Li Shuoxing began to seriously consider blacklisting Night Tour.
This guy’s really getting out of line…
At this moment, Night Tour seemed to have read Li Shuoxing’s thoughts and lightly added, “By the way, recently, a company came to buy the comic copyright and audiobook copyright of your Nine Crossings . They came here to talk to you. The total amount of the two items is about 1.2 million for the first instalment, and then there’s the second and third instalments, and you also get a share. The contract’s been sent to you. If you see no problem, you can sign it and send it back.”
Li Shuoxing: “???”
He couldn’t help but ask, “You’re only telling me about something so important now?”
Night Tour felt puzzled. “It’s just two small copyrights and not much money. Didn’t you not care much about it in the past?”
That’s because I wasn’t caught up in the women’s clothing storm in the past!
Li Shuoxing emphasised, “No matter what, that’s more important than the opening screen thing you just talked to me about!”
Night Tour understood. He laughed and urged Li Shuoxing, “Ximu, don’t be afraid. Why’re so many authors wearing women’s clothing at Terminal now? Obviously because the readers need it. We’re trying to meet the needs of the readers. I have a hunch that if you take the chance, your book will become really famous—”
My book won’t be the one becoming famous.
I’m the one who’ll become famous.
So famous that I’m going to be on the social news again.
Li Shuoxing was so scared that he blacklisted Night Tour to give himself some peace and quiet.
After that, he prepared to go to bed, but before he did, he didn’t forget to take another look at the monthly vote list.
First, Nine Crossings , 28,000 votes.
Second, Master of Myriad , 19,000 votes.
Although he was leading by a large margin, Li Shuoxing wasn’t happy. On the contrary, his heart felt heavy.
No way.
I have to think of another way to divert the attention of my book friends.
***
At 8am on January 3rd, Terminal’s official data account finally released the initial subscription data for the VIP novels in January.
Li Shuoxing was ranked first among them, with 350,000 favourites, 45,000 initial subscriptions, and a 7.7:1 subscription ratio.
Silent Stream was ranked second, with 580,000 favourites, 40,000 initial subscriptions, and a 14.5:1 subscription ratio.
As soon as the data came out, the authors were in an uproar.
Terminal’s previous highest initial subscription was 30,000. Now, both Li Shuoxing and Silent Stream were directly and substantially refreshing the Terminal initial subscription data. One could imagine how much more terrifying the subsequent subscriptions would be when they were written a little longer and put on another channel.
They announced:
“They’re two god books.”
After saying that, considering that the monthly vote battle was now in full swing, they added:
“They’re two gods.”
But Li Shuoxing really didn’t want to be a god.
January 3rd, 10am.
Li Shuoxing updated ten chapters at once, a total of twenty thousand words.
After the burst, he opened a single chapter, telling everyone with full sincerity:
“Brothers, thank you so much for everything you’ve done for Nine Crossings , especially the Silver Alliances of this book. It’s not easy to give so much! As an author, I really can’t bear it. But leave the burden of the monthly vote battle to me. You don’t have to sacrifice your flesh and sell your souls. This love is really too heavy. It’s enough for me to carry the burden alone. Forget about women’s clothing or whatever.”
Li Shuoxing felt that he had spoken with great emotion, and the readers were really moved by him, all of them in shock.
“Ten updates? Ten updates? The weight of the flesh squeezed out Eunuch’s new potential!!!”
“I didn’t expect that just a Silver Alliance flesh sacrifice could create such pressure on Eunuch? Then plunging into the Silver Alliance now to claim to want women’s clothing can get more updates?”
At twelve noon, five thousand special red envelopes suddenly landed on the latest chapter of the Nine Crossings and were distributed to the book’s readers.
The ID of the person who sent the red envelopes was “Hiding Shadow”. He said, “Ten Alliance Masters wear women’s clothing, ten updates. 350,000 brothers dance the square dance, 350,000-word update. By: Lighted Smoke Prosperous Lamp”
After five thousand red envelopes were sent out, he was still unsatisfied and sent another five thousand. “Brothers and me together, with enough monthly votes, enough pressure, and enough momentum, we can have extra updates and women’s clothing too!”
This red envelope move was like a magic stroke.
After all, book friends who were reading the book might not vote, might not leave comments, and might not read the contents of Eunuch’s single chapter.
