March 1st, Tuesday.

Last weekend, the house Pei Qian bought was officially handed over.

After finding a professional inspection company for a formal inspection, Pei Qian received all kinds of certificates and keys for the house.

However, it had no furniture or appliances of any kind.

Pei Qian had originally planned to let his parents live in the house, and he didn't intend to buy furniture and appliances according to his own preferences, so he made a special trip home and gave each of them a key, so that they could go there to help tidy up whenever they had time.

Pei Qian's plan was perfect:

He would say that he was too busy with work to get away (which was indeed the case), so although he bought the house, he didn't have time to deal with all these messy things. He would ask his parents to take the time to choose furniture and appliances, and after they decided, Pei Qian would reimburse them.

In this way, the style of the furniture purchased would be more in line with his parents' aesthetic.

After everything was tidied up, he would ask his parents to take some time to live there for a few days, just to add some life to the new house.

As they lived there, his parents would get used to it, and the house would be given away as a matter of course.

As for Pei Qian himself, he could always find other ways to get a bigger place for himself.

After a busy weekend of completely putting aside the company's troubles, Pei Qian felt much better.

The only unhappy thing was that his parents kept asking about the new movie from Fei Huang Workshop after he got home. Pei Qian reluctantly told the truth, but his parents were very happy and insisted on dragging Pei Qian to watch it again, and carefully found Pei Qian's name in the list of behind-the-scenes staff.

Pei Qian had nothing to say about his parents' behavior of building happiness on his own pain through public execution. He could only cry silently in his heart.

In short, after a period of recuperation, President Pei was back at full health!

The next month would be the real hard battle, directly determining the success or failure of this cycle!

The two games developed by Tengda Games and Shang Yang Games would both be launched this month.

The otto phone should also have a press conference and officially go on sale.

These were all projects that Pei Qian had once placed high hopes on. If they all lost money, it would completely offset the pain caused by the movie's high box office!

Xiao Sun drove attentively towards Shenhua Haojing.

Pei Qian sat in the back seat, and on a whim, took out his phone, wanting to seek some spiritual comfort.

Recently, what made him most satisfied was the transformation of the Qidian Chinese Website author training class.

Since spreading the Tengda spirit to this training class, the number of updates from all authors has been declining, becoming shorter and shorter!

Even the former workaholic Ming Yu doesn't update as much anymore, only writing seven or eight thousand words a day.

For other authors, seven or eight thousand words is already a lot, but for Ming Yu, who used to update 15,000 words at every turn, this number has been cut in half.

Pei Qian was particularly happy about this.

Although these authors' reduced updates had a negligible impact on the website, and even less help for President Pei's plan to lose money, seeing this idea of slacking off spread was in itself a very gratifying thing!

Benefiting the present and benefiting the future!

Pei Qian now opened the Qidian Chinese Website app not to read novels at all, but just to see if the number of words these authors updated today had decreased again.

There was no way, President Pei was just such a boring and easily satisfied person.

However, after opening the app this time, what popped up was not a list of books, but a splash screen recommendation.

"Butterfly Game is now on the shelves!"

"A butterfly flutters its wings, creating a storm!"

"A brand new urban subject that has broken many website records and is popular all over the internet since its serialization!"

"Collect and subscribe to get a random Qidian coin gift pack!"

Pei Qian was stunned for a moment.

The promotion of this new book seemed a bit too strong, didn't it?

The splash screen could be said to be the website's best recommendation resource, and it seemed that not many books received this resource upon release.

"Butterfly Game? Why don't I have any impression of this book title? Is it a new book that appeared in the last month?"

"The splash screen doesn't have an author's pen name. Is it a new author? If the book is well-written, I can't delay, I must immediately pull them over to learn the Tengda spirit!"

Pei Qian subconsciously clicked on it.

However, when he saw the author's pen name, Pei Qian was stunned.

"Tentacle Monster Who Codes Like Crazy? Isn't this Cui Geng?"

"He's still writing books?!"

Pei Qian felt very puzzled. He favored the author Cui Geng quite a bit, mainly because Cui Geng played a very crucial role in spreading the Tengda spirit in the training class.

However, Pei Qian's impression of Cui Geng was still stuck on his "completion speech" and the position of "special observer."

Pei Qian knew about Cui Geng's income. Calculated based on his average subscription and his salted-fish-like update speed, his monthly income would be at most ten thousand yuan.

The salary of a special observer might not be that much, but with Tengda's various subsidies and benefits, the actual value was obviously more than that.

Moreover, this position did not have specific work tasks. Even if he opened up and played games every day, he would still earn the same amount of money.

Comparing it this way, what motivation did Cui Geng have to update his novels?

Pei Qian was a little confused. A salted fish who had no reason to update his novels opened a new book and put it on the shelves. Something seemed wrong.

Looking at the number of words in this book again.

260,000 words before going on the shelves!

The first chapter was released on New Year's Eve, February 2nd!

In other words, this book has been written for less than a month, and has already written 260,000 words. Moreover, after going on the shelves, he updated ten chapters in a burst, adding up to 280,000 words!

Writing 280,000 words in a month?

This was no longer a salted fish, this already deserved his title of "Tentacle Monster Who Codes Like Crazy!"

Pei Qian felt a little dizzy.

Could it be that this guy earned some money, became inflated, and found a ghostwriter?

On second thought, that couldn't be possible. Ma Yiqun would never tolerate such a thing happening.

