Edited by: kapekopicoffee
It wouldn’t be surprising if one author recommended it.
It wouldn’t be surprising if ten authors recommended it.
But a group of authors recommending it at the same time, with very similar recommendation messages, all saying “Brothers, don’t forget to support”?
Emm…
Readers were leaving comments and teasing:
“Do you have a group where everyone pushes for an article using a pre-written template?”
“Say, what kind of shady deal did you make?”
“Looking at this situation, is Eunuch turning into a Terminal general attacker <sup>1</sup> 总攻 [zǒng gōng] refers to someone who is always the top in a male to male relationship no matter who they are with. , attacking and exhausting Terminal?”
There were also many responses from authors among the various messages.
No author would seriously say why they were recommending Li Shuoxing’s article. They made jokes with the readers:
“We need a template just for pushing articles? I’ve copied it all directly.”
“Don’t talk nonsense. We are pure. We are socialist brothers <sup>2</sup> 社会主义兄弟情 refers to the male-male romances in movies and TV shows that cannot be publicised due to censorship. .”
“Relationships can be messed up, but positions can’t be muddled!”
Terminal wasn’t the only site that was lively. With Li Shuoxing’s notice of going VIP being forwarded on Weibo, more authors on other sites also knew about it and joined the ranks of recommending Li Shuoxing’s novel.
More and more readers appeared in the discussion forum. Of course, more and more rewards also began to float in the discussion forum.
No matter if it was Li Shuoxing’s original older readers, or the newer ones who came here today, all of them contributed generously to support Nine Crossings .
Those who had money got a 1000 yuan Alliance Master and were red in the discussion forum.
Those who had no money sent a guaranteed monthly vote and shouted 666, no problem at all.
This round of subscriptions and rewards eventually turned into more visible data.
Nine Crossings had occupied first place on both the bestselling and monthly vote lists, surpassing Master of Myriad .
When the data came out, everyone was a bit mystified.
No one thought Li Shuoxing could get ahead of Silent Stream at the end of the New Year’s Day Vote King.
The so-called New Year’s Day Vote King was Terminal’s activity for monthly votes held during the three days of the New Year. This activity would result in one champion of the day’s monthly votes per day, who would be reserved for the next day’s app opening screen recommendation.
Especially Li Shuoxing’s book friends.
They didn’t even think about this from the beginning, so they were ready to survive until the end and see if there was a chance to turn the tide.
They didn’t think…
They secretly observed the data on the list, first and second, home and next door, it really opened a huge amount of distance!
They also secretly observed Silent Stream and found that the opponent’s discussion forum was very peaceful. There wasn’t any agitation from their data being surpassed, as if they didn’t care much about it. Even when the moderator announced the large benefits after going VIP, they were flat, not looking the slightest bit concerned about the Daily Vote King.
It’s good that you don’t care.
If you don’t care, then we’ll go up to the top.
Nine Crossing’s book friends and moderators thought at the same time.
The moderators, while paying attention to the list data in real-time, sent posts asking for votes in the discussion forum, calling on everyone to vote again when they were free, so as to stabilise the distance between the two books:
“Brothers, first day of VIP, first day of the new year, and first place on the monthly votes, we can’t lose!”
After issuing this call, Nine Crossing ’s advantage was maintained. Although the gap was slowly being closed in the middle, Li Shuoxing’s article still remained at the top of the rankings.
Until the last moment.
At fifty-nine minutes, Nine Crossings was suddenly overtaken, 3 votes behind.
A 3 vote gap.
Master of Myriad became the Daily Vote King!
“Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck—”
At the same time, Calm Egg’s howling rang out in the Terminal Food Group!
“What kind of operation is this, I was betting on Eunuch to win today, ahhhhh!”
Interfinger Storm: “A legendary operation @Calm Egg.”
