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Chapter 557 Monthly Ticket Battle
About half an hour later, Cao Sheng received a call back from Cheng Long.

Cheng Long: "Cao Sheng, I've checked for you. It's true that Warner Bros. wants to buy the remake rights to 'Infernal Affairs.' They contacted Huang Baiming first, but Huang Baiming said that the remake rights to this movie are in your hands, so they turned to you instead. Congratulations! You're going to make a fortune again, haha."

Cao Sheng smiled. "Thank you! You've gone to so much trouble."

Cheng Long: "Hey! Why are you being so polite with me? Next time you need something like this, just come and bother me. I don't mind the trouble!"

Cao Sheng spoke a few more words to Cheng Long before ending the call.

After putting down his phone, Cao Sheng looked at Wang Jing.

Wang Jing smiled broadly, "Boss! Is it really Warner Music contacting us?"

Cao Sheng nodded. "Okay, I'll leave this matter to you. The price... can't be less than 200 million US dollars. Also, we need to add a clause to the agreement—'This remake right is only sold to them for five years. If they haven't started filming after five years, we will take back the remake right!' Do you understand what I mean?"

Wang Jing was surprised. "Why did you add this condition? They asked for $50, and we raised it to over $200 million. It was already difficult to negotiate, and now with this condition, what if they don't buy it?"

Cao Sheng chuckled lightly, "So be it! What else can we do? If we don't want to buy it, then forget it!"

If Warner doesn't buy it, other Hollywood companies might in the future.

Even if all the Hollywood companies stop buying it.

For Cao Sheng, it wasn't a huge deal.

More than how much money he can make from remakes, he values ​​whether the other party can actually make a movie after buying the remake rights.

This is an opportunity to increase his fame.

In comparison, the remake fee of one or two million US dollars is not important.

He's long past the stage of being short of money.

Moreover, he believed that if the other party really intended to remake the movie, then the conditions he had just added would not be considered a restriction on them.

Unless the other party bought the remake rights to this movie simply to fill their copyright library.

He added this condition to prevent this situation from occurring.

Wang Jing looked at Cao Sheng with a puzzled expression, still unable to understand why Cao Sheng had added this condition.

But the script belonged to Cao Sheng, and since Cao Sheng wanted to do it this way, she had no choice but to obey.

"Okay! I understand. I'll try my best to negotiate the contract!"

……

Wang Jing is gone.

Cao Sheng sat in front of the computer, looking at the documents on the screen, and suddenly realized that his state of mind had changed, as if he had jumped to a higher position and was looking down at himself in front of the computer.

I felt a sense of triumph.

Thinking back to when he was negotiating the script contract for "Infernal Affairs" with Wong Pak-ming, he specifically asked for the remake rights to the film, which made the remake rights belong exclusively to him, the screenwriter.

Now that Warner Bros. is calling to buy the remake rights to "Infernal Affairs," it proves his foresight.

If nothing unexpected happens, it won't be long before someone from South Korea buys the remake rights to this movie, which will bring in another source of income.

A film produced in Chinese, American, and Korean versions—such an achievement is rare in the entire Chinese-language film industry.

Of course, he knew he was just a middleman when it came to this movie.

Even so, the honor truly fell upon him.

In comparison, what does my recent decline in performance matter?
Even if the plot quality of the two books, "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts" and "Cultivation Chat Group," declines temporarily, it doesn't affect the overall situation.

Moreover, the two books already achieved remarkable results when they were first released.

It's time to be content.

Thinking this way, he felt relieved, and his overall condition improved a lot.

Thinking about the plot of the next chapter made my mind much more active, and I quickly sorted out my thoughts.

Without realizing it, my hands were on the keyboard, and I started typing.

My typing speed is getting faster and faster.

The physical and mental exhaustion I've been feeling lately seems to have vanished.

This reminded him of his mindset when he faced adversity before his rebirth.

Before his rebirth, he had faced countless setbacks and adversities, just as many times his works had failed.

Every time you fall, it's like sinking into a quagmire, and it's extremely difficult to get yourself out of it.

If a book flops, he will lose most of his original fans.

Other book fans will also be skeptical and wait-and-see about his new book.

Therefore, when he starts a new book, few fans support him when the word count is still low. Most fans, even after seeing his new book, choose to wait until the word count increases and the subscription data improves before considering reading it.

When most book fans make this decision, it's destined that his new book's sales figures will be difficult to rise before it's released.

