Chapter 191: Chapter 141: Earning Tens of Millions a Year by Writing Web Novels!

At almost the same time.

The editorial department of Jiangcheng Evening News.

Wang Zhixin was still sitting at his workstation, working overtime.

Ever since Shen Qiushan became the top liberal arts student in Sanjiang Province, after being slapped in the face, Wang Zhixin’s life had become difficult.

Previously, he could enjoy the traffic from criticizing Shen Qiushan, but after Shen’s successful comeback, criticizing him no longer brought any traffic, and instead, he suffered a backlash.

During the time he was being slammed, the vacant deputy director position in the department was seized by his arch-rival, who promptly became his immediate superior.

Thus, Wang Zhixin’s life naturally became even harder, and today’s overtime was the result of his superior’s difficulties.

After finishing his work, Wang Zhixin habitually browsed through the news on various social media platforms to see if there was anything he could dig up.

Suddenly, an article published by Penguin Novels caught his attention.

[The one who’s sealed the God of Novels, surprisingly, is the college entrance exam top scorer]

After experiencing the Shen Qiushan incident, Wang Zhixin was extremely sensitive to the four words “college entrance exam top scorer.”

He eagerly clicked into the article.

Today, the film and television rights for the work “I Really Didn’t Want to Reincarnate” by “Shen’s Tutoring,” a signed author with our platform, was sold for ten million!

At the signing scene, I finally met this mysterious new writer!

And received a shocking piece of news, that the mysterious new writer under the pseudonym “Shen’s Tutoring” is actually Shen Qiushan, the top liberal arts student of Sanjiang Province!

I believe everyone is familiar with the name Shen Qiushan, who in this year’s college entrance exam was crowned as the top liberal arts student in Sanjiang Province with a score of 709.

At 38 years old, he set the record as the oldest top scorer on record.

I never dreamed that the new writer I’ve been interacting with online under the pseudonym “Shen’s Tutoring” is the sensational top scorer!

What I want to say is, talented people indeed excel in any field.

Just like Shen Qiushan’s novel serialized on our platform, which quickly topped the charts once released!

Before the novel was even completed, it had already achieved “an average of 100,000 subscriptions.”

And today, the film and television rights for the novel reached a sky-high price of ten million…

The article was quite long, almost 3,000 words, written by the Penguin Novels editor “Wutong.”

The article detailed the story of how “Shen’s Tutoring” transformed from a “new writer” to selling his work’s rights for ten million.

Sitting in front of the computer, Wang Zhixin felt his scalp tingling!

Shen Qiushan wrote an online novel that sold its film rights for ten million!

Suddenly hearing such news was more painful than death for him.

The “enemy” not only became the top scorer but smoothly got into his desired university, and now has become a millionaire by writing online novels!

This is not just sprinkling salt on his wounds.

It’s pouring chili water on the salt!

After reading the article published by Penguin Novels, he quickly clicked the link to read Shen Qiushan’s book. He usually rarely reads online novels and despises them from the bottom of his heart.

So, he was completely unaware of the profit model of online novels, nor did he know how to judge the quality of a book’s performance.

However, even so, he could tell that the performance of Shen Qiushan’s book seemed to be pretty good.

Number of favorites exceeding 500,000, ranking seventh on the monthly ticket chart.

Wang Zhixin clicked on the first Chapter and started reading…

About half an hour later, he stopped.

As a journalist, his writing skills were certainly decent, and the quality of Shen Qiushan’s novel exceeded his expectations, as he stereotypically thought of online novels as synonymous with “crudely made” and “vulgar.”

And although Shen Qiushan’s novel wasn’t outstanding, its narrative was smooth, and the story was vivid and interesting.

Nevertheless, just such an online novel’s film rights could sell for ten million.

Wang Zhixin still found it a bit unbelievable!

If writing an online novel of this quality could earn ten million, then what was his point in being a journalist!

He might as well go write online novels!

Pondering in front of the computer screen for a while, Wang Zhixin’s eyes suddenly brightened.

Traffic!

This is all traffic!

He clicked on Shen Qiushan’s novel again, but this time, he not only read but also took careful notes.

Of course, the parts he recorded were the “flaws” of the novel.

Two hours later.

Wang Zhixin faced the camera passionately and began recording.

“While watching today’s news, I saw an article claiming someone earned ten million by writing online novels!”

“Upon closer inspection, oh, the one who got rich is an old acquaintance!”

“That’s right, it’s Shen Qiushan!”

“His novel astonishingly sold for ten million, and, with a learning attitude, I carefully read through Teacher Shen’s masterpiece…”

“This was truly an eye-opener!”

“I might even say it shattered my three views!”

“The male protagonist in Teacher Shen’s novel is a total scumbag, manipulating and deceiving kind and innocent girls’ feelings, with a trend of keeping mistresses…”

“I wonder where Teacher Shen found the inspiration to create such a scumbag character!

“Besides, I’d like to ask which film company spent ten million to buy the film rights to such a morally explosive online novel?”

“What’s the intention of producing such a thing? To promote the idea that men should be scumbags?”

“I don’t think any film company would do this, right!”

“So, I’m seriously doubting whether this is malicious hype?”

“Of course, it doesn’t exclude the possibility that there are film companies that like such works.”

“But I want to say, if you’re truly willing to spend ten million buying the film rights to such a novel, then actually, I can write one too!”

“And I don’t need ten million, eight million would do, or five million at worst…”

Wang Zhixin found himself especially vigorous when criticizing Shen Qiushan, recording a video without any need for retakes, smoothly from start to finish.

The video was published.

Wang Zhixin stretched lazily, then hummed a tune as he left work.

His Quick Sound account traffic had been quite low lately, and no matter what he posted, netizens always brought up that he should change his name to “Shen Zhixin.”

After all, he’d lost a bet to Shen Qiushan before!

And after Shen Qiushan became the top scorer, to continue surviving on the internet, he actually posted an apology video.

But netizens didn’t buy it, and still showered him with harsh criticism.

Seeing that apology or no apology made no difference, Wang Zhixin simply deleted the apology video!

A month and a half later, Wang Zhixin mentioned Shen Qiushan once again in his video, and the previously low traffic actually started picking up.

On the drive home, Wang Zhixin glanced at the video stats while waiting at a red light, the comment numbers already exceeded a thousand.

Indeed, it’s got to be Shen Qiushan!

He’s practically my traffic secret!

Wang Zhixin thought delightedly.

In fact, before Wang Zhixin released the video, Penguin Novels’ Quick Sound account also posted the related news.

Only that Penguin Novels promoted this event positively.

As the oldest top scorer ever earns ten million by writing online novels!

Such news naturally grabs attention once out.

Therefore, after Penguin Novels published the video, some media outlets were already reprinting or reporting the news.

With increasing attention, more media covered the story, and Shen Qiushan’s name was once again hotly discussed!

In the Electromechanical Class Group Chat.

Sun Peng, who loves active chatting, directly posted the media coverage of the matter.

Sun Peng: @Shen Qiushan Old Shen, is this news true??

Sun Peng: If it’s true shouldn’t you give us a red packet!

Zhou Jianyu: Waiting for Old Shen’s big red packet!

Feng Sicong: Damn! Ten million! My roommate is actually a millionaire!!

Bao Beibei: Enough to get a house in Hu City, haha, luckily we have three houses.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep