Chapter 114 Conversation, Special Admissions, and the Girl’s New Memories

"Liu Li Book Club?"

Xia Yan was stunned when he heard this.

The seven giant light novel companies in the Dragon Kingdom are "Liu Li Bookstore", "Qingze Bookstore", and "Star Novel". Nanyue Literature", "Lingming Library", "Xuanzhou Library", "Poyue Novel" and other seven companies.

Among them, the first three sales channels cover all counties and cities in Longguo, and the last four can only be said to have room for improvement. Their respective sales channels cover seven or eight provinces.

There is an obvious pattern of three strong and four weak.

Among them, among the seven giant bookstores in the Dragon Kingdom, there are two in the Magic City area, namely "Qingze Bookstore" and "Liuli Bookstore".

The other five are all in the Imperial Capital area.

Just like Kang Ning, who once made an appearance at the Nancheng Comic Exhibition, he is a new light novel talent cultivated by Qingze Library in the past two years. Of course, Corning's rise is also related to his father who is the editor-in-chief of Qingze Library.

And Chu Li, who ranked third in the New God Ascension novel selection, is a newcomer trained by the Starry Sky novel in the imperial capital.

As for second place Jiang Jing

He is the top newcomer to the light novel industry that Liuli Book Club has cultivated in the past two years.

If not for Xia Yan's sudden rise, Jiang Jing is basically certain that she will win the first place in the New God Ascension light novel, and her reputation as the strongest newcomer in the Dragon Kingdom light novel industry in the past two years will be very stable.

Xia Yan opened the door. Outside the door was a woman of about thirty years old with a pretty face and capable appearance. Next to the woman, there was a freshly graduated assistant boy with a delicate face and a bit thin.

"Hello, I am Meng Lin from Liuli Book Club, and this is my assistant, Li Ke."

When the woman saw Xia Yan opening the door, a bright smile appeared on her face.

"Hello." Xia Yan hesitated and let the two of them enter the room.

Meng Lin looked at the three-bedroom apartment where Xia Yan lived. Although the decoration was average and the space was not large, it was decent, clean and simple. Although he lived alone, the house didn't smell like bags of takeaway boxes piled up, so he nodded slightly.

This was a much better environment than the one she saw when she poached a male novelist from Shanghai University.

You can imagine that in a four-person dormitory for male college students, the garbage piled up could be as high as her waist. The smell was something she would never forget.

Xia Yan poured tea for the two of them, and then waited for them to speak.

In fact, it is self-evident that these two people came to the door.

The two of them also knew that Xia Yan could definitely guess their intentions, but neither one wanted to take the initiative to speak.

The atmosphere was silent for half a minute. When Meng Lin saw Xia Yan looking at her without saying a word, she finally felt a little embarrassed to continue like this and took the initiative to speak.

"Teacher Xia Yan, you are in good health recently."

"It's okay." Xia Yan said.

"My waist doesn't hurt, my legs don't feel sore, and I don't need to take calcium tablets. After all, I'm just a seventeen-year-old young man."

"Haha, Teacher Xia Yan was joking." Meng Lin's smile faded, and then her eyes became serious.

"I heard that Teacher Xia Yan doesn't seem to have signed a long-term contract with any book club now, right?"

Xia Yan paused and nodded slightly.

"That's right."

"Teacher Xia Yan, have you ever thought about leaving Nan Province, leaving a small light novel company like Hongfeng Literature, and going to a broader platform?" Meng Lin spoke slowly and revealed her intention.

"Well, I actually feel very comfortable at Hongfeng Literature. The people there are very amiable and treat me well. Xia Yan did not answer this question directly.

"However, if you go to higher places, I am not saying that Hongfeng Literature has any management or operational problems, but that it is too small. Hongfeng Literature and Southern Province are not enough for you to show your strength."

In fact, both of them were talking politely. Of course Xia Yan was interested in Liuli Publishing House's olive branch, but if he acted too eagerly, it would be difficult to negotiate terms.

Besides, among the seven most powerful book clubs in the Dragon Kingdom,

Liuli's family may not be the only ones looking for him.

At this time, Meng Lin's assistant Li Ke, at her request, quickly handed over a letter of intent for cooperation to Xia Yan for viewing.

