Divine Lucky Star-Chapter 209 - Its Really Awkward

Chapter 209: Chapter 209: It’s Really Awkward!

Chapter 209 -209: It’s Really Awkward!

Bai Yaning lay on her bed, furiously throwing her phone away!

“What an idiot! Such a big idiot!” Bai Yaning huffed, clutching a pillow with gritted teeth, “This song ‘Bubble’ got fourteen million listens in one day and was downloaded six hundred thousand times, such great results and he didn’t even seem surprised! Didn’t even praise me once!”

Bai Yaning pouted her lips and muttered, “My last album’s best song only got six million hits in twenty-four hours, this time it more than doubled, that blockhead! Big idiot! So infuriating!”

After being angry for a while, she got out of bed to retrieve her phone and with a pout said, “Hmph, this big idiot, I have to see how long you can stay stupid!”

Then she put on her headphones and listened to ‘Bubble’ two more times, suddenly laughing, “This guy, I wonder when he will come up with a new song, the thought of it is really exciting, hehe!”

…

Wang Hao returned to the private room and upon entering saw Lu Yu sitting at the table, immediately smiling, “Old Lu, I heard you’re working as an editor now, how’s the treatment?”

“Brother Hao is back?” Lu Yu grinned, “So-so, I guess, about six to seven thousand a month, barely getting by. I just heard from Xia Fei, you’re also writing novels? How’s it going? Which website?”

“Oh, on Fengyun Chinese Network,” Wang Hao scratched his head, “Just average, hasn’t been showcased yet, I don’t know if it’s good or not.”

“Oh, Fengyun, huh?” Lu Yu’s eyes brightened upon hearing this, “What’s the name of the book? Let’s have a look?”

Ah? That…

Wang Hao was really feeling a bit depressed. If nobody at the scene understood about books, it might’ve been okay to just mention the book’s name and skim through the contents for a casual chat. But Lu Yu was an editor, after all. Would he believe if I said ‘Break the Heavens’ was written by me? If he believed, would he think I was boasting? It might be awkward since everyone mingles in the same circle.

“Forget it, forget it,” Wang Hao smiled coyly, “It’s a bit embarrassing, haha…”

As he said this, the few people around couldn’t help but suppress their laughter, and in his heart, Lu Yu thought, “Lucky you didn’t say Break the Heavens was written by you, otherwise that would have been a big boast!”

Thinking this, Lu Yu then said out loud, “Well, if you don’t want to say then don’t, but if you ever want to switch platforms, come to me, I’ll get you a few more recommendations to boost you up!”

“Really? Thank you so much!” Wang Hao hurriedly expressed his thanks, “If I don’t do well on Fengyun, I’ll come running to you!”

“That would definitely work!” Lu Yu’s eyes gleamed as he laughed, “By the way, speaking of it, your site has a book called ‘Break the Heavens’ that’s really soaring high lately! Do you know about it?”

Wang Hao instinctively touched his nose—thank goodness I didn’t say it just now, you see, people know about it, right?

“I know, that book is really hot,” Wang Hao nodded, “I just write casually, haha.”

“Just casually? How can that be?” Lu Yu got suddenly excited, “Let me tell you, writing books, that requires a knack! Not to mention anything else, the book Break the Heavens, our company’s boss specifically called a meeting about it, instructing all of us editors to study the techniques used in that book.”

Wang Hao: “…”

Isn’t that a bit awkward for me?

But what could I do, I couldn’t just dampen his spirits, right?

“Yes, yes, yes,” Wang Hao nodded vigorously, “I’m studying it as well, the techniques are indeed pretty good.”

“That’s a must!” Lu Yu said, “I’ve been studying it for a full three days! I’ve carefully read each chapter seven or eight times! The pacing is just unbeatable! They start by heavily undermining the protagonist, pulling the readers right in! Then at the end, out comes a beautiful rich girl, suddenly making the anticipation go through the roof! The author of this book is definitely a genius! Named Tian Can Dou, just watch, he’ll definitely reach the status of Supreme God, I reckon he’ll even surpass the current top god Wan Dao!”

“Right, brilliant!” Wang Hao mumbled vaguely, “The plot is indeed not bad…”

He wanted to keep a low profile, but the people wouldn’t let him!

