The moment the foot hit the face, Li Peifeng understood three things.
First, Xu Manning had gotten smarter.
Second, this woman was up to no good; she even sprayed perfume on her feet!
Third, the effect of the steel kidney was immediate.
"Stop it! Stop it!"
"Still resisting me? Hmm? What will you use to resist me?!"
Just a bit more, just a tiny bit more, and Li Peifeng could experience the true power of transformation and go into action.
Unfortunately, as their clothes became disheveled, Xu Manning's phone rang, seemingly with some urgent matter needing her attention, causing the upcoming action to end in vain.
"Remember this time! I'll reclaim it next time!"
"Go do your thing, take care, no need to see you off."
At seven o'clock in the evening, Xu Manning reluctantly left the apartment building, just about to leave...
"Hey!"
"What is it?" Xu Manning stood at the doorway, puzzled, "Is there something else?"
Li Peifeng organized his words and said sincerely, "I'm not sick. Giving me three hundred thousand might not mean much to you. But you let me know that there's someone besides my parents who tries to accompany me in the final moments of my life. Even though it's a misunderstanding, I still feel lucky. Thank you."
Xu Manning's lips twitched twice, and her expression looked distinctly disdainful: "What are you talking about? If you, this idiot, were really about to die, of course, I would want to see you take your last breath!"
Li Peifeng felt like she blushed. He took two steps forward to confirm, yes, she was really blushing.
Li Peifeng found it amusing, and couldn't help but sweet-talk more: "I don't think I'll ever forget this in my life. Manning, knowing you is my blessing."
After finishing, Xu Manning didn't respond, her eyes slightly curved into crescents, appearing somewhat dreamy, and she bit her lower lip twice.
"Remember to go to the bank with me tomorrow for the transfer."
"Got it!"
Xu Manning rolled her eyes, blushing as she left.
"That head-tilting tenderness, more shy than a lotus flower... Tsk tsk!"
Li Peifeng then composed himself, returned to the study, and opened his computer to get to work.
Now, the life-or-death crisis troubling Li Peifeng was temporarily alleviated.
With that three hundred thousand easy-money currency, he didn't have to rack his brains over how to fill his belly.
He also cut ties with Xu Manning, although still somewhat connected and almost repeated the same mistake, but fortunately, he stopped at the critical moment, expressing his stance.
As for the assessment task looming over his head and the remaining thirty thousand task quota for another target, Li Peifeng decided to put it on hold for now.
He'll figure out a way after the National Day holiday when school starts and he sees the target.
Right now, Li Peifeng believes his main task is—writing.
Compared to living off women, Li Peifeng prefers being a humble online writer, an unsavory socially satirical public vessel.
At the very least, it's self-reliant!
Even if he now has a system that requires him to live off others, according to Li Peifeng's own plan, he still needs to earn money.
Otherwise, he won't be able to maintain a relatively balanced economic contribution model in future gender relations, ultimately becoming a kept man with no dignity, pleading for support everywhere.
Therefore, Li Peifeng's desire to make money through writing only increased.
However, the goal changed—from purely making money to live, now to making as much money as possible for a sustainable future of easy money!
Turning on the computer, a motivated Li Peifeng began furiously typing away at the keyboard…
"A cup of tea, a liver, typing two or three thousand words a day! Let's get to work!"
…
Li Peifeng is contracted with the largest online novel platform—Endpoint.
Pen name: A Breeze in the World. Currently, a Level 5 author in Endpoint's female-fiction category.
A long time ago, Li Peifeng wrote for the male-fiction category, but at Endpoint, it was too competitive. Authors with vast imaginations and excellent writing skills were everywhere, not to mention the intense internal competition.
In the male category, updating four to six thousand words a day was the basic hard standard. If updates were low, the performance naturally wouldn't keep up. Readers might even make snide remarks and personal attacks: "Even a production team donkey wouldn't rest like you!" "Looking at this four-thousand-words-a-day trash, here's a monthly pass, but I'd rather tear it than give it to you!" "The author hasn't updated in an hour, are they dead? Let's organize some wreaths and play the gongs and suona!"
But the female category was different. In the female category, authors could update two thousand words a day, skip a week without updating, and readers would still praise them: 'So diligent, dear author!' 'Feel sorry for you, updating so late, don't stay up!' 'Oh my god, you actually updated six thousand words today, I'll reward you a million, use it to buy some supplements.'
