The artistic value of classic literary and artistic works can always stand the test of the market and time, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was originally serialized, it caused a great backlash from readers, but after the whole book was published, when this story slowly precipitated in the long river of years, everyone remembered more about Yang Guo's infatuation, Guo Jing and Huang Rong's deep love between husband and wife, Wang Chongyang and the regret of the patriarch's mother-in-law, and even sang "What is the love in the world" Li Mochou's hatred and pity who ran to the sea of fire.

When Mr. Jin talked about novels, he once mentioned a concept that with the development of the times, one day after a long time, the concept of national boundaries may no longer exist, but the feelings between people are eternal, an inexhaustible source of creation for literary and artistic workers, and an eternal theme of literary and artistic works.

This is also one of the golden rules adhered to by Hollywood movies - the universe is vast, time and space are boundless, heaven and earth, only love can connect a qiē!

The editors of "Craftsman Record" have now read the whole book of "The Condor Heroes", they have witnessed the lovesickness and bitterness of Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu little by little, they know the pain of love flowers, they know the sixteen-year covenant, and they know that they are eclipsed......

Compared with the fragment of Xiaolongnu's humiliation, what they remember more deeply is the scene of Yang Guo chasing the sun on the cliff of broken intestines sixteen years later, the scene of Yang Guo's sideburns and white hair overnight, and the scene of Yang Guo's reunion at the bottom of the valley of Xiaolongnu's despair.

Kang Lingyue, Qingjiao, and Su Jin were one of the three girls, and when they saw Yang Guo ask Xiaolongnu loudly before jumping off the cliff, "Why don't you keep your promise", they all burst into tears. That is, Wang Jianshan and Chang Youdao both saw that their eyes were moist.

The charm of art is in the tears of readers and viewers, and the colors are timeless.

This is also the reason why several editors have hinted that Yoo Kyung-jeong's novel needs to be listed early, because of their experience. It can be judged lightly that once the reader reads the whole story, sees the wonderful plot behind the mountains, and gets a glimpse of the whole picture of this epic love, he will be relieved of the current plot.

Seeing everyone's appearance, Liu Jingting confirmed his thoughts and said, "Actually, it was in the original plan. The little dragon girl was going to be written to death, but considering the reader's ability to bear it, she still gave up this plan. The coincidence of the valley of despair was designed. ”

The idea was indeed the brainchild of Mr. Kim, but in the end, the plan was cancelled in consideration of the reader's affordability and the sales of the newspaper.

"I'm glad you gave up on it. ”

Liu Jingting smiled silently and said, "It's mainly because it makes sense logically. If not the two of them have a deep love for each other. If Xiaolongnu hadn't lived in the ancient tomb since she was a child, her nature was weak, and she couldn't live alone at the bottom of the valley for 16 years; if Yang Guo hadn't been affectionate and sexual, she wouldn't have been like a day for 16 years, life and death, so, in the final analysis, they would have this kind of ending in the end. Or is it determined by the individual's character. ”

Everyone nodded secretly, actually. Even Liu Jingting didn't say it, they saw that Xiaolongnu had lived alone at the bottom of the valley for sixteen years, and they also subconsciously thought of the years she lived in the ancient tomb, although there was no lack of coincidences in the logic, but the story could be completely self-consistent.

Xu Qing said: "Saying so much, what are you going to do, to solve this problem, the sooner the better, not only the problem of the magazine, but also the TV series we are doing." ”

Liu Jingting bowed his head and said: "I'm not a dictator, since everyone agrees that this is the most appropriate, let's do it according to everyone's wishes." ”

Chang Youdao hurriedly continued: "Then "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can be serialized in the main magazine, and there is no need to make another free publication." ”

Liu Jingting shook his head and said: "No need, give up this seat to potential authors, well, everyone has recently planned a new topic." ”

Chang Youdao, Wang Jianshan and others were obviously stunned, and then they understood, they collectively forced the boss to end the serialization early, and the boss of course also gave them the next task.

Kang Lingyue said: "Hey your ......"

Liu Jingting smiled: "That's right, I'm so careful." ”

Everyone was speechless.

Liu Jingting said again: "Since the loss of popularity this time is so strict, then why not do a rookie competition, this should be the most effective way to restore popularity, right?"

"Rookie competition, Lao Liu, you mean, we can do a rookie competition?"

