Right after Henry Carter posted this comment, the comment section suddenly exploded: “No way, such a great work can’t get a contract? Honestly, as long as a book can help me relax after work, it’s a good book! I’m a bit tired of those big-name authors’ works—they’re exhausting to read!”

“Just for the fact that you updated five chapters at once, I have to support you. The updates are so strong, forget it, from now on all my votes are yours!”

“Say no more, let’s carry the antelope to the new book rankings! Let all the readers on the site see this book!”

In just one hour, the divine book actually received 1,300 recommendation votes—that’s the result many other authors get in a whole week! Even though the divine book wasn’t contracted or recommended, it shot up the new book rankings like a rocket!

And many of those it surpassed were veteran authors!

To be honest, this level of support even left Henry Carter a bit stunned. Had the divine book already gained so many readers without him realizing it?

Suddenly, a veteran author exclaimed in the author group: “I spent several hundred bucks to secure my spot on the rankings, and I actually got overtaken by a new book!”

“No way, haha, your readers are so steady, you’re always on the list, and you even bought recommendation votes—how could someone knock you off?”

“Seriously, go check out that divine book!”

“Divine book? How divine?”

“No, that’s literally its name—Divine Book!”

The authors went quiet for two seconds, then burst out laughing in reply: “Pfft, that’s bold, just calling it Divine Book? Gotta check it out!”

“Let’s go, let’s go, maybe you’ve run into a big spender. Maybe they have the money to buy tens of thousands of recommendation votes. But even if a book gets on the list this way, if it’s not good, it’ll flop when it goes on sale. You can’t buy your own subscriptions, right?”

However, when all the authors opened Divine Book and started reading, they all gasped: Hiss, this book feels so satisfying!

Sure, reading physical books can be satisfying too, but never as direct, as dense, as frequent as this one!

Every bit of foreshadowing seemed to be setting up the next mini-climax, and each mini-climax built up to a major one.

When they checked the comments for Divine Book, they found the comment section was full of readers spontaneously pledging to push Divine Book up the rankings. Everyone was posting how many recommendation votes they’d cast, followed by a word of encouragement: 13 votes cast, please keep writing with peace of mind.

Chapter 4: Number One on the New Book Rankings

Who would have thought that such a new book could stir up such a wave of discussion across the entire Shengshi Chinese Web?

And it’s a new book that can’t even get a contract?

Watching Divine Book soar higher and higher on the rankings, even reaching third place on the new book list, all the authors gasped—this is getting serious. The top three spots on the new book list have always been reserved for the big names; no one else can even dream of taking them.

“Is this guy really going to dethrone a big-name author?” a veteran author speculated...

“No way, look, the rate of recommendation votes is already slowing down. At this rate, there’s no way he can catch the top two. You have to remember, those two had huge hits last year, and now they have a loyal fanbase.”

“Yeah, The Great Ethan’s last book, ‘Strolling Through the Prehistoric,’ was a sensation across half of Shengshi. He wrote the grandeur of the prehistoric world so magnificently. Now The Great Ethan is firmly in first place. There’s no way a newcomer’s work can shake that.”

From all indications, there was no way this Divine Book could surpass a supreme god’s new book on the new book rankings.

But suddenly, someone cried out: “Check the red envelope section! Some tycoon is spamming Divine Book with recommendation vote red envelopes! Damn!”

“Who’s got such deep pockets?”

“Third on the Shengshi tycoon list, Drunkard! Holy crap! Tens of thousands of recommendation red envelopes—now you can’t even see any other book’s red envelopes in the whole section!”

“Terrifying!”

A recommendation red envelope means that as long as you vote for Divine Book, you can claim a red envelope sent out by the tycoon in the Shengshi Chinese Web system!

Henry Carter suddenly saw that the third-ranked tycoon on the Shengshi Chinese Web tycoon list, Drunkard, had posted a comment in Divine Book’s comment section: “爽.” (Satisfying.)

Just that one word summed up all his feelings. Reading this book is all about that one word:爽!

The whole Shengshi Chinese Web was abuzz. This was the first time a top-three tycoon had supported a new book, instantly sparking heated discussion among readers and authors alike. In fact, many authors’ reader groups were talking about it.

And because the recommendation vote red envelopes were helping Divine Book get more votes, its position on the new book rankings jumped up again—now it was just one step away from first place!

“Is it really going to hit number one on the new book rankings?”

“Is The Great Ethan about to get dethroned?!”

“No way, there’s still a big gap!”

“Not really, with these tens of thousands of red envelopes, it’s almost there, right?”

At this point, all the authors were waiting to see if The Great Ethan would make a move. With his status threatened, if the big name just raised his arm, there would definitely be more readers coming out to support him.

Now it was all about what The Great Ethan would do next.