Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Usually, Wang Hao would have declined such a request. Just before he deleted it, however, he thought, “No, wait! I have good fortune today! There has to be a reason why some guy sent me a request on this lucky day in particular!”
Sunday Wang: “?”
Sunflower: “Bro, do you read novels?”
Sunday Wang: “Yes, why?”
Sunflower: “I wrote a novel, but my mother told me to stop writing because of my grades. She’s afraid that it’ll affect my studies. That’s why I’m looking for someone nearby to talk to and who reads novels. I want to know whether I have writing talent. If I don’t, I’ll never write again. Bro, please take a look for me if you don’t mind.”
What? What’s going on here? A novel writer approached me?
I’m lucky today! Awesome!
This is kinda weird!
Sunday Wang: “Cool! Send it through!”
Sunflower: “Really? Thank you so much!”
He sent Wang Hao a link. It was one of the novels on “Fengyun.”
Wang Hao opened it right away and checked out the data. “God of War. Member views: 29. Recommendations: 18. Total word count: 168,547. This seems like a complete failure!”
Wang Hao started reading, but he could only make it to the second chapter before he went nuts. “What kind of expository writing is this? What the hell is this story about? Introducing some lands, how many cities there are, how many people there are in the cities, where the main characters are, what they’re doing and what next… There’s nothing good in this novel except the writing style!”
Sunday Wang: “Your writing style is pretty good, but the plot… Are you sure this is a novel? If I wasn’t as fresh as a daisy today, I would have been hypnotized!”
Sunflower: “I knew it! Ugh… Do I really not have writing potential?”
Wang Hao subconsciously wanted to reply, “That’s right, there’s nothing you can do.” However, he swallowed down the words — he just thought that it wouldn’t be very nice to discourage this little guy who had approached him. Also, the more he thought about it, the more excited he became!
First of all, he had the Fortune Dice, which was powerful enough to make anything happen! But it was clear that even though his fortune could affect how things went, there was no way it could directly improve his life — taking action was the most crucial thing. No matter how lucky he was, no miracle would happen if he just stayed in bed!
The key here was to take the first step.
Wang Hao knew very well that he was just an ordinary person, and that he didn’t have any special abilities. He had indeed traveled between worlds, but he was still the same — nothing had changed. The only advantage he had was that he now had a lot of insight on the entertainment industry.
Such as novels, music, movies, video games, entertainment shows, and so on.
But what was the point of having this knowledge? Wang Hao only knew how to read a novel, not write one. Ultimately, he hadn’t memorized the popular novels well enough, and the only things he remembered were the overall storyline and setting.
Music was better; he could remember the lyrics and melodies, but when it came to performing the songs, a terrible KTV singer like him would never dare try. As for movies… Wang Hao understood very well that he wasn’t good at directing. Plus, he didn’t have the money for it.
But here was this novel writer, one whose writing was quite good in particular…
I’m indeed invincible today!
Wang Hao was tremendously excited. “I know all the popular stories, but I can’t write them since my writing style isn’t great. This guy here writes pretty well but can’t think of an appealing storyline. Well then, I can tell him the stories, and he can write them!”
Alright, let’s turn on exaggeration mode!
Sunday Wang: “Your plot is utterly boring. You need to put more effort into it! Make them fight! The whole story should be about fighting and killing! Someone shouts, ‘What’cha lookin’ at?’ and the other person replies, ‘You got a problem?’ and the battle goes into full swing!”
The other party was obviously startled!
Sunflower: “Are you serious?”
Sunday Wang: “It’s necessary! Bro, let me ask you: Why do you write novels? Is it just a hobby, and you’re just writing whenever you like, or do you want to start a career in this industry and earn a living?”
This is really important — I need to make this clear.
Wang Hao had seen too many uncommitted writers who quit, either because they lost interest or were unsatisfied with the amount of money they were getting. Thus, if he wanted to collaborate with Sunflower, he had to first sound out the guy’s intentions.
If he’s doing this just for fun, then we better not waste our time and hurt each other’s feelings.
Sunflower: “My family’s poor, which is why I want to earn some money to help with our finances, even if it’s just 1000 yuan a month. But it seems that nobody likes to read my novels, and my mother is also worried that it’ll affect my studies. I’m so confused right now. I don’t know what to do…”
Sunday Wang: “No big deal! In fact, I have quite the story idea, but I don’t have time to write a novel myself. How about I pay you to write it for me?”
Sunflower: “Huh? Really? How much will you pay me? Five yuan per 1000 words?”
Seeing what Sunflower said, Wang Hao almost burst into tears!
What a lovely kid! In order to earn money for his family, he only asked for five yuan per 1000 words!
Note that plot aside, the writing in the novel which Wang Hao just read was definitely better compared with most other authors who were still able to develop successful careers in the web novel industry in the previous world!
Sunday Wang: “10 yuan per 1000 words, paid every day. If you come up with something extraordinary, I can offer you more!”
Sunflower: “10 yuan per 1000 words! For real?! So, if I write 10,000 words a day, I can already earn 100 yuan! That’s 3000 yuan a month!”
Sunday Wang: “Of course! What do you think? If you want, I can tell you my ideas right now!”
Sunflower: “Yes! I’ll do it!”
Since Sunflower had agreed, Wang Hao immediately began to decide on a suitable novel in his mind.
He could think of at least a dozen phenomenal web novels, but he had to carefully consider which one he should choose as a trial run.
“Speaking of popular novels, the best of all have to be from the top five authors.” Wang Hao pondered. “But which one?” After deep consideration and another read of Sunflower’s novel, he finally made a decision.
He chose the most influential and most representative novel.
“Battle Through the Heavens”!