Time flew by, and a semester passed.
By the end of the semester, Ding Yun, through strict grade control, had successfully improved her own grades to be among the top five in the class and the top fifty in the grade.
Zhu Tian Literature Network, after launching its paid model, had stabilized at over thirty million registered users and maintained over ten million daily active users.
Once the data reached this point, further increases were difficult due to technical equipment limitations.
Currently, the only way to read novels on Zhu Tian Literature Network was through a computer. Computers were considered a luxury item at the time, and Ding Yun's original family would not have owned one if they hadn't been making money from a small business.
Ding Yun estimated that there were only about fifty million households nationwide with computers. Moreover, not all of them enjoyed reading novels, nor did all of them have the ability to read, as illiterates couldn't.
Therefore, having thirty million registered users and ten million daily active users for her website was already quite impressive.
Before computers became widely popularized, it was difficult for this data to significantly increase.
As for why Ding Yun didn't create a mobile app?
Computers were not yet widely popular, so the development level of mobile phones could be imagined. The initial research and development idea for large-screen smartphones was to create a miniature portable computer, even more convenient than a laptop.
Computers were not even widespread yet.
How many people would be researching this?
Therefore, the mainstream mobile phones in this world had only developed to the stage of small color screens and ringtones, with screen sizes generally around one to two inches and not much memory.
If Ding Yun developed a mobile app for Zhu Tian Literature Network based on this, it would not only be difficult for her but also for the performance of the mobile phones themselves.
Thus, at present, her Zhu Tian Literature Network could no longer expand. She could only continue to delve deeper into content and accumulate more substance.
When technology advanced and equipment caught up, it would naturally soar to new heights.
This was what Ding Yun thought and what she did.
The specific operations involved opening more novel categories, continuously using newly acquired popularity points to upload more works to the website, and negotiating with publishers for publication.
In addition, she also created a manga section and a game section.
These were all considered broad cultural categories, and they were also items sold in the internal bookstore of the cultural dissemination system. With the assistance of artificial intelligence, setting them up was not particularly difficult. After they were created, Ding Yun noticed some user feedback and discussions, realizing what she had overlooked.
That was, although she had registered a website company, it was essentially an empty shell. Apart from herself and the artificial intelligence, there were no employees. If taxes hadn't been paid normally, and if website operations, customer service, and editor reviews weren't all handled by artificial intelligence, she might have been exposed or aroused suspicion long ago.
The main reason for the current discussions was that people noticed the editors of the newly opened manga and game sections were still the same as the literature section editor, believing that one editor handling so many tasks would be too tiring and arduous. Wasn't this exploiting employees?
This was mainly something Ding Yun hadn't paid attention to before. If she had, she would have had the artificial intelligence create several dummy accounts. The artificial intelligence also did not proactively resolve this issue because Ding Yun had not given any instructions.
However, after discovering this situation, Ding Yun knew that the company needed to hire people. The current model could not continue to operate indefinitely, especially as the number of new authors and operational projects increased. Therefore, she quickly began renting space and recruiting.
With the help of artificial intelligence, she quickly screened suitable candidates and established the overall framework of the Zhu Tian Entertainment Group, arranging personnel for each department.
Thus, the Zhu Tian Entertainment Group was finally laid.
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While Ding Yun was busy with her career during the summer vacation, her younger brother, Li Dedong, caused more trouble.
As mentioned before, Li Dedong was in his third year of junior high school last year and was supposed to take the high school entrance exam this year. Now that summer vacation had arrived, his high school entrance exam was over, and his results were out.
Overall, they were not ideal.
In fact, they were slightly worse than they were over a year ago.
At this point, his family could have spent more money to send him to a relatively good high school nearby. They could even have arranged for him to audit classes at the local best high school, meaning his student status would remain at another high school, while he himself would study at the best high school.
However, Li Qinghua and Xu Hui felt that after more than a year of tutoring and one-on-one instruction, his grades were still like this. Besides the tutor being incompetent, playing games was also a significant factor.
They could still find ways to solve the problem of their son attending high school for the entrance exam, but they didn't have the ability to do so for the college entrance exam.
After much deliberation, they still felt that their son should stay away from the internet, computers, and games.
But they dared not strictly manage their son themselves.
They could only entrust the school with the task.
Therefore, they specifically chose a high school that was quite far from their home, required boarding, had a fully enclosed management system, and only allowed four days off per month. It was said that for first and second-year students, it was four days off a month, and for third-year students, it was only one day.
If he lived farther away and wanted to go home, it would probably only be enough time for a round trip and a quick lunch.
Li Qinghua and his wife believed that once their son entered such a school, he would definitely have no opportunity to play computer games, and his academic performance would surely improve.
Li Dedong was quite happy at first, thinking that being far from home meant his parents couldn't control him, and he could do whatever he wanted and be free.
However, in this era, there was the internet, and one could check the situation of the school and student reviews, as it was a place he would be for the next three years. So, Li Dedong naturally searched online for information about the school. What was the situation there?
What was the specific environment like?
Then he discovered that the school's management was very strict. Students who commuted could leave the school every day after school, but boarding students were absolutely not allowed to leave the school except during holidays. The gatekeepers would not let anyone out.
He couldn't even go out to buy things; he could only ask commuting students to buy them for him, or buy them himself during the holidays.
This was only one aspect.
In addition, there were morning reading sessions at six in the morning and classes ending at ten in the evening. In the third year of high school, classes ended at eleven. After class, he had to wash up, turn off the lights, and go to bed within half an hour, which were regulations he found hard to accept.
Not to mention, according to student rumors, there were ninety-eight surveillance cameras installed in the school.
In short, based on this information alone, Li Dedong could imagine how miserable his experience at that high school would be!
So, he naturally began to make a scene at home, arguing with Li Qinghua and Xu Hui, stating that he would rather drop out of school than attend that high school.
It was such a fuss.
It made the household feel like a constant opera.