Writing Web Novels In America-Chapter 87 Film and Television Production

The female protagonist, in the midst of these clashing forces, struggled to maintain her innocence.

Finally, she used their contention over her to bring about their mutual destruction.

And thus began her story of escaping the prison and eloping with her lover outside its walls.

This...

Truly a different kind of novel for women, one that lowers intelligence...

Wang Jian picked up a pen and added a line of dialogue to the scene where the Prison Warden locked the female protagonist in a solitary cell.

The Prison Warden said to her with a domineering smile, "From now on, this cell is exclusively yours..."

Wang Jian looked at this line and nodded in satisfaction.

That’s got the domineering CEO vibe.

Sarah glanced at the line, looked at Wang Jian, and mumbled with her lips, but she didn’t say much.

Soon, the three of them arrived at a Mexican restaurant.

On the recommendation of a waiter wearing a large-brimmed hat, they had what was said to be authentic Mexican cuisine.

The result was that both Matthew and Wang Jian were rendered speechless by the spiciness.

Wang Jian then ordered a Mexican special drink.

But after one sip, he almost vomited.

"What the hell is this?" Wang Jian muttered to himself while wiping his mouth with a napkin.

"Cactus juice," Sarah said with smile, watching Wang Jian’s reaction.

The unconventional dinner quickly ended.

Matthew drove to the place in Brooklyn where Wang Jian had once lived.

"The rent here has been paid up until next year," Wang Jian said to Sarah: "You can live here without worry."

After speaking, he took out several hundred-dollar bills and handed them to Sarah, "Take this money for now."

"Will you come by often?" Sarah asked Wang Jian with her Latin-flavored eyes, "To guide me in writing and such?"

To be honest, Wang Jian wasn’t opposed to the occasional dalliance with other women on the side.

But that certainly didn’t include the Sarah before him.

"I’ll make some careful revisions first, then discuss it with you later," he said noncommittally.

After settling Sarah in, Wang Jian and Matthew left Brooklyn.

He handed the hastily signed documents to Matthew for a thorough check, while asking about the results with the former host family.

"The documents are fine," Matthew returned the paperwork, humbly replying: "As for that host family, you should see the results in a few days."

Wang Jian nodded and fell silent.

At that moment, several major Wall Street investment banks received Tom’s offer.

Due to competition from other banks, these capitalists were somewhat deterred from using additional means.

They were evaluating the website’s potential, its influence, and how long it would take to go public.

Among them, Goldman Sachs Investment and Morgan Stanley were the most optimistic.

After Tom communicated the results from these two calculations to both parties,

The teams from both investment banks involved in the website acquisition project began their discussions.

Inside the Morgan Stanley office building.

A financial analyst said, "An increase of 0.5% in our offer is the bottom line we can accept."

"Otherwise, such a low rate of return on investment would make us a laughingstock in the industry."

The project director nodded and said, "Pass this outcome to the other party."

Meanwhile, inside the Goldman Sachs building.

Lehman said to the project manager, "This website isn’t like other internet companies, which have a strong thirst for funding."

"They should be more concerned with other aspects, besides funding."

"Such as?" The project manager asked casually while looking at the results.

"Adaptation rights for various content," Lehman replied, taking a sip of water. "Like ’Arcane Throne’s’ comics and games."

"So what do you mean?" the project manager asked, his gaze carrying a probing intent as he looked at the young man.

"Don’t raise the offer, but give them an opportunity instead," Lehman answered confidently. "We use our influence to give some novels on the website a chance to be transformed into television adaptations."

"But you’ve also seen the works on that website."

"All sorts of magic, explosions, their adaptation difficulty and cost would be quite high," the project manager continued, smiling as he asked.

"We just need to give them one opportunity for a wager."

"If Goldman Sachs and the website each contribute half of the funds, should the viewership ratings reach a certain standard, we would increase our offer by 0.5% to acquire 30% of the shares."

"If the viewership ratings fail to meet the standard, then we would purchase over 50% of the website’s shares at the current price."

"As a condition of the exchange, we can ensure an opportunity for this TV drama to be broadcast on national networks across America."

The project manager nodded with a smile and said, "Given the website’s current financial situation, they cannot produce their forte of magic, explosions."

"Aside from that, what do they have to compete with ’Friends’ or ’Frasier’ for viewership ratings?"

Lehman picked up his water glass and clinked it with the project manager’s as if making a toast.

"As for whether they accept the wager agreement, that’s up to that young Asian named Wang Jian to decide."

It wasn’t long before the new round of offers returned to Tom’s hands.

He looked at Morgan Stanley’s offer and laughed. "Indeed, competition maximizes benefits."

But a few minutes later,

Tom frowned as he held Goldman Sachs’ offer.

A wager agreement?

TV drama production?

He paced around his office but still felt undecided.

So he called Dorsey and went to Wang Jian’s office.

Wang Jian, holding the fax from Goldman Sachs Investment, also fell into thought.

The website urgently needed to expand its influence, having reached a bottleneck in its development.

And broadcasting a TV drama adapted from the website’s works on the most widely covered national network in the United States was undoubtedly an excellent choice.

But for the website and Goldman Sachs to jointly produce, each investing 50% of the funds?

Wang Jian considered it for a moment, then had someone call the company’s finance department.

"Currently, how much capital can the website utilize?" he asked.

"One million US dollars," the finance department replied. "After deducting necessary working capital, it’s about seven hundred thousand US dollars."

So, adding Goldman Sachs’ seven hundred thousand, that made it one million four hundred thousand US dollars.

But one million four hundred thousand was completely insufficient to produce the assuredly successful ’Arcane Throne’ TV series.

Wang Jian tapped his fingers lightly on his office desk.

Give up?

He couldn’t bear to.

Bestsellers turned into TV dramas usually took ten or even twenty years.

By then, who knew what the world would look like?

He didn’t want to wait!

"Dorsey, find a way to get me the viewership demographic data typically used by TV stations."

"That’s easy," Dorsey said as he quickly typed into a forum on Wang Jian’s computer and then posted a reward task.

Soon after, someone sent over the viewership demographic distribution list compiled by TV stations over the past three years via email.

"Fifty dollars, done," Dorsey said with a smile.

Wang Jian hurriedly checked the computer.

Before him displayed several major categories: sports events, male viewer ratio, 85%.

Below it, the age distribution for various sports was detailed.

Soap operas, female viewer ratio 79%.

Below that were the current ratings distributions for several hot TV dramas.

Visit freewe𝑏(n)ovel.𝘤ℴ𝑚 for the best novel reading exp𝒆rience