Lin Jianye got angrier the more he thought about it, and he felt terrible.
They had just started dating, and she was already siding with an outsider.
What would happen later?
Alas, his own daughter was too naive. He had to persuade her properly:
"Xiao Shu, don't listen to Wang Yi's nonsense. He's not that busy at all; the reason he says he's busy is that he doesn't want to come see you. He's lying to you! Your dad is an experienced man, he knows men's ways best!"
Lin Shu was a little confused:
"He's lying about being busy?"
Lin Jianye said firmly:
"Yes, men love to use the excuse of being busy with work to deceive their partners!"
Lin Shu's delicate eyebrows slightly furrowed:
"Dad, you always say you're busy; are you also lying to my mom like that?"
"???"
Lin Jianye felt terrible, only then realizing the seriousness of the problem.
Sure enough, Zheng Rou next to him looked over with an unfriendly expression.
"Dad, you haven't been lying to my mom for decades, have you?"
Lin Shu said with a half-smile.
Hmph!
You tried to stir up trouble and drive a wedge between us, how do you like it now?
"Oh, Old Lin, so that's the kind of person you are. Hehe."
Zheng Rou said with a half-smile.
Lin Jianye's mouth twitched.
The boomerang he just threw had already come back to hit him?
How effective!
Lin Jianye's head felt as big as a bushel, and he quickly explained:
"Wife, don't misunderstand, Wang Yi and I are not the same. I wouldn't use being busy with work to deceive you; I really am busy!"
Zheng Rou nodded:
"Yes, yes, yes! You really are busy. You've been busy for twenty years, yet your career hasn't achieved as much as Wang Yi's in just a few months!"
Lin Jianye: "..."
"Tell me, are you incompetent? Or are you lying?"
Lin Jianye: "..."
'Damn it! This is a dilemma!'
"No, wife, weren't we talking about Wang Yi? How did it turn to me?"
Lin Jianye said with a bitter expression, really wanting to change the subject.
Zheng Rou smiled slightly:
"I think your problem is much more serious than Wang Yi's. Wang Yi's career has just started, so being busy is understandable, and he still doesn't forget Xiao Shu. He even remembered to bring gifts back from Japan. What about you?"
"Your career is stable, right? No breakthroughs, right? Why are you still busy every day? Are you busy with work, or busy playing soccer? Or do you have a mistress?"
Lin Jianye: "..."
"No, wife! Absolutely no mistress, and no playing soccer!"
"Oh, then what are you busy with?"
Lin Jianye was helpless and could only confess:
"To be honest, I've recently become obsessed with fishing..."
"Fishing, no wonder you're out early and back late every day and you're all tanned. I thought you got tanned at a construction site, but it turns out you're busy fishing, how effective. So fish are more important than your wife, alright, very good, Old Lin, you continue!"
As Zheng Rou spoke, she turned her head away; it would be a lie to say she wasn't angry.
She had thought Old Lin was genuinely busy every day and that's why he had no time for her, but it turned out he was busy fishing!
He's really something!
"Wife, I was wrong, it's just a hobby. I will definitely balance my time better in the future!"
Looking at Lin Jianye's miserable appearance, Lin Shu spoke softly:
"Dad, are you too old to play soccer anymore, so you started fishing?"
Lin Jianye: "!!!"
This little padded jacket definitely leaks air!
No, it's outright counterfeit, poisonous, with excessive formaldehyde!
"Hahaha!"
Zheng Rou was amused by her daughter and laughed.
With this laugh, her anger dissipated by more than half.
Lin Shu gave Lin Jianye a wink, Lin Jianye understood, and quickly sat closer:
"Wife, I heard a chain beauty salon just opened in the city center; it's quite good. Tomorrow, I'll go with you to check it out."
Hearing this, Zheng Rou's expression improved a lot again: "It's so far, too much trouble."
"Hey, look at what you're saying. Accompanying my wife to a beauty salon, how is that trouble? This is called enjoyment!"
"You certainly know how to talk."
Zheng Rou smiled.
Lin Jianye let out a sigh of relief; this round was over.
He looked at Lin Shu again, his expression even more complex.
So this little padded jacket wasn't counterfeit; she didn't just know how to warm Wang Yi, but at critical moments, she would still warm him!
After all, if Lin Shu hadn't made Zheng Rou laugh with one sentence, his trick of using 'busy with work' to deceive Zheng Rou and secretly going fishing wouldn't have been so easily swept under the rug!
It's just that in Xiao Shu's heart, Wang Yi had actually become the number one, and Lin Jianye felt melancholy just thinking about it!
His family's good cabbage was taken away by that rascal!
"Sigh!"
The Wang Family.
Wang Shulin looked at the Tang dao in Wang Yi's room and couldn't help but ask:
"Whose dao is that? Where did it come from?"
Wang Yi smiled slightly:
"Liu Siyu's."
"How is her dao with you? Doesn't she love these things the most?"
Wang Yi had told his parents about Liu Siyu before.
Wang Shulin was deeply impressed.
