On the monthly ticket list, when the Three Kingdoms melee is in full swing.

At noon on August 14, in a rented house in M City.

Le Chao held half a cigarette in his left hand, squinted at the computer screen, held the mouse in his right hand and kept refreshing his author's background, the little apple Han Li sat next to him, frowned and raised his hand to brush it in front of his face, and protested in a low voice: "Don't you smoke, okay?" I don't know I don't like to smell smoke?"

Le Chao glanced at her, his brow furrowed, but he still smiled and stuffed half of his cigarette into the can on the table.

"That's pretty much it!"

Han Li's brows furrowed, and her expression was much more pleasant.

She didn't pay attention to Le Chao's brows, but she was still furrowed.

Le Chao's right hand is still clicking the mouse, refreshing his author's background.

Han Li: "Isn't it 12 o'clock? It's been four or five minutes, why haven't you opened it for you yet?"

Le Chao continued to refresh the author's background, exhaled a sullen breath, and shook his head slightly, "It should be soon, and the editor is not the only one who has opened the shelf function, and it is normal to be a few minutes late." ”

Han Li looked at him and changed the subject, "By the way, how much do you estimate you can subscribe to this book in 24 hours?"

Le Chao was still frowning, and shook his head again, "It's hard to say, this depends on the subscription ratio, my "God of Fighting" now has a collection of more than 21,000, if the subscription ratio is beautiful, the first order will be very considerable, otherwise it's hard to say." ”

Han Li frowned, "Guess it! This book was written by yourself, how well it is written, you should have a number in your heart, do you estimate how many first orders there are?"

Le Chao frowned and said nothing.

Han Li bumped him on the shoulder, "Can you estimate it?"

Le Chao glanced at her, his expression quite speechless.

"How dare you guess! 5,000? Do you know how difficult it is to order 5,000 for the first time? Do you know what it means to order 5,000 for the first time?"

Han Li pouted and blew out a bubble of gum in her mouth, and after exploding with a snap, she said casually: "Is it difficult? When Sun Quan's book was released recently, I heard you say that it seemed to be more than 10,000 first orders, right? There are so many new books in the first order, you don't even dare to think about half of his?"

Le Chao was dumbfounded.

He suddenly didn't want to talk to her.

Discussing the topic of first order with a layman, he felt like his brain was in water.

While speaking, his right hand was still subconsciously refreshing the author's backstage, and suddenly, his eyes lit up, and his waist bar instantly sat up straight, "Okay! ”

As he spoke, he hurriedly retrieved the manuscript from the hard drive of the computer, preparing to release the VIP chapter, Han Li watched him operate, and after a while, Le Chao stopped.

He has already released three VIP chapters in one go.

When he stopped, Han Li blew the gum in her mouth again, and after it exploded, she chewed it again and asked, "What are we going to do next? Why don't we just sit here and wait? Why don't we go out for a shopping or watch a movie or something? We haven't been out for a while, have we? Since you started this new book, how long have we not been out to have a good time? Two months? Or three months?"

After listening to her, Le Chao turned his face and frowned at her.

Barely squeezing out a smile, he said: "Lili, it's really not good today, my book has just been put on the shelves today, I'm going to stay here to see the subscription growth, I really don't have the heart to go out to play, wait a minute, I have to hurry up and code words! Now it's on the shelves, every extra chapter is money, don't you want me to make more money?"

Han Li frowned at him, still chewing gum in her mouth.

After looking at each other for a moment, she smiled slightly, her expression was a little helpless, and nodded, "Okay, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow? Today Friday, tomorrow Saturday, the day after tomorrow Sunday, you won't let me wait another week, right?"

Le Chao pursed his lips, frowned, scratched his head, and finally nodded helplessly, "Okay! Then the day after tomorrow! I still want to rush a few more chapters tomorrow, this book has just been put on the shelves, and it is best to add more tomorrow." ”

"The day after tomorrow?"

Han Li's expression was a little dissatisfied, but she still nodded, "Okay! Then the day after tomorrow! Don't release my pigeons!"

Le Chao nodded, his smile revealing a little helplessness.

Han Li got up suddenly, patted him on the shoulder with her right hand, turned around and walked towards the door, and said as she walked, "Then I'll go first, remember!

Le Chao closed his eyes and hummed.

There was the sound of the door opening and closing behind him, and listening to the footsteps outside the door gradually moving away, Le Chao opened his eyes and exhaled again.

Grabbing the cigarette and lighter on the table, he frowned and lit one, took a deep breath, and spit out a thick puff of smoke from his mouth, just like his mood at this time.

If someone had been staring into his eyes at this time, they would have been able to see the look of exhaustion in his eyes.

The tick beep suddenly sounded.

Le Chao glanced at the lower right corner of the computer screen and saw a girl's QQ avatar flashing.

Seeing that the girl's QQ avatar was flashing, he smiled slightly, reached out and clicked the mouse, and a chat dialog box popped up.

Nangong Yan: "How much is the first order?"