Signed authors in large light novel organizations like Seven Books, in addition to writing novels on weekdays, also have various activities such as book signings, fan meetings, and variety shows on various TV stations.

In Dragon Kingdom, light novel writers actually have the same popularity and commercial value as celebrities, but their status is much higher.

After all, although they are novel writers, they are also a branch of literati. Even if they have the same popularity and popularity, novel writers must have a higher status than celebrities.

Therefore, for novel writers like Xia Yan who clearly have great potential, these book clubs will arrange for a life and business agent to handle various matters for the novel writer.

For example, like the award ceremony for the New God's Ascension, Jiang Jing only had to follow the arrangements and eat and sleep at the same time. Xia Yan had to make arrangements and plan the itinerary by himself. Even if one thing was handled like this, if more than a dozen things were all backlogged Come here, without the help of an agent, Xia Yan would spend all his time dealing with trivial matters and never think about having time to write a novel.

The content of this contract letter of intent basically consists of a few points.

First, sign the contract for ten years.

Second, Xia Yan will be assigned one of the best managers in the industry to train him as a new star with the most potential.

Third, for new novels, the book society will give them top-level specifications for promotion. Once Xia Yan’s subsequent novels achieve unexpected results, the specifications will also increase. It will not be just because Xia Yan has signed a contract with the book club for ten years. Even if Xia Yan is already famous as a top novelist in the industry, and he uses the contract to disgust him and gives him an extremely low remuneration, he will still be given an increase to a certain extent.

Xia Yan watched quietly without saying a word.

At Meng Lin's signal, assistant Li Ke spoke.

"Actually, the seven major book clubs in the Dragon Kingdom have their own set of training standards. These standards are very similar."

"That's right, even if there are book clubs other than ours that you have contact with Mr. Yuanqing, such as Xingkong and Qingze. But Mr. Yuanqing is not my slanderous colleague. Xingkong Novel and Qingze Library, although their strength is compared to our Liuli Book Club It’s a little stronger, but the internal relationship between the two families is complicated and nepotism is serious.”

Meng Lin stopped talking, but if Xia Yan was a smart person, he should know.

A capable person will not be afraid of challenges, but if you enter an environment with serious nepotism and you have no background, then you have to be a dragon.

The person who participated in Qingze Library’s New God Ascension event this time was Kang Ning. His father was the editor-in-chief of the library. As for Chu Li, the novelist who launched Starry Sky Novel, her mother was a medium-sized shareholder of Starry Sky Novel and Bookstore.

"The resources of any company are limited. Teacher Yuanqing, in our Liuli Book Club, you only need to show your strength to get matching resources, but in other places, this may not be the case."

Meng Lin said a lot of things in succession.

Xia Yan was still studying the letter of intent for cooperation carefully.

"Well, I'm a newcomer in the novel world." Xia Yan said suddenly.

"I don't understand a lot of things. But I think your company will not cheat a young writer like me. I believe that the letter of intent given by your company should be a high-quality offer based on market conditions."

Hearing this, Meng Lin smiled and nodded slightly. This is a smart person. He is not suspicious, unlike some people who watch too much TV and always feel that the book society is cheating them. Just kidding, if a company only relies on cheating people , can it achieve a market value of tens of billions and be ranked among the top three of the seven major book houses in the Dragon Kingdom?

"But..." Xia Yan's change of tone came out.

"I have to think about it for a while before I can reply to Liuli Publishing House. And even if I think it over clearly, there is one condition in this letter of intent for cooperation that I cannot accept." Xia Yan looked at Meng Lin.

"This signing period, ten years, is too long."

"Oh, ten years is too long?" Meng Lin narrowed her eyes.

"Then how long does Mr. Yuanqing think is appropriate?"

"Eight years, nine years?"

"No, I like freedom." Xia Yan shook his head.

"I don't want to sign a long-term contract. Just a normal book and a one-time contract will be fine."

"Don't want to sign a long-term contract?" Meng Lin smiled with Xia Yan's childish expression on her face.

"But if you are unwilling to sign a long-term contract, how can you get strong training from the book club?"

A long-term contract is equivalent to preparation. The longer the period of signing a long-term contract, the higher the book club’s recognition of you.

Just like the employees in the Longguo Agency, will the treatment and attention given to a person be the same whether he is a staff member who has passed the entrance examination or a contract temporary worker who can run at any time? Without that organization, even if your ability is ten times stronger than that of regular employees, you will have no chance to develop upwards.

