On the monthly ticket list, the war between the Three Kingdoms is in full swing.
At noon on August 14th, in a rental house in City M.
Le Chao held half a cigarette in his left hand, squinted at the computer screen, and held the mouse in his right hand to constantly refresh his author's background. Little Apple Han Li sat next to him, frowning and raising her hand to brush it in front of her face, protesting in a low voice:
"Can you please stop smoking? I don't know that I don't like the smell of smoke?"
Le Chao glanced at her and frowned, but still smiled and stuffed half of the cigarette into the can on the table.
"That's pretty much it!"
Han Li's brows relaxed and her expression was very happy.
She didn't notice Le Chao's brows still frowning.
Le Chao's right hand is still clicking the mouse, refreshing his author background.
Han Li: "Isn't it 12 o'clock? It's been four or five minutes, why hasn't your editor opened it for you yet?"
Le Chao continued to refresh the author's backend, exhaled, and shook his head slightly, "It should be soon. The editor didn't just enable the listing function for me. It's normal for it to be a few minutes late."
Han Li looked at him and changed the topic, "By the way, how many 24-hour subscriptions do you think you can get for this book?"
Le Chao still frowned and shook his head again, "It's hard to say, it depends on the subscription ratio. I currently have a collection of more than 21,000 copies of "God of Fighting". If the subscription ratio is good, the first order will be very impressive.
, it’s hard to say otherwise.”
Han Li frowned, "Take a guess! You wrote this book yourself. You should know how good it is. How much do you estimate the first order will be?"
Le Chao frowned and said nothing.
Han Li bumped him with her shoulder, "Can you estimate it? Can it reach five thousand?"
Le Chao glanced at her, his expression quite speechless.
"How dare you guess! Five thousand? Do you know how difficult it is to order five thousand for the first time? And do you know what it means to order five thousand for the first time?"
Han Li pursed her lips and blew out a bubble from the chewing gum in her mouth. After it exploded with a pop, she casually said: "Is it difficult? When Sun Quan's book was recently put on the shelves, I heard you said that the initial order was more than 10,000, right?
You can't even imagine that he can get so many first-time subscriptions for his new book?"
Lechao was speechless.
He suddenly didn't want to talk to her anymore.
Discussing a topic like first booking with a layman, he felt like his brain was in a mess.
As he spoke, his right hand was still subconsciously refreshing the author's backstage. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he sat up straight, "Okay! The shelf function is enabled."
With that said, he quickly retrieved the manuscript and chapters from the computer hard drive. Han Li watched him operate. After a while, Le Chao stopped.
chapter.
When he stopped, Han Li blew the gum in her mouth again. After it exploded with a pop, she chewed again and asked, "What should we do next? Just sit here and wait? How about we go out?"
Go shopping? Or watch a movie or something? We haven't gone out to play in some days, right? Since you wrote this new book, how long have we not gone out to have fun? Two months? Or three months?"
After hearing what she said, Le Chao turned to look at her with a frown.
He forced out a smile and said: "Lili, today is really bad. My book has just been put on the shelves today. I have to stay here to watch the growth of subscriptions. I really don't want to go out to play. Wait, I have to hurry up."
Where’s the codeword? Now it’s on the shelves. Every additional chapter you write is worth money. Don’t you want me to make more money?”
Han Li frowned and looked at him, still chewing gum in her mouth.
Looking at each other for a moment, she smiled slightly, her expression showing a bit of helplessness, and nodded, "Okay! Then tomorrow? Or the day after tomorrow? Today is Friday, tomorrow is Saturday, and the day after tomorrow is Sunday. You won't let me wait for another week, right?
"
Le Chao pursed his lips, frowned, scratched his head, and finally nodded helplessly, "Okay! Let's do it the day after tomorrow! I want to write a few more chapters tomorrow. This book has just been put on the shelves, so I'd better add it tomorrow.
More."
"the day after tomorrow?"
Han Li looked a little dissatisfied, but she still nodded, "Okay! Let's do it the day after tomorrow! Don't let me go!"
Le Chao nodded, with a hint of helplessness in his smile.
Han Li suddenly stood up, patted his shoulder with her right hand, turned around and walked towards the door, saying as she walked: "Then I'll leave first, remember! The day after tomorrow!"
Le Chao closed his eyes and hummed.
There was the sound of the door opening and closing behind him, and hearing the footsteps outside the door gradually fading away, Le Chao opened his eyes and took another deep breath.
He casually grabbed the cigarette and lighter on the table, frowned and lit one, took a deep breath, and exhaled a puff of thick smoke from his mouth, just like his mood at this time.
If someone stared at his eyes carefully at this time, they should be able to see the look of exhaustion in his eyes.
The beeping sound suddenly sounded.
Le Chao glanced at the lower right corner of the computer screen and saw a girl's QQ profile picture flashing.
Seeing the girl's QQ profile picture flashing, he smiled slightly, reached out and clicked the mouse, and a chat dialog box popped up.
Nangong Yan: "How much is the initial order?"
Lechao refreshed the author backend, and it took about 10 minutes for the chapter to be released.