Le Chao refreshed the author's background, about 10 minutes before his first VIP chapter was released.

However, after the author's background is refreshed, the number of subscriptions for the first VIP chapter shows: 106.

Seeing this number, Le Chao's expression suddenly froze, and only his two eyes blinked and blinked again, looking a little sluggish.

The next moment, he suddenly smiled, held the mouse in his right hand, and skillfully threw the screenshot of this number to Nangong Yan.

After a few seconds.

Nangong Yan: "Wow, it's going to break through 100 so soon? You're going to explode! It's amazing! It's amazing, congratulations!"

Le Chao smiled and replied quickly: "Seriously, I didn't expect this subscription to be so fierce, great! I worked hard for a few months this time, and it was not in vain, haha!!"

Nangong Yan sent a smiley expression.

Then he sent another sentence: "This is called hard work, and it is also called that those who have a will can do it, hehe, Ah Chao, it won't be long before you can really buy a villa for your girlfriend and get married, congratulations!"

Le Chao's originally happy expression, after seeing her words, the joy on his face suddenly faded by half, put his hands on the keyboard, hesitated for a while, and then replied: "Seriously, I really thought about marrying her before, and buying her a villa, as long as I can afford it, but now ...... I've been really thinking she's not the right fit for me lately. ”

Nangong Yan: "???"

Nangong Yan: "What's wrong? Did something unpleasant happen between you? Didn't you say you loved her very much a few days ago?"

Le Chao frowned and replied: "I'm duplicitous, not what I said." ”

Nangong Yan: "???"

Nangong Yan: "You can't just think about changing your girlfriend as soon as your new book comes out, right?" With all due respect, if you do this, you're a bit scum!"

Le Chao pursed his lips and replied: "Hehe, I didn't say that I was going to break up with her soon, don't worry! How could I do that? As the saying goes: Punishment without teaching is tantamount to murder, I will give her a chance to behave, and I will give her a chance before she makes me completely dead." ”

Nangong Yan: "Well, that's pretty much it. ”

Le Chao took another puff of cigarette, and after the smoke was exhaled, he quickly typed and replied again: "Hey, seriously, if I were still single now, would you like me?"

Nangong Yan was silent for a while this time before replying: "There is no if in life, so I don't want to answer this question, by the way, I'm going to start work, I don't have a word today, let's talk back!"

Le Chao frowned and looked at her words for a while before replying: "Okay, let's talk back!"

Ending the chat with Nangong Yan, Le Chao refreshed his author's background again, and at this time, about twenty minutes had passed since the release of his first VIP chapter.

And this time, the refreshed subscription number is already 191.

This number came into view, and Le Chao returned to a smile on his face, and there was a taste of pride in his smile.

......

The next day at noon.

When it was almost half past eleven, there was a knock on the door of Lechao's rental house, and he asked casually: "Who?"

Outside the door, "Open the door!"

It was Han Li's voice.

Le Chao frowned, got up and went over to open the door, and asked Han Li, who was carrying two boxes of lunches, "Don't you have my key here?"

"Well, I forgot. ”

Han Li walked to his computer desk, casually put the lunch box on the table, glanced at his computer screen, and saw a document with half of the codeword.

"It's been almost 24 hours, how many new books have you ordered for the first time?" she asked Le Chao back.

Le Chao smiled faintly, sighed, and looked very frustrated, "Pounce, it's about five hundred first orders." ”

Hearing him answer, Han Li frowned, and her expression was a little suspicious, "No, it's so low? Didn't you say that there might be two thousand orders? Why is it so low?"

Le Chao smiled bitterly, walked over lazily, opened the lunch box she brought, and while breaking the disposable chopsticks and preparing to eat, he said casually: "It's all said to pounce, what else are you asking? Which pot doesn't open which pot to mention?"

Han Li frowned and looked at him for a while, then suddenly sighed lightly, squatted in front of him, hugged his waist, sighed, and said, "It's okay, this time, let's work hard next time! Don't be too discouraged, besides, you can earn a lot of money every month when this book is published now, it's already very good!"

Le Chao, who had just opened a box of meals, was stunned when he heard this.

Frowning and turning her face to look at her, Han Li's expression was full of disappointment at this time, but the words just now really came out of her mouth.

Her words were obviously unexpected.

Frowning and looking at her for a while, he suddenly shook his head and said: "You are too optimistic, it is okay to say that my book was not on the shelves before, but now that it is on the shelves, it is like this, and the publishing house will cut my book in half, maybe this month, or next month, they will tell me that this book is going to be cut, let me write an ending to them as soon as possible, do you believe it or not?"

Han Li looked up in surprise, "Can you still do this......?" Aren't they breaking the contract by doing that?"

Le Chao laughed, "What contract is broken? The contract says that they have the right to cut books at any time, what do you think?"

Han Li looked at him blankly, for a while, her expression fell, and she sighed again, "Well, I know, but even then, don't be too discouraged! If not, you can prepare a new book! Don't worry! I will always be with you!"

Le Chao frowned again, and asked, "Really?"