Of course, private book companies are not so extreme. Authors who have not signed a long-term contract want to win in the competition for resources.

Then you have to show enough strength.

You have to make the book club feel that the benefits you bring to the book club with just one novel are higher than the total benefits that an average novel author who signed a ten-year contract will bring to the book club in the next few years. In terms of resources, the book club will still favor you. Otherwise, people will definitely choose to train their own people.

One person is temporarily not capable enough, but with the restriction of a long-term contract, others will not run away! You won’t cultivate a famous writer and then he will immediately change jobs and run away. Loyalty also determines the direction of the book club's operations to a large extent.

"Actually, I think, Teacher Yuanqing, you need to wake up a little bit." Meng Lin put away her smile.

"I believe that Teacher Yuanqing does have great potential, but you have to unleash this potential and turn it into actual strength before you can negotiate terms with the book club."

Xia Yan frowned when he heard this.

Of course he knows that he is just a new light novel writer, although he is currently the first among the new light novel writers in the past two years.

But Long Guo has accumulated a profound foundation over the past few decades, and many big-name figures in the novel world are still active in the market. It is natural for those people to negotiate terms with a book club like Liuli.

But for a new novelist like him, he is still not qualified to negotiate terms.

But this is someone else.

Xia Yan knew very well that he had a huge treasure house, but how many years had he only lived?

Ten years from his teens to his retirement in his 60s or 70s was almost one-fifth or sixty-sixths of his professional life.

It would be too wasteful to waste it on a long-term contract for a newcomer in a book club.

And the most important thing is that these long-term contracts with book clubs have a restriction. All literary works created during the contract period must be given priority to the book club for review. If the book club does not accept them, they can be submitted to other companies.

Specifically, if Xia Yan signs a contract with Liuli, and he wants to write an animation script in the future, Liuli must not like the script and think it cannot be adapted into a novel version, then Xia Yan can submit it to the animation company.

This includes Xia Yan opening an animation company to make original animations, which is not allowed.

This restriction lasts for ten years, and Xia Yan cannot allow it. The works he can receive from Yuan Qing's memory are not necessarily all suitable for adaptation into light novels.

For example, Dragon Ball and Slam Dunk, without the blessing of pictures, are always too dry to be described by words alone. The ten-point plot appeal may only be adapted into a novel.

It's just that although Meng Lin's words are more direct, they are also true. She is not unable to accept Xia Yan's cooperation method of not signing a long-term contract, but in this case, the importance rating of Xia Yan given by the book company will drop too much.

What's the use of having creative strength without the blessing of resources? Analogously, among the stars in the entertainment industry, how many people can become popular only by acting skills, not by capital?

It's not that there are none, but the probability will be much lower.

"Well, this is a hard condition for me to cooperate with any book club. I know that doing so is not good for my career development, but..." Xia Yan gave Meng Lin an apologetic smile.

Meng Lin nodded slightly after hearing this.

"Then, I still hope that Mr. Yuanqing will consider it more. Ten years is not a long time for you, Mr. Yuanqing, who is 17 years old. If you feel that you have enough strength, when you are 27 years old, you will definitely be qualified to negotiate conditions."

After saying that, Meng Lin stood up, nodded to Xia Yan, and left after a few pleasantries.

Anyway, she came with sincerity, and whether the matter would succeed or not depended on Xia Yan.

She would find it difficult to accept the cooperation method without signing a long-term contract.

A potential author may not be able to become a top light novel writer in the end even if he has the top resources, not to mention that Xia Yan made such a proposal?

Creative ability and resource platform blessing are the two most critical conditions for a novelist to become famous.

If Xia Yan wants to become famous easily when he has shortcomings in one aspect, then he treats other competitors as trash.

In the next few days, as Xia Yan predicted, Xingkong, Qingze and several other large book clubs sent people to contact Xia Yan one after another, but they all frowned when they heard that Xia Yan did not want to sign a long-term contract.

Once this cooperation intention is reached, even if Xia Yan joins their book club, there will be many restrictions on his development. What is the point of recruiting Xia Yan?

The number of competitive places is limited. Instead of putting his limited connections as an agent on Xia Yan, it is better to find other novelists who are more valuable in comprehensive consideration to cultivate.

