Chapter 65 - Chapter 65: Chapter 65: Setting Sail! (1/2)
Chapter 65: Chapter 65: Setting Sail!
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The following day, early morning.
In the old city district, the first light of dawn spilled through the hazy clouds onto the patchwork city, draping Anling in a golden veil.
The wind, at times, gently swept across the streets, kicking up dust, and at others, carried a cacophony of irregular sounds, much like an old cat snoring around the corner, seeping into Lin Chuan’s narrow rented room.
Yesterday.
Lin Chuan had set up firewalls for the summit of Zijin, and then played games with Old Wang and the others, so he had gone to bed early.
This morning, it wasn’t the wind or the early sunshine that woke Lin Chuan, but Youyou.
Ding dong ding dong.
9:00.
Youyou sent a message right on time.
“Darling~”
“Time to get up.”
“Mmm—”
Lin Chuan stretched lazily, rubbed his bleary eyes, pressed his temples, and, after waking up, replied to Youyou, “Youyou, I’m here.”
“Have you had breakfast yet?” Youyou asked with concern.
“Not yet.”
Lin Chuan was brushing his teeth while replying to the messages.
“Darling~ about ‘Hacker Kingdom,’” Youyou sent a barrage of messages.
In the rented room, in front of a sink tiled with old porcelain.
Lin Chuan’s hand clutching the toothbrush stiffened, “Is the data not looking good?”
Youyou replied, “Yes, I arranged a ‘Chief Editor’s Recommendation’ for you yesterday, which has a significant number of exposures.”
Lin Chuan frowned, feeling a sense of foreboding, “How’s the conversion rate?”
“Not great.”
Youyou replied with three words.
Then, she sent over a backend data chart.
[04/02 Sailing Novel ‘Chief Editor’s Recommendation’ Results]
[Title: Hacker Kingdom]
[Favorites: 2607.]
[Average Subscriptions: 318.]
[Reading Conversion Rate from Recommendation: 0.4‰, Average Standard: 1.2‰]
[Chapter Retention Rate from Recommendation: 67%, Average Standard: 50%]
The reading conversion rate refers to the ratio between the number of recommendations and the number of readers.
0.4‰!
“Only four in a thousand?”
Lin Chuan’s gaze sharpened, instantly focusing on one piece of data, his brow half furrowed.
A big banner, a small horn, Chief Editor’s Recommendation, Bestseller Selection, are the four main recommendations from Sailing Novel with the largest exposure.
If a novel gets featured in one of these recommendations but doesn’t show any significant performance improvement,
Then, it can pretty much be pronounced dead.
The early morning breeze fluttered the curtains in Lin Chuan’s small rented living room, slapping against his body, creeping into his boxers, sending goosebumps all over him.
Chilling to the bone!
System, can you brush some subscriptions for me?
The system quickly replied—
‘Host, brushed subscriptions do not count towards the actual Popularity Value.’
‘Currently at 318 Popularity Value, you are 5682 points short, keep up the effort, host.’
Hissss!
Lin Chuan took a deep breath and muttered, “5682 points short in Popularity Value, that’s quite a gap. Could it be that I will fall at the hacker hurdle?”
He had only just tasted the sweetness brought by the capability of ‘Top-Level Hacker Technique’ yesterday, but today’s novel data had jerked him awake.
No wonder nobody has been writing novels about hacking these years.
It’s really cold!
“Darling~”
“Don’t be discouraged just yet.”