Chapter 6

For four consecutive days, Lu Yang repeated this routine.

Every evening after the military training, while many of the freshmen were out relaxing to relieve the fatigue from the day's training, Lu Yang, with the manuscript filled with his writing, would go to the Star Rain Internet Cafe, find a corner with the least number of people, turn on the computer, and first open Qianqian Jingting, searching for the original English version of "The Sound of Silence."

In fact, Lu Yang rarely listened to English songs because he didn't like English, but "The Sound of Silence" was one of the few exceptions.

This song had a charm that could instantly calm one's entire body and mind upon the first listen.

Writing a novel required a calm mind. Only when the mind was calm could the brain be in its most focused and active state, and only in this state could Lu Yang write swiftly and have a steady flow of inspiration.

Therefore, he really liked "The Sound of Silence" and never tired of listening to it.

Wearing headphones and using the music of "The Sound of Silence" to block out the other noises in the internet cafe, Lu Yang started a new document and began to type the words from the manuscript, word by word, sentence by sentence.

Over the four days, spending each evening until around 12 o'clock, Lu Yang finally transformed all the manuscripts he had written in the past few days into electronic documents on the computer.

When the last document on the last day was successfully saved to the NetEase email, Lu Yang subconsciously let out a light sigh.

The many days of focused writing and document input had made him feel tired, especially since he had to participate in the school's military training every day recently.

Habitually lighting a cigarette, Lu Yang held it in his mouth, completely relaxed in the chair, slightly squinting his eyes, listening to the music in his headphones while looking at the several documents in his NetEase email.

He had already estimated that the number of words in the four documents, excluding the outline content, definitely exceeded 65,000, more than enough for submission.

The fact that there were no missing words made Lu Yang's face break into a faint smile.

His heart felt light.

In this relaxed mood, Lu Yang suddenly wanted to change his mood.

So, his hands, resting on the keyboard, tapped a few more times, searching for another song he loved in Qianqian Jingting, "Star River Legend" by Kwan Ching Kit.

This was an old song, a very old song.

But it was classic, not only beautifully sung but also with lyrics that were astonishingly beautiful.

Before his rebirth, the first time Lu Yang heard it, he was instantly captivated, hardly believing that music creators from decades ago could write such a beautiful song about constellations.

At this moment, listening to this beloved song, Lu Yang's mood became even better.

Taking advantage of this good mood, Lu Yang took a deep breath from the cigarette in his mouth, sat up straight, and began operating the keyboard. Within ten minutes, he combined the four documents in his NetEase email into one and created a new document, writing his resume and contact information.

When submitting, attaching his resume and contact information was to facilitate the editor's contact, which was a necessary piece of information to include with the submission.

After finishing all of this, Lu Yang began searching for the submission email addresses of several well-known publishers in Taiwan on the internet.

Before his rebirth, although Lu Yang had submitted manuscripts multiple times, he had directly saved the email addresses of those publishers in his own email and had not memorized them.

After being reborn in 2003, his old email was long gone.

This was also the direct reason why he needed to re-register a NetEase email.

In 2003, it was the period when publishers in Taiwan were actively collecting online novel manuscripts, so their submission email addresses were not hard to find.

Lu Yang searched the internet a few times and found the email addresses of five or six well-known publishers.

After finding the email addresses, everything became simple.

Lu Yang attached his prepared submission document, along with his resume and contact information, and sent it to the five publishers.

Although many publishers emphasized that manuscripts should not be submitted to multiple publishers simultaneously,

as an author, when submitting, it was generally with the mindset of casting a wide net, submitting to several publishers at once, and Lu Yang was no exception.

Otherwise, the review time for each publisher would take half a month or even longer. If one waited half a month or even a month and then received a rejection, and then submitted to another publisher, the time wasted would be too long.

The agony of waiting would be extended several times over.

Who would want the waiting time to be extended several times?

If several publishers all rejected the manuscript, every author would hope to be disappointed only once, not repeatedly.

...

The manuscript was submitted, and now it was time to wait.

Unlike his first submission before his rebirth, at that time, Lu Yang was full of insecurity and submitted with a try-it-out attitude.

Unexpectedly, his first submission passed both the preliminary and final reviews.

It was also because of the smooth first publication that Lu Yang tasted the sweetness, and thus, for the next ten years, he continued to write online novels without stopping.

But this time was different.

With ten years of writing experience, Lu Yang was very confident about the recent novel he had written, "The Wasteland of the End Times."

Lu Yang remembered that at this time, publishers in Taiwan favored manuscripts with a strong fantasy element, multiple female leads, and a vibrant youthful atmosphere.

And these points, Lu Yang had already kept in mind when he decided to write "The Wasteland of the End Times."

Although the story was about the end times, it had a strong fantasy element.

For example, in the story, the terrifying and bloodthirsty monsters from another dimension, though cruel and terrifying, would release a vital energy upon being killed. This vital energy would be quickly absorbed by nearby living beings, significantly enhancing their vitality in a short time.

In the 65,000 words that Lu Yang submitted, he included this selling point.

The protagonist, Chen Feng, initially thought it was an illusion, but after killing a few of these monsters, he discovered this secret. Within a few days, his combat strength increased dramatically.

This selling point, while not particularly novel in end-time novels a few years later, was still very fresh in 2003, as no one had written about it yet.

Thus, "The Wasteland of the End Times" was not just an end-time novel but more accurately an end-time upgrade novel.

The protagonist's strength would increase as he killed more of the monsters from another dimension.

Such an end-time upgrade novel was almost unprecedented in the online literature world in 2003, and Lu Yang believed it would attract many readers.

After his rebirth, Lu Yang did not write the popular online novels that became hits after 2003. First, he lacked the confidence to completely replicate others' novels, and second, he had his own ideas.

He didn't believe that he, coming back from ten years later, couldn't write a novel that would realize his dreams.

Replicating others' novels was too difficult. Even if the original authors rewrote their novels immediately after finishing them, they couldn't produce identical works, let alone a reader who had only read them once and was trying to replicate them years later.

That was almost impossible.

But creating a new novel of his own was different.

Lu Yang was confident that his nearly ten million words of writing experience from ten years ago could produce a high-quality, completely original novel.

Before failing, Lu Yang firmly believed he could do it.

And now, the first volume of "The Wasteland of the End Times" was written and submitted.

Next, he just needed to wait.

As long as this novel could be published smoothly and achieve good results, Lu Yang could write his own original works with even more confidence.

He didn't aspire for his future works to rival those of the top authors; he just wanted to improve with each work. His dream was not to shine brightly.

Being able to live the life he wanted through his works was enough.

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