Has this website she once looked down on now become an industry benchmark?
She couldn't help but say:
"Although I congratulate you very much, I don't know if I should say something - it's just a signing with Dreamweaver Literature Network. There is no guarantee that you will become popular in the future. There is no need to be so proud."
"Besides, Dreamweaver must be good? It's obvious that you have seen too few websites."
The group was silent for a while.
After a while, the author who successfully signed the contract said angrily:
"I didn't say that I could become popular, but what guarantee is there for me to stay on such a broken website? They either deduct commissions secretly or deduct my royalties. The bonuses are always delayed, and wages are not paid on time..."
"The royalties from Dreamweaver Literature Network are only paid in advance and after the mistake is made, okay?"
"Besides, [it's just a contract signing with Dream Weaver Literature Network], oh, you have such a loud tone, are you able to sign a contract?"
"Who doesn't know that the slightly creative writing methods out there are all using the IP route? If it doesn't work, I'll practice for a few years and sign up for other websites to get a higher salary."
Lu Li is currently working in a group of unpopular authors on an unpopular website. Most of the website's staff are newcomers and they have only signed one book. Due to the meager income, even the big guys who changed jobs said it was fair and square.
Lu Li is a rare old author. Therefore, there are more than one or two people who can't stand her.
After the hot-tempered author scolded Lu Li, several people moved back to their own small groups.
“That [daughter’s self-improvement] is so annoying.”
"That's right, you don't look down on this or that every day - you still guide so and so to write novels every day, how shameless are you?"
"If she has the ability, why is she still on this little shabby website like ours?"
"Don't worry about Huahua, she must be jealous that you signed a contract with Dreamweaver."
Huahua also spoke: "I don't care."
Her tone was full of longing:
"Even if I'm not popular there, I can still get a guarantee of full attendance every month. I'm satisfied anyway."
"I know that author. She always boasts that she has been writing for more than ten years. She also said that her first book online earned more than 30,000 yuan in one month..."
"I think it's all a lie. You could earn more than 30,000 yuan back then. How come you're a standard master? Why are you still hanging around in this little shabby place like ours now?"
"That's right."
…
Lu Li still can't forget her own excellence and brilliance back then, nor can she forget the good results she gained in Dream Weaver Literature.
However, that is all in the past.
After leaving DreamWeaver, she wrote big guarantee articles and later signed contracts with other websites.
The foundation of writing is still there, and it’s not like I didn’t make any money in the future. At most, I made more than 20,000 yuan a month.
But she still couldn't change her bad money concepts.
Once you make a lot of money, you can't help but spend a lot of money and buy a lot for yourself.
Her writing skills have not been lost, but her routines have remained the same. This is doomed to be a book that cannot reap long-term dividends and will soon fall again.
At this time, she was unwilling to endure the current embarrassment, so she could only increase her efforts to write again.
Over the years, her writing inspiration has become increasingly depleted, and what she writes follows one routine after another, with basically no updates.
Therefore, I can only keep changing platforms, trying to write new flavors to the old soup.
Now, she is 30 years old.
She is slightly chubby and has a sallow face. She can no longer afford to rent a fine single apartment.
Looking at the small shared house she had just moved into, Lu Li couldn't help but feel sore eyes.
——Dream weaving, dream weaving!
Why is such an impersonal website so popular?
At that time, I just questioned it, but now when I went to sign the contract, I was rejected outright.
Why?
Can I only say good things and not bad things?
But think about your own life——
When I was 19, I could make 30,000 yuan a month just by writing.
At that time, it cost 30,000 yuan to rent a well-decorated single apartment in the imperial capital for a whole year.
But now that I am 30 years old, 10 years have passed and I have tried my best every month, but the most I can get is more than 20,000 yuan.
More often than not, the monthly income is just over 10,000.
If she could move to a small town with peace of mind, more than 10,000 yuan a month would be a very good life.
It's a pity that she always insists on staying in the imperial capital and achieving a glorious life.
She still can't learn to manage money, and all the cultural skills she gained after graduating from the insurance industry are becoming increasingly scarce as she continues to wear away.
Now ten years have passed, and her life has certainly become worse.
In a big city like the Imperial Capital, what can you do with over 10,000 people?
At that time, it cost 30,000 yuan to rent a single apartment for a year, but now the price has increased to nearly 80,000 yuan a year.
She can only afford to rent a shared house.
——30 years old.
Lu Li sat on the sofa and stared blankly at the clock on the wall, her eyes blank at this moment.
She has no savings, no house, and she hasn't even gotten a driver's license.
