Chapter 249: The Human Heart (Part II)
After a short meeting and discussion, in order to prevent accidents, the company's senior management still gave Li Tianlai a way out.
The back road is that if Yang Fan's book and people are found to be good enough through contact, then Yang Fan's book will still be remade. However, they will refuse the investment of up to 200 million yuan from xx.com, and they will invest hundreds of thousands of yuan themselves to make this book a low-cost small online drama. Not only that, but there are also conditions for hundreds of thousands of investments, among which Yang Fan must sell all the copyrights to them at a super low price of tens of thousands of yuan.
This is the biggest concession that the well-known media company feels it has made. However, this concession is inexplicably like a handout...
"I'm leaving. Yang Fan changed into his best formal clothes and said while fiddling in the mirror.
"Don't you really want me to accompany you?" Lan said a little worriedly, she was worried about Yang Fan, because he had been in a lot of mood swings since he had finished chatting with the company's counterpart.
"No, I'm not a kid anymore. Yang Fan said with a smile, now he is no longer the weak, naïve and inexperienced person with little social experience, although it has only been half a year since graduation, but he now has self-confidence and maturity after two cruel competitions.
"Okay, be careful on the road..."Lan looked at Yang Fan, who was growing up, although she was a little reluctant, but she still respected Yang Fan's decision.
In other words, she has always respected Yang Fan's decision and accompanied him to be willful.
When Yang Fan left the house, Lin Wanting couldn't help but secretly pull Lan's sleeve and whispered.
Lan hesitated, perhaps too worried, but she finally followed Lin Wanting's advice and chose to follow Yang Fan secretly.
In fact, this game not only changed Yang Fan, but also changed the people around Yang Fan at most. For example, Lin Wanting, now she is no longer as young as before. It seems that because of Yang Fan's continuous victories, this child has changed a little, but she doesn't know whether her change is good or bad.
On the way, Yang Fan kept thinking about how to negotiate with that docking person. This docking person should be the most difficult opponent Yang Fan has ever been.
Not only because he has knowledge on par with Yang Fan, but also because he has decades of life experience than Yang Fan. There is no way to catch up with this kind of life experience other than the accumulation of time.
Yang Fan soon came to the previously agreed location, Starbucks in a large shopping mall.
He saw his opponent, Li Tianlai, Yang Fan looked at Li Tianlai carefully, and Li Tianlai also looked at Yang Fan carefully.
This time the look made both sides smile modestly.
"You are Yang Fan. I didn't expect you to be so far away from the photo. Li Tianlai took the initiative to stand up, stretched out his finger and pointed to the chair opposite, and then said, "Come, let's talk slowly." ”
Yang Fan looked at the chair with Li Tianlai's briefcase, he hesitated, moved a chair from the table next to him and put it next to him, sat down leisurely and said, "Okay, let's talk slowly." ”
Yang Fan's unexpected move made Li Tianlai's narrow eyes flash a glimmer of essence, but soon he hid the essence, slowly pointed to the contract on the table and said: "This is the contract given to you by our company, if you have no opinion, sign it." ”
Yang Fan looked at the thick dozen contracts on the table, a little surprised, because, obviously in the chat with Li Tianlai not long ago, his attitude was that he had been looking for loopholes in his works and copyright remakes, and what he expressed was that Yang Fan's works were completely unworthy of their company's strength. But he didn't expect to give himself the contract as soon as they met, which made Yang Fan mention twelve points of caution, and he picked up the contract and read it.
He watched very carefully, for half an hour. As time passed, Yang Fan's face frowned, and as time passed, Yang Fan began to tremble.
"It's over, Brother Fan Fan is about to explode!" Lin Wanting, who had already come to Starbucks at this time to order milk, looked at Yang Fan's familiar appearance and whispered to Lan.
Lin Wanting's eyes showed longing, eager for Lan to make a move to stop Yang Fan from breaking out, but in her eager eyes, there was still a trace of expectation, as if she was looking forward to Yang Fan, who was omnipotent in her heart, to come and completely explode, so that the man with a contemptuous face opposite Yang Fan could get a lesson that will never be forgotten.
However, when Lan was about to leave the table to stop Yang Fan, Yang Fan stopped trembling, and he regained his composure and handed the contract to Li Tianlai, who was contemptuous because of his gaffe, and said softly: "Explain." ”
"Explain what? Explain the money to buy the copyright? 100,000 yuan is a lot, and your book is only a million words. We will give you a price of 100 words in accordance with the rules of the online text world, which is already the price of a platinum writer on a big website. ”
"No, I don't care about the copyright price, even if you give me a dollar to buy the copyright, I will agree. I know that if he wants to make a good online drama, he is destined to invest a lot. If I can guarantee the quality, I can take nothing. Yang Fan shook his head and said firmly.
Yang Fan's words suddenly made the contemptuous smile on Li Tianlai's face freeze, and he looked at Yang Fan with incredible eyes and asked, "Why? You don't know that copyright is the main source of money for online articles? Would you rather not take a penny? Are you lying to me?"
