She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 1019 - 869: Super Star 43 (Updated Twice)_2

Mid-June, the contract for her to sign came over; the adaptation rights sold for 300,000, and she could only get 120,000, just a 40% share.

She hadn’t paid much attention to these adaptation rights before, but after checking relevant materials, she realized that some are owned by websites with no relation to the author. Some offer a fifty-fifty split, some are two hundred percent to the author, and in her case, she got a 40% share because of her potential, resulting in 120,000, which was frankly much lower than she expected, showing the real gap between an author and a screenwriter.

Even if you’re a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy as a screenwriter, if you have no reputation in the industry, you can’t get a high adaptation fee. The two screenwriters for "Heiress Strategy" get 3,000 to 10,000 per episode, whereas she, clearly the hardest working, ends up sidelined just because she’s not famous and lacks relevant experience and qualifications. She can’t even get two naming rights, and for this, Liang An comforted her for quite some time.

She knew people looked down on her and didn’t want their names associated with hers. The drama still required other people’s help anyway. In hindsight, she should have put in less effort. Now they’re taking her finished product, adding the finishing touches, and splitting the money from her hard work. It’s really just... damn!

Not getting angry is impossible, but what could she do? Liang An invited them over and spoke well of her, but they just shamelessly took advantage, and all she could do was swallow the silent grievance. Because of this, Hua Yan decided that for her master’s entrance exams she’d choose the screenwriting program at Beijing Film Academy, to study properly and earn a formal degree, just to show them.

Once the script was polished, the rest was Liang An’s specialty, like selecting locations, choosing scenes, assembling various professionals to form a production crew, etc., and lastly selecting actors, so Hua Yan had time to focus on her revision.

Mid-June, Ning Hao finished his high school entrance exams, and to avoid disturbing his sister, he temporarily went to Jibei Province to wait for school notifications.

By late June, Hua Yan took the high school entrance exams, which lasted three days. After the exams, she turned off her phone, didn’t contact anyone, and slept for an entire day to fully recharge.

Afterward, she spent three days writing, practicing piano, taking piano lessons, cleaning, etc., before entering the space to upgrade, leaving her phone outside to wait for notifications.

Unexpectedly, Hua Yan waited until mid-July, spending her time in the space leveling up without interruption. During this period, she came out to check her phone but found no messages, reassuring her enough to complete her upgrade mission in the space, reaching the significant milestone of Level 50.

When she came out, she learned that Ning Hao had already successfully passed the admissions for Four Middle School, meaning he got into Beijing Fourth High School, becoming her direct junior. Seeing this great news, Hua Yan made a special call to congratulate her brother, who was leisurely spending his summer break in the Northeast.

Apparently, since this little guy couldn’t reach her, and Uncle from the Northeast came to pick him up, he sent her a WeChat message and went back to the Northeast for summer vacation with his uncle.

As the last summer vacation of his elementary school years, Ning Hao was really looking forward to it, especially after holding back for an entire semester, he really needed to unwind.

In the high school entrance exams, Hua Yan scored 563 out of 580, making her an absolute force. With this score, it wasn’t just Beijing Fourth High School’s high school section that wanted her; even Ren Da Middle School and Beijing University Affiliated Middle School were eager to have her. Yet she deliberately contacted Zhen Hao to attend the separate entry exam at Central Music Academy. Honestly, with her scores, was an exam even necessary? Seeing her results, they immediately favored her, especially since she came recommended by Zhen Hao. They arranged the school’s best teacher to teach her and told her she could report in mid-August.

This is the difference between an outstanding child and an ordinary one. As soon as the high school entrance exam results were released, the school selection issue was already resolved.

With the school choice settled, the next step was the admission process. All she needed to do was collect her admission letter from her old school before the new term started and report to the new school.

With school matters taken care of, she remembered she might have forgotten something big: Ling Yao’s college entrance exams.

For heaven’s sake, she was only concerned about Ning Hao and herself, and totally forgot to contact Ling Yao. She immediately called him.

The phone rang for a long time before the owner answered leisurely: "Oh, busy person, finally remembered to call me, huh?"

Thick-skinned, Hua Yan replied: "I didn’t want to disturb your studies earlier, remember Uncle Liang said you’re really focused now, always holding a book and computer, so I didn’t want to interrupt. Now that I think the scores should be out, I called to ask! How’d it go? How did you do?"

The owner of the voice bragged for a moment, "Heh, when I’m on the case, do you even need to ask? My scores have already been flagged, and Jing University and Huaqing have called. So, which school do you think I should choose?"

Tsk~~~ talking like I’m not a Huaqing alum myself. Yes, just let him try the toughest Computer Department at Huaqing.

"Isn’t it obvious, definitely Huaqing’s Computer Department. If you can get into the Yao Class, your future is going to be extraordinary, a true knowledge second-generation!"

Wealth and privilege can’t compare to a knowledge second-generation. The top-ranked Computer Department at Huaqing trains cutting-edge high-tech talent, fields that regular school students can’t compete with. If he could join a national-level confidential unit, it’d be even more impressive.

But after hearing about this department, he furrowed his brows: "Computer Department? What about future money prospects?"