Immortality Starts With Selling Pills

Chapter 12: Chapter 12: Need Cash! Fast!

Her Lies

It was the story of a boy who falls in love with his classmate, only to learn she’s secretly a famous pop idol hiding an entire second life.

The two of them started dating with him in the dark about her truth. Including how she was involved with another man from the industry, whom she leaned on when the fame got heavy.

But one fateful day, the man from her work started to become suspicious of her secrets because she would never take him to his house and ended up following her.

That was when the truth came out, so did every carefully buried lie.

She had expected the two men to fight for her but the MC left her without hesitation, telling her that she had destroyed more than just his heart that day. She destroyed their trust and the beautiful thing they could have in the future.

That plot alone will take around 100+ Chapters. He had already written 20 Chapters and uploaded them online.

Derrick had uploaded it with a cover he was a little ashamed of.

The cover had the image of a striking, a bit suggestive illustration of a seductive woman who was not even the female lead just for attracting the male audience and baiting them into clicking on it.

He justified it by telling himself that he had used that cover to attract the traffic and earn more as he was in desperate need of the money right now and could not wait for the book to take off in months.

From the brief research he had done, he realized that it was not a new practice on the site. Many other novels had a similar idea for covers.

Even the high ranking ones. But their covers had women wearing battle outfits and riding some dragon. He had kept it simple.

The image was generated by Ai since he did not have money to commision it.

Yet, it looked no different from the work of a human.

And, as it turned out, he had made the right decision. His book was getting views it deserved.

Views climbed within hours.

Comments piled up faster than he could read them.

NanoVibrator11: Am I seeing this right? Why are there no superpowers in this world? How are they even surviving?

ThunderRider66+1: There are no monsters in this world too bro. Imagine living like a normal human for the rest of your life. Short lifespan, pain in joints when you get older.

TechSavy: You guys... you are focusing on the wrong thing. Check out how backward that world is. There is no mention of Zoom cars much less a teleportation square. Monkeys. They are monkeys, I say!

WhoreSon: What is up with this guy? Is he having a seizure reading about the medieval stuff? I came for the smut bro. There is no real story romance these days. It’s all the same, but I must say this story got me hooked up right away.

SadReader101: @WhoreSon I won’t comment on your name but I agree with you. This story is a refreshing one, I wonder where the author got such an idea from. Even in the history, I have not read about a record of a civilization that does not super abled humans.

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Closing the window, Derrick sent the link of his novel to Cassandra. He wanted to know what kids her age from this world would think of his novel.

Although those comments indicate that my gamble paid off.

In a world where everyone already lived on the edge, fighting with death and betrayal all the time, they were starving for some normalcy.

Here mundane was fantasy. The yearning sensation of loyalty and companionship, they craved for such feelings.

This was something he had learned from his extensive research in the trending topics.

I knew it! he thought, refreshing the stats page for the fourth time in ten minutes like a man checking his own pulse. Nobody in this world wants another chosen one.

The editors were already reaching out to him once they saw the engagement on his post. They offered him a contract right away before he even applied for one. The platform locked earnings behind a one-week hold before payout, which stung, but a signing bonus came through almost immediately once the contract cleared.

Even if Derrick was 16, he was treated as adult in this world unlike his old one. He had a proper bank account and financial statement.

The documents were in his cupboard.

”Is this the novel you are writing?” Cassandra asked as she raised her to look at him weirdly. ”Where did such an idea came from?”

”Nothing much. Just all the mess going on got me thinking what a world without powers would have been like.” Derrick sat back down on the computer and filled in the details for payment procedures.

”And you came up with romance? You know I don’t like that gooey stuff—” She froze when she noticed how Derrick’s hand paused mid typing.

”I am sorry. I did not mean to...” Her voice trailed off when she realized what she had done.

”Don’t worry about it. I know it is as difficult for you as it is for me.” Derrick turned around to face and offered her a warm smile.

Cassandra’s tense face finally relaxed. Her cheeks flushed but she hid it before anyone could it, burying her head in the phone.

Derrick smiled and finished uploading the information.

Within a second, he was alerted of a +5000 credits notification on his phone. The process was so fast that it seemed unnatural. He was used to waiting for months to get his earnings.

But the price of that money was him signing away his rights to the work and an unbreakable condition to upload 100k words within one month.

If he managed to write double of that, he would revive a 10000 credits bonus which Derrick was not willing to give up on.

”I don’t plan to drag the novel more than necessary. I have other novels I want to upload as well.”

Although 5000 credits were not much if he actually went out to buy things.

But, it was enough to make Derrick feel, for the first time since waking up in this body, like he had actual ground under his feet instead of borrowed dirt.

The first thing Derrick did after getting his money was...