The website, after consulting Xu Lin about his single-month manuscript fee surpassing ten million, launched another wave of publicity.

Now that Xu Lin is trending, coupled with the fact that his pre-tax monthly manuscript fee is over fourteen million, it naturally has strong buzz potential. So, it quickly shot to the top of the trending searches, shocking countless people wide-eyed.

In response, Xu Lin put on airs remotely again.

And this time, who knows how many hotheaded youngsters were dazzled by the money and flocked to online literature, thinking they could do the same.

"Over fourteen million in manuscript fees this month?"

Ms. Ren noticed the news and immediately came over to ask Xu Lin.

Xu Lin sent her a screenshot of the manuscript fee account information.

"I paid over 1.6 million in taxes, and since I have a high income, I'll have to pay supplementary taxes next year."

"Oh."

"Impressive."

"Just make sure you don't go astray,"

Ms. Ren is still worried about Xu Lin going astray. In fact, the simple reason why many people behave and follow the law is because they don't have money. Otherwise, if they even had a little bit of money, they probably wouldn't be so good. There really aren't that many morally high-minded people in the world.

"Don't worry, I really haven't gone astray, and you've mentioned it many times."

"I mention it every now and then, because if you did go astray, that would be trouble, wouldn't it?"

There are so many things that wealthy people can enjoy. With ten thousand a month, you could keep a pretty university girl, and with fifty or a hundred thousand a month, you'd be on cloud nine. For example, with fifty thousand a month, that's six hundred thousand a year. Add in occasional gifts, and it could be a million or more. Even coming out of a top university, you would need to be outstanding and work your butt off to earn that kind of income.

There's a lot of gray area intricacies.

Seeing all sorts of things in her career as a lawyer, Ms. Ren has come across black, white, and gray areas. Professions like lawyers and police officers deal with such matters daily.

Seeing her son becoming more and more successful, Ms. Ren couldn't help but worry about Xu Lin straying down the wrong path.

Theoretically, the more successful you are, the more big shots you will encounter. You have no idea where these so-called "heroes" originated. You don't know if their first or second bucket of gold is clean, or what they do behind closed doors. Among them are all kinds of shady characters.

Will her son come into contact with these people?

Ren Yan, as a mother, inevitably grows more worried the more she thinks about it.

Ms. Ren added, "In any case, you mustn't go astray!"

Xu Lin: "ojbk."

On that Monday, aside from Xu Lin's manuscript fee arriving, there was another event: the website's list of the Twelve Kings was released.

It was updated in the morning.

Wu Chengfeng and the other three were all undoubtedly on the list.

Xu Lin, as the man with the highest record in online literature history, was ranked first.

However, he stood out quite a bit. While others had real personal photos, Xu Lin's photo was Gaia, the Earth Destroyer, which many people found hard to handle.

Additionally, the website's comment on Xu Lin was: The strongest man in the history of online literature, bar none!

While others are described as: Number one in a particular genre in 2025, setting records in some category, excelling in certain types of creativity, etc.

Only Xu Lin had such a unique comment.

Xu Lin also glanced at the Twelve Kings. Besides him, there were eight men and three women, and Xu Lin was curious about what these people looked like.

Online literature authors aren't typically good-looking. If they are, there's a high chance it's due to Photoshop or makeup, and seeing them in person would quickly humble you.

In professional photography venues, like Haima Body, as long as you're not overweight or skinny, after a makeup session by a Haima Body makeup artist and their editing, using two of the four major East Asian magical arts all at once, you'd see the best-looking version of yourself in history.

However, Xu Lin discovered that among the Twelve Kings, Toutuo actually looked quite good, as it was a selfie without any editing.

"I must say, this kid is quite handsome."

The remaining authors, including his other three disciples, had the looks of ordinary people.

"For someone like me to enter the web literature circle is simply overkill."

Xu Lin glanced at his reflection in the mirror.

A few more days went by, during which Xu Lin's life remained calm and fulfilling.

Time moved to Sunday night, when Xu Lin's other eight disciples, after half a month of Xu Lin's training, were finally ready to showcase their work tonight.

"Let me see how it turned out!"

Xu Lin rubbed his hands together eagerly, itching with anticipation.

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