I am a Big Player-Chapter 53 - . Zhou Wumeng personally rushed to Luo City to
Chapter 53: 53. Zhou Wumeng personally rushed to Luo City to urge for an update_1
Chapter 53: 53. Zhou Wumeng personally rushed to Luo City to urge for an update_1
By the time Ren He found out that Kunlun had already been published in the Capital Daily, it was already that afternoon, and Zhou Wumeng was on the phone urging him to churn out more chapters…
Ren He suddenly felt a bit pained, finding it rather awkward to be pressured by readers over the phone to produce more work.
On the phone, Zhou Wumeng said, “I plan to make your novel a weekly serialization, so you must submit a 20,000-word manuscript to me by every Friday.”
Did you even discuss this with me before deciding on a weekly serialization? I’m already working on another one, for goodness’ sake, Ren He negotiated, “Can’t we do a bimonthly serialization?”
If it were to be serialized weekly, it would mean that every month, there’s a fixed task of either four or five installments. And for blockbuster novels like Divine Punishment System, it’s all about the update volume, and he sometimes explodes with releases. Since the last explosion, he had only just barely saved up over twenty chapters, and as the month-end manuscript payment was about to be distributed, the battle for next month’s monthly tickets was looming. When Dongfang Mobai gave him a good recommendation slot, he would definitely need to have another burst release.
That group of wealthy fans with their knives ready, you never know how long they have been waiting to start butchering. At such times, you can’t be timid, for timidity equates to losing money…
“No way,” Zhou Wumeng rejected mercilessly, “Still based on the royalties of Three Character Classic, we in the Capital Journalism Group have bought it. Moreover, every time you serialize, we’ll give you the highest-level manuscript fee treatment. Basically, for every 20,000 words serialized, your income is more than 30,000 yuan. Are you going to turn your back on money?”
With money at stake on both ends, and considering that Kunlun might obtain the full copyright operation even sooner, and judging from the royalties earned from Three Character Classic, how could Kunlun not multiply several times over? Thus, Ren He caved in, “Alright, let’s do it your way.”
It’s just spending a bit more time on writing every day, no big deal, right?
This time, the public opinion of Kunlun differed from that of Divine Punishment System. The literary criticism of Divine Punishment System was unanimously: simple, trashy, utterly devoid of substance.
However, Kunlun received unanimously favorable reviews. Thoughts were wild and imaginative, the prose powerful and grand!
If the outside world knew that these two books came from the same author’s hand, one wonders what they would think. Moreover, this release of Kunlun still kept the pen name undisclosed, it has to be said that Zhou Wumeng had done quite a good job in protecting Ren He.
And he also had his own selfish reasons. Since Ren He did not want to reveal his identity, Zhou would naturally make the most of the situation and keep it under wraps, lest other media groups go looking for Ren He, which would be a loss for the Capital Journalism Group.
Just considering Ren He’s ability to triple sales and turn mediocrity into brilliance, this was a talent they could not afford to miss.
The following day, countless people queued up to buy the Capital Daily. The first batch of newspapers was snatched up the moment they hit the stands. When had China’s cultural field ever seen such a scenario? The storyline was too compelling, and just yesterday, it hit a tantalizing climax that had everyone on edge!
But the moment they saw the newspaper, they were stunned: New song release by Jiang Siyao, Jiang Siyao and Jiang Chen meet, and it seems old flames are rekindling!
Plastered across the newspaper was a photo of Jiang Siyao and Jiang Chen snapped together having a meal, a shocking piece of news!
However… everyone was confused: “Where’s Kunlun? Are you kidding me?”
“Where’s our Kunlun?”
“Boss, did you sell the wrong newspaper? We want to see the Capital Daily!”
The vendor replied with a pained expression, “That is the Capital Daily. I wanted to read the serialization too, look under the entertainment section, there’s a line of small print!”
“What does it say?” Everyone looked down and saw, printed at the very bottom of the entertainment page, the words: “Kunlun serialized every Saturday!”
“Holy shit, Saturday, that’s a week away, how am I supposed to survive this week?”
“No way, I’m going to call 110 and complain about the Capital Journalism Group!”
On this day, the officers at 110 could only smile wryly; they actually received numerous calls complaining that the Capital Journalism Group had stopped serializing Kunlun!
“I want to read it too, but who do I complain to?” an officer at 110 muttered under his breath.
Kunlun had become so popular, much faster than Ren He had anticipated. It wasn’t just because of the large readership of the Capital Daily; the entire Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei area was hooked as well.
By then, even people in far-off places had heard that there was a martial arts novel called Kunlun that was a great read. But because of copyright protection, they couldn’t get their hands on it since it wasn’t distributed outside the region!
At this point, some risk-takers started to print and sell pirated copies of Kunlun, but the Intellectual Property Office promptly teamed up with the police for a joint operation and arrested everyone involved in the production and sale of pirated copies on the same day.
Due to the cultural deficit, the criminal law regarding intellectual property was severe—perhaps the notion was, the more you lack something, the more you care about it, and this was reflected in the heavy sentencing!
That’s why in this parallel world, the protection of intellectual property was taken extremely seriously, with sentences starting at three years and no upper limit!
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Therefore, Zhou Wumeng decided to urgently publish a single-volume edition of Kunlun! To do this, one needed to go to Luo City to get Ren He’s written authorization, but this time Zhou Wumeng didn’t need to go personally; any staff member would do as the terms had already been agreed upon.
However, Zhou Wumeng insisted on going himself, which baffled everyone. Why would the chief editor of the Capital Journalism Group bother with such a trivial task?
Only Zhou Wumeng knew the real reason: he wanted to check whether that kid Ren He had been making private copies of the manuscript…
Meanwhile, Ren He had no idea that it would be Zhou Wumeng himself coming to Luo City to press for more chapters. He thought a phone call would be enough to rush things along. He was still too naive…
That night, Ren He lay in bed, holding his head as he pondered. He had to get busy; tomorrow, he would write the fifth song for Yang Xi. When chasing a girl, strike while the iron is hot!
But what should the fifth song be? Truth be told, there weren’t many songs that suited Yang Xi’s temperament. One could say her musical range was quite narrow. Having her sing dance songs would be tacky, and if she were to sing rock, Ren He couldn’t bear to watch…
Got it—the fifth song would be Prague Square by Jolin Tsai!
This song was written by Jay Chou for Jolin Tsai in his previous life. Indeed, when Ren He would listen to Jolin Tsai’s songs, it was mostly Jay Chou’s compositions. Undoubtedly, Prague Square was a classic, mainly because its melody was incredibly catchy!
No sooner had the idea come to him than he sat up in bed, pulled out some stationery, and began writing the lyrics and music for Prague Square. He finished it quickly!
“Mission: Complete a 5000-meter run within 14 minutes, deadline one week.”
Damn, just after finishing 1000 meters, now a 5000-meter run? Let me calculate, how many laps around the track is that?
Fuck, 20 laps! And they set a time limit of 14 minutes. What was the world record for 5000 meters again, something like 12 minutes and 37 seconds?
Luckily, now that Ren He had supercharged memory, recalling any previous or scanned material became easy, and his 14-minute limit seemed to be the Divine Punishment System showing mercy.
To be honest, his 5.23 physical fitness score truly surpassed that of a normal adult. But world records are meant to be achieved by extraordinary people, not the average person.
If you ask an ordinary person to run 5000 meters, just finishing the distance would be a challenge.
Fortunately, Ren He managed to complete it, thanks to his youthful age and lighter weight!