"Well, so, let's prepare for this. ”

Everyone nodded and made a note in the notebook, and no one questioned whether Liu Jingting was deliberately embarrassing everyone.

After the matter of the rookie competition was confirmed, Su Jin asked: "So, how does the listing of "The Condor Heroes" work?"

Liu Jingting said: "Leave this to me first, and I'll tell you about the rest of the things one by one." ”

"Hmm. ”

Towards the end of November, Mr. Yoo finally reappeared on his microblog.

"Everyone's reaction is so fierce,Actually, it was a little unexpected to me.,I saw everyone's signature building yì book.,I also received a joint letter from more than a dozen forum moderators.,Overall,Everyone's meaning is'change the plot',Here's a unified reply.,The plot is impossible to change.,But out of respect for readers.,Here is the content that should be in the afterword to share with you in advance.。

The original intention of the novel "Condor" is to try to pass through the role of Yang Guo, 'to express the constraints of the world's rituals and customs on people's hearts and behaviors', such as the teacher-student love, such as the chastity archway, there are many guidelines for ethics in the past era, which is absolutely not tolerated by the world, but if you look at it from the perspective of modern people, you feel that it is not remarkable, in the same way, some of the concepts we adhere to now are not equally meaningless in a few hundred years?

Then back to the matter of Xiaolongnu, let's just talk about chicken soup, Yin Zhiping's arrangement is to shape and set off Yang Guo's contempt and disdain for the world's etiquette, not to mention everyone, I may not be able to accept it myself, but what is a novel, it is a dream factory, a place to create dreams and ideals, although we are not as great as Yang Guo, how can we be as good as Guo Jing, Chu Liuxiang, Xiao Shiyilang, and even Chen Jialuo?

To say that there is nothing to be done without any redemption is simply to explain the idea. However, it is obvious that there is no strength in saying these things with empty teeth, so it is better than this. I'll make a bet with you, I will launch the whole novel of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in mid-December, and the content of the previous serialization will not change word for word, if everyone reads the whole novel, and still adhere to the current view, when "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is listed, the first two million copies will be all free. ”

Two million copies. It's all free!

If you extrapolate from the scale of "Journey to the West", the free 2 million copies of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" means that Liu Jingting has to pay 40 or 50 million out of his own pocket.

What kind of tone is this, does Liu Jingting actually have such a lot of confidence?

As soon as this microblog came out. It immediately attracted the attention of a large number of netizens, and some smart netizens took screenshots almost in seconds to leave evidence.

The relevant forums were also quickly occupied by this news, and the limelight gradually overshadowed the Xiaolongnumen incident.

……

"What a marketing genius!"

Qianhong President's Office. Lu Yichou saw Liu Jingting's microblog. blurted out praise, and then he sent this screenshot to the work group, saying: "In this way, not only successfully diverted attention, but also previewed the listing of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and promoted "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which can be described as killing three birds with one stone." ”

However, the premise of this is that. You're going to be saddled with tens of millions of chips, right?"

"Isn't this easy, you look carefully at the wording of his sentence. "Still all stick to the current view", have you noticed the key word, all, that is to say, as long as someone comes forward to accept this set of his, this bet is that he wins, in the end, this is a bet that must win. ”

"Understood, indeed genius. ”

At this time, Kuang Heng, the head of the editorial team, intercepted Xue Muliang's micro-blog and posted it to the group, saying: "Xue Muliang seems to respect Liu Jingting very much now. ”

Xue Muliang's blog pointed out: "With the omni-channel operation of copyright in the content field, one day the free distribution of novels may not be a feasible idea, such as the free delivery of books in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" mentioned by Mr. Liu, on the surface, it will cost tens of millions of production fees, but in this way, the publicity of the novel is also huge, as long as the film and television copyright in the later stage of the book can be all gone, these tens of millions are simply not worth mentioning, and everyone knows that the publicity and distribution budget of any large-scale zuò movie is not worth tens of millions. ”

This screenshot made Qianhong's work group silent for a while, the so-called genius can understand genius, when others, including Lu Yichou, thought that Liu Jingting made this bet purely out of will, or to be clever, but Xue Muliang saw a deeper mystery or "money scene".

How could Liu Jingting ever fire an empty cannon for no reason?