Data growth is often more difficult than a new book by a new author.

reason?

Because it's a new author and a new book, readers will only care about whether the book's quality suits their taste, and they will be interested in reading a sample.

However, when an established author like Cao Sheng releases a new book, many readers, having already read his works, will simply walk away upon seeing his pen name, without even bothering to read a preview.

Therefore, many veteran authors choose to change their pen names after two or three new books have failed.

Some people even changed their pen names after only one successful book.

Publishing a new book as a newcomer often makes it easier to achieve success.

Cao Sheng was reluctant to give up the pen name he had used for many years.

They just kept holding on.

The price he pays is that every time a book flops, the pressure is immense when he starts a new one. The shadow of failure looms over him even before the book is published.

When he first encountered this situation, he had no experience. He forced himself not to think about the possibility of failing again, focused on writing, and published under his original pen name without hesitation.

As expected, it failed again.

When starting a new book, two books had already flopped in a row, making it even more difficult to achieve success.

How to do?
We must handle it firmly!

After racking my brains, I wrote another new book, stubbornly continuing to publish it under my original pen name.

result?

Another failure.

Three consecutive saves!
Not only did she take away his girlfriend, but she also left him single for more than a year, which made him feel terrible. He became slovenly and lazy about taking care of his appearance, and he also fell into deep self-doubt.

Do you doubt whether you can write another successful book?

Do you doubt whether you're cut out to be a writer?

I'm wondering if I should go out and find a job?
When he was publishing his fourth new book, he experienced a state of being: examining himself from the perspective of an outsider.

—Is this guy finished?

How could he possibly succeed if he's so impatient and restless?

He can't concentrate, so he'll fail again this time!

With such a disordered sleep schedule, such a decadent state, and a dazed and confused mind, how could he possibly write any good works?

—This guy has reached a dead end. If he can get through this, he can continue to make a living in this industry for another ten years. If he can't, he'll have to change careers.

Everyone encounters various difficulties in their career. Those who can overcome them are strong, and those who cannot are weak.

Can he turn the tide against all odds?
...By examining yourself from an outsider's perspective, and once you clearly see your predicament and various shortcomings, you will know what you should do.

Adjust your sleep schedule.

Give yourself a few days off to relax your body and clear your mind. Gradually adjust your mindset, reset it, and find the state of mind you had when you wrote that book that brought you success.

Then, read books, read books, and read books some more!

Spend half a month or even more than a month looking at other people's works, seeing how they write, and reflecting on the shortcomings of your own work as you go.

I keep working until one day I'm inspired by a particular idea or plot point in a book, which sparks a great idea for a new book, and then I decide to start a new book.

That time, he successfully emerged from the shadow of his failure, wrote a book that was featured on Qidian's premium channel, and turned his life around.

Many people say: There is no formula for success.

His experience taught him that there may be a thousand reasons for failure, but the methods for success are actually quite similar.

It's simply a matter of having the right attitude, persevering, and persisting until the day you succeed.

With the right attitude and persistent effort, success will surely come; the only difference is when.

Today, Cao Sheng received good news from Wang Jing – Warner Bros. wanted to buy the remake rights to "Infernal Affairs".

It changed his mindset.

It seems that I've once again taken the perspective of an observer to examine myself.

Then, the "deadlock" that had been causing his recent slump was easily broken.

Thoughts flow like pearls, and writing is as if divinely inspired.

The plot that I initially thought would be difficult to write no longer presents any challenges.

One day, two days, three days...

In the following days, readers of "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts" and "Cultivation Chat Group" were surprised to find that the updates of these two books had stabilized again, and each book was updating two long chapters of 4,000 words every day.

Cao Sheng has returned to his daily writing pace of 16,000 words.

Beijing.

That afternoon, after finishing writing the fourth chapter of the day, the author logged into the author backend, published the chapter he had just written, thought for a moment, and then went to the Qidian homepage.

Check the rankings on the Qidian monthly ticket ranking list.

His novel "Mad God" still ranks third on the monthly ticket chart.

This was exactly what he expected.

This month, with a large number of updates, his "Mad God" quickly rose to third place on the monthly ticket ranking from the beginning of the month. The first and second place books have always been Cao Sheng's "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts" and "Cultivation Chat Group".

He originally intended to secure third place and had no greater ambitions.

Because in the previous two months, he tried many times to update his work quickly, but he still failed to surpass Cao Sheng's work.

So, he behaved himself this month.

