When Chen Li returned to Yangcheng, the New Year had already passed.

On the day I came back, I didn't cook, I just had a treat outside, and invited Yan Xin and Alili over for dinner.

At this time, Gu Ru and Xiaoyuan were not in Yangcheng, and there were only a few people he could invite.

At this time, Chen Li already knew that Alili lived with Yan Xin, and jokingly said to Alili:

"I really didn't expect that my original boss would now become my younger brother and sister."

Makes Alyslie a little embarrassed.

came back in the morning, ate outside at noon, and went to Yan Xin's house for dinner that night, which was made by Ellili.

Chen Li was greatly amazed, but he didn't expect Alili to have such cooking skills, which was much better than Liang Wei's food.

At dinner together in the evening, Chen Li talked to Yan Xin about the release of his new book "Covering the Sky", and the collection broke through the 5,000 mark in just two or three hours.

Yan Xin told him on the spot that Starlight would give his new book an advertorial for a three-day rolling promotion.

With the traffic of their website, three days of homepage advertising can still be worth a little money.

Chen Li also asked: "Do you want to give you advertising money?" ”

Yan Xin smiled: "Do you want to give a fart advertising fee?" Build a few more groups, and if there are any activities in the forum in the future, you can help me shout, and that's fine. ”

Chen Li didn't say anything more.

With the friendship of two people, there is no need to worry about these in the first place.

The book "Covering the Sky" is also a collaboration between two people, and the manuscript fee is also split in half, this book is his, and it is also Yan Xin's, and he is also at ease when Yan Xin promotes it like this, so he will not be ashamed of it.

In the past few months, he drove Liang Wei everywhere, and only when he returned to the hotel where he stayed at night would he take out the codewords on his notebook.

Sometimes it takes an hour or two to finish the day's update.

Sometimes it will take two extra hours to save the manuscript.

It's five or six thousand to 10,000 words a day, which is nothing at his speed of codewords.

The detailed outline has already been drawn up with Yan Xin, and there is no bottleneck in writing at all.

This period of time has passed quite chicly, so chic that he is a little uneasy - at a young age, he only cares about enjoyment, isn't it a little unusual?

In the past few months, I have played enough, and I will open a new book when I get home, and it is still when the old book is not finished.

The new book has five or six thousand words a day, and the standard for updating old books has been raised to more than 10,000 words.

He also thought about winning the monthly pass championship again in the last two months of the old book, and it was best to win the monthly pass champion twice, and start and finish well.

In the past few months, he was already embarrassed to ask for a monthly pass because he was too salty, although he did not fall out of the top ten positions on the monthly pass list, but the top three did not have his shadow.

In the last two months, if you want to compete for the top spot in the monthly ticket list, you have to exchange it for updates.

In this way, the guarantee will be 16,000 words a day, but you can't be salted like before.

Now he is almost back to the state he was in when he first wrote "Breaking the Sky", sitting in front of the computer most of the time and clicking codewords.

Liang Wei also has good grades in writing, but she is still responsible for cooking at home, but she doesn't do cleaning work anymore, she cleans the house casually, and then calls a part-time worker to come over once a week to clean it.

She doesn't have that much time to serve either.

Cooking is because you have to eat yourself, and what you do is doing what you do, and doing what you do for two people is the same.

Other chores, that really don't have that much time to do.

After returning home, her daily update is more than 10,000 words, and her code word speed is not as good as Chen Li, so the time to code words every day will not be less than Chen Li.

She sells very well on that platform, and her manuscript fee of tens of thousands of yuan a month is already the top of the platform.

Moreover, both traditional and simplified physical publishing have been sold, and they will be published and distributed in April, which will be a considerable amount of income at that time.

By writing, she can also achieve financial freedom without being dependent on Chen Li.

They sometimes go to Yan Xin's place for dinner, and Yan Xin can clearly feel that this girl's self-confidence has improved a lot.

As for whether it is as Chen Li said in private, he is becoming more and more arrogant, he can't observe it, at least in front of him, Liang Wei's performance is still relatively decent, and he has expressed enough respect for him, and there is no sign of arrogance.

How about Chen Li in private, that is someone's private life, and he can't observe it, and he can't comment on it.

At the beginning of "Covering the Sky", it is the famous scene of Kowloon pulling the coffin.

Before writing this book, Chen Li, as Yan Xin said, watched "Tomb of the Gods" that was being serialized for a period of time, and also learned the use of some big words.

But he is him after all, and he has his own writing habits, although he writes the same story, but there are still some differences from the original "Covering the Sky".

What hasn't changed, though, is the grandeur of the story.

Moreover, when he opened this new book, his data was at its peak, coupled with the full promotion of Starlight Network, the data exploded as soon as he opened the book.

In terms of platform, Qidian.com is indeed the largest network platform, and the traffic that comes over is all to read books, and its promotion effect is higher than that of Starlight.com.

However, this site can't give as much exposure to a new book that has just been released.