"No, I didn't lie to you. Yang Fan raised his head and looked at Li Tianlai with sincere eyes, and then said:
"Because, this is not my book alone. It should be said that this book is the book of those readers who really enjoy it. They are the ones who have witnessed the growth of this book, and I'm sure you've read my materials. Maybe you don't know that this book has not yet signed a contract at 250,000 words. At the time, I was tempted to give up, but I persevered for the sake of those twenty readers. If it weren't for them, I think I would have given up a long time ago, and it is because of this persistence that I have been able to gain a lot of readers and praise. So, I want to give the best remake, the best web series, to readers who have followed this book since the very beginning. Let them see their persistence!
Yang Fan's words hit Li Tianlai's heart like a sharp knife, making him feel difficult to breathe, and he put away his contemptuous smile and looked at Yang Fan seriously.
However, soon, Li Tianlai showed a contemptuous smile again: "That means that you dislike the hundreds of thousands of investments that are too little? Young man, do you want to understand that your book is definitely not on the same level as those Xianxia dramas that have been released, do you think your cliché plot is comparable to those brain-opening Xianxia dramas? Or do you think that if you win a novice village competition, you will have fans who can compete with those platinum writers on big websites?"
"It's not just because the investment is too small, if you make it carefully, you can get a big deal at a small cost. Yang Fan looked at Li Tianlai's contemptuous smile and continued loudly: "Although, I am only a rookie writer who has been writing books for half a year, and I don't have much time to accumulate. But I'm confident that the emotion and care I put into my book is no worse than that of a platinum writer on any website. Although, my plot is cliché, but those cliché plots are written by me racking my brains, and in my eyes, those cliché plots are just to pave the way for the excitement in the future. Also, in the previous games, you looked like you were playing in the novice village. But in my eyes, you are like a rookie writer in the novice village, who is desperately working tirelessly to bring the best work they can think of to readers. That's not a trick, that's a result of life and wisdom!"
With these words, Yang Fan ripped off the tie that had been restraining him, and this domineering move coupled with what he said made Li Tianlai couldn't help but leave the chair and take a few steps back.
He looked at Yang Fan in fear and said tremblingly, "Then you... You're not in it for the money... Then you... What do you want me to explain?"
"Explain the actors, the venue, and the filming time. Yang Fan stepped forward and looked at Li Tianlai and said: "I won't say much about the actors you invited, because I think that actors who are not famous may have super acting skills." But the venue, you just found a random place in this city, and that place, I often go to, there is no way to film there! And then there is your filming time, a million-word novel that is still being updated, and you can shoot it in a month. I think I can shoot better than yours!"
Li Tianlai kept retreating, originally he wanted to escape all the time, but when he heard Yang Fan's insult to him for loving the company, he didn't choose to escape. Instead, he chose to stop, and he said in shock and anger: "Then you think you can shoot better than my company! Then you can shoot it yourself! You see if anyone watches!"
"That's exactly what I mean. After Yang Fan finished saying this, he picked up the thick contract and tore it in half and said: "I believe that in this world, as long as you put your heart and all your emotions into it, someone will definitely pay for it!"
"Childish! Childish! I'll wait!" Li Tianlai looked at the contempt in Yang Fan's eyes, he picked up the bag opposite and the mobile phone on the table in a panic and fled in a hurry.
It's just that when Li Tianlai turned his back and "fled in a hurry", a meaningful smile appeared on his face.
Because, he kept the myth of his undefeated.
But when he "fled in a hurry" and turned his back on Yang Fan, he didn't see Yang Fan showing a meaningful smile like him, and he didn't hear Yang Fan whisper when he watched him leave:
"If it's a TV series, I'm not sure yet, but if it's a self-censored theme like an online drama, I still have a certain degree of certainty! Because the characters in my book come from my life!"
Li Tianlai, who returned to the company, walked into the high-level office with his mobile phone and played a recording of him and Yang Fan.
In the contemptuous smile of the high-level Yang Fan, Li Tianlai also showed a heroic smile.
After all, his undefeated myth is still delayed.
It's just that when he returned home after a hard day's work, he saw his son on college vacation reading a novel on his mobile phone.
Looking at his son's fascinated and smiling expression as the novel progressed, Li Tianlai's eyes showed a trace of envy and longing, he wanted to know more about his son and follow his son to understand the world he was in.
But he quickly suppressed his emotions and buried his head in eating, and at the dinner table, his wife, who was no longer young to the point of menopause, kept babbling about how much other people's husbands earned, and where other people's husbands took their families.
Li Tianlai just buried his head in the rice bowl and desperately stuffed rice into his mouth, not daring to refute any of his wife's words.
Although in the company, he is an undefeated myth, but at home, he has been losing again, because he is just an ordinary counterpart in the company who has worked for more than 20 years and has not been promoted to management.