Facing the unknown, Rong Xiyi felt a sense of threat, a massive threat.

Because Yu Xinyan was Xu Lin's childhood friend, they grew up together!

This means they have a deep emotional foundation!

This is much more troublesome than Ning Yuhuan!

So, Rong Xiyi was unhappy and directly rejected Xu Lin.

Sometimes Xu Lin would touch her butt in class; they sat at the back of the classroom, and no one knew about their little secret acts.

But this time, when Xu Lin wanted to touch her butt, Rong Xiyi was direct, refusing to let Xu Lin touch.

Today, Xu Lin felt quite lonely, and playing on his phone in a classroom at a prestigious university was a bit embarrassing, so he could only attend class honestly.

Besides, Xu Lin had finished memorizing all the textbooks for the semester, and with his learning talent at work, even if he were to take the final exam now, he couldn't guarantee being top of the class, but high marks were assured.

So, an idle Xu Lin could only continue to listen to the lecture out of boredom.

The daytime class ended quickly.

After having dinner with Ning Yuhuan in the evening, Xu Lin went to the library with her; Ning Yuhuan was reading, and Xu Lin used her laptop nearby.

Xu Lin logged into a short video platform, and the short video he posted last night at seven o'clock had been up for about twenty-five hours.

Likes: 473,000.

Comments: 47,000.

Shares: 365,000.

Forwards: 423,000.

The play count also reached eight million. (Made up, I don't really know about play counts, just know it's a lot.)

According to netizens, he couldn't just be the only one to emo; classmates, friends, colleagues also had to emo. Pushing it around, the likes, comments, shares, and forwards were very impressive, becoming a very popular video.

In fact, Xu Lin's video even made it onto the hot searches, ranking thirtieth on the short video hot search.

Title: "Better to Share the Joy."

Not feeling emo after hearing it?

Xu Lin logged into the backend and took a glance.

"Listen to me, thank you, because of you, the seasons are warm... knife.png×10"

"Author, would you like to try some of my home's local specialties?"

"Who can relate? My husband listened to your tune and got postpartum depression!"

"Honestly, the more I listen, the more I'm into it; it suits a freshly broken-hearted college student like me."

"Author, I've come here because of your reputation! You seem very talented, I've subscribed to you!"

Xu Lin realized that this short video had brought him new readers, even though it wasn't as big-scale as last time when the official website directed traffic his way, because that one involved a lot of money on operations. This time, Xu Lin purely relied on himself to draw traffic, and that short video brought him quite a lot of new readers.

The internet has entered an era where traffic is king; if something can be linked to short video traffic, it could yield unexpected results.

"Feels like I could collaborate on an event with the website."

An idea flashed in Xu Lin's mind. He saw other top authors' books, that website operations would organize certain events to engage and motivate readers, ultimately enhancing reader loyalty.

This is a market that needs various healthy operations to maintain the original flow, while also trying to increase it.

Xu Lin logged into QQ, and Ranzhi had sent quite a few messages today, amazed at Xu Lin's guitar skills.

Xu Lin replied, "I actually want to collaborate with the website on an event, but I'm not sure if the website would cooperate?"

Ranzhi: "Mr. Xu, you're probably the leading figure of our website now, bringing us huge direct and indirect benefits. How can we not cooperate? Grinning.jpg Sunglasses.jpg"

Ranzhi: "The day after tomorrow, our website plans to launch a writing contest, with a pure love urban older sister-younger brother romance theme. This creative field used to have no popularity and only had small authors, but thanks to Mr. Xu's book, the track became explosively popular. Now, not only on our website but also other websites are all following the trend. We plan to strike while the iron is hot and launch a related writing contest, with the first prize being five million! Mr. Xu, you know your importance?"

Ranzhi: "Mr. Xu, what kind of event do you want to do?"

Xu Lin: "I posted a guitar-playing video on the short video platform, just like the one you mentioned."

Ranzhi: "Mr. Xu, your piece is quite emotional, but the more you listen, the richer it gets. I think I listened over forty times today, and I'm still on loop!"

Xu Lin: "Let's be honest, we're familiar now, don't trick me."

Ranzhi: "Mr. Xu, you are my breadwinner, how could I trick you? I really have it on loop!"

Xu Lin: "Alright, let's talk business. The event I want is a lyric-writing contest, to let readers write lyrics for this tune, tapping into their enthusiasm. If it could further draw traffic, it would be a win-win for me and the website, wouldn't it?"

Ranzhi: "Mr. Xu, it's nighttime now, I'll report it first thing at work tomorrow."

Xu Lin: "Ok."

Ranzhi: "Mr. Xu, I think your tune is a masterpiece, although I don't understand music, many people call it that. I sense the event could be excellent! The event should be very meaningful!"

Xu Lin: "Then I'll wait for your news tomorrow."

Xu Lin's goal is to go viral, and when the heat rises, he'll personally dive in and work on the lyrics to create a hit song?

Then Xu Lin would break the dimensional wall, entering a whole new field.

Composition!

Of course, lyric writing works too.

If things go well, he'll sell music rights, earn revenue from copyright operations, which would be a considerable sum, meanwhile his livelihood methods would expand further, shifting from novels to composition, becoming two tracks.

Music rights are quite a large revenue.

Like the well-known "Happy Birthday Song," with only six-word lyrics, "Happy Birthday to You."

This song requires paying royalties whenever it's played in film and TV works, and it's been popular for several decades, adapted into dozens of languages, with royalties being astronomical.

Xu Lin believes that once he's famous, he can write songs to sell, compose for others, or score and provide music for films, similar to when Hong Kong movies were thriving, many renowned composers and musicians came out of it, this industry is quite lucrative.

"The premise is I must get famous first."

There's an old saying, "Good wine needs no bush."

But in this era, this saying is no longer applicable because if you're really capable, you won't remain hidden.

Similarly, viewed in another way, there're many means in this era that make your talent spread far and wide.

Xu Lin is now dabbling in the internet traffic game.

Tonight, Xu Lin was in a good mood, uploading another ten thousand words.

Beside him, Ning Yuhuan didn't disturb him.

Later, it was ten o'clock at night.

The library closes at this time.

"Senior, accompany me to the track later, I want to measure my running, you help me observe."

"Mm, mm!"

Today is Wednesday, and the day after tomorrow, Friday, is the college sports meet. Xu Lin participated in three running events, and qualifying there means reaching the university level meet.

However, Xu Lin needs to measure his running ability first.

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