Under such circumstances.

On the eve of the college entrance examination, Xia Yan received an unexpected surprise.

Modu University actually sent someone to his home to discuss with him the special enrollment quota.

Just like if a student wins the gold medal or first prize in the Dragon Country in physics, mathematics, art, piano and other competitions, even if the student is biased in the subject, he will get the special enrollment quota for such a prestigious school.

The purpose of others coming here is very simple. If Xia Yan agrees to study in the literature department of their university, and agrees to use his fame and popularity as a light novel writer to a certain extent after admission, and to promote his university study to a certain extent, then their admission score requirements for Xia Yan will be greatly reduced.

After all, the new light novel writer who ranked first in the New God Ascension can be said to be the top newcomer in the novel industry in the past two years. It doesn’t matter what industry or subject competition it is. The important thing is that he is a high school student who can get top scores in this classification competition.

Xia Yan fully meets the qualifications for special recruitment.

For this situation

Xia Yan was stunned for a moment, how could he not agree?

After casually looking at the special recruitment documents and thinking about it for only one night, he signed his name directly.

He is alone now, and he doesn’t need to discuss things with anyone, so he is also very straightforward.

Anyway, admission based on scores is admission, and admission based on special skills is also admission.

For a light novel writer, does it matter what major you study? What matters is the school you attend.

When the life resume comes out.

Whether Yuan Qing is studying at Magic City University or Magic City Vocational and Technical College, the feeling is completely different.

"So according to the contract, I only need to get a total score of 440 in the college entrance examination to study at Magic City University, which had an average admission score of 662 points in the college entrance examination last year?"

Once the cooperation intention was confirmed.

Most of Xia Yan's gloom for a month disappeared.

He also knew that his request to not sign a long-term contract with other book clubs was a bit too much, but in the eyes of others, he was too arrogant.

But Xia Yan is not arrogant. He is really confident that he can make a name for himself in the entire Dragon Country novel industry with only the general-level resources of the cooperative book club, rather than the recommendation of top-level resources. But others questioned this, and Xia Yan had no choice. Otherwise, Xia Yan would have to submit any works he had in the future to these book clubs, and he would have no freedom at all.

At the end of May, the organizer of the New God's Ascension and Xia Yan's intention to sell the single volume came out.

The time was set at the beginning of July. The single volume of the top ten works in the New God's Ascension journal was agreed to be sold.

Four companies have started to contact Xia Yan about cooperation in the adaptation of animation and film about going to the moon.

This includes Tang Yin's father's "Tangren Pictures".

In early June.

One day before the college entrance examination, under the pressure of the college entrance examination, Xia Yan once again entered Yuan Qing's memory.

This night.

Under the pressure of the college entrance examination.

In this dream, Xia Yan once again had some useful memories.

That night.

Yuan Qing stayed up late. She followed her friend's advice. Since she was tortured by "To the Moon" and "Finding Paradise".

She had to watch some cool battle comics and cute anime to adjust her body and mind.

The works recommended to her by Yuan Qing's friend were.

"Parasyte", one of the three major food anime.

And the anime "Magical Girl Madoka Magica", which sounds very happy and cute.

Well, it doesn't seem good to always do some unpopular works, but I think there are not many negative reviews for "To the Moon", and perhaps many readers think this kind of unpopular works is okay.

But the author considers that most readers don't read much, and will continue to write unpopular works later, but interspersed.

So I originally wanted to write "Finding Paradise", "Brave Heart: World War", "I'll Wait for You in Seven Years!" These game works are just, how to say, interspersed later, and writing unpopular works continuously may not have been seen by many readers, and the sense of substitution is not strong.

The next two works will be Parasyte and Madoka Magica for now, and then I will write about popular works and what I think are unpopular but good works alternately.

I hope you don’t find it abrupt.

By the way, I have one more question, Madoka Magica and Parasyte, they should not be unpopular, right?

I think they are not unpopular, but if you really haven’t read them.

Emmm, that’s okay. Just like To the Moon, many people haven’t read it, but I see that the follow-up readings have not dropped. It means that even if they haven’t read it, there are still many people who can read it and subscribe.

This chapter is not divided into chapters, and there will be another chapter later, but I don’t know when it will be released.

You can read it tomorrow.