Today's online literature has developed to an unprecedented peak, with the number of authors alone reaching 20 million and the number of readers exceeding 500 million.

However, as I said before, the income of online literature authors is polarized. Among the 20 million authors, only 700,000 or 800,000 are contracted authors, which means that only one out of 20 or so authors is a contracted author.

Wu Yuting was lucky; she became one of the 700,000 or 800,000 contracted authors.

But Wu Yuting is unfortunate, because among the 700,000 to 800,000 contracted authors, more than 90% of them are just struggling at the lowest level, barely making a living by working full-time on the website.

Unfortunately, Wu Yuting is one of the authors who works full-time on the website and barely makes a living.

Back then, Wu Yuting was full of energy and ambition when she first entered college. When she first came into contact with online literature, she found that the quality of some works was not that good, but they still had many fans.

So, with the mentality of "I can do it too", Wu Yuting plunged headfirst into the vast ocean of online literature.

As the saying goes, it's easy to watch others carry a load, but it's hard to carry the load yourself. When Wu Yuting started writing herself, she found that writing was not as easy as she had imagined.

After uploading her carefully prepared "masterpiece" to the website, it was not greeted with the praise she had imagined, nor was it met with abuse, because Wu Yuting had been silently updating it for nearly half a month, and had only received a few panacea book reviews. The lack of popularity made her question her life.

The biggest feature of online literature is instant interaction. The author updates the chapters he has thought of with great effort every day, and then readers leave comments after reading them, pointing out the plots that the author wrote poorly and praising the plots that the author wrote well. In this way, the author can adjust the plot of the book in a timely manner based on readers' feedback.

But after nearly half a month, Wu Yuting felt like she was playing a single-player game. She didn't get any feedback from readers at all, which dealt a heavy blow to her self-confidence, so she hastily finished this debut work.

Next, Wu Yuting spent a full three months adjusting her mentality (healing her wounds), then she regrouped and carefully prepared another work to upload to the website.

Perhaps this time I learned from the reasons for my success and failure the first time, and the result was better than the first time. At least some readers left comments and even a few readers continued to read the book.

Unfortunately, Wu Yuting insisted on writing more than 100,000 words, but she still did not qualify for a contract, and she did not even have 300 collections. Such dismal results made her unable to persist any longer.

So, for the second work, she cut it again!

If there is one, there will be two, and if there are two, there will be three.

Half a year later, her third work came out.

This time the word count has improved again, and I persisted until it reached more than 300,000 words before cutting it off.

A year later, the fourth work was released.

Perhaps because of the improvement in her writing skills, the fourth work was finally successfully signed. Since then, Wu Yuting was officially promoted to a contracted author and had her first VIP novel.

However, the results were still dismal, with the average subscription of the works barely exceeding 100, and the royalties earned were not enough to pay the Internet fee.

Wu Yuting didn't care about this. She was no longer the young and inexperienced girl she used to be. After being beaten several times, she knew that it was not easy to get into this line of work.

However, Wu Yuting's character is still quite stubborn, and she is determined not to give up until she achieves her goal.

After graduating from university, she insisted on entering the online literature industry and becoming a full-time author despite her parents' dissuasion.

Now, ten years have passed in a flash.

Wu Yuting, who has worked in the online literature industry for more than ten years, has gone from being a high-spirited young girl to a leftover woman who is urged to get married by her parents all day long.

As for the performance of the work, it is better not to mention it.

In fact, Wu Yuting knew a few years ago that she had no talent for writing and was not suitable for being an online writer. But it was the stubbornness in her character that made her unwilling to give up and she was still struggling in the online writing world.

While having dinner today, Wu Yuting was once again urged to get married by her parents. In addition, she has been working in the online literature industry for more than ten years, but has no high-quality works to her name. She felt a little confused and didn't want to write anymore tonight, so she came out alone to relax.

More than ten years of creative career has turned her into a super homebody. She rarely contacts her friends in real life. Now she can’t even find a friend to chat with.

In front of a milk tea shop in a commercial plaza, Wu Yuting sat on a brown rattan chair drinking milk tea, looking at the couples on both sides showing their love. She suddenly felt lonely and thought that she really needed to find a boyfriend.

At this moment, a gentle voice asked, "Hello, young lady, can I sit here?"

Wu Yuting looked in the direction of the voice and found that the person asking the question was a strange and handsome young man. Her eyes lit up and she nodded immediately and said, "Of course, please sit down!"

Jiang Feng put the milk tea in his hand on the table, took out a business card from his pocket and handed it over, saying with a smile: "Hello, young lady, I am a professional matchmaker, this is my business card."

Wu Yuting couldn't help but widen her eyes when she heard that. She thought he was trying to flirt with her, but...

Jiang Feng waited for her to take the business card, then went straight to the point and said, "Miss, I'll be frank. I have a very outstanding client here that I want to introduce to you. I wonder if you have any thoughts of getting married in the near future?"

Of course Wu Yuting wanted to get married. After all, she was already in her thirties. It would be a lie to say that she didn't want to get married and have children. Looking at the handsome matchmaker who came uninvited, she took a sip of milk tea and said, "At my age, as long as I find the right person, I will definitely want to get married. I wonder what the situation is with that outstanding client you mentioned?"

Jiang Feng nodded and introduced: "My client's name is Hu Wenhua, from Hubei Province, and he is an online author..."

Hearing the words "online author", Wu Yuting was instantly startled and quickly interrupted, "Wait, you said the other party is an online author?"

Jiang Feng knew Wu Yuting's information very well, so he naturally understood why she reacted this way, so he nodded and smiled, "Yes, he is an online author, is there any problem with that?"

Wu Yuting waved her hands and said, "No problem. It's just that I'm more familiar with online literature, so I'm a little sensitive to this profession. Which website is he the author of? What's his pen name?"

Jiang Feng smiled meaningfully and said, "He is an author on Qidian Chinese website. His pen name is Shi Yun Wenhua. Although he is not a great author yet, he has written several excellent novels. In particular, the one he is currently updating, "Rebirth to Get Rich", has performed the best, with an average subscription of over 7,000. It is expected to achieve an average subscription of over 10,000 before the book is completed."

If Wu Yuting had heard this data when she had just become an online writer, being ignorant of the world and full of confidence in herself, she might have had only one reaction: That’s it?

But after more than ten years in the industry and having been repeatedly beaten by reality for more than ten years, Wu Yuting has now been smoothed over and naturally understands that an author who can have several excellent novels on Qidian.com is already a backbone author in the online literature world.

It is basic for authors at this level to earn over 10,000 yuan a month. Once they have accumulated enough income and written a hit book, then...

Thinking of this, Wu Yuting was a little moved, but she didn't know what the other person looked like. If he didn't look good, then everything would be in vain. After all, with her figure and appearance, if she didn't stick to the appearance, she could easily find a man with good material conditions to marry.

Jiang Feng seemed to know what she was thinking. After he finished speaking, he operated on his phone and pulled out the photo Hu Wenhua had sent him. He handed it to Wu Yuting and said, "This is his photo. Take a look and see if it meets your aesthetic standards!"

Wu Yuting took the phone and looked at it. She couldn't help but show a hint of surprise in her eyes and said, "She looks really good. This is excellent among authors!"

You know that the other party will definitely be satisfied. After all, the marriage matching value of 88 points is no joke.

Jiang Feng smiled and asked, "Should I arrange for you to meet and talk, or should I just give you the contact information and let you chat on your own?"

Wu Yuting thought for a moment and said, "Let him add me on WeChat!"

Jiang Feng nodded to show that he understood, and then the two added each other’s contact information and left.