Chapter 83: The Wind Is Changing
"Ming Pao" is about to serialize the "Chu Liuxiang" series of novels, Jin Yong personally wrote a book review, as soon as the news came out, it was not only the "Oriental Daily" that was stunned, but even many media that were satirizing Lin Xi with full firepower were dumbfounded.
Didn't you say that there was a festival between Lin Xi and "Ming Pao"? What's going on?
Before everyone could react, some smart people had already reacted to what kind of impact the "Chu Liuxiang" series of novels would have once they were serialized in "Ming Pao".
There is no doubt that the quality of the works that "Chu Liuxiang" can enter Jin Yongyan's eyes will definitely not be lower than Lin Xi's two previous works, and referring to the popularity of those two novels, "Chu Liuxiang" will definitely set off a wave of follow-up reading in the foreseeable future.
The most direct beneficiary of this matter is, of course, "Ming Pao", those customers who want to advertise in the newspaper in the near future, after hearing the news, they all ran to the side of "Ming Pao", and even the customers who had reached an intentional cooperation with the "Oriental Daily" also regretted the contract, which made the performance of the advertising department of the "Oriental Daily" drop by one-third, and the manager was directly called to the office by the boss Ma Yankun and scolded him.
In fact, this manager just suffered from the unwarranted disaster, because it was Ma Yankun himself who decided to lower the price to Lin Xi in the first place, and he couldn't mistakenly blame himself, so he had to find a scapegoat.
At the same time, Ma Yankun also asked the editor-in-chief Xu Jichang to contact Lin Xi again to see if there was any possibility of reconciliation between the two parties.
In Ma Dashao's own words, Lin Xi and "Ming Pao" can reconcile, "Oriental Daily" only rejected him once, and the two sides do not have much enmity and resentment, and everyone can still cooperate again in the future!
Xu Jichang didn't say anything, but he knew in his heart that things were not so simple.
Jin Yong is such a shrewd person, since he tied Lin Xi to the ship of "Ming Pao", how could he let others dig Lin Xi up again? The two sides must have an agreement in this regard, and Ma Yankun's idea may be in vain in the short term.
"Oriental Daily" is very melancholy here, but on ATV's side, Qiu Degen and Xu Xiaoming are very excited after hearing the news.
In the eyes of the two of them, Lin Xi's "back hand" came too timely, and he turned the situation back in one fell swoop.
Lin Xi is just a newcomer in the field of film and television, so he said that before he caused so much controversy, but in terms of novels, it is different, because of the craze set off by the two novels "The Peerless Double Pride" and "Notes on Tomb Robbery", Lin Xi has a small status as a literati in Hong Kong, not to mention that this time Jin Yong and "Ming Pao" will endorse together, and it is almost a sure thing that this novel will become popular again.
Novels are so popular, can TV series be so bad?
In the early 80s, Hong Kong's economy was in a stage of rapid development, and old buildings were demolished one after another and replaced by all kinds of modern buildings.
Rich people can go to nightclubs and spend a lot of time, but ordinary people can't afford to live like that, and the best way to spend time is to watch TV at home or go out to watch a movie.
The reason why the entire 80s has become the golden stage of the development of Hong Kong's film and television industry, and can carry the reputation of Oriental Hollywood as a single city, is the real reason.
Under normal circumstances, as long as it is a TV series adapted from a best-selling novel, no matter how bad it is, the ratings will not be bad, not to mention that the "Chu Liuxiang" series of novels, both the author himself and the serialized "Ming Pao" have shown strong self-confidence, and to come to Lin Xi's unhappiness in this regard is tantamount to slapping himself in the face.
"Editor-in-Chief Chen, the column you asked me for last time, I thought about it for a while, and it was still a little inappropriate, or I wouldn't have posted that article."
After negotiating with the newspaper to withdraw an article he was about to publish in the newspaper, Ni Yu, who was holding the microphone, felt very uncomfortable.
I thought that Lin Xi would plant a big heel this time, but I didn't expect things to suddenly turn around, and all the previous infamy didn't seem to have any effect on this kid at all, but instead achieved his current momentum.
Didn't you scold them one by one before? Why doesn't anyone scold anymore? Keep scolding!
Thinking of Lin Xi's arrogant and smug face now, Ni Yu felt both happy and regretful in his heart.
Although Ni Yu has always looked at Lin Xi unpleasantly, he didn't post an attack on Lin Xi like everyone else as soon as the incident happened, firstly, because he was confident of his identity, and secondly, he wanted to wait for things to ferment, and then concoct a good article to completely knock down the other party, but he didn't expect that this article had just been written and not sent out, and Lin Xi played this trick for everyone.
Although he was spared from being slapped in the face, he couldn't see Lin Xi unlucky, and Ni Yu was still very unhappy in his heart.
And this is not the only thing that makes Ni Yu unhappy, because he heard that the price of "Chu Liuxiang" serialized by "Ming Pao" is exactly the same as the price of "The Legend of Wesley" that serialized him at the beginning.
As early as when "Oriental Daily" serialized "Notes on Tomb Robbery", Lin Xi's thousand-word remuneration price had already surpassed Ni Yu, but after all, the platform is different, although "Oriental Daily" is rich and has the largest newspaper circulation, but in the eyes of cultural people, the status is of course inferior to "Ming Pao", Lin Xi got a higher remuneration from "Oriental Daily" than himself, Ni Xi also felt something.
But this time the situation is different, it was also serialized in "Ming Pao", Jin Yong set the price of the remuneration of the two of them to be the same, which is equivalent to telling everyone that Lin Xi can already be on an equal footing with Ni Yu in his eyes.
This is the most difficult place for Ni Yu to accept, but he is also a writer who has been famous for so many years, and even ghostwrote novels for Jin Yong back then, although from a business point of view, Jin Yong is understandable to do this, but as a friend, it is a little uncomfortable.
Of course, these are still trivial things, and what makes Ni Yu most depressed is his relationship with Lin Shu and Lin Xi's father and son.
At the beginning of Ni Yu's fame, it was the most beautiful time for Lin Shu, no matter how hard Ni Yu worked at that time, he would always be overwhelmed by Lin Shu; Finally waited until Lin Shu's state fell into a trough, and Ni Yu felt that he could finally suppress Lin Shu completely, at this time Lin Xi came up again, and as soon as he came up, this momentum was several times stronger than his Lao Tzu Lin Shu, and this was only the third book, and he was already on an equal footing with Ni Yu, and if he continued like this, it wouldn't take long to completely surpass Ni Shu.
What makes Ni Yi feel powerless the most is not the strength of his opponent, but the fact that his writing state has passed its peak, so when facing Lin Xi, he often has a feeling of heroic twilight.
But who would have thought that the teenager who was detained for eating the overlord meal in the restaurant could burst out with such a dazzling light in less than a year!
In Lin Xi's body, Ni Yu felt that he had really lost his eyes for the first time.