Authors with achievements open new books and give a lot of exposure, which is still a treatment that is only available after many years.

Now there is no such treatment, and the top gods can only rely on their own traffic to open books, don't think about what exposure the website gives.

In this case, Starlight promoted the book on its own homepage for three consecutive days, and the effect was obvious, leaving behind its competitors in the same period at the beginning.

Chen Li's own traffic is already higher than that of other authors, not to mention the strong recommendation of this website.

There is no comparison between other authors.

From the moment the book opened, the book was setting records.

The beginning of the new book also allowed Chen Li to find the passion for writing again and devote himself to it.

If you want to talk about leisure time, it is probably after dinner, take a walk in the community.

At this time, he will be with Yan Xin, and the two of them will discuss the next plot while walking.

Yan Xin will also look at the content he updates every day, and then make an assessment and give his own suggestions.

The character design, world structure, and storyline are all similar to the original book, but when written by Chen Li, it feels different.

Yan Xin also couldn't say which was better or worse, he could only say that he felt that the version that Chen Li wrote now was also very good, and it could be written as a fantasy classic.

He is quite optimistic about the future of this book.

It has lost some of the advantages of the original book, but it has its own characteristics.

Whether it can reach the height of the original work, in terms of quality, he can't be sure.

But in terms of sales, he feels that it can be achieved, and even surpassed.

The starting point of the two versions is not the same.

After the book was changed to a contract status, it received more than a dozen rewards from the alliance leader on the same day, which caused a sensation.

- This is still 07 years, and the alliance leader at this time has a high gold content.

Some heads, all the way to the end of the book, may not have a dozen alliance leaders.

And his book, just changed the status of the contract, and received more than a dozen alliance leaders on the same day, which is no longer comparable to other authors.

On the day of the change, the book received more than 1,000 tips, and the total amount of tips exceeded 5 million starting coins.

This also gave Chen Li a lot of confidence - such data shows that his book has been recognized by the market.

He is writing two books at the same time, publishing more than 16,000 words a day, and he still saves some manuscripts every day.

In fact, there are more than 20,000 code words every day, and sometimes it feels like it comes, and it even reaches 30,000.

Yan Xin knew that he was like this, and he had to sigh that this guy was too fierce, and he was not a human being when he was crazy.

At the same time, he also advised him not to fight so hard and pay attention to his body.

also let Liang Wei supervise him.

However, Liang Wei said that she couldn't supervise it at all: "He doesn't listen to me, and you say it's pretty much the same." ”

Chen Li also said to Yan Xin: "If we live together, you can remind me at any time, don't be too tired to write, or you should move back, right?" ”

He sincerely hoped that Yan Xin could live with him, so that it would be much more convenient to talk.

Although they are in the same community now, they will only meet after dinner every day, and there is no chance to meet on rainy days, which is very inconvenient.

However, Yan Xin didn't pick up his stubble.

He didn't want to live in someone else's house all the time, it would be too inconvenient.

It's just that it's nothing for two men to live together, and it's very inconvenient to have a female dependent.

What's more, they each have girlfriends, which is even more inconvenient.

- He didn't find it convenient anyway.

With only Arily with him, she can be more relaxed when she is at home.

Alili has to go to work, and she doesn't cook at noon, either the two of them go out to eat, or they buy vegetables from outside and eat at home, and occasionally Yan Xin will cook by herself.

Although the taste is a little worse, it can be eaten.

Based on the finished product he made, Ellilie will tell him where his failures are and how to correct them.

His cooking skills are also improving.

However, he has very little time to cook, once or twice a week.

Every night Arily would come home and cook, sometimes cooking for a few more people.

After Chen Li came back, he would come to his house once or twice a week to eat.

Yan Xin used to eat and live with Chen Li, but now people want to come over and eat something, of course it's no problem.

Sometimes there are other guests coming over.

For example, several of the company's contracted singers.

In the first month, those singers are busy performing in various places, taking advantage of the heat to open up markets in other places, and they are basically not in Yangcheng.

However, in the second lunar month, there are not so many performances, and they gradually return.

They all bought houses in Park View Court last year, and they all finished renovating, and now they have moved in one after another, and everyone has become neighbors.

Sometimes I will come to the boss's house to eat, and also enhance the relationship between each other.

Maybe if you're lucky, the boss will write a few more hits to sing for yourself, which is better than anything else.

Of course, they don't come in vain, every time they come to eat, they will bring gifts, or they will simply come with expensive ingredients.

Sometimes I had to cook for six or seven people.

However, Yan Xin does not reject such things, they are all people who make money for him, and it is of course best for everyone to have time to get together and increase their feelings.

Alily also likes this kind of excitement.

She didn't have any friends for more than twenty years because her mom didn't want her to have friends.

But she personally still likes to make friends, and when she was a child, she envied those classmates who had a lot of friends.

In her more than 20 years of life, most of the time she has been eating at the same table with her mother, which is very lonely.

