Sun Quan: "Yes, thank you!"

Sun Quan replied with a message to Qing He, and after a while, Qing He replied with a smiley expression, and then replied: "No thanks! Don't be so polite, by the way, I'll tell you now about the remuneration we gave you this time?"

Sun Quan: "You say!"

Qinghe: "In view of the good sales of your last book after its publication, we could have mentioned 8000 per episode to you this time, but because you are unwilling to publish it under your original pen name this time, the remuneration for each episode will definitely be lowered, 7000 per episode, can you see it?"

"Eight thousand...... Seven thousand ......"

Sun Quan frowned, smiled, and replied to her: "Seven thousand is definitely not good!" I don't know the specific sales figure of "My Decathlon" on your side, but I have been in the top ten of the monthly ticket list at the starting point, so I can't sign seven thousand per episode!"

Qing He first sent a sad expression, and then asked: "Then you can tell me a price! I'll apply to the president to see!"

Sun Quan: "Twelve thousand." ”

Qing He directly sent a tearful expression, and then said: "Brother, can I call you brother? Don't embarrass me so much, I really want to continue to cooperate with you, but your price scares my liver!

Sun Quanguaner, but it is impossible for his subordinates to show mercy, and he has no enmity with money.

His psychological price is not less than 10,000 per episode, but the price is naturally higher, otherwise if others kill the price, how can he still get the price of 10,000 per episode?

So, he replied: "Sister, I'm younger than you! Don't lie to me! I know that you have handled a lot of best-selling books, but I haven't seen them at any price? Is 12,000 high? You touch your conscience!"

After this sentence was sent, he also added a smiley face emoji, isn't it just cute, he will too.

After a while, Qing He replied: "Ten thousand! I'll help you report 10,000 per episode to try, 12,000, I really don't have any certainty, really!"

Sun Quan: "If there are only 10,000 words, I believe that other publishing houses are willing to give it to me, sister, what do you say?"

This time, after a while, Qing He replied: "Okay! Then I'll help you report it and try it!" But I can only say try it, I guess the president will not approve it. ”

Sun Quan: "Sister, don't be modest, my brother believes in you!"

When it was over, he sent another smiley emoji.

And Qing He gave him a tearful expression in return.

......

The next day, Qinghe contacted him again.

Qinghe: "Pretty boy, the president really didn't approve the price you quoted, please, raise your noble hand and lower the price!"

This woman's profile is 28 years old, and she used to be very serious when she chatted with Sun Quan, but she didn't expect that after she was a little familiar now, she was always cute.

In this regard, Sun Quanting was speechless.

Sun Quan: "How much?"

Qinghe: "Nine thousand!"

Sun Quan pursed his lips, knowing what she meant, but he still deliberately misinterpreted with her, "Nine thousand, three thousand per episode, sister, are you serious?"

Qinghe sent a black-faced expression, followed by a reply text: "It's down to 9,000 per episode, pretty boy, this is already our greatest sincerity, after all, you want to change your pen name this time, we publish your book, we have to bear a certain market risk, if we haven't cooperated, you use a new pen name to contribute, it must be treated as a newcomer." ”

Sun Quan frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "Then what if I allow you to continue publishing under my original pen name?" Is there a problem with 10,000 and 2?"

After a few minutes, Qing He replied: "If you use your original pen name, maybe I can help you fight for it, are you sure you want to use the original pen name?"

Sun Quan touched the cigarette and lit it, and his eyebrows fell into consideration.

——The publishing market in Taiguan will slowly go downhill, and the future of publishing there in the future can be said to be bleak, so we should take advantage of the fact that the market is still hot and can earn one more.

Moreover, even if it is known that "Immortal Dragon Ring" is his Sun Quan's new book, it is nothing, he didn't steal or rob it, and he is afraid of being discovered?

After thinking about it for a moment, he replied, "Well, if you can give 12,000 per episode, then I can allow you to continue using my original pen name." ”

Qinghe: "Okay! I'll go and fight for you, you wait!"

......

About twenty minutes later, Qinghe sent a message again: "Congratulations, the president has approved this price, I wish us a happy cooperation again!"

After the news, she put on a very vulgar smiley emoji.

Sun Quan: "Happy cooperation! Send me the contract!"

Qinghe: "Wait a minute!"

While waiting for her to send her contract, Sun Quan was already silently calculating how much money he would probably make from traditional publishing.

Each episode is 65,000 words, each episode is 12,000, and the current 200,000 manuscripts at hand can probably produce four episodes, which is nearly 50,000 yuan.

In contrast, the more than 200,000 words sent to the starting point, except for a little bit of reward, are all free.

Of course, this is the current situation, and he knows very well that with the development and growth of the starting point Chinese network, in a few years, the manuscript fee that popular authors can earn on the starting point Chinese website is definitely far better than the manuscript fee on the publishing side.

