In Shenzhen City, a five-star hotel called "Emgrand".

The Crooked Interactive Entertainment Division held an annual meeting, and the main participants were the literature department, game department, animation department under the Crooked Business Group, as well as video websites, news departments, and so on.

Video websites, news departments, game departments, animation departments, etc., the people who attend the annual meeting are internal employees; The exception is the literary department, which, in addition to internal staff, also has web writers. The Department of Literature is structured with the Crooked Literature Network as the core, and it is also theoretically the core of the Interactive Entertainment Department, which is responsible for content creation, that is, the "high-quality IP" that industry insiders talk about, but in fact it is an online novel, and the literary network is also an online novel website.

Online novels, that is, novels with themes such as fantasy, urban, science fiction, fairy tales, history, etc., are carriers of the Internet, and the mainstream is easy to understand and popular to see.

Writing online novels, there is no age limit, no gender limit, no educational limit, no writing limit, as long as you know words and can write on a computer, then you can become an online novel writer. The threshold is unprecedentedly low, so the quality of online novels is also muddy and sandy, both good and bad.

Of course, the people who attended this annual meeting were all writers who wrote excellent online novels, and I dare not say what the quality is, at least it is deeply loved by a large number of readers.

Stephen Zhao has nothing to talk about with the employees of the crooked group, but he is naturally close to these online writers, after all, they are both writers. Of course, this is just a superficial reason, the real reason is that apart from Stephen Zhao himself, there is no second person on Saturn who knows the Tao, because he was an Internet writer for a period of time in his previous life.

The host of the annual meeting is Li Xuebin, vice president of the interactive entertainment department, an old acquaintance of Stephen Zhao.

"Cow kernel? Sure enough, it's a cowman! Stephen Zhao smiled faintly on the surface. In his heart, he almost broke his belly with laughter, maybe he laughed low, every time he heard this name, he had a strong sense of joy and couldn't help but want to laugh.

Before entering the venue, Niu Ren didn't see it. Li Xuebin first introduced him to other executives of the interactive entertainment department, including the management team of Crooked Literature, and then focused on several online novel gods who signed platinum contracts with Crooked Literature.

The management team of Crooked Literature Network is all from the Chinese mainland, and all of them were the first people to engage in online literary creation, but they later changed careers and became managers, so they didn't write novels anymore. Now, more than ten years have passed, and this group of old online writers has come to a gorgeous turn. defected to the towering tree of the crooked group, and the worst mixed up was also the editor-in-chief, and the leaders of the team were either directors of the literary network or CEOs and chairmen.

"Mr. Zhao!" "Hello Mr. Zhao! ......, when I met Stephen Zhao, they greeted him with humility or arrogance, and the smiles on their faces could see the enthusiasm in their hearts.

Let's take a look at several Internet gods who are now on the front line of creation, Wang Lei, the "master of the best" who specializes in historical themes; Zhu Hongming, who specializes in fantasy themes, and Tang Yun, who specializes in "Heaven and Earth", and "Yuan Henry Zhen"; Pan Bin, who specializes in urban themes, "I am a vest"; Zhao Xinhuo, the "dragon god" who specializes in science fiction themes, and so on.

"Hello, hello......" Zhao Xingchi shook hands with them one by one and greeted them.

Although the age between the two parties is about the same. Many people are older than Stephen Zhao, and even a year older. But the status of the two sides is one in the sky and the other on the ground, so Zhao Xingchi greeted him kindly, and none of them was slack, but they all seemed very excited.

Stephen Zhao specializes in entities, and after writing "The True Story of Ah Q", he began to move towards traditional literature, which originally had a natural gap with online literature. The Internet gods don't necessarily take it very seriously. The reason is very simple, writers who write traditional literature look at the high-end atmosphere and grade, but the money is not as good as the Internet gods, which can be seen from the fact that the Internet gods have frequently appeared in the front row of the rich writers list in recent years.

But. This situation is not suitable for Stephen Zhao, because although he is a traditional writer, the money he earns from writing is several times or even dozens of times that of the Internet gods.

The Internet god with an annual income of more than 10 million is already the top level, and breaking 50 million is one of the best, but what is Stephen Zhao's annual income from writing?

