"Hey, Xiaowan, are you free at night? ”

After getting off work, An Qingxue called Tang Wanru.

Hearing the faint depression in An Qingxue's tone, Tang Wanru couldn't help but ask in surprise, "What's the matter, Qingxue?"

An Qingxue sighed depressedly and said, "Don't mention it, let's come out later, it's quite depressing anyway." ”

"Oh, okay. Then I'll get out. Or is it a home-like restaurant?" Tang Wanru didn't ask any more questions when he saw this, and waited until he met.

"Well, there it is. I'll be right over!" An Qingxue replied.

"Okay, then hang up first. ”

"Okay. ”

After hanging up the phone, Tang Wanru immediately took his satchel, put on the key and went out......

Twenty minutes later, the two met again at the homeinn restaurant. Still asked for a small box, the two of them prepared the food, and after the waiter went out, they chatted.

"Tell me, what's wrong with you today, making you look so depressed. Tang Wan sat very casually, took a sip of tea, and asked.

An Qingxue hung her head and said, "Your student's manuscript has blown ......"

Hearing this, Tang Wanru was suddenly surprised, and even sat up straight, and asked, "What's the matter?" I think that one is really good-looking, the subject matter is very novel, the story is good, and it is also quite rigorous, and there is no problem with the writing, can't this pass the review of your publishing house?"

Tang Wanru obviously thought that Ning Mo had been rejected and did not review it.

"It's all very good, and I'm also very optimistic about this book, and I've reviewed it. ”

"Then how do you ......?"

Hearing An Qingxue's words, Tang Wanru was suddenly even more stunned.

An Qingxue said depressedly: "I didn't talk to your student. ”

"What's going on, is my student asking for a high price?" Tang Wanru suddenly became curious.

An Qingxue said: "It's not very high, if it's just from my personal point of view, although your student's asking price is not low, it is not very high." It's just that our editor-in-chief thinks it's too high, and doesn't give ≮dǐng, ≮diǎn, ≮small, ≮ said, .≈.■os_ (); Tong guò, and your student was resolute and refused to give in, so the conversation fell apart......"

"Oh, I see. ”

Tang Wanru was light diǎndiǎn head, and then couldn't help asking, "How much does his student ask for me?"

An Qingxue said: "He wants a 10% royalty share." ”

"10%? That doesn't seem like a low percentage in your publishing world, right?" asked Don.

"Hmm. Generally, the authors who can get this proportion are some well-known authors, and if they are pure newcomer authors, there are very few who can get this ratio, and most of the newcomers are within 8%. ”

Anqing Snow Road.

"Then what percentage did your editor-in-chief give my student?" Tang Wanru asked again.

"7%!" An Qingxue replied.

"That's a big gap. Don said.

"yes, so we didn't talk about it in the end. Actually, I'm really optimistic about your student's book, and if I were to make my own decisions, 10% would not be impossible to consider. But the point is that our editor-in-chief thinks that your student is just a small newcomer and is not qualified to take this percentage of royalty shares, so he gave a bottom line of 7%. ”

After a slight pause, An Qingxue complained again: "Xiao Wan, didn't you see the stinky face of our editor-in-chief when he heard me say that your student asked for 10% of the royalty share, and I was so scared that I didn't dare to speak." ”

Tang Wanru had no choice but to shake his head and said, "It seems that you have such a boss, and your work is quite uncomfortable." ”

"It's not just uncomfortable, it's just uncomfortable. If it weren't for the fact that I finally got into the position of editor-in-chief, I would have wanted to quit my job and change jobs......"

An Qingxue continued to complain.

"You don't know how ugly that guy was talking about your student. Even the words 'love to sign, don't sign and roll' have been said. It's clear that you think your student is a newcomer, you don't take him seriously, and you don't value your student's book very much, so you think about how to exploit the newcomer. ”

"At the beginning, he told me that it would be best to buy your student's book directly for less than 500 words per 1,000 words. I didn't even want to give your student a royalty share, and then I asked him how much he could give if your student insisted on royalty sharing, and he asked me to try to push it to 6%!"

After listening to An Qingxue's complaints, Tang Wanru was also speechless. Originally, she took the initiative to recommend Ning Mo to An Qingxue purely out of good intentions, but she didn't expect to make An Qingxue happy in the end.

"Forget it, since the two sides can't get along, let's wait for the opportunity to see if you can cooperate in the future. ”

Tang Wanru can't say anything about this, she mainly plays the role of a matchmaker, since An Qingxue and her publishing house have such a big difference with Ning Mo that they can't talk about it, then it can only be like this.

"I guess that student of yours doesn't feel much better about me right now. I don't think I'm deliberately bullying him for his young age, so I offer him such a low price. Maybe it even affects his perception of you a lot......"

Anqing Snow Road.

Tang Wanru hesitated slightly, "It shouldn't be." ”

"It's hard to say. ”

Tang Wanru thought for a while and said, "Cheng, then I'll catch Ming'er and find a chance to talk to him, so that he doesn't really misunderstand anything." After all, I instigated him to submit a manuscript to you, and it is not necessary that he really has such a pimple in his heart. ”

"Yes, you're going to talk to your student about it privately. Save you from carrying the black pot for our publishing house, or for our editor-in-chief......"

Anqing Snow Road.

Tang Wanru light diǎn diǎn head, "Well, don't worry, I will." ”

At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the box, and after Tang Wanru answered, 'Please come in', the waiter walked in with a plate.

After the dishes were served one after another, Tang Wanru and An Qingxue also began to chat while eating.

But halfway through eating, An Qingxue's mobile phone suddenly rang......

An Qingxue took out her mobile phone and looked at it, her face showed a little surprise, and then she answered the phone casually, "Hey, Brother Lei, why did you remember to call me?"

An Qingxue's mobile phone soon came from a mature man's voice, "It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered you, and you can be regarded as what I brought with me." No, I haven't been in touch for a long time, and all of a sudden, I miss the time when we used to go to work together. ”

"How's it going, have you been free lately, why don't you come out and have a cup of tea or something?"

Tang Wanru, who was sitting opposite An Qingxue, asked in a low voice, "Who?"

An Qingxue looked at her, didn't answer immediately, but said into the phone: "Okay, then this weekend, Brother Lei, do you think it?"

"Okay, then Saturday morning, how about we meet on the second floor of the 'Blue Ocean Coffee Shop'?"

"Well, yes! See you then?"

"See you then!"

After hanging up the phone, An Qingxue said to Tang Wanru: "It's my former boss, that is, the editor-in-chief who told you that day because he was dissatisfied with our editor-in-chief's demotion, so he resigned and jumped ship." ”

"Oh. ”

Tang Wanru answered, and then asked, "Why is he looking for you? Listen to you, he asked you out to meet?"

"Hmm. ”

An Qingxue responded, "I don't know why he suddenly asked me to meet." We haven't been in touch much since he resigned, and the last time we were in contact was two months ago. ”

"I guess there's something to talk to me about. Otherwise, for no reason, he wouldn't have asked me out so suddenly. ”