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Chapter 97 Sales Break Million
Two days later.

The head of the marketing department of Huacheng Publishing House looked surprised when he answered a phone call, but when he hung up the phone, he looked excited.

He immediately left the office in a hurry and hurried to the general manager's office at a quick walk and trot.

"Dong dong!"

He knocked on the general manager's office door.

The voice of General Manager Xu Zhiwen came from inside, "Come in!"

He pushed the door open and reported to Xu Zhiwen, who was reviewing documents, with an excited look on his face, "Boss Xu! Good news! Great news! I just received news that the total sales of our book "Living with a Flight Attendant" has officially exceeded one million copies today! One million! This is a remarkable achievement. This sales volume, this sales volume is simply amazing!"

Xu Zhiwen stopped writing, frowned and looked up at the person in charge with an unhappy expression, "Watch your wording! If you are awesome, then it's awesome, don't add random words! Do you still have the quality?"

Before the other party could reply, Xu Zhiwen smiled and asked, "Has the number of copies really exceeded one million?"

The head of the marketing department nodded repeatedly, "Yes! Really! It really has exceeded one million copies!"

Then, he asked tentatively: "Mr. Xu, with such good sales, should we tell the media we are familiar with? Ask them to help us promote it?"

Xu Zhiwen's eyes turned strange. "Do I even need to ask this? With such good sales, of course we need to let the media report it! It can not only promote our publishing house and prove our ability to the outside world, but also use this news to further stimulate the sales of this book. It's a good thing that kills two birds with one stone, so of course we need to promote it!"

The head of the marketing department smiled and said, "Mr. Xu, I thought so too. It's just that Zhongyuan Yidianhui didn't agree to our commission last time. I was afraid that you might have a problem with him and don't want to promote his work!"

Xu Zhiwen laughed and waved his hands, "Two different things! Do you think I am so petty? Besides, when our publishing house faces new writers, we have the initiative in our hands. But when facing a well-known writer like Zhongyuan Yidianhui, we are actually no different from men chasing after beautiful women. We need to work hard and try to please them in every way. In the end, we may be able to win the other party's heart with our strength and sincerity!"
Now the initiative is in the hands of the other party. If we get angry with him and give him a cold shoulder, it means we are completely out of the game and there will be no possibility of cooperation in the future. Do you understand?"

The head of the marketing department nodded repeatedly, "Mr. Xu, that's a good idea!"

Xu Zhiwen laughed, "Okay, I know about this. I'll call Lao Wang from the publicity department right away. Lao Wang will be in charge of the follow-up publicity. You don't have to worry about it!"

Head of the Marketing Department: "Okay, Mr. Xu!"

……

People across the country have just celebrated the New Year and Lantern Festival, and are still immersed in the afterglow of the festive atmosphere.

Dozens of domestic media outlets began reporting that the total sales of "Living with the Air Hostess" had exceeded one million.

The two names "A Little Gray in the Central Plains" and "Cao Sheng" also caught the eyes of countless people.

Lao Zhang is a security guard, and the unit’s newspapers are delivered to his security office every day first.

Gradually, he developed the habit of reading newspapers.

It's free anyway, you might as well watch it.

As a result, for more than half a month, he saw "The Days of Living with the Air Hostess" and the pen name Zhongyuan Yidianhui in different newspapers almost every day, and occasionally he could see the name "Cao Sheng".

When he saw the news in the newspaper on the first day, he didn't pay much attention to it.

When he saw the same news in several newspapers the next day, he sighed, "Newspapers nowadays are really messy. A novel written by a young man who is less than 20 years old is exaggerated like this, and he is not afraid of blowing his own trumpet!" On the third and fourth days, when he saw the same news in newspapers such as Ta Kung Pao, Beijing Daily and Guangming Daily, Lao Zhang could not believe his eyes.

A newspaper of this level also reported this?
Could it be that the novel written by that young man is really that great?
Living with a flight attendant...

Is cohabitation not illegal now? Can it be written into a book and sold like hot cakes? Which flight attendant is so indecent? Can she still get married after this?
After seeing this report in different newspapers every day for more than half a month, Lao Zhang became numb.

Only occasionally when I see this news, I sigh, "Young people nowadays are really amazing. They have achieved such great results at such a young age. It's really a blessing for our ancestors..."

After more than half a month of continuous reporting, "Living with a Flight Attendant" has once again become popular across the country.

It also made the name Zhongyuan Yidianhui known to countless people.

Under the influence of the media's enthusiastic coverage, Zhongyuan Yidianhui has become the number one young writer in China.

The news headlines are one more exaggerated than the other.

For example: "The biggest surprise in the Chinese literary world at the end of the 20th century!"

“Living with a Stewardess is the best of the bunch!”

"His debut was his peak, and the sales of his first book exceeded one million copies!"

"If you haven't watched "Living with a Stewardess", you're out!"

"A little bit of gray in the Central Plains, a new standard-bearer in the literary world!"

"With sales exceeding one million, a bright new star is rising in the literary world!"

……

As Huacheng Publishing House had expected, the sales of "Living with a Flight Attendant" hit a new high under the stimulation of these news.

At one point, domestic publishers, both large and small, came to Cao Sheng to ask him to write for them again, with each one offering a higher price than the last.

However, it stimulated a group of traditional writers and professors to speak out in the media, criticizing and condemning "Living with the Air Hostess" and Zhongyuan Yidianhui.

Criticisms of all kinds are rampant.

A traditional writer said: "College students nowadays are too shameless. At such a young age, they don't study hard in college and actually live with a flight attendant. Living together is fine, but they even write such a thing into a novel. It's really a decline of morals. When we were in college, we all studied hard!"

Another traditional writer said: "I read this book twice and couldn't read any more! The writing is too plain! There is absolutely no beauty in the writing. Moreover, the opening chapter is about two young people in their prime not working hard or studying seriously, but drinking and flirting in a bar. This attitude towards life is too negative and we should criticize it!"

A university professor said: "The social atmosphere needs to be maintained by each of us! When young people with some talent write things to prove their value, they should also pay attention to whether their works will undermine our social atmosphere. They should be positive, healthy and positive! Instead of relying on their talent to write novels about living with flight attendants, this is very vulgar! They are selling vulgarity to the masses with low cultural level! Making dirty money!"

A part-time writing professor said: "I am very sad! Many of our veteran writers have to pay for the publication of their carefully selected topics and painstakingly created works. After publication, the publishers do not promote them well, and they simply cannot be sold. However, some young people's vulgar novels with no nutritional value are so popular. The publishers also promote them vigorously, and the media have no moral integrity and blindly praise them, praising a love novel with no artistic or educational value to such a high level.

Is this a good thing?
If this continues, it will cause the phenomenon of bad money driving out good money! It will also mislead many of our young readers. I don’t think it’s a good thing for Cao Sheng, who wrote this novel! He is so young, and he has become famous and made a lot of money so early. Can he grasp it? Maybe he was just fantasizing about living with the stewardess, but now that he is famous and rich, he might really live with the stewardess! This will ruin him! "

(End of this chapter)