wavenovel Chapter 58 How difficult is it to get the chief eunuch to write?
Chapter 58 How difficult is it to get the chief eunuch to write?
For the past two days, Su Chenjin has been staying in Lin Yuyan's room almost every step of the way.
"Miss Lin works so hard every day, of course I should stay here to serve you at any time and be at your beck and call."
Su Chenjin sat upright on the bed behind Lin Yuyan's computer desk, a warm and comforting smile on her face.
They say that, but in reality they turn into relentless update-demanding machines.
As long as Lin Yuyan's right hand is on the mouse and the mouse pointer tries to move towards the "Zhenghuan" game icon on the desktop, the blue-haired maid sitting by the bed will immediately walk to the head eunuch's side.
"Ms. Lin, are you tired from writing? Would you like me to prepare some drinks and desserts for you? Online novelists really work very hard, constantly writing diligently so as not to disappoint their readers!"
Faced with the lovely maid's sincere gaze, Lin Yuyan felt too embarrassed to open the game and could only put her hands back on the keyboard with tears in her eyes.
"Ah...haha...yes, yes, the readers are still waiting for me, how could I possibly rest?"
Lin Yuyan chuckled a few times, tears silently streaming down her face, forcing a smile as she continued to painfully type.
Of course, the reason Su Chenjin can legitimately urge for updates here is entirely because of the pit that the Grand Eunuch dug for himself.
Lin Yuyan had confidently declared that he would gather enough manuscripts before his two-week stay in the magical kingdom. Su Chenjin naturally sat to the side, watching the head eunuch fulfill his promise.
Moreover, Su Chenjin knew very well that if she wasn't watching over her, given the Grand Eunuch's reputation, he might break his promise to keep this draft at any time!
Moreover, this guy's "weekly update" laziness hasn't fundamentally changed. The current supervision is only to prevent this eunuch from shamelessly issuing a leave request for "going on a trip to the country, requesting half a month's leave" and then running away.
So, under Su Chenjin's "supervision", Lin Yuyan finally managed to write out the two chapters in the past two days.
This gave Su Chenjin a psychological expectation of the Grand Eunuch's typing speed.
What? You can definitely do it if you want to update daily!
Of course, Su Chenjin didn't let Lin Yuyan write at full speed these past two days. Apart from eating and sleeping, she still gave Lin Yuyan some rest time so that she could watch videos and anime.
So this "supervisor" is more like making the chief eunuch use the time he would spend playing games to write.
So the following evening, Lin Yuyan proudly showed Su Chenjin the draft box in her writer's assistant.
"Chen Jin, look! Two chapters saved up! That should be enough for two weeks of updates!"
"Yes, Miss Lin is really amazing." Su Chenjin clapped her hands and nodded with a smile full of admiration.
However, she kept despising the chief eunuch in her heart.
This girl has only managed two chapters, why is she so proud of herself?! Other authors update two chapters a day, okay?! What's so great about you, a weekly updater?!
But during those two weeks in the magical kingdom, the Grand Eunuch definitely wouldn't be in the mood to write. Let's just let her get by with these two chapters from the backlog.
The question now is, after returning from the kingdom, what methods can be used to keep this chief eunuch at this typing speed?
In fact, Su Chenjin did have some rather extreme thoughts in her mind.
For example, confiscate Lin Yuyan's phone, lock her in a dark room, leaving her only a computer without internet access. Make sure there are no entertainment facilities, not even the Purple Mood feature. She has to submit a certain number of words of manuscript every day before she can eat or play games, and might even be pushed to her writing limit.
At that point, I might be able to write 10,000 words a day without any problem!
However, Su Chenjin had long been driven to despair by this weekly update schedule. She was already quite satisfied with the current stable output, so she had no plans to resort to the "black room" tactic for the time being.
After all, restricting personal freedom and forcing writing through violence and coercion... the author, in that state of resistance and pain, certainly wouldn't have produced the same level of writing as they do now. Therefore, even when urging for updates, let's use gentler methods.
Of course, this is all predicated on the fact that the chief eunuch doesn't push her too far.
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After finishing the draft, Lin Yuyan relaxed a lot. She lay on the bed and had the maid give her a massage.
This time it was a normal massage.
Su Chenjin straddled Lin Yuyan's waist, kneading the head eunuch's shoulders and neck with both hands, while chatting with her.
"Miss Lin... the ability you used to save me at the Star Base last time... it seems to be able to alter reality, right?"
"Hmm..." Lin Yuyan hummed softly, answering lazily with her eyes closed, "That's a special ability that my magical armor can only use in 'Prosperity' state. What's wrong?"
"Could this ability to rewrite reality be used to write novels? For example... you could just write 'Novel completed' or '100,000 words updated today' in your notebook..."
This was the idea that Su Chenjin had been pondering for a long time after witnessing the Grand Eunuch's prowess!
If it can be achieved, then we will never have to suffer the agony of waiting again!
Upon hearing this question, Lin Yuyan rolled over in bed. Facing Su Chenjin's gaze, the head eunuch smiled somewhat awkwardly.
"Um... well... I've tried it before. It doesn't seem to work very well."
"Huh? Why?" Su Chenjin asked in surprise, "If you can teleport people away instantly, why can't you do it in a novel?"
"Well... because I don't have that much magic."
After thinking for a few seconds, Lin Yuyan began to explain: "When I activate my Fankai ability, I use my magic pencil to write down the reality I want to change in my magic notebook."
"However, this isn't a free rewriting of reality; it consumes my magic power when activated. Moreover, the amount of magic power consumed is directly proportional to the difficulty of changing that reality."
As she spoke, Lin Yuyan pointed to the computer desk in front of her, "For example... if I were to write 'break the cup on the desk' in my notebook, it would consume almost no magic power. Because breaking a cup is such an easy thing to do in reality."
"But suppose I encounter two Flower-level magical girls of equal strength to me, and I want to write 'Defeat the two magical girls in front of me,' then that would most likely drain all the magic power in my body, because 'defeating two equally strong opponents' is extremely difficult in itself."
"In short, the more difficult something is for me, the greater the magical cost I need to pay to achieve it using my magical abilities. If something is so difficult that even if I use all the magical power in my body, it is impossible to do, then I simply cannot write it down in my notebook."
After listening to the head eunuch's explanation, Su Chenjin roughly guessed the reason: "Miss Lin... does that mean... you should just end the novel directly...?"
Lin Yuyan sighed, "Yeah... it's impossible to just end the novel directly. Later, I settled for second best. If I just wrote 'Next chapter updated today'... I could barely manage to write it, but the magic power consumption was amazing, it was a huge loss. It's better to write it by hand."
“…………”
Hearing this answer, Su Chenjin was stunned.
It's hard to imagine how the Grand Eunuch's anti-magic armor's judgment mechanism works.
For a eunuch like you, is "updating a chapter of a novel" really as difficult as defeating two flower-level magical girls?!