Yan Kai is a fourteen-year-old junior high school student. His biggest hobby in life is reading comics. He especially likes the RB cartoonist Hojo Tsukasa. He was also influenced by him. He picked up a paintbrush at the age of ten, honed his painting skills, and determined to become a painter in the future.
Become a famous cartoonist like Hojo Tsukasa.
However, the living environment of domestic cartoonists is a bit difficult. Most of them either draw short stories or four-frame comics. Almost no one draws Japanese-style comics.
"No one draws me, and from now on I will be the father of Chinese comics." This is how young Yan Kai set his ambition, but now, he is just an ordinary junior high school student.
On this day, Yan Kai came to the bookstore not far from his home as usual to see if there were any new comics?
This bookstore is considered privately owned. Although it also sells genuine books, most of them are pirated copies. After all, pirated copies cost only a few cents and can be sold for two or three yuan, while genuine books cost three or four yuan, but they can only be sold.
Five dollars, even a fool knows which one makes money.
However, this time the bookstore owner bought a few more genuine comics. This one tells the story of the ancient sword fairy. When he went to buy the goods, he was attracted by the exquisite cover at a glance. After reading the content of the comics, he decisively bought ten
This comic. In the past, he only bought two or three copies and put them on the bookshelf just to show off, but this time he spent a lot of money.
After Yan Kai walked in, he spent a long time in front of the bookshelves of pirated comics. Although pirated copies were cheap, there were too many of them. As a junior high school student, he didn't have that much money, so he could only spend as much time as possible in front of the bookshelves. What he could see was
a little.
"Ahem!" Seeing his kindness, the boss immediately came over with a feather duster and used the convenience of cleaning to stop him from reading books.
"..." Yan Kai put down a copy of Saint Seiya awkwardly and walked towards other bookshelves pretending not to notice.
"Humph!" The boss started arguing with him. He would follow him wherever he went, but wouldn't let him get in his way.
Yan Kai was about to cry: Aren't I just reading a few of your books? As for that?
In desperation, I had no choice but to leave.
But when I was passing by the only genuine bookshelf, I was suddenly attracted by the exquisite cover of a book on the shelf.
"Is this?" The cover shows a young man and woman. The man's clothes look a bit sloppy, but his strong appearance conceals the rusticity of his clothes, while the other girl is pretty and charming, with a natural charm, just like
Fairy spirits descending into the mortal world.
The background is a peach blossom forest with flying petals, which is beautiful and dreamy.
There are five artistic words written across the bottom of the cover - Legend of Sword and Fairy.
There is a bracket at the end - Episode 1.
Yan Kai ignored the boss's death stare and picked up the book. He thought it was a novel, but he didn't expect that when he opened it, it turned out to be a comic book.
Yan Kai's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly flipped through it. Just when the boss was about to drive him away with a feather duster, Yan Kai asked, "How much does it cost?"
The boss's face brightened slightly and he said, "Whatever the price is."
"..." Yan Kai looked at the price on the back cover, which was five yuan.
It’s so expensive!
"Is this a genuine copy?" Yan Kai looked at it carefully and felt that the book was quite beautiful and the paper felt good, which was obviously different from pirated copies.
"People's Fine Arts Publishing House, absolutely genuine." The boss said: "Let me tell you, this is the first genuine comic in our country. This cartoonist named Xiaolong will definitely become very popular in the future. You can make a profit by buying it now."
"..." Yan Kai stroked the cover of the book lovingly, gritted his teeth, and took out the only five dollars he had from his pocket: "No need to look for it."
Phew! There was no need to look for it in the first place.
The boss smiled and took the slightly worn five-yuan note: "Thank you then."
…
Situations like Yan Kai's happen frequently in bookstores across the country. Suddenly, "Legend of Sword and Fairy" became a topic of communication among young people. If anyone has not read "Legend of Sword and Fairy", they don't know Li Xiaoyao.
Whoever he is with Zhao Ling'er is out of date.
What young people want is face, and no one wants to admit that they are behind the times, so many young people who planned to spend money on posters of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars gave their money generously and replaced the star posters with "Legend of Sword and Fairy"
comics.
From this look, eight out of ten people fell into the trap. The ones who didn’t fall into the trap were basically girls. After all, the story of Sword and Sword is male-oriented, and girls naturally don’t like to read this type of comics, but the style of this comic is really beautiful.
