Chapter 46: Ice Carved Rose, Low-key and High-Profile

The number of book reviews is actually tens of thousands, which is ten times more than yesterday's thousands! Referring to the number of orders, it can be said that the vast majority of cardamom users who have read "Phantom City" have left book reviews here!

If ordering is material support, then book reviews are moral support. And "Phantom City", both material and spiritual harvest!

Yang Jian pulled to the book review area, swept over at a glance, and found that many of the book reviews were written very long and serious, which made him suddenly feel ashamed. Although Si Si has already understood all the things contained in "Phantom City" when he was stealing the super-space-time creativity, it is not his original after all.

But when I think about it, if it weren't for him, how could people in this time and space see a good work like "Phantom City"? It is the original creator, and those who know that their work has touched another time and space through time and space will also be proud.

There are too many book reviews, and with Yang Jian's ability, it is impossible to read them one by one, so I just browsed them roughly.

Looking at it, suddenly Yang Jian's gaze stopped on one of the comments, to be precise, on the nickname of the comment.

Ice carved roses.

"Ice Carved Rose, Ice Carved Rose..." Yang Jian stared at these four words and muttered repeatedly, but his mind returned to a certain day six years ago.

At that time, he was a little precocious when he first entered junior high school, and he already had hazy fantasies about the opposite sex in his heart, especially the beautiful and arrogant opposite sex. Coincidentally, his tablemate Ivy happened to be such a beautiful girl. A thirteen-year-old girl, like a cardamom, has a top academic performance, but her temperament is very cold, and she almost never talks to boys. Such Ivy had a fatal attraction to Yang Jian.

But at that time, Yang Jian was just an inconspicuous boy with ordinary appearance, average learning, and no show. Although he was at the same table with Ivy, he didn't have the courage to talk to Ivy, so he could only have a crush and make some small moves. For example, "borrowing" Ivy eraser and not returning it; For example, peeking into Ivy's diary.

And since he peeked at Ivy's diary once, Yang Jian has been remembering four words - Ice Carved Rose.

Ice Rose is the pen name that Ivy gave herself in her diary.

She wrote in her diary that ice was as crystal clear, similar in nature, but not so precious, and that in winter, in the north, there was ice everywhere. Although the rose is beautiful, it is also a flower with strong vitality, regardless of north and south, and the four seas are home. It is beautiful but with thorns, driving away those who are light, and only those who have the courage and are not afraid of pain can take it off and appreciate its beauty and fragrance.

Every winter, Ivy's father carves a rose for her, which is her favorite.

"Ice Sculpture Rose, how could it be so coincidental... It won't be hers, she's a big star now, how can she have time to come to Cardamom to read novels, someone else must have used this nickname by chance." Coming back to his senses, Yang Jian shook his head and denied the conjecture that this person was Avril.

But after a little hesitation, Yang Jian still used the membership function and paid attention to this "Ice Carved Rose".

After roughly browsing the comments, Yang Jian boarded QQ and immediately saw the information of editor Xiaotian.

"Mr. Yang, are you online? Please reply online, I have something to talk to you about. ”

Looking at the time of the message, it was only ten minutes ago, so he replied: "Yes." ”

Xiaotian replied almost immediately, "Mr. Yang, first of all, congratulations on the hot sales of "Phantom City" on the shelves! Depending on the situation, the total order on the first day should be more than 20,000, which is unique in the history of our cardamom! ”

Yang Jian sent a happy expression in the past, and he felt that Xiaotian was definitely not so simple as congratulating him.

"Mr. Yang, I'd better get straight to the point. Cardamom is very optimistic about "Phantom City" and wants to spend money to buy its electronic copyright and the right to publish the paper book. The price is negotiable, I don't know what Mr. Yang thinks. ”

Yang Jian raised his eyebrows and said secretly, he actually came for copyright.

"Copyright buyout?" Yang Jian asked.

"Yes." Xiaotian replied, "The copyright is still in Mr. Yang's hands, right?" ”

"In. But I'm only talking about shares, not buyouts. ”

Yang Jian is not stupid, since he already knows that "Phantom City" is the bestseller champion for two consecutive years in the original time and space, he will not sell the copyright easily. Because the so-called high price at the time of buyout is generally impossible to compare with the royalty share of bestsellers.

Xiaotian saw Yang Jian's reply, was stunned, and said secretly: This Yang Jian has a lot of confidence in "Phantom City".