After all, these days, girls who like to wield swords and spears and fantasize about being a hero are truly rare...
"A trophy, I exchanged it with her for forty-three exercise books!"
Wang Yi said with a laugh.
Wang Shulin fell silent: "..."
After a long while, she said:
"You're truly inhumane! That little girl will resent you for a lifetime."
Wang Yi waved his hand:
"It's fine, with her priorities, just treat her to two more big meals and she'll forget about it. Liu Siyu, food comes first, jianghu second!"
"Alright, this girl is quite simple-minded."
Wang Shulin shook her head.
Wang Yi, however, said softly:
"Mom, what if Siyu doesn't do well in her exams, how about going to Lanxiang to learn cooking? Maybe she could become a great chef!"
"Don't talk nonsense, be careful your homeroom teacher might come at you with a knife!"
"Haha, I was just saying."
Wang Yi burst into laughter.
In his previous life, Liu Siyu still didn't do well in math during the college entrance exam and ultimately went to a very ordinary school.
But academic qualifications are indeed not that important, especially for a gifted individual like Liu Siyu who excels in certain subjects but struggles in others; she could totally develop in the liberal arts direction.
For example, becoming a writer, writing wuxia or xuanhuan...
Achieving financial freedom through this is also good; there's no need to stubbornly pursue academic qualifications.
After all, Liu Siyu has a high level of Chinese literacy and writes good essays; she even wrote wuxia fanfiction in middle school that was passed around several classes, so she has this capital.
At that time, if Wang Yi gives her some resource preference at Meiyou Novels and gives her a push, she might just become a great author in the female fiction genre!
Isn't that better than attending a 985 university?
This is feasible.
Frankly speaking, Wang Yi felt that the possibility of Liu Siyu becoming a great web novel author was higher than the possibility of her scoring 90 in math!
But currently, learning still comes first.
After the college entrance exam is over, he could then guide her to develop in the web novel industry.
If Liu Siyu's ability is sufficient, giving her the outline of a super-popular web novel is not impossible!
Of course, even close brothers settle accounts clearly; the copyright still belongs to Wang Yi.
Liu Siyu could use this super-popular book to become famous in one go, gain 'divinity,' and then write her own books later; that would be enough.
This is also Wang Yi's planned Meiyou Novels God-Creation Plan!
In the web novel industry, some great authors are truly self-made through hard work, while others are created by the right timing, favorable location, and harmonious human relations!
Meiyou Novels is just starting and also needs to create gods!
For example, choosing a capable writer, signing a contract, then giving her the outline of "Mo Dao Zu Shi," and letting her write it; she would definitely become a god with one book!
At that time, the copyright of "Mo Dao Zu Shi" would belong to Meiyou, but the author would get half of the royalties.
After the book becomes a huge hit, the fame, glory, 'divinity,' and so on would all belong to the author!
In this way, that unknown writer would instantly become a great author for Meiyou Novels.
Subsequent books, even if their quality is poor and far inferior to "Mo Dao Zu Shi," could still make a fortune.
After all, it's normal to hit a bottleneck; one book hitting and another flopping is not uncommon.
Of course, with such a capable writer, coupled with control from the editorial team, and Wang Yi guiding the outline, her new book would likely also take off; even if it doesn't become a massive hit, a moderate success is still not a big problem.
In his previous life, there were so many hit books, and Wang Yi remembered many of them; by extracting the core settings, having the editorial team create outlines and chapter outlines, then finding capable writers, they could mass-produce gods!
Probably in one or two years, Meiyou Novels would have many more popular books!
Once Meiyou Novels has many popular books, the number of readers will sharply increase!
With more readers, authors' royalties will increase!
With more royalties, great authors from other platforms will also switch to Meiyou one after another!
With more great authors on the website, Meiyou Novels will also have more and more popular books, and then readers will continue to increase...
This is a positive cycle!
And the starting point is Wang Yi's God-Creation Plan!
In reality, the path to the rise of novel websites in his previous life was all about poaching great authors and creating great authors; there was no other way!
One great author, one popular book, can attract tens of millions of readers!
This matter can definitely be done!
Coincidentally, Meiyou Novels began its internal beta for traffic allocation these past two days, which is a good opportunity to see if there are any writers with good qualifications.
Wang Yi opened his laptop and began to check Meiyou Novels' data.
Starting from October 1st, the main page of the Meiyou App all began to use big data tags to push contracted web novels.
Users who are not interested directly skip, and subsequent pushes of the same type will be reduced.
If they are not interested in any novels, then a 'non-web novel user' tag is directly added, and web novels will no longer be pushed to them later.
For interested users, they will click in to read, a 'web novel user' tag will also be recorded, and other novels will also be recommended below the main text.
By users clicking on book content, tags of interest are classified.
In this way, the initial tag models for these web novel users are established for subsequent targeted pushes.
On October 1st, all contracted web novels on Meiyou Novels that exceed 50,000 words will enter the first-tier traffic pool and be pushed with the same amount of traffic.
