After such a meal, the author's status was greatly improved. Ah Yue laughed at his boss for eating many partners in one meal. If it weren't for the special situation before the Ming Dynasty, the status of authors and publishing companies would not have been able to achieve such a change.

However, it is only before the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, for the author, it is for himself to work, and the work pressure and motivation are more sufficient. Otherwise, with authors like Mi Wu and Du Xiao, it is enough to publish a book a year and attend some ceremonies, and the money is enough to spend. About 9 months of the year are pure holidays. But now, for their own gain, they have to fight too.

And, to be honest, everyone investing in a publishing company together is ultimately for their future creations to be less restrictive and less distracting, at least to have fewer problems caused by unnecessary professional negligence. If you really want to cash out in the future? Please, other investors are not stupid, and it is clear that the core assets of a publishing company are these authors, especially those who are bound by equity, how can they cash out if they are not bound for a few years? If you want to talk about annual dividends, it will be a hell. Can a publishing company's annual profit be 20% of its valuation? Even if it really has a profit of 60 million, in addition to the company's retention, it will take out a maximum of 30 million yuan. 5% is only 1.5 million, and you have to pay taxes. If you have this effort, you might as well write more books every year, and maybe earn more.

A book, not counting light novels, the lower limit of a standard long story is 100,000 words. (Of course, there is no lower limit now, and there are many novellas of 40,000 or 50,000 words.) An efficient author, got it done in a month.

In any case, the information at the dinner seems to be enough to make everyone excited for a long time, and then, spend a lot of time and energy, and accompany a company to experience all kinds of interesting or helpless things.

But for Yue Qingyan, there are other troubles besides: Mo Ersheng.

Morsheng's performance at the dinner table is probably both rational and emotional. The plan she proposed was almost the best condition that Yue Qingyan could get from Ming Qian at present. Carefully calculated, of course, each person has their own logic and priorities. But for Yue Qingyan, is it attractive to acquire shares in a publishing company that has a clear development path, has a superior business situation, has a good relationship with the authors, has an extremely good reputation, and has rich social relations? But when I can save enough money, I really don't know when. If it weren't for the fact that Lianxingjie was about to be reorganized now, such news would be released all of a sudden, and talk to him alone, especially a few years later, when Lianxingjie had no business and investment problems, it would be impossible to talk to him. And Morsheng, who seemed to be aware of this problem, settled the matter at the dinner table, taking advantage of the joy of the festival.

Even if Lian Xingjie felt that it was not cost-effective and wanted to regret it, he would not be able to do such a thing. Moreover, calculate the things paid, royalties other than 6%, within three years. If Yue Qingyan can really win the shares of Mingqian Company with this money within three years, then he is already a best-selling author in the circle, and how much he earns depends on whether he can have this motivation. And if the 6% royalty is not enough for him to spend in the past few years, then to be honest, it will not be enough with other income. This is already purely a matter of consumption.

Therefore, when dealing with this problem, Yue Qingyan felt that maybe Mo Ersheng would not change emotionally in a short time. Does she feel about herself adoring or liking, or both? Does she like it a little more?...... Yue Qingyan didn't know any of this. But what he said to Xu Yingying before was really what he thought.

sent Mo Ersheng back to the dormitory first, and then Yue Qingyan hurried a long way to continue home. When I got home, it was already 1 a.m. However, Yue Qingyan felt that his mind was still extremely clear and sharp.

After he arrived home, he still sent a message to Morsheng according to the agreement: "I'm here, don't worry." You go to bed early. ”

Then, Yue Qingyan turned on the computer and was stunned by the computer.

He's really going to start writing long stories quickly. But the current request given by Faust is to write a love story that is not together. This theme is not suitable for writing long stories, and Yue Qingyan does not like to make this kind of story very long and complicated. He racked his brains, and finally decided to digest this request into a short story as soon as possible, and then see if the next proposition was suitable for a long story and how to deal with it.

So, at this time, he wanted to write a short story for Morsheng. A story that is very consistent with his current state of mind.

It's probably a little negative and back-to-back, but the faint meaning of keeping a distance should be able to convey it.

There was that urge to write again, and Yue Qingyan felt this way when his hand touched the keyboard. A short story is often the product of this strong impulse.

