The wall clock on the wall was about to point to 2:00 a.m. when the phone rang in the office.

The occasional humming sound came to an abrupt end at this moment.

Osborne was already setting up the ball on the 10-foot indoor golf green fairway and his swingarm was about to putt to a stop.

This action almost twisted Mr. President's old waist.

“Oooh。”

Uncle Osborne clutched his back as he turned to look at the black landline phone on the desk.

It is an internal telephone of Scholastic company.

In recent years, this kind of landline phone is still used almost exclusively within government agencies and large enterprises, connecting various functional departments together.

Osborne was waiting for this report from within the company.

Tonight, the headquarters building is still lit up at midnight.

In addition to his president's office, there is also an entire floor below where the marketing department is located.

The marketing department will count the first-day sales data of the "Little Prince" fairy tale book in the British Isles, and then report it to the president himself as soon as possible.

Osborne didn't even put down the club, took two quick steps, and sat directly on the desk without any image.

He glanced down at the phone number displayed on the LCD screen.

After taking a deep breath, the president answered the phone in the same mood that his father, who was standing outside the delivery room, greeted the nurse.

"Hey, hello, this is the president's office, I'm Osborne."

The moment the phone connected, Osborne's tone returned to calm.

"Hmm...... Yes, I'm listening...... Wait a minute, I'll take a pen and record it. ”

Uncle President clipped the golf club under his armpit, picked up the oil pen and sticky notes on the desk, and wrote with a brush.

"This number has been confirmed, is the information reliable...... Okay, I see...... The sales results on the first day do not indicate any problems, and it is the last laugh to outperform the entire sales cycle, and we need to work hard together...... Well, my colleagues in the sales and marketing department have worked hard. ”

"Talk to people at Ofsted. If you can be included in the recommended list of public school textbooks for next year, I will win you an additional bonus...... That's it, everyone go back and rest early. ”

President Osborne kept his noble, cold and calm voice until the last moment before putting down the phone.

He put down the landline earpiece.

Slowly hold up the note in your hand to your eyes.

"Huh."

The corners of the president's mouth twitched slightly.

Then the second one, the third one...... Until the smile is like a persimmon that turns from green to red overnight in autumn, it penetrates from the inside to the outside of the cheeks, and becomes a laugh that cannot be concealed.

"Hah...... Haha......"

Osborne jumped off the table, walked over and drew his cue and swung it as hard as he did playing baseball.

He let the golf ball pop and smash into a decorative tree that hung like a Christmas tree with a million-dollar sales milestone, and then bounced back to smash the screen of a Dell laptop.

Uncle President didn't realize it, but just looked up to the sky and laughed.

He tossed the sticky note in his hand with a golf club in all directions, spreading his arms.

To the accompaniment of the tinkling of medals on the decorative trees, the grinning mouth exhales at the volume of a tenor.

“~Country road！”

The loud sound almost made the secretary outside the suite think that a wolf was howling in the room of the president's office.

If it weren't for the fact that his office was 100 meters in the air, it would be surrounded by smooth glass curtain walls.

With this Pavarotti shout, all the sparrows in London might be startled.

"Cool."

Osborne continued to silly play.

On the falling sticky notes, three different sets of numbers were marked, one from the sales statistics of the three top three books of the day.

["True" Author: Colin Hoover (6537 sales today)]

["Spare Tire" Author: Prince Harry (Today's sales 12256)]

["The Little Prince" Author: Saint-Exupéry (today's sales 12296)]

With a narrow margin of only 40 books.

The "Little Prince" project he led the release of the project topped the British sales today!

It's a TMD champion!

This is certainly not the first time Osborne has won a sales day title in a project he has worked on in his career.

Last year's biography of Federer, "Green, Clay, Grand Slam", also won the sales day championship.

EVEN BEFORE COLLIN HOOVER'S ROMANCE WAS HYPED UP BY TIKTOK, HE BRIEFLY WON THE MONTHLY WEEKLY SALES CHAMPIONSHIP FOR TWO WEEKS.

Of course.

Later, he was hanged and beaten.

But this must be the coolest time in Osborne's career to win the Japanese sales championship.

How much money did it cost to give Federer a biography, various media warm-ups, production funds, and channel promotion! How much does "The Little Prince" cost in total!