Therefore, the focus must be on the starting point.

In his reborn memory, there were a few great gods of the year, when they made this choice, they made the wrong choice, put the main direction of attack on the side of traditional publishing, and even completely abandoned the market on the starting point, and then a few years passed, and those gods saw that the manuscript fee of the electronic subscription on the starting point was rising, and even sold the game adaptation rights, movie and TV series adaptation rights, these gods returned to the starting point, but there are very few who can really condense the godhead again.

Therefore, sometimes people's choice is more important than hard work.

......

After signing the contract, Sun Quan sent the other party the manuscript of the past three episodes of "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon", and a few days later, he received the remuneration for the two episodes of the manuscript from the other party, totaling 24,000 yuan.

According to the usual practice, Pioneer Publishing House still bet on the manuscript fee for one of his episodes.

And he was able to publish three episodes of manuscripts at the beginning this time, naturally thanks to the best-selling "My Decathlon".

On the evening of the contract with Pioneer Press, Sun Quan created a new author account at the starting point and uploaded two chapters of the manuscript for the website to review.

New pen name: Salted Fish of Struggle.

Before uploading the manuscript of those two chapters, he did not contact any of the editors of the starting point, he just wanted to see what readers really said after the publication of the book "The Rings of the Immortal Dragon".

If the reputation and popularity are good, he can always announce that "My Old Sun" and "Struggling Salted Fish" are his pen names.

If the results of "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" are good enough, he believes that when he announces that these two pseudonyms are his, the reaction in the circle will be interesting.

Will there be a day?

He was looking forward to it.

A day later, "The Rings of the Immortal" passed the review of the website, and he was able to serialize the book at the starting point every day.

On the first day of review, the data of "Ringing of the Immortal Dragon" was very bleak, and at the end of the day, there were three or four more advertising posts in the book review area, but none of them were serious posts commenting on the book.

There are only 7 poor collections, 26 clicks, and 8 recommended votes.

Sun Quan is not in a hurry, he knows that this is a normal phenomenon, he keeps updating two chapters a day, not hurrying, not arrogant or impatient, he is waiting for the number of words to be updated gradually increases, the reader's true evaluation.

Before and after his rebirth, he heard many new writers complain about the difficulty of their new book schedules.

Because in the early stage of a newcomer's new book, it's like playing a stand-alone game, no readers interact with you, there is no one who scolds you, and newcomers with poor psychological tolerance can easily collapse, especially when you look at the explosion of data in those popular works, the book review area is lively, and your own data is not even a fraction of others, and when the book review area is full of advertising posts, that sense of gap......

But there are also many people who have said: the starting point will not bury any good book, and the really good book will definitely be able to get out at the starting point.

What happened to "The Rings of the Immortal Dragon"?

Long hours of single-player gaming?

Still is?

What Sun Quan saw was: On the third day of the publication of "The Rings of the Immortal Dragon", there were a few more real comments from readers in the book review area.

The first one was sent by an ID named Pudong Taotao: "Recently, there has been a shortage of books, and I have even gnawed on such a young new book...... Who can save me?"

The second one was posted by a user whose ID is Xuan Fu LX: "Because I was curious about the title of the book, I read the synopsis, and because I was curious about the introduction, I watched the current six chapter updates, and then I started to be curious about the content behind it, but ...... What about the rest of the story? It's gone? It's gone? It's crazy......"

The third one is sent by a user whose ID is called Youqin Siforget: "After reading the first chapter, I quickly read the book review area.,And then I saw the crying of the two brothers above.,Hehe,I choose emergency braking!This must be a new book written by an old bird wearing a vest.,This writing、This plot,I dare to bet on two packs of spicy strips!This number is definitely not a pure newcomer! I'll wait until I'm fattened and then read it!Hehe.。 ”

......

It was also from this day that the daily single-digit increase in the collection of "Immortal Dragon Ring" turned into a double-digit growth rate every day.

A week later, when the total number of words in the book exceeded 30,000 words, when Sun Quan logged in to the author's background, he received a text message from the starting point of the signing station.

The book is ready to be signed.

At this time, the number of collectors of this book has reached 322.

I have to say that in the online literature circle of 07, or the starting point of Chinese Network, it is still relatively easy for newcomers and new books to come out, unlike more than ten years later, a large number of newcomers and new books drowned in the new book period.

The number of serious book reviews in the book review area of "The Rings of the Immortal Dragon" has become more and more, and when Sun Quan received the signing station, the number of book reviews was already 114.

At this point, Sun Quan's heart that had been hanging before was slightly relaxed.

He was already aware of the quality of the book, and his own judgment did not seem to be skewed.