I don’t even have a healthy body. My eyes are already myopic and I wear 650-degree glasses.
There is still a plaster on the finger joints to relieve tenosynovitis.
Where has her youth gone?
It must be that the endless pressure of life and the burden of life that I have worked hard to bear since I was in school are just too heavy.
Recalling what the agent said casually when she was looking at a house before, she thought of the two houses at home.
Lu Li couldn't help but feel excited.
According to inheritance law, do your parents have a share in this house?
After my parents leave, shouldn't I have one too?
And if she can live in one of the two houses, she can save her monthly rent to buy some jewelry, get a driver's license, buy a car, etc...
Everything can be expected.
But we haven’t contacted each other for so many years...
Sometimes, the more clearly we know that hope is slim, the more we can't help but fantasize.
Lu Li hesitated again.
…
Although she decided to check out her parents, she was not a submissive character in nature. Even after a long period of psychological construction, Lu Li finally only planned to show her face in front of her eldest brother to see if he would take the initiative to lead her.
Go back by yourself.
--Most definitely.
As an older brother, how can you not feel sorry for your younger siblings?
Back then, her eldest brother carried her up the mountain to send her to school.
Lu Li often wandered around the community.
Now the surrounding area has developed into a bustling commercial center, with busy traffic and flashing neon lights at night, which is far more glamorous than the shared house I rented in a remote area.
The exquisite girls in suits and skirts on the roadside hold hands and hold a cup of coffee, as if they are dreaming of a better life.
Lu Li became more and more yearning for it.
She couldn't help but take a step forward, suddenly woke up, and quickly retreated and turned around.
The next second, a boy screamed in panic.
"Be careful, be careful—"
But he still didn't stop the other party and almost bumped into her.
Lu Li took a step back, looked at the bit of milk tea on her sleeve, and couldn't help but push the other person in disgust.
"You don't have eyes?"
The little boy who fell to the ground looked to be only eleven or twelve years old, but he was quite tall. The childish look on his face was particularly obvious. There was also a cup of milk tea on the ground.
The other party was not injured at all, and now he got up on his own.
"I'm sorry, Auntie, you turned around suddenly and I didn't react."
When the aunt called over, Lu Li looked at the eyes of the people around her and suddenly realized that she had become a shrew. She couldn't help feeling depressed again:
"You haven't seen a big guy like me. Why do I have eyes?"
The boy's face also looked a little ugly, and he couldn't help but argue:
"Auntie, it's obviously you who suddenly turned around and backed away - and I've already apologized. If you don't accept it, you won't accept it. If you want to make compensation, you can do whatever you want. Why do you speak so harshly?"
"Yes," a girl next to me interrupted.
"Auntie, this road is a one-way pedestrian street. It is narrow to begin with. Lu Zhen was walking forward with three cups of milk tea, but you suddenly backed away from the zebra crossing and turned around to go the wrong way... then they collided..."
The other party didn't finish what he said, but the meaning was very obvious.
Lu Li was so angry that she turned livid after calling her "aunt" several times. However, before she could say anything, someone came running over from the other side of the road:
"Xiao Zhen, what's wrong?"
A young man in his 20s came over. At this moment, his eyes were fixed on the boy who had just stood up. Seeing that his clothes were covered with milk tea stains, he couldn't help but rub his hair again:
"Look at you, you don't stop buying a cup of milk tea."
The boy named Xiao Zhen raised his head helplessly:
"I didn't pay attention for a moment - uncle, why don't you wait, Mingyue and I will go buy it again."
"No more drinking, no more drinking."
The young man tugged at his collar:
"It would be prudent to buy you something to change into first. The exhibition is about to begin."
"That won't work."
The boy looked serious:
"You finally graduated from graduate school and stayed in school. You must celebrate it. I must treat you to milk tea."
Then his head was rubbed brutally——
"Who among you gentlemen likes to drink milk tea? Let's go for a walk, Mingyue, let's go shopping for clothes together."
The three of them acted as if there was no one around and didn't take the milk tea and clothes seriously at all.
On the contrary, when Lu Li looked at them, she always felt that they looked strangely familiar.
At this moment, the man opposite suddenly saw her.
His eyes slowly condensed, and then even his expression became strange. There was a vague feeling of disgust, irritability, and also a hint of happiness after enlightenment.
Under such gazes, Lu Li always felt awkward everywhere.
So I was obviously ignored, and I couldn't say anything to care about it for a while.
And when the young man patted the child's shoulder and rubbed her shoulders, a small voice came over -