This kind of celebrity biographies are selling well.

But just because everyone knows that the sales must not be low, the publishing house will also earn fame and costs. The loss is definitely not enough, but the majority of the profits are made by celebrities.

Anyway, if you don't come out, there are other publishing companies that are willing to rush to come out.

The books that enter the public domain are public resources, and those sold are net income, and they don't even need to give the original author a dime.

There are only about ten points for translators and painters.

Almost all the money from the sale is the income of the group in Europe, and even the funds for publicity and promotion are obtained from the headquarters.

Could Osborne be unhappy?

And celebrity biographies are hot at the beginning, and after two years of sales, readers are not fresh.

How popular "The Biography of Jobs" was back then, everyone in the subway around the world wanted everyone to hold a book to read, and it was also a monster that sold nearly 10 million copies in the first year.

Ten years later, it doesn't even make it to the top 100 bestsellers.

The early sales of world masterpieces were tepid, and they were very vigorous, and they could still have more than 30% of the sales data in the first year after ten years of sales. "Reminiscences of the Past" is so stinky and long that it may not be possible to find a book that 10,000 people in the whole of Britain have read carefully from beginning to end.

From 1913 to today, the world can still sell 100,000 copies a year.

Especially "The Little Prince" is explosive enough. On the first day, it topped the list of sales in the UK, and it didn't explode who exploded.

The projected total sales of 300,000 copies are 4% of the annual sales plan on the first day alone.

At this rate, it doesn't take a year to sell, and the first batch of printed books will be sold out in just a month.

Of course, a lot of the sales demand accumulated before and the online orders from die-hard fans of "The Little Prince" were released on the first day of the market, and it was difficult to have a grand first day in the next few days.

After two days, the sales volume will continue to fall considerably, and it will take five or six days to get a stable sales figure.

But that's also the top three sales list.

made a hit book, which dealt a blow to the arrogance of art director Charlie and strengthened the confidence of the board of directors.

President Osborne: He's not happy, who is happy.

"WELL, MISS ANNA, SINCE THE ARTIST YOU RECOMMENDED IS SO COMPETITIVE, THEN ......" OSBORNE WAS HAPPY ENOUGH, SWIPING HIS IPAD IN FRONT OF HIM, AND FOUND AN EMAIL IN HIS MAILBOX THAT HAD BEEN EDITED IN ADVANCE.

[To: Scholastic Masters of Writing and Art Award Selection Committee.] Nomination of the winning candidate of the group in Europe - Illustrator Detective Cat]

He stared at the email header for two seconds, then pressed send.

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Dulwich College International High School.

It's the last week before April Fool's Day, and the stage in the campus auditorium is packed.

The multi-colored spotlights reflect a blurry light in the smoke created by the dry ice, like the glaze enamel painted by the porcelain craftsmen of the Eastern Xia Dynasty.

On May 14th, Rose Valentine's Day, the school will host a networking party with several other international secondary schools for students from Grade 1 onwards.

Every year, it's a favourite celebration on campus for Dulwich students.

The importance is greater than the varsity team competition, and the excitement is greater than the winter and summer vacations.

In addition to the performances of various clubs, the rehearsal of the play, and the ballroom dance of the boys and girls who are the finale of the show.

The young flesh rubbed back and forth through a layer of evening dress, and the ears and temples grinded.

The air is filled with the smell of perfume, sweat and hormones.

Even the school's physical hygiene class will be arranged to add one session a week a few weeks before the start of the school dance to get vaccinated.

Even if the school has worked so hard.

Every few years, shortly after the school dance, I can always hear gossip about the unexpected pregnancy of a certain female classmate.

All in all.

The Ballroom Dance is the first step for the Lower School students to enter a formal social setting, and it is also the last carnival of the graduating class in secondary school.

Wait until the sorority dance in May is over.

Older students have to go all out to hold their portfolios, prepare for admissions interviews, and apply to the universities of their choice. Each other's lives have been formally divided.

The probability of a long-distance relationship breaking up is close to 100%.

The graduation prom is the last youthful memories of their middle school days.

It can well be imagined.

The excitement and ripple in the mood of the Dulwich students.

With just over a month to go before the ball, the big rehearsal has already begun.

"Gu Weijing, shall we dance together then?"

