Two days later in the morning at Tianshui City 95th Middle School, it was recess time.
"Finally finished." Xia Ping said as he sat in his seat and stretched. After these three days of unceasing hard work, he had finally finished writing the 500,000‑character novel.
During these same three days, he hadn't only been writing the novel — he had also been hyping it nonstop online, stirring up topics everywhere so that his novel appeared in the field of vision of countless netizens.
The results were very successful: almost every large forum and board was discussing his novel, and even the novel's name had become a hot search keyword, bringing who‑knows‑how many readers to it.
Ding! At that moment, a connection request notification sounded on Xia Ping's phone. He saw that it was his responsible editor, Meng Fei, and he tapped to accept the call.
Immediately, the silhouette of a middle‑aged man appeared in front of his retina. With the extremely advanced virtual projection technology now available, the image could be projected both outwardly and directly onto the retina via a chip, making it invisible to others.
"Teacher Black Heart Wolf!" the editor Meng Fei exclaimed excitedly, barely able to suppress his excitement as he gestured wildly. "Your novel has already **blown up — it's especially hot! Do you know that?!"
He could hardly believe what had happened in just three days. Although he had always favored Xia Ping's novel, he had no idea how it would actually perform until it was recommended.
But who would have thought that, in these three days, before Penguin Novel Net had even begun promoting Xia Ping's novel, somehow the entire network was boiling over with discussions about Teacher Bai Rong.
Click rates climbed steadily, collection counts went up crazily, and the number of reader comments surged like a plane taking off. Even the most popular novel on Penguin Novel Net couldn't compare with this new book.
Before this, he had even wondered if something was wrong with the website's data. After investigation by the tech department, they discovered that there was absolutely nothing wrong — everything was normal.
Even though no one knew exactly why this happened, Meng Fei was absolutely certain that this novel's popularity had reached the phenomenon‑level — one in a decade.
"Oh." Xia Ping said lightly — he obviously knew exactly how high the topic momentum for his novel had become online, because he was the mastermind behind it, having single‑handedly created that topic. Naturally he wasn't surprised.
"Teacher Black Heart Wolf!" Seeing Xia Ping's calm expression, Meng Fei felt a bit reluctant, and immediately added, "Haven't you seen your author backend? The three‑day sales for your novel are already off the charts, even breaking many Penguin Novel Net sales records! This is what a phenomenon‑level work looks like!"
Because this was an 18+ novel, it was only available to readers aged 12 and up, and so it began selling from Chapter One — there were no free public chapters.
Because of this, it had been a work on the shelf from the start.
"Author backend?!" Xia Ping blinked. Because for those three days he had been busy writing and hyping, he hadn't even been uploading chapters — Editor Meng Fei had been handling that. So he hadn't paid attention to his author backend stats.
"Hurry and take a look!" Meng Fei urged.
Listening, Xia Ping opened his author backend, and countless notification messages immediately popped up.
"Congratulations! Author Black Heart Wolf has accumulated 1,000 subscriptions, 1,000,000 clicks, 10,000 bookmarks." �
"Congratulations! … 10,000 subscriptions, 10,000,000 clicks, 100,000 bookmarks." �
"Congratulations! … 30,000 subscriptions, 30,000,000 clicks, 300,000 bookmarks." …
And finally, Xia Ping saw that his novel had unexpectedly gained 223,565 subscriptions, with the bookmark count also exceeding 2 million, and total clicks reaching 100 million!
"Teacher Black Heart Wolf, look — in just three days, not even starting any recommendations yet, you've already gotten over 200,000 subscriptions! This is really crazy!" Meng Fei said excitedly.
More than 200,000 subscriptions meant that over 200,000 people had purchased the complete book — put into physical book terms, that meant selling over 200,000 copies.
At 0.05 federation coins per 1,000 characters, and a total of 500,000 characters, the book was priced at 25 federation coins.
In other words, in just three days the sales had reached over 5 million federation coins, of which Xia Ping would take home at least 2 million federation coins after the site's revenue split.
Additionally, this was only three days' worth of sales. If the site continued to promote the novel, then as time went on even more readers would buy it.
"This… this!" Xia Ping finally understood why Editor Meng Fei was so excited.
In three days, selling over 5 million federation coins, and Xia Ping himself earning over 2 million federation coins — anyone who saw that number would be excited.
He knew that if he wanted to earn that amount through normal work, it might take 20–30 years, but in just three days he had already made that much — the equivalent of his father working 30 years. It was a little terrifying.
Even though Xia Ping knew that writing novels could earn money, he hadn't expected it would be this powerful — beyond his imagination.
"Teacher Black Heart Wolf…" Meng Fei said excitedly, "this is only the beginning. If our site vigorously promotes it, even if this novel reaches 10 million subscriptions, that wouldn't be surprising. This year it will definitely be Yan Huang Star's most blazing popular 18+ novel."
10 million subscriptions — that was equivalent to selling 10 million books. Even in Xia Ping's previous life on Earth, books with 10 million sales were considered extremely best‑selling.
Of course, on Yan Huang Star with a population of over 30 billion and almost no piracy, selling over a billion books was also possible, and 10 million sales would still only be at popular level, but for 18+ novels, 10 million was the phenomenon‑level mark. Even a master‑level 18+ author like Jia Zhiwei had total lifetime sales barely exceeding a hundred million.
"Selling 10 million copies?!" Xia Ping couldn't help but clench his fist tightly — his expression also showing a bit of excitement.