his subscriptions continued to increase steadily, and even exceeded 1,000 subscriptions within an hour of being put on the shelves!
It was half past three in the afternoon when Zhong Yunqing woke up. After washing up and eating something casually, he remembered that his book would be on the shelves today.
So when he opened the backend author section of the website, he was shocked by the results of his novel!
Looking at the fan section of my novel, there is a red-marked alliance leader offering a reward of 1,000 yuan, nineteen hall leaders offering rewards of 100 yuan! There are also hundreds of others offering rewards ranging from a few yuan to dozens of yuan.
Zhong Yunqing looked at this data and felt sad.
In his previous life, he was also a street writer, and the highest reward he received was only twenty yuan. And until he traveled through time, he had written more than 1.6 million words, and only had more than 60 people reward him.
Now that his 2004 novel is on the shelves, so many people have rewarded it on the first day! After writing novels for two generations, he finally experienced what it feels like to have a fan who is the leader! It is really so refreshing!
This feeling gave him the urge to stay up all night coding!
Of course, Zhong Yunqing definitely doesn’t know the name of Sisi’s Qidian ID! This guy thought he was some unknown wealthy true fan, so he rewarded him in order to encourage him to continue posting updates!
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One day later, Zhong Yunqing finally got the complete data from his editor on the first day his novel was put on the shelves:
As of the 24th hour, the first order of his novel was 3,700!
To be honest, this result was indeed beyond his expectation.
Even though Zhong Yunqing knew that Infinite Streaming would be very popular during this period, he never expected it to be so popular!
It has only been on the shelves for one day, and it has directly broken the previous record of 2,000 orders held by Toadju!
He even left him far away, simply and rudely, and got one-third more subscriptions than his highest score!
You know, this is not the era in the future where everyone can read novels on their mobile phones! From 2004 to 2005, paid reading websites had just emerged during this period, and the number of daily active paying users in Qidian was less than 10,000
!
Zhong Yunqing used a book to directly activate thousands of paying users for the website, and one-third of the paying users. This is an amazing achievement!
Even Zhong Yunqing's editor-in-chief quietly told him when reporting the data to him just now. The boss of the Qidian website spoke directly:
Even if Zhong Yunqing has something to do and cannot update, he will personally help him code the words and will never let this book be interrupted!
Zhong Yunqing has made a difference in one book! In order to watch his unlimited streams, many book friends who originally only read free and pirated books directly joined Qidian VIP to pay.
These crazy influx of book fans helped Zhong Yunqing’s book break many records as soon as it was put on the shelves!
For example, the first novel that was released on the shelves exceeded 3,000 orders and directly won the honorary title of Excellent Product;
The first novel to have an alliance leader as soon as it was released! What’s more worth mentioning is that the alliance leader Sisi rewarded is the first alliance leader in the two years since Qidian was founded!
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Finally, let’s take a brief look at all the dazzling milestones achieved by Da Zongzi’s “Infinite Film and Television Style” on the first day it was released:
The first unlimited novel on the shelves!
The first novel to receive more than 3,500 subscriptions on the first day it was released...
The first online novel to earn more than 5,000 yuan with one-day subscription and rewards...
The first novel to get the first number of subscriptions and rewards on the entire site on the first day it was put on the shelves...
The first novel to create a leader-level book fan at the starting point!
The only novel so far that 50% of the VIP readers of the entire website can subscribe to it within one day...
The only novel that can earn more than half of the entire website's royalties on the first day it's put on the shelves...
The only novel that can triple the number of VIP paying readers on the website overnight...
In short, thousands of words can be condensed into one sentence:
Da Zongzi’s first book in the online literary circle has won the first battle!