Chapter 57: The Reaction to the New Book

Back at school and seeing the new students on campus, Liu Xiangdong and Yao Shijing could feel that they were already seniors, and this was the last year of their four-year college career.

For these seniors, the campus no longer belongs to them, and from the beginning of the school year, their eyes begin to look beyond the campus, which will be a new starting point in their lives. Whether it is a men's dormitory or a women's dormitory, the most talked about in the dormitory of senior students is the first job they want. They all understand that this is not the age when their parents are old in one career, but everyone has their own plans for their first job.

Liu Xiangdong plans to write four books in four years of college, three in the first three years, and the fourth in his senior year. Liu Xiangdong has thought of the name of this fourth book, and it is called "Meeting the Future Self".

This is a book that predicts five, ten, twenty, thirty years in the future.

For others, Liu Xiangdong is predicting the future. But for Liu Xiangdong, those are the future he has experienced.

A divine book that predicts the future, as long as its accuracy rate reaches more than 30%, it can be called a divine work. Liu Xiangdong believes that in 20 years, the accuracy rate of his book will exceed 70%. Perhaps, relying on this book, Liu Xiangdong will be called a god by the world in the future.

Although he has memories of the next 20 years, Liu Xiangdong still has to slowly reminisce, and he still has to fully understand the latest things in various fields in the world in the library, which will be a lot of work.

Over the weekend, Liu Xiangdong summoned Yao Shijing, Shen Hong, and Qi Meiling to announce that he would go into retreat to write a book and no longer participate in the business of the machinery import and export company. He assigned his work to Yao Shijing and Qi Meiling, and adjusted the company's shares: Liu Xiangdong accounted for 55 percent, Yao Shijing accounted for 20 percent, Shen Hong accounted for 20 percent, and Qi Meiling accounted for 5 percent.

"Boss, you're finally going to open a new book, and the people in our dormitory are waiting to see your new book. Can you tell us about what your fourth book is about?" Qi Meiling asked with some excitement.

"Write a book about the future. Liu Xiangdong said.

Yao Shijing and Shen Hong were very supportive of Liu Xiangdong's retreat and writing books, and of course they did their best to take over the work assigned by him.

Yao Shijing is in charge of foreign customers, Shen Hong is in charge of corporate finance and company management, and Qi Meiling is in charge of domestic factories.

In order to write quietly, Liu Xiangdong applied to Huang Shaoxiong, a counselor, to move to live off-campus by himself, and he had to live in his office.

Huang Shaoxiong heard that Liu Xiangdong was going to go into retreat and write the fourth book, so without saying a word, he approved Liu Xiangdong to live outside the school.

In order to take care of Liu Xiangdong's daily life, Yao Shijing also moved into the office, and Shen Hong only came to live occasionally.

Wang Qiuyun has a boyfriend, Shen Hong is now back to Liu Xiangdong, and he has no intention of paying attention to Wang Qiuyun's affairs, but he has also seen that boy and knows that he is a good boy, so he is relieved.

Liu Xiangdong didn't care about his former 'ex-wife', he devoted himself to his last book in college. After more than three months of retreat, before New Year's Day, Liu Xiangdong finally completed the book and went to the publishing house again to discuss the publication matters.

After reading the whole book, the editor-in-chief of the publishing house said to Liu Xiangdong with some worry: "Xiangdong, your new book is very risky, if it turns out in the future that what you said is not right, the reputation you have worked so hard to build will be greatly damaged, you have to think carefully." ”

"I have faith in myself that this book will stand the test of time. ”

I also hope that you are right, and that we will also be greatly benefited by being the publisher of this divine work. ”

The publishing house finally bought out the manuscript for 200,000 yuan, printed 200,000 copies for the first time, and paid Liu Xiangdong a copyright fee of 0.8 yuan for each additional volume printed in the future.

When he got the sample book, Liu Xiangdong sent one to Pang Chunfang and another to Qi Meiling.

Liu Xiangdong knew that prediction books would not sell well in China, and his goal was mainly to sell in foreign markets. He spent 500,000 yuan to ask the most famous translation agency in China to translate his book into English, and then he sent the first part of the manuscript to the three oldest foreign publishing houses, these old publishing houses, have a special expert group, the value of Liu Xiangdong's book, the expert group should be able to see it clearly.

Sure enough, Liu Xiangdong soon received replies from the three major foreign publishing houses, all expressing interest in his book. Liu Xiangdong chose the one with the best offer, signed the contract, and issued it in Europe and the United States at the fastest speed.

As Liu Xiangdong expected, Liu Xiangdong's new book was put on sale in China a week before the Spring Festival, but the response was not enthusiastic. Most of the people who bought this book only read a few pages, and then they were not interested in reading it any more, so they threw it aside and put it away.

Some critics in China noticed the situation of Liu Xiangdong's book and began to vigorously promote the most promising young writer, and Liu Xiangdong's new book hit the streets. And some so-called brick artists also began to criticize Liu Xiangdong, as a college student who did not graduate from college, for daring to predict the direction of the world in the next 30 years, which is really incomprehensible and arrogant.

Some fans of Liu Xiangdong wanted to defend Liu Xiangdong, but they couldn't find a reason to fight back, because they didn't believe that Liu Xiangdong could predict the future.

Liu Xiangdong had long expected the reaction to this book, so he was very calm, and only the girls around him were worried about him.

Yao Shijing and Shen Hong were convinced that Liu Xiangdong could predict the future, because they knew that Liu Xiangdong had an elusive fairy grandmother behind him.

"Xiangdong, what your grandmother told you in your book?" asked Yao Shi quietly.

"Most of them, and a small part of them are my own reasonable deductions based on the available information. Liu Xiangdong said frankly.

"I believe that in ten or twenty years, those who criticize you now will turn around and praise you. Yao Shijing said.

"I'm not afraid of their criticism, and I don't need their praise, I just want to tell everyone what I know. Sharing is the happiest. ”

"You're not afraid that the relevant departments will pull you to slice and study. ”

"Even if they cut me, they couldn't find my deceased grandmother. ”

After the Spring Festival, the major domestic network main stations in China began to reprint the selection of the most influential works of the year released by the four major review agencies in Europe and the United States, and Liu Xiangdong's new book "Meet the Future Self" all ranked first on each list.

In the end, they unanimously agreed that all the events predicted by Liu Xiangdong in the next 20 years have a probability of more than 50%, which has exceeded all the authors and experts in history who wrote books that predict the future.

All institutions, schools, and enterprises in the West, on the recommendation of experts, have purchased the books written by Liu Xiangdong in Huaxia and carefully studied each event or technology written by Liu Xiangdong.

The English version of Liu Xiangdong's new book sold more than 200,000 copies abroad in two months, surpassing the sales in China.

Flowers bloom inside the wall, fragrant outside the wall. In the face of foreign sales data, the critics and bricks who wanted to attack Liu Xiangdong were silent.

The price of the English version of the book is four to five times that of China, and Liu Xiangdong can get 0.6 US dollars per book, which is equivalent to 4 Chinese yuan. Liu Xiangdong has recouped the cost of translating this book, and the book will continue to be popular in the future, like he raised a golden rooster that lays golden eggs.

Influenced by foreign experts, some institutions, schools, and enterprises in China have noticed Liu Xiangdong's new book. The book's sales in China have only begun to blow out.