Chapter 178 I'll give you some strength, Xiao Li Yan
As far as I can remember, ever since Kaiyuan decided to give the recommendation to Li Yan's editor's selection, Kaiyuan has always been pessimistic about the online novel "The Sword of the White-Haired Emperor".

Kaiyuan, who helped Li Yan understand "This book is really great!" every day, heard the word "pessimistic", which really made Li Yan a little uncomfortable.

No, it’s Li Yan, who has been making great strides since the art performance, who is unable to adapt to the “downward trend”.

Li Yan: What’s the problem with the data?

Kaiyuan: As for the current content, I personally feel that there is nothing wrong with it. The standard and quality have been maintained, and the comments from readers are positive and there is enthusiasm. However! The number of subscriptions cannot be increased.

Li Yan looked at the average subscription of 4,500 and expressed her confusion: Isn't it only the third day of the Chinese New Year? It has only been updated for eleven days in total.

Kaiyuan: That's the problem! You've been updating 15,000 words a day for ten days, and you updated 30,000 words on the day the book was released. You updated 180,000 words in 11 days. I was worried about your health, but the average subscription increased by 200, and the collections didn't increase much.

Li Yan frowned unconsciously: Didn’t you say that this book will be more powerful in the later stages, so we don’t need to pay too much attention to it now?

Kaiyuan replied quickly, his typing speed reflecting his anxiety: Don't worry too much about the first order, because if you work hard in the later stage and update frequently, the data will definitely get better and better, but now... if other authors update frequently, the average order will go up in the morning. I also have a headache, and after thinking about it, there may be several reasons.

Li Yan: This book is slow to start and has a grand worldview, so you need to calm down and read it. Theoretically, it should not have the potential to be a hit. The fact that it took a long time to sign the contract also shows this point - at least that's what the editors thought.

Kaiyuan's "inputting" status lasted for a while and then stopped.

Li Yan: One is your support, Yuanda, which gave the novel an editor's choice position, which gave the novel its first wave of traffic and the impression that "this book should be awesome." Writing about one's own worldview and being slow to warm up are often the privileges of famous authors. People first assume that this book is good, and then they have the patience to read the author's slowly unfolding story.

Kaiyuan: That’s right, so I decided to take a gamble. If it weren’t for this recommendation, it would be hard for people to become curious.

Li Yan: The second one is The Golden Alliance of Mr. Shenxu. While attracting traffic, the "violent operation" has greatly increased the popularity and topicality of this book. When more people pay attention to it, there will always be people who will read it.

Kaiyuan: The third point is your frequent updates. For a story with high information density, grand story, and complex setting, the update speed is often a flaw, but you maintain high quality and retain readers.

Li Yan's typing speed slowed down: "With the support of these three points, we have achieved the current results. In other words, if the topic becomes less popular, it will be difficult for everyone to maintain their enthusiasm for this book, right?
Kaiyuan: Judging from the data, it should be. Recently, the number of new readers and the number of people who keep the book are almost the same. There is such a high proportion of people who keep the book even when the book is updated. This shows that reading your book... is a bit tiring.

Li Yan's hands, which were typing on the keyboard, suddenly trembled: Tired?
Kaiyuan: Online literature is not a literary masterpiece. Besides, if you look at people, how many of them read literary masterpieces? Especially after I started working. When I was a student, I was also a literary boy. Now I am working as an editor and read novels every day. I still can’t read literary masterpieces.

Li Yan seemed to be thinking about something.

Kaiyuan: Because I’m too tired! I read novels to relax. I do crave for deep and exciting stories, but one or two masterpieces are enough. When I look for new books, I still want to put myself in the story and have fun, or to have some emotional resonance so that I don’t feel so empty and lonely.

Li Yan bit her lip.

Kaiyuan: Sorry, I seem to have dumped my anxiety on you. As an editor, I shouldn't do that. Just keep writing at your own pace. Your performance is still very good now. You have even got the badge of excellence. What are you afraid of? The stories that will be developed in the later stages will slowly explode!

Li Yan: Of course.

After the conversation ended, Li Yan felt a little disappointed.

His extraordinary mental level repeatedly adjusted his emotions, but he eventually became a little depressed.

Damn it, Kaiyuan has calmed down and doesn’t dare to imagine the future.

Li Yan has become accustomed to the explosive growth in performance due to her rapid improvement in abilities, so the sudden stagnation of her novel was really a blow to her.

The intensity of the emotion was not as strong as the first sentence "What a piece of crap", but this time the internal force was so strong that it directly shocked Li Yan's heart.

Before one crisis is over, another one arises. While Li Yan was still wondering if she was being too hypocritical for being depressed because of "not meeting expectations", she saw a familiar yet unfamiliar avatar flashing.