But after the author refreshed the background, the number of subscriptions for the chapter showed: 106.
Seeing this number, Le Chao's expression suddenly froze. Only his two eyes blinked once and then again, looking a little dull.
The next moment, he suddenly smiled, holding the mouse in his right hand, and skillfully flicked the screenshot of the number to Nangong Yan.
A few seconds later.
Nangong Yan: "Wow, you broke through 100 so soon? You are going to explode! It's amazing! You are so amazing, congratulations!"
Le Chao chuckled and quickly typed a reply: "To be honest, I didn't expect this subscription to be so popular. It's great! I've worked hard for several months this time and it's finally not in vain, haha!!"
Nangong Yan sent a smiling emoticon.
Then he sent another sentence: "This is called hard work and God pays off, and it also means that where there is a will, things come true. Haha, Chao, it won't be long before you can really buy a villa for your girlfriend and get married. Congratulations!"
Le Chao's originally joyful expression suddenly faded away after seeing her words. He put his hands on the keyboard and hesitated for a while before replying: "To be honest, I really thought about dating her before.
It's fine to get married and buy her a villa, as long as I can afford it, but now... haha, let's talk about it! I really feel more and more recently that she is not suitable for me."
Nangong Yan: “???”
Nangong Yan: "What's wrong? Did something unpleasant happen between you two? Didn't you say you loved her very much a few days ago?"
Le Chao frowned and replied: "What I said was duplicity, not what I meant in my heart."
Nangong Yan: “???”
Nangong Yan: "You're not just thinking about changing your girlfriend just after you got the results for your new book, right? With all due respect, you're a bit of a scumbag if you do that!"
Le Chao curled his lips and replied: "Haha, I didn't say I was going to break up with her right away, don't worry! How could I do that? As the saying goes: Punishing without teaching is tantamount to murder. I will give her a chance to show off. Before she
I will give her a chance before I give up completely."
Nangong Yan: "Well, that's pretty much it."
Le Chao took another puff from the cigarette. After exhaling the smoke, he quickly typed a reply again: "Hey, seriously, if I were single now, would you fall in love with me?"
Nangong Yan was silent for a while before replying: "There are no ifs in life, so I don't want to answer this question. By the way, I have to start work. I haven't coded a word today. Let's talk later!"
Le Chao frowned and looked at her words for a while before replying: "Okay, let's talk back!"
After finishing the chat with Nangong Yan, Le Chao refreshed his author backend again and published the chapter. About twenty minutes had passed.
But the subscription number refreshed this time is already 191.
This number came into view, and Le Chao's smile returned to his face, with a sense of pride in his smile.
…
Noon the next day.
At almost 11:30, there was a knock on the door of Lechao's rental house, and he asked casually: "Who is it?"
Outside the door, "I! Open the door!"
It's Han Li's voice.
Le Chao frowned, stood up, went over to open the door, and asked Han Li, who came in with two boxes of lunch, "Don't you have the key to my place? You didn't bring it with you today?"
"Well, I forgot."
Han Li walked over to his computer desk, put the lunch box on the table, and glanced at his computer screen. What she saw was a half-coded document.
"It's almost 24 hours. How much have you ordered for your new book?" She turned around and asked Le Chao.
Le Chao smiled lightly and sighed, his expression looked very frustrated, "I'm going to jump on it, just five hundred or so for the first order."
When Han Li heard his answer, she frowned and looked a little suspicious, "No way? So low? Didn't you say there might be two thousand orders? Why is it so low?"
Le Chao smiled bitterly, lazily walked over, opened the lunch box she brought, and while breaking open the disposable chopsticks and getting ready to eat, he said casually: "I've already said it, what else do you ask? Which pot can't be opened and which pot should be picked up?
ah?"
Han Li frowned and looked at him for a long time, then suddenly sighed softly, squatted in front of him, hugged his waist, sighed and said: "It's okay, we jumped this time, let's try harder next time! Don't
I’m so discouraged. Besides, the publisher of your book is now making a lot of money every month, which is already very good! Really!"
Le Chao, who had just opened a box of food, was stunned when he heard this.
Frowning and turning to look at her, Han Li's expression was filled with disappointment, but the words she just said really came from her mouth.
Her words were obviously beyond Lechao's expectations.
After frowning at her for a while, he suddenly shook his head and said, "You are too optimistic. Before, it was okay for my book not to be on the shelves. Now that it is on the shelves, the publishing house will probably cut my book in half, maybe this month."
, maybe they will tell me next month that they are going to cancel this book and ask me to write an ending to them as soon as possible, do you believe it?"
Han Li raised her head in surprise, "Can it still be like this? This...doesn't it mean that they are not breaching the contract by doing this?"
Le Chao laughed, "What kind of contract are you breaking? The contract says that they have the right to cut off books at any time, what do you think?"
Han Li stared at him blankly for a while, then her expression fell and she sighed again, "Well, I know, but even so, don't be too discouraged! If not, just prepare a new book! Don't worry.
!I will always be with you!"
Le Chao frowned again and asked in surprise: "Really?"