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Chapter 1570 - 1271: Secured 7th Place on the Writers’ Rankings

Chapter 1570: Chapter 1271: Secured 7th Place on the Writers’ Rankings

The next day.

Studio.

Jin Mu looked at Lin Yuan: "If I’m not mistaken, Chu Kuang should be able to reach seventh place on the author list next month."

Lin Yuan nodded.

Jin Mu continued: "After reaching seventh, there’s still more than three months until the Spring Festival. You probably have something planned, right?"

"I’ll write another book."

Lin Yuan gave the same answer he gave his sister yesterday: "Create a work with stronger literary qualities."

"Stronger literary qualities?"

Jin Mu thought for a moment and understood what Lin Yuan meant: "Because some people say that although you’re the world’s best-selling author, your works are often more commercial than literary. So you’re thinking of writing a more literary work to prove yourself, right?"

"Not exactly."

Lin Yuan smiled: "It’s just about time."

Jin Mu instantly grasped the meaning: "You mean, you’ve been writing bestseller novels because attracting readers relies on commercial content. Now that your reputation is well established, whatever you write has the attraction to make readers patiently read through?"

Lin Yuan nodded.

Over the years, Lin Yuan has been writing bestsellers without excessively chasing the literary quality of his works.

Because Lin Yuan deeply understands the rules of the book market.

Highly literary works, often aren’t the best-sellers.

It’s like how commercial films’ box office can never be matched by art films.

Lin Yuan’s first goal in writing books in the early days was to make money.

Aiming for profit, he certainly wouldn’t write any of Earth’s literary masterpieces.

While these literary masterpieces are excellent and could help Chu Kuang secure an important place in the literary world, when it comes to making money?

It’s still about commercial literature.

Didn’t the Harry Potter series make Chu Kuang earn a ton of w?

But that doesn’t mean Lin Yuan has objections to those literary masterpieces.

Lin Yuan’s thoughts are actually quite pure.

Writing literary masterpieces is a must.

But before that, it’s necessary to use bestsellers to make Chu Kuang famous first.

Once Chu Kuang is famous, and the money is enough to spend, then I can write some literary works with care.

By that time, even if readers aren’t patient enough for highly literary works, they’d still buy them for the sake of the pen name.

This is what’s called "it’s about time"—

Now Chu Kuang is the world’s number one bestselling author!

No matter what book Chu Kuang writes, there will be a massive crowd of readers willing to pay for it!

In such a situation.

The literary works written by Chu Kuang will definitely outsell any other literature expert on Blue Star!

"The idea is sound. Now, no matter what you write, readers will buy it unconditionally. This is the result of your diligent cultivation across various novel fields over the years. But personally, I’d suggest trying a few medium-length pieces first, since this is your first time creating a novel with literary quality as the primary goal."

"Okay."

Many works strong in literary quality are within a million words.

And novels under two million words aren’t even considered long novels by Lin Yuan.

What is a long novel?

At least three million above, right.

Apparently, Lin Yuan’s concept of novel length is quite different from ordinary understanding.

"Do you already have an idea?"

"Yeah."

"Have you thought of a title?"

"The title is ’Siege’."

"Siege, what’s the meaning?"

"Marriage is like a siege, people outside want to get in, and those inside want to get out."

Jin Mu was stunned.

Suddenly deeply touched.

This is a divorced man.

Exactly.

Lin Yuan was going to write Mr. Qian Zhongshu’s "Siege".

This book is absolutely famous in our Celestial Dynasty.

Putting aside Lin Yuan’s personal understanding of long novels, Mr. Qian Zhongshu’s "Siege" can be considered a long novel in a broad sense, even though the full text is just over 200,000 words.

Chu Kuang could write it in just a few days.

But don’t underestimate these 200,000 plus words.

Everyone should be familiar with the famous "The Scholars", right?

Qian Zhongshu’s "Siege" is a uniquely styled satirical novel in modern Chinese literature, hailed as the "new The Scholars".

The story mainly portrays the group portrait of intellectuals at the start of the war.

It’s said practiced hand and familiarity, Chu Kuang writing with Earth’s background is becoming more and more adept.

Don’t ask.

If you ask, the answer is it’s set in a parallel world.

Blue Star readers don’t have problems with understanding; they are used to old rascal Chu Kuang’s fondness for writing novels with a parallel background—they’ll automatically fill in some Blue Star background because a planet can’t have developed over so many years without some unique moments.

Talk about love.

Discuss marriage.

Readers will definitely be surprised.

For a bestselling author like Chu Kuang to write such work.

...

"Passing the Red Sea, the ship sailed on the Indian Ocean, but the sun relentlessly lingered longer, taking over most of the night.

The night seemed soaked in oil, turning semi-transparent;

It got embraced by the sun, making no distinction, maybe it was enchanted by the sun, so the night that followed the fading evening glow also carried a rosy tint.

Upon awakening from a red-tinted slumber, the passengers awoke drenched in sweat, washed up, and rushed onto the deck to catch the sea breeze.

Another day begins."

Commercial literature wouldn’t depict an environment this way.

But Mr. Qian Zhongshu’s works always reveal their literary quality between the lines.

Yes.

Lin Yuan spent the following days writing "Siege".

In just a few days, this work was officially completed, a novel of 200,000 to 300,000 words was really not hard for Lin Yuan to write.

At the same time.

September officially ended. Correct content is on NovelFire

On an early October night.

All major charts on Blue Star were updated.

Exactly as everyone anticipated and hoped!

Chu Kuang’s author ranking skyrocketed to seventh globally!

At this moment.

The family was thrilled!

Voices like "My brother, indeed", "My sister, indeed", "My son has the demeanor of an emperor", and "Woof woof woof" echoed through the house.

At the same time.

The entire internet buzzes over it!

"Look at the old rascal’s rocket-like rise!"

"This wave is all thanks to ’The Three-Body Problem’!"

"Absolutely, ’The Three-Body Problem’ deserves it!"

"Becoming Blue Star’s top sci-fi author only pushed the rank up one spot, I feel it’s a bit less, ranked way too heavily on literary quality above."

"Yeah."

"The works ranked ahead have high literary quality, but sales still can’t compare with Chu Kuang."

"Nothing to complain about here."

"Literary value is indeed a very important thing."

"Authors ranked top all deserve our respect, some of their works are world classics now."

"Chu Kuang’s ’Journey to the West’, reportedly even the Literature and Art Association is considering it as a classic."

"I heard about it too; this book is currently Chu Kuang’s biggest representative work, the IP development is good too, Sun Wukong well-known to every household."

"Haha."

"Now Chu Kuang’s ranking has completely surpassed Xian Yu."

"Xian Yu’s music and dance rankings are both eighth."

"Laughing, take a closer look."

"What the heck!"

"What’s going on?"

With a series of exclamations, many people were amazed to find that Xian Yu’s music chart ranking also changed!