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"Meanwhile.

The fairy tale circles from all continents also noticed the illustrations for the 'Sea Legend'.

Just like Jin Mu.

At this moment, many people realized and saw David's meticulously planned strategy-

"This was all prepared beforehand!"

"We all thought that David was being instigated by the Yan people to engage in a Literary Duel with Chu Kuang, but we didn't realize that from the beginning to the end, David's target was always Chu Kuang, not Bai Jie!"

"This Korean guy is quite conniving!"

"Bai Jie was just a stepping stone for David!"

"First use the method of defeating Bai Jie to make the first part of 'Sea Legend' extremely popular, then challenge Chu Kuang with the second part."

"One advantage of Chu Kuang's fairy tale is that it has Shadow's illustrations."

"David also prepared illustrations carefully, but he didn't use them in the first part, he only exposed them when the second part of 'Sea Legend' was published, just to catch Chu Kuang off guard!"

"If David had not known about Chu Kuang beforehand, he wouldn't have come up with the illustration strategy!"

"..."

Did it turn out that Bai Jie was merely a stepping stone used by David to challenge Chu Kuang?

One could only wonder what Bai Jie felt like when he realized this.

But you had to admit, David's plan worked out very well.

With the popularity base of the first part, 'Sea Legend' had impressive sales as soon as it hit the shelves!

The readers were pleasantly surprised to see that the second part of 'Sea Legend' included beautiful illustrations, which weren't present in the first part!

In an instant, 'Sea Legend' had high sales!

At ten in the afternoon, reviews for the second part of 'Sea Legend' came out!

"David's fairy tales are unique!"

"Very suitable for educating children!"

"It retains the style of art from the first part, and not only that, the quality has slightly improved."

"Paired with the illustrations, it's splendid. The scenes feel even grander than in the first part, I really love this fairy tale story that takes place on the sea."

"The Legend brothers fight a shark in the second part, it's amazing!"

"David is indeed a fairy tale author who defeated Bai Jie, he does not write juvenile stories of princes and princesses, older children will also find it very interesting."

"The part of the story where the Legend brothers face a storm at sea carries significant educational value."

"I heard that this work entered into a Literary Duel with Chu Kuang. David might just step on Chu Kuang and Bai Jie's shoulders to become a god in the fairy tale world all at once?"

"David is steady!"

"If it was a short fairy tale, even two David's might not be a match for Chu Kuang, but if it's a long one, David's chances of winning already seem very obvious, especially seeing that Chu Kuang might not be able to beat even Bai Jie."

"..."

Firstly, one must acknowledge that 'Sea Legend' is indeed splendid.

Otherwise, David wouldn't have been able to defeat Bai Jie.

The story tells of two brothers exploring the sea in a large ship.

On the ocean, they face heavy rainstorms and various hardships and dangers.

Furthermore, the brothers also made friends with some marine animals.

They would join forces to fight against some powerful and evil marine creatures.

A fairy tale story full of original ideas.

This story, paired with the boat illustrations, is beautifully charming and widely welcomed by all.

"Please enlighten me!"

The same night, David tagged Chu Kuang again, full of confidence!

The Yan people fell silent.

Would Chu Kuang be able to withstand this move?

However, some netizens from the Qin Continent still held on to their optimism.

A few even began to comfort the Yan people by recounting a past event with a chuckle:

"When Leng Guang and Chu Kuang were having a reasoning duel, Leng Guang made the first move, saying please enlighten me, you can look up the rest of the story if you don't know, the internet has a memory."

That said.

While their words seemed very optimistic, many people from the Qin Continent secretly wiped their sweat at this.

David's strength was beyond many people's expectations.

As for Chu Kuang, everyone knew that long-form fairy tales were not his strongest suit.

Chu Kuang's strongest area when writing fairy tales had always been short stories.

Not to mention that David also had the support of the foundation laid by the first part of the 'Sea Legend'.

This event was indeed amusing.

Those Yan people who used to see Chu Kuang as a thorn in their side were now worried about him?

And those comforting the Yan people turned out to be a group of Qin people?

This felt slightly off somehow.

...

Lin Yuan finally finished writing 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.

The time taken for completion was almost the same as his initial estimation.

He didn't bother about the online trends and directly handed it over to Jin Mu and Silver Blue Books.