But as long as they saw a red envelope, they’d obviously claim it.
Each time a red envelope was claimed, an identical message would appear in the discussion forum.
With ten thousand red envelopes, ten thousand comments flooded the discussion forum in the blink of an eye.
And Hiding Shadow still continued to send out red envelopes. Each time, the custom red envelope phrase was different. The one thing that never changed was the key formula “monthly votes = pressure = motivation = updates = women’s clothing”, and the smart readers completely got it.
Li Shuoxing glanced twice at the discussion forum and realised in despair that his new single chapter was too gentle. Under the offensive of this new reader’s red envelopes, his book friends were already extremely convinced that if they tried hard enough, Eunuch would give in, and that there would be updates today and women’s clothing in the future!
Among these book friends, Li Shuoxing also saw his own cub.
Su Mingqian left a message underneath his single chapter: “Ximu, you are not alone. You don’t need to do it alone. I’ll help you take on some of it.”
Li Shuoxing: “???”
Cub, tell me, what are you willing to take on?
In fact, Li Shuoxing wasn’t the only one feeling desperate.
The opposite side’s Silent Stream was also quite desperate.
When he saw that Li Shuoxing had added extra updates and sent a single chapter, he thought that the monthly vote battle was going to enter his familiar rhythm. He was eager to follow suit and burst out. Fortunately, he was cautious. He also browsed the comments of the book friends on the other side’s single chapter and saw a lot of pressure.
He… couldn’t help but substitute himself and his own discussion forum.
Obviously, he had already refused.
Obviously, he intended to add extra updates.
But still…
He slowed down his extra updates.
A little scared, a little fearful.
Amid the happiness of the new day, Li Shuoxing’s monthly votes were soaring. Although Silent Stream was still brave and fierce, he was showing signs of decline compared to Li Shuoxing. Except for those two books, the rest of the articles on the monthly vote list were accompanying the prince to read, not bothering to ask for votes, just watching the excitement.
On the evening of the 3rd, Li Shuoxing once again won against Silent Stream and had expanded his original advantage of nine thousand votes to twelve thousand votes.
The New Year’s three-day monthly vote struggle was now over.
Li Shuoxing’s book friends were now looking around with their heads held high.
What Silent Stream.
What Master of Myriad .
They can’t win the New Year’s monthly votes.
They can’t win this month’s monthly votes either.
No one can stop me from seeing Pink Swan Eunuch!
***
After the three days of New Year’s ended, many Silver Alliance Masters were once again gathered in the “Bald for Eunuch” group, preparing to fulfil their promise to the readers. Taobao pictures of pink ballerina skirts were sent from the girls to the group for evaluation and selection.
As a member of the logistics team, Su Mingqian also selected clothes on Taobao.
He studied the pictures, observed the comments, and put forward his own opinions when appropriate, such as:
“I think it would look better to wear a pink gauze skirt with tights of the same colour.”
“Should we add a pair of white wings on the back?”
“Right, we can also put a halo on top of the head.”
His spiritual opinions were greatly praised by the rest of the group, and the style of the clothes was simply decided like this.
Having contributed his own strength, Su Mingqian happily left QQ and entered the camera, looking for Li Shuoxing. “Ximu?”
Li Shuoxing had been tailing Su Mingqian.
He looked at what Su Mingqian looked at through him.
When Su Mingqian was about to look at him through the camera, he immediately shifted his gaze from the phone screen to the computer screen, pretending he was seriously working.
Li Shuoxing coughed. “What is it?”
Su Mingqian: “Ximu, are you tired?”
Li Shuoxing: “Not tired.”
Su Mingqian: “Oh…”
He sounded a little lost.
He paused for a moment and then said, “Ximu, don’t be too tired. It’s noon, go take a nap. I’ll call you later.”
Li Shuoxing was a bit confused. He wasn’t in the habit of taking naps and replied directly, “No need, I’m really not tired.”
Su Mingqian: “Oh…”
He sounded even more lost.
He spoke again, stepped out from the camera, grabbed his little blanket, and slowly flew to the Love Bar app, passing a bunch of other apps on the way.
Li Shuoxing looked at the cub and the various apps on his phone’s desktop.
In fact, at the very beginning, he hadn’t opened up access to the chat and payment software on his phone to the cub.