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“How can you say not bad?” Lu Yu said, “It’s extremely good! It seems you haven’t studied it thoroughly! The biggest feature of this book is its fast-paced face-slapping! Face-slapping doesn’t wait overnight, brilliant! If you could learn even a tenth of his style, I reckon, you could be earning ten to twenty thousand per month in royalties!”

Wang Hao: “…”

How am I supposed to respond to that…

“Old Lu, is it really that exaggerated?!” Yu Junpeng interjected in surprise, “A month earning ten to twenty thousand! That’s way more than I earn as a scriptwriter! I only get around forty to fifty thousand per script, and it’s not like I get them every month!”

Wang Hao: “…”

Well, now I dare not say this book was written by me. Since we’re all classmates, I have to keep it low-key, staying low-key is the best way to go.

A class reunion, after all, it’s most important that everyone has fun. Otherwise, if everyone’s looking at me, wouldn’t it be awkward?

“Why do you think I called it awesome?” Lu Yu then began to explain in detail to Yu Junpeng how amazing Break the Heavens was. “Yu, actually, with your talent, writing a book would definitely be no problem! You can just imitate Break the Heavens!”

Yu Junpeng: “What? Really? By the way, how popular is this book? Can you make a comparison? Otherwise, nobody has any idea.”

Everyone nodded in agreement: “Yeah, only through comparison will we know.”

“A comparison?” Lu Yu nodded. “Alright then, I’ll tell you what the concept of Break the Heavens is! In our online novel sphere, there’s a Supreme God, he writes under the pen name Ask the Way! Do you know how much he earns in a year?”

Everyone shook their heads: “We don’t know!”

Wang Hao also shook his head— he really had no idea what level the Supreme God of this world was!

“Thirteen million!” Lu Yu said proudly, “After taxes! An annual income in the tens of millions!”

“Holy shit! That’s insane!” Yu Junpeng exclaimed. “Writing books is this promising?”

“What did you think?” Lu Yu said. “But even if Ask the Way starts a new book, under normal circumstances, if he puts up 300,000 words, getting 50,000 collections would already be reaching for the stars. What are collections? Collections mean that after the readers read your book, they want to keep reading, so they add it to their favorites for easier access later.”

Everyone: “Got it, got it. And then what?”

“And then?” Lu Yu said. “Do you know how many collections Break the Heavens now has? A whopping 130,000! 130,000 collections! Ask the Way’s best-performing book had only 100,000 collections when it was completed!”

Yu Junpeng: “Damn! Does that mean this book could earn twenty million a year?”

“Maybe not that much, but it probably won’t be far off,” Lu Yu said. “Now you see how awesome it is?”

Everyone nodded together: “We get it, we get it!”

While Lu Yu was blowing his trumpet over there, Wang Hao’s phone buzzed with a message. Picking it up, he saw it was from Long Yi!

Long Yi: “Brother Hao, how’s the class reunion going?”

Wang Ritian: “It’s going pretty well, everyone is really enthusiastic. Classmates really are closer, haha.”

Long Yi: “That’s right. What are you up to now? Is anyone blowing their own trumpet to you?”

Wang Ritian: “Not really, everyone’s doing quite well, just a classmate who’s an editor is explaining the ropes of Break the Heavens to me.”

Long Yi: “What did you say?!”

…

In the next room, Long Yi showed the chat to several people, and they all burst into laughter!

Long Yi: “Hahaha! Explaining the ropes of Break the Heavens to Brother Hao!”

Qiangwei: “I can’t even, this is too hilarious!”

Jiu Miao: “He must not know Break the Heavens was written by Brother Hao, right? I can’t, I’m dying of laughter! Hahaha! Brother Hao definitely didn’t say!”

Long Yi: “Nonsense, of course he couldn’t say! Otherwise, what if people thought he was showing off? But this is just too funny, explaining the ropes in front of the author himself… I can’t, I need to laugh!”

…

Wang Hao also felt pretty helpless. There he was, the real deal, just sitting there while Lu Yu went on, saliva flying, explaining the tactics of Break the Heavens, how to start the story, how to raise hatred, how to build anticipation, how to show off, and how to slap faces…

It was truly awkward!