July 9th, early morning.
When Li Luo woke up from his drowsy sleep and turned around to look at the scene around him, he suddenly fell into a trance.
Yan Zhusheng is sleeping on the left hand side.
She had the most peaceful sleeping position, lying on her back obediently, with her hands folded on her belly. Her face, which was originally as expressionless as an iceberg, now looked softer.
It makes people want to reach out and pinch it, as if they were trying to pinch a ball of snow.
On the right is Yingchan Creek.
She was not sleeping peacefully, and was sandwiched between Li Luo and Xu Youyu to prevent her from snatching the quilt when she fell asleep.
When Ying Chanxi was sleeping, her cheeks were slightly swollen and she looked very cute, making people want to come up and take a bite. Her white and tender face looked like a freshly peeled boiled egg.
Xu Youyu, who was lying on the other side, was fast asleep, half hugging Ying Chanxi, and drooling at the corner of his mouth.
After Li Luo woke up, he lay on the bed for a while, sat up straight with his upper body leaning against the head of the bed, and quietly admired the exquisite sleeping faces of the three girls for a while, then reached out and wiped the corners of Xu Youyu's mouth.
It felt like opening a room for Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng was a bit unnecessary... In the next few days, Li Luo doubted whether anyone would sleep in their room.
Thinking of this, Li Luo couldn't help laughing.
Then he got out of the quilt, stood up on the bed, jumped over Yan Zhusheng's body, landed next to the bed, and accurately found his slippers.
Without waking the three of them up, Li Luo simply washed up in the bathroom, changed his clothes, picked up his cell phone and left the room.
It’s really hot in Yuzhong City in July.
Generally speaking, it is more recommended to come here in spring and autumn.
I don’t know if the people planning the event at Wenyue Group are out of their minds or something, or maybe they understand the temperament of Internet article authors very well and know that even if they arrive in a new place, they will be lazy enough to only go out during the time to look for food.
Even if you simply order takeout, you might not leave the hotel during the entire salon event.
Fortunately, Li Luo is still young and is not very afraid of heat, and quite enjoys the feeling of heat in his body.
He walked out of the hotel door and ran slowly around the perimeter of the hotel a few times. When his forehead started to sweat slightly, he went to the dining area on the second floor to have breakfast.
A few authors who arrived a day in advance like him took the initiative to say hello to Li Luo after seeing him.
Generally speaking, when the copyright of a work is sold, it will not be announced immediately unless there is a need for publicity.
But for the authors who can come to participate in the salon activities, at the most minor level, they are also well-known figures in LV5, and can basically be treated as reserves for great masters.
Based on everyone’s sources, you can basically hear something more or less.
Naturally, this also includes the sale of the copyright of "Little Joy".
Combined with the realism-themed essay competition that "Little Joy" participated in before, the above news is most likely true.
After all, from last year’s salon event to this year, Qidian has just opened a reality channel for a year, with only a few high-quality books including "Little Joy".
Among them, due to the continuous traffic of "I'm Really Not a Celebrity" and the continuous tilt of essay solicitation traffic, although "Little Joy" itself is not in line with the readers' tastes in the popular online writing field, it has achieved good results because of its good content.
From being a barely high-quality product when it was first launched one month ago, to having 6,000 subscriptions when it was completed, and then two months after the completion, relying on the continuous support of the essay flow, it has been firmly ranked first in the reality channel's monthly tickets, and it has suddenly gone from
The average order from 6,000 has increased to 9,000.
Looking at this, if we wait for a while, "Little Joy" will probably break through the 10,000-book mark.
This is also the first book of Qidian Reality Channel that has received over 10,000 subscriptions.
Thanks to the small number of words in "Little Joy", only 800,000 words in total, the content is concise, the plot is complete, and the plot has constant small hooks, so it can maintain the growth of results.
Li Luo has been writing online articles in his last life, and he is very aware of the macro-level readership trends in the market.
To put it simply, a large number of readers follow the trend and public opinion to judge whether a book is good or bad.
No book can withstand deliberate criticism.
There are always shortcomings if you look for them.
But when a book is very popular and has various achievements to back it up, readers who like it can ignore these small shortcomings and praise the book to the sky.
But when the author writes something very controversial, he will be stepped into the quagmire by the same group of people in an instant.
What were once small shortcomings immediately turned into intolerable major flaws, listed clearly as if they were heinous crimes.