The girl in the dance skirt with a sexy wheat-colored leather suit and the little sisters in the cheerleaders around her whispered and laughed, and then walked to the corner and sat on the chair with a Chinese painting textbook "Heavenly Rain" in front of the boys, and said generously.

Gu Weijing looked away from the book, and a helpless expression appeared on his face.

"If you're famous enough, then everything will be easy enough" – sports star James Hunt left a famous adage in the history of journalism when asked by a television reporter how many girlfriends he has.

The old man was the 1976 F1 World Champion and a two-generation stallion playboy on a par with Chamberlain in sports and basketball. There were more than 5,000 girls in his lifetime, and the pinnacle was 35 different British Airways hostesses during the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix.

The Hilton suite is his palace, and the flight attendants of the entire airline are his concubines.

In the face of the amazed interview of the gossip reporter, Hunter just shook off his unruly shawl blonde hair, and said in a chic manner that it was not that he was too prodigal, but that it was too easy to pick up girls.

The cultural atmosphere of Western society is completely different from that of the reserved and introverted Orientals.

Almost many people have a romantic plot in their minds about dating celebrities.

International schools are like a small Westernized society.

used to watch TV, Gu Weijing could always see that in European and American dramas that showed the theme of campus youth, there were often influential figures on campus who held the priority right to choose a mate in the school, and they could sleep with whoever they wanted, and they would have a plot with which girl they wanted.

He has been in an international school like a little transparent for so many years.

It wasn't until his headshot was prominently hung on the billboard at the school gate by the principal that he finally fully realized the unique sense of superiority of the school's celebrities in the campus culture.

The social status on campus has improved a little bit.

Gu Weijing's impression.

After entering the advanced age, the girlfriends of the school's band lead singers rotated, the girlfriends of Jerry, the main force of the school team, and even the cheerleader Miss Coco also changed his girlfriends in turn.

Right now

He's going to be a wave.

Gu Weijing can live a life where his girlfriends take turns if he can't do it well.

The girl in front of me is called Misha.

The Port of Yangon is the only maritime port in Myanmar and one of the few large ports in Southeast Asia that can berth 100,000-ton ships. A large number of containers loaded with rice and textiles are shipped from here every year.

Misha's father is a supply chain management specialist in Myanmar for the French company GEODIS International Shipping, and he is a French national with one-eighth black South African ancestry.

Except for the slightly thick lips, this is not noticeable.

Her facial features are not exquisite, but her convex and backward figure is very interesting, especially with the healthy wheat-colored skin soaked in the sun by regular exercise, the whole person can be called hot.

Such a girl has always been chased by many people on campus. She may not have looked at Gu Weijing much before, but now she took the initiative to find Gu Weijing to be her dance partner, and the ambiguous feeling between the words is self-evident.

Even...... Misha is already the third girl who has found Gu Weijing and wants to be his dance partner.

It also includes an elementary school girl who is one year lower.

Gu Weijing is not handsome, and his decision is not ugly.

He just doesn't usually dress himself up, an ordinary school uniform, an ordinary round head.

The whole person looks at it carefully, and there is a kind of warmth and restraint that boys in international schools do not often have.

Not much attention was paid to him before.

The few who had a little thought were also intimidated by the majesty of Miss Sandenu.

There are more amorous boys on campus who are better than Gu Weijing's family background and more amorous. They were reluctant to stick out their hooves and hook up with the little donkey that the student council president's wife was tethering to at home.

The investment is not proportional to the return!

It's different now.

It seems that many girls on campus have a little bit of caution about this young artist of the newly baked Yangon Painting and Calligraphy Association.

"Misha, I'm sorry. If I need to dance with you, I may need to ask my girlfriend for permission first. ”

Gu Weijing replied with a smile with the standard that he had already said several times before, and he was already familiar with the road.

“Who？ Mona, I haven't seen her with you lately. ”

Misha is full of the romantic boldness of a French girl.

She didn't face Gu Weijing like the previous two girls, and there was an implicit distancing in her polite words, but quietly stepped forward and licked her lips.

The protruding curve of the school uniform shirt on his chest almost hit Gu Weijing's face.

"Gu, I admit that Miss Sandnu is quite beautiful, but I'm not bad either." Miss Misha winked seductively and her eyes widened.

Go to bed early.

(End of chapter)