BXBX NOVEL Chapter 216 - 201: He Slept - 1
With the popularity of the “King of the Net” novel as a base, Lin Yuan felt that as long as the quality of the manga was not bad, its popularity wouldn’t be too poor either.
But Lin Yuan had underestimated the influence of the manga itself.
In the following days, the popularity of “King of the Net” continued to rise. Even many manga enthusiasts who never read novels joined the ongoing followers–
“This manga is so exciting!”
“I’m a seasoned comic fan. I’m not interested in the original work, but the manga particularly attracts me!”
“Is this author named Shadow really a newcomer? The drawing style is mature.”
“Doesn’t seem like a new manga artist…”
“I love this manga, the characters are so beautiful!”
“The author gets it, how could nothing happen with a group of handsome guys playing tennis together?”
Indeed, “King of the Net” had become a sensation!
The sudden yet deserved fame also fell onto Shadow, the alias of the author!
Shadows follower count went from the initial tens of thousands to over three million with continued increase, without even taking a breather!
Meanwhile, Xian Yu and Chu Kuang also started following Shadow.
Initially, Chu Kuang and Xian Yu followed each other and not anyone else, which led their fans to firmly believe they were close buddies. However, now that Shadow has joined, the circle has expanded to three, and followers began to sense something off.
What’s going on with these three?
Is their circle so chaotic?
Regardless of how the followers speculated, Lin Yuan was quite satisfied upon checking his prestige value and other data at this point – –
[Name: Lin Yuan]
[Music: 390,000]
[Art: 10,000]
[Literature: 350,000]
Music prestige was undoubtedly the highest, because Lin Yuan released songs consistently, including his original order “Kisses Everywhere”.
It is worth mentioning that when “Kisses Everywhere” was first released, it didn’t cause a big sensation.
However, as it was gradually adopted as background music by many video hosts, the song began to gain popularity in a unique way.
At that time, Lin Yuan had just returned to Qin Province from Qi Province and had many things to attend to, so he didn’t pay much attention.
But whether Lin Yuan paid attention or not, the prestige brought by the popularity of the song was solid!
Not to mention that Lin Yuan currently has an apprentice helping him earn prestige…
Next was the literary prestige.
The current prestige of 350,000, is still lower than the music.
But to be honest, it’s not very far behind.
This was thanks to the influence of Chu Kuang’s two long novels and four short stories.
If Lin Yuan were to pause on releasing songs and start with “Ghost Blowing Lamp”, he felt that his literary prestige might even surpass his music prestige. As for painting…
This category just started and had just broken 10,000, but the “King of the Net” manga was also just starting. Once the manga became popular, Lin Yuan felt the prestige it brought would be considerable!
Prestige is a good thing.
Although Lin Yuan’s main task is to break one million in music and literature prestige, without involving painting, if the prestige of painting goes up, the system will definitely trigger corresponding tasks, a pattern which Lin Yuan had figured out through long-term observation.
While Lin Yuan was working on the manga,
The shooting of “Flirting Scholar” at the film set, which had been going on for quite some time, finally wrapped up!
Unfortunately, Lin Yuan was in class that day and wasn’t present.
It was Gu Dong who informed Lin Yuan about this.
Soon after, Yi Chenggong also gave Lin Yuan a heads-up, saying that they were about to start post-production, which once finished, the film could be ready for release.
There have always been people serializing manga on the Tribe platform, but most aren’t very popular.
The really popular manga are like long novels, usually opting for physical publication.
So,
When “King of the Net” appeared and garnered some popularity in a short period of time, the Tribe platform noticed and even caused a stir in the data monitoring department:
“Wow…”
“This manga is quite impressive.”
“It’s only been published for about a week, yet this manga called ‘King of the Net’ already has very high readership. This is a work that can bring significant traffic!”
“Is this ‘Shadow,’ a newcomer to the manga world?”
“Well, this newcomer, is quite capable.”
“Quite a few new users registered just to come to our tribe to read ‘King of the Net’.”
“Our tribe doesn’t have a specific manga section, we should immediately liaise with the literature division. Chu Kuang is the collaborator of the literature division and Chu Kuang’s work has been adapted into a manga, they should help with promotion.”
The Literature Department of the Tribe.
Upon hearing this news, Han Jimei was taken aback, astounded. She had not expected that a high-demand manga would suddenly emerge within the Tribe! Furthermore…
This manga is somehow related to Chu Kuang?
As for why the company assigned this task to Han Jimei, she knew it very well.
The company does not have a manga department.
But right now, when the tribe is at war with the blog, what both sides are fighting for is traffic.
This manga named ‘King of the Net’ can bring traffic, the tribe naturally wouldn’t just ignore it.
They ought to take some measures to maintain the current situation.
Even for the sake of Chu Kuang, Han Jimei should do something…
“Replace one of the page ad slots on the Literature Department’s homepage with the manga ‘King of the Net’.”
After a moment’s thought, Han Jimei made her decision.
Her assistant nervously asked, “This is an ad that’s pushed to all Tribe users,
are you sure you want to give it to a manga?”
Han Jimei calmly replied: “The more popular this manga becomes, the greater our benefits. Besides…”
Han Jimei paused, not continuing to speak.
Actually the company has always had thoughts of venturing into the manga industry. Backed by the Tribe platform, many things would be made easier.
But the plan is not yet in place, so she didn’t feel it appropriate to discuss it further.
If it does happen, Han Jimei will likely take on the additional responsibilities for the manga department as well.
The assistant understood, “I’ll attend to it right away.”
Han Jimei nodded, then couldn’t refrain from dialing the number. This was the number Shadow left on the Tribe.
“Hello.”
Lin Yuan didn’t expect that his newly bought phone and newly registered number would receive a strange call,
This number was what he had used to register the Shadow account.
Han Jimei said with a smile: “Hello, may I ask if this is Teacher Shadow?”
Lin Yuan responded quickly: “Are you from the Tribe?”
Last time Wei Long also directly contacted him. The people from the Tribe side could see the user’s phone number.
“Yes, I’m the Chief Operating Officer of Tribe Literature, Han Jimei…”
“Is Wei Long not there?”
“You know Wei Long?”
Han Jimei was suddenly taken aback.
Lin Yuan said: “I am Chu Kuang, Shadow is asleep.”
The Tribe side might guess that Shadow and Chu Kuang are the same person, so before they start guessing wildly, Lin Yuan wants to first create the illusion that Shadow and Chu Kuang are good friends, to provide them with false guidance.
However, what Lin Yuan did not know…
Han Jimei was already stunned:
Shadow is asleep?
You are Chu Kuang?
He is asleep… so why are you answering his phone…
I can’t take it anymore.
Strange images had already started to emerge in Han Jimei’s mind.
That’s right…
All of a sudden, Han Jimei remembered, recently, Chu Kuang’s Tribe account seems to interact frequently with Xian Yu. They follow each other, and do not follow other celebrities on the Tribe platform. It’s clear their relationship is not simple.
So what about Shadow?
Han Jimei, covering her mouth, was afraid that she might scream and invite Chu Kuang’s dissatisfaction, but she had made an incredible discovery, she seems to have stumbled upon a big secret-