Pingjing, 2788 volumes.

Shanghai Market, 2590 volumes.

Shudu, 1436 volumes.

Deep City, 2754 volumes.

Matsue, 1957......

Sales across China were piled up like snowflakes on Geng's desk, and Monday's initial sales were quickly summed up.

The moment he saw the number, Geng Yunhe's face was very ugly.

Although he has always had some tacit understanding with Zhou Lin, and he very much hopes that things can go according to Zhou Lin's expectations, but when he really saw the sales of "Wuxia Weekly" after losing "Liancheng Jue", he still had the urge to commit suicide by hitting the wall.

46,982 copies, and all Monday morning, "Wuxia Weekly" sold even less than 50,000 copies.

In the previous month, at the same time every Monday, sales had already exceeded 100,000 copies!

Whether it is "Mainland Divine Knife", "Flying Dragon in the Sky", or "Sword in the World", the three works that are not inferior to "Liancheng Jue" in the eyes of the editors are all in unison, but they still can't maintain sales.

The drop from 100,000 to 50,000 can no longer be described as a decline in sales, it is simply "flying down 3,000 feet"!

According to this trend, it would be good that this issue of "Wuxia Weekly" could sell 80,000 copies.

If it had been a few months ago, 80,000 copies would have been enough to celebrate up and down Martial Arts Weekly.

But after experiencing the soaring sales in the first few months, the good days of monthly bonuses, and the glory of record sales of 180,000 copies, all of a sudden it returned to the past, and everyone in the editorial department was very uncomfortable.

After knowing the initial sales, all the editors in the editorial department looked strange, they really didn't want to go back to the days when they couldn't pay bonuses and worried about being laid off, so they really wanted to rush to the editor-in-chief's office immediately to ask why they didn't continue to publish Zhuyunfei's novels.

In the office, Geng Yunhe was complaining to Zhou Lin.

"Zhou Lin, Zhou Lin, I was really cheated by you. Sales have dropped so much, I can't explain it. Geng Yunhe said with a wry smile.

"How can you blame me. Zhou Lin said with a wicked smile.

"I did my best, and I predicted that sales would drop, but I didn't expect it to be so bad. Now you can be proud, now everyone knows that "Martial Arts Weekly" is selling well because of you, and you will definitely become very sought-after. Geng Yunhe said.

"Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere. Zhou Lin gave Geng Yunhe a reassurance, "Now it depends on the reaction of the shareholders, I hope they can wake up soon." ”

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Lin walked to a nearby newsstand and found that there were several copies of "Wuxia Weekly" hanging on the stall and no one cared about them.

He still remembers that when he came to ask on Monday afternoon, it would be out of stock, but this was good, but it couldn't be sold.

Knowing that it shouldn't, Zhou Lin is still secretly cool.

This can always prove the power of "Liancheng Jue", right?

In fact, before Zhou Lin and the shareholders of "Wuxia Weekly" negotiated the conditions, many magazines contacted Zhou Lin through various channels, hoping to sign his new book.

Zhou Lin refused one by one. His new book isn't just about making money, it's about taking a stake in Martial Arts Weekly.

After the rejection, the major magazines fell silent for a while. They are also considering whether it is worth spending a lot of effort to dig up Zhou Lin, and they are even more skeptical that "Liancheng Jue" really has such a strong market appeal.

Everyone is waiting for the sales of this issue of "Martial Arts Weekly", if it can maintain sales of 150,000 copies, it means that "Liancheng Jue" is not as exciting as everyone thinks, but it is only because of the east wind of "Martial Arts Weekly" that it became popular.

In this way, even if a magazine is interested in Zhou Lin, it will have reservations in terms of price.

If the sales drop to 100,000 copies, it means that "Liancheng Jue" has a good effect on sales and is worth a big price.

As for the sales falling below 100,000 copies or even 80,000 copies, no one thought about it.

Readers have inertia to buy magazines, even if their favorite novels are over, they will still pay more or less attention to the magazine, and the sales have plunged by more than half, not to mention in the martial arts circle, even in the entire magazine industry, which is very rare.

That's what happened!

Almost shortly after Geng Yunhe confirmed the initial sales, many magazine editors-in-chief in the martial arts circle learned about the sales through various channels.

They're all a little silly.

The sales volume on Monday was less than 50,000, which means that the total sales will not exceed 80,000, and now "Martial Arts Weekly" has been beaten back to its original shape!

Competitors opened the "Martial Arts Weekly" they had just bought, read it from beginning to end, and felt that the three new novels were all good.

But readers just don't buy it.

In Pingjing, in Shencheng, in Shanghai, in Jinmen, in Yufu, in Songjiang, in Shudu, in Yangcheng, and in China's large and small first, second, third and fourth-tier cities, readers come to the newsstand to read the new issue of "Wuxia Weekly" with great interest, hoping to see the new works of Zhuyunfei.

When they found out that there was no new work in "Wuxia Weekly", they immediately lost confidence.

It doesn't matter what famous writer you are, "Flying Dragon in the Sky" by a cutting-edge author, or "Sword in the World" by a powerful newcomer, we don't care, we just need to watch the clouds!

Although magazines have always believed that the reader is God, many times the readers are actually a vulnerable group, and they can't decide what kind of novels they want to read, but can only read what is in the magazine.

But readers can also rely on their own strength to prove that they are saving, that is, to keep an eye on their wallets and only pay for magazines when they really like a novel.

This silent power was on full display on Monday, August 27.

The "Wuxia Weekly", which every newsstand owner who sells well on weekdays, is eager to buy a few more volumes, and all of a sudden no one cares, and there is a huge backlog at major distributors, even if the printing house is constantly asking whether to close a printing line.

Geng Yunhe was okay, but several major shareholders were really panicked.

It's just that they are still comforting themselves, feeling that this is just the painful period of the end of "Liancheng Jue", and maybe the sales of the next issue will recover. Even if the volume is less than 180,000, it would be good if it could be kept at 120,000 copies!

The major martial arts magazines are also waiting, and they are all forcing themselves to wait an extra week to see how readers react.

If "Martial Arts Weekly" is still half-dead like this, they will start robbing people!

Zhou Lin no longer paid attention because he was distracted by other things.

"Wolf" occupied the first place on the double list, and Zhou Lin only found out about it after returning to the bedroom to surf the Internet on Monday night, and then received a thank you call from Yue Lingfeng.

Unlike the hesitation of those editors in the martial arts circle, Yue Lingfeng knows very well what he relies on to win the honor of being the first on the double list.

The first major hero is Zhou Lin, who wrote the popular song "I Am a Wolf from the North".

The second major contributor is Zhang Xueyuan, who produced the entire album.

Yue Lingfeng is a smart person, he hopes to rush from the second line to the first line, he hopes that the next album will be successful, and naturally he will not miss any opportunity to be grateful to the two.