Chapter 3

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was not a problem to publish them online. The biggest problem was getting the novel to reach readers.

There was just too much content on the internet.

How much traffic could a newly established personal website get?

Fang Yuan soon realized the problem. He had to find a way to channel readership for “The Coiling Dragon”.

Thus, he clicked on the link to the world’s largest e-book platform – Amazon.

He uploaded “The Coiling Dragon” book once more.

Only, this time, he did not publish the entire first volume and only published half of it.

The main character of his novel, Linley, had discovered the mysterious coiling dragon ring in an abandoned, dilapidated ancestral home.

Just as the old man in the ring was about to appear…Fang Yuan cut off the chapter!

At the back of the book, he attached a link to his personal website. “If you want to know more, please click here to continue reading.”

Yesterday, he had stayed up all night, and he had spent half a day today on this.

After sending the book out, Fang Yuan fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning.

Fang Yuan was woken up by a notification from a mobile app.

There were hundreds of notifications in his Amazon Writer’s account.

They were all comments from the readers of his novel, “The Coiling Dragon”.

Almost all of them gave a full five-star rating!

The readership grew quickly and eventually pushed the novel to the top of the list in the fantasy genre.

[ I stayed up all night to finish reading this book. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a good book. Good job, author! ]

[ Forgive me for being blunt, but I saw that it was a fantasy novel written by Chinese people and didn’t intend to read it at first. Unexpectedly, I couldn’t stop once I start reading. Now, I just want to know where can I see the rest of the content? ]

[ I dare say that this book is the most exciting classic fantasy in the past ten years. It’s one of a kind! It’s hard to imagine that it actually came from a new author. ]

[ The soul of an old grandpa actually appeared in that ancestral ring! What a novel and great idea! I’ve never heard or seen such a plot before. It’s simply phenomenal and boundless! ]

[ Author, please read this well. I just took out my gun. If I don’t see the second volume within twenty-four hours, I will f*cking…kneel down and beg you for it! ]

The only one-star comment was written like this.

[ I’m filing a complaint against Amazon’s e-book website! Why can unfinished works be published and uploaded? I was enjoying it so much and was brutally cut off! This is literally customer deception!! I will contact my lawyer and sue the sh*t out of you! ]

It was as Fang Yuan expected.

This book would shine and bring in heaps of money wherever it was published. Good works could cross national boundaries.

Whether it was in his previous life or here in this parallel world, it was all the same.

Fang Yuan smiled and walked out of the library to have breakfast.

“Good morning, Fang Yuan. I haven’t seen you all day yesterday.”

The silver-haired girl with double ponytails came over to greet him. Her name was Sakazaka Rion.

The girl was in her early twenties. She was very young and looked like a student. In fact, she was Fang Yuan’s Japanese literature teacher.

Although she was in America, she still dressed in the Japanese style.

She wore a white sailor suit with a checkered skirt that wrapped her slender legs. She also wore a pair of brown leather shoes with laces.

This woman looked especially cute.

Many teachers in the school, including some students, admired her.

However, perhaps because they were both Asian, Sakazaka Rion was always closer to Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan waved at her and the two of them walked to the cafeteria together.

“I went to the library to finish my thesis. You’ve been busy with your thesis approval, haven’t you?”

She shook her ponytails and sighed. “Sigh, I stayed up all night.”

“You’re done?” He asked casually.

Fang Yuan bought two raisin muffins and found a place to sit at the cafeteria. 

“Don’t mention it. I didn’t even read a single word.”

“Huh?”

“My mind was in a daze yesterday. I didn’t want to do anything, so I decided to go to Amazon to read some novels and look for inspiration. I was browsing through the fantasy section that I usually read and found a book called “The Coiling Dragon”. It was so good that I couldn’t stop reading it! Then, in the blink of an eye, it was already dawn, but I don’t regret it at all. Not one bit! I was completely immersed in that book and spent a wonderful night reading it!”

Rion’s eyes were narrowed as if she was still immersed in the fantasy world of the novel.

Hearing the words “The Coiling Dragon”, a few classmates who were sitting next to her quickly surrounded her.

The University of Iowa was the world’s major literary and artistic college.

The students there were naturally the most sensitive to the works on major book rankings.

“Did you just mention ‘The Coiling Dragon’? Isn’t it that novel on Amazon’s top ten fantasy books?”

“What a coincidence! I was reading this book yesterday as well.”

“Me too, me too!”

“It’s really amazing! When will I ever be able to write like this?”

“I’m not asking for much. I just hope that I can write my graduation thesis at 1% of that author’s standard.”

“So who knows where to find the rest of the content?”

“I went to the author’s personal website, but the book’s not complete there either. It’s only the first volume.”

“Maybe the second volume hasn’t been written yet. The story is all in the author’s mind. It would be great if we could find the author and ask him in person.”

“Didn’t you guys see the highlights posted on the School Forum? Last night, a computer science genius used the IP registered by the domain name to locate the author’s device. Now, we can be sure that the author whose pen name is ‘I Eat Tomatoes’ is at our university!”

“What! This master is actually among us?”

When Rion heard this, she took a bite of her muffin. “Hmph! If the author was my student, I’d definitely capture this fellow and chain him to the desk to finish the book. If he doesn’t finish writing, he won’t be fed! This is what we should do when dealing with talented authors who don’t diligently update their books, don’t you think so?”

“Yeah! You’re absolutely right!”

“This is what we should do! If the author doesn’t write the book properly, he or she will be whipped.”

“Even the donkeys in the production team don’t dare to rest like this!”

“I really wanna pry open the author’s head and see what’s inside.”

The crowd was furious while Fang Yuan shuddered at their remarks.

It was true that fans would do crazy things when provoked.

Sakazaka Rion looked like a cute girl, but what she said she was unexpectedly sick!

Fang Yuan said, “You guys have fun chatting. I still have something to do, so I’ll take my leave first.”

He left the cafeteria and wanted to take his laptop back from the library so that he could write in a safer place.

Just as he walked to the table and held the laptop in his arms, he heard a cold female voice.

“Mr. I Eat Tomatoes, right?”

Without waiting for Fang Yuan to reply, the tall and sexy lady with burgundy shoulder-length hair walked to him. She reached out her right hand as she said, “Nice to meet you. I’m the editor-in-chief of Rainforest Literature, a publishing company under Amazon. You can call me Lilith.”

When uploading a work on Amazon’s website, the author would need to register their identity.

Thus, it was not surprising that Lilith came to find Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan also did not have a reason to deliberately hide his identity because publishing his work was his purpose in the first place.

“Hello, Ms. Lilith.”