Creating videos, images, and guides naturally requires a lot of effort, but it’s also a process for her to familiarize herself and improve her abilities; she doesn’t find it too cumbersome and feels that facing a different life every day and learning is particularly challenging.
Seven days flew by, and although she hadn’t created a guide for the scenic spots, going through all the popular places in Beijing was quite fulfilling.
It’s not that she doesn’t enter scenic spots; first, there’s a lot of people, and even if she goes in, all she captures are people. Her short stature actually lowers her shooting angle considerably. Although at ten years of age she had grown to 1.5 meters, compared to the perfect height ratio of 1.65 meters for Northern girls, there’s still a long way to go.
After school started, she became even busier, writing, studying, editing, and enjoying herself. She also insisted on walking the dog every morning and night. Time flew by, and she spent money like water; in just one month, she spent 2,500 yuan. At this rate, her spending habits are really quite extravagant.
But good news also arrived; first, her Weibo followers unexpectedly surpassed five hundred, and the comments on her serialized novel on a certain website also increased daily. With just tens of thousands of words, it reached the standard for signing a contract without any recommendations, and she unexpectedly gained a new editor.
The editor’s intention was that she met the standard for signing a contract and could be published. But after she honestly said that she was only ten years old, the other party went silent for several days.
It wasn’t until a week later that the editor sent a positive reply: "I’ve already discussed your situation with the chief editor, and we can give you special treatment. But you must insist that this is your original story, or even if you’re young, we will sue you. If you agree, we’ll settle this deal, and we will proceed with the signing process."
Hua Yan curved her lips into a smile, immediately replying ’Okay.’ The other party was quick; within three days, she received a contract, printed it out, and carefully reviewed it. There wasn’t much issue, just worries about plagiarism or people exploiting her identity to evade responsibility. However, writing is a win-win situation; she earns money and so does the other party. If she has issues, they can simply stop using her work. How big a problem could she possibly cause?
The other party was too tense; of course, this tension might have been deliberately created for her, which she could understand.
She happily copied her ID Card and mailed it, using the bank card number her mom left her back then. 1,200,000 yuan had been stored for two years in a fixed deposit, and she couldn’t trade stocks at her age. Keeping the money there was keeping it idle, so she simply stored it in a fixed deposit, leaving ten thousand yuan, which was enough for her expenses.
Now with the opportunity to earn extra, Hua Yan became more confident about the future.
As long as she has an opportunity to make money, she’ll save 300,000 yuan each year and continue buying houses; after all, she thinks that buying more before the purchase limit in 2017 is good, and once she’s saved enough capital and entered university, she’ll have enough qualifications to help more people.
At her young age, she can’t do much, so saving money becomes the best time because she spends little and it’s easier to save.
By 2010, Taobao was already quite mature, and you could buy almost anything you could think of on there.
She’s a student, and there’s no need to buy pricey daily wear; she doesn’t want to spend money on that. Therefore, if she can buy online, she won’t shop at physical stores.
For example, clothes and hair accessories bought online, but shoes need to be tried at specialty stores. Being a girl, she enjoys dressing up, and even at a young age, she can’t change this habit. But she shouldn’t be too flashy, so she set herself a condition that her monthly living expenses shouldn’t exceed two thousand yuan.
This two thousand yuan, apart from her own food, clothing, and usage, also includes Doudou’s expenses, equivalent to two thousand yuan for two people’s living costs.
With this average, it doesn’t seem exaggerated, especially since it’s the Capital, the consumption is much less than the court-awarded annual 300,000 yuan.
Although she is a proper second-generation rich, she is an extremely independent girl, much stronger than many others.
Ever since she bought a bicycle, she rides out whenever she goes out, saving more time. In an age where time is money, saving an hour means writing a thousand words, and a thousand words are a five-cent subscription, accumulating bit by bit. She can’t miss any opportunity to make money.