She thinks it's nice to have more people eating together.

She was also very happy to be able to cook good food for others and to be praised by them, and she never showed impatience.

But those people also know that they need to leave a private space for their lives, and they don't come every day.

Most of the time, Yan Xin and Alili still live in a two-person world.

During the Qingming Festival, Yan Xin returned home once.

This time he went back alone - now he didn't dare to take Alili home, for fear that Feng Xi would know and affect her college entrance examination.

But this time I didn't stay long, I didn't drive there, I just went to a grave, stayed at home for one night, and then returned to Yangcheng the next day.

Two days after the Qingming Festival, Gu Ru also returned to Yangcheng.

She came back alone, and Xiao Yin didn't follow.

She gave Xiao Yin a long vacation, and personally gave her a red envelope of 50,000 yuan, so that she could rest and have a good time during this time.

Because I accompanied her to perform all over the country some time ago, I had to take care of her life and career in an all-round way, and I was quite tired, and now that I don't have a performance, I can take a good rest.

She is very popular now, she has become a real star, and there are a lot of opportunities to perform, but many of them she has turned down.

Before the Chinese New Year, I was busy until the New Year, and I made a lot of money from all over the country, but people were also very tired and wanted to rest for a while.

If there is no important performance, then there is no need to take it.

After her last performance, she went back to her hometown to sweep the tomb, accompanied her parents for two days, and then returned to Yangcheng.

On the day she came back, she didn't go back to her home, so she went directly to Yan Xin's house and had dinner at his house.

That night, he did not go back to his home, but stayed at Yan Xin's house for one night.

Now that Xiao Yin is not around, Xiao Yuan has also moved into the house she bought, such a big family, she is alone, and she doesn't want to go over.

She didn't want to be busy outside for so long and come home alone alone.

So on the night she went home, she stayed at Yan Xin's house.

At dinner, Chen Li and Liang Wei both came over.

Madoka didn't come over, because Madoka had to perform at night, so she didn't have time to come over - she owed hundreds of thousands of mortgages to buy this house, and she spent some money on renovation, although she earned a lot of money during this time, but after deducting these, there was not much left.

Although the mortgage can be repaid slowly, she still has a lot of cash in her account, but when she thinks that there is not much left after offsetting the mortgage, she feels insecure, so she wants to earn as much money as possible while she is still young.

And she also wants to buy a house to rent out.

Her dream is to earn two houses, one for herself and one for rent.

Then save another two million.

In this way, eating interest and collecting rent, you can live a relaxed and decent life.

She can't slack off until this dream is realized.

Her dream Gu Ru has come true, and now she has two houses in Baijingyuan, one is the two-bedroom house she originally lived in, and the other is a large house of more than 100 square meters bought in the second half of last year, which has been renovated, but she has not moved in yet.

In terms of deposits, Gu Ru's savings also have several millions, and he also has 20% of the shares of Starlight Entertainment, a promising company.

That night, when she was having dinner, she said to Yan Xin: "I seem to be able to do nothing now and enjoy life, but I feel that the life of doing nothing is not so interesting, and I am quite confused now." ”

Before Yan Xin could answer, Chen Li nodded and agreed:

"It's really boring to do nothing, I can live like that now, but when I think about those days, I feel bored, so I still have to do something to be sure."

He has a house, a car, and millions in savings.

Even if he doesn't write it now, that copy of "Breaking the Sky" will bring him a steady stream of income, enough for him to eat for a lifetime.

Many people don't make as much money as he does in their lifetime.

It's not that he didn't think about not writing and enjoying life.

In the first few months, I drove to travel, and I felt that this kind of life was quite comfortable.

But after a few months, it felt like that was it.

He still prefers the days when he is full of creative passion, which makes him feel grounded.

Gu Ru looked at him, and said half-loudly: "I'm different from you, you are still at the age of chasing dreams, I have been chasing dreams for more than ten years, dreams are no longer worth anything in my place." I'm really tired of singing, but I don't know what to do anymore. ”

For this meal, they all drank wine.

Even Yan Xin, who couldn't drink enough, came with two beers.

Gu Ru and Ellilie even drank red wine.

This is to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Gu Ru, Gu Ru is clamoring to drink again, and Yan Xin is of course not good at saving her face.

He could feel that Gu Ru came back this time, his mentality was different from before, and he was in a very depressed mood.

He didn't know why.

If drinking can make her feel better, drink it.

Gu Ru drank more.

As I drank and drank, I talked more.

To a few people at the table: "This time I went home during the Qingming Festival, my parents persuaded me not to sing again, urging me to get married early, I wanted to quarrel with them, but suddenly found that my parents and my parents already have a lot of gray hair on their heads, and they are already old." ”

As he spoke, he sighed: "They are already old and still worried about me, and I suddenly thought, I have been going against their wishes, doing what I like to do, making them sad, making them worried, isn't it too unfilial?" ”

(End of chapter)