I am a Big Player-Chapter 59 - Royalty payment received_1
Chapter 59: 59, Royalty payment received!_1
Chapter 59: 59, Royalty payment received!_1
During this period, the Divine Punishment System also quieted down a bit, probably because it knew that Ren He simply had too much on his plate to handle it all, so it didn’t cause any additional trouble for him. Ren He was increasingly convinced that the Divine Punishment System very likely possessed autonomous thought.
He calculated the time and realized that it was probably after the end-of-term exams when the monthly manuscript fee for the miraculous book, the final payment for Kunlun, and the royalty for the Three Character Classic would all be settled at once. By then, he would have plenty of time to deal with these matters.
Earning money was not easy. After others traveled to another world, they would have all sorts of golden fingers; however, he, unfortunately, got entangled with the Divine Punishment System. Where the heck could he even begin to complain?!
What a trap!
Fortunately, there was one thing… no more class teachers like Li Luobo popped up to go against him. And Liu Yinghai had been going to White Horse Temple to perform rituals, claiming that he had to do it for seventy times seven days. His family even spent tens of thousands to get a Buddha statue that had been consecrated…
Ren He didn’t feel guilty at all. He wouldn’t have any sympathy even if a person like Li Luobo went completely mad, and teaching a lesson to a young master like Liu Yinghai might help him grow healthily under the halo of socialism, preventing him from always causing a ruckus, right?
In the meantime, Kunlun was being printed as single volumes every 160,000 words or so. According to the plan, the entire 950,000 words of Kunlun would be published as a series of 6 books constituting the complete Simplified Chinese hard copy.
He didn’t know yet that Yang Xi had already asked a friend for the serialization of Kunlun and was planning to give her a set after finishing it. His interactions with Yang Xi had been fewer during this period, and the manuscript fee for Kunlun had to make up for this loss!
However, for some reason, he now found Yang Xi’s gaze upon him to be mysterious, as if she had seen through something about him.
Moreover, the warmth between the two of them didn’t seem to decrease, and there was an added understanding!
Time flew by quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was time for end-of-term exams. With his newly acquired super memory, exams were a piece of cake for Ren He.
Many people realize only long after leaving school that they have completely forgotten everything from high school, university, and middle school. They probably couldn’t even solve a trigonometric function if they looked back at it. Ren He was no exception because those things aren’t useful in society, and he didn’t have a liking for them, which is different from memorizing literary works.
Now, with his super memory, the knowledge he had once painstakingly studied came back to him. Except for a significant weakness in physics and chemistry, all other subjects posed no problem for him. After the exams, Little Fatty Xu Nuo came out with a gloomy face: “I’m done for. That darn invigilator was so hateful, I didn’t manage to cheat at all. I guess I won’t have a good New Year…”
“Just look at you!” Ren He rolled his eyes: “Do you really think your dad would be willing to whack you during the New Year?”
Xu Nuo immediately got fired up: “He did last year, remember? I even stayed at your place for a few days!”
Huh, now that he mentioned it, it was true. Ren He only then remembered this event. Speaking of which, Little Fatty’s dad was indeed harsh, calling Xie Miaohan on New Year’s Eve to send greetings. After all, it was only proper to give good wishes to his son’s class teacher. Moreover, being a shrewd businessman, Little Fatty’s dad paid great attention to social interactions. He not only sent gifts in advance but also made sure to call on New Year’s Eve.
But that call turned disastrous for Little Fatty. Xie Miaohan straightforwardly mentioned during the call that Xu Nuo had to work harder next semester as this exam didn’t go well…
Upon hearing this, Little Fatty’s dad panicked. Not going well? What did that mean? He immediately inquired Xie Miaohan about how bad it was.
Third from the bottom in the class…
In the end, Little Fatty spent the entire Spring Festival with a swollen buttocks and got so scared that he ran away to Ren He’s house for refuge.
But then Ren He thought: “You shouldn’t worry about this year, then. Who is he going to call? Li Luobo? That old man is already insane…”
Upon hearing Ren He say that, Xu Nuo was suddenly invigorated. Yeah, his class teacher had already gone mad, and they didn’t even have a formal class teacher now!
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At this time, Duan Xiaolou and Yang Xi came out of the class. Duan Xiaolou said with a smile, “My birthday is in two days, but I want to celebrate it today since we’ve just finished our exams. Come join me, everyone. Let’s have it at Water Feast Garden near the school. I’ll also have some friends coming over.”
Ren He was taken aback, realizing that Duan Xiaolou’s birthday was coming up. He immediately agreed, “Sure, let’s celebrate your birthday tonight, but I haven’t prepared your gift yet.”
“No gifts needed. We don’t have to be so formal with each other, just having a good time together is enough,” said Duan Xiaolou. “Xu Nuo, Yang Xi, are you two coming?”
“If Ren He is going, I’m going too,” said Xu Nuo, who was now feeling joyful, knowing that a good New Year was more important than anything else.
Yang Xi hesitated for a moment: “My dad is leaving on a business trip tonight, I need to see him off. If it’s not too late, I’ll hurry over.”
“Sure!”
Ren He already knew that Yang En would be leaving today for medical exchanges in 16 countries. This felt like he had suddenly escaped the world of his father-in-law, which was an absolutely liberating experience…
Although Yang En had never objected to Yang Xi interacting with Ren He and was very open-minded, father-in-laws by nature seemed to exist solely to suppress any naughty intentions…
So, the plan had to begin!
He first made a call to Dreamless Zhou to settle all the manuscript fees, and today happened to be the day the manuscript fee for the miraculous book was distributed. He had sent all the remaining chapters of Kunlun to Dreamless Zhou a few days ago. These last few days without Dreamless Zhou’s calls left Ren He feeling a bit unaccustomed…
Sure enough, the text message alerts soon arrived, with several payments for manuscript fees entering his account at once!
Manuscript fee for the miraculous book: 210,000
Three Character Classic royalty: 410,000
Kunlun manuscript fee: 1.54 million
In just a flash, Ren He’s account had increased by 2.16 million in cash! For someone like Ren He, who was not used to seeing big money, there was just one word to describe it: ecstatic!
Digitally, the manuscript fee for the miraculous book was the lowest, but the problem was that the circulation of the Three Character Classic could easily get saturated after an initial surge, leaving only a trickle of ongoing sales.
The future for the miraculous book, however, was boundless; a single licensing deal could potentially be worth dozens of times more than the Three Character Classic, which would represent the most significant income.
As for Kunlun, it was the most rewarding. This 1.54 million didn’t even include the royalties from the standalone volumes, which would also amount to a substantial figure in the future. Ren He suddenly discovered the most lucrative route—Kunlun, in its current state, was essentially his money tree. Its status in the parallel world was akin to classics like “The Return of the Condor Heroes” and “Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils,” with a never-ending stream of revenue from film and television adaptations.
In the previous world, weren’t Mr. Jin’s works repeatedly adapted numerous times?
Surely Kunlun would follow the same path!
However, Ren He was still waiting for the Divine Punishment System to issue tasks, fearing that these tasks would not be simple…