No one has counted it, but the outside world generally estimates that Stephen Zhao's personal worth is more than 100 million US dollars!

"Dragon God? Are you Zhao Xin'er's brother? Zhao Xingchi suddenly looked at the "Dragon God", a young man wearing a pair of gold-wire glasses, and asked with a smile. He remembered that this dragon god wrote the same person of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", created a book of "The Legend of the Eastern Evil in Modern Times", and also won the runner-up of the same competition, but he didn't show up at the award ceremony, and actually asked his sister Zhao Xin'er to accept the award.

"Wait......"

Stephen Zhao was suddenly surprised and asked, "Aren't you on another website?" How now? ”

"The contract expired, so I moved over here." Zhao Xinhuo immediately became embarrassed, and explained with a smile: "This ...... Ahem, I'm really embarrassed to say sorry to Mr. Zhao. At that time, my contract was still on another website, so it was inconvenient to come forward, so I asked my sister to do it for me, and I didn't mean to hide it. ”

Zhao Xingchi was relieved, waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's okay, but I want to thank you for sending me a talent, Miss Zhao Xin'er is quite talented in screenwriting, I am optimistic about her." ”

Zhao Xinhuo was surprised and delighted: "Is this really the case?" That's great! ”

Zhao Xingchi smiled kindly, anyone who hears others praise his sister will be happy, let alone he is the one who praises him.

Speaking of Zhao Xin'er, this cute girl who replaced her brother to accept the award, Zhao Xingchi is quite fond of her. I remember that she was asked to pass the assessment before she was allowed to join the company as a screenwriter, but she didn't complain at all, but readily agreed, and successfully passed the subsequent assessment. In addition, in terms of work, Zhao Xin'er is not only diligent, but also very talented in screenwriting, not only other people in the screenwriting studio praise, but even the "big master" Zhan Xianjun and director Zhao Xiaogang often praise her.

Hard-working talents are liked by a boss.

These days, Stephen Zhao has heard that Zhao Xin'er is ambitiously thinking about an original movie script.

At the beginning of the annual meeting, the boss of Crooked Company's Niu Ren finally came, and was the first to speak after Li Xuebin announced the start, first reviewing the past achievements. Then he talked about the company's welfare, and looked forward to the future after the most and encouraged the big guys to make persistent efforts.

After stepping down, Niu Ren did not leave, but turned to Zhao Xingchi's side to talk to him.

"Interactive entertainment is the general trend of the future development of the entertainment industry, and what we lack most at present is still the core high-quality IP. I don't know if Mr. Lu Dao Zhao is willing to cut his love and hand over the martial arts novels he will write in the future to my company for operation? After chatting for a while, Niu Ren explained his intention.

Although Zhao Xingchi felt a little surprised, he quickly replied with a smile: "Mr. Niu is really heroic!" However, this is progressing too quickly, so let's start with my upcoming release of Heaven and Dragon Slayer, try it first, and then talk about it when everything is good. What do you think? ”

Niu Ren was stunned for a moment, then stroked his palm and smiled: "This is the best." ”

cooperated with the crooked group to engage in high-quality IP pan-entertainment, in fact, he had cooperated in this area before. In addition to "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" entering the crooked literature network, the online game adaptation rights of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Smiling Proud Jianghu" were also sold to the crooked network. This time, I came to Shenzhen City to participate in the annual meeting for only one purpose, and it was another purpose to inspect the research and development of the online games of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Smiling Proud Jianghu".

Now, Niu Ren, the boss, specially came over to talk to him about pan-entertainment, which is nothing more than a deeper level of cooperation.

Pan-entertainment, online games are just one of the projects, there are also animation, comics, mobile games, amusement parks and so on. For example, mobile game projects. Today, with the popularization of smart phones, the development trend of this project is becoming more and more popular; Another example is the amusement park project. It can be predicted that the popularity is that because of the economic development, the Chinese people have money in hand, and travel in leisure time has become more and more one of the mainstream ways for Chinese people to relax and vacation.

Originally, there were film and television projects, but this was Stephen Zhao's own main project, so he would definitely not cede it. At most, it's just an investment.

