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Well, if I keep writing, my hands will be ruined. Lu Mingfei, who can't lock the author in a dark room and make him write 100,000 words a day, feels really regretful.
Chapter 6 Let Lu Mingfei suffer a little more
Self-discipline, becoming stronger, and earning money through writing are the main themes of the system's daily routine, while secretly keeping an eye on Xia Mi, the girl with stunning looks.
Standing by the roadside, Lu Mingfei noticed that Xia Mi, this pretty girl, didn't seem to be living a very good life. She even had to go out of school on weekends to work part-time handing out flyers.
Wonderful~
Even without waiting for system analysis, Lu Mingfei could see that this was a great opportunity.
Xia Mi's part-time job was apparently found by a middleman.
[...we could bribe an intermediary to get jobs that require wearing hoods, and then we could be paired together, get to know each other after the hoods are removed...]
Lu Mingfei was somewhat surprised when he saw the system's analysis plan; the success rate seemed quite high.
Dude, you're serious... No, wait, the underlying logic of the system is itself, and it's actually that powerful?
However, this method was ultimately rejected by the system because of the risk of being exposed. If it were exposed after winning over Xia Mi, it wouldn't matter; it could be treated as a beautiful memory.
However, if it gets exposed before you even get to her, it might affect her opinion and could also affect the situation of other girls.
Relying on others to keep quiet is unreliable, unless the intermediary can be sent down or imprisoned for more than ten years, otherwise it is too risky.
Xia Mi handed out flyers until she reached Lu Mingfei, who was staring blankly into thought. She held out a flyer to him and said with a bright smile, "KFC has a Crazy Thursday promotion every week..."
The girl had a sweet smile, and most people would probably respond with a smile to this adorable girl who seemed like an angel. But when the system looked up, it simply accepted the flyer calmly, its eyes showing not even the slightest ripple of emotion.
Xia Mi glanced at him with surprise, and the two looked at each other.
His gaze was truly cold, even more so than Chu Zihang's.
If Chu Zihang's coldness felt like ice, then Lu Mingfei, under the system's control, was like a piece of metal. Chu Zihang was cold, but he was still human and would actively radiate coldness. However, Lu Mingfei emitted no warmth at all; as if even his blood had stopped flowing, he was like a human being.
With just one glance, Xia Mi remembered this boy. There was someone even more cold-blooded than a dragon!
She continued walking down the street to hand out flyers.
The system launched a fierce analysis, but the result was a bunch of uncontrollable plans that were ruled out.
The drawbacks of running multiple lines in parallel are also exposed at this moment; there are just too many things to consider! There's simply not enough to take care of them all.
Looking at the system's failed analyses, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but feel down. These failed plans weren't entirely ineffective; they just placed too high a demand on him personally.
If he were a little stronger, or if his family background were even more powerful, then these excluded, uncontrollable plans would be transformed into execution plans.
"It's my fault for dragging the system down..." the unlucky kid grumbled inwardly.
When he got home, his aunt snorted in dissatisfaction upon seeing him.
In the past few days, Lu Mingfei has been subtly showing signs of resistance towards her, and has begun to engage in domestic emotional abuse and refuse to talk about things that are not his obligation.
Even if his aunt tries to reason with him from a moral high ground, he can still refute her reasoning.
For example, yesterday:
"If you can't even do this little thing, what will you be able to do when you enter society?" The aunt threw the hand-washed socks onto the coffee table.
"You can't even do this simple thing by yourself?"
"..."
The system pretended not to hear her hum. It was better to make the conflict public. As the weaker party, he could gain a lot of sympathy and extra attention. Although he didn't need this sympathy and attention, it would make things much easier.
As everyone knows, Lu Mingfei had a very difficult time living with his uncle and aunt. For example, his uncle and aunt, who were his guardians, never attended parent-teacher conferences on his behalf.
Lu Gucheng was caught between his wife and nephew, barely daring to breathe.
"System, is this really okay?" Lu Mingfei felt a pang of pity seeing his uncle caught in the middle.
Although his aunt was sharp-tongued and mean, his uncle had actually treated him fairly well in the past. His allowance used to come from his uncle's own cigarette money.
The system received Lu Mingfei's thoughts and began to analyze the sequence of events for him: "[...As the saying goes, your position determines your perspective; as the beneficiary, money will silence him...]"
Lu Mingfei fell silent. According to the system's analysis, his uncle might have a little conscience, but not much. He had many opportunities to fight for more fairness for Lu Mingfei, but when faced with real benefits, he also chose to remain silent.
In the TV series "Ming Dynasty 1556", Zhao Zhenji said: "For the sake of national affairs, I must buy raw silk from mulberry farmers at half price, make the people suffer, and I will bear the blame."
And now, Uncle is saying: Let Lu Mingfei suffer a little more!
The system sat back down at the computer and continued typing.
The novel has only been published for four days, with 6,000 words updated daily. Today is the fifth day, and less than 30,000 words have been updated, with only a few scattered collections each day.
The messages included some people who voted for the story, and others left comments praising its quality and asking about the later plot, but the system ignored them all.
However, I did receive three extra private messages from the website this morning, the last one being the editor's QQ contact information.
After adding the editor's QQ number, the system methodically thanked the editor for signing the contract: "Good luck, editor, thank you for signing."
Lu Mingfei had no knowledge on how to write online novels; he learned it all by searching online.
His daily update of 6000 words is not the mainstream on the website, but some people say that a higher update volume makes it easier for readers to follow the story, and that someone with the ability can update more than 6,000 words a day, etc...
The system assessed its own capabilities and chose to publish two 3000-word chapters each day, writing an extra chapter each day as a reserve for later.
The editor, Haoyun, immediately replied: "Hello, your writing style and storyline are both very good. May I ask where you have written before? Your writing style doesn't seem like that of a new author! Is this a new account?"