So.

That same night.

Silver Blue Books released a promotional announcement:

"The second installment of Chu Kuang's Fairytale Town universe, 'Alice in Wonderland', is going to be officially published in a week. 'Heard the Mad Hat likes Alice, and Shuk Bacchetta is a talking mouse.' The first absurdist fairy tale in the history of Blue Star, now available for pre-sale on 'Amazon'!"

Behind the promotion.

Nobody knew how contemplative the editors of Silver Blue Books were after reading 'Alice in Wonderland'.

The comment "The first absurdist fairy tale in the history of Blue Star" did not attract much attention.

From netizens' discussions, it seemed that many people thought 'The Legend of the Sea' would definitely win.

David would be the ultimate winner of this literary duel.

Ning Yi thought so too—

Ning Yi was the sales manager of Amazon, a well-known online bookstore on Blue Star.

The bookstore section is divided into online and offline.

The offline market is controlled by various book wholesalers.

As for the online market, they don't operate physical stores, and sell books directly online.

Some people liked to buy books in bookstores, but others who didn't like to go out preferred to buy books online, and have them delivered by the bookstore's courier service.

As the sales manager of Amazon, Ning Yi placed a pre-order from Silver Blue Books for one million copies of 'Alice in Wonderland'.

Yes.

Although Ning Yi thought that Chu Kuang might lose to David in the literary duel,

it didn't mean that Chu Kuang's books wouldn't sell.

Every year on Amazon's annual sales list, Chu Kuang's works would always be included.

That was Chu Kuang's influence in the book market.

Even if he lost to David, Ning Yi believed the stock of one million copies of 'Alice in Wonderland' could be sold out.

As for the so-called online pre-sales...

This was just a small event that Ning Yi came up with on a whim.
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After all, movies nowadays are keenly into pre-sales, he wanted to see if novels could also have pre-sales.

Some novels had dabbled in pre-sales before, but the results were mediocre.

Movie pre-sales relied on various exciting trailers and promotions, as well as the appeal of directors and actors.

Novels couldn't possibly reveal the plot in advance, could they?

That would be a spoiler.

However, Chu Kuang's novel having a pre-sale should be more successful than the average authors, after all, Chu Kuang was not an ordinary person.

Regardless, even if this type of promotion failed, it wouldn't have much of an adverse effect on Amazon.

Although Chu Kuang indeed has a certain level of appeal.

But would everyone obediently purchase the book without knowing how Chu Kuang has written this fairy tale?

Ning Yi guessed it was unlikely.

However, there was a strong possibility that Chu Kuang's die-hard fans would rush to pre-order without a second thought to support Chu Kuang.

The money that Ning Yi wanted to make, was that of Chu Kuang's die-hard fan base.

So, the pre-sale wasn't entirely without purpose, there were still profits to be made.

Even a mosquito is meat. It's better than nothing.

At least a small number of people would deposit the money to pre-order online.

With this in mind, Ning Yi organized this event.

As a result.

Fifteen minutes after the event started, Ning Yi's phone rang, it was his attractive secretary.

"Manager…"

The attractive secretary's voice seemed shaky.

Ning Yi said, "How are the pre-sales going?"

"Something is going wrong…"

The sexy secretary seemed stressed, and her voice wasn't right.

"Are there very few people buying?"

Ning Yi was stunned, something didn't feel right.

Doesn't Chu Kuang have any die-hard fans who unabashedly support him?

Or was Silver Blue Books just ineffective at promoting it?

"No!"

The sexy secretary's voice trembled even harder:

"The one million pre-sale quotas for 'Alice in Wonderland' were snapped up by netizens in just fifteen minutes, the website is now lagging due to the large traffic flow, readers who didn't get to pre-order the novel are complaining in the comment section, you need to reach out to Silver Blue Books quickly.

We need more copies of the book, oh, and don't forget to get the programmers to come and deal with the website issue!"

The sexy secretary was shrieking!

Huh?

Ning Yi was stunned!

He had a complete brain freeze!

At that moment, Ning Yi finally realized, the so-called foundation that David's 'The Legend of the Sea' had laid down was...

nothing in front of the name "Chu Kuang."

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ps: Finally finished the second chapter, it's already late at night, thanks to Feather for being the nth Alliance Hierarch▄█▀█●.