But the cub was so cute.
Who could refuse.
So, in just a week, Li Shuoxing’s phone was completely opened to the cub. At about that time, the cub had also started to have his own mini email account, mini QQ account… and even have his own WeChat Moments. He was about to be corrupted by his book friends.
The corners of Li Shuoxing’s mouth twitched, mixed emotions in his heart.
He followed the cub into the game and watched as he sat on the couch, flipping through periodicals absent-mindedly while looking at the wardrobe frequently.
Why does the cub keep looking at the wardrobe?
What can there be in the wardrobe? Except clothes aren’t they just clothes…
Li Shuoxing suddenly remembered something.
He understood why the cub kept looking in the wardrobe and why he asked him if he was sleepy!
Fifteen minutes later, Su Mingqian, who was sitting on the couch, couldn’t hold back.
He opened the app’s recently updated internal camera and looked outside the phone again. “Ximu…”
Li Shuoxing yawned at just the right time. “What?”
Su Mingqian immediately picked up on it. “Ximu, you’re sleepy. You should sleep now.”
Li Shuoxing hesitated. “If I sleep too much in the middle of the day, I won’t be able to sleep at night.”
Su Mingqian: “Don’t worry, I’ll call you.”
Li Shuoxing was convinced. “…That’s fine. I’ll sleep for an hour and a half, and you wake me up when it’s time.”
Su Mingqian nodded repeatedly. “Go.”
Li Shuoxing went to bed, closed his eyes and began to sleep.
Su Mingqian looked at Li Shuoxing for a while from behind the camera. After confirming that the person lying on the bed was asleep, he withdrew his gaze, gently exhaled, stood up, and went straight to the wardrobe, digging out the Little Devil Princess costume that had long been gathering dust!
The Little Devil Princess costume was taken out, and Xingxing was also taken out.
They were both placed together by Su Mingqian on the large workbench in the crafting workshop.
Su Mingqian was ready to do what he had been wanting to do for the past few days.
But before he did it, he looked out through the camera again and saw the bulging blanket.
Ximu is still sleeping.
He won’t find out what I’m doing.
Su Mingqian was reassured.
He clasped his hands together, bowed his head, and began to pray.
“Give me a pink swan women’s outfit for Xingxing to wear.”
“Give me a palace-style skirt for Xingxing to wear.”
“Give me lots and lots of different styles of women’s clothing and accessories for dolls!”
After the prayer, Su Mingqian opened his eyes and opened the system store.
In a flash, a huge assortment of women’s clothing for dolls was presented in front of Su Mingqian’s eyes!
A delicate little pink skirt, placed to the left of Xingxing; a large lace luxury dress, placed to the right of Xingxing.
Su Mingqian then picked up a long wig, contemplated for a moment, and put it on Xingxing.
Then he took a small comb, lovingly combed the long hair, put it into a small braid, and tied a small flower onto the braid…
While doing this, Su Mingqian certainly didn’t forget to look out through the camera from time to time, to make sure that Ximu was still sleeping soundly and wouldn’t find anything out.
Li Shuoxing had found everything out.
He had long seen the cub’s thoughts. Playing along, a cicada casting off its skin <sup>1</sup> 金蝉脱壳 [jīn chán tuō qià o] is a Chinese idiom which means to get away with tricks. , he was able to trick the cub with a blanket stuffed with pillows. He himself had already projected his phone onto the TV, sitting out of reach of the phone’s camera, watching the cub’s every move openly.
Su Mingqian put a little hat on Xingxing.
Su Mingqian put a pretty dress on Xingxing.
Su Mingqian made a long silk shawl himself and hung it on Xingxing’s arm in a graceful posture.
Su Mingqian also cut two thin black ribbons and twisted them to make stockings for Xingxing, looking really sexy and charming.
+5.
+5+5+5+5.
Every time Su Mingqian dressed up Xingxing, favourability popped up above his head.
His happy little look made Li Shuoxing a bit reluctant to interrupt…
So Li Shuoxing had a brilliant idea.
He let Su Mingqian gorge himself on dressing up the Ximu doll, waiting patiently until the favourability on his head was no longer increasing and he was just about satisfied, before entering the game and grabbing the little person.
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金蝉脱壳 [jīn chán tuō qià o] is a Chinese idiom which means to get away with tricks.