Chapter 73: Editors and Bosses Are All Book Lovers

"I wouldn't dare correct you; at most, I can only offer some of my personal thoughts after reading."

Cao Sheng did not refuse, because one's mouth is short after eating others' food; today's meal was paid for by these senior students, not by him, Cao Sheng.

"Sure, sure! Then I'll bring those manuscripts to find you tomorrow?"

The other party was very happy and immediately followed the snake up the stick.

Cao Sheng could only nod and agree.

Actually, he didn't take it to heart; he knew that as his fame grew larger and larger, the number of people coming to ask him about writing problems in the future would definitely increase.

If he took every single one to heart, where would he get so much heart?

That night, returning to his residence, he turned on the computer, logged into his email, and Cao Sheng saw an email sent by Wang Jing.

"Cao Sheng, the signing process on the Yangtze Literature and Arts side has been completed; the contract mailed back to you is already on the way. They need you to provide 150,000 words of manuscript as soon as possible; every volume in the future will also require 150,000 words. Please send the manuscript to me as soon as possible because they need time for proofreading and typesetting, and they also need to find someone to write a preface. If someone writes a preface, that person may also need time to read your manuscript. In short, send the manuscript over to me as soon as possible. If the speed is fast, perhaps this book can officially hit the market at the beginning of next month. — Wang Jing"

150,000 words per volume was agreed upon in the contract he signed with Yangtze Literature and Arts Publishing House.

So, after reading this email, Cao Sheng did not say much; he immediately created a new document and imported 150,000 words of stored manuscript into it.

Then he sent this document to Wang Jing.

He also hoped this book could be published and hit the market on the mainland as soon as possible.

This relates to his next plan.

What plan?

Very simple! Once the simplified version is published and hits the market on the mainland, combined with the traditional version published in Taiwan, the copyrights for this book that can currently be sold have almost all been sold; other things like film and television adaptation rights, game adaptation rights, and so on, have little hope of being sold within three to five years.

Under these circumstances, he plans to accelerate the serialization speed of this book online.

There are many reasons.

For example: Xianxia novels often have lengths of two or three million words, or even four or five million words; with such a long length, if he updates one chapter every two days, when will this book of his ever finish serializing online? His first-mover advantage after rebirth is only a few years; if he doesn't finish serializing this book quickly, where will he find time to seize other genres?

For example: In the original timeline, from the very first day he started writing web novels, he was bullied by those high-output tentacle monsters with their typing speed; under the contrast of those tentacle monsters, he was given the title "Hand-Disabled Faction" by readers for over ten years; heaven knows how depressed he felt in his heart during those ten-plus years.

Therefore, he wants the current peers to also taste the fear of being dominated by tentacle monsters.

He doesn't even need to be very fast; he only needs to update one chapter every day to make the current peers, who only update once every ten days or half a month, completely out of reach.

If he updates two chapters every day, he should be able to leave an indelible psychological shadow on the current peers.

If he updates three chapters every day, how much fighting spirit will these peers have left?

Before, others were competing against him; now he wants to compete against others.

Let San Shao, Xue Hong, and others taste the feeling of being competed against when they entered the industry.

With such thoughts turning in his mind, Cao Sheng began his typing for the night.

Perhaps the scene he imagined was too beautiful; his typing speed tonight seemed to be much faster, and the sound of his fingers tapping the keys was continuous and unbroken.

And while Cao Sheng was immersed in the state of typing, in Shanghai, inside an internet cafe, Wang Jing, who had already been waiting in front of the computer for nearly three hours tonight, took off the headphones on her head and sighed.

This afternoon, she sent that email to Cao Sheng, urging him to send the 150,000 words of the first volume of "I Wish to Become an Immortal" as soon as possible.

Actually, the publishing house wasn't that urgent.

It was her own impatience to see the subsequent content of this book.

Just as Yangtze Literature and Arts Publishing House emailed saying to have Cao Sheng send 150,000 words of manuscript over these few days, she casually urged him in the email she sent to Cao Sheng.

Ever since she read the tens of thousands of words of stored manuscript of this book submitted to the publishing house previously, she had been waiting for the subsequent plot.

Recently, she finally waited until the online serialization progress surpassed the chapters she had read before; thus, recently she refreshed the webpage every day, hoping every day that this book would update one chapter.

The feeling of chasing a book, only those who chase know.

The frequency with which she thought of her lover when she was young and dating wasn't as high as the frequency with which she thought of "I Wish to Become an Immortal" recently.

It was called heart-scratching like a cat.

After sending the email this afternoon urging Cao Sheng to send the 150,000 words as soon as possible, her expectation value for the subsequent plot of this book in her heart had already exploded.

During dinner, her mind was thinking: Will he send the manuscript to me tonight? He should check his email today, right?

The more she thought, the more her heart itched terribly.

After dinner, she couldn't help but come to a small internet cafe near her residence, just to see the plot of the next few tens of thousands of words as soon as possible.

She, who could only see one update every two days recently, thought that if she could see several tens of thousands of words at once tonight, she couldn't wait.

But...

After arriving at the internet cafe, she checked her email every little while, but didn't see a reply from Cao Sheng; gradually, her expectation in her heart turned into disappointment.

She thought she probably wouldn't see the subsequent tens of thousands of words tonight.

Although she had no hope in her heart, she was unwilling to just go back like that; she found a downloaded movie on the internet cafe computer and started watching it.

She had just finally finished watching this movie; after taking off her headphones, she boredly turned her face to look at the other people in the internet cafe, still feeling bored, thinking that the men in this internet cafe, not having Cao Sheng's talent was one thing, but they weren't even as handsome as Cao Sheng, yet they still had the face to surf the internet here?

Then, she logged into her email again.

When she saw the reply email from Cao Sheng, her eyes instantly lit up, and her waist unconsciously straightened.

She became excited again.

Quickly, she saw the subsequent plot of this book; in no time, her mind was drawn into the world of "I Wish to Become an Immortal".

She forgot the passage of time.

When she finished reading the last chapter of these 150,000 words, looking at the blank document behind, discovering there were no more words, she was stunned for several seconds before coming to her senses.

Her thoughts slowly returned to reality.

Unconsciously glancing at the time in the bottom right corner of the computer screen, she then discovered that more than an hour had passed.

And in her mind, the thrill of the male protagonist Chu Feng breaking through three minor realms consecutively in a short period still lingered.

The plot in the early stages of this book, Cao Sheng wrote according to the leveling-up style; the pleasure of the protagonist constantly breaking through realms... Wang Jing felt it.

It made her scalp go numb with pleasure.

She had never before read a work of this upgrade-style genre?

How had she ever felt the thrill and excitement of constant leveling up?

……

The next morning.

When Wang Jing arrived at work under the banyan tree, she held back again and again, but still couldn't resist boasting to everyone about the tens of thousands of words of the sequel to "I Wish to Become an Immortal" she had read last night.

She knew all her colleagues were fans of this book and were all following its serialization.

None of her colleagues could resist the allure of "I Wish to Become an Immortal."

This entirely new genre—with its wildly imaginative world-building, cultivation tiers, spells, flying swords, and more—was pure poison to people like them, who already loved reading; whoever read it became addicted.

As expected, before she finished speaking, all her colleagues turned their gazes toward her, and even her boss Zhu Weilian couldn't help stepping quickly out of his office.

"What? What did you just say, Wang Jing? You said you saw tens of thousands of words of the sequel to 'I Wish to Become an Immortal'? Where? Where?"

When Zhu Weilian asked this, everyone stared at her in astonishment.

Their boss was also following this book?