My System Forces Me to Live off Women

To be honest, getting through this weekend, letting dad meet Zhao Qingge’s parents smoothly, and even scheduling future meetings with the parents of the other three girls, settling future plans, and finally having a one-versus-three battle... Li Peifeng no longer cared too much about how much he could earn from crude oil.

His goal for making money was to marry several girls, aiming to meet Wu Wenyue’s demand for a hundred million in bride price. But now, the girls have become more understanding, not only agreeing to marry him sequentially, but already three-quarters through the process.

At this moment, Li Peifeng was just a little bit away from having no regrets in this life, but on top of being successful in love, he also wanted to hit it big at the casino. Li Peifeng thought he might be getting a bit greedy.

So he was content, no matter whether crude oil surges or crashes tomorrow; Li Peifeng no longer held onto anxious feelings of gain or loss.

Money is just a number.

What will I, Li Peifeng, lack in the future? Certainly not money. What is money? Money is just a bastard...

In a moment of sage-like clarity, Li found himself a bit carried away, but Wu Wenyue might have sensed his inner ease, and combined with the shame and anger from being ’forced’ into a one-versus-three, she spat out some harsh words.

"Don’t be smug now. If your crude oil collapses tomorrow and you lose everything, when it comes time to marry me, not only will you not be able to produce the promised bride price, but you won’t even have the money to buy a house in the Capital. I’d definitely make you, this useless thing, explode!"

"..."

Xu Manning chimed in: "I heard Uncle say during dinner that after you marry Old Zhao, you’ll have to hand over your salary card?"

Huang Tianxuan unexpectedly joined in: "I heard it too, what a good husband. Pity, not yours."

"Don’t worry, the bride price I dare not forget. Haven’t you noticed I’ve been a lot more thrifty lately? Not wasting a single penny wrongly. The bride prices for you four, along with the cost for house and car, is at least half a billion, my pressure is too huge, I can only save bit by bit..."

"Playing the pity card? After playing with us you start playing the pity card... I’ll bite you!"

"Hey, hit him but don’t squeeze me, I’m about to fall off!"

"Let’s kick him out together. You dog! Go back to your room!"

"Alright, alright, I’ll go myself, you all rest, I’ll go write to earn money."

With that, the girls began to attack either with fists or teeth, and Li Peifeng could only roll off the bed and return to his own room.

Their emotions seemed very sudden, chatting and then inexplicably getting angry again, but Li Peifeng could understand.

It’s common for people to say one thing but mean another, especially women!

Li Peifeng understood this too well, so he decided to give the three of them some alone time, let the girls chat privately, reminisce, give them space, while he went back to his room to focus on writing and creativity.

But maybe because he could hear the whisperings of the three girls next door, Li Peifeng found it hard to get into the state of writing.

Before, he said in a lecture something like: Writing is a way for me to find peace, and it has become a lifestyle for me...

This is indeed what Li Peifeng felt, but there was another half of the sentence he didn’t say: If a person is truly happy, they wouldn’t want to write or do anything serious, they just want to live aimlessly and happily.

Because writing doesn’t make one happy, it often causes the author pain.

Authors inevitably immerse their emotions into their stories as they create them, swaying with the characters and plots, not to mention that authors must stay relatively detached while empathizing, seriously considering every character’s mindset, position, purpose, emotion, then based on this, think about plot development...

The more you think, the more you know, the more inadequate and painful you feel.

"This is really self-inflicted mental strain. After finishing the first volume of ’Sword and Magic,’ I will take a good rest for a while."

Li Peifeng set himself a holiday, but he still felt a bit stuck, nothing quite came out right in writing. He thought about drinking perfume again to dream for inspiration, but felt [Nether Sea’s Breath] was too precious to use sparingly, so he opened the writer’s backend to check last month’s manuscript fee statistics from the website, trying to use it as motivation.

The February manuscript fee, although not yet transferred, had already been tallied.

For the female-oriented older books like ’Female Supremacy,’ ’Evil Boss,’ the monthly earnings were nine hundred and thirty thousand, increasing instead of decreasing, as Li Peifeng predicted, probably due to the benefit from previously released trailers, plus some income from adaptations like manga and audio drama.

As for ’Sword and Magic,’ which now has a subscription base of forty-five thousand, its February manuscript fee was not as high as Li Peifeng expected. Main site subscription income just barely broke two million, reaching two million and three hundred, while other channels and free income totaled over seven hundred thousand, and added with eighty-two thousand in rewards sharing, ’Sword and Magic’ earned a total of three million five hundred fifty-five thousand in February.

"Only four million four hundred eighty, and that’s before tax, deducting tax will at least reduce by one quarter..."

Li Peifeng wasn’t too satisfied, because it seemed unlikely he could even produce the five million he promised his dad, but thinking about February only having twenty-eight days, and ’Sword and Magic’ was only launched fee-based mid-month, making it charged for just twelve days that month, it’s understandable to get this manuscript fee.

If I work hard this month, maybe March’s manuscript fee could be... nine million?!

"Now that’s motivating!"

Li Peifeng’s heart warmed up, riding this momentum he closed the backend writer’s webpage, forcing himself to enter the writing state.

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