Chapter 5: Where Am I Supposed To Get So Many Follow-up Reads
“What have you been doing so mysteriously lately?”
In the eyes of several teammates, Yu Wei has always been unprofessional, but these past few days he’s been too unprofessional…
Not practicing dance or singing, always holding his mobile phone typing whenever he has nothing to do—does chatting require typing so many words?
“Nothing.”
Can he tell others about writing a book? Of course not!
Before, Yu Wei had been a failure for so long that fewer than three people around him knew he wrote web novels, and those who knew didn’t even know his book title.
It’s not that he’s being distant; this industry really doesn’t need to be shared outwardly. People unfamiliar with web novels ask all sorts of questions, which is troublesome, and if someone loose-lipped spreads it, it attracts more questions from others.
Some are fine, just wanting to join in the fun and see what he writes, but some always think writing novels has some trick to it and want him to teach them.
If this stuff was easy to teach, where would all the failures come from?
Yu Wei is just a failure himself, let alone teaching others, plus what he writes is garbage, so he’s too embarrassed to let others see it and simply keeps silent.
“Stop asking, I think this kid is definitely in romance, chatting sweetly with his girlfriend.”
Zhang Lingye chuckled twice, not waiting for Yu Wei to explain, and teased again: “Romance is great, we really envy it…”
His words undoubtedly poked at everyone’s sore spot; boy group idols eat this bowl of youth rice, and daring to romance would probably get them torn apart alive by female fans!
Forget fans not letting them romance; the company wouldn’t allow it either. Packaging idols costs so many resources, and if romance explodes out, it all smashes in their hands.
There are those who deceive superiors and hide underground romances, but hiding too deeply is no different from online romance…
Yu Wei is neither hot nor cold, but because of that he has romance freedom, which they truly envy; even dating feels like being a thief.
“Doesn’t seem like it; couples don’t chat by typing this frequently.”
Qi Yuan frowned and thought, “With his fingers flying like that, it looks more like he’s handling two or three at the same time and can’t keep up…”
What sea king routine; Yu Wei is indeed too busy, but he’s busy writing, not raising fish.
“Yuan Shen gets it.”
Qi Yuan is the one doing best among them, having acted in blockbusters and with two costume idol dramas awaiting broadcast.
Forget their RUIKO1 group; even in the entire domestic entertainment, he’s the hottest among male idols of his generation.
One “Yuan Shen” is well-deserved.
Of course Yu Wei never calls him that, because every time the words reach his mouth, he thinks of an open-world adventure game.
Taking advantage of the rehearsal break, Yu Wei returned to the dance studio to continue writing; time is tight, best to get the song today.
The latest chapter of Rating Bro in Domestic Entertainment has finally reached the award ceremony segment for “Artist with the Lowest Annual Rating” on the grand ceremony night.
The male lead calmly accepts this trophy symbolizing shame and begins his singing segment.
Before this song, this trophy was his black history, but after this song, this trophy becomes his path to glory!
“Heart Wall”, formally debuts.
Actually, Yu Wei’s atmosphere rendering in this chapter is quite good, and the emotion is there, so it should count as a small climax.
But readers clearly have no time for the plot now, because after the new chapter update, they’ve realized that this “Heart Wall” is not a typo…
This is a song they’ve never heard!
Entertainment novel authors composing their own songs—is this even human?
“Poison, deadly poison, run!”
“Has the plagiarist tag but composes his own song, luring people in to kill them.”
“Godlike author, so good at writing songs, why not become a golden producer? This random “Heart Wall” made me nauseous.”
“My god, song god, coming to write books is a waste of talent.”
“Have you ever been a star? Writing stuff randomly, assuming things?”
Hate lasts longer than love; today’s bad reviews are more than yesterday’s, and the scolding is fiercer. One reader chased and cursed, posting several in a row, feeling like they wanted to swallow him alive.
This really can’t blame the readers; there are so many entertainment novels, but few directly insert their own works like him.
Even if there are, others clearly mark non-plagiarist, unlike him starting with obvious plagiarist entertainment refreshers, then suddenly “self-indulging”; readers can’t dodge in time.
Why didn’t Yu Wei make it clear in the blurb?
Nonsense, if marked, who would click in? How many readers for non-plagiarist types? No views means total failure!
Even if cursed to the point of not functioning, he has to rack up the data.
Besides, he didn’t deceive readers; from his angle, this is plagiarist entertainment, and the song isn’t composed by him.
No problem, endure a few more days; after they hear this song, they’ll forgive him…
Yu Wei plans to strike while the iron is hot and finish the “Heart Wall” plot today, letting these readers keep cursing hard!
Of course he’s not a masochist; he’s afraid they’ll drop the book and run after reading, so what about the novel’s data?
Must keep updating while they’re angry to attract firepower; not afraid of being cursed, afraid of no one cursing him…
Entertainment novels writing singing plots still need to include a couple lines of lyrics; one is to follow the script, the other is for reader immersion.
But lyric quotes can’t be too many; after all, it’s a novel, directly copying pages of lyrics to pad word count is too much.
‘Your heart has a wall
But I discover a window
Occasionally letting out a bit of warm light.’
He remembers this song’s lyrics pretty clearly, so he casually added them to the main text; this way it feels like an entertainment novel.
After the song performance ends, focus on describing the audience’s expressions and psychology; that’s the refresh point of entertainment novels.
Besides shock and surprise for the listeners, best add a lingering aftertaste that refuses to fade, giving the whole performance a sense of endless meaning…
“Finally!”
After finishing the performance plot, Yu Wei felt his whole body lighten, of course not the creative exhilaration, but the relief of finishing hard labor.
No need to gild his face; doesn’t he know the level of what he writes?
Yu Wei was fine not stopping, but once he did, he felt backache and neck pain, his entire palms stiff and joints numb.
Really wants to knead something big, soft, and bouncy to comfort his tired hands…
Like a plush doll or something.
He didn’t care about loosening up and decisively opened the system panel after publishing the new chapter.
[Entertainment God System]
[Host: Yu Wei]
[Bound Novel: “Why Do Stars Care About Ratings?”]
[Novel Internal Literary Work: “Heart Wall”]
[Redemption Requirement: Follow-up read count for Chapter 10 greater than 100.]
[Redeemable Works: None]
[Redeemed Works: None]
Clearly, “Heart Wall” has met the work acquisition condition, but seeing the data requirement, Yu Wei felt himself dying a bit.
One hundred follow-up reads sounds not much, but for a new book on its first day in the library, this data is astronomical.
The book now has only 67 collections; where do a hundred readers come from to see the latest chapter…
During his failure days, it never reached 100 follow-up reads even by library end; now just entered and it demands 100—what, a billion first subscriptions at launch later?
“I’m just a failure, new book with no old readers to support; you doing this to me?”
“Where do I get so many follow-up reads?”
Big shots opening new books get book friends rushing over to form an army; naturally no worry.
But he’s just a failure; forget 100, even 50 is tough.
With the song so close, he almost wants to stay up all night with a hundred alternate accounts to brush for himself…
Of course, that wouldn’t count.
Yu Wei wanted to check how much he’s short, but on opening, collections dropped to 53.
In the time of one chapter update, more than ten people directly removed his book.
Adding collections might be bots, but removing from shelves is definitely real people, and real readers who got angry and ran…
When it rains, it pours.
Data was already far off, now minus ten more—how is anyone supposed to live?
“I was wrong, come back.”
“Come back and keep cursing me, I really was wrong.”
He doesn’t know he was wrong; he knows he’s dying.
If the book-deleting readers saw this, they’d surely nod knowingly and say:
“Good!”
