[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-dreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of":3,"chapter-dreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of-dreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of-chapter-11":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Dreaming Back to 1997: I Became the Forefather of Web Novels",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2348245,4589,"Chapter 11: Starting a New Book","dreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of-chapter-11",11,"\u003Cp>Because he had stayed up all night for an overnight internet session, Cao Sheng skipped class today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When his roommates got up to eat breakfast, he returned to the dorm after eating his own; when his roommates went to the teaching building for class, he washed up and went to bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All morning, the entire dormitory building was quite quiet, perfect for sleeping, and Cao Sheng slept very comfortably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't until the dormitory building gradually became noisy and someone started shaking his bunk that Cao Sheng opened his eyes and woke up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opening his eyes, he saw Song Chao, who lived in the bunk below him, standing by his bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Cao Sheng open his eyes, Song Chao asked curiously, \"Hey! What did you do last night? The semester has only just begun, and you've already stayed out all night twice. You aren't dating someone, are you? Did you go get a room with some beauty? You even skipped class today; you didn't skip a single time last semester!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get a room? Who got a room?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another roommate heard the words \"get a room\" and immediately perked up, looking around, his gaze quickly locking onto Cao Sheng on the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other two roommates also looked over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed they had all concluded that Cao Sheng had gone to get a room with a beauty last night, and one by one, they curiously crowded around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including Song Chao, four heads and four pairs of curious eyes looked at Cao Sheng sleeping on the top bunk, and a barrage of questions was thrown at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cao Sheng! Did you go get a room with a beauty last night? Is it true or not?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Third Brother! When did you start dating? Is it Wu Can from our class? But she looks quite energetic this morning!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It couldn't really be Wu Can, could it? No wonder she looks so good today, while you're so wilted! Hehe...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Sheng looked at them speechlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly remembered a joke he had seen on the internet before: after a woman returned to her old home in the countryside, she kept up her habit of morning jogging. After just one morning of running, a rumor began to spread through the village that same morning—that the girl was loose, and early in the morning, no one knew which man's bed she had crawled out of, running until her hair was a mess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Cao Sheng felt his own reputation was being ruined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought to himself that if his reputation were ever ruined, it would definitely be due to the rumors spread by these guys in the dorm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, I went to an internet cafe for an overnight session.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt it was necessary to explain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pfft! Who would believe that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you even know how to use the internet? And you stayed overnight?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Exactly! Who has ever seen you go online before? Let alone stay overnight?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Third Brother! Just admit it! Did you or did you not go get a room with Wu Can last night? Come on, confess honestly!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The four roommates, one after another, all wanted to expose Cao Sheng's true colors; not a single one of them believed Cao Sheng's explanation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Sheng was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, he simply couldn't be bothered to argue, but to avoid ruining Wu Can's reputation, he explained that the woman he got a room with last night was not Wu Can.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that he finally admitted to getting a room last night, Song Chao and the others all felt a sense of accomplishment, and as soon as the other three roommates returned, they immediately shared the news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the matter of Cao Sheng getting a room with a woman last night was considered set in stone in their dorm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every roommate was quite curious about who that woman was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They took turns questioning Cao Sheng, all wanting to dig out this secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They even egged him on to treat them to a meal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When it came to treating people to meals, Cao Sheng wouldn't agree to it no matter what.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His living expenses for this semester were already insufficient, and he had been racking his brain recently to earn money! How could he possibly treat the whole dorm to a meal because of such an inexplicable matter?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only did he refuse to treat them, he even turned the tables and wanted to mooch off his roommates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason he gave was also quite something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I've started dating recently, and money is flowing out like water. As brothers, if you don't help me out, who will?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, the roommates scattered in a huff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Song Chao, who slept in the bunk below Cao Sheng, agreed to treat Cao Sheng to a meal this noon, but it was limited to food from the cafeteria and could not exceed two yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bickering and teasing with his roommates relaxed Cao Sheng's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mooching a lunch off Song Chao also made him quite happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he knew in his heart that mooching food and drink was not a long-term solution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, he still thought about starting a new book, a new book that had a high probability of being published.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That evening, he brought a stack of newly bought draft paper to the teaching building for evening self-study and began to ponder what to write for his new book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xuanhuan? Fantasy? Xianxia? Cultivation? Post-apocalyptic wasteland?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One genre after another flashed through his mind, as did the titles of books that had been wildly popular at the dawn of web literature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example: \"Zi Chuan\", \"Blasphemy\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two books had long dominated the rankings on Qidian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example: \"Legend of the Dragon Warrior\", which was the first web novel he had ever read.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example: \"Soldier of Legend\", \"Journey to Immortality\", \"Zhu Xian\", and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were all hit works from the early days of web literature that influenced countless later authors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Copying these novels word-for-word was something Cao Sheng absolutely could not do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't have that good of a memory and could only write a work of the same genre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After long contemplation, he decided to write a cultivation novel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were many reasons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, he had written several cultivation novels in his original timeline; he had experience writing this genre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, the facts of his original timeline had long since proven that at the dawn of web literature, cultivation novels could become huge hits and quickly accumulate a large number of readers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third, the genre of Xianxia and cultivation was, for the first few years after the birth of web literature, what many people thought of when they heard \"web literature\"—they believed web literature was just Xianxia and cultivation novels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, in Xianxia and cultivation works, the cultivation realms, the names of various heavenly treasures, and so on, could all give readers a great sense of novelty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could satisfy the readers' curiosity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Sheng still remembered his own amazement when he first saw cultivation realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Void Refinement, Tribulation Transcendence, Great Vehicle... and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each major realm also had several minor realms beneath it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, every type of realm could be explained as if it were the real thing; the entire cultivation system was theoretically self-consistent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made people wonder if such a cultivation system actually existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If such a work were written, as long as the story wasn't too bad, he really couldn't think of any reason why a publisher in Wanwan would be unwilling to publish it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having decided on this genre in his heart, Cao Sheng began to draft the cultivation system for this new book on his manuscript paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he structured the outline for the entire book according to the Nine-Line Method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, when he wrote \"Days of Living with a Flight Attendant\", although he had written an outline, he hadn't used the Nine-Line Method to write it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because a romance story was, on the whole, very simple for him, and there was no need to write a very complex outline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply setting the characters and the plot direction was about enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Xianxia and cultivation works were different; because they involved many novel settings, the more detailed the outline, the better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Nine-Line Method was the most formal way to write an outline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This method divided the entire outline into nine lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were: Protagonist, Supporting Characters, Skills, Companions, Equipment, Adventure, Background, Factions, and Harem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By perfecting the settings of these nine lines, one could completely construct the outline of a book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that he couldn't make up his mind about what this book should be called.\u003C\u002Fp>",1454,"2026-06-21T01:55:54.452Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","f29a434f3732434ec239ce7c7120fb64fc60a81447c06357d8842adac72c6471","dreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of-chapter-12","dreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of-chapter-10",338,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdreaming-back-to-1997-i-became-the-forefather-of-cover.jpg"]