Chapter 108: Life After Starting a Family

October 5th, Sunday.

At 8 a.m., Jiang Miao woke up to his alarm.

After silencing it, he stared at the ceiling in a daze, feeling like he was still dreaming.

From the night of the 2nd until the confession yesterday, everything had played out like a fantasy scene in a novel.

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He was a romance novel author, and Senior Sister was a self-taught illustrator.

It turned out that she happened to be his reader, and the two of them happened to get into the same university.

When school started, they happened to meet each other at the school gate, and she happened to discover his true identity first.

Then, just two days ago, he happened to discover her online alias and then boldly confessed to her at noon.

Speaking of this, he really felt awkward.

Who would have thought she was into that sort of thing?

And he had caught her red-handed too!

With this incident, Senior Sister’s social death level had risen to another level, but somehow, Jiang Miao felt like he was the one at a disadvantage. Who knew how many more social deaths it would take to balance out Senior Sister’s embarrassment?

But no matter what, both of them now clearly understood each other’s feelings. She was now more like a girlfriend throwing a tantrum, and he only felt that she was adorable and amusing.

With this thought in mind, Jiang Miao got out of bed, washed up, and sat in front of the computer. While opening the writing software, he checked the author’s dashboard on his phone.

[Daily Report]

Number of Tips: 51

Recommendations: 1,709

Monthly Votes: 307

Reading Lists: 2,890

The data was good, even fantastic.

However, the daily report was something people mostly paid special attention to during the new novel period.

After the premium release, what really mattered was the subscription data.

Jiang Miao clicked on the subscription data page.

Total Subscriptions: 35,200

Average Subscriptions: 3,200

Highest Subscriptions: 4,021

Although the initial subscriptions for the first day had reached an impressive 3,500, because he had released a total of 11 chapters over the past two days, the average subscription count had not increased.

Still, it had stabilized above 3,000, which was a relief.

Jiang Miao opened the details page of on the app. On the top left corner, a sparkling high-quality badge had appeared.

Seeing this badge, he pumped his fist in excitement.

He had been writing for more than three years. In the past, he could only watch as other big shots easily obtained high-quality badges while he could only envy them from the side.

And now, he had finally joined the ranks of high-quality authors.

In theory, as long as he steadily wrote a high-quality book with more than 1.5 million words, his author level would smoothly rise to Lv. 5.

After that, it was the realm of Great God and Platinum authors, a status ordinary authors could only dream of reaching.

Jiang Miao was thinking that far ahead.

Although he had shouted during an emotional outburst by the river that he would become a Great God and Platinum author, he knew it was unrealistic.

Back in the early days of web novels, or even a few years ago, there was still a chance for an author to attain the Great God or Platinum status with just one successful book.



But now, Lv. 5 authors that had two novels with ten thousand average subscriptions or even twenty or thirty thousand were still waiting in line for a Great God contract.

… Let alone a small-time author like Jiang Miao.

It was better to focus on writing his own book and polish his skills.

Instead of daydreaming about becoming a Great God, he might as well think about winning a writing contest.

His current novel was participating in the One Emperor, Four Sovereigns Light Novel Contest. Although his barely high-quality results had no shot at the top five positions of One Emperor and Four Sovereigns, he still hoped to snag a spot among the Sixteen Rising Stars below.

The title didn’t matter much. What really tempted him was the 10,000 yuan cash prize.

It would be a waste not to take the easy money.

With this thought, Jiang Miao touched the glowing high-quality badge on his phone screen, grinning happily. He took a screenshot and sent it to both Senior Sister and Congee Boss.

As he looked at his WeChat and QQ, his expression turned a little strange. It almost felt like he was juggling two girlfriends.

…

Jiang Miao worked diligently all morning until 11 a.m. and had successfully written 4,000 words.

He wrote a cliffhanger at the end, ensuring that his readers would curse him when they reached this point. Then he nodded in satisfaction and released the chapters.

By this time, Su Huaizhou had already gotten up. Seeing it was 11 a.m., she walked out of her bedroom and poked her head into the guest room. “Junior Brother, what are we doing for lunch?”

After releasing the chapters, Jiang Miao stood up and asked, “Wanna go grocery shopping?”

“Sure!” She nodded. After walking out the door with Junior Brother, she couldn’t wait to slip her hand into his palm.

“Senior Sister, I didn’t say I wanted to gather material,” he teased while holding back his laughter.

“Th-this is part of the boyfriend privileges you unlocked.” Su Huaizhou brushed her hair nervously, trying to play it cool. “Don’t overthink it. All we can do is hold hands for now.”

When they reached the elevator, Jiang Miao gently squeezed her soft hand. It felt so good that he couldn’t bear to let go. He sighed. “Senior Sister, you’re forcing me to come clean with my roommates.”

“You really dare to say that?” Su Huaizhou scoffed, not believing him at all. “Want me to help you?”

“Ahem… Better not.” He gave her hand another light squeeze as the elevator door opened. “I think things are pretty good the way they are.”

Like a newlywed couple, they walked hand in hand to the supermarket to buy groceries. After returning home, Jiang Miao took charge of cooking while Su Huaizhou made the rice.

During lunch, as he watched her savoring the stir-fried pork, a sense of contentment rose within him, giving him the illusion that they had already graduated and started a family.

Life after college would probably look a lot like this.

…

After half a day of easing up from yesterday’s embarrassment, Su Huaizhou had almost recovered from her social death.

As long as Jiang Miao didn’t bring it up, she could pretend her secret identity hadn’t been exposed.

The funny thing was, they could still continue chatting on QQ, pretending to be friends who only knew each other online, doubling the fun.

However, when they were together in person, Jiang Miao couldn’t help but get a little too touchy, which always resulted in Su Huaizhou kicking him into the small dark room to get back to work as a pitiful author.

By the end of the day, he had written 4,000 words in the afternoon and 4,000 words at night. At 10 p.m., he had succeeded in hitting 10,000 words for the day again, even surpassing it by a bit.

Such productivity was something that he had never dared to imagine before.

At this pace, he felt he’d reach the first major climax of his novel in two days.

If he were to write two chapters a day, it should have taken him ten days to half a month to reach that point…

After Jiang Miao wrote over 10,000 words, his head felt completely empty. He got up and walked out of the guest room.

Senior Sister had just finished showering and walked out in her bathrobe, her long, wet hair draped over one side.

Seeing him coming out, she immediately him waved over. “Junior Brother, help me blow dry my hair.”



Jiang Miao walked over to stand behind Su Huaizhou, picked up the hairdryer, and asked with a smile, “Is this part of the boyfriend duties?”

“This is part of the boyfriend privileges,” she said confidently. “I wouldn’t let anyone else do it even if they asked.”

“But it feels like it’ll take a while.” He lifted Senior Sister’s long wet hair and caught the pleasant scent of her shampoo.

“Well, if it takes long, I’ll help you dry your hair after your shower.”

“Deal.”