On the other side, Asura and Shifang were also waiting. Last night, after finishing their manuscripts, they discussed and researched together for a long time. They felt there were no issues before sending it to Xu Lin, and then waited until now. They also knew Xu Lin wasn't always online.

Through agonizing anticipation, they finally received the notification that Xu Lin had received the file.

Both were excited and thrilled, yet nervous.

This feeling was similar to that moment years ago before the college entrance exam results were announced; truly seconds felt like years.

Finally, after about ten minutes, they both received messages one after the other.

Xu Lin replied uniformly: "It's good, it's approved."

"Whoa, approved!"

"We're going to take off!"

Both privately chatted, very excited, exchanging rapid-fire voice messages, so excited they were incoherent.

Shifang: "Thank you, Big Boss!"

Asura: "Thank you, Big Boss! Bowing.jpg Worship.jpg"

Reading ten thousand books pales in comparison to traveling ten thousand miles; traveling those miles is not as good as having a mentor to guide you.

Reading ten thousand books corresponds to theoretical learning.

Traveling ten thousand miles corresponds to practice.

Having a mentor to guide is clearly understood; without guidance, most people struggle and stumble blindly, half a lifetime passes hazily, looking back to find themselves still unaccomplished, yet half their life wasted, leaving no chance anymore.

Now, like Shifang and Asura, passing through Xu Lin is equivalent to becoming a true disciple in a fantasy novel, destined for a bright future.

Xu Lin, without any fuss, sent them both their outlines.

Shifang received the high martial outline, while Asura got the fantasy outline.

Xu Lin replied uniformly: "Take a look, then reply to me later."

Both were seeing Xu Lin's outline for the first time. Toutuo and Wu Chengfeng also had access to Xu Lin's outline in the group, but they hadn't seen it before, and now finally they got to witness it.

Such outlines are of no use to average-level authors; they cannot fully utilize them. But authors with certain skill levels like Shifang can discern their quality.

Shifang privately messaged Asura: "This outline I have is way too strong. It's the first time I've truly felt the meaning of the idiom 'flawless'!"

Asura: "Same here, first time seeing the Big Boss's outline, it's so strong, truly seamless, even just reading the outline makes me excited, this story's narrative is so compelling!"

In web fiction, content is king; excitement is one thing, but a good story is needed to capture the market.

"There's also many new concepts I've never seen in all my years of reading, could potentially start a trend!"

"The Big Boss gave me this outline, feels like a textbook, not sure if I can write it well?"

"Do your best! Feng is not to be mentioned, Toutuo is also improving, soon they'll surpass us if we don't work hard, in the future we'll only be looking up to them!"

They chatted for a while, then replied to Xu Lin.

"Master, I'll do my best!"

"Master, I'll strive to do well!"

Both tacitly changed the way they addressed him.

Xu Lin didn't say much, sent them both the contracts.

Replied uniformly: "Print them, two copies each, then send to this address. Later, I'll have someone send a copy back to you."

The address was Ms. Ren's law firm; Ms. Ren handled these matters.

Xu Lin sent a message to Ms. Ren reminding her.

"Two copies at once?"

Ms. Ren was curious.

Xu Lin: "Ms. Ren, next year I'm going to get rich. When I do, I'll buy you a big villa in Jiangdu, and find you six, seven, eight, nine, ten pretty daughters-in-law!"

"Why not an estate?"

"Ms. Ren, I'll buy you an estate then! Work hard.jpg"

"So young and yet already painting a picture of success! Picking nose.jpg"

Ren Yan couldn't understand Xu Lin's way of making money; mainly she didn't understand the web fiction industry nor Xu Lin's abilities.

But this mischievous kid only made tens of thousands now, and he's talking about getting rich and buying a villa.

Ren Yan didn't take it to heart, knowing her son wasn't very serious.

Ms. Ren replied saying: "Alright, I'll handle the contract for you later!"

Ms. Ren didn't know Xu Lin was soon going to become renowned across the web fiction world.

After finishing the conversation with Shifang and others, Xu Lin opened QQ.

Yesterday afternoon, Ranzhi mentioned "My 26-year-old Miss Maybach" was going to be pushed on short video at six in the afternoon, not sure what the situation was.

Xu Lin had scheduled his chapters for the past few days, hadn't logged into the writer's backend, and wasn't sure of the situation.

After logging into QQ, Xu Lin opened the chat interface with Ranzhi.

From yesterday till now, Ranzhi had sent more than forty messages.

Xu Lin glanced over.

The meaning was the same: Xu Lin's book's short video promotion was doing well.

Mr. Xu: "Just went online."

Ranzhi: "!!!"

Ranzhi: "Mr. Xu, you're finally online!"

Ranzhi: "The promotion is very strong. In one day, collections increased by two hundred thousand. Check your backend for what's going on, I won't say more!"

Editors can actually see authors' performance data.

At this point, Xu Lin opened the writer's backend.

The performance of a book, before it's launched, boils down to three data points: monthly tickets, collections, and follow-reads.

After a day of short video promotion, Xu Lin's performance had reached a whole new level.

Current word count: 76,000 words.

Xu Lin hadn't published for many days, but he updates quite a lot, sometimes a few thousand words a day, sometimes ten thousand.

Collections: 574,569.

Monthly tickets: 69,000.

Ranked second, the first place is also struggling to keep up.

Follow-reads: 262,987

Xu Lin heard this isn't effective follow-reads, also follow-reads are based on the collections of the previous day, not the latest.

"How many effective follow-reads?"

"From the previous day, 184,091! Even now, if you launch, the subscription number for this book would be at least over a hundred thousand!"

Ranzhi replied instantly: "Mr. Xu, your book has tremendous sticking power, explosive data, and the promotion has only just begun, it'll continue. I, as the chief editor, can't fathom the potential of this book!"

Ranzhi: "Mr. Xu, the performance of your book is too exaggerated, let's see if it can maintain it going forward. Also, I truly hope you write more, from both an editor's and reader's perspective, tens of thousands of words aren't nearly enough!"

Now the website is all paying attention to Xu Lin's book, understanding the enormous potential of it, but hearing Xu Lin only plans to write tens of thousands of words, the website is anxious, asking Ranzhi to persuade Xu Lin.

You have to know, author and website is a win-win.

And the website benefits even more, like subsequent copyright operations where the website can take the larger share.

Or just talking about the current promotion, Xu Lin's book brought many new readers to the website, it's up to the future to see how many convert, in an era of stock market for the industry, maintaining website traffic is already good; attracting new flow is a huge challenge, requiring excellent works to act as the driving force.

Tonight the website made many promotional moves, but undoubtedly now close to the year's end, Xu Lin's book is the strongest; just yesterday brought in hundreds of thousands of new readers, and it continues; these new readers even have to rely on Xu Lin's book to stay.

Also, as Ranzhi said, even he can't tell where the upper limit of this book is.

Because Xu Lin's book is different from others, other books, the website knows their potential, even those with high standards belong to the top tier.

But Xu Lin's book is different, its writing quality is unprecedented in the web fiction world.

Anyone would think a master had personally entered the web fiction world.

But looking at the backend identity information.

Xu Lin.

Eighteen years old?

The ID photo is quite handsome.

Can't be that a senior family member used the junior's ID card to write, right?

The website knew a prodigy had come to the web fiction world to stir things up.

But he can't possibly finish it at tens of thousands, can he?

Currently, those blockbuster male-focused books have at least over two million words.

The website is stressed.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible.