For a newcomer like Yue Qingyan, this contract is quite generous. Even for some mature authors, it's a fair contract. The company promotes the author as much as it can, but also for its own benefit. Respect the author as much as possible in terms of creation, and no other restrictions are set. This kind of attitude is usually very able to win the approval of the author.

(The publication terms in some online articles that rely on writing articles for original accumulation, how to say, the author must not have been in contact with the relevant industry.) The economic model is completely wrong. In this book, calculating the conditions given by the publishing company, you have to sell more than 5 million copies to tie it, and it's not to make money. God knows how many books in the publishing industry have sold more than 5 million copies. In fact, the cultural industry publishing industry has always been very hard, and now that it has changed to digital publishing, it has not changed much, and it is still hard to be forced. ）

The contract between the company and Yue Qingyan is three years. The other terms are not controversial, and the point of dispute between Lian Xingjie and Ah Yue at the beginning is whether to give Yue Qingyan a guaranteed fee every month. Salary, consulting fees, etc. But after the two discussed it, they still did not add this clause. Authors need to stay hungry, not only creatively, but also financially. What if Yue Qingyan doesn't work with money every month? The author said that he was carvinized, and it is possible not to write for a few years. There are still a lot of such people.

However, Yue Qingyan is indeed not short of money now, and he really has a long good life to live without writing. This time Ming Qian got this live broadcast, all the income was given to him, there are more than 100,000 yuan. In addition, the manuscripts of the 5 novels in hand were given to Ming Qian, the essay bonus is a lump sum, and there is a manuscript fee after publication, and then, these novels still have copyright marketing value. Especially "Red Rose and White Rose", a proper period drama with a good theme. The problem with "Eight Minutes of Warmth" is that it is a campus story after all, and it is not very attractive to film and television companies. According to the communication ability of Ming Qian, if "Your Name" can be handed over to RB for publication and then sold back to China, plus the authorization of "Red Rose and White Rose", it will already be quite profitable. Although it needs to work, it probably takes time and luck, but it's not a big problem.

After signing the contract, Ah Yue seemed very happy. He said to Yue Qingyan: "You have a good rest today? The consumption of writing is too great, and it is not okay to exhaust you." I'll talk to you in a few days, and I want you to write a long article. ”

"Long stories are not without them. But now I'm still thinking about it. After all, I haven't written it. Yue Qingyan said: "I slept well yesterday, but I don't need to go back to make up for sleep today." But it's really uncomfortable to have to cut your hair and nails for so many days before and after. ”

"Hahahaha, okay, wait a minute, let Xu Yingying take you there. She has membership cards for several nice beauty salons nearby. Ah Yue said.

"The problem of image packaging should be grasped. Now that we are a signed author, we have to attend various events in the future. Lian Xingjie said: "Let Yingying accompany you, and then, let's find a place to drink tea." Let's talk about your novel. ”

Yue Qingyan faintly felt that Lian Xingjie had other meanings, but it was not a bad thing anyway, so he agreed.

Xu Yingying's operation has almost completely become Yue Qingyan's assistant in the past few days, but she doesn't care. Although she is a rich lady, she will handle it well anyway because of her work. When Yue Qingyan cut her hair, she also tossed her hair to pass the time.

"By the way, I guess I really hate you. Xu Yingying said: "The preface to his short story collection has been handed over to the company." There will be no further contact with the company after that. But he said in the circle, saying that he wanted you to look good. ”

"Alas, the word in the circle reached you so quickly?" Yue Qingyan said, "The news is very well-informed. ”

"Cut, how big is the circle. Shocking is very popular? It's just his fox friends. It's like who doesn't have friends in the circle. Xu Yingying obviously didn't look down on the sting.

Yue Qingyan is not so open-minded, after all, he has never been in contact with the real literary circle, and he doesn't know what kind of virtue these people play. After all, he was just an online writer on the street before.

He said with some concern: "Won't it be good?" I'm just a newcomer. ”

"The sting is just an old fellow. The author only thinks that what he writes is good or bad. It's a matter of luck if it's well written but not popular, and you can't get by. If you can help, you can help. But if you can't write something, you have to be dead-faced, so there is no way to do this. Xu Yingying said very politely: "This peak period of stinging is not very good." Anyway, it's far worse than you. ”

Yue Qingyan knew the situation, if it weren't for the super huge story library as the foundation, he would just be a servant author. But now, he can be considered a super shining star.

"I see. But when it comes to writing, it's hard to maintain quality. Yue Qingyan had a headache. It's already been thrown out of the super famous article "Soul Breaking Gun", and it's not going to be easy in the future. Fortunately, there is still a lot of room for play in the length and length of tens of thousands of words.