Most online novels are not as rigorous as traditional literature, and their writing style is much inferior, with most works being of varying quality.
Lu Mingfei's writing skills, combined with the system's rigor, resulted in a web novel that, despite the system's intention to write light novels and make money, also had a touch of heavy traditional literature in its subject matter.
Of course, traditional literary authors can't read online novels these days, so good luck probably comes from another website.
These days, no single company dominates the market; they're just more powerful.
"No, this is the first book I published on the Endpoint Literature Network."
The system is very rigorous. The first answer indicates that he had no prior writing experience, while the second answer shows that he did not have any other aliases on the Endpoint Literature Network.
However, good fortune had a preconceived notion that he was a top expert from another website. He used a new pen name because such experts usually have contracts with websites stipulating that their pen names cannot appear on other websites.
Thinking of this, Good Luck on the other side immediately got excited. He had just joined the end point and didn't have a single author with any outstanding talent under his name. This great author's writing was delicate and the plot was concise, definitely a platinum level talent!
"I understand! You can ask me any questions you have in the future! Do you need to join the writers' group?"
After some analysis, I found that joining the writers' group has its advantages, as it allows you to communicate more with other online novelists.
You can only write better by communicating with experts.
The system's analysis is: [Don't learn from the experiences of those who succeed, because success cannot be replicated; learn from the experiences of those who fail, because failure can be avoided.]
Chapter 7 Contact
The system occasionally pops up in the writers' group to ask about the writing process, but not much. Human authors have the bad habit of chatting in groups for half an hour or even longer, but it doesn't; it also has many more meaningful things to do.
You need to study, exercise, and also keep an eye on the girls' situation.
During his time at school, Lu Mingfei, whose face remained expressionless, finally caught the attention of some people. Many thought he was faking it, but they could also genuinely feel that the former loser seemed to have changed.
The autumn sunlight streamed through the classroom windows. Su Xiaoqiang glanced at it and then looked away, resting her chin on her hand and glancing sideways at the boy in the corner with his straight back.
She didn't say anything more about Lu Mingfei cosplaying the T800 from "Terminator," but her gaze towards him did indeed carry a hint of scrutiny.
After all, everyone has seen what Lu Mingfei was like before, so it's already quite astonishing that he can concentrate on listening to lectures now.
Her scrutinizing gaze was partly to see how long Lu Mingfei could keep up the act, and partly to guess whether Lu Mingfei was genuinely studying or just pretending to work hard.
If the hosting system knew her thoughts, it would probably come up with an analysis like, "...prejudice in people's hearts is a mountain..."
Unfortunately, the system was unaware of her thoughts, as it wasn't currently paying much attention to the three most beautiful girls in the class.
One reason is that they are right beside him, and they can clearly see him become stronger. The other reason is that Xia Mi has also started to make her move, but this is not something the system intentionally started by approaching him.
The basketball bounced off the hoop and aimed at a passerby's head. However, the passerby tilted his head with incredible speed, narrowly avoiding the ball's impact.
The basketball hit the ground with a crisp thud, and only then did the girl's clear voice belatedly arrive: "Watch out!"
The system picked up the ball and turned to look at Xia Mi.
The girl approached the boy, showing not a trace of remorse for nearly hitting him with the ball. Instead, she cheerfully said, "You're amazing! Your reflexes are so fast! I thought only Louis XVI could have dodged that!"
[...the other party started the conversation with a hellish joke...]
In an instant, after a brief analysis, the system responded expressionlessly, "Louis XVI has been dead for so long, why are you still not letting him go? There has to be an end to joking around, right?"
Xia Mi was taken aback when she heard this. The other party had actually kept up with her pace?
His icy gaze made her think he'd be like Chu Zihang, not wanting to talk much! Turns out he was quite the comedian. But that gaze was truly cold, as cold as the hellish jokes they were telling…
However, she still gave Lu Mingfei a thumbs up: "Dude, your imagination is as wild as Kennedy's! What's your name?"
"Lu Mingfei." The system handed her the ball. "Your ball."
Xia Mi received the basketball and asked, "Can you play basketball?"
The system slowly shook its head.
"That's alright then! Thank you, my name is Xia Mi." Xia Mi dribbled the basketball back onto the court and continued shooting.
After taking one last look at Xia Mi's retreating figure, the system turned around and continued walking.
Just when Lu Mingfei thought this was a perfect start, he discovered that the system was performing additional analysis: [...The other party has a slightly obvious tendency to approach, but their purpose is unclear. Perhaps they used jokes to shorten the distance between them?...]
Before the system could even make a move, Xia Mi herself took the initiative. However, instead of reveling in the joy of a perfect start, the system began analyzing the strangeness of the opening.
This made Lu Mingfei fall silent for a moment. It wasn't that he thought the system was suspicious, but rather that the system's rationality and prudence had taught him another lesson.
When a beautiful woman suddenly approaches you, your first reaction should be to wonder what she has in mind. Start by analyzing what she needs from you.
A rationality bordering on frightening caution.
The system may not be able to reach the top in one step, but with this sense of rationality alone, he will not make any major mistakes.
In fact, Lu Mingfei also realized that what the system could do, he could do as well; it was just that he lacked the system's focus, meticulousness, and unparalleled execution ability.
From a certain perspective, this is really just a very simple hosting system. Although it is magical, the magic lies only in the fact that Tian broke through the dimensional barrier from the game to the real world. The abilities it carries are secondary.
The thought that he could theoretically be just as powerful filled Lu Mingfei with ambition, and he immediately removed the system from the hosting service.
Within two days, his lofty ambitions faded away like the tide in the monotonous daily routine.
Indeed, theory is just theory; in practice, he lacked the perseverance required for a systematic approach.