Chapter 11 - Editor Meng Fei (1/2)

Chapter 11 – Editor Meng Fei

It was night.

A potbellied middle-aged man stood in a room. Around him were countless floating screens. All he had to do was wave a hand and a virtual web page would close, or give it a slight click and he would enter another web page.

This was the computer of Yanhuang Star, where virtual projection had become a reality.

As for the “virtual reality” technology of theory, where somebody can just don a helmet to have their consciousness pulled into a realistic virtual world, that was still far off.

Still, there were rumours that this type of technology had already appeared in one of the Federation’s too-secret labs. But this was still all just hearsay with no evidence to back it up yet.

“Ridiculous. Really too ridiculous. You think that you can just write anything down and it will become a good erotic web novel? What a joke! These authors now really do underestimate erotic web novels too much,” the middle-aged man sneered. His name was Meng Fei, thirty five years old. On Yanhuang Star, he was one of the editors working for the biggest web novel platform, Penguin.

He was responsible for combing through the vast list of web novels to find those with potential and then offer their authors a contract. Should the contract be signed, he would help them with publication.

Now though, he had a problem, and it had been going on for weeks. He couldn’t find an erotic web novel that he was satisfied with. Almost all of the recent works submitted onto the platform were the same without anything new. h.e.l.l, he didn’t even have the interest to keep reading further considering how repet.i.tive they all were.

One had to know, Yanhuang Star didn’t censor or ban erotic web novels, thus allowing them to bloom out in all shapes and sizes with many excellent works amongst them.

In terms of profit, a true top erotic web novel wasn’t the least bit inferior than the web novels of other categories, its sales usually ranked at the top.

The result of this was that many authors wanted to try their hands at it to quickly earn money.

However, that didn’t mean that all erotic web novels were very popular and welcomed by the numerous readers. In reality, to those readers who had already read a lot of erotic web novels, they were extremely picky, not the least bit interested by ordinary works.

It was like with those seasoned otakus. You thought that any woman stripping would make them excited? Wrong, just that alone was far from enough. Those seasoned otakus wouldn’t even bother giving them a glance. They would rather play their video games to pa.s.s the time instead.

“As expected.”

Meng Fei sighed with emotion. “After master Gu Zhiwei lay down his pen and with Bao Pichang coming on in the years, is there really already no longer an erotic web novel that can truly make people so excited to the point where they don’t even want to sleep?”

He really lamented the decline of erotic web novels. Just ten years ago, the industry was booming with outstanding works coming out one after the other. During that time, he was so active that he came close to wrecking his body, causing him to look like a skeleton, pretty much all just skin and bones. It was even to the extent that it almost caused him to fail and drop out of high school. If he didn’t at least read a chapter or two before bed, he couldn’t sleep right.

Of course, once he read it, he couldn’t sleep anyways.

That type of excitement, those complicated and bizarre story plots, descriptions so detailed that it seemed as if everything was really unfolding before your eyes, all of it was so charged with pa.s.sion that it caused one’s blood to race and pump! It can be said that a true top erotic web novel was far better than those movies and videos by many times over!

For that reason alone, he joined Penguin and went on to work as an erotic web novel editor.

A pity that as time went by, the amount of exceptional erotic web novels coming out declined in numbers. It was to the point where even some people said that the erotic web novel industry was dead, that it would be better to just go and watch movies and videos instead. Those words stung, biting down to his very heart, causing him to lose sleep over them.

It was because of this that he worked overtime every day. Every single new erotic web novel, he would read it all, just so that he could find one with potential to shut those naysayers up. Unfortunately, to this day, he still hadn’t found one that satisfied him.