It took him almost 5 minutes to write the first paragraph of the entire novel:

Justin Hockenschrager, a $30-a-week printer, sees about 60 strange women pass by every day. It is estimated that during the years that Hockenschlager lived in New York, he had to pass through about 75,120 different women. Of the 75,120 women, about 25,000 are between the ages of 15~30. Of these 25,000, only 5,000 weigh between 105~125 pounds. Of those 5,000, only 1,000 are passable. Only 500 have some charm, only 100 are quite charming, and only 25 can elicit a long, slow whistle. But only one made Hogan Schrager fall in love at first sight. ”

This somewhat jumbled opening, which is a bit jumbled by the accumulation of numbers, undoubtedly grabs the reader's attention, but when it comes to writing, it is only intended to lead to the last sentence in a stronger way. Then, those beautiful sentences naturally interspersed.

"I fall in love with the way your lips are slightly open. You have uncovered the mystery of everything for me. Since I came to New York four years ago, I've never been unhappy, but I've never been happy. Speaking of which, I'm no different from the thousands of young people in New York, just alive. ”

The whole story is basically a low-level dick who falls in love with a girl, and even steals her wallet in order to know her identity and get her attention. Dick Si was sentenced, wrote to the girl in prison, and received a reply. Then, Dick Si fantasized about writing a second letter to the girl and received a reply. The whole story is full of a tone called "impossible".

"Loving you is the only thing that matters to me, Miss Lester. Some people think that love is sex, marriage is a kiss at six o'clock in the morning, and a bunch of children, and maybe that's true, Miss Lester. But you know what I think? I think love is about wanting to touch and withdraw your hand. ”

"I think it's important for a woman to marry a man who to outsiders seems to be rich, handsome, smart, or popular. I'm not even popular. No one even hated me. I'm just—I'm just—Justin Hockenschrager. I've never made people feel happy, sad, angry, or even annoyed. I think people think I'm a good person, that's all. ”

It took less than two hours to write the story. And the name of this story is "The Heart of a Broken Story". (The original book is Salinger, an author who is good at writing pretending and beautiful sentences.) ）

After ordering the last period, Yue Qingyan read it from beginning to end. He didn't smoke, and there was no alcohol in his lodgings, so he didn't know for a moment how to send that faint sadness. For any author, emotion is one of the most important driving forces. It's just that some feelings can be loaded, and some can't. He didn't know how to tell the difference, but he knew that the process of interaction between him and Morsheng was too simple, too little, too shallow.

Morsheng's emotions of worship and awe are not the basis of normal feelings at all.

At about two o'clock in the morning, Yue Qingyan threw the document of the novel in the dialog box, and sent it to Mo Ersheng on WeChat. At the same time, he also sent the document to Ah Yue, Du Xiao and Miwu.

Another new short story has been written. It's time to draw skills and items again. Silently thinking in his heart, Yue Qingyan pulled out the delicate folder containing the printed manuscript from the computer screen and opened it to take a look.

Skill: Visually measure body weight

Source Character: Justin Hoganschrager

Description: Weight data for female characters is obtained through continuous visual observation. The accuracy of the test depends on the length of the visual time. The ratio of accuracy to time is as follows: 3 seconds for visual accuracy of 10 kg, visual 5 seconds for kilogram accuracy, 7 seconds visual for 0.1 kilogram accuracy, 9 seconds visual for 10 grams, 11 seconds for visual accuracy of grams, 13 seconds for visual accuracy of 0.1 grams. By using this skill repeatedly, the skill level will increase, and the visual time for each accuracy will be reduced by 1 second for each level. Visuality is as effective as the real physical presence of a female character as it is for image output such as photographs.

THIS IS YUE QINGYAN'S FIRST REACTION AFTER READING THE SKILL DESCRIPTION...... Is this skill useful?

However, if you write a pit dad novel like this, with such a short character and so few characters, you can guess that there will be no fun skills. But this skill, how to say it...... Well, when you say a girl's weight without any obstacles, or an extremely accurate number, this will be considered a pervert, right?

What surprised Yue Qingyan even more was that there was another small card in the folder.

"The additional tasks were well done. Enclosed is the item you obtained. ”

Sure enough, there was a yellow envelope with $30 in cash in the folder. What he gets is the protagonist's weekly salary.

Yue Qingyan felt that his luck was probably really cursed. However, it is quite good that I have completed the additional requirements without any punishment. He knew that he must not be able to write such stories about the inconspicuous rewards and punishments all the time, otherwise Faust would have gone mad. When the time comes, it will not be good to come up with any very strong demands.