《R I D I N [zhong chenle] ✓》F O U R
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"He's after me? I thought I knee-ed him hard enough", Xiu Ying, or more like Blood Rose, mumbled as she saw a motorbike quickly racing through the rear view mirror.
Out of all days, both Chenle and Xiu Ying just happened to rob the same exact bank which led into this whole mess. If only she robbed a different one, there were still 5 more after all.
Does Blood Rose have a license? No, she's a criminal do you really think she'll get a license? But she had many runs before, so she ended up knowing how to drive a car by herself. It wasn't safe driving, but at least it'll save her from getting caught.
On this night unfortunately, she'll have to lower her pride for Devil Rider was never one to give up and was quickly catching up.
Mumbling a string of curses, she sharply turned around a corner and through even more corners hoping to lose him. After some time, she noticed the bike was no longer behind her which made her heave a sigh of relief. She finally lost him, or did she really?
Stopping at a street that was not so far from her apartment, Blood Rose took the bag of money from behind her and got out of the car.
Walking hastily, it wasn't quick enough as loud footsteps filled her ears and suddenly she got thrown to the wall, leaving her to drop her bag and her hands pressed beside her as the same person from before stared at her.
"It's you again", she said nonchalantly. "Fancy seeing you here"
Chenle chuckled deeply, the sound muffled due to the mask. "I believe you stole something from me?"
"What? Your heart, maybe?", she flirted. "Lucky guess, but I was obviously hinting at that", he nudged his head towards the bag that was at their foot now.
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"Hmmm", she stared at him, her gaze eventually ending up on the motorbike behind the car she stole. "Oh? Aren't you Devil Rider, the most wanted criminal out there?"
"Got that right, darling", he tilted his head, a bit of his black hair covering his eyes. "Heard about what did back at the highway, impressive indeed"
"Thanks for the compliment, but also no thanks", he squinted his brown eyes towards the girl, trying to decipher who she was. "Are you Yellow Lily?"
The girl let out a loud laugh, head thrown back hitting the wall. "Guess again, pretty boy"
"Hmmm, Blood Rose?"
"My oh my. A smart one aren't you?", playfulness was visible in her eyes, a amused smiled on her lips that was not seen under the mask. "Can't believe you decided to chase me until here, I thought I got your little friend hard enough. Does it still work?"
"I don't know, should we try then?", Chenle came close to her, whispering as he kept a knee in between her legs. A giggle erupted from her.
"Now, the money"
"A criminal stealing from a criminal? Who would've thought?"
"I'm not like others, you see"
"Ahh... I definitely got that part! Alright then, let me go and we'll split the money"
"Only 50%?"
"It technically still is my money, plus I saved you back there", Devil Rider grunted in annoyance, hating how she had a point. He wasn't the type to share, though.
"How about 60%?"
"Boy, I took a large sum. Let's not be greedy shall we? I'm kind enough to give you at least until 51%"
He tsked, loud and clear enough for both to hear. "Fine, 50% it is", he let go of her and watched as she scrambled towards the bag before taking a amount and shoving it towards him.
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Taking the money, he started counting. Brows raised, he looked at her sideways. "5 million? You stole a lot then"
"Kinda my specialty", she rolled her eyes as if it was the most obvious thing ever.
"Well then, it was a pleasure to meet you Ms. Blood Rose", Chenle took her hand and left a kiss, although it was hardly noticeable due to his mask and her gloved hand. "But I hope we never meet again. No offence, I prefer working alone"
"None taken", she retracted her hand and stared as he walked towards his bike. Sharing one last stare, Devil Rider started his vehicle before zooming away down the road.
"Hope I'll never see you too, Mr. Rider"
But life had other plans.
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Sword System Academia
2/17 NOTICE: I'm putting this on hiatus, possibly permanently. I didn't want to spam with an "update chapter", so hopefully here and in the story blurb will get enough eyeballs. There are a couple reasons for ending SSA for now. 1) I wrote the next chapter but wasn't happy with it. I've been less and less satisfied with SSA's quality the more I thought about it. Part of the reason is... 2) I am seriously thinking about trying to publish some novels to help pay the bills, since I don't have my other source of income anymore. I have never asked for anything from SSA readers, no money, not even a review or rating. SSA is written for fun to amuse myself, primarily, and I would kind of feel bad actually charging someone money for something as unserious as that. I don't think it is good enough to ask anything in return. To use an analogy from music, SSA is more like a jam session with a bunch of friends. You're just chiling and having fun playing some music. I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. The elven mage researchers are figuring out how to imbue heroes with power, while the heroes are trying to figure out how to use the powers that they gain. Humans are the best hero templates because they are blank and have no intrinsic magic. Or at least that what the elves thought. The human MC has his own secrets... There will be some similarities with litrpgs, but I would call it more a progression fantasy or gamelit story. For example, the stats are very low, at least initially. Say we have a stat called Str. Going from Str = 1 to Str = 2 is a huge deal. Also, going from Dex = 0 to Dex = 1 is an even bigger deal. I guess you could call it a "low-stat litrpg", haha. Also, the heroes won't be gaining stats simply by killing things or leveling up. You can't increase stats arbitrarily, either. There will be rules to how stats can increase, and how they work with each other. The elven mages will be figuring out these rules in order to craft stronger and stronger heroes. Some inspiration will be from cultivation magic systems, but there won't be overt cultivation, at least for now. A theme I really want to explore is the idea of interactions. That includes things like hero crafter vs hero, tactics vs strategy, skill synergies, racial interactions (dwarves, elves, etc), and son. Yeah, so hero crafting. I'm super excited about this project and venturing into publishing. If you want to check out the upcoming story, you can follow my RR author profile to see when it drops here. Finally... THANK YOU TO EVERYONE! I'm very sorry that SSA is stopping, but I hope at least some of you will find the next story at least as enjoyable, if not more. Thanks to all the readers who gave SSA a shot. Big hug or solid fistbump to all of you, whichever you prefer! I hope this message is not a downer but an upper, because I am psyched!! -purlcray -------------- BLURB: Talen, youngest Master of the Koroi, makes his way to the Empire's capital to salvage his clan's fate. But the bustling city has few opportunities for the traditionalist. For the old sword clans are fading. With the rise of alchemy, gold can purchase strength that ordinarily took years of training to cultivate. Sword artists, once rare and accomplished, are quickly growing in number, especially among the wealthy noble class. Even with such alchemy, though, no one has advanced to the rank of Grandmaster in countless years. Talen's true dream is to walk the path of a sword artist to the very end while fulfilling his clan duties. And then the Swordgeists return, fabled founders of all sword arts, gods who had touched the world long ago and vanished. These myths turned into reality warn of a coming threat. Alongside this warning, they issue an invitation to the Sword System Academy, a path to power beyond the mortal realm. But first, they will hold an entrance exam... Story notes:Sword System Academia blends elements of western and asian fantasy such as xianxia and litrpg. 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