Moonlit Night quickly sent over an outline.
And attached a message: "Bro, can you help write a bit more?"
Xu Lin glanced at the outline and discovered it contained thirty full chapters' worth of outline.
Damn!
Xu Lin: "That's quite a load. Even if each chapter is two thousand words, that's sixty thousand words in total."
Moonlit Night hurriedly said: "Bro, the price is negotiable."
Followed by: "Actually, I was planning to give up on this book, but I didn't expect you to save it."
Moonlit Night also mentioned that this book was somewhat famous in the industry, but it fell apart midway, causing income to plummet, so he had no choice but to give up and look for a ghostwriter.
Xu Lin didn't reply immediately.
His dad taught him one thing, if someone needs you, don't reply too quickly. Let them get anxious, and respond only when they reach a certain level of urgency.
However, you need to gauge the level carefully here.
Xu Lin simply opened a game and played for an hour.
Moonlit Night had already sent quite a few messages by this time.
Xu Lin opened and glanced at them.
One of the messages said: "Bro, how about thirty chapters for twenty thousand bucks?"
What?
Twenty thousand?
Xu Lin was quite surprised.
Even calculating at a hundred per thousand words, sixty thousand words should only bring in six thousand bucks, so twenty thousand is way above that.
Xu Lin knew he could accept this price. There was no need to wait any longer. Besides, at his current stage, building his reputation seems more important than earning money. Once he establishes a name in the industry, he will never have to worry about money. If he's ever broke, he can easily take on a ghostwriting job to make some cash.
Xu Lin replied: "ok, I'll get it done by tomorrow."
Moonlit Night: "Bro, thank you! Five-body prostration.jpg"
Xu Lin didn't respond again, just reopened the outline to see what he had to write.
The content was simple—the male lead continued to handle the chaotic scene—but Xu Lin felt the male lead in the outline was a complete idiot, the kind that's indecisive and pretentious.
"Whatever, let the male lead be stupid, I'm just ghostwriting anyway."
Xu Lin thought to himself, he gets paid to do the job, and even if he had to write a piece of crap, he'd make it look good enough for the readers.
After sorting his thoughts, Xu Lin started typing.
With thirty chapters and sixty thousand words, it's unrealistic for each chapter to perfectly hit two thousand words. By the end, it'll be over sixty thousand words.
Xu Lin turned off his phone and tossed it aside to avoid distractions while working.
Then Xu Lin fully devoted himself to typing.
With over sixty thousand words, he decided to finish it all in one day!
A challenge to the extreme!
Earning twenty thousand in a day, just the thought of it was thrilling.
So, Xu Lin focused entirely, immersing himself in the process of thinking and typing.
Starting from 2:30 in the afternoon, Xu Lin worked almost nonstop, only pausing a few times briefly, and continued until after 10 PM. He then spent another half hour fine-tuning, finally finishing up.
"Done!"
"Damn, I'm exhausted!"
"Sixty thousand words in over seven hours, I must be the legendary octopus alien or typist machine!"
Xu Lin felt quite accomplished.
However, Xu Lin felt his eyes were blurry, and he had never been this tired before.
Moreover, it was mental exhaustion more than physical.
[Excessive mental work rapidly depletes your physical and mental energy, you need to rest.]
"I didn't expect typing to be this tiring!"
Xu Lin sent the manuscript to Moonlit Night, then lay down on the bed and fell asleep almost instantly. God knows how tired he was.
In fact, mental work consumes more energy than physical work, leading to complete exhaustion, especially when mental overload causes severe mental energy drain. Long-term mental exhaustion can leave a person in a fog, unlike physical work where a good night's sleep can help.
On the other side, Moonlit Night quickly received the manuscript sent by Xu Lin.
Moonlit Night was amazed: "Bro, so fast? Let me take a look first!"
Half an hour later.
"Damn! Bro, your writing is incredible! The emotional pulls just got me super excited, and your writing style is too strong!"
Moonlit Night was very shocked.
Later, Moonlit Night sent several long messages, all praising how awesome Xu Lin's writing was, practically analyzing it in detail.
However, Xu Lin was asleep.
"Bro, I sent you twenty thousand bucks by scanning a code! Did you get it?"
"Bro, did you sleep?"
"Alright, bro, have a good dream!"
The messages from Moonlit Night continued.
Xu Lin wasn't aware of any of it, as he was still deeply asleep, practically dead to the world.
Meanwhile, Yu Xinyan came by and knocked on his door, but he didn't know.
It was around 2 AM.
At about 11 PM, Moonlit Night uploaded two chapters from the abandoned novel, which included the last two chapters Xu Lin wrote out of a total of five from earlier, and unsurprisingly, they were a hit.
Xu Lin's current writing demonstrated Divine Penmanship, with the massive buffs of incessant inspiration and Flourishing Brush, so his work was extraordinarily impressive. It could be said that in just five chapters, Moonlit Night's initially crumbled novel was revived, and subscriptions exploded.
