Back to 1997, I became the originator of online literature

Chapter 37: Another Yuan income, Song Chao reading a book

"Cao Sheng, I have good news for you. Because the publishing house has decided to increase the first print run to 50,000 copies, your advance payment has also increased. This amount has been deposited into your bank account today. Please check it. If you have any questions, please let me know in time.

In addition, the number of pre-sales of your book has increased by more than 10,000 in the past few days. The total number of pre-sales has now reached more than 33,000 copies. Our finance department is overloaded with staff to keep count. Several of our editors have been transferred over to help with the count, including me, haha.

By the way, there is one more thing I want to tell you in advance. The publishing house is currently considering whether to increase the number of copies in the first print run. If it does, the subsequent publicity will definitely be intensified, and you may be required to accept some media interviews at that time.

Also, given the current popularity of your book, the publisher is considering whether to hold a few book signings for you, hoping to stimulate the sales of the book in this way. If you really want to hold a book signing, I hope you can cooperate and make a few trips. Don't worry, your work will not be in vain. You will be given travel expenses. Summer vacation is coming soon, so you should have time. Let me tell you here, you should be mentally prepared. Try to free up time this summer and try not to make other arrangements.

Finally, congratulations again.

——Wang Jing"

After reading the email word by word, Cao Sheng smiled.

He didn't expect to receive the second payment for this book so soon.

Last time, the publishing house decided to print 5000 copies for the first time. After deducting the share from Under the Banyan Tree from his royalties, he was left with only about yuan.

It would be better if Xinchang Publishing House paid him the royalties for one episode of his manuscript.

At the time, he was thinking: If these 5000 copies cannot be sold, there will be no subsequent royalties, and this book will be a loss.

The full text is 280,000 words, and he only earned about 3,000 yuan. And for the "I Want to Become an Immortal" published in Taiwan, each episode has 65,000 words, and he earned 4,000 yuan in royalties.

It is clear at a glance which one is more cost-effective.

but now?
The first print run was 5000 copies, which increased to 5 copies, a 10-fold increase.

Logically speaking, the royalties should be increased tenfold, which is more than 30,000 yuan.

About 1 hour later.

At the ATM on campus of Huizhou Teachers College, Cao Sheng saw that the total amount in his account had indeed increased by more than 3 yuan.

The total amount on his card has become more than 7 yuan.

This speed of making money is no less than what he earned from writing before his rebirth.

Is it so comfortable to eat alone?
This thought flashed through his mind when he withdrew his bank card.

Before his rebirth, he was just one of the many authors on Qidian. When his performance was good, he could earn about 200,000 yuan a year. When he failed, his annual income was only tens of thousands of yuan.

However, most of the books he wrote failed, but few achieved success.

And now?

As the first person to write online articles in this time and space, he seemed to have eaten the first bite of meat. He should be the first to publish an online article in traditional Chinese, and he should also be the first to publish an online article in simplified Chinese.

Although he did not earn a penny from the two books he wrote on the Internet after his rebirth, he earned more than 7 yuan from the royalties from the publication and the signing fee from the contract with Under the Banyan Tree in just half a year.

If this isn’t eating meat, then what is?
With more than 98 yuan in 7, you could probably buy two or three -square-meter houses in Huizhou City. If you built a house in your hometown, you could build at least ten three-room bungalows, or even more.

If I buy a house in my hometown county, I can probably afford seven or eight.

He estimated that at the recent rate of earning, perhaps this year he would not only have enough money to rebuild the house in his hometown, but might also have enough money left to buy a small courtyard of his choice in Huizhou.

If he is content with a small fortune, he can use half of the money to build a new house in his hometown, and keep the rest for when he graduates from college, so that he can use the money to marry a beautiful wife when he returns home.

With so much money and his college education, he can probably pick any pretty girl from anywhere in his hometown.

He remembered that the bride price in his hometown was very low these days.

He had never heard of a bride price of tens of thousands since he was a child.

Some people don't have to pay a penny for marriage.

Those with better conditions would only be given a few thousand yuan.