Li Luo was eating breakfast, scrolling through the comments section on his phone, and took a look at the situation of "Little Joy".
The reviews from readers are pretty good.
Especially after Li Luo improved the content settings and avoided some of the things about why not eat minced meat, the plot became less poisonous.
From the perspective of readers' perception, this book is quite good-looking, except that it is not enough for the Internet.
If this were placed on other channels, even in the urban category, it would probably be overshadowed by other books.
But in the reality channel, the readers who can click in and take a look are those who have some basic reading pursuits.
This can actually help Li Luo screen out some good audiences.
Li Luo was thinking about this, and several other familiar author friends came to the table.
Everyone was chatting, and then they talked about the great masters and platinum candidates at the end of this year.
There are many candidates for greatness, and there are two who are having dinner together here who are very promising.
As for platinum, there is no need to think about it, Li Luo must have a share.
There was an author on the table who specialized in channel distribution and said with some emotion: "Ranshen's channels are more powerful than the main website. You know the concept. Even if you don't have the copyright of "Little Joy", I think a platinum contract is completely acceptable.
Let’s fight for it.”
Li Luo did not participate in this topic.
The signing of the master and platinum contract itself has confidentiality clauses. It needs to cooperate with Qidian for publicity and cooperation, and cannot take the initiative to expose the signing situation in private.
So even if you know that you can sign a platinum contract, you can't take the initiative to say it in front of outsiders.
After breakfast, Li Luo stood up to say goodbye and received a call from Lawyer Tian.
The other party said that he had just arrived at the airport and that it would be close to noon when the plane landed.
Li Luo made an appointment with him for lunch, and then received a message from the editor-in-chief, setting up an afternoon meeting.
When he took the elevator back to his room on the sixth floor, the three girls were still asleep.
I really struggled with it for too long last night, and I can understand even now that I slept.
Li Luo recalled the scene of playing Ludo last night, and his eyes involuntarily fell on the bed, as if he could see the smooth and white thighs of the three girls through the quilt.
Then he turned to look at the chair next to him. There were still black and white silk and cotton pantyhose that had been taken off.
This kind of thing is really a test for a vigorous young man.
If he hadn't been mentally older and could control himself, I don't know how many wrong things he would have done.
I can only hope that time will pass faster in the coming days.
Li Luo's current academic pressure is very light, and he has obtained full marks in all three minor subjects through elective examinations.
In the three main subjects of Chinese, Mathematics and English, with continuous efforts, the gap with Yingchanxi has been narrowed to less than 5 points.
Maybe if you perform exceptionally well, you may have the chance to win the top spot in your grade.
Under such circumstances, Qingbei has a lot of hope, let alone Qianjiang University.
He has a memory palace. Even if he doesn't learn anything from now on, he will still be able to take the college entrance examination next year.
Thinking about this, Li Luo sat down at his desk, opened his laptop, and planned to use the time before noon to code for a while.
In order to avoid waking up the girls on the bed, he did not use the mechanical keyboard Xu Youyu gave him, but directly used the keyboard that came with his laptop to type.
It wasn't until about 9:30 in the morning that there was some movement from the bed.
Li Luo turned around and found that Yan Zhusheng was awake.
She rubbed her eyes and sat upright. She glanced around her and found that Li Luo was not there. She quickly looked around and found Li Luo's figure in front of the desk.
After lifting the quilt and getting out of bed, Yan Zhusheng stepped on her slippers and came to Li Luo. She crossed her left leg and sat on Li Luo. She hugged him tightly and rubbed her head against Li Luo's shoulder, like a
The little kitten who just woke up is very clingy.
"I'm coding." Li Luo hugged her waist, patted her butt and said with a smile.
"Just a moment." Yan Zhusheng rubbed up again, closed her eyes and hugged Li Luo, enjoying the warmth of the moment.
Only after she had hugged him enough did Yan Zhusheng get off Li Luo and go to the bathroom to wash up.
After coming out of the bathroom, she sat obediently on the empty chair next to the desk and watched Li Luo code.
"With you staring like this, I can't write anything."
"Then show me the manuscript."
"...sent to you."
Now Yan Zhusheng has formed a habit.
Every time I save a batch of Li Luo's manuscripts and then harvest them together.
Then the normal updates every day are regarded as reviewing the previous content, which is equivalent to watching it for the second time.