"Mr. Yang, you can give your ideal price." Xiaotian still tried to persuade him.

"No need."

Seeing this, Xiaotian can only react to the main programming latent reaction. Cheng Qian received the news, came over and looked at the chat records of the two, and couldn't help but say: "It seems that he believes in the potential of "Phantom City" very much." ”

After thinking about it, Cheng Qian said: "Let's talk to him about the royalty sharing, and talk about the electronic division and the paper publishing division." Tell him that our paper publication is joint with "Flowing Fire", and I believe that he will agree to it for the sake of the incense of "Flowing Fire". ”

Xiaotian listened, and immediately followed Cheng Qian's instructions to communicate with Yang Jian about the matter.

Knowing that Cardamom and "Flowing Fire" are united in the same publishing house, Chenguang Literature and Art, Yang Jian already has a bit of bias in his heart. Cardamom's electronic cost is known for being biased towards writers, like miracles are mostly fifty-fifty, while cardamom is three-seven, or even two-eight. Yang Jian was 28 percent in Cardamom before, so according to this ratio, the online distribution and sales of "Phantom City" were completely handed over to Cardamom.

And the next physical book publication is the highlight.

"Mr. Yang, please send us your address and mobile phone contact information, and we will send someone to negotiate with you as soon as possible......

"Okay." Yang Jian sent his contact information, and as for the contact location, he filled in Shencheng.

After that, Yang Jian began to code words. The full text of "Zhu Xian" has more than 1.3 million words, although it is not much in today's online novels with two or three million words, but it is not something that can be coded overnight. Yang Jian's code speed is very fast, and now he can reach a speed of four or five thousand per hour, from the college entrance examination to the present, he has saved 300,000 words of manuscripts, and the remaining one million still needs to work hard.

In the afternoon, Li Na came over again and took Yang Jian to the studio of the "Strongest Brain" program to adapt to the environment, familiarize herself with the competition process, and prepare for tomorrow's stage.

"Xiaojian, you will be the last one to play tomorrow, I hope you can perform well." After taking a turn in the studio and explaining all the basic requirements, Li Na said to Yang Jian.

Yang Jian smiled and said, "Finale, I won't let you down." ”

"That's good." Seeing that Yang Jian was still so confident, Li Na breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "Have you thought about which projects to challenge?" ”

Hearing this question, Yang Jian closed his eyes.

He has done research on the current 12 players and 12 competitions, and to put it bluntly, Yang Jian feels that he can win these 12 people. But he couldn't, because it would be too wicked, and it would probably lead to problems he didn't expect.

Think about it, those brain elites are incredible in the eyes of ordinary people, and the various abilities of the brain are simply inhuman. He is now launching a series of challenges, and defeating a few people is estimated to make the audience stunned and unbelievable; If they all win, then I guess no one will really believe it.

Therefore, after thinking about it again and again, Yang Jian decided to keep a low profile and only choose a few projects. However, there is also a need to pay attention to which ones to choose.

Opening his eyes, Yang Jian said: "The Rubik's Cube Wall is faulty, the bride and groom match, T typhoon cloud debate, barcode retrieval, blind twisting of the Rubik's Cube, and mental arithmetic is the king of kings." That's all there are six. ”

When Yang Jian read it, Li Na took out her mobile phone and quickly wrote it down, but after Yang Jian read three, she couldn't help but stop. By the time Yang Jian finished speaking, her eyes had widened and she said, "Six?!" There are only 12 events in total, Xiaojian, do you want to challenge half of the projects? ”

"That's right. Didn't Team Leader Liao say that the more the merrier? ”

Li Na was anxious and said, "Xiaojian, don't listen to the team leader's demagogy. The more challenges you have, the more likely you are to fail. What a shame if you succeed in the first five challenges and fail in the last one? ”

Yang Jian was a little moved when he saw Li Na's anxious appearance. However, he had already made up his mind and would not change it easily, and immediately smiled and said: "If there is really only one last failure, then I am enough to be proud of "The Strongest Brain". ”

Seeing that Li Na still wanted to persuade something, Yang Jian stopped and said, "Sister Na, thank you for caring about me." But you also have to have faith in me, since I dare to challenge, then I have the certainty of victory! ”

[The strongest brain competition will give you a different kind of violentness. Please be more powerful! 】