Then, primarily based on read-through data, supplemented by dimensions such as comment data, reward data, and voting data, the novel's popularity index is comprehensively evaluated to conduct first-tier traffic pool PK (competition) and ranking.
The top 30% of books successfully advance, receive increased traffic allocation, and start second-tier traffic pool PK the next day.
The middle 40% of books fail to advance, continue to stay in the first-tier traffic pool, and continue first-tier traffic pool PK the next day.
The last 30% of books are eliminated, receive reduced traffic allocation, or even stop being pushed, until they reach 100,000 words, when they can start resurrection PK!
Resurrection PK is also the same as above: the top 30% advance to second-tier traffic pool PK, the middle 40% continue first-tier traffic pool PK, and the last 30% are completely given up on.
The next day, for second-tier traffic pool PK, books are also divided into top, middle, and bottom based on performance.
The top 30% advance to third-tier traffic PK and continue to receive increased traffic allocation.
The middle group fails to advance, continues to stay in the second-tier traffic pool, and continues second-tier traffic pool PK.
The bottom 30% return to the first-tier traffic pool and continue first-tier traffic pool PK.
Through such rounds of PK, quality books finally stand out, gaining more and more traffic and attracting more and more readers.
When users accumulate to a certain level, the VIP mode can be activated for a fee!
Of course, those that failed to advance, if their quality improves, can also fight their way up round by round in a second PK or a 100,000-word resurrection PK.
Such slow-burn books also have the possibility of rising.
This model is considered the fairest and most just model currently.
It doesn't look at pen names or identity, only at read-through performance.
In reality, when a book reaches 50,000 words, how many people are willing to read it basically allows one to judge the quality of the book.
Wang Yi looked at the data from the past two days.
On the first day, 105 novels exceeding 50,000 words simultaneously entered the first-tier traffic pool and started PK.
Finally, the top 31 advanced to second-tier traffic pool PK, the bottom 31 were eliminated, awaiting 100,000-word resurrection PK or discontinuation.
The middle 43 failed to advance and continued first-tier traffic pool PK the next day.
On the second day, among these 43 from the first-tier traffic pool, another 12 advanced, 12 were eliminated, and 19 continued first-tier PK.
From the 31 in second-tier traffic pool PK, ten also stood out and entered third-tier traffic pool PK.
11 failed to advance, and along with the 12 that advanced from the first round, will continue second-tier traffic pool PK the next day.
10 were eliminated and returned to first-tier traffic pool PK.
Through this PK system, with layers of advancement and elimination, development occurs through fierce competition.
Coupled with resurrection PK, basically no good book will be overlooked.
In two days, ten quality books entered the third-tier traffic pool.
Wang Yi focused on these ten books; six of them came from the 85 quality novels signed by the editorial team.
They were indeed good and could definitely become popular if continued.
And four others came from the 20 custom books written by resident writers in Jizhou!
The latter's proportion was even higher than the former's; it can only be said that the customized themes were all hugely popular, and thus naturally more easily accepted by the market!
Wang Yi looked at these ten books one by one; all had great potential, and as long as they remained stable later, they would at least be A-grade books.
Two of them, favored by Wang Yi, could potentially become S-grade moderately popular books!
But as for SS-grade massively popular books across the entire internet, Wang Yi hadn't seen any yet.
As for SSS-grade massively popular books across the entire internet, books that go viral beyond their niche, one shouldn't even think about them; it still depends on "Mo Dao Zu Shi" and Wang Yi's God-Creation Plan!
These past two days, editors have been actively acquiring books and signing authors.
On the Meiyou Novels website, many new contracted authors and new novels have been added, but they haven't reached 50,000 words yet!
Once they reach 50,000 words, a new round of PK will begin again.
In this way, with each PK, one-third of quality books can stand out, continuously gain high traffic, gradually take off, and climb to the top of the rankings.
Then Meiyou Novels' book library would be established step by step.
The rest can only be left to time.
What Wang Yi needs to do is to use rewards and the God-Creation Plan to shorten this time!
Unfortunately, among these ten authors, Wang Yi did not find a suitable candidate to write "Mo Dao Zu Shi."
This is awkward.
Helplessly, Wang Yi began to look at the books eliminated in the second round.
It actually led Wang Yi to a new discovery.
There was an author named [Xiangwan Buwan] who wrote a female-oriented xuanhuan novel.
The theme was similar to "Mo Dao Zu Shi," the writing was very good, and the pacing was also well-controlled, but the plot was too conventional and lacked originality.
It could only be considered first-rate writing skill, first-rate pacing, and third-rate plot.
Therefore, it failed in the second round of PK.
Thinking of this, Wang Yi sent a message to Kucha: "Investigate [Xiangwan Buwan]!"
Xiangwan Buwan's writing skills are comparable to a great author; if she were to switch to an exciting plot, she would definitely take off!
If this person is reliable, signing a long-term contract, giving her the outline of "Mo Dao Zu Shi," and letting her ghostwrite wouldn't be a problem!
(End of Chapter)