My System Forces Me to Live off Women

Chapter 602: Chapter 366: The Big Sweeper Renjian Yiliangfeng (3)

Group name [Wind Alliance], inside are all the group friends who have tipped the Alliance Leader a couple of times, over five hundred people, not too many nor too few, including female readers and male readers of "Sword and Law."

Li Peifeng: "Family, major news, tomorrow at 10:30 AM ’Sword and Law’ will be released..."

Interacting with readers here, while the phone rang over there, incoming call from Xia Sheng.

"Hey hey?"

"I have good news for you, the paid following for ’Sword and Law’ has broken the record."

So-called following means how many users have read the latest Chapter of the novel within twenty-four hours; if one hundred users have read it, it counts as one hundred following. As for paid following, also known as effective following, after a user consumes within a specified time, they are listed by the system as a potential consumer. When these potential consumers read the novel’s latest Chapter, it is calculated as ’paid following.’

This data is an important metric for promotion at Endpoint, and also a basis for evaluating the work’s initial subscription. The more achievements, the better.

Usually, the ratio of paid following to first-day subscriptions within twenty-four hours is 0.7~1.2.

"Understood."

Li Peifeng is unsurprised about ’Sword and Law’ breaking the paid following record; although he hadn’t asked Xia Sheng, he had already made a rough judgment based on comments and collection data. He just didn’t know the specific number.

So at this moment, as Li continued typing on the keyboard, he casually asked: "What’s my following count?"

"Three hundred forty-six thousand seven hundred twenty-one!"

Xia Sheng said word by word and wanted to pretend to be serious, but couldn’t help but laughed: "I was worried it would affect your mood, so I didn’t tell you before, but this record has long been broken. Now this follow count of three hundred forty thousand refreshes Endpoint’s record by more than three times!"

"Awesome~"

Li Peifeng’s hand paused slightly on the keyboard, tilting his head to speculate: "So should my initial subscription at least reach three hundred thousand?"

"Very likely."

Although Xia Sheng was happy, he was also cautious: "’Sword and Law’ is very popular now, and its search index ranks first among web novels this year. Delaying the release, waiting for your trailer has proven to be the right decision. However, although initial subscription data is important, it’s also not that important, because the release is just the beginning. You need to pay attention to the pace, don’t mess up the plot. Stay steady, as long as you stay steady, you will have it all under control!"

Xia Sheng asked Li Peifeng to stay steady, but his tone grew more and more excited: "If you can really achieve three hundred thousand initial subscriptions... your status would absolutely be the highest at Endpoint. Currently, the highest subscription work at Endpoint is only one hundred fifty thousand. If you can get thirty thousand in initial subscriptions, won’t ’Sword and Law’ average forty thousand over half a year? Definitely taking off!"

"By the way! I’ll tell you some insider news!"

Xia Sheng subconsciously lowered his voice, mysteriously arousing Li Peifeng’s curiosity: "What news?"

"I heard President Chen and the senior management are studying your new contract."

In a low voice, Xia Sheng said: "Probably planning to increase your tier treatment, but the premise is that you achieve thirty thousand initial subscriptions and show a steady growth trend. In other words, as long as you stay steady, you can sign Endpoint’s most favorable author contract."

What kind of promises are these? Have Chen Yong personally call me if he’s bold enough! Have Endpoint transfer copyrights to me for free! Now talking about this seems far-fetched...

Li Peifeng scoffed internally but didn’t show it. Instead, he confidently said: "Don’t worry, I already have over a million words saved up, everything’s under control!"

Upon hearing this, Xia Sheng was relieved and changed the topic: "You’re really popular now, and rumors are plenty, don’t take them to heart. Focus on creating. You must be mindful of your brand both in reality and online... right, you’re also a web celebrity, you should know about brand building, I won’t say much more on this."

"Understood."

Xia Sheng acknowledged and then hesitated, inexplicably asking: "You’ve seen the posts about you on Zhihu, right?"

Li Peifeng froze: "Posts about me? What’s up?"

"Forget it, nothing, if you haven’t seen them, then don’t."

Unwilling to talk much, Xia Sheng finally suggested he quickly write a release statement and motivate book friends to crash the February monthly ticket list, then hung up the phone.

Although he didn’t say it, Li Peifeng kept it in mind; after hanging up the phone, he couldn’t pay attention to interacting with book friends in the group. He went straight to Zhihu to search, wanting to see what Xia Sheng was avoiding.

About the work? Unlikely.

Scandalous news about himself?

"Did the matter of me dating multiple people get exposed? Impossible!"

A bit tense, Li Peifeng quickly searched with the book name ’Sword and Law’ on Zhihu, and did find quite a few related posts, mostly questions raised by book friends who have read this book, such as;

[The truth and absurdity in ’Chronicles of Sword and Law’... Did the author actually travel through time?]

This question is nonsensical, but upon closely reading the questioner’s experiences, it didn’t seem that absurd.

He first expressed amazement at the world structure in ’Sword and Law,’ believing the author depicted it vividly, with details containing hidden devils. He was somewhat mesmerized and became curious about the meditation methods mentioned in the book, tried practicing, and ended up not sleeping for three days without feeling tired at all. Hence, he questioned the novel and the entire world, hence issuing this query.