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The rain fell from the sky without warning, and the whole morning was a little gloomy.

Zhang Chu sat in front of the computer in the study, looking at the data and news summarized by Zhou Kang in a daze.

"A total of 850,000 copies, of which more than 600,000 are e-books, which is like fake news!"

When he was writing "Farewell My Concubine", he never dreamed that he would be able to make a slow-paced book with special emotions that needed to be savored a bestseller, and he also broke several records.

It's really intentional to plant flowers that don't bloom, and unintentionally plant willows and willows!

If he hadn't been called by Xu Ji to watch the theater and talk about things, Zhang Chu would not have come into contact with Peking Opera in his life, let alone think of writing "Farewell My Concubine".

After all, there are so many things hidden in his head, and everything is a coincidence.

If it had been released after it was written, it would obviously not have sold so many copies!

Until now, the employees of the distribution department of Nanhai Publishing Company were not too optimistic about its sales forecast, but who would have thought that as soon as the news of the actors of the film crew came out, it became a big hit that swept the Internet.

It's really the domestic audience that has reached the point of intolerability for bad movies, those movies in the summer file are worse than one another, and "Psychological Crime" released on Labor Day on May 1 turned out to be the best-rated film, but it was also Zhang Chu and Xu Ji's partner!

Now netizens are ridiculing that Xu Ji and Zhang Chu can become the new golden partners, they don't want Director Xu to retire like this, if there is no his annual masterpieces, then there is really no hope for Chinese films.

Zhang Chu pocketed this unexpected joy and didn't spend too much time on celebration, such a record is completely lucky, and it belongs to the kind that is unattainable.

The outbreak of "Farewell My Concubine" is too accidental, but now the "Da Vinci Code" he is preparing will be a global hit, even if he changes the identity of the protagonist from the United States to China, but this does not affect the plot.

Robert Langdon, who is not familiar with Robert Langdon, who made "The Da Vinci Code" popular all over the world, is just a proper narrator, and anyone can replace him!

Dan Brown is not the top in terms of character creation, and after reading it, readers are more immersed in the shock of the mysterious history being deciphered, and the character image is not prominent.

The actor is a flexible and humorous, affinity, can let go in various occasions, and does not lose his demeanor. That's why his lectures are accepted and welcomed by people at different levels.

It's true that Tom Hanks is an Oscar winner with superb acting skills, but his role in the adaptation of the same name actually makes many original parties feel lacking!

It's not that the acting is bad, but I just don't think it's very suitable.

Zhang Chu is now wondering if he can make the actor a key role, just like everyone thinks of Indiana Jones when they mention "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and Hu Bayi when they mention "Ghost Blows the Lantern".

How to deepen the actor's sense of existence, how to make him appear in the hearts of readers and leave a deep imprint, these are all things that Zhang Chu is thinking about!

Now after the identity change, the protagonist is already Professor Yang Xuan of the Department of Philosophy and Religion of Yenching University, in Zhang Chu's setting, Yang Xuan is an energetic and childlike middle-aged man.

This trait was especially evident when he was researching the matters he was interested in, prompting Yang Xuan to remain calm and calm in the face of adversity, and to win with wit in a series of unexpected challenges!

That's right, Zhang Chu is now writing a character biography, and from this perspective set by the author, Yang Xuan's character image has become full!

The professor in his forties can meet a romantic love while solving the case in a foreign country, which is a bit close to Bond, and the embellishment of this love element is indispensable.

Zhang Chu doesn't need a guide-like male protagonist, Dan Brown's protagonists play this role, leading readers through various adventures, but the focus of the story is on solving puzzles, not on the characterization of the protagonist.

Perhaps many people know that this professor is very knowledgeable, that he is proficient in semiotics, that he is claustrophobic, but that's about it.

Readers love this adventure not because of how appealing the character is, but because the adventure itself and the familiar and unfamiliar culture in it capture their hearts!

Think about those classic adventure movies and adventure genres, what really leaves an impression in the minds of readers and viewers is because of the characters, and fans are willing to follow their idols on their adventures because they like these characters.

In other words, "The Da Vinci Code" captures the reader's heart with its story and suspense, not the character of Langdon!

Now Zhang Chu is going to change the protagonist to Yang Xuan to become plump and three-dimensional, and it will also become a big motivation for readers to read books, forming a situation where the troika is neck and neck.

