After a while, the swaggering fat man was invited by the reception lady to the editor-in-chief's office to review the manuscript with a stack of bound documents, and Chi Xi was behind the fat man. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Within a few minutes, the pair walked out of the editor-in-chief's office with a red face, and Chi Xi, who was sitting in the waiting seat, saw with sharp eyes that the paper manuscript he brought when he went in was no longer there.

This result made Chi Xi really a little surprised, he didn't expect that the quality of this fat man was not very good, but his ability to write was not bad, it seems that people are really not good-looking, and the sea water is not good.

The fat man seemed to notice Chi Xi's gaze projected at him, he turned around and walked straight to Chi Xi, and said in a victorious tone: "If I were you, seeing such a result, I would definitely turn around and leave with my own things as soon as possible." ”

"Hmph, it looks like you're pretty confident you'll win me." Chi Xi sneered.

"Not by appearance, but absolutely." The fat man leaned triumphantly into Chi Xi's ear, and said in a voice that could only be heard by the two of them: "Boy, do you know why I deliberately targeted you from the beginning, because in addition to being a freelance writer, I am also a special response sent by chivalrous culture to disrupt the development of romance books, and before this, there have been several rookie authors like you who have been driven away by me in the same way, rest assured, you are not the first, but it will not be the last." ”

Hearing this, Chi Xi finally understood why the fat man in front of him came to find his stubble for no reason, and dared to love the other party was a-stirring stick sent by the martial arts publishing house to specifically cut off the development of Begonia readings.

I believe that with the existence of such a-stirring stick, no matter how many potential new authors come to Begonia Readings to contribute, he can drive away each other in various ways.

"You're pretty good at being calculating, but will it really be as you expected, idiot!" Chi Xi stood up lightly and walked to the office with the reception lady at the front desk, but the idiot at the end of him immediately made the fat man's face turn red to black, black to white, and it looked wonderful.

Glancing at Chi Xi's back hatefully, the fat man walked to the side of the seat, he wanted to see how Chi Xi was driven out by the Begonia Reading.

As soon as I walked into the office, Chi Xi saw a beautiful woman with a sad face sitting on a wooden desk.

Sensing the arrival of the late evening, the beautiful woman immediately raised her head, she was slightly stunned, probably because she didn't expect that the author who came this time would be so young.

But soon she looked away, maybe in the cognition of a beautiful woman, a young man like Chi Xi can't write anything good at all, and it is estimated that he is just influenced by literary creation.

"Did you bring your manuscript, remind me in advance, if your manuscript contains content suspected of infringing on the copyright of others, we will not accept any Begonia Readings." The beautiful woman said without being salty.

For this world that attaches importance to original copyright, Chi Xi has become accustomed to this kind of almost professional inquiry, he took out a black USB flash drive from his pocket and handed it to the middle-aged woman: "Bring it, don't worry, it's definitely an original story." ”

The beautiful woman didn't say anything, skillfully took Chi Xi's USB flash drive and inserted it into the laptop on the desk.

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Recently, Sophie is about to die, what are you worried about? Nature is the future prospect of Begonia Readings. This Begonia reading book is still a romance magazine founded by her and a few like-minded friends in literature when she just graduated from college.

At that time, it was the most prosperous period of romance literature in China, and the discerning Sophie and her friends took advantage of this golden period to develop Begonia Reading into one of the most influential romance magazines in China.

But in recent years, with the strong rise of martial arts, most of the publishing market has been occupied by martial arts novels.

As a result, many romance magazines have either closed down and disbanded due to the influence of national martial arts, or they have been acquired by powerful martial arts clubs, and the main line has changed from romance to martial arts.

Although the Begonia Readings have reluctantly maintained the status of the first-class magazine with their excellent heritage, there are more and more people writing martial arts nowadays, and fewer and fewer people are writing romances, resulting in fewer and fewer romance authors who come to contribute.

And because of the scarcity of authors who submit, there are only a handful of good romance works in it, and it can't be published in the entire magazine at all.

In desperation, Sophie had no choice but to retreat and publish some barely qualified works, although this indiscriminate method solved the problem of empty columns of Begonia books, but its sales were more unsatisfactory than one issue, and a large number of loyal readers were lost.

Seeing that the Begonia Reading, which was once brilliant in her hands, has fallen to this point, Sophie, as the founder, is not to mention worried, she knows very well that if she can't receive a good manuscript, the Begonia Reading will really fail.

