Choose a day to become famous

Because of the impact of this incident, Lu Yanhe even forgot to call Song Linxin. He was stunned for a while, and then he was awakened by Chen Siqi's call.

"Are you out?"

"Not yet." Lu Yanhe said.

"Don't be late. Today we have an appointment with Yemai.com and Jiangyin Publishing House to sit down and discuss the matter of "Jump Up"," Chen Siqi said.

"Oh, yes, okay, I'll go out right away."

Lu Yanhe hurriedly packed his schoolbag, put it on his back, and ran out.

The sun was shining directly on him, and he was also thinking about when his skin color would be darker and reach Chen Lingling's standards.

The place where we met today was neither the company building of Yemai.com nor the building of Jiangyin Publishing House. Instead, we made a compromise and found a cafe in the middle, booked a large table, and had a relatively independent area for discussion. , I didn’t even find a serious conference room.

Chen Siqi did it on purpose, saying: "On the one hand, I want to remind them that we are all poor students. Don't treat us as serious business partners, so as not to argue with us when the time comes. What we both lack the most is It’s this kind of experience. The more you talk about it, the more ignorant you become. It’s better to be willful and just say that we want both the fish and the bear’s paw, and let them accommodate us.”

"On the other hand, there is only this place to choose from. Today's communication will not be good in any company." What Chen Siqi did not say is that the things to be discussed today are not to allow one of the parties to have a master mentality and home field. Advantage content.

Lu Yanhe was a little confused after hearing Chen Siqi's reasons. He didn't expect Chen Siqi to think so much. He nodded and said, "You are so thoughtful."

Chen Siqi raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Just so so."

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More than one person came from both sides. From Yemai.com, Liu Qiao came directly with Xin Zixing, while from Jiangyin Publishing House, Xu Xiaoyin invited Liu Cheng to come with him.

Lu Yanhe and the others arrived fifteen minutes early, but both parties delayed their arrival until the last minute of the agreed time.

"..."

This is not the usual style of Xu Xiaoyin and Xin Zixin. It seems that it is the intention of the two people around them. They all want to make the finale? Overwhelm the opponent?

This alone gave Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi a premonition that this afternoon's negotiations would not go so smoothly.

As soon as the two parties met, they exchanged greetings with smiles on their faces.

As soon as he sat down, Chen Siqi spoke up and said, "Thank you to all the brothers and sisters for supporting me and Lu Yanhe's sudden idea, allowing us to actually start writing a book this summer. Originally we all thought this was just an idea, and it would never happen. Ideas that won’t come true.”

Lu Yanhe was already somewhat familiar with her. Seeing her artificial tone and exaggerated body language, Lu Yanhe couldn't help but ask her with his eyes, what kind of opera are you singing?

But Lu Yanhe's trust in Chen Siqi is that even if he doesn't understand what she is doing, he will definitely support her and not undermine her.

Chen Siqi glanced gratefully at Liu Qiao and Xin Zixing at Yemai.net, and equally gratefully glanced at Liu Cheng and Xu Xiaoyin at Jiangyin Publishing House, and said, "I also know that it takes a lot of time to make a book. It cost a lot of money, and we are not sure whether this book can make money. In fact, from the beginning, we just wanted to fulfill a high school dream. Therefore, Lu Yanhe and I discussed the production funds for this book, otherwise It's up to the two of us to bear it ourselves. It's not a good idea to ask you to take this risk. We are just high school graduates. Looking at the public opinion on our book online, it seems that we have indeed taken advantage of it. ”

Lu Yanhe was even more shocked inside. Of course, his face remained as usual, as if he had already communicated this with Chen Siqi.

"Siqi, didn't you say before that our Yemai Network will be responsible for the production funds?" Xin Zixing immediately looked at Lu Yanhe.

Chen Siqi said in surprise: "But at that time, there was no plan for physical publishing. Yemai.com has an exclusive nature and it also has a lot of drainage effect on you. Now that we have to do physical publishing, are you still willing to take the responsibility?"

Xin Zixing was stunned, and suddenly realized that he was worried. After dealing with this little girl Chen Siqi several times before, she was a very smart and proactive person. How could she suddenly treat you with such an innocent tone and eyes? I'm talking to trick you on purpose.

She smiled slightly and said: "We will bear all the funds. It's not that we are unwilling, but I think since Jiangyin Publishing House wants to cooperate with you, they won't agree to just our family paying for it, right?"

Xu Xiaoyin: "Of course, although physical publishing is indeed incomparable with your electronic reading. Paper, printing, and transportation are all costs, but we will directly advance royalties to Siqi and Xiaolu. It is not easy for two young people to write books. , of course we will support it.”

"I wonder how much royalties you plan to pay in advance?" Xin Zixing asked, "Before, we planned to directly provide 100,000 yuan in production funds. You are engaged in physical publishing. You know best that for an electronic book that does not need to be published as a physical book, For a book, this must be a very high production cost, right?”

