Chapter 176: 350,000 Yuan, Finally Arrived
This text message was a bank deposit notification.
[Your account ending 191 has received a UnionPay deposit, income amount: 350,000 yuan
Balance: 350,100 yuan, transfer party: (You Sha Qi Royalty Payment)]
(From the first day of moving in until the end of round 27, exactly five weeks totaling 350,000 yuan)
(The previous water and electricity fees and property fee bills covered 25 days, and due to different settlement dates, only 25 days were settled)
A deposit message suddenly appeared.
Especially such a huge amount of 350,000 yuan.
Jiang Ran wondered if he was seeing things?
After confirming he wasn't seeing things, he suddenly thought - could this be a scam?
He opened the corresponding banking app and found that the money had indeed arrived. It wasn't any scam message.
So where did this sudden windfall come from?
You Sha Qi Royalty Payment.
"You Sha Qi?!"
Jiang Ran stood still and began recalling the original host's memories, searching for anything related to You Sha Qi.
Finally, he found it.
After the original host was dumped by his girlfriend.
Besides working multiple jobs in real life.
He had also taken on several roles online.
Drawing comics, writing novels, making videos as a streamer.
Then eventually, he gave up all these online activities and returned to reality.
Why?
Because they all failed miserably.
And You Sha Qi's full name was: You Sha Qi Comics, a comic app.
This was the platform where the original host had published his comic works.
Quickening his pace, Jiang Ran returned to room 304.
Using his phone and computer, he downloaded You Sha Qi Comics.
Simultaneously, Jiang Ran found the author backend of You Sha Qi Comics.
He successfully logged in using the original host's phone number.
After logging in successfully.
He discovered the original host's author name on You Sha Qi Comics was: I Want to Make Money Like Crazy.
Then he clicked on the work platform.
Found that the original host had published two comics he drew himself.
Jiang Ran clicked open and began examining them carefully.
The first comic was called: "Love Abyss"
Jiang Ran briefly browsed through it and found it was just a very ordinary romance-oriented comic.
It told the love story of a male and female lead who were together from university until graduation when they separated.
Guess who the prototypes of the male and female lead were?
That's right, the original host and his ex-girlfriend Shen Xing.
The story plot in the comic was quite similar to the scenes of the original host dating Shen Xing in Jiang Ran's memories.
Basically drawing their love story.
This comic was already completed, over a hundred chapters total.
Jiang Ran opened You Sha Qi Comics on his phone.
Searched for "Love Abyss".
Discovered that this comic was a complete failure of a work.
The work had very few comments.
His gaze returned to the computer's author backend.
Found that with this comic, the original host was purely surviving on the monthly attendance bonus.
Other income each month was just over ten yuan, or even just a few yuan.
"No wonder, these days pure romance genres seem to have passed their peak popularity period..."
This one interested Jiang Ran somewhat;
probably the original host realized his first debut work wasn't popular, so for the second one, he went with the recently popular apocalypse genre comic.
Unfortunately, this comic performed slightly better than the previous one, but was still just scraping by for the attendance bonus.
The original host's drawing skills, pacing, narrative, and story plot were still somewhat unsatisfactory.
So, this one wasn't even completed, only fifty-some chapters.
The original host posted a discontinuation notice.
Saying he had failed miserably, and never planned to draw comics again...
After reading all this, Jiang Ran found the income section in the author backend.
Discovered that the 350,000 yuan he just received.
All came from the first comic work "Love Abyss".
But Jiang Ran had just checked on his phone - wasn't this a failed work?
Just surviving on attendance bonuses!
Then how did it suddenly have so much income?
He carefully searched for clues again.
Found that this 350,000 yuan all came from reader donations.
The donor was a single reader named: Spring Has Come, Summer Has Come Too.
From the personal interface, it appeared to be a female reader.
She had been continuously donating to this work while also posting her comments:
[So touching, reading this work feels like returning to my university days...]
It seemed this female reader super loved this work, hence the crazy donations and lavish tipping.
Jiang Ran stared at this female reader's completely dominant first place position on the donation rankings for this failed work, feeling somewhat emotional.
Liking a work means they can casually donate this much money!
If this money were spent elsewhere, it could fully subscribe to who knows how many comics!
Rich woman! Amazing!
Of course, besides feeling emotional, he also felt the original host was truly unlucky!
Now though, it benefits him instead.
Suddenly having 350,000 yuan.
Jiang Ran still felt somewhat dreamlike, unable to believe it.
Suddenly having such a huge amount of money for him, he didn't even know what to do with it.
After calming down for quite a while, he finally remembered what he needed to do.
He needed to repay money.
Repay Wang Qingzhao for the medicine money.
But looking at the pitch-black darkness outside the window, repaying money would have to wait until tomorrow.
The next day, 8:00 AM.
Jiang Ran appeared on the first floor and asked Manager Xiao Zhang for a day off.
After Jiang Ran finished requesting leave, he suddenly heard rumbling sounds coming from outside the apartment building.
He quickly walked a few steps and looked through the glass automatic sensor door.
Saw many trucks driving into the apartment complex through the main gate.
Plus many men dressed as workers, all carrying various tools, who scattered left and right after entering through the main gate.
Jiang Ran asked Manager Xiao Zhang what was happening.
Manager Xiao Zhang said the apartment owner was planning to build another apartment building next to theirs.
Their current building would be Number 1 Building, and the one next to it would be Number 2 Building.
This way, more residents could move in.
Additionally, the apartment owner had bought much land near Alice Apartment.
Planning to expand and construct some other facilities.
Understanding what was happening, Jiang Ran wasn't curious anymore.
After all, these matters didn't concern him.
Wait, building another apartment building, having another building's residents move in - wouldn't this increase the workload for apartment staff like them?
...
Jiang Ran had made an appointment with Wang Qingzhao last night.
Wang Qingzhao had readily agreed.
So at 9:00 AM, the two met at a large coffee shop in the city center.
After meeting, they sat by the window.
Jiang Ran ordered two iced coffees.
And generously told Wang Qingzhao it was his treat.
Hearing Jiang Ran was treating, Wang Qingzhao teasingly asked if he had struck it rich.
Jiang Ran smiled without answering.
Said: "You could say I came into some small fortune."
"So I asked you out today specifically to repay you."
"Those two bottles of medicine you gave me last time were 25,000 each, so two bottles make 50,000, right? Give me your phone, I'll scan and transfer to you."
Seeing Jiang Ran looking like he genuinely intended to repay, Wang Qingzhao's two large eyes widened even more.
"Oh my, after three days apart, one should regard someone with new respect."
"In such a short time, you already have money to repay me?"
"Tell me, Jiang Ran, did you do something illegal?"
"Like... being a male escort?"