Back to 1997, I became the originator of online literature

Chapter 62 Guo Xiaosi and Han Er take them as role models

Although Cao Sheng suspected that his price was too low, he did not become greedy and raise the price arbitrarily.

He did see the sincerity of Xinchang Publishing House.

Regardless of whether his price was lower or not, according to common sense, if he asked for 10,000, the other party should have bargained instead of agreeing out of hand.

He felt that this was the sincerity of Xinchang Publishing House.

I thought to myself: No wonder most of the works of online literary masters in the original time and space were published by this publishing house. The royalties are quite generous.

This reminded him of Qidian Chinese website in the original time and space.

Qidian.com is the first website to launch a VIP subscription system.

But after that, websites launched challenges to Qidian one after another, and many websites in the industry wanted to dethrone Qidian from its dominant position and replace it.

But without exception, all ended in failure.

What is the reason?

Many people have analyzed many reasons, but Cao Sheng has always felt that paying royalties promptly and fairly is a very important reason.

He has been writing for Qidian for many years and has never seen Qidian default on paying authors' royalties, nor has he ever heard of Qidian withholding royalties from anyone.

Not only will they not delay payment, but Qidian will also pay the royalties in advance during holidays.

He remembered that Qidian.com once miscalculated the royalties for all authors, giving more than 10 million yuan too much. If it were another website, it would most likely have to recover this part of the royalties.

However, Qidian generously announced that the overpaid royalties would be regarded as holiday benefits for everyone and would not be recovered.

The money is distributed among a group of authors, and each person actually does not get much.

But for Qidian, that’s more than 10 million.

In comparison, what about other websites in the industry?

Some secretly modify the author's royalties.

Some are in arrears with their royalties.

Some would announce that certain books were suspected of plagiarism when the royalties were about to be paid each month, and deduct all the royalties for that month.

There are even penalties that require authors to return the royalties they received.

Wait, all kinds of cool operations.

They simply treated the author as a piece of fish on a chopping board, chopping it up however they wanted, without caring about the manners of eating.
With this kind of stuff, how can they win the hearts of most authors?
How is it possible to overturn the starting point?
……

Cao Sheng didn't say anything else and happily signed the "I Want to Become an Immortal 2" agreement with Xinchang.

the same day.

In Zigong, Sichuan, Guo Xiaosi, who had just entered high school, went to a Xinhua Bookstore just after the school started and before the classes officially started.

Standing on tiptoe, he took down a book called "Living with a Flight Attendant" from the bookshelf, and then happily went to the checkout counter to pay.

He has been trying to write since elementary school, and this summer he heard that a book titled "Living with a Flight Attendant" was published this year and is very popular.

He had wanted to buy it a long time ago.

Last year he published a poem called "Loneliness" in a magazine.

He earned 10 yuan in royalties and a sample issue from the magazine.

He was so excited at the time that he wanted to earn more royalties.

After that, he did publish some articles one after another.

He also participated in the National Middle School Students' Essay Competition.

But, I didn’t make much money in total.

But he really wanted to make a lot of money.

So, he began to pay attention to the popular works on the market, and he wanted to learn and imitate them.

"Living with a Flight Attendant" came into his view, and he wanted to learn from the success of this book.

That afternoon, Guo Xiaosi, who had bought the book, came to a park, sat in the pavilion, and flipped through the pages one by one, with a look of surprise on his face for a long time.

This book made him feel the gap.

He recently heard that the author of this book, Zhongyuan Yidianhui, is only 18 years old, only three years older than him.

But he was surprised by the writing style, character portrayal, plot arrangement, etc. of "Living with a Flight Attendant".

This is not the level he can reach at the moment.

Surprised, he looked even more attentively.

Cao Sheng always felt that his writing skills were just average.

But those whom he compared himself with were always the great masters who were at their peak in the original time and space, those great masters who were famous for their excellent writing skills.

He felt that he had entered the industry at about the same time as those great writers, so he should compare himself with them. Compared with those great writers, he naturally felt that his writing was very average.

Nothing special about it.

But in fact?
He has been in the industry for more than ten years and has written more than ten million words.

His writing style, which he considered to be ordinary, has been able to amaze many people since 98.

……

It is no coincidence.

Guo Xiaosi's destined rival Han Er, who has just been admitted to high school, has also been watching "Living with the Air Hostess" recently.

He lives in Shanghai and bought this book early this summer.

Just when Guo Xiaosi bought the book "Living with the Air Hostess", Han Er had already dug out the outline of the book at home.

Yes, he had finished reading this book a long time ago.

I was not satisfied after reading it, so I dug out the outline of the book bit by bit.

This was one way he learned the book.

When turning the pages one by one, it is always easy to read the latter part and forget the previous plot, and it is easy to be blinded by one thing.

It was not until he looked at the outline he had written himself that the structure of the entire story suddenly became clear to him.

His eyes lit up.

I feel like I have seen the essence of this book.

He also likes writing.

Like Guo Xiaosi, he also started publishing his works in publications last year, such as "Career Mode" which he published in "Youth Literature and Art" last year.

He is one year older than Guo Xiaosi and only two years younger than Cao Sheng.

He is 16 this year.
This summer, he learned from the radio and newspapers that an 18-year-old named Zhongyuan Yidianhui had published a book, "The Days of Living with a Flight Attendant," and was coming to Shanghai for a book signing event. He was immediately attracted to the book.

He felt that he and Zhongyuan Yidianhui were about the same age, so they were considered to be of the same age.

He is very confident in his writing ability.

I want to see how Zhongyuan Xiaohui can be so much more successful than me?

With this in mind, he bought "Living with the Air Hostess" as soon as possible.

result?

He became discouraged before he finished reading the first chapter.

Compared with Zhongyuan Yidianhui's writing style and plot, he felt that his own writing style was still immature and the gap was too big.

but……

He quickly adjusted his mood and continued to watch the rest of the story.

After reading the whole book, he was depressed for several days.

It was because of the tiny gap between himself and the Central Plains.

It’s also because Ran Jing died in the book.

Ran Jing's death broke his heart, as if his lover had also died.

However, after he recovered, he suddenly had an idea and began to work out the outline of the book.

Having grown up in a city like Shanghai, he has seen many celebrities and wealthy people, and he has long hoped that one day he would also be able to gain both fame and fortune.

Therefore, he is very interested in Zhongyuan Yidianhui, who became famous at a young age, and the book "Living with the Flight Attendant".

Take him as your role model and goal to catch up with.

……

Cao Sheng, who stirred up the hearts of countless people, was completely unaware of the impact his two works had on others.

He went back to school.

The new semester has officially begun.

But just a few days after school started, counselor Lu Xiangwei came to the classroom and announced: this year's freshmen were about to enroll, and as seniors, they would help welcome the freshmen at the beginning of the school year and assist the department with some reception work.

When Lu Xiangwei announced this on the stage.

Sitting by the window in the back row of the classroom, Cao Sheng had a complicated expression.

Because in the original time and space, he met the girl during the freshman orientation. She was the junior schoolmate who confessed to him on that moonlit night and started his first love.

She said she would never leave him, but after graduation, she called him and cried to break up with him.

(End of this chapter)