970 Very Confused (1/2)
Li Yuanfei was a big boss with immeasurable assets, and such a modest attitude made the employee feel quite embarrassed. He awkwardly took the mobile phone, not knowing what to say. He didn't know if it was better to just turn around and walk away from the handsome figure…
The store manager was very troubled, not knowing what Li Yuanfei had in mind. It was just a bottom-level, temporary worker. What was wrong with firing him?
”If you don't mind, I'd like to talk to you about this novel. May I?” Li Yuanfei asked the staff member.
When the employee and the store manager heard Li Yuanfei's request, they were stunned. The former was wondering why such a big boss was interested in an ordinary web novel, while the latter did not understand at all why they were talking about the web novel.
”This…” The employee looked at the store manager awkwardly. If it was found out by the store manager that he was reading novels during work, even if the boss did not fire him, the store manager would treat him badly in the future.
Li Yuanfei understood his considerations, and motioned at the store manager, signaling for him to leave.
”This…” The store manager still wanted to say something else.
”There's nothing else you need to do here. You can go,” Li Yuanfei said firmly.
Although the store manager was not happy, he left slowly. Before he left, he fiercely glared at the employee, blaming him for losing face in front of the boss.
”Sit.” Li Yuanfei signaled, then pulled a chair for himself to sit down on. The employee sat stiffly, only daring to put half of his buttocks on the chair.
”Explain this book in detail. Which city did you say the main character is in? Binhai City? Is there a place called Binhai City in China?” Li Yuanfei asked with a pleasant face.
”Online novels are all fabricated. Where would there be a city called Binhai City? And the website does not allow real life places to appear in the stories,” the employee answered, wondering in his heart why his boss did not have that kind of common sense at all.
”All right…” Li Yuanfei sighed regrettably. ”Then tell me about the novel itself… Right, I still don't know what the name of the book is.”
The employee hardened his resolve and wondered what he was so scared of.
”It's called Pet King. It is currently being written and published on the Chinese version of the Qidian Website.” He opened the conversation box and roughly summarized the hundreds of thousands of words of the novel so far. Because he read more than one novel, sometimes he confused the content of the novel with other novels. What he said before did not match what he said after, but at least the main content was clear.
Everyone else did not know, but Li Yuanfei understood, that the story was not randomly fabricated––or at least, it was not entirely fabricated. It was not even possible to fabricate the part of the game where elfins were captured.
”Have a lot of people read this book?” he asked. He was greatly concerned about it.
”Eh. There are quite a few books on pets, and this is a more realistic type. Boss, you also know that a lot of people utterly hate dogs and cats, and won't even want to read a book concerning pets,” the employee answered. ”En… however, it seems like there are people who say that the author of this book has a chance of getting the Best New Author of the Year. If that happens, it would probably become more popular.”
Li Yuanfei's heart grew colder and colder. He knew clearly how the game worked and how the elfins could attract the power of faith to grow up. He admired the author who had thought of increasing the spiritual power of the elfins in that way.
Based on what the employee said, the elfins that appeared in the story were liked by different readers. Based on that, the elfins that the other had would receive more and more belief in them.