But no matter what, coding 280,000 words in a month was obviously not the Cui Geng that Pei Qian knew!

Either there was something wrong with Cui Geng.

Or there was something wrong with Pei Qian's understanding...

Pei Qian quickly opened Butterfly Game to check the main text of the novel.

He read through the chapters, from the protagonist obtaining the golden finger, to accidentally letting a game producer who had no intention of making money make a lot of money...

The more Pei Qian read, the more he felt a magical sense of deja vu.

"This... isn't this me!"

The content of the book seemed to be constantly whipping his corpse, and the readers' messages made Pei Qian feel as if he was being ridiculed by countless people.

"Aiya, this book is so funny hahahaha..."

"Pigeon Spirit, please update quickly, I can't wait to see which unlucky person will have their 'dream realized' next."

"This protagonist is really interesting. You say he's doing good things, but every time he imagines other people's wishes, he imagines them in the opposite direction; but if you say he's doing bad things, he does let others reap worldly success, leaving only a bewildered supporting role!"

"I'm really curious how the Pigeon Spirit's brain grew. He can even think of such silly plots!"

"Still calling him Pigeon Spirit? Call him Tentacle Bro! The brother updated like crazy for a month and went straight to the shelves, are you convinced?"

"I've always wanted to ask, did the pen name change? Not only is the writing style and subject matter very different, but even the attitude has undergone a drastic change. In the past, waiting for one update a day was already good, and he was often a pigeon, but now he often updates four or five chapters a day!"

"It seems to be thanks to the author training class organized by the website. All the authors who went to that training class have been writing better and better books."

"I'm going to @ all the books I'm following one by one!"

Pei Qian's eyes quickly scanned through these reader comments, and he was terrified.

It seemed... this book... was highly praised?

Pei Qian was greatly shocked.

This matter was not just a matter of Qidian Chinese Website having one more good book for him. More importantly, was Cui Geng, this "special observer", really qualified?

A special observer who suddenly started coding diligently and updating like crazy, could he still be called an observer? If he was busy coding all day long, where would he have time to observe?

He completely failed to live up to President Pei's expectations of him in granting him this position!

Pei Qian was very anxious, and as a result, he refreshed the page and another single chapter appeared.

"Here's some good news to report to everyone: from the time the first VIP chapter was officially uploaded at 0:00 AM, it has just passed 12 hours. The first subscription of this book has reached 8,000, breaking the previous first subscription record on Qidian Chinese Website!"

"There are still 12 hours left, and it is estimated that the final data should be fixed between 12,000 and 15,000. This is a huge breakthrough for me and for the website!"

"Therefore, before the final results come out, I hope everyone can come in and support us. If you think this book is well-written, subscribe to the first chapter and let us create the first subscription record on Qidian Chinese Website together!"

"And I'm also working hard to code. As soon as 0:00 AM passes, 10,000 words will be updated immediately!"

"Thank you all!"

Pei Qian looked a little dazed.

"Damn..."

If it followed the normal natural growth rate, the speed in the latter 12 hours would definitely not be as fast as it was at the beginning. A first subscription fixed at around 13,000 would be a normal figure.

However, now, for Qidian Chinese Website, this was an excellent opportunity, so Ma Yiqun was using all the resources on the entire internet to promote Butterfly Game!

There were still two peak reading periods, afternoon and evening, in the remaining 12 hours. With this kind of crazy promotion, maybe the first subscription data could really double again!

The biggest problem with Qidian Chinese Website before was that the benefits for mid- and low-level authors were good, but there had never been a truly popular book.

Cui Geng's original book had an average subscription of about 5,000, which already ranked in the top 40 or 50 on Qidian Chinese Website. Among all the authors who participated in the training class, Cui Geng's results were also very good.

Ma Yiqun was very clear about this, and so was Pei Qian.

That's why Pei Qian rejected Ma Yiqun's request to dig up great gods from other websites and told him to spend the money on mid- and low-level authors.

But he never expected that after all the efforts, this training class would still produce a top-tier author!

If the first subscription was 8,000, it might not be anything to get on those big websites. There might be dozens of authors who could get this kind of data.

But if the first subscription could reach around 15,000, even there, he would be a highly valued author!

In other words, from now on, the situation where Qidian Chinese Website had no great god authors or good books would be gone forever!

Moreover, this was not the most deadly thing.

The most deadly thing was that Ma Yiqun used so many resources to promote this book in order to achieve a publicity effect and set a benchmark for all authors.

The meaning was: See, if you write well on Qidian Chinese Website, you can also write a first subscription of 15,000!

If this first subscription is maintained, writing an average subscription of 30,000 or 40,000 would not be a problem!

Qidian Chinese Website originally had good welfare benefits for mid- and low-level authors. Many authors didn't come, simply because they felt that the website's ceiling was not high enough.

But now, someone had proved that the website's readership had grown, and the ceiling had also been raised. Some authors would definitely come!

The same was true for readers. In the past, many readers felt that Qidian Chinese Website did not have top-notch good books, and only regarded this website as a backup. They would only occasionally come and take a look after they had run out of books to read there.

But now, readers' stereotypes of "Qidian Chinese Website has no good books" would naturally be improved!

In short, for Qidian Chinese Website, Cui Geng's Butterfly Game could be said to have a far-reaching impact. It marked Qidian Chinese Website beginning to move towards the next stage!

Pei Qian looked at the single chapter posted by Cui Geng and was speechless.

President Pei's full-blooded comeback didn't seem to be going particularly smoothly...