Chapter 233 – My Daughter Will Not Sacrifice Everything For Her Younger Brother (part 5)

Li Su’s story this time was based on the son being The Nine Thousandth, and the story was written around the empress’ life. The title was The Story of Empress Shunde. It detailed the time from her childhood to when she entered the palace. The premise was that the empress dowager favoured the Highest-Ranking Imperial Concubine and Prince Qi. With her intelligence and keen political vision, she firmly controlled the harem and consolidated the crown prince position for her son.

The beginning was glorious, but the ending was tragic. She had a son and a daughter. Her son’s position was abolished, and her daughter became a slow-witted person. In the end, although she was still the empress and the new emperor still honored her as the empress dowager, but in her whole life, as a wife, she was not loved by her husband. As a mother, she was unable to protect her children. It could be said that she was alone!

Most of these things, Li Su personally participated in, or just watched. So, it was easy to write. Soon, another 3000 words were written again. She put it into the manuscript deposit box, set the publishing time, and relaxed.

Then, she checked on the published chapter. There were only 18 hits and only one favourite. As for the comments, there was none. It was so little, but Li Su didn’t care. This was only the first chapter, so she wasn’t worried.

Li Su’s mental state was really good, so she turned off the computer, took a shower, put on a mask, and went to sleep happily.

When she got up to make breakfast the next morning, Li Su turned on the computer again. When she checked it again, there were 40 hits. More than 20 people watched it in one night. That wasn’t bad.

After sending her daughter to kindergarten, Li Su sat down to write again. She knew that updating was the key to a new work if you wanted more hits. As the chapter count increases, more people would naturally read it.

Li Su didn’t expect this to make money. Since she had chosen this path, she must take it seriously. It could be regarded as her being a role model for her child!

On this day, Li Su updated with more than 9,000 words, all of which were uploaded and published. Including the previous chapter, there were four chapters in total. Each chapter had more than 100 hits. The people who had favourited it had increased past 40. Most importantly, a reader finally left a message.

In this regard, Li Su was quite satisfied. Li Su happily replied to the reader’s message, and then shut down the computer.

After picking up her daughter from kindergarten, Li Su was cooking in the kitchen. Zhang Yao was reading picture books in the living room. Suddenly, she ran in. “Mum, mum, how is your writing? Are there many people reading it?”

Li Su thought for a while, turned on the computer, and logged into Jinjiang. “Well, see for yourself. There are now more than two hundred people who have read what your mother wrote. Your mother will continue to work hard.”

Zhang Yao actually didn’t quite understand what was going on, but she knew the numbers and recognised them. 268, 287, 231… They were all more than 200.

Zhang Yao jumped up excitedly. “Mum is awesome! Mum, you are amazing!”

Li Su felt a little guilty. Each chapter had more than 200 hits, which was really not many. For some god-level people, one chapter had tens of thousands of hits! However, in the face of her daughter’s adoring eyes, Li Su decided not to tell her the truth. It was fine to let her misunderstand like this.

Perhaps it was because Zhang Yao now believed that her mother was really working and that they would not be homeless because they had no money that her mood was much better.

Li Su prepared the meal, and they ate dinner together. After dinner, when Li Su was going to wash the dishes, Zhang Yao stood up and said, “Mum, you’ve worked hard. Let me wash the dishes! Let me wash the dishes every day from now on!” Then, she moved a small stool into the kitchen.

After Zhang Yao washed up, she also asked Li Su to check everything. After seeing Li Su nod with satisfaction, she smiled happily.

“Mum, in fact, I will do a lot of things! Mum, you have worked hard to make money. I will help my mother often with housework in the future,” Zhang Yao said seriously.

Li Su didn’t say anything else. She only touched Zhang Yao’s face. “Okay, mum understands. Do you want to go out for a walk?”

Zhang Yao immediately shook her head. “Mum, I don’t want to go for a walk. Let’s read a book together!”

Li Su actually wanted to play with her cell phone, but she knew the importance of family atmosphere to children. So, she put down her phone, sat on the sofa with Zhang Yao, and read the picture book.

Li Su thought about it. Why didn’t she go online and buy a few books later to have a look? She was so bored of the picture book! However, Zhang Yao seemed to like it very much, so she would buy more picture books.

They read the book. Li Su saw that it was almost 8pm and put down the book. “Yao’er, it’s time to take a bath. You should fall asleep before nine o’clock, otherwise you won’t grow taller!”

Zhang Yao was as sensible as ever. She put down the picture book in her hand and then cleaned up the picture books scattered on the table, stacking them together.

Li Su was a little ashamed. She didn’t even think to clean up.

“Let’s go, mum will get you some water.”

When Li Su was about to undress Zhang Yao, Zhang Yao suddenly covered her chest and said, “Mum, I’ve grown up and I can take a bath by myself.”

Although she really liked that her mother would bathe her, but her mother was very tired after a hard day. She was already a big child, so she couldn’t always ask her mother for help.

