Chapter 2.8 Wednesday, February 8th.

Min Jingchao, Ye Zhizhou, and the FV club一行人 set off for Modu Airport on Wednesday, February 8th, flying directly to Los Angeles again to make up for their vacation.

Before leaving, everyone seized the time to deal with all the work at hand.

Especially Min Jingchao, who, according to President Pei's request yesterday, hurried his designers to change the hero character in the *Mission and Choice* GOG collaboration from Qin Yi to "Yun Que" (Cloud Sparrow), changing it from a specific character to a symbolic and broader one.

As for Ye Zhizhou at Shang Yang Games, he worked with Wang Xiaobin to roughly produce a game design proposal to cooperate with the smart fitness drying rack.

Zhou Pengyuan, as the coach of the DGE club, also arranged training tasks for the new batch of DGE players before leaving. Daily training matches and high-end rank games were to continue. He would check when he returned from Los Angeles, and players who failed to complete the tasks would have to do extra training.

The others also handed over their work to other colleagues, ensuring that they could completely let go of their work after returning to Los Angeles again and enjoy their vacation to the fullest.

Of course, the members of the FV club had no work to hand over; they were still immersed in the joy of winning the championship.

The popularity of the FV club and its members skyrocketed. Wu Yue, as the club owner, had been getting a bit annoyed by all the live broadcast contracts and commercial endorsements lately. He took this opportunity to go to Los Angeles for a few more days to change his mood.

The group happily left Jingzhou and headed for Modu.

Among them, the only one who seemed out of place was Bao Xu.

He had just finished his five-day trip, the grand prize from the annual meeting, and returned to Jingzhou less than a few hours ago, only to have to pack his bags and set off again.

On the high-speed train to Modu, everyone else was discussing the trip to the United States with shining eyes, while Bao Xu slumped in his seat, staring blankly at the scenery rushing past the train window.

...

At the same time, Cui Geng emerged from the Jingzhou high-speed railway station, hailed a taxi, and headed to the location of the Qidian Chinese Website study class.

Looking at the familiar city scenery outside the window, Cui Geng sighed softly, feeling a strange sense of melancholy.

"How can I fill my life with motivation?"

Cui Geng asked this soul-searching question.

At this moment, he actually possessed three identities: second-generation demolition household, top author on Qidian Chinese Website, and special observer of Tenda Group.

And these three identities had one thing in common, which was that they seriously weakened his motivation to strive. The combination of the three made him always maintain a state of "intermittent ambition, continuous loafing."

He would finally muster the spirit to work hard, but in less than two days, he would lose all his fighting spirit.

Cui Geng had been running back and forth between his hometown and Jingzhou.

It wasn't that he liked the life of a business person, but he felt that staying in the same environment for too long made it easy to develop a slack mentality. Changing the environment could motivate him to regain his spirits.

Even if it was just a three-minute burst of enthusiasm, it was better than stagnant water.

But this had little effect.

And to make matters worse, *Butterfly Game* had been completed some time ago.

The good news was that the book had a normal ending and didn't turn bad. Although the final part was written very slowly, it eventually reached nearly three million words, giving an ending that satisfied most readers.

For Cui Geng, this was a historic breakthrough, and for the readers who had been abandoned by him countless times, it was a touching event.

The bad news was that all the inspiration he had accumulated before had basically been used up. He had written several beginnings for new books, but after reading them several times, he felt completely dissatisfied, so he deleted them all. Until today, he had not started a new book.

This made Cui Geng feel that his creation had fallen into a very awkward situation, and his creative passion was declining.

Of course, Cui Geng had another identity besides being a second-generation demolition household and online novelist, which was as a special observer of Tenda Group.

This identity as a special observer allowed him to collect a lot of material for *Butterfly Game*, and also helped Wu Bin of the Human Resources Department to organize the annotated version of the *Tenda Spirit Manual*.

But Cui Geng knew his limitations very well. He knew that he was just an ordinary online novelist who didn't understand business or management, so he only occasionally went to various departments of Tenda to collect materials, and never interfered with the work of Tenda's various departments.

