Zhou Kaiwen looked at Ye Kai without saying a word, and the expression on his face was thoughtful.

And Ye Kai only paid attention to his tea, hoping to wait until it was a little cooler to be able to take a sip, so that there would be a little tea fragrance in his mouth.

Watermelon is so sweet.

Seeing that Zhou Kaiwen had nothing to say, Ye Kaichang sighed: "Brother Zhou, we have collaborated on several books, I personally think that the cooperation is quite pleasant, a little disagreement, I hope it will not affect the relationship between our two sides." ”

Kevin Zhou pulled out a little smile and said: "This can't be, it's not a disagreement, you're right, fifteen percent of the royalties are really not enough for Harry Potter." ”

Ye Kai just said the Times bestseller list, and Zhou Kaiwen remembered what level of book this was.

Now on the Times bestseller list, then in a while in the rest of Europe and the United States, it may be able to make it to the New York Times bestseller list.

Can 15 percent of such a book be signed if it is imported from abroad?

It is impossible to sign it.

Foreigners are not easy to talk to, and they are not easy to deal with.

Just because Ye Kai is a Chinese, Harry Potter can't be allowed to only take the royalties of domestic authors. Ye Kai is not to blame for this matter, if he was the author of Harry Potter, it would be impossible to sell this book by fifteen percent.

But the editor-in-chief only gives him 15 percent of the rights.

Zhou Kaiwen felt that his head hurt so much, he knew Ye Kai's negotiation style, he said as much as he wanted, or if Ye Kai was satisfied with the number he said, he would agree.

That's why the hole cards will be revealed directly when they meet.

But the hole card leaves can't be opened, what else can be done?

"I need to contact the editor-in-chief again to see if I can add two more points, I am personally on your side, if the publishing house really can't get the conditions you want, I still hope that the two of us can become friends." ”

Ye Kaiwaner: "That's for sure, I also invited you to eat hot pot, why don't you go again in a while?" I sat in front of the computer for a day today and went out to have a good meal." ”

"I'll make a phone call first. ”

Zhou Kaiwen stood up and nodded to Ye Kai, and walked towards the balcony with the phone.

Ye Kai looked at his teacup, the temperature of the tea was much lower than before, making tea was different from waiting for the boiled water to cool down, and the tea would not take long before it would become suitable for the entrance.

Blowing the tea leaves floating on the surface of the tea water, Ye Kai took a sip of the dragon well. This tea was brought back from Hangzhou, and I haven't drunk it a few times, and it tastes really good.

He is not in a hurry to get Harry Potter out of the Chinese version.

If Zhou Kaiwen can't come up with the conditions he wants for a while, then delay it for a while. He now has more and more confidence in the book, and he has no worries about hitting the streets when he lands in the United States.

He even wanted to make Harry Potter a movie version himself.

That's how it swells.

Just like what I said to Zhou Kaiwen before, no one in Huaxia has really taken a book abroad in the past 50 years and become a bestseller, not a single one.

The Nobel Prize in Literature is very powerful, and some domestic writers have won it.

But how many people watch it?

Huaxia has produced this Harry Potter for decades, and wants to use the royalties of the average domestic best-selling author to position himself, and Ye Kai will not sell the book even if it is rotten.

Zhou Kaiwen discussed and argued with the editor-in-chief in a whisper, and walked back after talking for a long time, with a smile on his face, and the first sentence was: "Brother Ye, live up to your trust." ”

Ye Kai had already heard their chat, stood up with a smile and said, "That's okay, don't worry about the contract, let's go out for a meal." ”

"Good. Zhou Kaiwen was in a good mood at the moment, and his tone of voice was full of lightheartedness.

If this book can really reach the point he had in mind, then signing Harry Potter with 17 royalties now is definitely earned by Rip Culture.

As soon as the matter was resolved, the big stone in his heart suddenly fell to the ground, and now it was very relaxed, as comfortable as if he had suddenly become several years younger.

This is Ye Kai's home field, of course Ye Kai led the way in finding a place to eat, it was too hot Ye Kai didn't take Zhou Kaiwen to eat hot pot together, but ate in a hotel outside the community.

Although there were only two people, Ye Kai still ordered a big table, and Zhou Kaiwen was second, mainly because Ye Kai was a little greedy for the dishes here.

The young lady wearing the big red cheongsam kept entering the house with hot food one after another, whether it was Zhou Kaiwen and Ye Kai, they all stared at the eyes, looking at the dishes for a while and looking at the beauties for a while.

The wine is drunk in Moutai Feitian, and as soon as the wine bottle is opened, the aroma of the wine even covers the fragrance of the dish.

Zhou Kaiwen took the wine bottle and poured wine, and said: "As the saying goes, this wine is beautiful, the wine is there, the beauty is ......"

Ye Kai was eating, and when he heard this, he smiled and greeted the waiters in cheongsams: "Isn't that a beautiful ......woman?" You say that the ancients are more elegant, right?"

"Who says it's not? Haha, when I came, I saw a foot bath in front of me, how about I go and soak my feet after eating?"

"Soak your feet and don't go. Ye Kai refused, "There are still twenty or thirty thousand words left unwritten, I have been writing books for the past two days, I will find a place to sign a contract for a while, and I will send you a book tomorrow." ”

The wine table is the best way to connect with feelings.

The two of them quickly talked about the wine, and the old brother shouted, Ye Kai's current alcohol consumption is also extraordinary, and he is only slightly drunk after a few glasses of liquor.

After eating, the contract that Zhou Kaiwen asked the hotel to help print was also in hand.

The contract only indicates the copyright of Harry Potter in simplified and traditional Chinese, and any other copyright still belongs to Ye Kai, and the royalty has reached 17%.

In this way, Ye Kai can also be called a great writer in China.

Harry Potter does not want to continue its success in the UK in China, as long as it can sell 500,000 copies in China, it can meet the standard of bestsellers.

At that time, Ye Kai wrote three books in a row, all of which were bestsellers, and a travelogue was also a reference book for many photographers. Several books have never failed, and they can be regarded as setting up their own golden signs.

Zhou Kaiwen stared at Ye Kai's signature with burning eyes, as if Ye Kai was going to regret it in the next second.

Even if Ye Kai didn't look at Zhou Kaiwen, he could feel the gaze behind him, and said a little funny in the process of signing: "Brother Zhou, don't look at me with such eyes, I said that the 17 royalties are only so much, is the contract different from the previous one?"

"No, no, no. ”

Zhou Kaiwen shook his head again and again, he was just afraid that Ye Kai would suddenly feel that the share was too small, and they didn't dare to play any tricks in Ye Kai's contract.

Ye Kai is only in his 20s, it is the time when a person's creativity is the strongest, and there are many opportunities for cooperation in the future, no matter what text Ye Kai writes, it must always be translated into Chinese.

After the last word was written, Ye Kai closed the pen and said, "I believe in you, hehe, where is Brother Zhou resting tonight?"

"I'm right here at this hotel. Zhou Kaiwen said.

"Okay. Ye Kai nodded, he was ready to go home, "I'll send it to you after writing it tomorrow, Brother Zhou can notify me when he leaves tomorrow, and let me send it to you." ”

Zhou Kaiwen didn't dare to ask Ye Kai to send it, whether to send it or not is a trivial matter, just remember to send it tomorrow.