Chapter 99 (1/2)

New Character Card, Gotcha!

Popularity itself was a thing that Zhao Youyue could never fathom, not to mention “high popularity”. How to judge whether a literary work was popular? And which character in it would be the high-popularity character?

After watching the acts of Zhao Hao, Zhao Youyue sort of understood that popularity could be measured with money. By watching aside if there were more people willing to pay for a literary creation or character, she could then evaluate their popularity. Of course, this must be a good-quality novel in the first place!

Take streamers for example. Some female streamers’ popularity will skyrocket through the support of godly tycoons. Having stabilized her popularity with some loyal fans later, she will remain as a famous streamer even if the tycoons are gone someday. Of course, there are also some streamers failing to grasp the popularity no matter how much the godly tycoons supported them. In the end, they lost it all because the godly tycoons were no longer interested in them.

The same logic applies when it comes to literary creation. “The Strongest King” itself was a high-quality work, not to mention that it was having a climax plot recently. Formerly, its popularity had been almost explosive, now with the appearance of Silver Sect Master and Golden Sect Master, the novel had broken through its mischance as if it had acquired a divine elixir[1] in the spiritual-cultivation novel.

“The Strongest King” would become a famous literary work in the future!

It could actually compete for the first place in Monthly Tickets Ranking!

Zhao Youyue was still deciding whether to exit the novel earlier

Zhao Youyue had come to a conclusion now. The characters she had molded could be classified into three stages. The first stage would be “Popular Character”, which had been attained by the “Yu Shengfan” molded by Zhao Youyue few days ago. In this stage, Zhao Youyue could exit the literary world without bearing any negative consequence. Naturally, she could neither obtain the character card nor inherit the character abilities.

The second stage would be like now, as in Yu Shengfan had turned into a “High Popularity Character”. In this way, if she bowed out earlier, she could obtain the character card which had a time limit. In that limited time, she could inherit the character abilities. The higher the character popularity, the longer the usage period would be. On the other hand, if the author did anything that adversely affected her popularity, the usage period would decrease as well.

The most terrible outcome would be that the character was totally ruined. Imagine if an elite female scholar went for spiritual cultivation out of the blue, emerging as a fantasy character, was she still who she was? Such an outcome would lead to an immediate shattering of the “High Popularity Character Card”, and Zhao Youyue would never be able to the character abilities.

The most ideal situation would be that the author’s writings continuously bettered, and eventually made her an iconic character!

Therefore, if Zhao Youyue considered an earlier exit, she would have to bet on the author’s personality. She would not take any chances on the amateur authors. They might be affected by their readers once Zhao Youyue exited the literary world, and would start doing ridiculous acts which caused the whole literary creation to crumble. Then all her efforts would be to no avail.

Should the novel be suitable for any doujinshi works, that would be awesome. Most doujinshis would naturally give rise to popularity of the original work!

Obviously, “The Strongest King” perfectly satisfied these conditions. Rosemary was an author with his own pace, moving forward steadily. He had never given up halfway in his previous works or given them some crappy endings. Treating his literary creations seriously, he had also discerned that “The Strongest King” would let him acquire the moniker of “God of Authors”. Of course, he would not destroy this novel of his!

Zhao Youyue did have the heart to stir up any more troubles in “The Strongest King”, because if she wanted to convert “Yu Shengfan” from a “high popularity character” to an “iconic character”, she might have to lead “Yu Shengfan” to death. Rosemary would certainly be troubled by this as his livid readers would haul him over the coals. Therefore, she was unwilling to allow such low profile and steady author to suffer because of her actions.