"It's really difficult, it's not easy to write Yang Xuan as the 007 of the academic world. ”

Zhang Chu sighed loudly, he really hasn't written such a character, and he hasn't experienced that aspect of things, how can he make the character building not conflict with the story.

Describing a character is nothing more than putting effort into demeanor, dialogue, behavior, etc., but now the overly complex plot description method in "The Da Vinci Code" greatly occupies the reader's energy.

If these back-and-forth plot narratives are changed, Zhang Chu is not sure whether it will destroy the readability, and it will make the reader scratch his head on the clues.

In each episode, more doubts or clues arise, layered around the theme, and these doubts will not be revealed until the last moment.

And the clues only exist in a certain period, when readers see the back, they will suddenly remember what they have seen before, and it turns out that the clue can only be used here!

"It's strange that there is no challenge, this level of book is already the limit, and it is too difficult to revise. ”

Zhang Chu once read a saying that writers and detectives need great wisdom, and there is a kind of person in the world who is more intelligent than them, and that is the writer who writes detectives!

Strictly speaking, "The Da Vinci Code" is not a detective and adventure in the full sense, but it has such blood in its bones.

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When Zhang Chu was immersed in perfecting the new book, the form of the outside world could be described as changing.

The first-day sales of more than 800,000 surprised almost the entire publishing circle, and at the same time made countless people who eat melons curious.

What kind of work can sell so much?

The sales of "Farewell My Concubine" on the second day did not seem to have dropped much, and the paid downloads of the electronic version were still far ahead, hundreds of thousands more than the second place!

The sales of physical books are also rising slightly, and someone helped Zhang Chu calculate an account, which helped him earn millions of yuan in one day, which can be called crazy money.

With a physical book sales of about 220,000 yuan, each book costs 25 yuan, and Zhang Chu's current royalty is 15%, which is 825,000 yuan!

630,000 e-book sales, each book costs 10 yuan, and the level of sharing in each place is different, on average, it is about 30%, which means that e-books can bring 1.9 million to Zhang Chu!

The two add up to more than 2.7 million yuan, a terrifying number.

If the sales of the rest of his works are included, yesterday his income undoubtedly exceeded three million before taxes, if only he could do so much every day.

This wish is obviously a little difficult to achieve, and occasionally you can rush once, so much every day is faster than robbing a bank!

The way to make money after becoming famous is not limited to selling books, many people feel that selling copyrights makes more money than selling books.

But after looking at Zhang Chu's, who can assert that selling books must not be profitable?

You can make so much money in one day, book sales are never a matter of one or two days, maybe this book will continue to sell, and it will be worth more than the copyright of "Farewell My Concubine".

The copyright can only be sold once, and the book can be printed all the time!

In the afternoon, the General Administration of Press and Publication announced the sales of all books yesterday, not only the media and publishing circles were curious about this number, but many netizens also flocked to the website to see whether the sales of 850,000 copies would be increased or lowered.

Zhou Kang prayed silently, and then he clicked on the link, and after seeing the numbers behind him, the whole person jumped up from the chair excitedly!

"870,000 copies! Hahahaha, so much increase! The monthly sales champion really looks promising!"

The General Administration of Press and Publication did not make much correction to the sales of e-books, but the sales of physical books have increased much compared with the previous rough report.

If the revised sales of 17,000 physical books were placed in yesterday's sales list alone, they would have entered the middle of the top 30!

The 870,000-day first-day sales of "Farewell My Concubine" were so impressive that the entire book market was enveloped in this horror.

The second-ranked work in a single day still relied on large-scale discount promotions to sell 80,000 copies, which was completely suppressed by Zhang Chu's book.

Another book that Zhou Kang paid more attention to "Listening to the Sound of the Wind" sales increased a lot compared with the day before yesterday, the previous single-day sales were 38,000 copies, and yesterday's sales came to 75,000 copies, ranking third.

Also relying on discounts, the sales increase of this book is not as large as the previous one, which shows that readers are basically saturated!

If the two sides maintain this growth rate, then Zhang Chu can indeed usher in the third month of this year's sales champion!

"The tree is big and the wind is big, and it seems that we have to start preparing for this kind of thing. Zhou Kang said happily, if he chooses to make money in a low-key way, he will definitely be willing to choose to make money in a low-key way.

It's just that the current situation doesn't allow Han Linxuan and Zhang Chu to be low-key, and the sunspots will only be late, and they will never be absent!