??Chapter 53: 53. Zhou Wung personally rushed to Luo City to urge for an update_1
Chapter 53: 53. Zhou Wung personally rushed to Luo City to urge for an update_1
By the ti Ren He found out that Kunlun had already been published in the Capital Daily, it was already that afternoon, and Zhou Wung was on the phone urging him to churn out more chapters…
Ren He suddenly felt a bit pained, finding it rather awkward to be pressured by readers over the phone to produce more work.
On the phone, Zhou Wung said, “I plan to make your novel a weekly serialization, so you must submit a 20,000-word manuscript to
by every Friday.”
Did you even discuss this with
before deciding on a weekly serialization? I’m already working on another one, for goodness’ sake, Ren He negotiated, “Can’t we do a bimonthly serialization?”
If it were to be serialized weekly, it would an that every month, there’s a fixed task of either four or five installnts. And for blockbuster novels like Divine Punishnt System, it’s all about the update volu, and he sotis explodes with releases. Since the last explosion, he had only just barely saved up over twenty chapters, and as the month-end manuscript paynt was about to be distributed, the battle for next month’s monthly tickets was looming. When Dongfang Mobai gave him a good recomndation slot, he would definitely need to have another burst release.
That group of wealthy fans with their knives ready, you never know how long they have been waiting to start butchering. At such tis, you can’t be timid, for timidity equates to losing money…
“No way,” Zhou Wung rejected rcilessly, “Still based on the royalties of Three Character Classic, we in the Capital Journalism Group have bought it. Moreover, every ti you serialize, we’ll give you the highest-level manuscript fee treatnt. Basically, for every 20,000 words serialized, your inco is more than 30,000 yuan. Are you going to turn your back on money?”
With money at stake on both ends, and considering that Kunlun might obtain the full copyright operation even sooner, and judging from the royalties earned from Three Character Classic, how could Kunlun not multiply several tis over? Thus, Ren He caved in, “Alright, let’s do it your way.”
It’s just spending a bit more ti on writing every day, no big deal, right?
This ti, the public opinion of Kunlun differed from that of Divine Punishnt System. The literary criticism of Divine Punishnt System was unanimously: simple, trashy, utterly devoid of substance.
However, Kunlun received unanimously favorable reviews. Thoughts were wild and imaginative, the prose powerful and grand!
If the outside world knew that these two books ca from the sa author’s hand, one wonders what they would think. Moreover, this release of Kunlun still kept the pen na undisclosed, it has to be said that Zhou Wung had done quite a good job in protecting Ren He.
And he also had his own selfish reasons. Since Ren He did not want to reveal his identity, Zhou would naturally make the most of the situation and keep it under wraps, lest other dia groups go looking for Ren He, which would be a loss for the Capital Journalism Group.
Just considering Ren He’s ability to triple sales and turn diocrity into brilliance, this was a talent they could not afford to miss.
The following day, countless people queued up to buy the Capital Daily. The first batch of newspapers was snatched up the mont they hit the stands. When had China’s cultural field ever seen such a scenario? The storyline was too compelling, and just yesterday, it hit a tantalizing climax that had everyone on edge!
But the mont they saw the newspaper, they were stunned: New song release by Jiang Siyao, Jiang Siyao and Jiang Chen et, and it seems old flas are rekindling!
Plastered across the newspaper was a photo of Jiang Siyao and Jiang Chen snapped together having a al, a shocking piece of news!
However… everyone was confused: “Where’s Kunlun? Are you kidding ?”
“Where’s our Kunlun?”
“Boss, did you sell the wrong newspaper? We want to see the Capital Daily!”
The vendor replied with a pained expression, “That is the Capital Daily. I wanted to read the serialization too, look under the entertainnt section, there’s a line of small print!”
“What does it say?” Everyone looked down and saw, printed at the very bottom of the entertainnt page, the words: “Kunlun serialized every Saturday!”
“Holy shit, Saturday, that’s a week away, how am I supposed to survive this week?”
“No way, I’m going to call 110 and complain about the Capital Journalism Group!”
On this day, the officers at 110 could only smile wryly; they actually received nurous calls complaining that the Capital Journalism Group had stopped serializing Kunlun!
“I want to read it too, but who do I complain to?” an officer at 110 muttered under his breath.
Kunlun had beco so popular, much faster than Ren He had anticipated. It wasn’t just because of the large readership of the Capital Daily; the entire Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei area was hooked as well.
By then, even people in far-off places had heard that there was a martial arts novel called Kunlun that was a great read. But because of copyright protection, they couldn’t get their hands on it since it wasn’t distributed outside the region!
At this point, so risk-takers started to print and sell pirated copies of Kunlun, but the Intellectual Property Office promptly tead up with the police for a joint operation and arrested everyone involved in the production and sale of pirated copies on the sa day.
Due to the cultural deficit, the criminal law regarding intellectual property was severe—perhaps the notion was, the more you lack sothing, the more you care about it, and this was reflected in the heavy sentencing!
That’s why in this parallel world, the protection of intellectual property was taken extrely seriously, with sentences starting at three years and no upper limit!
Therefore, Zhou Wung decided to urgently publish a single-volu edition of Kunlun! To do this, one needed to go to Luo City to get Ren He’s written authorization, but this ti Zhou Wung didn’t need to go personally; any staff mber would do as the terms had already been agreed upon.
However, Zhou Wung insisted on going himself, which baffled everyone. Why would the chief editor of the Capital Journalism Group bother with such a trivial task?
Only Zhou Wung knew the real reason: he wanted to check whether that kid Ren He had been making private copies of the manuscript…
anwhile, Ren He had no idea that it would be Zhou Wung himself coming to Luo City to press for more chapters. He thought a phone call would be enough to rush things along. He was still too naive…
That night, Ren He lay in bed, holding his head as he pondered. He had to get busy; tomorrow, he would write the fifth song for Yang Xi. When chasing a girl, strike while the iron is hot!
But what should the fifth song be? Truth be told, there weren’t many songs that suited Yang Xi’s temperant. One could say her musical range was quite narrow. Having her sing dance songs would be tacky, and if she were to sing rock, Ren He couldn’t bear to watch…
Got it—the fifth song would be Prague Square by Jolin Tsai!
This song was written by Jay Chou for Jolin Tsai in his previous life. Indeed, when Ren He would listen to Jolin Tsai’s songs, it was mostly Jay Chou’s compositions. Undoubtedly, Prague Square was a classic, mainly because its lody was incredibly catchy!
No sooner had the idea co to him than he sat up in bed, pulled out so stationery, and began writing the lyrics and music for Prague Square. He finished it quickly!
“Mission: Complete a 5000-ter run within 14 minutes, deadline one week.”
Damn, just after finishing 1000 ters, now a 5000-ter run? Let
calculate, how many laps around the track is that?
Fuck, 20 laps! And they set a ti limit of 14 minutes. What was the world record for 5000 ters again, sothing like 12 minutes and 37 seconds?
Luckily, now that Ren He had supercharged mory, recalling any previous or scanned material beca easy, and his 14-minute limit seed to be the Divine Punishnt System showing rcy.
To be honest, his 5.23 physical fitness score truly surpassed that of a normal adult. But world records are ant to be achieved by extraordinary people, not the average person.
If you ask an ordinary person to run 5000 ters, just finishing the distance would be a challenge.
Fortunately, Ren He managed to complete it, thanks to his youthful age and lighter weight!
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