"How did you come up with a story like Soul Breaker? ”

"Because, there is always a time when secondary two teenagers like martial arts. Yue Qingyan was a little fascinated: "However, now there is none." Look at that time, even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were notebook novels and scripts, all of which were talking about all kinds of heroes, some of which were reflected in the Zhiwei and local chronicles. If you look ahead, many Tang legends can also be classified as martial arts, of course, the writing is a little mysterious, but overall it is still that tone. Martial arts seem to have disappeared at the end of the Qing Dynasty. ”

Yue Qingyan thought for a while and added: "It's not that it's gone, at least those heroes or something are not so mainstream." has been handed down, and there is only one big sword king five. Most of the others are the inheritance of a certain martial art, saying that it is a national art. In fact, when something is said to be a country or something, this tone is not quite right. Either it's very popular, or it needs to be protected. Table tennis is the national sport, but martial arts is not. So where did the martial arts go? Fighting a war is no longer able to defeat the enemy, so is there still a need to pass it on? The new generation will not understand that feeling, and the skills acquired through hard training have become useless, what is the feeling?

There was something strange in his eyes, after all, the routine of the Soul Breaker was with him now.

"I believe that there are people who want to pass it on but have no heirs - those who don't want to learn, those who can't learn, and those who die in all kinds of wars. Both. Can you wear one generation, and then what? The next generation is more impetuous, with more convenient weapons, is martial arts really just fighting and forging the body? The old people may be very unwilling. ”

However, I thought of another possibility: could there be some people who saw the arrival of a new era and could not recover it anyway. They don't want to restore their old glory, they just think that we should die and make room for the future. Let the skills on his body die with them. ”

"Martial arts, martial arts are like this. Now, in fact, this is also the case with many traditional skills, even one industry after another. can't survive anymore, and some may be able to survive for a while by remembering, but they will eventually die. The times are rolling forward like this, and it is not surprising that it crushed anyone. ”

"Being in the midst of it, the pain is slow and resolute. Because there is really no hope, what about the little people in the big era? For a big era, everyone is just ants. All in all, really, it's a big time all the time. The wheels of history will not stop. ”

Yue Qingyan said very seriously, slowly, and a little emotionally, but more often with some self-deprecation and helplessness.

"That's what the boss said. Xu Yingying said: "The publishing industry is similar. Watch the wheels of history run over like this. Traditional publishing is getting worse every day. Our boss, after he entered the industry, he made two of the top ten best-selling novels of all time. At that time, I couldn't sell more than 2 million copies, and the first printing of good books was more than 50,000 yuan. Now, the minimum print run is 8,000 to 12,000 copies. If the price of paper increases, you may have to lose money. It's not going to be easy. ”

"So now you're also doing copyright operations. Yue Qingyan sighed.

"That's for sure. Otherwise, there is really no way to live. Xu Yingying said: "So, watching "Soul Breaking Gun" is particularly touching. The boss said that this article can enter the history of literature. ”

"Haha, just talking. Now there are fewer people watching short stories, and they don't have this kind of influence. Yue Qingyan was very open-minded. Suddenly, he thought of something: "By the way, do you want to see the Soul Breaker Gun?"

"Alas?" Xu Yingying was surprised: "You really went to study?"

Yue Qingyan said: "I don't know if it's really the Soul Breaking Gun." He said it in a more subtle way, but in fact it is impossible to go wrong with this skill.

"Where did it come from?" Xu Yingying was very curious.

"Learned. Definitely. Yue Qingyan said: "The master asked me to watch it once, just once." Then, I looked up countless sources, gradually copied what I saw, and researched it. But it's not exactly the same, I don't know. ”

"I'll rely on you to say it earlier. I asked the owner to change places in the afternoon. Xu Yingying said: "It turns out that you have worked so deeply. No wonder there is such a feeling of accumulation. I originally thought that you were just saying this, used to satirize the times. ”

"It's not wrong to be a metaphor for the times. Yue Qingyan scratched his head.

Xu Yingying said it to Lianxingjie, and sure enough, Lianxingjie sent another address: Yuanshan Association.

"Far Mountains. He said that he would call a few more friends for a drink in the afternoon. ”

"Alas?" Yue Qingyan felt that he was playing too big, he just wanted to pretend to be forced, but Xu Yingying felt that it was the source of his creative materials. But maybe that's not a bad thing?" "Where will the mountains be?"

"A clubhouse. Chinese courtyard. Originally, it was Feng Youshan's dead house, and later he has been entertaining guests from all walks of life, and he himself doesn't live there. It became a membership-based clubhouse. Consumption is not high, and the main Feng Youshan does not rely on this to make money. But no one can really bring it in. If you have a poor level of education, you can't get in, and you can't get rich or status. ”

"Good...... Senior. ”

"Yes!" Xu Yingying said angrily, "I, and my parents were all rejected." People say it very politely, but they just dislike us for being uneducated. ”