At that time, Penguin's users had exceeded one million, becoming the leader of Huaguo's instant messaging category, and the growth trend was still fierce, and the user base of tens of millions was completely predictable.

Gu Zhi and Xiao Ma Ge had a smooth negotiation on the buckle, and both sides made it clear and clarified their respective goals openly, and soon reached an investment intention.

Over the next week, Gu Zhi and Lin Zhi visited Penguin's headquarters, an office of less than 50 square meters, and the two sides began to negotiate the amount of investment and shares.

In the end, Gu Zhi injected $3 million into the penguin and acquired a 47% stake.

This result satisfied both parties, and Brother Xiao Ma also deliberately asked Gu Zhi to choose a five-digit exclusive buckle number.

“10086！”

Gu Zhi thought about it, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed, and an incomparably familiar number popped out of his head.

In the end, he got his wish and got this extremely rare buckle number.

Since then, Ali and Penguin have been taken care of by Gu Zhi, and the family's money has been almost spent by him.

The next step is to shift the focus of the work.

On August 20th, Wukong officially went on sale in major bookstores.

After the sale, it did not disappoint the editors-in-chief He Jianping and Gu Zhi.

In just one week, Wukong sold 2,000 copies nationwide, and some bookstores even sold out of stock.

After the Ming Daily Publishing House got the sales data, He Jianping immediately called Gu Zhi to report the good news.

Wukong wrote the first printing of only 10,000 copies, and in the blink of an eye, it sold one-fifth, which is a sales miracle for a rookie writer!

The publishing house immediately decided to print an additional 30,000 copies and put them on the market, and at the same time, the news media Mingming Daily, which has the same origin as the publishing house of Ming Daily, also began to prepare to interview Gu Zhi.

The weekly sales of Wukong's writing are in front of you, and the publishing house can already foresee the popularity of Wukong's writing in the future, and Gu Zhi, as an author, will definitely become famous, and he is still young enough to have a strong topicality.

Therefore, the publishing house has long discussed with its own media that it will become the first media in China to interview Gu Zhi and do an exclusive interview for him.

When He Jianping asked Gu Zhi for his opinion on the interview, Gu Zhi didn't say a word, and agreed in one bite.

Expanding his popularity is the most important purpose of his book, and it is too late for him to be happy when he is interviewed by the media.

On September 3, Li Li, a reporter from Ming Daily, took a 29-hour train ride with a Canon camera and a black schoolbag to Gu Zhi's house.

The interview process was crisp and not dragging at all.

The reporter asked Gu Zhi in detail about his family background and personal experience, and then focused on Wukong's writing of this novel.

Including the initial inspiration, the difficulties encountered in the creation, the deep meaning of writing this novel, and so on.

In just half an hour, with the click of the camera, the interview ended smoothly.

After Lin Zhi and his advisor were repeatedly retained, Li Li had a formal lunch at their house, and then took his leave.

He also needs to rush to the magic capital to interview the first prize winner of this year's New Concept Essay Contest.

Under the fiery sun, the reporter's figure soon disappeared in Shenda New Village.

A month later, on the second page of the main board, the newspaper published an interview with a young writer, which also listed the sales figures of Wukong's writing for the first month since it went on sale.

From August 20 to September 20, Wukong has sold more than 36,000 copies nationwide, and less than 3,000 copies are still on sale in the market.

For this reason, the Ming Daily Publishing House announced in the article that in order to meet the enthusiasm of the broad masses of the people, it was decided to print another 200,000 copies of Wukong's writing.

As soon as this issue of the newspaper came out, it was quickly bought up by fans who wrote it by Goku.

For the first time, people saw the author's relevant information, and in addition to marveling at Gu Zhi's excessive youth, there were more beautiful girls who were attracted by his appearance.

What is it like when you love a book and you accidentally find out that the author of the book is an out-and-out handsome guy or a beautiful woman?

Surprise!

Unexpected surprise!

Han Han's popularity back then, in addition to his sharp literary brilliance, his handsome and slightly evil appearance also added a lot of points to him, and he won a lot of passers-by.

Gu Zhi is the same now, male book fans will not hate him when they see him, but female book fans are obsessed with him himself, from book fans to half of Gu Zhi's fans.

And there are some women who have not seen Wukong's writing, after seeing Gu Zhi's appearance, it also aroused her desire to buy, which invisibly attracted a large number of beauty fans for Gu Zhi.

Women are really an impulsive group.

The impact of the article was something that Gu Zhi did not expect.

It turns out that no matter what era it is, this world is a world of faces.

There has long been a hustle and bustle on the Internet, and on the poorly typeset forums and BBS, there have been countless Wukong fans overnight.

Of course, where there is powder, there is black. In addition to book fans and face fans, many black fans are also free on major forums, spraying Wukong to their heart's content.

"What kind of garbage novel is this! A good Journey to the West has actually been changed to this appearance, ruining the things left by the ancestors!"

"The author didn't even graduate from high school, but he dared to rewrite the four famous novels? I really don't know where you got the courage?"

"It's written in a mess and I don't have a clue at all. There are so many people who like it, you fans must not have read a good book, holding a garbage book of heavenly immortals!"

"If the novel is too childish, it will shout and kill. Can you be more mature and read more foreign masterpieces, then it is called literary works!"

···

The voice of black fans is always very prominent, and it is debated endlessly in major forums.

At first, he was spraying Wukong to write this work, and soon the goal shifted to Gu Zhi.

From suspicion to personal attacks, the swearing on the forum is getting harder and harder.

Fortunately, Wukong has a lot of fans, and most of them are young people with unlimited energy, and they have fought hundreds of rounds with black fans on major forums.

When a netizen named "Shi Yu" posted a post on major forums, the voices of black fans immediately decreased a lot, and fans finally achieved a short-term victory.

"The author of Wukong became a popular writer at the age of sixteen, and being able to write such a novel provoked so many people to quarrel because of him.

How many people have been able to make such an impact online? Ask yourself, what were you doing when you were 16?

If you don't like it, you can discuss, what kind of ability is it to personally attack the author on the Internet?

Neither quality nor education!

You trolls have clean mouths, whether the book is good or not, everyone's opinion is different, the most objective evaluation method is to use sales to speak, and the sales written by Wukong have proven its value.

Okay, that's a long way off, now let's talk about Wukong writing this novel..."

If it weren't for the fact that the current forum layout on the Internet is still relatively backward, Gu Zhi really wants to give this netizen a big thumbs up.