Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Come to think of it, it seemed that Dad had only complimented Wang Hao a total of three times in his entire life. Wang Hao remembered that the last time was five or six years ago, when an old lady had fainted on the roadside, and he sent her to the hospital. That time, Dad had said he was heroic or something.
“Right, drink more,” Mom said excitedly. “Our son finally has a job! He’s not unemployed anymore, haha! Celebrate, let’s celebrate! Ah, since you have a job already, should I start looking for a wife for you? I have a friend who told me that the girl from her relative’s family is quite good…”
Are you for real, Mom?!
“Mom, stop!” Wang Hao yelled. “I’m only 24 this year; why are you so anxious to find me a wife?!”
“Why not, you brat? How can you have kids if you don’t get married?” Mom’s eyes sparkled. “You have to hurry while your Dad and I still have the energy to help you take care of your children! When we get older, we won’t be able to run around with the kids anymore. Do you know how much it is a month to hire a nanny? 10,000 yuan! How much can you earn?”
“I…” Wang Hao was speechless. She had still been talking about getting him married a second ago, and suddenly, she was thinking about taking care of his children?
“Okay, okay, it’s still up in the air; why are you in such a hurry?” Dad helped Wang Hao out. “Hao, now that you have a job, you need to be self-aware; control your temper when something happens, and don’t ever fight with other people.” Dad chugged down half a bottle in one go, then said, “This job was hard-earned; be humble always, and don’t lose it. Okay?”
“Okay, don’t worry.” Wang Hao quickly promised.
“Good. Come, drink.” Dad looked flushed. “It’s a happy day. Let’s drink more!”
Dad and Wang Hao each had four bottles of beer during dinner.
After that, Wang Hao lay in bed, looked at the ceiling light, and smiled in satisfaction.
He found that he had matured in just one day, and that he had become a man who could share the burdens of his family.
He was a real man! For real!
People became extremely motivated when the future was full of hope.
Now that he had officially gotten down to business, he had to put in more effort. Wang Hao went to the “Fengyun” website and began browsing for important information.
He had a clear aim. To be successful in the web novel industry, he had to understand the rules.
For example, how to get a contract on “Fengyun,” how to analyze the results for a novel, how to get on the leaderboard – this was all information he had to explore.
A beard well-lathered was half-shaved – he used to be a reader, so he only had a rough idea of the rules. Obviously, he needed to learn more right away.
Wang Hao was convinced of the quality of “Battle Through the Heavens.”
The first chapter Sunflower wrote was smooth overall and gave a strong sense of anticipation. Wang Hao was pretty sure that the novel would be a tremendous hit after it was done. The thing was, he couldn’t just sit around and wait. It was impossible to get hundreds of thousands of bookmarks and recommendations and go all the way to the top of the leaderboard just by releasing 10,000 to 20,000 words regularly — even a good novel needed exposure.
“‘The Lord of War’ by Wen Dao.” Wang Hao opened the top novel on the Monthly Votes Leaderboard and had a look at the stats — Views: 5,236,548. VIP week views: 6532. Recommendations: 653,489. Total word count: 3,678,954.
The numbers aren’t very high — is this really the No.1 novel on the website?
Wang Hao scrolled down to the review section and glanced through the comments.
“Brothers, we must push Dao to first place!”
“Of course, it’s Master Wen Dao’s novel! It has to be on top!”
“Well, the other novels can’t compare at all. There isn’t any competition!”
“Hm, I look forward to a good novel that can compete with us though, or else it’ll be too boring if we win every month…”
Wang Hao read through the comments and wondered, “This novel has such good results? It doesn’t seem comparable with the hits in the previous world!”
He thought for a while, then started to check how many bookmarks this novel had.
He found it very soon — “The Lord of War,” Bookmarks: 105,498.
“The No. 1 novel only has 100,000 bookmarks?” Wang Hao’s eyes nearly fell out of his head.
He knew very well that all those popular novels in the previous world had at least hundreds of thousands of bookmarks. “Battle Through the Heavens” had always been on top of the leaderboard, with as many as 1.3 million bookmarks!
“Let’s look at the leaderboard!” When Wang Hao clicked on the leaderboard and looked at the numbers, he immediately gasped in surprise.
“The Lord of War” by Wen Dao, Bookmarks: 105,498.
“Law of the Blood Sea” by Wen Dao, Bookmarks: 89,562.
“Tale of the Mighty Sword” by Heaven Xiao, Bookmarks: 87,564…
Wang Hao said, “No wonder Heaven Xiao said he wanted to rise to the top; he does have something…” Wang Hao kept looking.
“Legends of the Time” by Fallen Stars, Bookmarks: 82,139.
“The Battle God” by Tomorrow, Bookmarks: 78,543.
…
“The highest number of bookmarks in this world is 100,000?” Wang Hao touched his chin as he began studying the data.
Overall, the stats seemed much lower than expected. Among the four leaderboards for the latest novels, the No.1 novel on the Newly Signed Leaderboard was “Road of Terror” by Fallen Stars, with Rating: 132,854, Views: 37,563, VIP week views: 14,224, Recommendations: 18,636, Total word count: 140,239, and Bookmarks: 10,594.
Wang Hao had seen this Fallen Stars on the Favorites Leaderboard; he had to be one of the most famous authors on the website, although the stats for his new novel didn’t look so good.
As for the other three leaderboards, the top novel on the Public Authors Leaderboard only had a rating of 20,000 or so; on Newly Signed by New Authors it was 65,000, and on New Novels by New Authors it was only 12,000 — and this was just data as of Friday.
“The ratings are so low?” Wang Hao frowned, then searched for the calculation formula for the ratings. “The formula is the same: Views x5 + Recommendations x5 + Bookmarks x2. So, it shouldn’t be too difficult to get on the leaderboard…”
This is it! My time has come!
Wang Hao was very confident that once he got on the leaderboard, he would be halfway to the top!