On the other side, after signing the contract, Ding Yun quickly entered the internal bookstore of the cultural dissemination system again.
And chose a romance novel that had been passed down for a century.
This time, she didn't use merit and luck to pay.
Instead, she used popularity points.
That's right, the popularity points accumulated from three installments were enough for Ding Yun to buy another century-old romance novel with a word count of only about 200,000 words.
Compared to Wuxia novels, the new youth pure love romance novel "The Man Deep in My Heart" required very few modifications. There were only a few idioms and allusions, and a few things that did not exist in this world needed to be changed. The rest could largely remain the same, and it was easy to read.
So Ding Yun only spent two days in total.
She successfully finished the romance novel.
And then she chose another widely published romance novel magazine to submit to. The whole process was similar to before, the only difference being that the romance novel magazine was not very surprised when they heard her age. They only praised Ding Yun's excellent Chinese language scores and then smoothly completed the contract.
It's just that the price offered was a bit low.
They were only willing to pay two hundred yuan per thousand characters.
Besides Ding Yun being a newcomer, the magazine also felt that her romance novels were different from the current popular ones. Although they thought they were good, the overall plot was a bit bland, lacking thrilling twists and turns, or heart-wrenching love. The editors were not very confident.
Therefore, they were only willing to offer a lower price.
Ding Yun didn't mind this. After all, it wasn't a contract for a person, but just for the serialization rights of this article.
She wouldn't earn as much, but so what?
She didn't have any urgent need for money right now.
Moreover, the manuscript fees for the Wuxia novel had already arrived for three installments, totaling over twenty thousand yuan after tax. For an ordinary high school student, this was enough if she didn't cause trouble.
After signing this contract and sending the full manuscript to the "Si Wu Xie Romance Novel Magazine," Ding Yun finally relaxed completely. She spent a week playing without any worries, and then school started, and she became a sophomore.
Her younger brother started junior high school.
Officially starting the countdown to the high school entrance examination.
As for her elder sister, Li Ran, she started school even earlier. She went to the academy half a month ago and was probably already finished with her enrollment training and had officially started classes.
However, school was actually quite boring for Ding Yun because she already knew everything the teacher taught. If there was something she didn't know, she could learn it by flipping through the book twice. But fortunately, she always sat at the back, only two male classmates away from the trash can. The teacher didn't pay much attention to her, and she was basically left to her own devices. So, as long as she didn't disrupt class discipline, the teacher would turn a blind eye and pretend not to see, too lazy to bother.
This prevented Ding Yun from feeling too restricted.
And she could daydream or take a nap when she had nothing to do.
In addition, after she finished her homework at a speed several times faster than others, she felt it wasn't good to be too outstanding, so she had to continue holding her pen and write novel outlines by herself.
She planned to write them when she had nothing to do in class.
Or write them when she was bored during self-study.
While Ding Yun was leisurely living her life as a sophomore, both of her novels had become a little popular, even receiving voluntary recommendations from many readers.
They recommended them to friends.
Some people even posted book reviews and analyses on forums.
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Bookworm's Forum, Book Appreciation Zone.
"Xia Gu Dan Xin" Section
[The author's writing is truly excellent, especially the way she integrated the Wuxia world with the historical background. Currently, apart from the protagonist and a few other characters, most of them seem to be completely fictional.
The rest of the characters.
Most of them can find their prototypes in history books.
Sometimes when I read it, I even feel a sense of disorientation, as if the world in the book is the real history, and the history we read now is a history book that has omitted the martial arts world. The most amazing thing is that the two sects mentioned in the novel.
I've seen them in unofficial histories.
However, according to unofficial historical records, both sects eventually resisted foreign barbarians at the end of the Northern Dynasties and disappeared into the river of history.
So I'm now worried that this book might have a tragic ending. After all, judging by the timeline, the end of the Northern Dynasties is not far off. If the country is destroyed and the family is ruined, how can the protagonist remain untouched?
But if he lives in seclusion after the country's demise.
I will feel quite disappointed!]
[This is the first time I've seen a female protagonist in a Wuxia novel who is flesh and blood and not just a tool. I'm really looking forward to the female protagonist's development. I hope she doesn't change after marriage.
That would be truly disappointing.]
[Compared to martial arts like "Black Tiger Steals the Heart" and "Blood Kill Saber" in other Wuxia novels, the martial arts in this novel sound more sophisticated just by their names. Flowing Water Falling Flowers Sword, Dan Qing Brush, Yin Yang Creation Technique, Melancholy Soul Severing Palm, Purple Mist Cloud Flower Classic, Flying Mist Broken Silk Art. It feels like the martial arts style depicted in this Wuxia novel is different from other Wuxia novels.]
[The most crucial aspect is realism. Although many people feel that adding descriptions of martial arts training methods is a bit redundant, I find it quite interesting. Some of the descriptions of training methods feel scientific and reasonable. I've been trying to learn them recently.
It seems to have some effect.
At least it's much better than the broadcast gymnastics.]
At the same time, in the "The Man Deep in My Heart" section, many people were also discussing and exchanging ideas.
[Haha, it's really hard to imagine that one day I would find such a bland romance novel, without any deaths, broken relationships, pregnancies, terminal illnesses, family feuds, or centuries-old grudges, to be so good!
I don't know how to describe that feeling.
The plot is clearly very ordinary, and even now it's still in the stage of a crush, the male protagonist might not even know the female protagonist's name, but it just feels right. Perhaps it's because I can empathize. I also had a crush that ended without a resolution back then. I don't regret it now, but I just have a little bit of regret.]
[Although the plot is very ordinary, it's very realistic. It feels like it's writing about me, and about many peers around me. Our youth wasn't so colorful, nor did it have so many dramatic little stories.
In fact, most ordinary people's youth.
Didn't even have early relationships.
It was more about unexpressed secret crushes.
Perhaps it's because I envy those who dared to confess loudly back then, or even openly defied teachers to have early relationships, that I like to read those kinds of novels.
But in reality, those were just people we envied.
This novel is writing about ourselves!]
[To be honest, I have a bad feeling. If the female protagonist's crush ends without resolution like mine, or even if it's never spoken, then who is the male protagonist?]
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