After coming over for a long time, Lu Yichou replied with a little frustration: "It seems that we really have a lot to learn, forget it, I'll call Lao Gu directly." ”

……

"You can't be serious, do you, give away books for free, two million?"

During the lunch break, Liu Jingting and his colleagues sat on the balcony to rest, and Xu Qing couldn't help but mention this topic.

"yes. ”

"Yes...... What kind of traps? For example, when the time comes, ask a few of us to sign up for some vests to show our support for you?"

"I'm not so bored, and when it comes to this issue, I'll tell you some of my thoughts lately. ”

Liu Jingting sat up straight, and said seriously: "The reason why I thought of this was actually inspired by my college roommate Dai Anqiao, who recently chatted with me and mentioned the issue of online derivative copyrights, when it comes to games, animation, peripherals, and film and television adaptations, he looked at a few statistics, and pointed out that the copyright income of some top authors has exceeded the subscription income, so he thinks that free content can be used to attract consumers of other copyrights." ”

Wang Jianshan said: "The idea is indeed new, but the limitations seem to be quite large. ”

Liu Jingting nodded and said: "That's true, this kind of operation scheme is only suitable for a few top authors, for those who are niche, or have no copyright access, don't say it's free, piracy can drag them down." ”

But "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is different, because the novel itself was written for a TV series. Kang Lingyue somewhat understood.

"Yes, so I don't worry about the end result at all, and even if I win the bet, I will still make half a million copies for free, or half the price of the book, which is supposed to promote the story. ”

Everyone had to be impressed by Liu Jingting's insight again, but there was no way, he couldn't stand at his height, and his vision had objective limitations.

At this time, Lu Yichou's call came in.

Liu Jingting didn't hide anything from Lu Yichou, he originally wanted to hear Lu Yichou's opinion, but in this matter, Lu Yichou obviously didn't think about it systematically, and after a general understanding, he hurriedly hung up the phone.

Chang Youdao looked at Liu Jingting and said, "Xue Muliang has already released a friendly signal to us for the third time, I guess he can't wait to chat with you now." ”

"There's nothing to talk about, he may have misunderstood that we are the same kind of people, but not at all, let him go. ”

……

A week before "The Condor Heroes" was ready to be released, that is, in the early morning of December 5, Gong Chengen suddenly called Liu Jingting and informed him that he might want to marry Wang Qianqian.

"As long as we win the ocean's "Emperor Wu of Han" this time, she will agree to marry me, Gu Shuai, what do you think?"

Liu Jingting was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that he hadn't seen that awkward girl for a long time.

"Gu Shuai!"

"Haha, then you start preparing, congratulations. ”

"I think so too, not to mention winning against Zheng Yu, it must not be difficult to win against the ocean. ”

After a long time with Gong Chengen, who was unstable, he was about to throw away his mobile phone to sleep, when the phone rang again, Liu Jingting frowned, thinking that it was Gong Chengen again, he reached out and touched the phone, and asked, "I said ......"

"Hi, Liu Jingting. Wang Qianqian's voice came from there.

"Wang Qianqian?"

"yes, it's me, you haven't slept yet?"

"Hmm...... Well. ”

"I don't know if you know, I'm going to marry Gong Chengen. ”

"Yes, he just sued me, congratulations. ”

"Are you happy for us?"

"Definitely, I'm very happy, there is a lover who will eventually become a family. ”

"Me too, by the way, why don't you come and be his best man then?"

"Okay, this shouldn't be able to run. ”

"When will you and Yang Lilu get married?"

"Huh?"

"Aren't you going to get married? It's impossible for a young lady to not marry you for the rest of your life, right, so when are you going to get married?"

"That's right, her mother gave me two problems, which means that only by doing those two things can I be completely recognized. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Oscars and 61 TV Drama Awards. ”

"It's good to have a mom who hurts. ”

“……”

"Then let's do it first, see you at the wedding. ”

……

On December 12, "The Condor Heroes" was launched, not long ago, Liu Jingting and "The Condor" were still in the wave of national boycott, just ten days later, the "Condor" novel came out, and the first printing of 1.6 million copies was sold out in the morning.

Let's not mention the meaning behind Liu Jingting's gamble, at least the preliminary publicity purpose has been achieved.

The printing of the second batch of 2 million copies began after the first printing was distributed.

The wind from the wings of the "Condor" is bound to sweep the whole country again.

Belch...... It should be said that again...... (To be continued......)