A Slow Rising Trend

The next day...

It finally arrived, the day when Xinyi company released [XINT] to the public.

Although they had sent [XINT] for review yesterday, they could only release it today.

Yesterday, they spent a lot of time completing a promotional video. And at that time, it was already dark outside.

No reviewer was working at that time. So, they could only release [XINT] after passing the reviews today.

This time, the reviewing process went pretty smoothly. And there had been no problem like when [Choice of Robots] was being reviewed.

After all, [XINT] was just a tool. The tool that helped people write their interactive novels. And no reviewer could find any problem releasing it on their platform.

Since those reviewers hadn't found any problem, they had passed the reviews one by one without caring too much.

And the Xinyi company had also prepared everything they had discussed before.

They had uploaded the promotional video they had prepared on the Jinyu platform.

[Choice of Robots] had also been updated. And this version only added another choice called [Write more stories like this.] on the [Menu].

Overall, they had prepared everything they could do.

Therefore, all that was left was to wait for the result.

Meanwhile, they could start developing their official website now.

They could also test the other two versions of [Choice of Robots] and try to find some more bugs.

Just for killing time.

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Inside the Imperial University dormitory...

There was a young man named Jiang Bowen. And he had just returned to his dormitory after he had finished his lunch.

It finally arrived, the time when the fall semester was about to begin. And Jiang Bowen was just about to start his senior year.

When Jiang Bowen was still in high school, he had always loved to read many kinds of online novels.

So, during that time, Jiang Bowen had dreamed of being a great author who could write great stories for people to read.

And just because of his dream, Jiang Bowen applied to study creative writing here at the Imperial University.

Jiang Bowen had studied here for three years. And this year was his last year before he graduated.

There was no class for Jiang Bowen to attend today. With nothing to do, he simply turned on his laptop.

Then, Jiang Bowen opened the application called [Choice of Robots].

Yes, that's right. It was the [Choice of Robots] that Chen Yize had developed before.

A few days ago, Jiang Bowen's classmates recommended this app to him on various occasions.

They said that this app was excellent.

They also said that he shouldn't miss it.

Jiang Bowen also became interested because of their recommendations. So, he immediately found and downloaded [Choice of Robots] himself.

Then for the first time, Jiang Bowen opened [Choice of Robots].

For the first time, Jiang Bowen knew what it felt like when he could make choices while reading.

For the first time, Jiang Bowen could truly immerse himself in the story like he was the protagonist.

And for the first time, Jiang Bowen became addicted.

He read [Choice of Robots] many times, again and again, without feeling bored.

He also learned about Chen Yize from the credits.

He admired this guy, who once studied at the same university as him.

After playing for so long, he finally regarded Chen Yize as his idol.

And today, Jiang Bowen wished he could unlock the [Tragic Hero] achievement he couldn't unlock for so long.

Jiang Bowen had listed everything he needed to be careful of if he wanted to unlock this achievement.

Jiang Bowen had also done something similar before when he wrote an outline for his novel.

That's right. Jiang Bowen had already started writing his first novel.

He had also released his novel on various novel-reading platforms.

However, as it turned out, the result of his first novel wasn't satisfactory. And even Jiang Bowen himself couldn't accept it for a while.

In this world, there were still many authors similar to Jiang Bowen who failed in their first-time writing.

But Jiang Bowen was still too young as an author. And he didn't know that the situation he was facing was common.

And when Jiang Bowen was about to start reading [Choice of Robots] again, the app told him that there was an update.

Jiang Bowen clicked to update it without thinking much.

Then, Jiang Bowen immediately entered the story.

Following the story, Jiang Bowen was always cautious when making choices. It was because he intended to unlock the achievement this time.

With everything Jiang Bowen had listed before, he finally succeeded this time.

Heaving a sigh of relief, Jiang Bowen closed his eyes, thinking about everything he had read from this app.

After finally unlocking every achievement, Jiang Bowen felt somewhat empty.

It felt like he hadn't read enough yet.

But, there should be nothing left in this app that he could do.

Nothing...

He had read everything. He had also done everything. And, there should be nothing new that he could do.

Wait a minute!

Hadn't this app told him that there was an update before?

And he had already updated it.

So...

Jiang Bowen immediately opened the app store to check what was new about this version.

