Regarding Zhao Han's statement, Lin Han also knew that there would definitely be a considerable number of readers who were willing to buy it for collection or read it slowly, but he was really not confident in sales, obviously there were free things to take, so why spend money to buy it?

"Bet, what are you going to bet on?"

"Bet on the sales of Inception in the first month, if it sells more than 2 million copies in a single month, even if I win. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info If you don't have 2 million copies, you win. What do you think of that?"

Lin Han tugged at the seat belt that straddled his chest and abdomen, and after hearing Zhao Han's words, he couldn't help laughing: "No matter how you co-author, I won." The sales have sold too much, and it is not that I am making money with your publishing house, I think there must be a problem here, and it is impossible for you businessmen to trade at a loss. ”

"You haven't listened to our bet, what is the bet, if I win, you will sign an agreement with us for three years and five books, and during the three years, any Chinese novels you write will be handed over to our publishing house to operate, or your next five books will be handed over to us, and you will accept whichever you think you can accept." ”

"If I win, what are you going to do?"

"If you win, it means that Inception sold less than 2 million copies in the first month, and how about our publishing house make two extra concessions on royalties, allowing you to go from 25% to 27%?"

Lin Han had signed a cooperation agreement with the Renmin University Publishing House before, so his novels were basically all released from the Renmin University Publishing House, and one person supported the rhythm of the entire publishing house!

However, he publishes books very quickly, and several amazing novels are on the market every year, so the contract is inadvertently fulfilled, this is a unique cash cow in the world, and the National People's Congress Publishing House wants to completely tie Lin Han to his chariot.

Lin Han is a best-selling writer of this level, the publishing house can no longer restrict them, even if it is a dilapidated small publishing house, it will not affect the sales of his novels, this is where the confidence of a god-level writer lies!

As far as Zhao Han knew, the agreement signed between his publishing house and Lin Han had already been known to the rest of his peers, and the grapevine alone said that several large publishing houses had found Lin Han and wanted to dig into the corner.

Now he is using this form of gambling to test Lin Han's tone and see if he wants to continue to cooperate with him.

For Lin Han, the partner of Renmin University Publishing House is still very good, first of all, he has the grace of Bole, and the royalty given is not low, 25% is already the top level in the industry, and the most important thing is that he has never been in arrears!

What writers are most worried about is not that they can't sell their novels, but that they won't get money when they sell their novels! Many writers who have been famous for a long time have been in arrears of manuscript fees, and the settlement cycle for manuscript fees is originally as long as six or seven months, and if you count the writing time, it is very likely that they will not get their manuscript fees for more than a year.

If you have a deposit, it's fine, but if you don't have a deposit, you will have to tighten your finances for more than a year, and the publishing house that does not default on manuscript fees is very popular.

Since they have been working together for so long, Lin Han doesn't mind continuing to cooperate, he said to Zhao Han on the other end of the phone: "Bet you can, but let me state in advance, I won't announce "Inception" on Weibo, I've been updating every day recently, and I still want to ask Weibo to help merge all the serialized Weibo into one book." ”

Readers have been a little bored by the swiping updates, and now that they have finally relaxed, Lin Han plans to let those readers go and let himself rest for a few days.

"Then it's decided, are you sure you don't need to delete any more content? If not, we will prepare the content cover and publicity now, so that your sales will continue to flourish this year!"

"Let's hope so, next time we have time to sit down and talk, we'll be at the cinema soon, goodbye!"

"See you next time. ”

After hanging up the phone, Lin Han stretched his waist, and then walked out of the car by himself, he took Chen Jiaxuan's hand and took the initiative to say: "My dear, this time the National People's Congress Publishing House is determined to let me join them." ”

Regardless of whether Lin Han wins or loses, in fact, he earned it, and the National People's Congress Publishing House tried its best to tie up Lin Han, of course, Lin Han did not object.