Soren: “Cheap Saint’s <sup>3</sup> 贱圣 [jiàn shèng] references the name of a streamer 虎牙贱圣 [hǔ yá jiàn shèng], which translates to Tiger Tooth Cheap Saint. When he was streaming, some other guy tried to beat him with an ultimate card thing, but in the end, Cheap Saint still managed to win. operation @Calm Egg.”
Ten Zero Mausoleum: “Slut King’s operation @Calm Egg.”
Calm Egg was puzzled. “Why do you guys have to @ me when you’re all answering with one sentence?”
Everyone slowly replied, “Because it always feels like… this kind of slutty operation something you’d do, not something Silent Stream would do.”
Calm Egg was speechless. “We need to distinguish between the enemy and me. For Eunuch’s sake, I’ve been opening a mini account to go undercover in Silent Stream’s discussion forum. Ive been waving a flag from 9pm and shouting for them to rush forward, in order to help Eunuch force out their cards in advance.”
Everyone: “And the result?”
Speaking of this, Calm Egg was depressed. “No one fell for it. It went up as it should.”
Deer Over Fragrant Grass popped up at this time and said seriously, “The opponent was hiding votes in their hands, and didn’t vote when pressed, keeping them until the most critical moment to turn the tables in one fell swoop.”
Interfinger Storm also added, “Eunuch, don’t worry about it. Everyone knows this routine. Silent Stream used a surprise play this one time. It’s impossible to play like that every day.”
Li Shuoxing had been online the whole time, but just didn’t say anything.
Now he said, “It’s fine. I’ll go offline to take a break first.”
As soon as he said this, the authors who were still online immediately stopped their discussion, then kindly and considerately queued up to send Li Shuoxing offline.
Li Shuoxing, who wasn’t originally very depressed, was a bit depressed.
Before he had time to speak, his QQ jumped, and the editor, Calamus, who had been quiet for a long time appeared, also with a word of congratulation.
Calamus: “Congratulations to Eunuch for kicking off by winning the January 1st Daily Vote King. Eunuch is too awesome [scatter flowers][scatter flowers].”
Then.
The message was withdrawn in a second.
Calamus carefully said, “Sorry, I sent the wrong…”
Li Shuoxing, who was a bit depressed, was now extremely depressed.
Li Shuoxing: “…”
The ellipsis seemed to carry a ton of deep meaning.
Calamus quickly explained, “I was just following the battle between you and Silent Stream for Daily Vote King. In the last minute, I thought you’d win, so I congratulated you. I didn’t expect Silent Stream to surpass you in votes. If I had known, I would’ve left my three monthly votes for you!”
Li Shuoxing, who didn’t bother thinking of words, just: “…”
Calamus continued the struggle to make up for her mistake. “Actually, Daily Vote King isn’t that important. The important thing is that your subscription data is very good, even better than Silent Stream’s. Do you want to know Silent Stream’s subscription data?”
Li Shuoxing coldly refused. “Don’t want to.”
Calamus tempted, “I think you should know. This time, the result absolutely won’t disappoint you.”
Li Shuoxing firmly refused.
It was just subscription data. Tomorrow, Terminal’s official data collection account would calculate and directly announce it. Was there a need to look at it from Calamus?
It was late.
Li Shuoxing didn’t chat too much with Calamus. After a simple refusal, he went off QQ and prepared to call the cub to sleep.
After all, it was past midnight now. Breaking the curse of going to bed early on the first day of the new year, there was a not so good feeling…
He saw the cub’s nest in the bottom right corner of the screen.
A small couch, a small coffee table, a pile of books, and Xingxing.
At some point, Xingxing had also come out of the game. At this moment, it was still wearing its Christmas scarf and a magician hat. It was adorably crooked on the couch, as if guarding Su Mingqian’s exclusive seat in his place.
Li Shuoxing’s mood lifted as soon as he saw something that belonged to Su Mingqian.
The little bit of depression he had just felt flew away.
Forget it.
I don’t care about Silent Stream or whatever.
Sucking the cub is my number one priority in life!
There’s just one question. Where’s the cub?
