Chapter 76: The Professor's Praise
"How much are you going to pay me for a long time to maintain?"
Mike Wang asked two questions that he was more interested in one after another, he lacked the opportunity to make money now, and he had been spending time on the maintenance of the "My Racing" game recently, and he couldn't spare the energy to make money seriously.
Mr. Zhang didn't know how much it would cost to design such a website, let alone how much it would cost someone to help maintain it.
Tentatively, he asked, "How much do you think you should take?" At least half a year or a year, if the business fails, then I may choose to turn it off. ”
There are not many online novel websites searched by Google, but there are already some, and they don't seem to be doing well, Zhang Xiaokai has never heard of them, and the click-through rate of the books in them is pitiful, almost all of them are Chinese compatriots entertaining themselves in it.
He wants to start an online reading website in English, so that literature lovers like him can have a better sharing platform.
And so it goes.
In addition to being able to do something for yourself, it can also be regarded as an entrepreneurial attempt, and I don't want to end up becoming a salted fish who has lost illusions about life and the future.
Listen to Zhang Xiaokai took the initiative to ask.
Recently, Mike Wang, who was thinking about money and was about to go crazy, would not be polite to him, and shouted a price that he thought was already very high: "Twenty thousand dollars, I promise to get it out, but it may take me a long time to do it alone." It's all text, it doesn't take up much space, and the price of renting a server is not high, but web design is not my strong point, and you may have to find someone else to do it with me. ”
After two years at Harvard University, Mike Wang gradually developed from a black hat when he was a child to a white hat, and I don't know what he did in the first place, he still wears electronic leg irons after so long.
If you are bent on success and successfully promote your game, everyone will get a sense of accomplishment in different ways, and this guy just wants to make more people like the game he developed, so that so many miserable days and nights will not be wasted.
"In addition to the 20,000 US dollars, calculate the money to find someone to design the web page?" Zhang Xiaokai twitched in his heart, and suddenly wanted to retreat.
It's really not enough dollars in the small treasury to have enough confidence.
Mike Wang glanced at him and said, "How easy should you be, those websites that have been successful, which one of them is not desperately smashing real money into it." I probably know what you want to do, it is estimated that it is difficult to see improvement without 1.8 million US dollars, and now I am desperately trying to invest in you to promote, and then you will be looking around for money to maintain it, do you understand this?
Zhang Xiaokai was even more panicked when he heard this, he had $1.8 million, but he couldn't get it out until he became an adult, and his father was busy building a resort, and he had spent a lot of money recently, so he didn't want to live a life like Mike Wang's current debt.
If you find that you really haven't thought it through, you might as well think about it again.
Decisively withdrew, waved his hand and said: "I'll contact you in a few days, thank you for your good advice, I'll consider giving you a reply in a few days." ”
The original intention was to slap himself in front of Zhang Xiaokai, and he said his thoughts quickly with a straight mouth, but suddenly found that he actually lifted a stone and hit his own foot, Mike Wang wanted to slap himself very much, and regretted it so much that his whole face was pulled up.
Chased after him and shouted: "I don't need to hire someone to design a web page, I can learn this thing! Give me half a month to prepare, I will definitely be able to do it for you! I'm not kidding, it doesn't cost so much money to open a website!!"
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Entrepreneurial ideas are put on the back burner for the time being.
Zhang Xiaokai fell in love with the American drama "The Big Bang Theory", and nerds on TV would find it interesting, and meeting people like them in life could only make him feel that he had nothing to talk about.
Students like the protagonists in this show abound at Harvard University, and there are more freaks in the small chat group he is in.
I always feel that I am more normal than them, and the reason why I can't get along with them completely is also attributed by Zhang Xiaokai to being too rational, and rationality is not pleasing in such an environment.
Knowing that he knows, he doesn't feel that he is wrong, nor does he feel that they are right, so naturally he doesn't need to change anything to cater to those little guys with different personalities.
Occasionally, he eats, chats, and watches dramas with Xiao Gejun, but the little guy is more likable and has enough friends, and after being taken to a few parties, Zhang Xiaokai prefers to nest in the bedroom and play games.
Entangled with entrepreneurial capital, he was not ready to give it a try even if he lost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, so his life returned to the same as before.
"Professor Dumbledore" sends an email while he is playing the game.
I clicked on it and found that it was much longer than I expected, and I didn't turn the mouse to the end after sliding several times.
Driven by curiosity, Zhang Xiaokai looked at it from the beginning, and it was obviously not a work, but a note sent to him by the teacher after reading the work that wrote about the ranch.
I did read it carefully, and at the beginning of the email, he praised it as a work full of innocence, beauty, and human touch, and from a literary point of view, it was better than the published book about the accident, and accused him of not writing it all, and ordered him not to be lazy as a professor, and to continue writing it while he still had ideas.
Watching this professor analyze other people's books, I didn't feel anything, but at this moment, seeing that the book I wrote was analyzed so seriously, I vaguely felt awkward.
To be honest, Zhang Xiaokai didn't think he was writing well, he just passed the time when he was bored at school, and now he looks at what this old professor means, and he is willing to help recommend it to the publishing house and publish this book.
Happy, but also a little proud, there have been readers who have sent letters to the publishing house before, but most of the content of those letters is to comfort him and grieve for the plane crash, a total of more than a dozen.
Zhang Xiaokai will be uncomfortable when he sees those letters, although the readers are well-intentioned, but the scars that gradually heal when they are seen will be lifted again and again, and then he just treasures these letters, but he has no idea of reading them, and they are all placed in a drawer.
After reading it carefully, I wrote a brief reply to the effect that I would finish it well, and thanked him for reading it so carefully, and thanked him for his willingness to help with the publication.
The old professor was old, and he was tired after typing and writing so much, so he only replied with "Come on" and then there was no follow-up.
After cleaning up the mood and preparing to regain the strength and continue to write, it was just a perfect ending, but I didn't expect to sit in front of the computer with a blank head, and struggle for a long time before giving up the plot.
A woman's voice sounded outside the door.
"Xiao Junjun, is you in the dormitory, my sister brought you something to eat~"
Remembering that the genius roommate came back today, Zhang Xiaokai got up and turned off the computer, opened the door and looked over.
It's not a good-looking big beauty, and she laughs quite sweetly.
He told: "Ge Jun went to class, hello, I'm Zhang Xiaokai......"