The Reclaimed Rose (Annalise and Steven)

Eric obviously knew that I hadn't been looking at the statistics. He was looking forward to my reaction to the statistics, too. Upon hearing Eric's words, I took out my phone. Meanwhile, Zane was expressing his approval of Eric's capabilities. Zane said, "You did a good job with the comic. But unfortunately, we can't give you a pay raise any time soon."

On top of that, they were in an important phase of the project, so Zane couldn't give Eric a vacation bonus either. However, Zane saw how hard Eric had worked.

"But the company can give you additional paid vacation. When you're tired and want to relax a little, you can take some time off work to rest."novelbin

Without skipping a beat, Eric said, "Mr. Huxham, I'm very satisfied with my current pay."

After all, Eric's pay was higher than that of many company CEOs. Eric continued and said, "Plus, I get commissions. Not many companies can provide these benefits! I'm very satisfied now."

Eric was not a short-sighted person. He never imagined himself leaving Huxham Corporation and finding another job that would reward hard work.

"As for vacations... I have the weekends off, and we also get extra vacation days on public holidays. I'm very satisfied with that."

Upon hearing Eric's words, Zane felt relieved. Zane said, "That's great."

"Holy..." I exclaimed when I saw the statistics.

When I first saw the statistics, I wondered if I was seeing things or if the statistics were bugged. After leaving the page and accessing it multiple times, I realized that the statistics were the same as what I thought I had seen. I finally confirmed that the statistics were real. Seeing my reaction, Eric laughed and said, "Shocking, right?"

I asked Eric, "Did this increase in the number of followers happen in the past few days?"

Eric said, "Yeah."

It felt like I was dreaming. Zane looked at me and then at Eric. Then, Zane sat next to me and asked, "How many followers do you have now?"

"Among all the platforms, the one with the least number of followers recorded 1.5 million followers."

When I last checked, I only had around 100,000 followers. But in just a few days, it increased to over one million!

I handed my phone to Zane in a daze. When Zane looked at the statistics, he was amazed by the growth, too.

"The views on every platform are

above 2 million. One of the

platform's view counts is highly valued; the income from this platform, in addition to the income from the homepage advertisement, would add up to about 300,000 dollars!"

When Zane first ventured into the comic business, he was just testing the waters, but he hadn't expected such great influence and

profitability. Zane continued to scroll through the page and said, "When we first sold 5,000 dolls, we thought that was a lot. But look at it now, it's increased to 180,000!"

At this point, Zane finally understood why people loved online noise marketing. After all, any noise

marketing would mean in

awareness, and people would become curious about the actual content. If any part of that attention were converted into followers or readers, it would bring great profit to the content itself.

Zane asked, "The income that we gain from this would be about 2 million dollars, right?"

Eric confirmed it and said, "You're right."

Zane continued looking at the rest of the statistics.

"We went from zero merchandise sales to a total sales volume of 360,000 units. If I make a rough calculation now, that would mean a profit of about 540,000 dollars. If we add that to your salary..." Zane looked at me and said, "Next month, your payout before tax deductions will add up to at least 3 million dollars."