Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Red Leaf Begins

  An afternoon slipped away quietly, and Li Minghui now felt that reading was no longer so dry and hard to swallow. Although he hadn't opened his writing software, Mr. Lu Xun's "Hesitation" felt exceptionally difficult, but Li Minghui was surprised to find that he could actually hold this book and read it for an entire afternoon!

  Although it was just an afternoon, only a little more than three hours, but it also made Li Minghui feel that he had learned a lot. Although it's definitely not as easy as using creative software to become a genius, like drinking cool water, he still looks quite exhausted, but the achievement is completely different.

  How to put it, that sentence is well said, things that are too easily obtained will not be cherished too much. Inside, Li Minghui opened the creation software, although in just half an hour, he could finish and digest a book of nearly 100,000 words, but it was far less than these three hours, repeatedly savoring a few articles to feel fulfilled.

  Although the things absorbed in three hours are not as effective as opening a creative software for three minutes, Li Minghui thinks it is worth it. At least in such a quiet environment, with the company of various book friends by his side, he feels calm and peaceful, making him slightly intoxicated.

  He stretched his waist, but the action was very light, afraid of disturbing others. He stood up again, put the stool under the table, and looked at his achievement with satisfaction. He memorized the page number 29, and Li Minghui followed his memory to walk to that bookshelf, and carefully put the book back.

  Now Li Minghui found himself becoming more and more fond of taking care of books, he didn't know if it was because they were free or if he subconsciously felt that they couldn't be damaged. Anyway, Li Minghui tried his best not to let the pages turn yellow or get worn out, trying to protect the book's integrity as if it were a precious treasure.

  Watching the books neatly placed on the bookshelf, and no different from new ones, Li Minghui smiled with satisfaction, feeling content, he slowed down his pace and left the Chinese Book City.

  The outside world is still bustling, the book city has almost reached closing time, but the flow of people has not decreased at all, which can be seen from the good business of this book city.

  Of course, Li Minghui is not an economist and cannot calculate the economic value of it, but he feels that it should be so. The book city can provide a quiet space for free, Li Minghui thinks that the boss of this book city at least really loves books, which is why he opened such a book city. The better business is actually what makes Li Minghui have a heartfelt blessing.

  "Hmm...this is actually pretty good every day!"

  After walking out of the bookstore, I felt refreshed and invigorated. My waist was slightly sore, but if I didn't pay attention to it, I wouldn't have noticed. I checked the time on my knockoff phone and saw that it was only 5:30. The sky was still bright, so there was no rush to eat yet. Therefore, Li Minghui didn't head back directly, instead, he patted his pocket and found the 500 yuan that Old Zhang Wei had given him, as well as over 200 yuan more. He then walked into a supermarket and started browsing around.

  For his own body, Li Minghui was very particular about it. The body is the capital of revolution, and there can be no slightest carelessness. Therefore, after discovering that typing for a long time would harm his health, Li Minghui decisively took out some time to walk to the book city, spending some time to exercise his body.

  Walking in a supermarket is the same, walking more can speed up blood circulation, consume excess fat, and keep the body in a healthy state.

  Although there were still over 200 pieces left, Li Minghui didn't buy much more stuff and just bought some daily necessities before walking out of the supermarket.

  Time, 6:10, the timing is just right. At this time, he goes back, finishes dinner, and Li Minghui has just enough time to stroll through the book review section, take a look at the current ranking of "Exterminating Immortals", chat with book friends for a while, and by then, he can wait until his brain is fully recovered and start writing.

  Dinner time passed quickly, after washing the dishes and brushing the plates, Li Minghui lit a cigarette and opened his computer, logging into Qidian with ease. He entered the author's exclusive area, logged in to the author's backend, refreshed the page, took a look at the book situation, and found that the collection of "Zhuxian" had already broken through the 120,000 mark.

  "Haha, didn't expect book friends to be so powerful, the growth trend of collection is still good, if it's like this, next week's three will definitely exceed 200,000 collections, too awesome!"

  Feeling refreshed, he lit another cigarette. Li Minghui couldn't help but feel extremely comfortable, slowly taking a deep drag on the cigarette and exhaling several smoke rings. With a slight movement of his mouse, Li Minghui opened the "Slaying Immortals" webpage.

  At this point, the number of clicks on "诛仙" has exceeded 15 million, with a total of over 100,000 recommended votes, and weekly recommended votes have reached over 80,000. The word count has also exceeded 210,000. This is the current data situation for "诛仙", which can be considered quite impressive. To put this into perspective, even some top authors are unable to achieve this level of engagement. Moreover, Li Minghui's book was only published a short while ago, and it's been just over 14 days since its release.

  Fourteen days, with 1.2 million collections and nearly 1.1 million recommendation votes, the total click-through rate is 15 million. This data can be said to be quite good, except for some water in the collection, all other data are true, and this is because Li Minghui's previous book had too few words, and the recent burst of updates caused the word count to rise rapidly. If Li Minghui were meticulous, the current word count would likely be around 1.8 million at most.

  After focusing on these basic data, Li Minghui only then noticed the reward information on the right side of the webpage. The first thing that caught his eye was the four red font giant rewards. Seeing this, Li Minghui's mouth slightly curved upwards, knowing that the tycoon book friends' red envelopes had arrived.

  "I didn't expect two book friends to be so anxious, I thought we had to wait until after 8 o'clock, but now they're already flying red!"

  With that thought, Li Minghui finished his last puff of smoke, and with a slight pinch of his middle finger and thumb, he extinguished the cigarette butt. Then, in a beautiful parabola, the cigarette butt accurately landed in the trash can at the door. Only then did Li Minghui's hands become completely free, and he directly scrolled down to the book review section with his mouse.

  At this time, the book review section was a sea of red, and seeing such a massive array, even Li Minghui, who is not too obsessed with money now, was slightly stunned, his mouth agape for half a day before he could close it...

  (No recommendation, it's all up to you book friends now. I beg for your votes after 12 o'clock, if I can make it to the signed new book chart on the homepage, then I promise that from now on, there will be three updates every day!)