My System Forces Me to Live off Women

Chapter 550: Chapter 349: Trailer Filming

Li Peifeng had pondered deeply about placing Huang Tianxuan’s registration in marriage as the last among the four girls.

Firstly, according to the order of meeting, she was the last one to engage with Li Peifeng in reality, and also the last one to confirm a romantic relationship, so it was only natural that the marriage registration should be last.

Moreover, Li Peifeng believed Huang Tianxuan was the least concerned about marriage among them. If it were any other of the three, putting them last would certainly meet with strong opposition, whereas Huang Tianxuan had some room for negotiation.

Secondly, the Huang family wanted their first son to take the mother’s surname, which, one way or another, also prompted Li Peifeng to put Huang Tianxuan second last...

For all the aforementioned reasons, Li Peifeng believed Huang Tianxuan understood them, and was merely unable to accept on an emotional level, requiring him to comfort, persuade, and provide a step down.

But after talking for a long time on the phone, Huang Tianxuan still did not agree and even gave her conditions.

"I will return to the capital on the seventh. If I am pregnant in January, I will be visibly pregnant in April, then you must marry me in April. I don’t care if you are unmarried or thrice-married by then; anyway, you must register with me when I am visibly pregnant! Otherwise, I can’t explain to my family with a big belly not knowing who the father is."

Li Peifeng clicked his tongue, "Isn’t this too rushed? I won’t graduate until April, and pregnancy is not something you can predict when it will happen..."

"You promised me, and you, this stallion, have said before that it only takes once for me to get pregnant. Now, you’re saying you can’t guarantee the time? Are your sperm so active? It’s all your excuse!"

With that, Huang Tianxuan said firmly, "Alright, that’s it. If you’re capable, then by April you can marry them successively and divorce, even if you end up married three times, I’ll accept it. But if you can’t do that and are still unmarried by April, then you register with me."

Li Peifeng said helplessly, "Don’t say angry words, you know I haven’t graduated by April yet, and with Qingge’s personality, she wouldn’t possibly register with me..."

"That’s your problem!"

Li Peifeng fell silent for a moment, then sighed wistfully, "So in the end, I am just your tool for childbirth, and the child is just a means for you to gain benefits. But if I can’t give birth, won’t you marry me then..."

"Pigsy going to battle and then turning tables?" Huang Tianxuan laughed angrily, "You’re starting to learn how to play the victim like a woman? But this trick doesn’t work on me! I’ve already agreed for you to have your cake and eat it too, and now you’re crossing the line, isn’t it too much?"

After talking for over ten minutes, they couldn’t reach an agreement, eventually deciding tacitly to wait until after the New Year to meet face-to-face to discuss it further.

"When will you be able to return to the capital?"

"Uncertain, I need to shoot the teaser for ’Sword and Magic’, it’ll be at least ten days later."

Even when Huang Tianxuan complained ’is shooting more important than having a child with me?’ Li Peifeng remained unmoved, because he needed to earn money.

Huang Tianxuan’s ’marriage urging’ might advance the wedding dates with the four girls, if everything went smoothly, perhaps after seven more months when Li Peifeng graduated, he would tastefully step into the halls of marriage with the four of them.

Meanwhile, Wu Wenyue’s demand for a betrothal gift of one billion was looming, and although the other three girls hadn’t opened their mouths about it, he definitely had to give them a betrothal gift too, followed by the four weddings, banquets, celebrations, and venues... All of this required money.

Moreover, strictly speaking, Li Peifeng didn’t even have his own house and car now.

A house and car are essential for a man getting married, and if he waited until registering with the girls without having either in the capital, it wouldn’t sit right.

So, with no house, no car, and only four million in savings, Li Peifeng felt his most pressing task was to earn more money. At least he needed to earn enough for two billion to smoothly marry the four girls.

And as for earning money, Li Peifeng had a clear plan.

Currently, his income came from two sources, writing books, and Trinity Studio.

The latter was developing well, and two new actors were signed to the studio, both were profitable, with Wu Wenyue and He Yimeng performing the best. They could each land six to seven advertising gigs a month, profits were naturally increasing, but the earnings had to be split among the three bosses, leaving little for Li Peifeng’s share, around ten to twenty thousand a month, negligible.

Thus, Li Peifeng’s main income source remained his writing career, under his pen name ’A Gram of Wind in the World’, even multiple finished books in the female reader genre could continue to bring him a steady stream of subsequent income.

Those included earnings from digital subscriptions, physical book royalties, comic splits, radio drama dividends, and various mixed revenue channels, all added up to be quite substantial, and it was ongoing income; relying on these old works alone, he could sustain himself for a lifetime.

Although the longer the time, the lesser the income, the revenue from these old books wouldn’t dramatically collapse in one or two years.

Li Peifeng anticipated that from January to June this year, relying solely on those old books, could bring him an average of six hundred thousand in income per month. Six hundred times six months amounts to three million six hundred thousand.

’Sword and Magic’ would go online on January 10th, before the New Year when Li Peifeng and editor Xia Sheng had made predictions, conservatively forecasting that the book would at least achieve sixty thousand initial subscriptions.

If the subscription didn’t collapse, ten thousand average subscriptions would soon be attainable, with few authors reaching such heights on the Endpoint platform. This also indicated that after ’Sword and Magic’ launched, updating ten thousand words daily, Li Peifeng could earn at least five hundred thousand in subscription fees from the main site each month,