At one in the morning, after taking a shower, Ning Yuhuan finally fell into a deep sleep because she was too tired.
This ti she was much better than last ti. Last ti she cried three tis; this ti, Ning Yuhuan only cried once.
Xu Lin thought about it and decided not to bother her too much.
He was still a bit unsatisfied, but it was ti, so Xu Lin went to sleep too.
The night passed without words.
In the morning, the two of them got up around six, and Ning Yuhuan woke Xu Lin up.
After freshening up, they checked out of the room at exactly 6:50.
This ti, Xu Lin booked a place not far from the school, and they got to the school in twenty minutes.
They were able to have a hot breakfast in the cafeteria in the morning.
The next couple of days, Xu Lin’s life was quite full.
No room bookings.
On Wednesday afternoon, Xu Lin went to the school basketball court to play because he was bored.
There were basketball players from freshn to juniors.
As for the seniors, it’s September now, and most of them are busy looking for jobs, internships, civil service exams, graduate school applications, etc.
In short, college life doesn’t have much to do with them anymore.
Even though college is supposed to be four years, it’s actually only about three and a half at most, sotis just three.
Like in the senior year, there might be a few courses in the first sester, but you don’t need to co in the next sester. You are supposed to intern, work, or whatever you’re supposed to do, although you have to co back for the thesis defense later.
So, the ones sweating and spending their youth on the college basketball court are the freshn to juniors.
Youth is just that inexplicable!
Back to the point.
Xu Lin played basketball, and with his strong physical condition, he impressed the people there.
There were quite a few players over 1.9 ters tall, and they were not only tall but also very strong.
But none of them could withstand Xu Lin; even three big guys couldn’t hold up against his strength.
As a result, Xu Lin earned their respect and was added to a basketball friends group.
Xu Lin spent the afternoons of the next two days playing basketball with these people.
Without evening classes, Xu Lin pondered his matters.
If Ning Yuhuan had nothing to do every evening, she would go to the library to study until ten at night.
As the top student in her major, she had always been diligent.
Xu Lin also stayed in the library with Ning Yuhuan for two nights.
He wasn’t just idling away in the library; he was studying a newly triggered task.
[Task: English? It’s easy if you have hands!]
[Progress: None.]
The task required Xu Lin to explore it on his own.
About this, Xu Lin didn’t have many ideas.
He started with the dumbest thod, which was morizing words.
Xu Lin wasn’t morizing words for the English CET-4 and CET-6 exams.
CET-4 and CET-6 words are just for those exams, and the task’s requirent is for Xu Lin to master the English language.
Since it’s mastery, it’s not the so-called CET-4 or CET-6, and besides, there are also specialized CET-4 and CET-8 levels.
With a spirit of exploration and inquiry, Xu Lin found an Oxford dictionary in the library.
"Oxford High Level," with a vocabulary of 220,000 words!
This number is extrely large.
Xu Lin heard that there are already millions of English words in the world now.
So, what does this an?
There are no new Chinese characters being made. For new things, it’s just a matter of arranging and combining existing characters. Knowing 1,000 Chinese characters is enough for daily use. Knowing a few thousand characters enables you to write well, and knowing tens of thousands makes you a Chinese language master.
But with English, they say even those foreigners haven’t fully figured it out.
Therefore, many people online joke that English is a lower-level language; it always has new words being born, with a large batch added every year, unlike Chinese, which has evolved to a very advanced stage.
But it’s important to note that English is still a vital language, especially for those pursuing higher education; the further you go, the more you need English, and for external interactions, a solid English foundation is also necessary.
However, if you’re just traveling or visiting foreign countries, having a phone is enough, and translation is simple enough. For most people, English is useless, which is why so people clamor for its cancellation.
But if you want to access fresh information, you need language.
Everyone resides in their own information cocoon room, and naturally, their perspective will be sowhat limited.
Xu Lin opened the first page of the text in the "Oxford High Level."
This vocabulary book was very thick, also heavy, and had a lot of words.
But the dictionary contains all kinds of explanations, which are quite lengthy, so these can be ignored.
Xu Lin focused on the words, pronunciation, and so aning explanations; basically, he just needed to rember the main content.
220,000 words seem to be a lot, but for Xu Lin, with his extraordinary mory, it wasn’t too many.
It just ant flipping through the book page by page, which was quite troubleso.
The last two nights at the library, Xu Lin was in focused mode.
Moreover, to prevent brain overload due to excessive ntal activity, Xu Lin also bought two large bottles of cola, each two liters, for those two nights.
Because when Xu Lin focuses intensely, his energy consumption increases faster.
As soon as the system prompted that Xu Lin’s energy bar dipped below 70, he would imdiately replenish his energy.
Two nights, over five hours in total.
Xu Lin completed the "Oxford High Level" and successfully morized 220,000 words!
This kind of mory is quite exaggerated.
Seeing Xu Lin close the "Oxford High Level" beside her, Ning Yuhuan couldn’t help but ask, "Honey, did you finish morizing?"
She had been by Xu Lin’s side all along and was amazed at Xu Lin’s mory.
"I finished, but I only morized the words and their basic anings. I didn’t look at other content."
"But that’s still amazing!"
Ning Yuhuan couldn’t help but say. It’s her first ti seeing soone with a mory as exaggerated as Xu Lin’s in real life.
Xu Lin told her to stay calm.
At this mont, Xu Lin’s gaze fell on the task panel in front of him.
