Shuqie Novel Network is the largest free novel website in China, with hundreds of millions of daily active users and extremely high traffic.
Many famous authors publish their novels on this website.
Of course, not all novelists are literary masters.
It could even be said that 95% of all online authors fail miserably, with only a very few truly great authors.
When a top author publishes a novel, countless people read it, and the royalties are plentiful; luxury cars and villas are no problem for them.
His novels, which were published by a struggling author, went unnoticed. Forget about making money to buy a car or a house; he could barely make ends meet.
Oh, I've gotten a bit off-topic. Let's get back to the main point.
That morning, Xiao Li, an editor at Shuqie Novel Network, had just finished reviewing a novel for inclusion in the database and released it directly after seeing that there were no violations.
Because the novel was a martial arts novel, he didn't read it carefully at all.
In this day and age, online novels are mainly urban fantasy and martial arts novels, while martial arts novels have long become a thing of the past.
Although Shuqie Novel Network has no signing requirements.
But as an editor, Xiao Li naturally wouldn't pay much attention to a book once he saw that it had no potential.
"Sigh, if I don't discover a few promising novels soon, I'll be broke again this month!"
After lunch, thinking about this, Xiao Li sighed.
In addition to their basic salary, these editors' compensation is also closely related to the performance of the novels they sign.
If they can discover a few rising stars, these editors can also make a small fortune, which is quite pleasant.
But if no hit books emerge from the editors' hands for several months in a row, then everyone's life will naturally become tight.
As an editor who had only recently joined the company, Xiao Li had very few experienced authors under her supervision, and most of them were long-time flops.
These old slackers are just like the Sanhe Gods, living a life of idleness and waiting to die. Writing four thousand words is exhausting for them, so it's impossible for them to become famous.
This naturally puts a lot of pressure on Xiao Li, the editor, since there's an elimination system at Shuqie!
"Sigh, it's one thing for these old bastards to be unambitious, but some of them are so stubborn. Wouldn't it be better to write urban fiction? Wouldn't it be better to write fantasy novels? Why do they have to write martial arts novels!"
I'm truly fed up with these flops. If you want to make a living by writing novels, why don't you learn from the currently popular genres and just keep writing and writing that dead-end martial arts novel...
Xiao Li complained a couple more times, then suddenly noticed from the backend that a book was getting a lot of traffic.
He immediately perked up:
"Could it be that one of my authors' books is about to become a hit? All this traffic is organic, not from platform promotions!"
In other words, this book itself is very appealing, and for books that attract a lot of readers, as long as they're not too badly written, they're easy to become popular..."
Thinking of this, he immediately clicked on the source of the data, and then he saw the words "The Return of the Condor Heroes".
"What's going on? This is the book I just signed a contract for this morning! It's a traditional martial arts novel, how could it suddenly be getting so much traffic?"
Xiao Li looked puzzled, then his expression changed, because he suddenly thought of something unpleasant.
"Holy crap! It's one thing for these old bastards not to write novels seriously, but they're really good at using crooked tricks. They're obviously hiring people to boost their traffic!"
"I'd like to see what this guy's planning. Heh, the big data algorithm on Shuqie Novel Network is no joke; you can't use it even if you try!"
Xiao Li clicked on the 'The Return of the Condor Heroes' that he had just signed a contract for that morning, and then he paused for a moment.
He discovered that the martial arts novel, which he had only signed a contract for that morning, already had 40 chapters.
But that wasn't what surprised Xiao Li the most, because he discovered that the novel was almost 1.1 million words long.
And just then, he saw that a new chapter had been uploaded, with only two words in the title: 'Epilogue'.
"Holy crap, that's the end?"
Xiao Li was dumbfounded; he had never encountered such a situation before.
This novel, which was signed in the morning, had already reached 1.1 million words by the afternoon and was now complete.
"Where did this genius come from? Is he a traditional writer who switched careers and doesn't understand the current market?"
Thinking of this, Xiao Li sighed.
It's not that traditional writers are bad; in fact, they are still very good at writing.
But Shuqie is a free online novel website; they've completely misjudged the situation by coming here…
"Besides... we're in the era of big data now, but these traditional writers still think it's the old days!"
Xiao Li was speechless for a moment, then clicked on the first chapter of the novel.
Since he had nothing else to do at the moment, he decided to read this novel whose popularity had suddenly skyrocketed.
However, before I knew it, half an hour had passed.
When Xiao Li came to his senses, he found that he had already read up to Chapter 5.
There was no other way; each chapter was over 20,000 words long, and he could read five chapters in half an hour, which was already quite fast.
It's over 100,000 words long!
Moreover, compared to those fast-paced online novels, this one is definitely worth reading carefully.
Only then did Xiao Li take a deep breath.
He quickly opened the novel's comment section and, sure enough, the number of comments had already exceeded ten thousand.
"This is wonderful! I admire your talent. It's been a long time since I've read such a wonderful martial arts novel."
"So this is what The Return of the Condor Heroes is all about. If the TV series doesn't make any major changes, I definitely want to watch it."
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