The annual meeting lasts for five days, the first day is to meet, and then invite some people to speak, the second, third, and fourth days are to travel to some scenic spots in Shenzhen, and the fifth day is to hold seminars for various departments.

Tours or something. Stephen Zhao was not interested, so from the second day to the fourth day, he stayed in the online game development department of the crooked company, discussing the online game research and development of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Smiling Proud Jianghu" with some executives and programmers. In this regard, Zhao Xingchi first looked at it, then asked, and said it after the most reluctance.

To the surprise of Li Xuebin and others, although Stephen Zhao admitted that he did not understand the development of online games, he was always able to say some eye-catching ideas, and also pointed out some areas that needed to be improved and found bugs.

"Sister, I've played these two games before, okay?" Zhao Xingchi smiled secretly in his heart.

On the fifth day, Stephen Zhao was invited to give a speech at the Crooked Literature Network Writers' Works Seminar.

"Web novels are also a kind of literature!"

Stephen Zhao made a definition as soon as he opened his mouth, and then took off the script and said: "Although I don't write, as a young person, I have also read it, so I will talk about online literature from my point of view." There are places that are not easy to say, so please bear with me, and be careful to count them as a family. As we all know, the speed and space of the Internet are extremely powerful, which has increased the spread of literature, and also gave birth to various new types of literature, such as fantasy, time-traveling, rebirth, and so on...... However, we should also see that online literature is becoming cheaper and more commercialized, and authors are becoming less and less literary for literature's sake, but literature for the sake of readers......

He is full of enthusiasm and trust, and he talks about it wherever he thinks, but he is well-founded, and he not only concisely explains the advantages of online literature, but also unceremoniously criticizes the shortcomings of online literature.

Speaking of which, although he has always been a copyist, but in the process of copying, Zhao Xingchi's literary level has still risen a lot, and in the past, he couldn't imagine that he could talk so much about it today, and it was still orderly.

In his speech, Stephen Zhao also put forward his own opinions on online literature: "I have read many online novels with many themes, including fantasy, Xianxia, urban, science fiction, competition, military, supernatural, and fantasy, but there is only one myth and legend that belongs to our China, don't you feel sorry?" Some people will say that Xianxia is, but I want to ask rhetorically, level by level cultivation becomes immortal. Is it really an authentic Chinese myth? Not really! Therefore, I think this aspect is a very good innovation, although the quality may be muddy and sandy, but it is also a way to spread the traditional Chinese culture. ”

When he said this, Zhao Xingchi paid attention to the reactions of the people below, whether it was the Internet gods. It was still the management team of the literary network, everyone was thoughtful, and even many people who reacted quickly had excited expressions on their faces, obviously shining in front of his suggestion.

After the speech, someone at the bottom immediately raised his hand and asked: "Mr. Zhao is a writer that we all admire, why don't you tell us more about how this Chinese myth and legend should be interpreted into an online novel?" ”

Zhao Xingchi looked at it, and the person who asked the question was Zhu Hongming, an Internet god who specializes in fantasy themes. , couldn't help laughing: "This question is actually not difficult. Whether it's fantasy or Xianxia. ,It's all about leveling.,Cultivation is to grow up section by section.,And then change the map.,If you want to deduce myths and legends.,Try to lean on this side.。 In addition, in the original Chinese myths and legends, the gods and goddesses are all cultivating the original gods. Pay attention to the internal and external skills must be perfect, and then you can become immortals and gods. It is not enough to have a strong force alone. You might as well try to put the background in a virtual ancient court, where qi practitioners need to accumulate external strength while cultivating internal strength, so they participate in the Ding Revolution of the secular dynasty, compete with each other for luck, and support the Dragon Court. The winners live, and the losers die. ”

"Hey, it's a good way to know the way!" Many Internet gods at the bottom lit up their eyes, secretly shouted wonderful, and couldn't help but talk about it one after another.

Li Xuebin, vice president of the interactive entertainment department and the management team of the literary network on the stage. Qi Shushu looked at him with an incredibly shocked gaze, and thought: "I really didn't see that Stephen Zhao actually has such a deep understanding of online novels, and he can have such a wonderful idea!" ”

Traditional writers look down on online writers, let alone read online novels that they despise as garbage, and this impression has been ingrained in many people's hearts.