Li Su smiled. “No matter how old you are, you are still your mother’s daughter. Your mother likes to help you clean up.”

Indeed, it was a very fulfilling thing to see a child who was originally skinny become fatter day by day after raising her.

Since her mother said so, Zhang Yao was happy and would continue to ask her mother to help.

After taking a bath and changing into pajamas, Li Su put Zhang Yao to bed.

In fact, a child as old as Zhang Yao could usually sleep alone. But neither Li Su nor Zhang Yao had suggested this. So, the mother and daughter still slept in the same bed.

Li Su knew that Zhang Yao was actually a very insecure child. During the day, she could be very sensible, but at night, in the dead of night, she was still very scared. Therefore, she must accompany her daughter through this period.

And Zhang Yao also craved her mother’s warm embrace, so she didn’t want to sleep alone.

After Zhang Yao fell asleep, Li Su sat on the sofa and played with her phone for a while before taking a shower. Then, she put the dirty clothes in the laundry basket, hand washed the underwear, hung it up, and prepared to wash the rest of the clothes the next morning.

Before going to bed, Li Su opened Jinjiang again to take a look. It was very good. Each chapter already had 400-500 hits. There were more than 100 who had it on their reading list. The number of comments had also risen to 15.

Li Su fell asleep with satisfaction.

Just like that, four days later, Li Su received a short notice. An editor contacted her and sent signing materials, requesting her to sign a contract with him.

Li Su filled out the signing materials and sent it back according to the editor’s request. Then, she started updating daily.

A week later, Li Su reached the V-level1 and applied to the editor to be changed to V-level. On the day she became V-level, there were only a dozen or twenty subscribers.

Li Su looked at the 700 or 800 hits when she wasn’t V-level, and then looked at it, feeling a little speechless. Fortunately, she didn’t really expect to earn money for writing, otherwise wouldn’t she starve to death?

The number of subscriptions was low, and the editor gave her a suggestion to update more. Many readers were used to adding it to a reading list first, and then would read more after there were more chapters. The more you updated, the more people would see it.

But Li Su didn’t want to update 10,000 words every day. In the past few days, in order to meet the requirements for entering V-level as soon as possible, she had been churning out 10,000 words every day. Coupled with the fact that she had to respond to messages from her lovely readers, she spent most of the day at the computer with aching eyes. This body was originally myopic. In the past few days, she felt that the degree of myopia had seemed to increase, so she needed to go to the optometrist to get glasses again.

Forget it. Although money was important, her eyes were also important. Li Su decided to maintain the rhythm of 3,000 words. As for subscriptions, they would come!

The life of Li Su and her daughter was on the right track. A month later, Li Su’s manuscript fee in Jinjiang could be withdrawn. She clicked in and saw that the amount that could be withdrawn this month was 198 yuan.

Very good! It was not even the minimum amount for tax collection. Still, it was a good start!

Li Su cheerfully applied for the withdrawal.

The next afternoon, Li Su received a text message as a reminder that her withdrawal had arrived.

Li Su decided to use the money to go out to a restaurant. She picked up her daughter from kindergarten. Instead of going home, they went to a reasonably affordable hot pot restaurant.

Zhang Yao was very helpless. “Mum!” Isn’t it good to eat at home? Why are we going out to eat again? It was a waste.

Li Su cleared her.throat, “Mum has been paid! Today is an exception.”

“Really? How much money did mother earn?” Zhang Yao asked excitedly.

Li Su thought for a while and then stretched out two fingers.

“Two thousand yuan? Mum, you are amazing!” For a six-year-old child, two thousand was a lot!

Li Su was a little guilty. She would continue to work hard and strive to add a zero to the number next month! If not next month, then the one after. The current number of subscriptions and messages were gradually increasing. She should be able to do it!

The mother and daughter had a hot pot meal. Because Zhang Yao insisted not to waste anything, the two people ate more than 80 yuan’s worth of food. Li Su went to the fruit shop again and used the remaining hundred yuan to buy some cherries.

Zhang Yao felt distressed and she frowned all night. When she came home and ate cherries, her expression was very serious and she ate slowly.

Li Su looked a little funny, but felt more distressed. “Is it delicious? Don’t worry. We won’t eat it every day. We will eat it once in a while. Mum can afford it.”

Zhang Yao glanced at Li Su. “Mum, don’t buy this next time. Bananas and apples are delicious too.”

Li Su patted her head. “Okay, mum understands. Mum is getting paid, so I bought it when I was happy. I’ll buy less next time.”

However, Zhang Yao only ate three and refused to eat any more.

Li Su had no choice but to put the remaining cherries in the refrigerator. She washed a few every day, and brought them to her daughter to eat. In fact, if it was only herself, she could eat another 10 kg of cherries.

But now, like many ordinary mothers, she wanted to leave everything to her children, especially since the conditions at home were not so good.

1.V-level (v標準): V-standard or V-level? I think this is a rank of some sort on the website. Not too sure.