A Legitimate Cheat: Chatting in Group Chats Earns Stat Points

Xu Hao was just an ordinary wage earner. After paying for food, clothing, and other necessities, there was barely anything left from his monthly salary. In other words, he lived paycheck to paycheck, or was just plain broke.

That was how life went, until a chance opportunity led him to write a novel. To his surprise, it got signed, and without a second thought, he quit his job and chased his dream of earning over ten thousand yuan a month.

"I've written 50,000 words, and still nobody's reading it. I'll try writing 100,000 and see what happens."

"Didn't it already get featured? Why haven't the numbers changed?"

"..."

His novel kept growing longer, but its stats were still as unmoving as a rock beside a latrine: completely unchanged, and stinking to boot.

Xu Hao had already lost a lot of hair and was about to give up writing and return to his old line of work.

"Ding dong! The Serious Author System is loading. Loading progress: 1%..."

He was already ready to throw in the towel, so why had his cheat appeared now? Could he really have a talent for writing novels?