Li Peifeng was a student who still had to study every day, without much free time to write. With a try-and-see mindset, after entering university, he shifted to the female category and unexpectedly started to stand out over the years.
In the female category, he wrote various genres like ancient romance, modern romance, fantasy romance, and sci-fi romance…
His works include: "The Devil CEO Tangles with Me," "The Elopement of the Empress and the Forbidden Romance of the Sickly Prince," "Three Lives, Three Lifetimes, Always the Mistress," "Cold Palace Concubine's Step-by-Step Live Broadcast," "The Bald Girl from the Stars," "All the Million Male Cultivators Kneel Before Me"… and so on.
Of course, special mention goes to Li Peifeng's ongoing masterpiece novel:
"Female Superiority: A Hundred and Eight Treasures of One Birth; I'm a Big Shot on Liang Mountain."
This book is quite remarkable, with the setting of an alternative history where women are superior and men are inferior in a chaotic ancient world. Here, disasters are frequent, the empress is dim-witted and corrupt officials run rampant, leaving the common people suffering.
After the female protagonist transmigrates, she dreams of communicating with a red dragon and successively gives birth to 108 children.
When she wakes up, she finds that the crying children are indeed there.
These children are extraordinarily gifted, each with exceptional abilities, and grow rapidly, different day by day.
You've probably guessed that these 108 children were inspired by the 108 stars from Water Margin, and even their names are the same. These 108 treasures are celestial beings descending to help the female protagonist stabilize the chaotic world and save the people.
The novel's initial plot describes how the female protagonist painstakingly earns money to raise the children to adulthood. Once they grow up, she becomes the mastermind behind the scenes, commanding them to launch attacks and raise flags in rebellion.
Just imagine, with Song Jiang, Lu Junyi, Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng, Lin Chong, Wu Song, and Lu Zhishen all being born from the same mother...
It's outrageous!
The book contains too many elements, making it painful and unbearable for Li Peifeng to write, yet its success was unexpectedly great.
Within just two months of being launched, the book's average subscriptions have reached eight thousand, with ten thousand within reach. Over his years of writing online, "Female Superiority" is almost the best-performing book he's ever written.
With a little effort, breaking ten thousand in manuscript fees per month is not a dream.
Even amidst acquiring the system and experiencing a series of troubles these past few days, Li Peifeng never stopped updating, although his saved drafts were all used up.
At half-past eleven at night, Li Peifeng had written two chapters, totaling eight thousand words, uploaded one chapter to the author's dashboard, and set the other to publish tomorrow at noon, finally taking a long breath.
"Full attendance maintained!"
For a female-category novel, maintaining a three-thousand-words-per-day update for a month, the website will give an additional 5% of subscriptions as a full attendance reward, although it's not much compared to the manuscript fee, missing it is still painful.
At this moment, following his habit, Li Peifeng logged into TT chat to see the reaction of his readers to the latest plot.
Because he had been busy exploiting the system loophole these past few days, the updates were all auto-published drafts, and he wasn't in the mood to read reader comments.
As soon as he opened the chat software, the four-thousand-member reader group was in explosion mode, with 999+ chat boxes frantically flashing in the lower right corner...
Li Peifeng was just about to use the mouse to click on the group chat when suddenly, as if blessed by heaven, lightning struck his mind, he became perceptive...
Simply put, in that moment, an incredible idea popped into Li Peifeng's mind.
"I was narrow-minded before!"
"Why do I always think about relying on female friends for money to eat? I write for the female category and have a large number of female readers, why not ask them for money?!"
Li Peifeng suddenly felt enlightened.
It was like his entire body was being electrocuted, a tingly sensation, as if every pore opened up, and he couldn't help but smile.
He couldn't stand it anymore...
"Hahahahahahaha!"
Li Peifeng laughed triumphantly: "I feel no guilt asking fans for money at all!"
"Because they are all my family!!"
Thinking of the dazzling prize wheel, and the few new rewards, Li Peifeng was filled with anticipation.
"For no reason, time goes by, always replacing the old with the new. May the old folks accept me, not making dirty money."
"Author Li Peifeng (Author Geng Yi), hereby salutes my breadwinners~~~"