Xu Lin is driven by profit, thinking there's potential here, plus his way of making money now is either writing books or collaborating on outlines with others.

If there's another way to make money by composing, why not?

"I need to find some time to look into this!"

Xu Lin decided.

Bang!

At that moment.

Zhao Liangchen pushed the door open and came in.

"Bro, I helped you bring back those gym tools!"

"Gym tools?"

Zhao Liangchen pointed to the corner of Xu Lin's bed space.

Only then did Xu Lin notice a paper box wrapped in a snakeskin bag.

"Thanks, Zhao Liangchen!"

"No worries, I just helped you bring it back!"

During National Day, Xu Lin bought forty kilograms of dumbbells, but they were kept at the delivery station and he hadn't picked them up.

Forty kilograms, a pair of dumbbells, which means twenty kilograms on each side.

"Bro, this is forty kilograms, can you handle it?"

Even though forty kilograms weigh about as much as a petite girl, a person's physique and dumbbell weight are not the same concept; forty-kilogram dumbbells are not light.

"Not a big deal."

"Xu Lin, do you usually use these dumbbells to work out?"

Xie Zhengrong paused his game, and Hu Donghai also came over.

The people in the dormitory, and even the boys in the class, had seen or heard that Xu Lin had a great physique.

Hu Donghai curiously asked, "Xu Lin, can a pair of dumbbells get you that kind of physique?"

Xu Lin didn't sugarcoat it, directly saying, "No, but it can make you look better than many guys. It mainly depends on consistency."

And Zhao Liangchen suggested that Hu Donghai and the others search on short videos: training the whole body with a pair of dumbbells.

Then Hu Donghai and Xie Zhengrong searched, and the results showed various fitness tutorials.

These tutorials demonstrated that with just a pair of dumbbells, you could work out at a low cost, targeting areas like legs, lower abdomen, chest, shoulders, and back through different positions.

Xu Lin unpacked and brought out the dumbbells inside.

Twenty kilograms on one side, which is forty pounds in total.

Of course, for an average person, it's easy to pick them up, but using them for a workout is tough because it's not about picking them up once but repeating various lifting positions.

Everyone saw Xu Lin effortlessly doing a hundred lifts with a pair of dumbbells.

With his current physique, lifting twenty kilograms for a hundred reps was nothing to him, and he seemed relaxed, not even out of breath.

"Bro, that's awesome!"

Zhao Liangchen watched with amazement.

Xu Lin said casually, "You get used to it if you practice a lot."

Xu Lin didn't say much because, as someone with a head start, he surely wasn't qualified to teach others about fitness.

"I'm going to take a shower now; you guys can play with the dumbbells."

Xu Lin took off his clothes, left just in his boxers, and went into the bathroom. The three guys admired Xu Lin's physique, even though they often saw him like this.

"Zhao, when are you going to the gym?"

Xie Zhengrong asked.

Zhao Liangchen: "I go four times a week, rest for three days, and I'm going tomorrow afternoon after class."

Xie Zhengrong: "Damn, count me in!"

Hu Donghai joined in: "Count me in too!"

"Brother Long, what about you?"

Zhao Liangchen asked the melancholy Liu Longsheng, who was playing sad love songs.

The despondent Liu Longsheng was in a state of indifference.

"Not interested."

Liu Longsheng replied expressionlessly, continuing with his guitar.

He felt his guitar skills were improving, but the person he secretly liked had already been taken by Xu Lin, so what's the use of advancing his guitar skills?

Zhao Liangchen laughed, "Brother Long, don't be like this. If you stay decadent, girls won't like you!"

"Damn, none of your business!"

Liu Longsheng really wanted to smash the guitar over his head.

Yet Zhao Liangchen chuckled, cleared his throat twice, stood still, and suddenly stood with crossed arms, looking sternly at Liu Longsheng with the demeanor of Sima Yi, saying, "You're young, and you slack off at the first setback. How can you achieve great things in the future?"

Liu Longsheng: …

Damn it!

Damn, I really want to smash him!

"Hehe…"

"Brother Long, I'm leaving now; I have to go chat with my girlfriend."

Liu Longsheng: …

Liu Longsheng suspected Zhao Liangchen was mocking him for not having a girlfriend.

Twenty minutes later, Xu Lin finished his shower and came out.

The dorm had returned to peace.

Zhao Liangchen had left, and Xie Zhengrong and Hu Donghai were busy with their own things.

Xu Lin sat in his chair, picked up the dumbbells, and did a hundred reps to warm up, then turned on his computer.

Time: 9:30 PM.

It was from this time onwards that Xu Lin started typing for an hour, producing twelve thousand words.

The book "My 26-year-old Miss Maybach" had reached 300,000 words by now, with the release date set for Mid-Autumn Festival on the 6th; today was the 18th, and October was approaching its end.

Moreover, the book's performance was incredible. From an initial average subscription of 415,698, it had, in over ten days, soared past 613,456, an increase of 200,000 subscriptions.

This achievement was astonishing because, even on this leading website, books exceeding 200,000 average subscriptions were rare, and those over 100,000 were about twenty-something. But Xu Lin's growth in less than half a month, a 200,000 jump, was so remarkable that it surpassed all the top authors on the site, firmly holding them down.

Besides, the average subscriptions generally increase fast in the initial months of a new book and then stabilize or stop rising.

So, where will the final average subscriptions for Xu Lin's book peak?

It's widely believed in the industry that it'll exceed a million!

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