Chapter 35: Picking an Auspicious Day to Avoid Misfortune

Lin Chuan looked at messages in the reader group like "crime suspect," "turn oneself in," "confess," "be lenient," and other such phrases.

Dumbfounded!

He leaned back in his chair, his shoulders shaking, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly as frustration turned to laughter.

After two seconds, Lin Chuan finally typed out a line.

"My book hasn't even been released yet, is this really appropriate?"

One of the readers asked a tricky question: Mr. Lin, can you swear on your manuscript fee that you're not a professional assassin?

Lin Chuan's fingers stiffened on the keyboard.

Manuscript fee, the lifeline of a writer!

In the online writing circle, when verbal arguments fail to settle a dispute, someone would suggest a solution: Show off your manuscript fee!

No matter how eloquently one argues, without a manuscript fee, everything is treated as pure bluff.

Because aside from the top echelon, the only standard by which online writers are judged is the manuscript fee!