Li Shuoxing looked on his desktop and opened the document first, but didn’t find the little person; then he opened the webpage, but still didn’t find the little person.
But when he opened the webpage, he found a surprise.
In Nine Crossings’ s Silver Alliance, there was an Alliance Master named “Su Mingqian”.
What’s this?
Li Shuoxing couldn’t help but open the account.
He had thought that a new reader had called themself his protagonist’s name. However, when he opened it, he found that this account wasn’t a new reader’s account like he thought, but the account he had prepared for Su Mingqian before.
In other words, Su Mingqian had rewarded him with a Silver Alliance.
???
But how did the cub get money?
Li Shuoxing’s head was filled with question marks.
He didn’t find the little person on the computer, but instead found a problem related to the little person.
Li Shuoxing couldn’t help but pick up his phone to see if there were any traces of the little person and clues to this matter in the game.
He first went into the game. The little person wasn’t there.
But the system narration was there, recording everything faithfully.
Li Shuoxing opened the system narration. Before, he was in the habit of watching the narration. But since he was able to get out of the game, both of them were active in the outside world, which also led him to gradually neglect the system narration…
At critical moments, you’re still more powerful.
Li Shuoxing gave the narration a thumbs up. Then he was browsing and found that in the long record, sentences like these were interspersed.
[Su Mingqian supervises the player writing.]
[Su Mingqian finishes a book in C language, and is a bit bored.]
[Su Mingqian surfs the web and finds the IT staff forum.]
[Su Mingqian finds that outsourcing is possible here.]
…
[Su Mingqian takes on an outsourcing job.]
[Su Mingqian writes code in addition to supervising the player.]
[Su Mingqian walks with painstaking effort between desktop keyboards.]
[Su Mingqian longs for a normal keyboard.]
…
[Su Mingqian receives a keyboard purchased by the player using the love credit card.]
[Su Mingqian is very happy.]
Reading this passage all the way through, Li Shuoxing suddenly remembered.
Around the middle of last month, a batch of super cute mini keyboards, tablets, cameras and other things were suddenly put on the shelves in the system store. At first glance, he thought that Su Mingqian might like the tablet and keyboard, so he bought them directly and gave them to Su Mingqian.
At that time, the other really did look very happy.
But he only thought that the cub was thinking that those things were really cute…
He never would have thought that the cub wanted them for doing business…
Li Shuoxing continued to look down.
[Su Mingqian can’t tear himself away from the little keyboard.]
[Su Mingqian quietly removes the Ximu sticker and attaches it to the keyboard.]
[Su Mingqian uses the little keyboard to type code.]
[Su Mingqian is concerned about whether the sound of the keyboard would disturb the player.]
…
[Su Mingqian finishes writing the code.]
[Su Mingqian sends the program to the client.]
[Su Mingqian tries to get the client to transfer the money into his Terminal account.]
…
[Su Mingqian makes his first funds.]
[Su Mingqian sneaks into Taobao.]
[Su Mingqian studies how to register a Taobao account.]
[Su Mingqian browses through many kinds of pens.]
[Su Mingqian collects a page of high-priced gold pens.]
[Su Mingqian takes on another commission.]
Li Shuoxing understood completely.
He found that, in the time completely unknown to him, when he thought Su Mingqian was just supervising his writing, he had actually started taking on some computer-related work online. Moreover, he had apparently managed to earn his first funds without a hitch and wanted to buy him a gold pen as a small gift.
In the end, for some reason he didn’t know about, that ten thousand yuan was all rewarded to him…
1
总攻 [zǒng gōng] refers to someone who is always the top in a male to male relationship no matter who they are with. 2
社会主义兄弟情 refers to the male-male romances in movies and TV shows that cannot be publicised due to censorship. 3
贱圣 [jiàn shèng] references the name of a streamer 虎牙贱圣 [hǔ yá jiàn shèng], which translates to Tiger Tooth Cheap Saint. When he was streaming, some other guy tried to beat him with an ultimate card thing, but in the end, Cheap Saint still managed to win.