So, his identity as a "special observer" only gave him a pass to freely enter and exit various departments of Tenda Group.

Some time ago, Cui Geng spent a long time in the study class of Qidian Chinese Website, but he didn't come up with anything. The new book was still nowhere in sight.

So, during the Spring Festival, Cui Geng went home to relax for a few days, sleeping in and reading novels every day, completely putting the new book out of his mind.

As a result, before he had spent a few days of peaceful life after the new year, Cui Geng received news from editor-in-chief Zhu Xing'an that Qidian Chinese Website was going to hold an "Inspiration Class."

And he also received a warm invitation, asking if he would be willing to write a buyout, and saying that President Pei was particularly concerned about this matter and specifically asked to notify Cui Geng first.

As soon as he heard that he was going to write a buyout, Cui Geng instinctively didn't want to.

I am a top author who doesn't lack money, and I have my own pursuits in writing books!

The online literature industry had been developing for some time, and two forms of payment, buyout and revenue sharing, had always existed.

Authors had long reached a consensus: except for a very small number of authors who could continue to write well and achieve a win-win situation with buyouts, most authors who wrote buyouts either lost money or collapsed.

Some of these authors who wrote buyouts may have written popular works, but the buyout system meant that all income other than the fixed manuscript fee had nothing to do with them, which was a huge loss for the authors; and some authors, in order not to lose money, didn't put in 100% of their strength to write, and as a result, they couldn't keep up with the trend, and they ruined the book, and no one would read it if they went back to writing revenue sharing.

So, when Cui Geng heard that he was invited to write a buyout, his first reaction was to refuse.

However, after Zhu Xing'an introduced him to it, Cui Geng realized that the buyout of Qidian Chinese Website seemed to be very different from the buyouts of other websites, and it was not the same thing at all.

The biggest difference was that there were few words and high prices!

Taking Cui Geng as an example, if other websites were to poach him, at most they would offer a little higher than his current manuscript fee. After all, Cui Geng was already a top author on Qidian Chinese Website, and the manuscript fee was already very high. There was not much room for further improvement. If they were to poach him, it would be too risky and not worth the loss for those other websites.

However, Qidian Chinese Website required between 100,000 and 500,000 words, no more than 500,000 words, and the manuscript fee per thousand words was three times his original manuscript fee!

Moreover, after adopting this new buyout model, he could also obtain priority access to experience the "Inspiration Class."

Although Cui Geng didn't know what the "Inspiration Class" was, the "Study Class" did have an immediate effect on his creation, helping him evolve from a procrastinator into a serious author who could complete his works normally and write with originality.

So, could this "Inspiration Class" save his nearly exhausted inspiration?

Cui Geng was very curious.

Out of this complicated mentality, Cui Geng came to Jingzhou again.

...

Soon, the taxi arrived at its destination.

This "Inspiration Class" was in the same office building as the original "Study Class," but on a different floor.

The previous "Study Class" had been very successful, having been held for many sessions, and the scale had gradually expanded. At the beginning, there was only one room, but now it had expanded to three rooms.

Even so, the authors of Qidian Chinese Website still actively participated, and the number of people who signed up each time was full, requiring editors to carefully select them.

There were even fewer places in the "Inspiration Class," and only the top authors of Qidian Chinese Website could participate.

After arriving at his destination, Cui Geng easily put his luggage in the hotel and went straight to the "Inspiration Class."

Although the "Inspiration Class" would not officially open until tomorrow, Cui Geng had been to the study class many times, so he was familiar with the road and easily found his way to the door.

Arriving at the floor where the "Inspiration Class" was located, Cui Geng saw several familiar editors busy cleaning up.

The editors were also very familiar with Cui Geng. After greeting him, they let him enter the area of the "Inspiration Class" to watch freely.

Cui Geng's first feeling was that the space was too big!

Although it was the same office building, the "Study Class" and the "Inspiration Class" were on different floors, and the area they occupied was also different.

The "Inspiration Class" only had half the number of people as the "Study Class," but the area it occupied was more than twice as large as the "Study Class"!