Xu Xiaoyin nodded, "Indeed, but based on what I know about the lineup of authors that Xiao Lu has invited, just putting the names of these authors together may not make everyone willing to spend tens of dollars to buy a book. It should be able to attract everyone." Many people go to Yemai.com to read free e-books, right?”

"Ten thousand people come to read a free e-magazine and ten thousand people spend dozens of dollars to buy a book, the economic returns are very different." Xin Zixing opened his eyes wide and spread his hands, "Actually, Making such a book and obtaining financial returns has never been our first goal. Lu Yanhe is our partner of Yemai.com, and we will create the "City Travels" documentary series. Therefore, if he wants to realize such a dream, we will I want to help.”

"Then we really thought of going together. Xiao Lu helped our publisher sell nearly 300,000 copies of "Nineteen Years of Crime" and "Star Orbit", and also made "Nineteen Years of Crime" "The film and television rights of this book have been sold. As a child who loves books, if he wants to edit a book, we certainly hope to get the opportunity of physical publishing in our hands," Xu Xiaoyin said not to be outdone.

Seeing that these two women were still fighting against each other, Lu Yanhe began to feel a big headache. Chen Siqi suddenly folded his hands in front of his chest and sighed, "Okay, it turns out that the two sisters are so willing to cooperate with us because of Lu Yanhe." Ah, then we are being too pretentious, thinking that it is because we can produce a good book and we can recruit such a creative team that you take the initiative to cooperate? "

Chen Siqi was pretending to be confused.

Nonsense, Yemai.com and Jiangyin Publishing House are willing to write this book. The first factor is of course the reason for rushing to the Lu Yan River.

But when she said this, it seemed that the cooperation intention between the two parties had become utilitarian and not so pure.

"Siqi, you know, that's not what I meant." Xin Zixing was a little confused as to what Chen Siqi's attitude was today.

Why does Chen Siqi make people feel a little arrogant today?

She doesn't usually have such a character.

Chen Siqi: "Then can we put aside Lu Yanhe's influence on this book for the time being and just focus on the content of this book? With the current lineup of writers for this book, as long as the final manuscript is given The quality is not bad, and this book should be able to sell, it just depends on how much it sells, right?”

Lu Yanhe could tell that she was trying hard to dominate the conversation.

Both sides were noncommittal.

Chen Siqi said: "Actually, the production funds for a book are really small. The last thing Lu Yanhe and I don't want to see is two partners that we think are very suitable, arguing over who pays more and who pays less. I don’t want everyone to argue over some profit-related matters. After all, it is just a book. No matter how big the profit is, it is only that big. The production cost of 100,000 yuan is not for me, not to mention Lu Yanhe. No matter what, I wasn’t kidding just now. If everyone is going to argue over these things, I would rather you both don’t have to pay. I will pay for it myself.”

As soon as Chen Siqi finished speaking, the table fell silent.

-

At noon, Chen Siqi booked a hotel and invited everyone to have dinner together.

Chen Siqi was relatively familiar with Xin Zixing, so she took Xin Zixing's car and followed her and Liu Qiao to the hotel.

Lu Yanhe was with Xu Xiaoyin and others.

After getting in the car, Chen Siqi suddenly fell silent and kept looking out the car window silently, completely different from the way he had just been in the cafe.

Xin Zixing more or less realized why Chen Siqi behaved like that just now.

She turned her head and glanced at Chen Siqi, who was like this, with a smile on her lips, and then glanced at Liu Qiao sitting behind.

Liu Qiao was looking down at his phone.

She said, "Siqi, haven't you and Lu Yanhe considered getting together?"

"Ah?" Chen Siqi suddenly came back to his senses and looked at Xin Zixin in shock.

"You're so messy today, are you doing it on purpose?" Xin Zixing said with a bit of ridicule: "I didn't want us to argue and point the finger at Lu Yanhe, so when we were arguing, he jumped out and became a target. , The purpose behind the words is to remove Lu Yanhe from the center of the discussion. "

Chen Siqi's face suddenly turned red, and she immediately turned to look out the window, "What are you talking about? I don't understand."

Xin Zixing: "You are really a recent graduate. We are tit-for-tat just to share the cake. How could we target Lu Yanhe before we could coax him to win over him?"

Chen Siqi still said: "I didn't think so."

At this time, Liu Qiao, who was sitting in the back, still looking at the phone in his hand, said, "I'm worried that you two will use your past friendship to compete for Lu Yanhe's support. She doesn't want Lu Yanhe to be emotionally kidnapped by you two. Okay, who?" I'm worried that you will take Lu Yanhe as a target."

Chen Siqi felt as if there were thorns growing on the chair and her butt was pricked. She couldn't help but move.