Although the learning effect is far less good than that of "The Age of Literature and Art", you can often see familiar scenes and content in the book, and Yan Zhusheng still likes to read it.
For example, there are often ambiguous scenes in the book of the protagonists Li Yang and Mo Qinghan playing the piano.
Yan Zhusheng can always see some sense of déjà vu.
Readers are debating in the comment area which heroine is the best, but they probably never imagined that the prototypes of the three heroines have always been around Li Luo in real life.
"Lawyer Tian will be here at noon." As the time approached eleven o'clock, Li Luo turned to look at the two people who were still sleeping on the bed, and then ordered to Yan Zhusheng, "I have to negotiate the contract in the afternoon. I can't
Accompany you."
"I will go to dinner with Lawyer Tian in a while to talk about the direction of contract negotiation."
"You wake them up later, and then go have dinner with your uncle and aunt first. You can go shopping nearby in the afternoon."
"Oh." Yan Zhusheng nodded obediently, knowing that Li Luo had something serious to do and not intending to pester him.
So after receiving the news that Lawyer Tian's plane had landed, Li Luo waited for more than half an hour, then got up and cleaned up briefly, then went downstairs to find Lawyer Tian for dinner.
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"The biggest difference between the master contract and ordinary authors is that the share ratio has changed, from the original 50-50 share to 30-70 share."
"The author can get 70% of the subscription revenue."
At noon, Lawyer Tian was chatting with Li Luo at the dinner table.
"In addition, because it is no longer a standard contract, some minor adjustments can be made to other contract terms."
"For example, the copyright you mentioned before, or the resource tilt related to essay solicitation that was added later."
"But some clauses look good, but in essence they are just pie-in-the-sky. The more general and abstract they are, the less binding they will be."
At this point, Lawyer Tian paused and then added, "So you have to think clearly about your specific needs first. After clarifying the direction of the negotiation, both parties will be much more relaxed."
"I don't have any extra needs." Li Luo thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "Just continue to strengthen the copyright terms."
Having said this, Li Luo paused and thought for a while. After some deliberation, he added, "Do you think there is a chance to make the copyright independent?"
"Huh?" Lawyer Tian didn't understand what he meant for a moment, "What does it mean to be independent?"
"That is to say..." Li Luo touched his chin and thought for a moment, "Let me give you an analogy. For example, if I sign the platinum contract for my book "Little Joy", if I have similar works in the future, can I operate the copyright by myself?
, no longer split with Kaidian?”
When Lawyer Tian heard this, he immediately fell silent: "Of course it is feasible in theory, but when you sign a platinum contract with Qidian, it is meant to cooperate. What you need is the other party's copyright sales channels and platform traffic environment."
"Once you hold the copyright in your hands, it means you give up this convenience."
"Then what's the point of a platinum contract?"
What Lawyer Tian said makes sense.
But Li Luo's idea is also very simple.
He now has a relationship with Ying Zhicheng. Previously, "Little Joy" relied on Qidian to get the endorsement from the essay competition and official background, so Ying Zhicheng persuaded the board of directors to pass the copyright acquisition proposal for "Little Joy".
But if the follow-up TV series adaptation of "Little Joy" is successful and becomes very popular after being broadcast, it will be very easy for Li Luo to sell other novels or scripts in his hands.
There is no need for Qidian to provide additional help.
"Then let me change the angle." Li Luo pondered for a moment, and lawyer Asada said, "I hope the platinum contract can have multiple clauses. During the contract period, I have the right to choose to hand over the copyright to Qidian for operation, or operate it myself."
Lawyer Tian understood Li Luo's thoughts and nodded gently: "We can talk about these things. Let's see what they say in the afternoon."
"Then I'll trouble Lawyer Tian." Li Luo said with a smile.
His choice is actually very simple. If it is a short story like "Little Joy" and is suitable for adaptation into a TV series, he does not need to cooperate with Qidian at all and can just go directly to Ying Zhicheng's relationship.
Internet article authors cannot sell copyrights. Most of the time, they lack this level of personal connections, so they can only rely on website platforms to sell copyrights.
But Li Luo is obviously different.
However, if I finish writing "I'm Really Not a Celebrity" in the future and write another long online novel, it will most likely still rely on the platform to operate it.
So there is no need to completely block some roads.
Chapter completed!