, it’s so exquisite. Not only are the characters beautiful, but even the background is smokin’ beautiful. Even if you’re not a comic book fan, it’s totally worth the money to buy a copy as a collection.
In just over ten days, "Legend of Sword and Fairy" became popular all over the country, selling more than 200,000 copies. For a time, it was called "Luoyang Paper Expensive", and major bookstores across the country were sold out.
He urged the publisher to send him new books.
This made the publishing house overjoyed, and it quickly stepped up printing. Fortunately, the publishing house is national-level, and with all its efforts in printing, it finally kept up with the market demand.
But no one expected that the popularity of this book lasted surprisingly long. It was still very popular until October. Not only the young people in their twenties, but also the students in the school were talking about it.
It is also the Legend of Sword and Fairy.
For example, 'Jiu Sword Immortal is so powerful, he must be the best swordsman in the world', 'Ling'er is so pitiful, both grandma and the maid are dead, what will we do in the future?', 'These sisters of the Ding family are really interesting.
, They must like Li Xiaoyao', 'Aunt Li is actually a master of martial arts, she is simply a fairy-sword version of the sweeping monk' and so on.
As the popularity continued, the sales of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" also soared. In two months, the sales volume exceeded one million. The editor-in-chief of the publishing house was so happy that he couldn't see anything. He personally called Xiaolong Ma to tell him the good news: "Brother Xiaolong"
Teacher, "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is so popular, we have received so many letters from readers from all over the country in the past two months that we can hardly contain them, would you like to come over and transport the letters?"
Ma Xiaolong is also very happy, because according to the copyright sharing, he can earn 40 cents for every book sold. Now that the sales volume has exceeded one million, his share has also exceeded 400,000. Although he still has to pay taxes, he still has to pay taxes.
The tax paid is more than 300,000!
I can buy a few more courtyard houses.
In addition to copyright fees, Ma Xiaolong has earned more than 300,000 yuan in design shares in the past few months.
Since opening up the southern market, the brand effect of Linglong Clothing has grown rapidly. Now citizens in major cities across the country know that Linglong Clothing is a high-end clothing brand. In the past two months, Lingling Zhu also placed an advertisement on CCTV. The advertising words have attracted the attention of the whole country.
Big money, ladies can't refuse it.
Wear Linglong clothes to look good.
Damn it, it’s really tacky and rich, but people of this era just like this style, so the autumn models of Linglong Clothing sold out, and the remaining spring and summer models were also sold out while the prices were reduced.
Seeing that the winter models were about to go on sale, Ma Xiaolong felt that he was going to make a fortune again.
With the comics copyright divided into their accounts, Ma Qiangsheng and his grandfather fearfully went to Beijing with 700,000 yuan in their pockets. They did not even look at the buildings, with the clear purpose of buying a courtyard house under the Imperial City.
Is the courtyard house under the imperial city easy to buy? It is definitely not easy to buy, but you have 700,000, is it easy to buy? It is easy to buy.
In just one week, with the help of his uncle, Ma Qiangsheng bought a courtyard house that he was quite satisfied with in all aspects. This courtyard house is located in Dashizuo Hutong, which is the back door of the imperial city. It covers an area of 400 square meters and is a standard building.
It cost 400,000 yuan to buy a courtyard house in Beijing. In order to buy this courtyard, Ma Qiangsheng was scrutinized by certain departments for several days.
With Ma Qiangsheng's background and ability, he definitely couldn't afford a courtyard house in Huangchenggen, but he was buying a courtyard house for his son, so these people found out about Ma Xiaolong. After this investigation, the image of a genius child appeared on the paper, and then appeared
On the desk of the relevant department.
Designing clothes, drawing comics, and earning nearly a million in less than a year?
The staff looked at these materials for a long time... and burst into tears.
Other people's children make a million a year, but they themselves only earn 300 yuan a month. Where can they reason?
Is the gap between geniuses and mortals really that big?
In any case, there was no problem with Ma Xiaolong's background, and the courtyard house was successfully registered in his name. From then on, he became a neighbor to the people in the Imperial City.
By the way, he also gained some comic book fans.
""Legend of Sword and Fairy" is really good to watch," some staff members said.