'Dear Dawn, first of all, thank you for your contributions, after our editorial review, we collectively believe that your work "The Lord of the Rings" has good value and can be published, please contact me as soon as possible. ——Zhu Wensi Quanyong——Dashi Publishing House. ’

There are six more pieces of similar information.

At first, Chen Xiao was still very happy, the novel was submitted to eight publishing houses, and within a few days, seven of them sent him the news that it had been approved.

But after calling from house to house, he couldn't be happier.

", the whole book is more than a million words, I have worked hard for more than half a year, from college to now I graduated, and I will be given 5% royalties?"

"Foolish, huh?"

Speaking of which, this Dashi Publishing House is not bad, Chen Xiao also hit a new publishing house called Xinxin Publishing House before, and directly proposed to buy it out for 30,000 yuan.

At that moment, his expression was like a dog in the sun.

This is Lord of the Rings, in the world of the previous life, translated into 40 languages, each edition has a circulation of about 1600000 copies, and those so-called bestsellers are like scum in front of it.

$30,000 buyout?

Why don't you eat?

Since coming to this world, Chen Xiao has always felt that everything is not going well.

The first thing he did was the same as everyone else thought, that is, to be a copyist who didn't need to think, copy and copy......

The first step was to spend money to go to the recording studio and record two songs, one "You at the Same Table" and one "Old Boy", both of which are songs with explosive potential, and then uploaded them to music websites.

This is the easiest way to make money, just lie still and wait to collect the money.

According to his idea, he can be satisfied with making a few million a year.

However, after uploading it to the website, it sank directly to the bottom, and it still couldn't float, only a few clicks, and it didn't set off a wave at all.

Then he serialized "The Lord of the Rings" on the novel website, and finally sank into the water and drowned, and finally simply stopped the serialization on the Internet, and no one watched it anyway.

"Could it be that the aesthetics of my original world are completely different from the aesthetics of this world?"

Chen Xiao frowned and reflected: "No, the songs on the world charts are also very good, and the movies with high box office are also good, is it just the same one-sided aesthetics?"

"No, then I'm going to die!"

Chen Xiao is now planning to publish the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy together, and speaking of which, Tolkien, the original author of his previous life, would have published the three together if it wasn't for the lack of paper.

"Ding-dong......"

The phone rang again, swiped the phone screen, and found that there was a new email, Chen Xiao clicked on it:

"Hello Dawn, I'm from Kyoto University Press, first of all, thank you for your contribution, my editorial department thinks that your Lord of the Rings has good cultural value and can be published, please contact me as soon as possible." —Kyoto University Press. ’

Chen Xiao saw this message and subconsciously clicked on the phone number on the contact information.

But a stirring spirit stopped directly.

"Kyoto University Press?"

"Literary value?"

Chen Xiao's eyes lit up: "Yes, literary value, my book has literary value!"

It is important to know that Kyoto University Press's main way of making money is to print textbooks, but it also publishes books with high literary value.

But the difficulty of passing its review is undoubtedly top-notch, and more than half a year has passed this year, but this publishing house has not published a single novel.

I didn't expect that now "The Lord of the Rings" has passed the review, which will undoubtedly increase the fame of "The Lord of the Rings".

Fame is what he is lacking right now.

"But I'm even less money-savvy. Chen Xiao thought in his heart, and he didn't know what conditions the Beijing University Publishing House could offer.

Standing up, Chen Xiao dialed the phone and walked around the room, thinking about his words.

The phone is connected.

"Hey, this is Kyoto University Press, I'm Dawn, right...... Right...... Oh, please...... Okay, thanks. ”

Hanging up the phone, Chen Xiao slowly smiled.

The conditions given by Kyoto University Press: 10% royalty, plus 50,000 for the first printing!

“yes！！”

"Po~" He kissed the phone.

Pretty!!

After a rough calculation, no matter how bad it is, there are more than 500,000 yuan, which is enough for his film plan to start.

Yes, he has been preparing for more than a year to make movies, in his previous life he was a film screenwriter, and now he has come to this completely different world, of course, he has to choose the industry he is best at.

That's making movies.

And to make interesting movies.

And all this, the difference is only money.

He couldn't pull investment, so there was "The Lord of the Rings".

The 10% royalty is not too high, but Chen Xiao knows that it is already very good for him to be a newcomer to get this price, and the other party is still the leader of the publishing industry.

His initial expectation was 15% royalties, but now he is very happy to have 10% royalties, and I have to say that people's psychological expectations change with the environment.

The next thing is to pack up and go to Kyoto, and the contract is still signed in person.

......

The office of Kyoto University Press is located one street away from Kyoto University, and the whole hall is very formal, and a beautiful young lady at the front desk asked him who he was looking for with a smile.

"I'm looking for Manager Wang of the editorial department, I have an appointment, I am the author of "The Lord of the Rings". ”

"Oh, please wait...... Professor Guo!"

At this time, a middle-aged man walked in outside the door, this person was holding a stack of thick manuscript paper in his hand, and he knew that this was Professor Guo by looking at the reaction at the front desk, and it seemed that his status in the publishing house was not low.

Chen Xiao glanced at it and saw that the content on the manuscript paper was exactly the content in "The Lord of the Rings".

He couldn't help but look at Professor Guo twice, I don't know if it was his delusion, and he always felt that Professor Guo's spirit was a little tired.

Professor Guo nodded to the front desk: "Xiao Wang, don't call, I'll receive Mr. Dawn." ”

Then he turned his head and stretched out his hand, shaking hands with Chen Xiao, exuding the air of a scholar.

"Mr. Daybreak, let's talk in the reception room. ”

"Something about publishing?"

"I can take full responsibility for the publishing thing. ”

"Oh, that's good. ”

When he arrived at the reception room, Professor Guo was behind, paid close attention to the door, and then directly put on a smiling face.

Then in Chen Xiao's stunned eyes, Professor Guo couldn't wait to pull Chen Xiao to the stool as if he was a different person, sat next to him, and then sat down next to Chen Xiao.

"Professor Guo?"

Chen Xiao was a little panicked, did he have to be unspoken rules?

Then he saw Professor Guo constantly rummaging through a pile of manuscript papers, turning the neat manuscript papers into a mess, and when he heard Chen Xiao's voice, he didn't raise his head: "Wait a minute, you wait a minute, it will be fine soon." ”

"Oh!"

Chen Xiao put his mind at ease, it seemed that it was a problem in the book.

After Chen Xiao's observation, this Professor Guo is definitely not a careful person, the previous manuscript paper looked neat, but it was all messy pages, and it was not nailed, so that now Professor Guo has been looking for a long time and has not found what he wants.

"Where is it?...... This isn't ...... This isn't either, found it, this one!"

Professor Guo shook the piece of paper in his hand, breathed a long sigh of relief, and after reading it carefully, his brows furrowed deeply, and then handed the paper to Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao looked at Professor Guo's expression, and his heart also lifted.

"What's the matter, is it wrong to write something, does it need to be harmonized?"

Immediately after that, he looked at the piece of paper handed over by Professor Guo, on which a lot of things were densely written.

At a cursory glance, these things look like English, but Chen Xiao knows that this is not.

As an 'author', of course, he knew that these were actually Quenya.

Chen Xiao glanced at Professor Guo and found that the other party was looking at him expectantly, he didn't expect that this Professor Guo was actually studying Elven language, and it seemed that he had made a lot of achievements.

It's idle, right?