Chapter 857

After receiving the message from Qianzhou, Li Luo immediately opened the Author Assistant and checked the backend data.

The page clearly displayed the number representing the average subscription count—100,0021.

It had indeed surpassed the 100,000 average subscription mark.

"Holy shit! Holy shit holy shit holy shit!!!"

Li Luo himself felt no particular surprise, as his editor Qianzhou had already warned him a few days prior that the average subscriptions were nearly breaking through the 100,000 threshold.

So Li Luo had already prepared himself for this.

But he hadn't told anyone else in advance.

Thus, when Xu Youyu curiously leaned over and saw the number displayed on the Author Assistant backend, she couldn't help but cry out in shock.

"What are you screaming about?" Cui Suling said, annoyed at her daughter's dramatic reaction.

"Mom, you don't get it—Li Luo's new novel is about to break history!"

Xu Youyu, his face full of astonishment, explained to the others, "One hundred thousand average subscriptions! Look at this! This result is insane! No one on Qidian's main site has ever broken 100,000 in paid subscriptions!"

"Really?" Cui Suling leaned over curiously to take a look, but couldn't quite feel how impressive it was.

But since her daughter said so, it must be true.

Lin Xiuhong felt much the same; after glancing at Li Luo's phone, she asked curiously, "On Weibo and Douyin, influencers always have millions of followers—how impressive is ten thousand really?"

"Lin Yi, you don't understand," Xu Youyu patiently explained. "If you just look at the collection count for Li Luo's book, it's already several million."

"That means millions of people have added Li Luo's book to their shelves."

"But the number of paying readers who actually paid for the full novel? On average, it's exactly one hundred thousand people!"

"Can those Weibo and Douyin influencers with millions of followers really have ten thousand paying fans?"

"It's really hard~"

As Xu Youyu finished, Xu Rongsheng picked up the thread, nodding and saying, "Yes, although the internet ecosystem is ruled by traffic, the ultimate goal is still to make money from users."

"Li Luo achieving the top spot on the site is truly remarkable."

"One hundred thousand paying subscribers—that's a massive influence behind it."

In reality, this number isn't that large.

But Qidian, as a paid platform, has weak traffic acquisition capabilities.

For a site that demands direct payment from users after a certain word count, acquiring each paying user requires enormous external traffic costs.

Thus, Qidian's paying subscriber count has always been low—only a few million.

At its peak, it reached about ten million.

Now, the online novel channels haven't declined yet, and Li Luo's books are also performing well on these channel platforms.

According to editor Qianzhou, the sales figures from these channels, when converted, are at least equivalent to fifteen to twenty thousand average subscriptions.

So if you include all online paying subscribers, Li Luo's Night Watch of Great Qian likely surpasses 300,000 total average subscriptions.

Not to mention the countless pirated readers behind it.

Their number is easily several times higher.

At this point, Li Luo can truly be called Qidian's undisputed number-one subscriber author.

【Chongran】: I saw it.

【Qianzhou】: Your reaction is way too calm! One hundred thousand average subscriptions! You broke the record!

【Chongran】: Didn't you already break the record before? Honestly, it's not that big a deal.

【Qianzhou】: The significance behind this is completely different—the leadership is taking it very seriously.

【Qianzhou】: Since it's the annual meeting these two days, the editor-in-chief and others will definitely want to talk to you—just chat with them properly.

【Chongran】: Got it.

After finishing the chat with the editor, Li Luo led everyone into the car and headed to the hotel in Wuhan where the annual meeting was being held.

Li Luo declined the official Qidian hotel room and booked four presidential suites instead.

One for Li Guohong and his wife, one for Xu Rongsheng and his wife, one for Li Luo himself, and one for the three girls.

Hmm… that was the theoretical arrangement.

In reality, the last suite was clearly just for show.

After arriving at the hotel smoothly at noon, Li Luo followed the two mothers' plans and, using the itinerary they'd prepared in advance, rented two cars to go eat lunch at a nearby restaurant.

Before coming to Wuhan, Ying Chanxi had already helped Lin Xiuhong and Cui Suling prepare a detailed travel plan for the entire three days, filling every hour.

Li Luo and Xu Youyu couldn't accompany them tomorrow because of the annual meeting.

Even now, because of breaking the 100,000 average subscription mark, Li Luo received a message from the editor-in-chief during lunch, inviting him to dinner that evening.

So after spending the afternoon touring two famous Wuhan attractions with his parents, Li Luo and Xu Youyu returned early to the hotel and met the editor-in-chief Nan Feng in a private dining room.

Besides Li Luo, the room included several chief editors, the CEO of Wenxue Group, Director Hou, and several other Platinum authors.

The Platinum author who was closest to Li Luo winked at him and greeted him with a cheerful smile.

After greeting Director Hou and the editor-in-chief with Xu Youyu, Li Luo sat down beside the Platinum author and asked curiously, "Why are you here?"

Though called a Platinum author, the man had already ended his contract with Wenxue Group in mid-2017 and started his own studio and company, releasing his new novels across all platforms and channels.

If Li Luo's total across all channels reaches 300,000 average subscriptions, this man's total across all channels likely easily surpasses 500,000.

"Talking to Wenxue about anime development," Tu Dou sipped tea and casually said to Li Luo. "I happened to chat with the editor-in-chief, heard you were coming, so I came to pig out."

"Don't call it pigging out," Nan Feng teased Tu Dou. "I invited you before and you never showed up."

"I didn't know my little brother was here too," Tu Dou chuckled.

Director Hou, watching how well Tu Dou and Chongran got along, frowned slightly, his mood visibly souring.

Li Luo had spent a long time around Yin Zhicheng and had picked up a few things by osmosis.

So he stopped chatting with Tu Dou and turned to the middle-aged man beside Director Hou, who had said nothing so far, and smiled warmly: "Director Liao, I didn't misidentify you, did I? We've met before."

"Didn't expect Chongran still remembers me?" laughed Mr. Liao, sitting beside Mr. Hou. He lifted his teacup and lightly clinked it against Li Luo's in the air, then took a small sip. "Today is just a simple meal, with a little chat on the side."