20220922163341297: It’s Chen Fan.

Li Yan immediately made a note and didn't want to ask what the long string of numbers meant.

Chen Fan: In order to disappear quietly in a group, I can only pretend to become garbled code.

Li Yan: Okay, that’s not important. You actually came to me so early in the morning, on the third day of the New Year. It shocked me for the whole year.

Chen Fan: Things with mobile phone systems are not easy to deal with.

Li Yan: Of course it’s not easy. Chen Fan: I mean… it’s impossible.

Ouch? Li Yan frowned. What does this mean? They are coming to me one after another during the New Year, right?

Chen Fan: I studied it for a long time before the New Year and found that I had no idea where to start with many things. If you asked me to build a simple computer system, I would at least have a direction and think I could complete it, but I really couldn't understand the mobile phone system.

Li Yan: I’ve thought about it too. There aren’t many smart phones now, so we have no place to test them once we make one.

Chen Fan: You even thought about testing it? I didn’t dare to think about it. I asked my dad about it during the Chinese New Year, and he took me to talk to his friends. They all thought it was… impossible.

Li Yan: Why?
Chen Fan: I almost dismantled Pineapple 3, and compared it with Nokia's current system. I asked my father's friend to study the open source Robert system and the open source X kernel. I can only say that we can try to make a system for our own entertainment.

Li Yan: Does it mean that it seems to be working?
Chen Fan: BINGO, accurate. I don’t dare to think about making a kernel myself, I just use the open source ones. But the system we want to make needs to be optimized for mobile phones. I can’t even imagine the specific content of this project. Take Pineapple 3 as an example. Our system needs to write a large number of device drivers, a series of system services and middleware components, and an application framework that provides API interfaces for various software developers. I don’t even consider graphical UI as a difficult point...

When discussing professional issues, Chen Fan really seemed like a different person.

Chen Fan: I have absolutely no idea how to interact directly with the hardware of Pineapple 3. I don’t understand mobile phone hardware at all… As for the difficulty of memory management, process scheduling, and file system required for system design, I believe my current programming level is not enough to meet the requirements.

Li Yan felt a little ashamed. He understood even less than Chen Fan... but Chen Fan's initial confidence even came from him.

Chen Fan: Even if I understood it all, I couldn't imagine the amount of code. And if you really want to be able to use it, you have to conduct extensive testing, ensure system stability, find bugs, and fix bugs... To be honest, I only realized these things after hearing about them from my dad and his friends.

Li Yan: Who are your dad and your dad’s friends?
Chen Fan: Nothing much. My dad is the director of the New Taipei Optoelectronics Research Institute and he knows some friends who are involved in electronic products.

Damn, it's so important, there's really no way to avoid it.

Face the reality, Xiao Li Yan!

Maybe because Li Yan was slow to reply, Chen Fan also realized that these words were a bit discouraging, and added: Of course, it's not impossible... My father's friend said that he knows a boss of a technology company called Chuangzu, who is moving computer systems to mobile phones. He said that the main difficulty is actually to make a commercial product. If we just treat it as a concept project, only complete some simple interactions, and don't consider the "completeness" thing, it's not impossible.

Li Yan: We have no choice but to do this because there are not even many applications for us to test.

Chen Fan: BINGO! This is also a big problem. Look at Pineapple 3... No matter how good the computer system is, it will be useless without usable software.

Li Yan: So we have to develop simultaneously.

Chen Fan was stunned in front of the computer. The fire that was extinguished by his father was ignited again by Li Yan.

Li Yan: You have connections, and so do I. We have a lot of resources to utilize. I firmly believe that Nochi Stone is not the future, but now is a good time for a melee. Even if it is an immature concept, there will be people willing to give us a trial and error.

Chen Fan's eyes lit up.

Li Yan: Once we miss this opportunity, some dominant systems will begin to emerge, and other people’s software will be developed based on their systems, and we will really only be able to play around.

Chen Fan: No, aren’t you just playing around?
Li Yan: I want to master the core technology. But I saw that when you first considered the issues, you didn't think of it as just for fun.

Chen Fan was shocked and typed at his highest speed. The sound of the keyboard woke up his dog: "No! I just habitually want to study more deeply. I never thought about making a commercial product! Li Yan, you don't know any amazing technology, do you?"

Li Yan: No, I really can’t.

Chen Fan felt a mixed feeling of relief, but also a little disappointed.

Li Yan: But you can learn it.

Damn, you are worthy of it!

Chen Fan didn't even realize that there was an excited smile on the corner of his mouth.

"The vacation is over, Li Yan!" Li Yan took a deep breath and opened the various materials given by Chen Fan. "Time waits for no one. It's time for you to play a role, System Master!"

(End of this chapter)