Chapter 904 - Sold Out in Three Minutes! (1/2)

“How did this happen?!”

In the president’s office in the headquarter of Dangran in the capital, a middle-aged man pounded the table angrily and questioned the people standing in the office. “Is our company so weak? How can our company’s website crash because of a book? What the hell is going on? Tell me clearly!”

In an instant, all the people in the room fell silent and wore a bitter smile on their faces.

Who would have thought that Fang Qiu had such great public appeal!

The person in charge of the project stood up with a wry smile and said, “It’s really because there were too many people entering the pre-order webpage. Of course, not all of them wanted to buy the book. There must be some people clicking on the website out of curiosity. After all, Fang Qiu has been too popular this year. Recently, he has made three big events, so there are naturally many people interested in his book. We failed to anticipate this, and it’s our fault.”

“Humph.” Hearing this explanation, the president snorted and said angrily, “Hurry up and repair it. This is too shameful!”

“Certainly. It’s in urgent repair and will be fixed soon.” The person in charge promised hurriedly.

Then the meeting was over and the staff went to repair the website.

The repair was complete soon.

The person in charge of the project even added two separate servers to ensure the pre-order website in a steady state.

The pre-ordering website naturally returned to normal after the repair.

All the people who were waiting to buy the book began to pre-order it.

The young man who was Fang Qiu’s fan and Chinese Medicine enthusiast refreshed the website and found that it was repaired. He immediately clicked to place an order.

“100,001?”

Seeing the number of his order after the order was made, the young man couldn’t help but be surprised as he said, “The book is really popular. More than one hundred thousand copies have been sold as soon as the website was repaired. My idol’s book is really great.”

In a Chinese Medicine school, a student immediately refreshed the website after receiving the notice that the website had been repaired. When he was about to place an order, he found that there was no pre-order button on the website. Instead, there were two big words on it: Sold Out.

He took a closer look and saw a line of words: The first batch of 500,000 copies is all sold out.

Seeing that, the student was immediately angry.

“F*ck! I could have gotten it. This Dangran website really sucks! It went wrong during pre-order. Such a piece of junk.”

Besides the student, many people who failed to pre-order the book also began to complain one after another on the internet.

“Dangran, why didn’t you say in advance that the number of copies was limited? Your website even crashed. We could have gotten it but we didn’t. It’s so disgusting!”

“Five hundred thousand copies are sold out in the blink of an eye? Did you take them yourself?”

“Are you all so fast?”

In addition to complaining, of course, there were also people questioning.

“Has anyone successfully bought a copy? Is the sales volume fake? Is this hunger marketing?”

However, soon they were proved to be wrong.

Fang Qiu’s fans who successfully pre-ordered the book began to reply to those comments. Though their order numbers were not sequential, they covered the range from 10,000 to 490,000.

At the sight of this, those questioning people immediately fell silent.

This thing told them not to question things about Fang Qiu because they would be proved to be wrong.

The people who failed to pre-order the book were particularly envious of those who were showing their orders online.

At the same time, a person in the publishing industry who was paying attention to this matter also took part in pre-ordering the book as soon as the website was repaired, only to find that all the copies were sold out.

He was so shocked that he screenshotted a picture and uploaded it to the WeChat group to tag everyone in the group.

Seeing the picture, everyone fell silent.

The sales volume they had estimated was far below the real one, and it seemed a little ironic now.

After a long while, someone replied.

“Miracle! Who won the bet?”

Seeing this, everyone fell silent again.

That was because none of them had won, including the person who bet 20 yuan on it. He was right about the sales volume but wrong about how long those copies would be sold out. There were still many people on the Internet complaining that they had failed to pre-order the book.

In fact, 500,000 should not have been the ultimate number, and the sales volume would have reached 600,000, or even 700,000 if there had been enough copies.

Everyone in the group knew that this time, they were slapped in the face by an unprofessional writer.

“This guy… is trying to create a miracle!” a big shot in the publishing industry said in the group.

Everyone remained silent.

“Great, this is great!!!”

Seeing the words “sold out” on the pre-order webpage, Zhang Xingjie, in Complex Characters Culture Publishing Company in the capital, immediately jumped up in front of his desk in surprise. He clenched his right fist and swung it a few times. He was in a state of great ecstasy and excitement.

This time, he won!

He really won in a fair and just way.

His publishing company was resurrected!

His beloved career was resurrected!

The employees were also very excited outside his office.

They were also paying close attention to the pre-order and did not expect that 500,000 copies would be sold out in just three minutes.

This speed was simply unparalleled!

This was definitely a miracle in the publishing industry, and they were the ones who had created this miracle!

“Beep, beep, beep…”

Just as Zhang Xingjie was extremely excited, the telephone on his desk suddenly rang.

Zhang Xingjie calmed down after hearing the ringing of his phone, suppressing his excitement.