House Dad's Literary Life

Chapter 111 – Dejected Lingyun Jueding

Time passed quickly and it has quietly entered August. The update[1] of Yang Yi’s new book “Yu Zui” was also getting better and better. Although it was not yet the plot of going to Yangcheng for training, the disposition of the protagonist, Yu Zui, has undoubtedly been manifesting through a lot of small events.

The protagonist was a cheap person, whose family circumstances were not the best, whose looks were not the most handsome, and whose achievements were not the best, but with a cleverness that makes people love and hate. He treated other with absolute sincerity, and could easily become the brain figure among several brothers!

According to a comment of a senior book friend, “From top to bottom, he doesn’t look like someone who’s going to be a policeman, but he is the one that readers are most looking forward to become the best one in the selection.”

Of course, Yu Zui did not pass the selection, and the plot of the story told him to go back to his hometown, while Xu Pingqiu, the police chief worshipped by the students, seemed to repeatedly request him to take up a responsible post.

Such a cheap person, but he has tightly gripped the hearts of readers. More and more readers poured in to catch up, just want to see the appearance of his final counterattack.

According to Qiyue’s background data, it has only been updated for more than a week, and the sales of “Yu Zui” have surpassed Yang Yi’s first two books. Moreover, it has ranked second in the urban section. Looking at this momentum, it was only a matter of time before it became first!

The editors in Qiyue Editorial Department exclaimed that this was a phenomenon!

If it was said that the sales of “Yu Zui” were better than “Soldier Assault” and “Drawing Sword”, this was understandable. After all, the number of readers in the urban section has always accounted for half of Qiyue. It was not something that a military section’s small population’s subject matter could compare to!

But the sales volume of “Yu Zui” could also compete with other best-selling books in the urban section. That was something they couldn’t have thought of.

It should be known that “Yu Zui” didn’t seem to be a FreeWebNovel type. its protagonist didn’t experience rebirth or transmigration or had any powers or cheat abilities. He was just an ordinary person. Although he was a little clever, it was obvious that this kind of cleverness couldn’t compete with the mountain of reality!

If it didn’t have cheat abilities, what kind of FreeWebNovel did he wrote?

To create a comeback in a non feel-good novel[2], how could that possibly be easy?

But the data was there. The sales volume of “Yu Zui” were getting higher and higher. Many readers who came to take a look swearing and wanting to abandon the book couldn’t help but come back.

“Sh*t, I just want to know what kind of energy a cheap person, who can ride home on a business car to repatriates petitioners, can muster!” There was a book review that expresses the aspirations of many new readers.

It must be said that in the book review area of “Yu Zui”, some people praised and some scolded. This phenomenon where there was division of two opposing extremes was similar to that of “Soldier Assault” in the past, but those scolding were more like the initial complaints when the supporting role of “Drawing Sword” died continually.

Those book friends who scolded hard were actually also in pursuit of more. They were not so determined to abandon the book as they clamor.

Compared with the bad reviews in the book review area when the book was just published, it was much better!

Obviously, Iron Blood Net wasn’t willing to continue spending money for the water armies. After a while of making trouble, they found out that they were only putting on a one-man show. Others ignored them, and were even indifferent. A group of people led by Lingyun Jueding chose to retreat in disgrace.

At present, the editorial department of Iron Blood Net simply didn’t care about “Yu Zui”, which have nothing to do with their interests. What they needed to pay most attention to now was the sale of the two physical books, “Soldier Assault” and “Drawing Sword.”

According to the previous arrangement, their great god author “Bullet Scar” also did a signing activity on the same day on August 1, and the next day, the result of “Bullet scar” came out. Driven by the signing activity, the physical edition of the new and old books of “Bullet scar” sold as much as 250,000 copies all over the country!

Of course, this result wasn’t good, but in the context that physical copies of FreeWebNovels generally have low sales, 250,000 copies was still an excellent result!

Therefore, the editorial department of Iron Blood Net also opened a bottle of champagne and held a small celebration.

The result of the competitors needed to be counted through the data released by the Copyright Association. The public release of these data usually lags half a day, which was a kind of protection for the original channel.

Therefore, Lingyun Jueding didn’t have a rest at noon and kept urging Yu Wan to refresh the webpage: “Is there any news?”

“Er…” Yu Wan looked at the computer screen and was dumbfounded. “Yes, but…”

Lingyun Jueding impatiently came up to see for himself. The string of dazzling numbers immediately dumbfounded him.

“one, ten, one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand…”[3] Lingyun Jueding was in disbelief and counted it over and over again.

“Could the Copyright Association made a mistake?” Yu Wan asked weakly, “How can it be the highest single work with more than five million copies sold?”

According to the computer, “Drawing Sword” sold the most, with more than 5.36 million copies sold on the first day, while “Soldier Assault” sold a little less, but it also has more than 4.83 million copies sold on the first day.

Lingyun Jueding also thought that it was impossible. He went back to his office, looked for a phone number, and called it. After a while, he came in with a sullen face.

“I asked a friend of mine in the Copyright Association to check. The number is right.” Lingyun Jueding said aggrievedly.

“That can’t be true, right? How is it possible?” The editorial department was filled with cries.

“Of course, it’s not their first day of sales!” Lingyun Jueding said with an extremely unhappy face, “The military purchased 2 million copies, and the online pre-sale they did before also contributed more than 1 million copies of sales. All of them were taken into account.”

“But subtracting these, they should still have more than 1 million copies sold on the first day.” Yu Wan, this stupid youth, really mentioned the pot that doesn’t boil[4].

“That’s right!” Lingyun Jueding glared fiercely at Yu Wan, but suddenly sighed, “We’ve chosen ourselves an opponent that we couldn’t beat!”

This first-day sales of more than a million copies, not to mention in the online literature world, was something monumental in the publishing world. And according to this momentum, it was believed that these two books were likely to be in the top 100 annual sale list!

The Iron Blood Net wanting to compete with such an opponent, who was on another level, was simply doing something beyond their own ability and asking for humiliation.

“Forget it, withdraw all those propaganda and regard it as we throw in the towel!” Lingyun Jueding waved his hand a little dejected.

“However, there is some good news.” As a deputy editor-in-chief, Lingyun Jueding quickly sorted out his emotions. He encouraged, “Yang Yi is now writing urban novel now, and there is no place to compete with us, so we don’t have to worry anymore.”

Regardless of the Iron Blood Net, which started to get hot but left the stage, almost the entire publishing industry was now focused on Yang Yi, the rising rookie king.

Sahara Publishing House also wanted to strike while the iron was hot to push Yang Yi’s fame and the sales of his two physical books to a higher peak.

However, Yang Yi refused to do a singing activity.

“Are you really reluctant to do a signing activity? Not even in Jiangcheng?” Mr. Lu, who was in charge of contacting Yang Yi, couldn’t figure it out. Fu Jun also personally called to pester Yang Yi. “Don’t you know how loud the voices of the fans are now? The sales volume exceeded one million on the first day. You can’t thank the fans if you don’t come forward!”

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[1] This refer to recent releases/chapters.

[2] Feel-good novels (爽文) are novels where the mc just blasts through life finding everything good and face slapping everything as they go.

[3] He was actually counting the place value(one, tens, hundrends…) to see how many digits were there.

[4] Mention the pot that doesn’t boil (idiom); to touch a sore spot; to talk about sb’s weak point