Saturday, February 17, 2007, Chinese New Year's Eve.

Naturally, he has to go back to his hometown to spend the New Year with his parents, and Li Mu's changes in the past two years are too great, which makes his parents a little uncomfortable.

Father Li Yuansheng is more concerned about how much money Li Mu has made in the past two years, and he inquired a few times in the year when Li Mu first started making movies, and then he didn't ask, recently Li Yuansheng saw many netizens on the Internet discussing the value of his son, and he was interested again, the key is that the numbers in the mouths of netizens are exaggerated one by one, exaggerated to the extent that Li Yuansheng's heart pounds.

"You tell me the truth, how much money have you made in the past few years."

In the living room, Li Yuansheng took the opportunity of playing backgammon with Li Mu to ask directly.

"Actually, it's not much, it's just more than 60 million."

Li Yuansheng's eyelids jumped uncontrollably, and then he tried to put on his majesty as a father and said: "Money can never be earned, you must know how to stop in moderation, if one day there is only money left in your eyes, that person has actually become a slave of money." ”

Li Mu nodded and was taught: "Understood." ”

"No, how the hell did you earn so much money? Is making movies so profitable? Li Yuansheng finally couldn't help but get to the bottom of it.

Li Mu roughly calculated and said: "Actually, most of them are earned by writing books, I told you, I have written a few English novels, and the novels have sold well in the United States, earning about 40 million US dollars, and the remaining about 10 million US dollars is the box office dividend of the movie "Assassin", and then "Hurricane Rescue" and "Hypnosis Master" also made some money, and then there are some miscellaneous investments. ”

"Dad, what's wrong with you?"

Li Mu suddenly found that the muscles at the corners of his father Li Yuansheng's mouth were twitching uncontrollably.

"Huh? It's okay. Li Yuansheng came back to his senses and stared at Li Mu for a moment, and finally couldn't help but say again, "In other words, the 60 million you just said is actually US dollars?" ”

Li Mu nodded: "Of course." ”

Li Yuansheng's facial muscles twitched uncontrollably again.

Compared with Li Yuansheng, who cares more about his son Li Mu's career, his mother Liu Xiaohui is more concerned about Li Mu's lifelong events.

"Let's be honest with your mother, are you talking about girlfriends?"

"Of course not, not that time."

"Since there is no one, my mother will ask someone to introduce you to one."

"Huh? No, what age is this, now it's all about free love. ”

"The introduction of acquaintances is the most reliable, everyone knows the roots, besides, my mother heard that actresses in the entertainment industry have 800 hearts and eyes, and they don't care about their families."

"Actually, it's okay!"

……

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Mu received a large number of blessing text messages, and he himself sent out a lot, and when he was finally free, he edited a text message and sent it to Liu Yifei's mobile phone.

"Happy New Year!"

In less than two minutes, Liu Yifei replied with a text message:

"Happy Year of the Pig."

Time is in a blink of an eye on March 30, 07, at this time, Science Fiction World Magazine has successfully completed the translation of Li Mu's novel "The Divergent", and the English version of the manuscript has also been sent to the hands of the American Thor Publishing Company, just a few days, "The Divergent" will be officially sold in the United States.

It is worth mentioning that after an internal assessment, the American company Thor said that they are very optimistic about the market potential of "Divergent", and now the large-scale publicity work of the book has been officially launched, and it is said that the publicity effect is not bad.

Editorial Department of Science Fiction World Magazine.

The editors are also discussing the market potential of "Divergent."

"'The Divergent' is really good, but I always feel that a result like 'The Hunger Games' is simply something that is hard to come by, and no matter how much 'The Divergent' meets the conditions for a big hit, it's almost impossible to reach the kind of result of 'The Hunger Games.'"

"The Hunger Games' big hit is the result of the right time, the right people, and the Divergent can be considered a great success if it can have a fifth of the results of The Hunger Games."

"One in five is also a few million copies, a proper bestseller."

Just as everyone was discussing with each other, editor Qin Li's mobile phone suddenly rang, and she picked it up to see that it was her friend Frank from Thor's publishing company.

"Hi, Qin Li."

"Hi, Frank."

"I've got good news for you." Frank said in a suddenly excited tone.

"Good news? Let me guess, "Divergent" is selling very well? Qin Li said with a smile.

"No, Divergent is going to be a big hit, but it's not on the market yet."

"Then I can't guess." Qin Li said with a smile.

Frank suddenly said mysteriously: "I also just got the news that Li Mu's novel has been nominated for the Hugo Award." ”

"Shh

Qin Li made a silent gesture to the editorial department, and then asked cautiously: "Frank, what you just said is that Li Mu's novel was nominated for the Hugo Award?" ”

"Well, that's right."

"Which one?" Qin Li said excitedly.

Li Mu has written six or seven books in the past two years, and in Qin Li's opinion, most of these books have the strength to win the Hugo Award, so what she is most concerned about now is which of Li Mu's novels has been nominated for the Hugo Award, and what is the probability that Li Mu will really win.

Hearing Qin Li mention the Hugo Awards, the editorial department of the entire Science Fiction World Magazine instantly fell silent.

At this time, he listened to the other end of the phone and continued: "The Martian was nominated for a Hugo Award for a feature-length work......"

"I knew it was it!" Qin Li said with a somewhat excited expression.

"The Martian" is her favorite work of Li Mu, and it is also the work that is most in line with the character of the Chinese people.

And the content of "The Martian" is extremely rigorous, and even many NASA staff members are full of praise for its professionalism, which is enough to show the excellence of this novel.

On top of that, the novel is also very interesting: landing on Mars, then all the teammates leave, leaving the protagonist alone on Mars.

This idea alone will draw the reader's attention firmly to the story.

At this time, the editorial office was already lively.

"Really nominated for a Hugo Award?"

"What is the probability of winning a prize after nomination?"

"Is Li Mu really going to be the first Asian to win the Hugo Award?"

"Thinking of what Li Mu said about that dinner, who can win the Hugo Award, only Liu and Mu'er, is it going to come true?"

At this time, Frank, who was on the other end of the phone, hurriedly added:

"Hey, Qin Li, I haven't finished talking about this yet."

Qin Li was stunned for a moment and said, "Huh? Then you go on. ”

Just listen to Frank continue: "Li Mu's "Gravity" was nominated for the Hugo Award for Short Novella. ”

Qin Li reacted at this time, and hurriedly asked, "Frank, what do you mean, Li Mu directly got the nominations for two awards?" ”

“NONONO！ I've never said that. Frank hurriedly denied.

Qin Li was stunned again: "But you were obviously talking about ...... just now"

Then Frank laughed and said, "Yes, I did say it just now, but I still haven't finished my words." ”

Qin Li suddenly had a faint premonition in her heart, but she couldn't believe it.

At this time, I heard Frank continue: "Li Mu's work "Moon" was nominated for the Hugo Award for Short Stories - so this time Li Mu did not get two nominations, but three. ”