"We've talked about this before, we don't need to change it, not to mention that they're going to create a classic sci-fi series full of your books, who knows if we can get paid on time after we change to the rest of the publishers. ”

Chen Jiaxuan saw an extremely real problem, Lin Han had too many backlogs of manuscript fees on the side of the National People's Congress Publishing House, even if it was an old book that had been on sale for more than a year, it could now earn millions of yuan every year, not to mention the rest of the best-selling books.

At this time, there are a lot of people in the cinema, and many people are taking advantage of the weekend to come out to watch a movie, just as the summer season has started again, and Hollywood blockbusters are not to be missed by movie fans.

"Wait a minute, I'll buy a bucket of popcorn and Coke, I'll have to get some of these things for the movie." Lin Han took his wallet to the counter to buy drinks, and now everyone buys tickets through mobile phone software to watch movies, and the counter business looks particularly deserted.

Chen Jiaxuan took advantage of this time to go to the bathroom to clean up, the two of them came very appropriately, and they had already started to check the tickets at this time, this "Star Troopers" had a very good reputation in the early stage, and was known as the leader in science fiction films, so they came here.

……

In the dark movie theater, Lin Han leaned on the back of the chair wearing 3D glasses, and he gently held Chen Jiaxuan's hand next to him with one hand.

"How do you say our "The Martian" in the second half of the year compares to this?" Chen Jiaxuan whispered in his ear, his words full of worry.

This is Lin Han's first novel to be adapted into a movie, and if the "The Martian" movie hits the street at the box office, it will definitely affect the film adaptation process of the subsequent novel.

Lin Han patted her thigh and said comfortingly: "These are two different types of science fiction films, strictly speaking, they are almost the same, and our special effects are also produced by Hollywood special effects companies, if you look at the story, we may be better." ”

The first trailer for "The Martian" was originally scheduled to be released in mid-June, but because Lin Han was obsessed with writing "Inception", he had to postpone it a lot.

Fortunately, Lin Han has now finished writing the novel, and after a day off today, he will go to the editing room of Chang'e Pictures tomorrow to select important elements from the vast shooting materials and final special effects shots of "The Martian".

After the two of them whispered, they focused on the movie being shown on the screen, and the audience around them was also very engrossed, and no one answered the phone or anything!

The 120-minute movie passed quickly, and when the light in the screening room was restored again, Lin Han took off his glasses, and he said with emotion: "A movie with such a theme can be made so well, it seems that you have to find the right person." ”

They lined up and walked out behind the crowd, because neither side was a superstar or anything, so they didn't think about camouflage or covering, so they walked out with a big grin.

However, an audience member who was watching the news with his mobile phone on the opposite side suddenly looked up, and passers-by would pay attention to the combination of handsome men and beautiful women, but this time the name was handed over!

The theater that had just ended was still a little crowded, and Lin Han suddenly found himself standing in front of a young man with glasses, who seemed to be checking the photo above with his mobile phone, "Are you Mr. Lin?"

"Eh, what are you talking about?" Lin Han snorted, he didn't want to cause any trouble here.

The guy handed his mobile phone to Lin Han, "You are Lin Han who wrote "Inception", right?

Several people around looked at Lin Han, although he was not an actor or a singer, but he had no more stars, so some people directly misunderstood and thought that Lin Han was a small star on the 18th line.

Now that he has seen his photo, Lin Han admitted it directly, and he said, "Yes, it's me." Do you have something to do?"

Walking on the road and being recognized by fans, this experience is also extremely fresh for Lin Han, it is appropriate for a book celebrity to not be popular, but his name is also popular, but his appearance is not popular.

"Mr. Lin, I think your "Inception" is very well written, but I just wonder what this ending means, can you quietly reveal a little news, I promise not to tell others!"