[Task: English? Just need hands!]
[Progress: Word Mastery (Completed)]
"Finally made so progress!"
Xu Lin was in a good mood. His efforts over the past two days hadn’t been in vain, and it seed his exploration approach was correct.
"Gurgle!"
Xu Lin opened a can of cola and started drinking.
[Energy (82/100): Full of Spirit.]
This was a perfect energy state.
"Don’t drink so much soda, it’s unhealthy."
Ning Yuhuan reminded him again. Xu Lin had been drinking too much cola over the past two days, drinking it like water, and Ning Yuhuan was quite worried.
"It’s fine, just had a bit."
Ning Yuhuan naturally wouldn’t know that Xu Lin’s drinking soda wasn’t the sa as a normal person’s.
First, he had the Immunity Buff, and second, his physique was "excellent and above."
In such a situation, it ant Xu Lin wouldn’t get sick, and his body wouldn’t have any problems.
Like drinking soda for normal people, it’s okay occasionally, but drinking it often would definitely cause issues. However, Xu Lin didn’t need to worry about his body at all.
"Finished with the words, next up is translation, right?"
"Words are just the basics, translation requires understanding grammar, so the next step is grammar. After that, it should be speaking, right?"
"Grammar tomorrow... forget it, let’s talk about it later!"
This morning, after Yu Xinyan’s military training rehearsal ended, she returned to school in the afternoon.
Xu Lin promised to visit her tomorrow, which was Friday.
At ten in the evening, Xu Lin and Ning Yuhuan left the library. After sending Ning Yuhuan back to her dorm, Xu Lin also returned to his dorm.
Ten-thirty.
At this ti, Liu Longsheng was listening to music on his MacBook, Hu Donghai was watching a war film, and Xie Zhengrong was playing Black Monkey for the sixth ti.
The dorm remained unchanged.
Xu Lin also turned on his computer and got into the zone.
He wrote ten thousand words in an hour, setting it up in the author’s backend to post later.
Currently, "My 26-year-old Miss Maybach" was still at the top of the sales chart.
As more people were drawn in with Xu Lin’s updates, they couldn’t help but tip with excitent.
To be sales number one, usually, a daily sales figure of a hundred thousand is enough, unless a very strong work appears.
That ans Xu Lin received tips totaling over a hundred thousand on that day.
It’s hard to say how long this can be sustained.
As for monthly votes, currently, the monthly votes exceeded fifty thousand, placing it third.
But monthly votes can be manipulated; with money, you can find vendors to buy them, and many people do this.
Xu Lin wasn’t interested in this.
Being in the top ten for monthly votes brings a lot of exposure.
He wasn’t planning to delve deeply into the web novel field. "My 26-year-old Miss Maybach" was created by Xu Lin to complete a task, making money was secondary, and successfully obtaining two rewards was Xu Lin’s goal.
Regarding collections, with just over thirty thousand words, the collection count had already astonishingly reached two hundred thousand, and it ranked number one on the new book list.
However, the collection count by the ti it finishes likely won’t be too exaggerated because this website is a paid site with limited users, and a collection reaching the tens of thousands is basically the cap. Unlike free websites where readers can be nurous, ranging from six to eighty-six years old.
Xu Lin was quite satisfied with this.
By the ti it’s on the shelf, although it won’t be very long, just tens of thousands of words, with significant reader support, he could still earn a good sum.
Perhaps enough for a Maybach?
What about the rights?
Xu Lin hadn’t thought much about it.
Rights depend on whether any investors fancy it.
After setting the novel Chapters to post later, Xu Lin exited the author’s software, then opened Word to continue perfecting two outlines.
In addition, the new book Xu Lin co-authored with Toutuo was currently second on the new book list, with collections over eighty thousand and almost a hundred thousand words.
Xu Lin crafted a climax in that outline within this word count range, and whether it can cause a sensation depends on if Toutuo can control it well.
His outline was undeniably good, so it was a matter of the person taking over having the writing skills.
"If a true expert took over my outline, that would be great, but that’s not possible."
Experts make a lot of money writing their own books, have their pride, and wouldn’t write for others.
Except for outdated experts.
These outdated experts, it’s not about reputation, but so have indeed declined significantly in skill and can’t keep up with the tis, making them unsuitable for this industry, so the market has discarded them.
Xu Lin wouldn’t seek them out for collaboration either.
So Xu Lin was only considering authors like Toutuo and Wu Chengfeng, those who were neither here nor there in terms of skill.
First, they had skill but not much, and they wanted to improve further, weren’t arrogant, and were willing to learn humbly.
Especially the ability to learn humbly, aning willing to listen to Xu Lin’s advice, like Wu Chengfeng and Toutuo, who often asked Xu Lin questions and listened.
This was very important.
People who were arrogant and not serious, Xu Lin didn’t want to pay any attention to.
In Xu Lin’s dorm, they went to bed quite late, around one or two.
Xu Lin usually went to bed before twelve.
But tonight, his two outlines were almost done, so Xu Lin decided to stay up until after one to finish them.
"I’ll do a little polishing over the weekend, then they’re good to go!"
In a good mood, Xu Lin stretched, turned off the computer, and climbed into bed to sleep.
Xie Zhengrong and the others also went to bed one after another at this ti.
The next day, classes continued as usual.
During the day, Xu Lin attended his classes diligently.
After class in the afternoon, Xu Lin directly took the subway to Jiangdu University station.
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