"Haha, Lao Zhao, you are busy being surprised first. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Ask you something? ”

"Huh? What's up. ”

"Since you and I both think that the skyrocketing sales of this issue of "Novel Monthly" have nothing to do with the fact that rats don't like to eat rice, what do you think is the real reason for this surge?"

"Oh, speaking of which. Today I came across a very interesting article in your "Fiction Monthly". ”

"Oh? What article, let's hear it. ”

"It's a youth campus novel called "Double Gate", but this novel was placed in the last position by your "Novel Monthly", if it wasn't for my editor mentioning it to me, I guess I wouldn't have noticed this article."

"Hehe, is it "Double Gate"?"

Liu Guanting was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then hurriedly turned the "Novel Monthly" to the last page, and sure enough, in the last position of the magazine, he found the "Double Gate". As he read it, he asked out loud:

"Lao Zhao, what do you think are the highlights of this "Double Gate"?"

"Hehe, although this "Double Door" has just been serialized in just 3500 words, although the plot is also very bland, but I think it is this blandness, but it adds a lot to this "Double Gate". In particular, the sense of substitution that the work gives to the reader really makes me impressed by this author, compared to the work where mice don't like to eat rice, it's just a heaven and a place. There is no comparison between the two at all. ”

"Huh? How to say. ”

"Hehe, this kind of thing can't be explained clearly on the phone, it's best if you find this article and read it, I remember it seems to be around page 100."

"Yes, okay I'm looking at it now."

"By the way, Lao Liu, what kind of buyout price did you set for this rookie author."

"Oh, 100 Chinese dollars for 1,000 words. What's wrong~? ”

"Haha, although there is a sentence that I said is somewhat inappropriate, but for the sake of our friendship for so many years, let's say one more word."

"Huh? Just say it. ”

"Like this newcomer author who is in the mood of minus seven degrees, I personally think that he is a very potential and malleable talent. And we, on the side of "Youth Digest", are ready to contact him. If you don't hold on tightly, we will poach people when the time comes, but don't say that I am not righteous brother, I will let it go first. ”

"Haha, thanks dude. I'll be discussing this with the editorial department. So let's get there, it's not too early. ”

"Yes, goodbye."

"Yes."

After Liu Guanting ended the call with Zhao Tianxiang, he looked thoughtfully at the column of the author of "Double Door", smiled, threw the cigarette that had long been extinguished in the ashtray, and left the office quickly with the issue of "Novel Monthly".

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"Xiong Rulin, what can't you say on the phone? What are you doing in such a hurry to find me? ”

At this time, a thin middle-aged man pushed open the glass door of the café, glanced at it, and walked over quickly.

After Xiong Rulin saw the visitor, he also sighed gloomily and said:

"Don't mention it, when I wasn't off work, the editor-in-chief of our magazine called me to his office and beat me."

"Knocked you on for what?"

"Today, the sales report of the first day of our "Novel Monthly" came out."

"Well, how was the result?"

"The results are very good, and the sales volume has increased by about 100,000 copies compared to last month."

"Oh, isn't that a good thing? Then why is your editor-in-chief still beating you? ”

Hearing the question, Xiong Rulin couldn't help but smile bitterly and continued:

"When I first saw this sales report, I thought it was because of your return to the work that there would be such a blowout growth, so I rushed to the editor-in-chief's office to mention to the editor-in-chief about your new contract. Who knows, our editor-in-chief vetoed it after hearing it. ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he couldn't help frowning slightly, and his tone became somewhat dissatisfied:

"Although it is true that I haven't written youth campus novels for a while, I still have a lot of popularity accumulated in the past. I think my work is still well written, and the sales of "Novel Monthly" have indeed increased so significantly under the stimulus of my new book, so why should your editor-in-chief refuse? ”

In the end, the middle-aged man's tone improved a lot, and he emphasized emphatically:

"If your "Novel Monthly" has this attitude of cooperation, then I think the conditions we negotiated before will simply be nullified."

"Alas, our editor-in-chief of your work has read it, and he said that after all, it is the first day of sales, and he can't explain anything. At that time, you will have to look at the sales volume after that to make a decision, and as for the new contract, I will help you mention it to the editor-in-chief. ”

"It's better as soon as possible, I'll tell you Xiong Rulin. My patience is limited. ”

Looking at the high-spirited demeanor of the middle-aged man opposite, Xiong Rulin almost vomited out today's lunch, what kind of stuff did he write "The Heavy Rain We Missed in Those Years"? It's all about other people's bad stalks two or three years ago, and now no one uses it for nothing. It's good that you're calling garbage like a treasure. If it weren't for the fact that I had agreed on some benefits with you, I wouldn't have bothered to hold you for this scrap.

Xiong Rulin himself knows that today's soaring sales of "Novel Monthly" have nothing to do with the middle-aged man sitting opposite him. If you don't get into the stream of a work like this, you won't sign it at all, and you won't buy it, let alone those readers. As for why the sales of this issue skyrocketed, he himself can't say a reason, but the sales data of "Novel Monthly" has been falling and falling before.

The day when the salted fish turned over, let alone their "Novel Monthly"? So Xiong Rulin attributed this increase to the bottoming out, although he was disgusted with the person opposite in his heart, but thinking about the money he was about to put in his pocket, he forcibly suppressed the nausea, and continued:

"As for the new contract, I don't think it will be long."

Xiong Rulin paused, :

"When the time comes to get a new contract, the point before the two of us"

"Don't worry, your share is indispensable."

With that, the two shook hands and left the café