Even at this 2 AM, wealthy readers gave Moonlit Night two Silver Alliance gifts.
"This guy is amazing!"
"At such a level of writing skill, to even consider ghostwriting is just reckless!"
Moonlit Night couldn't even imagine it.
Moonlit Night had already spent over two hours mulling over Xu Lin's newly sent manuscript. The thirty chapters of over sixty thousand words gave him a clearer insight into Xu Lin's writing proficiency.
To put it simply: meeting him is like an ant facing the sky!
Moonlit Night knows he'll never be able to write at the level of the other person in his lifetime.
Because he knows he's up against someone with top-tier talent, someone whose writing skills are maxed out in every aspect and seems to have no weaknesses, truly like an ant facing the sky.
Bear in mind, Moonlit Night's book, at its peak, earned him over a hundred thousand per month, but then his writing collapsed halfway through, and recently it's down to less than twenty thousand a month. This sudden cut in high income left Moonlit Night feeling psychologically unbalanced, wanting to flee, so he went to the black market for a ghostwriting task, unexpectedly meeting Xu Lin.
"The master's level is terrifying; if I had even a tenth of his skill, I'd probably be famous!"
The more Moonlit Night thinks about it, the more anxious he becomes, sending another ten thousand to Xu Lin in the middle of the night.
"Bro, this is the large reward from the reader, sent it to you."
Two Silver Alliances, with half taken by the website, that's ten thousand.
There's more than sixty thousand words of manuscript yet to be released, and Moonlit Night knows this part will definitely be explosive, even though the story isn't great or even cliché, but the writing level inside is certain to explode.
Nothing more was said that night.
The sun rose high.
Xu Lin woke up at eleven in the morning the next day.
As soon as he woke up, Xu Lin's stomach growled, and he's never felt this hungry before.
[Your body urgently needs energy replenishment!]
Xu Lin took two big loaves of bread and started to eat. It didn't take long for him to finish because he was really hungry.
[Energy +10, charging...]
Then Xu Lin cooked two packs of instant noodles, and after finishing the noodles,
[Energy +8, charging... charge complete.]
[Current Status: Full of vitality, mentally refreshed.]
Gulp.
Xu Lin drank two glasses of water.
[Energy +4.]
"Ugh..."
Xu Lin burped, already in a state of clear mind and spirit.
"Feeling good!"
Xu Lin stretched out and opened his phone, finding quite a few messages had arrived.
One was from Lei Haolong. This kid had sent Xu Lin quite a few magnet links.
Upon opening, he found they were videos of, well, you know.
This jerk!
Do I need to watch this stuff?
Next were the messages from Yu Xinyan.
Yu Xinyan's messages are numerous, more than twenty, along with two voice calls.
"Xu Lin, what are you doing?"
"Xu Lin, I came knocking, but you didn't respond?"
"Xu Lin, are you asleep?"
"Xu Lin, I'm leaving first."
...
Xu Lin opened the doorbell camera footage and saw Yu Xinyan had come by around eight last night.
Xu Lin saw her wearing ultra-short sports shorts, revealing her beautifully smooth long legs.
Standing at 1.75 meters without shoes, she's a stunning beauty with amazing long legs. The visual impact, even when viewed on the camera, is captivating and breathtaking, not to mention seeing it directly at home or up close, maybe even touching it.
Xu Lin slapped his thigh.
Last night he was focused on typing, even had noise-canceling headphones to avoid disturbance from neighbors, so Xu Lin didn't know Yu Xinyan came by.
"Damn!"
"Missed the chance to see those long legs!"
Xu Lin felt like he missed out on a billion-dollar opportunity.
"Xu Lin, are you up yet?"
This was the message from Yu Xinyan sent in the morning.
Xu Lin replied with a simple, "Just woke up."
"Oh!"
Yu Xinyan replied with one word; Xu Lin glanced at it but didn't respond.
I'll shower first.
But as soon as Xu Lin finished showering, seven minutes after Yu Xinyan's "Oh,"
"Xu Lin, I'm at your door!"
Unexpectedly, Yu Xinyan showed up.
Xu Lin got dressed and went to open the door, there stood Yu Xinyan.
"Xu Lin, what were you doing last night, why didn't you respond to knocks and messages?"
As soon as Yu Xinyan came in, she asked him.
"Slept too early yesterday, didn't hear it."
"I thought something happened to you."
Yu Xinyan took off her shoes and started walking barefoot around Xu Lin's room.
Xu Lin lamented that Yu Xinyan was wearing gray tie-dyed flared jeans, so he couldn't see the long legs from the footage.
But the jeans really suited her figure.
Actually, so far, Yu Xinyan is the best-looking girl in jeans that Xu Lin has ever seen.
Hands down.
Yeah.
Temporarily, at present.