Divine Lucky Star - Chapter 12
Chapter 12: Extremely Unlucky
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Now that he had a good grasp of the basic data, he needed to find out the specific procedure for publishing a novel.
Wang Hao had talked to a few authors in the previous world. Roughly speaking, publishing a novel was uploading chapters and posting updates from time to time. If the novel was good, he would receive a message from the editor about a contract. After that, he just had to contact the editor, sign the contract, and get recommended. If everything went well, the novel could be put on sale after it reached 200,000 words.
But now, with “Battle Through the Heavens,” this valuable asset, Wang Hao had become more ambitious.
I have to get on the leaderboard! I must!
“Views and recommendations are the two most important things for getting on the leaderboard. Clearly, a book of 20,000 words won’t appeal to many readers.” Wang Hao narrowed his eyes. He knew what web novels were like; no matter how attractive the title or introduction was, not many readers would be willing to click into a debut novel by a new author.
If he didn’t think of a solution before the new novel was signed, it would be hard for him to get on the leaderboard.
“I need to find a way to increase exposure.” Wang Hao began considering ways of getting higher exposure. “First, I have to join a few groups. When the novel is out, I can promote it in the groups. Five rating points for one view… It’ll be good enough if 10 views can draw in 100 people. Then, I need the groups to give me some recommendation votes… hm, and I can ask some authors to include a recommendation link in their novels… What else can I do?”
Wang Hao pondered for a while and scanned through the website, then remembered something. “Right, there was a Longkong Forum in the previous world. It was a black market operation for authors…”
Longkong Black Market was very famous among the web novel coterie in the previous world; in order to get onto the leaderboard, many authors went there to collect some recommendation votes before publishing their new novels. Wang Hao wasn’t sure about this world, though…
“Let’s go have a look!” Wang Hao searched for the website and found it very quickly. “It’s become Longshan here. Well, they’re the same.” He entered the forum, then looked for Longshan Black Market straight away. “Haha, there it is! Let’s see what the prices are like.”
He was completely startled by what he saw!
“What the f*ck! Two cents for one recommendation vote?! Three cents for one member view?! Isn’t this insane?!” Wang Hao widened his eyes. “20 yuan for 100 votes! 30 yuan for 100 member points!” This was way too expensive for him!
Putting everything else aside, it was already 50 yuan for 100 recommendation votes plus 100 member views! Adding these up was only 1000 rating points!
“Damn it, I can’t afford this!” Wang Hao looked at a few other posts, but they were all the same price.
“F*ck, forget it. Let’s see what happens.” Wang Hao first registered for an ID with the name Daily Hao, then closed the Longshan Forum.
Since he had made up his mind, he would now have to start paving the way for his future achievements. So, Wang Hao joined a dozen or so reader-author groups, and greeted the others. “Hi, everyone!” “I’m a rookie in the group. Nice to meet you!” “Hello, everybody! I’m new here, and I would appreciate your guidance!”
After working his fingers to the bone for almost an hour, Wang Hao had built good relationships with his readers and fellow authors, and felt so relieved.
“Okay, I understand everything now. Once Sunflower finishes writing the opening chapters, I can publish the novel.” Wang Hao took a deep breath, then opened “Fengyun” and started registering for an author account.
Once registration was done, Wang Hao was completely surprised by his author ID!
Author Name: Flying Bean, Author ID: 246666.
I’m indeed exceptionally lucky today; look at the author ID! Ahahahaha! I’m going to go to bed!
The next morning, Wang Hao woke up early.
It was another day to look forward to.
He quickly washed his face, then went back to his room and shut the door. Wang Hao pulled out the Fortune Dice and took a deep breath.
Yesterday’s good fortune was really powerful, and he wondered what he might get today.
“I’m not wishing for any good fortune, just don’t be Unlucky,” Wang Hao said as his heart pounded rapidly. He took a deep breath and calmed down. Let’s go, Fortune Dice!
“Rattle.” The Fortune Dice spun on the table. Wang Hao stared closely at the dice without blinking.
“Today’s fortune is…” The dice stopped very quickly. Wang Hao gave a huge gasp when he saw the words on the top of the dice!
“Extremely Unlucky!” Wang Hao was so anxious his face almost twitched. “Are you kidding me? Extremely Unlucky?!”
Nooooo!
The power of “Lucky” and “Unlucky” had been enormous; then, today’s “Extremely Unlucky”…
“You can’t do this to me!” Wang Hao grabbed hold of the Fortune Dice. He wasn’t even hoping for “Lucky” — he just wanted “Normal”! Wang Hao put the dice on the table with the “Normal” side up, and “snap,” the dice flipped back to “Extremely Unlucky” on its own…
Then, he put the “Lucky” side up, and “snap,” it flipped to “Extremely Unlucky” again!
“Oh, god…” Wang Hao had done everything he could, but no matter how hard he tried, the “Extremely Unlucky” side always faced up.
Wang Hao actually knew very well that he could get “Extremely Unlucky” on some days. It wasn’t a big deal; the dice only had six sides, after all. The problem was that the last two days had left a deep impression on him. “Lucky” and “Unlucky” had left such an impact; then, wouldn’t this “Extremely Unlucky” be terrifying?
“It’s fine for me to be extremely unlucky, but please don’t cripple me,” Wang Hao prayed. “I still have to support Mom and Dad…”
He hadn’t even finished praying when the “Extremely Unlucky” attribute seemed to be triggered —
“Ring, ring —” The iPhone he found yesterday rang!
“God!” If this had happened yesterday, Wang Hao wouldn’t be as worried, and would even have felt excited, but it had to ring today…
“Please don’t let it be some huge trouble…” Wang Hao immediately broke out in a cold sweat. “Please don’t be the phone of some gangster’s lover! Or is the phone actually a bomb? Or maybe the pictures leaked and the police are coming for me…”
He hesitated for a long while, and still didn’t pick up the call after an entire minute.
The phone rang again right away!