At this moment, Jiang Bowen sincerely hoped that this update wouldn't be something like [Fixing bugs] or [Fixing typos].

After all, the last few versions of [Choice of Robots] only fixed these things.

And when Jiang Bowen checked it, there was only the text that read.

[New! You can now write more stories like this. For more information, Please select the new choice we have added to the menu.]

With doubt in his eyes, Jiang Bowen opened [Choice of Robots] again before checking the [Menu].

There was indeed a new choice called [Write more stories like this.] there.

Choosing it, it linked Jiang Bowen to the Jinyu platform website.

To be precise, it was the promotional video Xinyi company had prepared before.

And after clicking to play, the first thing Jiang Bowen saw was Chen Yize, who appeared and introduced himself.

Chen Yize introduced himself as the developer and the writer of [Choice of Robots].

Chen Yize then introduced the new app their company had developed, which they chose to name this app [XINT].

Chen Yize first answered everyone, what does [XINT] stand for?

Then, Chen Yize explained to everyone about this app briefly.

For example, this app could help everyone write their interactive novels.

And Chen Yize also demonstrated the way to use it.

Chen Yize couldn't explain everything in this short video. So, he suggested everyone could go and read the tutorial he had included in this app.

Chen Yize also told everyone about the many new features he had added.

Of course, it also included the cost people needed to pay if they wanted to use them.

And from this video, Jiang Bowen vaguely understood what this new app could do.

As an author, Jiang Bowen had been interested in writing interactive novels ever since he had come into contact with [Choice of Robots].

So, Jiang Bowen chose to give [XINT] a try. For him, it was free to download anyway.

In fact, Jiang Bowen had long known that some novel-reading platforms had also released something similar.

However, since he was a big fan of [Choice of Robots], how could he use things developed by those platforms?

As long as people weren't stupid, they could see the purposes of those platforms at a glance.

And Jiang Bowen wasn't the only person interested in using [XINT] after watching this video.

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A week later...

More and more people slowly learned about the existence of interactive novels.

In the past, although [Choice of Robots] released before had gained a certain amount of popularity, most people still didn't know about it.

After all, [Choice of Robots] was still the only interactive novel at that time.

However, a week had passed, and it became different.

[XINT] slowly but steadily gained popularity.

And interactive novels became a new rising trend.

At first, it had all started when [XINT] was just being released.

The first group of people who had used [XINT], almost all of them were the original fans of [Choice of Robots].

They were the first group of people who had noticed [XINT] and just wanted to give it a try.

They wrote many small interactive novels with a length of no more than 1,000 words.

After all, these people just wrote interactive novels for fun. And at most, they sent their works to their family and friends for them to try.

From this, more people started to know about [XINT] and interactive novels. However, most of them still didn't care about these things much.

The second group was undoubtedly the people who saw [XINT] as an opportunity.

Whether ordinary people or authors, this group was the first to release their works to the public.

These people weren't as casual as the first group when they wrote interactive novels of their own.

These people were more serious when they wrote. And naturally, most of their interactive novels would contain more words.

Some of them decided to sell their works for money. And some of them decided to release them for free just to gain more fame first.

And the ways these people released their interactive novels were quite varied.

Some released their works as apps like [Choice of Robots] before.

Some released their works as websites of their own.

Some also released their works on any platforms they could and chose to release.

However, in the interactive novels released so far, none of them exceeded 150,000 words yet.

Because of these people, more and more people learned about [XINT] and interactive novels.

More and more people participated and contributed to a slow-rising trend. It was the trend to write interactive novels by using [XINT]. And it was the trend that most people still hadn't realized.

As for Chen Yize, one of the developers who developed [XINT], what was he doing now?

Chen Yize was now trying the app called [Choice of Students], which contained 150,000 words. It was the longest interactive novel, second only to [Choice of Robots] at this moment.

In fact, Chen Yize was somewhat surprised that there was still a person. The person who could release an interactive novel that contained 150,000 words within a week.

That's mean. This person could write more than 20,000 words a day on average.

After Chen Yize had finished it himself once, he felt it was pretty good.

It was not the best one, but as the longest one currently, it was still remarkable.

What kind of tentacle monster this person named Jiang Bowen was, Chen Yize wondered.