Until this month, the updates of Cao Sheng's two books became very unstable, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and sometimes one of the books was only updated with one chapter.

This gave him hope of taking down Cao Sheng.

Once the thought crossed my mind, I took action.

He used his fastest typing speed, updating 12,000 or 15,000 words a day, and occasionally even bursting up to 18,000 words.

For a moment, his typing speed shocked all the writers on Qidian.

Many people can only dream of it.

With his relentless efforts to update the novel, the monthly vote growth rate of "Mad God" is also astonishing, increasing by hundreds of votes per day.

He has already squeezed all the monthly tickets out of his fans.

But even after updating his work every day, he still posts a separate chapter asking for monthly votes.

In the separate chapter, he humbly referred to himself as "the mistress" and everyone as "brothers and sisters," playing the emotional card effectively!

Many young readers impulsively give him large sums of money as tips and use the monthly votes they receive to support him.

Therefore, he recently tasted the sweetness of updating frequently to ask for monthly votes.

Not only did the frequent updates generate a large number of new subscriptions, but the monthly tickets also saw a promising increase. The key point is that the more he asked for monthly tickets, the more readers donated and the more money he donated. He could generate hundreds of yuan in donations every day, and sometimes the donation amount could exceed one or two thousand yuan in a single day.

This……

This is the reason why monthly ticket wars frequently occur at the original starting point of the timeline.

Every time a monthly ticket war occurs, the two or three top authors who start the war not only see their works rank higher and higher on the overall monthly ticket chart, but more importantly, during the war, many readers will give large amounts of money to support the works by giving monthly tickets. According to Qidian's rules, a monthly ticket will be given as a reward if a certain amount is given in a single donation.

The number of monthly tickets on the monthly ticket ranking seems to be solely based on monthly tickets and has nothing to do with money.

However, many of these monthly passes come from large donations.

The number of monthly votes for "Mad God" is getting closer and closer to Cao Sheng's "Cultivation Chat Group", with the gap narrowing to less than 1000 votes.

In just a few days, his "Mad God" will surpass Cao Sheng's "Cultivation Chat Group," and before the end of the month, there is still a chance for it to surpass Cao Sheng's "National Martial Arts Romance" and top the Qidian monthly ticket ranking.

Seeing hope, the author has recently continued to grit his teeth and persevere in updating frequently.

They were determined to overturn Cao Sheng's two books and top the Qidian monthly ticket rankings.

He believes that when "Mad God" reaches its peak, the glory currently surrounding Cao Sheng will belong to him.

Throughout the industry, screenwriters, authors, and readers alike are astonished that Tang Jia San Shao... could blow up the Central Plains.

A speck of gray in the Central Plains...

The progenitor of online literature!

The legendary screenwriter with the highest screenwriting fees in the Chinese-language film and television industry.

The leading literary talent of the new generation in mainland China...

The creator and holder of the highest records for online novel physical book sales and subscriber numbers...

and many more.

It's practically a legend in the online literature world.

The existence that every ambitious writer dreams of surpassing.

If he, the Third Young Master, can be the first to break the myth of "One Gray in the Central Plains," he believes that for the next twenty years, everyone in the industry will remember him, the Third Young Master.

Therefore, his determination was unwavering.

Lately, I haven't had any entertainment activities. Besides eating, sleeping, and going to the toilet, all I do is write.

He wants to become the world's number one, just like the male protagonist in his novel!

The ambition to be subordinate to others seemed to be burning fiercely.

only……

why?
Why is it that on today's monthly ticket rankings, the total number of monthly tickets for "National Martial Arts Romance" and "Cultivation Chat Group" has widened the gap between my "Mad God" and "National Martial Arts Romance"?
Could it be that the updates to these two books yesterday and today were of the same quality and quantity as the previous two days?
Feeling depressed, the Third Young Master opened the pages of "Cultivation Chat Group" and then "Romance of Chinese Martial Arts," and soon discovered that both books had updated with two 4,000-word chapters each yesterday.

"A speck of ash in the Central Plains..."

The third young master frowned and softly recited the name.

He didn't expect that Zhongyuan Yidianhui only restored the daily update of 8,000 words for each book, and the total number of monthly votes for these two books would far surpass his "Mad God".

After three days, the gap in monthly votes between "Mad God" and "Cultivation Chat Group" has widened to more than 1,500 votes.

During those three days, his novel "Mad God" was updated with more than 15,000 words every day.

(End of this chapter)