Recently, there's been a hilarious story about a prince getting engaged in a domestic TV drama. Many people are asking, didn't the screenwriter go to school?

But maybe they really didn't, they might even be a typical "nine-fish dropout."

After all, while the population in China is vast, the rate of undergraduate degree holders is only just over 4%.

Zhao Liangchen nodded and agreed, "Indeed, if it were in my area, scoring above four hundred out of seven hundred and fifty points barely gets you into even a decent vocational college."

Zhao Liangchen and Rong Xiyi were classmates in high school, from the same place, both from Gusu.

Rong Xiyi's area has always been developed in many aspects such as ideology, culture, and economy. As for the college entrance exam, even the famous Hengshui students would be driven to despair over there, because a bunch of fake straight-A students produced through intensive drilling can't beat the genuine top students of that area.

Xu Lin added, "I think that studying is the future, while messing around on the internet has no future."

In this era, now and then someone becomes inexplicably popular, and many people ask, can someone like that really become famous? They think if I were in their place, I could do it too. But many don't realize an issue, which is the survivor bias, because nobody knows how many people have been buried behind them.

The saying "One general achieves success over ten thousand bones" isn't without reason.

"Dude, I still think this blogger looks way too much like you!"

"If I had eight million followers, would I still be studying? Just taking any advertisement could earn me at least six figures a month."

"Seems like it."

Zhao Liangchen was suddenly enlightened, "This blogger hasn't signed with any company yet, with this number of followers and this level of follower engagement, signing a contract shouldn't easily be worth over ten million a year? Damn, if it were me, I'd quit studying!"

Holy crap!

This guy is so pretentious!

In the dormitory, Liu Longsheng also knows Xu Lin's Douyin account.

Liu Longsheng really wants to expose Xu Lin.

Damn, this is way too fake!

Yet, Liu Longsheng is truly jealous of Xu Lin.

The idea of signing a Douyin contract worth millions feels too hollow without verification, so it's meaningless.

However, the website where Xu Lin writes novels has genuinely issued an announcement congratulating Mr. Xu on his monthly writing fee exceeding eight million!

Exact figure: 8.53 million!

Not even worth looking at the small change.

The extra 530,000 alone equals a high-end E300.

Initially, when Liu Longsheng heard from high school dorm mates that Xu Lin could make three million a month, he already found it exaggerated; that's like six E300s!

In reality, the actual writing fee is equivalent to 17 E300s, 14 Xiaomi Su7 Ultras, 8 Cayennes, 6 Panameras, 3 Maybachs…

This is just Xu Lin's monthly income!

When Liu Longsheng knew Xu Lin made over 8 million a month, he was completely broken down.

This damn thing, even going to the Golden Triangle to sell detergent wouldn't make that much money, right?

As the saying goes, you worry your brother suffers, and you worry your brother drives a Land Rover.

When strangers strike it rich and rise to success, people don't feel much, maybe just a bit envious, like how you might feel slightly jealous of someone like Jack Ma being so wealthy, but if it's someone around you, it's a different feeling. Clearly, everyone started in a similar situation, but then you took off.

Xu Lin doesn't know what Liu Longsheng is thinking, and he doesn't even know that Liu Longsheng knows about his writing and his Douyin and NetEase activities.

"Dude, I also saw the novel written by this blogger, it's very popular, he earns 8 million a month, and the main character is also named Xu Lin. I almost thought it was you! Damn, 8 million a month!"

Zhao Liangchen was quite shocked; deep down he hoped this Mr. Xu was Xu Lin, so he could brag about it, sharing the glory and feeling quite proud.

"Just a coincidence, for example, you are Zhao Liangchen, and there are at least hundreds of people with the same name nationwide. If we add the ones with similar names, Liangchen this or that, there would be thousands, if not tens of thousands."

"That's true, but it's still quite a coincidence!"

Zhao Liangchen was somewhat regretful.

After chatting with Zhao Liangchen for a while, Xu Lin went back to his own business.

Zhao Liangchen continued recommending Xu Lin's Douyin videos in Xu Lin's dorm, then in the class group, and then in the grade and high school groups.

Xu Lin didn't pay attention to this matter; anyway, he didn't admit it.

Xu Lin feels that his current life is nice and calm, and he doesn't want to break this tranquility for now.

At this moment, Xu Lin opened his Douyin homepage. Two new singing videos were posted at six in the afternoon; now it's nine-thirty at night, in three and a half hours, one video got over 1.2 million likes and over fifty thousand comments, the other got over 1.1 million likes and over forty thousand comments. The numbers are quite impressive considering it's only been just over three hours, and both videos are already trending on Douyin's hot topics list.

Douyin trending thirteen: Mr. Xu's new song.

Xu Lin's fans are very active and sticky.

So Xu Lin checked his direct messages, casually scrolling through, he found dozens of messages from internet media companies, all wanting Xu Lin to contact them for cooperation discussions.

These internet media companies are always watching various wild internet celebrities. Forget someone as big as Xu Lin, even smaller internet celebrities with tens of thousands of followers receive contacts from companies. After all, signing one person could lead to big returns later if one out of ten they sign becomes famous.

But Xu Lin ignored them.

"I'll play around with a Xiaohongshu account first before anything else."

Xiaohongshu is a social platform that's hard to evaluate; for its evaluation, refer to Weibo, but the traffic volume is indeed large.

Also, Xu Lin has a purpose for opening the Xiaohongshu account — to promote his work and for potential future collaborations, as he plans to break into the entertainment and music industries. Operating a social platform will be necessary.

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