Of course, if he were to live his life over again, although he did not have the ambition to punch Mahua Teng or step on Jack Ma, he would not be so useless as to be in a hurry to live a life with a wife and children and a warm bed.

……

At midnight that day, Song Chao, who slept in the lower bunk of Cao Sheng, went to an Internet cafe outside the school to spend the night. Since he heard that Cao Sheng had written a novel and published it on Under the Banyan Tree, Song Chao had learned how to use the Internet.

At first, he learned how to use the Internet just to find Cao Sheng’s soon-to-be-published book “Living with a Flight Attendant”.

I want to see if Cao Sheng's book is really popular on the Internet? And to what extent?
But the internet fee is too expensive to use during the day.

He couldn't bear to spend five dollars an hour.

His family is not very wealthy.

So he followed Cao Sheng's example and booked a night in the Internet cafe. He asked Cao Sheng and learned that it only cost 15 yuan to book a night in the Internet cafe.

Although 15 yuan is not a small amount, he thinks it is still okay for him to come here for a night out occasionally.

And tonight he came to the Internet cafe to read Cao Sheng's book. He wanted to see how well Cao Sheng's book was written and why it was published.
He has grown up and has never met a writer in real life.

Now there is one in his dormitory, who happens to sleep on the upper bunk, and his curiosity has already exploded.

A few days ago he asked Cao Sheng for his saved manuscripts.

Cao Sheng was not stingy and gave him a stack of handwritten manuscripts. Not only Song Chao, but also several other people in the dormitory read them.

but……

It's all like reading a book written in heaven.

Except for the title "Living with a Flight Attendant" which was written fairly neatly, the rest of the words on the draft book were all scribbles.

It's so sloppy!

He could barely recognize some of the words by guessing, but there were still many words that he could not recognize.

He asked Cao Sheng: "Your handwriting is usually not so hard to read! Why is this manuscript written like this?"

Cao Sheng's answer left him speechless.

Cao Sheng said, "As for the draft, I can recognize it myself. It's a bit sloppy and I write it quickly. When I write, I should try to keep up with my thinking speed. If I write too slowly, my thinking will be interrupted. Once my thinking is interrupted, it will be difficult to continue. If you want to read my book, wait until I receive the sample book from the publisher, and then I will show it to you slowly."

At that time, Song Chao planned to wait for Cao Sheng's sample book to arrive before reading it.

But he underestimated his curiosity.

These days, his curiosity about Cao Sheng's book has been growing stronger.

Finally, he couldn't bear it any longer, so he gritted his teeth and took out fifteen yuan to book a night here, intending to read Cao Sheng's book on the computer in the Internet cafe.

Time passes little by little.

Song Chao read "Living with a Flight Attendant" chapter by chapter.

The more I looked at his expression, the more surprised I became.

He was surprised by Cao Sheng's sophisticated writing style, the smoothness of the plot, and even more surprised by the vivid images of the male and female protagonists in the book.

As the male protagonist Ding Yang tried every means to pursue Ran Jing, the jokes he made made Song Chao always smile unconsciously.

The beauty, gentleness, tolerance of the heroine Ran Jing, as well as the sadness that always appears in her eyes when she is alone, aroused Song Chao's desire to protect her.

More than two hours later, when he finally finished reading all the chapters of the book currently being serialized under the banyan tree, he discovered that the subsequent plot was gone...

Gone?

Song Chao looked stunned, he was watching the show with great interest!

There was nothing after that, which surprised him and made him feel lost.

There is also anger towards Cao Sheng - this guy had clearly finished writing this book a long time ago, and the manuscript was locked in the desk drawer of his dormitory, but he actually kept it and didn't publish it. How could a human being do this?
The most infuriating thing is that he gritted his teeth and squeezed out 15 yuan from his living expenses to come here for the night, but it is only around 2 o'clock in the morning and it is still a long way to dawn. How should he spend the rest of the time?

Isn’t this 15 yuan overnight fee a waste?
If I had known this earlier, I would have gone to the Internet cafe to read for two hours during the day. If I read faster, I could have finished all the chapters in two hours and saved 5 dollars!
He planned to go back tomorrow morning to settle the score with Cao Sheng.

(End of this chapter)