Chapter 869 - 297: Late-Night Call, Little Moon Calls "Daddy

Modu, Xinghe Bay, Villa No. 16.

Li Yuan had just finished a hearty, exhilarating "friendly match" with Zhong Tingyue.

To fulfill that long-cherished wish in his heart, he’d prepared thoroughly for tonight—troops plenty, provisions loaded, everything fully stocked.

Right from the start of the battle, he began all kinds of pre-war preparations.

When Little Moon’s face turned crimson and she could no longer hold the line.

Li Yuan naturally dispatched his elite main force, the army marching straight up to the city, smashing through everything with overwhelming momentum, domineeringly storming the capital and bringing this unequal battle to an end...

In the process,

Li Yuan also satisfied that inner wish of his and temporarily "adopted" a well-behaved 228-month-old daughter...

When Zhong Tingyue, half her clothes hanging off, face burning red, shy and flustered, half-knelt on the floor,

and shyly called back over her shoulder to Li Yuan behind her, "Daddy, be gentle!"

Li Yuan instantly felt clear-headed and relaxed, experience bar filled to the brim, and then quickly laid down arms and surrendered...

...

After Li Yuan entered his sage mode, clear-headed and thoroughly satisfied,

he was just about to start typing and update his novel.

Even though at this point, he was already financially free and the income from the novel no longer mattered at all.

There’s just no reason to give up halfway as a person.

This "Battle Starry Sky" definitely had to be completed.

Otherwise, his readers and fans would be really disappointed.

This was his first novel since his rebirth, and with high probability it would also be his last. It had to have a proper beginning and end.

Honestly, lately he’d found it really hard to squeeze out the time to write.

This "Battle Starry Sky" had been uploaded since early June 2008, and now, January 29, 2009, nearly eight months had passed.

Aside from the very beginning, when he could maintain an inhuman pace of 20,000 characters a day, later, because of starting a business, dating, doing music and all that, on average he could only keep up about 10,000 characters a day.

And that was already thanks to the buff from his rebirth—his writing and thinking abilities had both improved dramatically.

Otherwise, he’d be doing well if he could manage seven or eight thousand characters a day.

Even so, over these eight months, nearly 240 days, he’d already written around three million characters, and this high-imitation "Battle Starry Sky" had already entered its mid-to-late stage.

By his estimate, another half year or so of writing and he could officially wrap it up, then wash his hands of the business and retire from the NovelPhoenix江湖.

Of course,

that didn’t mean a complete exit. He’d already begun planning and negotiating with Yuandian Web to acquire the site.

At this point, Yuandian Web’s valuation wasn’t as exaggerated as in the future, and it hadn’t yet been acquired by Tengxun. As long as he was willing to spend the money, buying it wasn’t that hard...

If they really refused, worst case, after finishing "Battle Starry Sky," he’d just build a new online literature site from scratch.

That would be a very simple matter.

It wasn’t that he had to rely on a web fiction site to make money; mainly, it was to satisfy a fixation in his heart.

More precisely, a fixation from his previous life.

In his past life, as a part-time flop author, he’d fantasized many times about becoming the boss of Yuandian Web, and then...

Heh heh!

Now that he’d finally been reborn and achieved financial freedom, there was no reason not to fulfill this long-cherished wish...

Besides, in the future, Yuandian Web had become a publicly listed company worth over ten billion, with annual net profits reaching hundreds of millions, incubating a large batch of classic IPs that all achieved huge success in TV adaptations, anime adaptations, game adaptations, and so on.

He could also combine it with the "Douyin" short video platform he planned to build, doing strong alliances in anime, video, film and TV...

Right now, he already had plenty of resources and all kinds of ideas, and could casually set up a film and entertainment company to create some film and TV stars himself.

Not to mention anything else, take the sexy instructor Qi Siyu—she really wanted to give the music scene a shot, and as a university music teacher, she had the foundation...

With her level of sexy big-sister charm, if she went for some distinctive folk-style songs, she’d probably be very popular.

He still had a lot of classic songs in his head that were more suitable for female singers and had nowhere to go...

Thinking about personally grooming a diva of the music world and being the man riding on the back of a music queen, that was pretty thrilling, wasn’t it?

...

Li Yuan’s mind was running wild as he typed,

when suddenly,

the phone on the computer desk buzzed, and a familiar ringtone rang out.

Li Yuan picked it up and saw an unfamiliar number.

"Huh, who’s calling? A number from back home!"

Li Yuan normally didn’t want to answer unknown calls, since there were way too many spam calls—investment pitches, people recommending themselves for a place on his pillow; you name it.

But seeing that it had his hometown’s area code, he hesitated for a second and chose to answer.

As soon as the call connected, before Li Yuan could speak, an anxious voice came from the other side.

"Li Yuan, it’s Xu Beibei."

Li Yuan was a bit surprised. A blurry figure popped up in his mind; he had some impression of the name. She got along well with Bai Weixi, looked above average, and was a lively girl who loved to crack jokes.

"Oh, Xu, hello, what’s up?" Li Yuan asked politely.

Xu Beibei said anxiously, "Li Yuan, just now, Bai and Yuchen had a fight. Bai ran off alone crying. It’s so late, I’m a bit worried about her..."