Chapter 85: Set Ablaze!
It’s a hit! This kid’s children’s song seems to be a sensation!
In just half an hour since it went live, it had already garnered more than seventy thousand subscriptions! That’s simply outrageous.
Though Old Liu wasn’t familiar with the usual numbers for subscriptions, he could tell that if this data was real, then Old Yu’s son’s children’s song was really taking off! At one yuan per subscription, seventy thousand subscriptions would mean seventy thousand yuan!
He didn’t know if Old Yu’s son could get half of that seventy thousand, but even if he did, that was over thirty thousand yuan earned in just half an hour!
As the saying goes, comparison can be a cruel thing. At this moment, Old Liu finally understood why Old Yu had said his son and daughter-in-law could easily make several million yuan a month!
“Grandpa, I want to watch ‘Good Little Bunny’ again!”
Snapping back to reality, Old Liu glared at his chubby granddaughter, who was tugging at his leg, and scolded, “All you do is watch TV! How can watching this stuff ever amount to anything?”
Yet, despite what he said, Old Liu still replayed “Good Little Bunny” for his granddaughter. After all, he could only hope that she would grow up to make something of herself.
As for his own son and daughter-in-law—he had long since given up hope for them!
…
At home, Yu Zhile was also keeping an eye on the subscription numbers for the children’s song videos.
Half an hour had passed, and “Good Little Bunny” had already reached over seventy thousand subscriptions!
He was stunned by this number because, when he launched a new novel on his author account, it rarely broke ten thousand subscriptions in half an hour. Who would have thought a children’s song video would outperform his novels so dramatically?
“Is this subscription data real?”
He started to doubt it, so he messaged his editor, Zhang Xue: “Is the subscription count shown on TV real? How could it be so high after just half an hour?”
Zhang Xue replied quickly: “Sir, that’s the number across the entire platform! ‘Good Little Bunny’ has already surpassed eighty thousand subscriptions! The leaderboard updates with a slight delay!”
Even across the whole platform, these numbers were a bit terrifying!
After all, children’s literature was supposed to be more niche compared to popular young adult romance novels, so such a high subscription count was truly baffling!
But since even the editor said it was real, the data couldn’t be fake. Maybe he had underestimated the earning power of children’s literature.
After all, with so many families and children across the nation—and now in 2026, with the population nearing two billion—even if only ten percent were children, that would be two hundred million children.
With that in mind, Yu Zhile suddenly felt that seventy thousand subscriptions in half an hour wasn’t so impossible after all.
With the platform-wide advertising, the exposure was intense—especially with such a prominent ad on the children’s channel of internet television.
Across the country, in any home with children, as long as parents turned to the children’s channel, most would be drawn in by his eye-catching ad cover. In Yu Zhile’s view, this was probably the television channel contributing the most subscriptions.
Qin Haiyu gazed at him with adoration, exclaiming, “Wow! You’re amazing, honey!”
Yu Zhile asked, “Which part of me is so amazing, darling?”
Qin Haiyu gave his arm a playful slap with the baby’s hand and retorted, “There you go again, being cheeky!”
Yu Zhile teased, “I didn’t say anything! So, am I being cheeky, or is it you?”
“Such a rascal!”
Qin Haiyu scooped up the baby and launched an attack with the baby’s little foot: “Bad daddy, take a kick from the baby!”
Smack—
The baby’s soft little foot landed on Yu Zhile’s face, and rather than dodging, he seemed to enjoy the sensation.
Giggling, the baby suddenly burst into laughter, showing off two little teeth, looking absolutely adorable.
…
Fifteen minutes later.
The subscriptions for “Good Little Bunny” had smoothly surpassed one hundred thousand. Yu Zhile checked with Zhang Xue and found that the next most-subscribed song was “Two Tigers,” which had already exceeded eighty thousand.
After that came “Counting Ducks,” which was about to break eighty thousand, while “Pulling Up the Turnip” lagged behind with fewer than fifty thousand.
Overall, the subscription numbers for these animated children’s song videos were nothing short of phenomenal.
Zhang Xue said that in just one hour, “Good Little Bunny” had set the record for the highest 24-hour subscription count in the history of children’s song videos!
So, to build momentum and ensure the upcoming book release would be just as successful, the publisher pushed Yu Zhile and his songs onto the trending search lists.
In that moment, Yu Zhile’s Weibo exploded!
Countless readers of his novels began to rant and rave:
“Damn you, Lazy Fish! You have time to write children’s songs and stories, but can’t bother to finish your novels?”
“Ten thousand people are signing a petition for your address! I want to send you a box of special ‘gifts’ from the palace!”
“I really am speechless! It’s bad enough you torment young people with your novels, but now you’re writing children’s songs to torment kids too! What’s next, going after the elderly?”
“Damn! I put up with your novels, but now you’re moving into children’s literature to go after my own kid? No way! I won’t let my son listen to this… Actually, it’s really catchy!”
…
While the baby slept, Qin Haiyu scrolled through Weibo—a rare treat. Seeing her husband return from his shower, she beamed, “Honey, you’re number one on the trending search right now!”
Yu Zhile was surprised. “That’s intense! Looks like I’m more popular than I thought.”
Qin Haiyu laughed. “Your novel readers have gone mad! Ten thousand people are petitioning for your address, wanting to send you razor blades!”
Yu Zhile sighed, “That’s why I only dare to reveal my identity, never my face! Otherwise, if I ever took our son out, I might not come back in one piece!”
“Pfft!” Qin Haiyu couldn’t help but laugh.
Yu Zhile continued, “If that happened, I wouldn’t be the only one to suffer—you’d be in trouble too, honey!”
Qin Haiyu caught his mischievous tone and smiled, “In that case, you’d better take care of yourself when you go out! Even if not for your own sake, do it for me and our second child!”
Yu Zhile climbed onto the bed, gently took the phone from her hands, then pulled her down beside him.
“Darling, let’s do this—for the sake of our second child, don’t hold back!”
“Pfft!”
…
The next morning.
Yu Zhile woke up, feeling both emotional and exhausted.
His wife had been so obedient!
He’d told her not to hold back—and she really hadn’t, not even a little!
He was completely spent. He really felt as though he’d been drained this time.
He picked up his phone from the nightstand to check.
After a night on the trending list, with all the advertorials and platform-wide promotions in cooperation with the publisher, the top performer, “Good Little Bunny,” had actually surpassed one million subscriptions!