Looking more closely, the equipment inside the "Inspiration Class" was also completely different from that of the "Study Class."

The "Study Class" had standard computer desks and chairs, which at first glance looked similar to the structure of an Internet cafe or computer room, but in fact, the chairs were ergonomic chairs and the height of the tables had also been specially adjusted, all to allow authors to have a more comfortable writing experience.

However, in the "Inspiration Class," there were no ergonomic chairs, but instead single-functional sofas of a famous foreign brand!

Compared with these high-end single-functional sofas, the common point of ergonomic chairs was that they conformed to ergonomics, and they would not be tired after sitting for a long time. Compared with other seats, they had less impact on physical health.

Of course, no matter how good the ergonomics are, sitting for a long time will still feel tired, and you need to get up and move around every once in a while. But at least conforming to ergonomics will reduce the burden on the body.

The difference between the two was that the usage scenario of ergonomic chairs was office work, while the usage scenario of single-functional sofas was leisure.

Many high-end VIP seats in cinemas also use this high-end single-functional sofa in order to give customers the best viewing experience. The backrest can be adjusted electrically, and whether sitting, lying down, or cross-legged, it will make people feel very comfortable.

Since there were no office chairs, there was no need for a desk. Directly opposite the single-functional sofa was a floor-standing TV cabinet, and above it was a high-end OLED TV with the best viewing height and viewing distance supported by a bracket.

OLED TVs were the latest technology in recent years. The size was much smaller than traditional TVs, but the price was as high as tens of thousands of yuan. The reason why it was so expensive was mainly because OLED TVs had an extremely low screen response time of about 1 millisecond, with almost no screen smearing. It could achieve pixel-level light control, and inherently had an almost infinite high contrast ratio, so the HDR effect was better, and at the same time, the color was pure and the native color gamut was high... In short, the picture quality performance in most aspects was better than traditional TVs, and watching movies and playing games could get better results.

Of course, compared with those equally expensive e-sports monitors, TVs would be much worse in terms of refresh rate. However, the TV in the "Inspiration Class" was mainly used to watch movies and play console games, so the requirements for the refresh rate were not so high, and a larger screen was more important.

Although the size was smaller than traditional TVs, it was still one for each person, and it was viewed up close. Therefore, considering the comprehensive size and picture quality, this was the best choice for viewing.

On the floor-standing TV cabinet were ROF hosts, game consoles, and various high-definition Blu-ray discs. And on the bookshelf that covered the front wall behind it, there were also piles of Blu-ray discs and physical books of various movies and novels.

Next to the single-functional sofa, there were high-end headphones, a mouse and keyboard, and a foldable small table board.

In addition, there was a reading lamp next to each person's single sofa, which could be turned on or off as desired. When you were tired of watching movies, you could also read books.

Cui Geng was a little surprised and asked the editor, "Isn't it uncomfortable to write in this place?"

Although the single-functional sofa was very comfortable to sit on, and it was very suitable for watching movies and playing games, it was not necessarily suitable for writing.

After all, the sitting posture of a single-functional sofa was not specially designed for writing.

The editor explained, "Oh, that keyboard and mouse are for emergency use, such as typing to search for videos or recording inspiration at any time."

"If you really want to create, go to the work area over there."

Cui Geng turned his head and saw that there was another office area next to it, with standard office desks, ergonomic chairs, and mechanical keyboards, completely separated from this area.

Obviously, the purpose of this area, whether it was the TV, the single sofa, or the Blu-ray discs, was to allow authors to concentrate on watching movies, collecting inspiration and materials.

With these arrangements, there would obviously be no programs like "small black rooms" that force a daily writing time.

The editor explained, "There is also a large audio-visual room over there. The entire room has been soundproofed, and there are theater-level projectors and audio equipment. You can order movies according to your needs and make reservations to use it."

"If you want to achieve the best viewing effect and watch a complete film, you can go there. If you are just collecting materials and the picture quality requirements are not high, or you are watching in jumps, then you can do it in your own position."

Cui Geng was shocked by the editor's introduction.

Could this... be heaven?