Although they didn't, they never thought that a traditional writer would think about how to write an online novel.

Stephen Zhao's performance undoubtedly surprised them.

"This idea makes me feel amazing, if it is well written, it will definitely be popular, and it is very possible to form a new genre." Wen Tao, editor-in-chief of the Literary Network, whispered to Huang Biquan, the CEO of the Literary Network, who was sitting next to him, and then asked: "Who do you think we are looking for to write this idea?" ”

Huang Biquan helped his eyes on the bridge of his nose and said in a deep voice: "How about you let Zhao Xingchi write?" ”

Wen Tao was stunned for a moment, and soon smiled bitterly: "This is impossible, he is about to write "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", and he is making a few blockbusters, where is the time to write online articles?" ”

Huang Biquan thought about it, so he said: "In this way, after the meeting, we will first select a few people, and then visit Zhao Xingchi and ask his opinion." ”

Wen Tao sighed: "You still think it through." ”

And at the bottom, "Dragon God" Zhao Xinhuo and "Yuan Henry Zhen" Tang Yun also chatted. Zhao Xinhuo laughed in a low voice: "Tang Shao, why don't you ask Master Xing later, do you write this subject?" ”

Tang Yun hesitated for a moment and sighed: "Although I really want to write, but I don't write, I'm afraid I won't be able to write the flavor of Chinese myths and legends." It's you, I seem to remember that you wrote a book about Xianxia, right? It seems that the eunuch was still unfinished later? ”

Zhao Xinhuo's old face turned red, and he sneered: "The results are too scummy, so it's unfinished." ”

Tang Yun raised a middle finger at him: "I despise you!" ”

On stage, Stephen Zhao was not affected by them, and quickly said another idea: "In addition, do you think that Chinese myths and legends are too confusing?" Taoism, Buddhism, each has its own immortals, each has its own cultivation philosophy, sometimes their own own contradictions with their own home, have you never thought of writing a novel to rank the gods? Roughly rationalize the spiritual philosophy of each school? ”

As soon as these words came out, many people were dumbfounded, and the eyes that looked at him were not right.

Zhao Xingchi smiled slightly, and said later: "It's easier said than done, but if you don't do it, how can you know that you can't do it?" Thank you, I'm done. ”

……

After the seminar, before dinner, Stephen Zhao went back to his hotel room to rest. As soon as I entered, Huang Biquan, CEO of Literature Network, and Wen Tao, editor-in-chief, came to visit.

"That's it?" Zhao Xingchi listened to their intentions, first stunned, and then said with a smile: "It's okay, it's just an idea, you can write whatever you want." ”

The two of them immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and Huang Biquan smiled: "Thank you so much Mr. Zhao." ”

Afterwards, the three of them chatted about this topic for a while. The two are deliberately flattering, hoping to extract some more secrets from Stephen Zhao's mouth, and then open up a new genre of online literature; Stephen Zhao is a first-time teacher, and it feels really wonderful to be guided by others from above, and it is really wonderful to thank others again and again after being excited, so it is rare to talk about it and tell some of the best online works he has seen in his previous life.

Online article, this should be the last obsession of Stephen Zhao after crossing.

On the list brought by Huang Biquan and Wen Tao, Zhao Xingchi saw Zhao Xinhuo's name, and couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Did he write Xianxia before writing science fiction?" ”

Wen Tao replied: "I have written, although the writing at that time was very immature, it can be seen that the Xianxia writing he wrote is very ancient, and it is more suitable for writing novels about Chinese myths and legends." ”

Zhao Xingchi nodded understandingly, then pointed to Zhao Xinhuo's name and smiled: "Just choose him." ”

Sister Zhao Xin'er is a promising screenwriter, Zhao Xinhuo, as an elder brother, is also a god in the online literature industry, and his screenwriting skills must be extraordinary, but he is moving to dig people and cultivate people at the moment. Screenwriters are not screenwriters all their lives, and with the support of the company, it is not impossible for Huali to become a film and television drama producer and producer. (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for the successive rewards from the students of "I love watermelon" and "Dugu Cece", bow and thank you!