"Huh? How can we, He De, still have our friendship with Lu Yanhe, and emotionally kidnap Lu Yanhe?" Xin Zixin questioned Liu Qiao's statement in a dumbfounded voice.

Chen Siqi thought silently, that's because you don't know how stupid and kind Lu Yanhe is.

Liu Qiao curled his lips and said, "If you care, you will be in trouble."

Chen Siqi weakly denied: "I'm not, so don't talk nonsense."

-

A similar conversation took place in another car.

"That little girl named Chen Siqi is Xiao Lu's classmate, right?" Liu Cheng asked.

Xu Xiaoyin drove and nodded, "Yes."

Liu Cheng smiled softly and said softly, "Xiao Lu, you have to cherish me."

Lu Yanhe immediately blushed.

"Huh? What?"

"Just pretend." Xu Xiaoyin continued what Liu Cheng said, and then said similar words to Liu Qiao.

Lu Yanhe realized in shock that the different side of Chen Siqi just now had such a purpose?

He still felt a little frustrated in the morning, feeling like he had no place to talk.

After finally finishing a sentence or two, he wanted to help Chen Siqi smooth things over, but he was soon interrupted by Chen Siqi.

Did Chen Siqi have this purpose?

Lu Yanhe was speechless, falling into shock and astonishment, and there was an indescribable complex emotion in his heart.

Xu Xiaoyin said in a nostalgic and envious tone: "Think about it, writing a book together in the summer after graduating from high school, this kind of thing is really romantic that cannot be replicated."

Liu Cheng also laughed.

"How about you go back in time?"

"Forget it, Editor Liu, look at what Xiao Lu and Siqi look like, and then look at me when I'm eighteen...forget it, you can't see it either, it's best not to look, now I'm a beautiful city girl "Beautiful girl, I just graduated at the age of eighteen. Deep down, I thought I was facing the sea, but in fact I was facing a sandstorm." Xu Xiaoyin said, "I don't want to go back to that time."

Liu Cheng: "That's because you still think so now. When you reach my age, you will be able to understand what it means to want to travel back to your youth. Xiao Lu probably doesn't understand even more."

"Huh?" Lu Yanhe recovered from his trance and didn't listen to their conversation.

"At your current age, you can't understand our feelings of wanting to travel back to the age of eighteen." Xu Xiaoyin said happily.

Lu Yanhe opened his mouth and smiled absently.

Time travel...?

Lu Yanhe looked at the bright sunshine and clear blue sky in front of him, raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Yes, although my class teacher always said when I was in school that we are always at the best age, but we don't understand Cherish, actually, I feel very good now, I actually cherish it.”

He knew that Liu Cheng and Xu Xiaoyin must have thought that they understood what he meant, but he knew that only he knew what he was talking about.

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In the end, the preliminary intentions reached by the three parties regarding "Jump Up" are:

1. The content production expenses of the team of Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi are 70,000 yuan from Yemai.com and 30,000 yuan from Jiangyin Publishing House. They are only responsible for the content of the manuscript. The layout design of the e-book is provided by designers from Yemai.com, and the physical book is provided by Yemai.com. The layout design is by Jiangyin Publishing House.

2. "Jump Up" will be available for pre-sale on e-commerce as a physical book at the same time as it is put on Yemai.com. It will be officially released on e-commerce and bookstores three days later. It will be free for reading in the first three days after it is put on the shelves. After three days, it will be converted to paid reading, and the price will be the same as a physical book. One-third of the price, the revenue share will be communicated by Yemai.com to Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi.

3. The e-book listing page of Yemai.com provides a link to purchase the physical book. Jiangyin Publishing House also states in its promotional materials that e-reading is exclusively provided by Yemai.com.

…

The two partners did take care of the two young people, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi, or in other words, they were willing to take care of these two people, did not let them suffer, and gave them very good conditions.

During lunch, contrary to Lu Yanhe's expectations, Chen Siqi picked up his wine glass gracefully and toasted a small glass of rice wine to several people: "I don't drink much, so I can only drink this little. I apologize to all the teachers for my behavior just now." It's really rude. Although I know that I am riding on the east wind of Lu Yanhe, it is absolutely impossible to realize such a dream without your help. I also express my gratitude to all the teachers. "

Several other people quickly brought cups.

Only Liu Qiao, Liu Cheng and Lu Yanhe had rice wine in their glasses.

Neither Xu Xiaoyin nor Xin Zixing drank juice because they had to drive.

At this moment, Chen Siqi finally returned to her usual calm and generous appearance.

She has a small personality and temper in front of Lu Yanhe, and has no scruples about her sharp points in front of Liu Wei'an, but outside, she has always been such a girl who has received a good education since she was a child.

Lu Yanhe felt that in this regard, he was not as conscious as Chen Siqi who was always online.

It's really the difference between someone who has taught you since childhood and someone who hasn't.

Stay alert, Lu Yanhe. (End of chapter)