My System Forces Me to Live off Women

Chapter 491 - 330: Meeting and He Yimeng’s Live Stream

Chen Yong, one of the founders of Endpoint Group and Vice President, formerly served as the chief editor of Endpoint. He is currently responsible for publishing and IP development. During his tenure, he promoted the adaptation of numerous high-quality online literature IPs into various formats such as animation, film, and games. His contributions have been immense in helping Endpoint Group dominate the online literature scene, outshining other platforms by a significant margin.

Chen Yong is of medium height, neither fat nor thin, and appears scholarly with jeans, a shirt, and black-rimmed glasses. However, his shiny bald head tends to draw attention.

After finishing his meal, Li Peifeng met President Chen in the conference room above the restaurant. There were still five or six minutes before the meeting began, and two or three dozen authors, both male and female, had already arrived. Some were gathered in groups chatting, while others were conversing with Chen Yong.

Li Peifeng didn’t join in but casually found a spot to wait for the meeting to start and took out his phone to continue writing in his spare time.

"So dedicated? You’re still writing with the meeting about to start?"

A female voice teased. Li Peifeng looked up again to see a somewhat chubby, square-faced woman in her early thirties sitting next to him. Her eyes were small, her nose flat, and her looks rather ordinary, but she had distinctive dark circles and dull skin from staying up late. She looked at Li Peifeng with an air of familiarity.

Li Peifeng tentatively said, "Are you, Pi Da?"

Pen name: Slightly Known, a platinum author of the female channel on Endpoint. In sixteen years, she has created over twenty works in genres such as fantasy, mecha, martial arts, detective, and sci-fi. Last year, she ranked in the top ten of the Dong country’s online writer rich list and was the only female author among the male-dominated top ten.

Under the name "Slightly Known," more than a dozen of her works have been adapted into films and animations, including some that became tremendously popular hits. On any level, she is undeniably the current No. 1 in Endpoint’s female channel. From the perspective of film and animation adaptation IP, she is at least on par with or even superior to top authorities like the "Central Plains Five Whites and Five Greens."

"Just call me Xu Ning."

Slightly Known, or Xu Ning, smiled and reached out to shake hands with Li Peifeng, then casually said, "The group was having lively discussions during the annual meeting, but you didn’t seem to say much. I thought you wouldn’t come."

Both the male and female platinum groups on Endpoint have ’A Few Winds of the World,’ but he rarely speaks. Although due to Li Peifeng’s traction on Douyin, many colleagues have seen him, leading some female rogue members of the female platinum group to deliberately @ him and jokingly tease him. Li Peifeng usually just replied with a few emojis and smiled.

Even on the eve of the annual meeting, with many authors in both groups discussing enthusiastically, hoping to privately gather for a meal and talk, Li Peifeng remained quiet.

"Yes, I’m more introverted."

Li Peifeng gave a shy smile, fiddling with his phone, trying to continue writing.

"Hey, I’ve read some of your books before, including the one you’re writing now, ’Sword and Law,’ which I’m following. I feel..."

Xu Ning took the initiative to discuss the differences between male and female channels and asked Li Peifeng for advice on how to naturally switch perspectives in writing for both genders.

Li Peifeng couldn’t pretend not to hear her and, after some thought, shared his insights: "Regarding this, I actually studied it during my undergraduate and wrote a paper. First, due to physiological structure and societal influences, men aspire to achieve great things, while women desire to be loved. Men: blood and fire, dominion over the world. Women: emotions and love, love ’til the end..."

"It seems the differences in male and female thinking lead to fundamentally different needs, determining that both genders have different preferences in reading. Simply put, the thrill points for male and female readers are different."

"But this is just the first superficial reason, and it isn’t absolute. Because in both the male and female channels, there are wildly successful novels focusing on emotional drama over career in the male channel and large-scale narratives without emotional drama in the female channel. Including the ’Sword and Law’ I’m writing now, I initially thought that when I transitioned to writing from a male perspective, abandoning my previous style, my female fans might not follow. But they continued to read, and I gained more female fans. So how do you explain this situation?"

Xu Ning nodded: "Yes, how do you explain that?"

"That brings us to the second point. I believe with societal progress, both genders are shedding the labels assigned by society. Whether male or female, self-awareness is gradually awakening. Men get tired of doing grand things and want to be loved, women get tired of being loved and want to achieve grand things. This results in a fundamental fusion of needs between genders. Thus, their reading needs don’t have very distinct boundaries..."

Xu Ning nodded slightly in agreement, and Li Peifeng continued to eloquently express his insights, talking for five or six minutes, from the first point to the second, third, fourth, and finally the fifth.

"The fifth, ultimately, everything comes down to the story quality of the novel. To delve into this would be more complex, and I only briefly touched upon it in my paper. Now, I’ll summarize in four words: Good writing breaks through!"

When Li Peifeng started speaking, it was just Xu Ning listening. But halfway through, authors began to gather around him.

Even Chen Yong, from the podium, noticed the engaging discussion and approached. Hearing the latter part of Li Peifeng’s talk, he couldn’t help but smile and say, "No wonder you’re from an academic background, with such a wealth of creative theories. Please, come to the podium, you lead the meeting!"