"Everything you want to express has already been written, and it doesn't matter if it's a dream or a reality, don't dwell on these things, it's enough to read them refreshingly. ”

However, this fan scratched his ears and cheeks, everyone was in full swing, why didn't it matter, but now he couldn't force Lin Han to say it, "Please, if I can't find the answer, I guess I'll lose sleep all night tonight." ”

Lin Han sighed, "The open-ended ending is to let you think for yourself, and any one of them makes sense." What you think is right is right. ”

The popularity of the online world has radiated to the real world, because this buddy's voice is loud, and several people nearby have heard Lin Han's identity, and now they have all stopped and whispered.

"Do you hear that? He's the very powerful science fiction writer on Weibo, who wrote "Inception". ”

"No, how could I meet Mr. Lin here, I'm always worried that someone is imposting!"

"I'll go, it's really him, you look at the photo of me just a thousand degrees, it says that Mr. Lin also lives in Yanjing, today is really lucky, I'll go to him for an autograph, it would be better if I could take a photo!"

"Wow, I've read his "Three-Body Problem", it's amazing!"

"His girlfriend is so beautiful, the book "Bouquet for Algernon" made me cry once, and our little plum has to adapt this novel, which really gives us a fight. Eh, you see they're all gone, let's go and ask for a group photo, send it to Weibo, get angry with Lingling, and let her release our pigeons!"

However, who would carry a pen and paper with them when they came to see the movie, so the autograph became a group photo.

I don't know what's going on, Lin Han was surrounded by this group of viewers who watched the movie with him, he didn't have much experience in dealing with fans, at this time Chen Jiaxuan successfully switched from Lin Han's girlfriend to the identity of the agent, she said: "Lin Han is not a superstar, let's just take a group photo together, you all stand together, I will use Lin Han's mobile phone to help shoot, how about you go to his official website to collect pictures at that time?"

Lin Han was surrounded by his fans in the middle, he smiled at the camera, and then ignored the curious eyes of the fans, and directly pulled Chen Jiaxuan and fled!

After coming to the parking garage, he was even worried that some fans would also come here, so he asked Chen Jiaxuan to sit in the co-pilot, and quickly drove the car out by himself, just to be able to go back early.

"Enjoying the treatment of a little fresh meat level idol, let me interview Mr. Lin, how do you feel?" Chen Jiaxuan rarely saw Lin Han so embarrassed, she took a bottle of mineral water as a microphone and joked with a smile.

Lin Han looked at the road in front of him, and sighed and said: "There are many people who are popular, my face is really too ostentatious, fortunately, it was discovered after watching the movie, if it was before watching the movie, we would be in big trouble!"

Chen Jiaxuan didn't want to attract the attention of the world in her usual life, she said seriously: "Fortunately, I ran to take pictures of you guys, otherwise I would have shown up on this." By the way, I'll post the photos on the official website now, and let them get them. ”

"I still have an official website?" Lin Han was surprised, "I thought the Hanlin Academy was my official forum!"

"Your official website is not very famous, and now the Hanlin Academy is about to become a gathering place for science fiction and science fiction movie lovers, and the traffic is higher than that of many professional communities. Chen Jiaxuan smiled mysteriously, "Do you know that someone contacted the administrator of the Hanlin Academy and wanted to advertise on the website?"

"How can we attract advertisers with our traffic? Doesn't that mean that the forum is self-sufficient and doesn't have to dig my wallet?"

"Of course, now that Hollywood's science fiction movies are released, the most discussed and professional is in the Hanlin Academy, where every reader is the most loyal consumer, and the movie "Star River" has given us an offer, but we haven't discussed whether it should become such a non-profit website. ”

Lin Han doesn't care, this website was only established by accident, if this website develops better, then his fan base will become more and more extensive, and these advertising revenues can be used to buy servers or something, so as not to use cards.

"I think this kind of good thing should be kept for my own people, for example, your novel "Inception" will be released soon, and we will write it in the most conspicuous place of the Hanlin Academy. When "The Martian" is about to be released, you can pick out the words and phrases in the poster or trailer and the original book for advertising, and the fat water will not flow into the fields of outsiders!" (To be continued.) )