Writing Web Novels In America-Chapter 111 - 110 That Website

The next morning, Wang Jian woke up feeling dizzy and bloated.

He saw Sarah already busy in the kitchen.

"Go wash up and come to breakfast quickly," Sarah said with a smile, seemingly oblivious to what had happened last night.

"Uh..." Wang Jian scratched his head guiltily, "Thank you for your hard work."

"You’re the one who had it tough," she replied as she moved the fried eggs onto a plate. "Four fried eggs, is that enough?"

"..." Wang Jian always felt there was an underlying message in her words, "Enough, enough."

"By the way, where are Lynn and Lily?" he asked, noticing that the other two women’s high heels were no longer on the shoe rack.

"Maybe they didn’t like my cooking?" Sarah casually answered, "They saw three fried eggs and hurried out."

"Oh, and the redhead was limping too."

This...

Wang Jian felt he had no response.

He quickly went into the bathroom to wash up.

When he returned to the dining room, he saw Sarah had already changed her clothes.

"Are you leaving too?" Wang Jian asked.

"Yeah," Sarah nodded. "Don’t you like Chinese food? I’m going to the bookstore to buy some Chinese cookbooks."

"To win a man’s heart, one must first win his stomach," Sarah said in awkward Chinese. "Isn’t that the saying?"

Wang Jian almost choked on his fried egg, "No, how did you—?"

"Chinese?" Sarah put on her high heels, "Just picked it up, thought it was interesting."

"And before, when we had to deceive ’our parents,’ we did a lot of observing."

"Am I right? My little brother."

With that, she smiled at Wang Jian, turned, and opened the door.

"Oh, Merry Christmas!"

Watching Sarah leave, Wang Jian muttered, "This... this is totally the big sister style from before!"

At the same time, at the EA office building.

Inside the "Arcane Throne" project team, company executives who had foregone their holidays were listening to a sales report from the sales team.

"So, are you saying our game outperformed ’Diablo’ to claim the crown of the Christmas sales season?"

"Yes," the technical director said, looking at the documents, "but the sales gap isn’t significant."

"I suggest that the company reconsider the feasibility of adapting bestsellers into games."

At this point, the sales director stood up.

"You programmers just don’t get it!" he scoffed, "’Diablo,’ as the pioneer of single-player fantasy RPGs, should have had a massive advantage!"

"Our ’Arcane Throne’ Volume One, in its overall framework, is actually similar to it and doesn’t have anything particularly surprising."

"Under these circumstances, for it to still beat ’Diablo’ and top the sales chart..."

"That means the influence of ’Arcane Throne’ is actually very significant."

Seeing the technical director still looked unconvinced, he threw down a document.

"This is from Dark Horse Comics, the Christmas sales data for the comic version of ’Arcane Throne.’"

"It has become the most popular phenomenon-level comic next to ’Spiderman’!"

"And compare the licensing fees of ’Spiderman’ and ’Arcane Throne.’"

"Please use your brains, stop thinking about how to do CG all day."

The vice president who chaired the meeting picked up the document, looked it over, and finally made a summary statement.

"Regardless, the licensing of this novel was very successful! The second volume game of ’Arcane Throne’ also needs to be put on the agenda immediately."

"Also, what about Wang’s new work? Is it suitable for adaptation into a game?"

"It’s called ’Extreme Heavenly Demon,’" a staff member replied, "It’s probably not suited for adaptation into a similar game."

"The power system in it is too chaotic."

The vice president nodded, signaling to move to the next topic.

"What are our competitors doing?"

"Ubisoft has already given up on following up on ’Diablo’-type games, and has shifted to focus on single-player adventure games with CG backgrounds."

"From some channels, it seems Ubisoft is deciding between two games."

The person, who resembled an intelligence officer, looked down.

"Both games are set in Jerusalem, one called ’Prince of Persia’ and the other ’Assassin’s Creed’."

"However, their game engines have some issues at the moment."

The vice president nodded, signaling to continue.

"On the other hand, Capcom has never chosen to follow. They claim that single-player games with CG backgrounds are the future."

"This year, they are planning to launch a game called ’Resident Evil’."

"This year?" the vice president frowned.

"1996," the intelligence staff corrected, "In this area, our staff has had difficulties conducting operations."

"So, we received the intelligence a bit late."

"Again, acting as the latecomer in catching up?" the vice president’s voice was commanding yet not angry.

"This time, there isn’t an ’Arcane Throne’ to attract the public’s attention!"

"Actually..." the sales director hesitated, "there is."

"Hmm?" the vice president looked over.

The sales director organized his thoughts, "Although ’Extreme Heavenly Demon,’ in print, is not as influential as ’Arcane Throne’."

"However, considering just the computer owners, this work’s influence is not inferior."

"Moreover, according to the technical staff’s analysis, although ’Extreme Heavenly Demon’ is not suitable for being adapted into ’Diablo’-like games, it is very suitable for adaptation into a single-player adventure game with a CG background."

"If we can’t plan a game from scratch, then acquiring the game adaptation rights for ’Extreme Heavenly Demon’ is also an option."

"Is it?" the vice president leaned back in his chair, "Then let the data analysis department analyze it."

Meanwhile, in a New York Producer Association meeting room.

Representatives of various television production companies were holding a meeting.

"This is the list of TV dramas adapted from books, comics, and autobiographies this year."

"Among them, those adapted from comics performed the best, but they also had the highest licensing fees and production costs."

"According to this standard, our settlement costs with the Screenwriters Association would be lower."

"Eh, what’s this ’Prison Break’ about?" a bigwig-looking person asked, pointing at the document.

"Um..." the investigator hesitated, "This ’Prison Break’ was co-produced by Goldman Sachs and a website."

"They say it’s an adaptation, but it seems more like a wager agreement."

"We don’t care about Wall Street and online stuff." The bigwig tapped the table quietly, "We’re only interested if there are more works like this, and how much the licensing fee is."

"That’s where it gets tricky." The investigator smiled wryly, "The work was published on that website, and to get the licensing rights, you have to negotiate with the website."

"As for similar works currently." He cleared his throat gently, "On that website, besides this ’Prison Break’, there’s another male-oriented ’Prison Break’."

"Its name is," the investigator chuckled, "’Special Soldier in Prison’."

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