If she could, Sophie would love to write her own novels, but unfortunately, she had this heart but did not have this talent, and everyone with this talent ran to write martial arts.

With a sad preoccupation, Sophie opened the document on the USB stick.

"Hurry that year! The name is good, there is a kind of youthful atmosphere, but I don't know what the content is. With a hint of anticipation, Sophie looked slowly.

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I think we may be a very special generation.

This kind of special is not to say that it is worth showing off, but it is a characteristic that is somewhere between the historical fate of the era.

We have walked on the border between rich and poor, on the border between freedom and restraint, on the border between pure good and evil, on the border between closed and open, on the border between money and wealth, on the border between morality and morality, and on the border between the century and the times.

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The opening paragraph of the preface makes Sophie's eyes shine, the nostalgia for the eighties and the questioning of youth are used just right, and people can't help but produce a faint deep thought, and this preface alone is many times better than those ordinary manuscripts on the table.

Sophie, who was aroused by her interest, continued to read it, but she didn't expect that the more she looked at it, the more fascinated she became, word by word, for fear of missing any of the words.

After reading the first ten chapters of "The Year in a Hurry" in one go, Sophie only felt that the sorrow surrounding her during this time was suddenly swept away, and the refreshing feeling of not wanting to be was like drinking a bottle of cold drink on a hot summer day, and the pores of the whole body were comfortably opened.

"You really wrote all of this!" Sophie raised her head to look at Chi Xi and said excitedly.

"It's just a clumsy thing to have no time to spare." Chi Xi admitted lightly.

"Good!" Hearing this, the smile on Sophie's face was even worse, she stood up and invited Chi Xi to the leather sofa on the side, and then made two cups of coffee herself, and in the fragrant aroma, Sophie asked: "I am Sophie, the editor-in-chief of Begonia Readings, and I haven't asked Mr. how to call him." ”

"Chi Xi!" Chi Xi replied with a smile.

"Forgive me for taking the liberty of asking, depending on his age, Mr. Chi should still be a student." Sophie continued.

"I just finished the college entrance examination, and I will report to the university soon." Chi Xi replied.

"I didn't expect Mr. Chi to be a prospective college student." When she heard that Chi Xi was not a college student, Sophie couldn't help but exclaim.

With her years of experience as editor-in-chief, she can see at a glance that the hurry is extraordinary, whether it is the beautiful and moving text or the resonant plot, it is hard to believe that such an excellent romance work is actually from the hands of a high school student.

"Thank you, Editor-in-Chief Chen, you can just call me Chi Xi, I can't afford the title of Mr. Chi." Chi Xi smiled slightly.

"Okay, you're younger than me, then I'm not hypocritical, in this way, I'll call you Brother Xi, and you can call me Sister Fei."

"Well, Sister Fei, since everyone is familiar with each other, let's get to the point and talk about "The Year in a Hurry". Chi Xi said.

can arouse Sophie's great interest, which means that "The Year in a Hurry" has been recognized by Begonia Reading, so the next step is naturally to negotiate the authorization of serialization.

Authorized serialization refers to the author's agreement to serialize his work to a certain publication, which is divided into buyout and contract.

Buyout refers to the physical publication of a book, film and television adaptation, comic adaptation, game adaptation and a series of all purchased from the author, while the contract is to report the sentence and only buy the serial rights of the work, and the rest of the copyright is retained in the hands of the author.

"Okay, I just read the first ten chapters of your work, it is very well written, and it deeply outlines all the emotional problems caused by a group of men and women in the eighties in the face of youthful love, which is very in line with the current trend of romance, and our Begonia reading materials are also lacking such a flagship work, if you don't have any opinions, Brother Xi, I am ready to give you a thousand words and one hundred and fifty to buy out all the copyrights of "The Year in a Hurry". As soon as Sophie opened her mouth, she was ready to buy out the full copyright.

Sophie's buyout was expected by Chi Xi, but he did not retain the full copyright, although "The Year in a Hurry" was very popular in the previous life, but after all, it was a pure love novel, and the development path was limited, and it was not much use for him to retain the copyright, so Chi Xi agreed without thinking about it: "Okay, I agree to buy out!" ”

After reaching a verbal agreement, Sophie ordered someone to draft two contracts, and Chi Xi signed the synthesis according to the requirements, and sold all the copyrights of "The Year in a Hurry" to Begonia Readings, and also got the first manuscript fee in his life, 20,000 yuan.