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"Okay, okay. Take your time, now we should step on the accelerator a little bit, yes, this foot, just a little bit." Carol sat beside Adam, feeling that every cell in himself was mobilized, Adam His driving talent really astonished him.

"Okay, are you going to turn at the next intersection?" Adam felt his heart pounding, and he returned to the dark days in the driving school before crossing. Fortunately, Carol was patient enough.

After two or three days of careful teaching, coupled with the memory and feel of driving from the previous life slowly coming back, Adam can finally drive a few blocks without making mistakes, although he still has to be fully alert every time he gets in the car, and there is no half point. Distraction, but at least his instructor, Carol, was no longer worried about what might go wrong.

In just three days, his car was already bruised. Although he didn't encounter any bad car accidents, scratches and scratches were inevitable. Seeing Adam barely able to drive proficiently, Carol felt relieved. Take a breath.

He turned his head and kissed Adam, who was concentrating on driving ahead, stretched out his thumb and boasted: "Nice job!"

And because of his sudden attack, Adam clenched the steering wheel and swayed left and right twice. It wasn't until he returned to the scheduled route that Adam breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Hey, I'm driving, don't disturb me."

Carol could only make a gesture of surrender with his hands up, and begged for mercy: "Okay, okay. Then Mr. Baker, where are we going now?"

"Go home." Adam said without a doubt, then ignored Carol, who was quite resentful, and drove in the direction of Baker's house.

"Recently, Brett always looks angry every time he sees you, is it because he sees the relationship between us?" Adam lowered the speed of the car, drove slowly, and asked a little worried Carol sitting next to him.

"Maybe it's because I'm worried about the admission letter from the university. You know that although his performance is obvious to all, his culture class is too ordinary, and his body shape is not the kind enough to be remembered at first glance. So even if he has outstanding grades, those university professors will be suspicious." Carol knew the reason, but he didn't want Adam to worry about it, and he would have a good talk with Brett when he had the right opportunity.

"That's right. The damn University of Alabama actually sent a rejection letter. It's really annoying. By the way, Carl, when are you going to Stanford to see your future university campus?" Adam was mentioned by Carol Also thought of this.

It is now early February, and admission letters from various universities have also begun to be mailed home one by one. For example, Adam’s USC and Carol’s Stanford admission letters were also sent home at the end of last month, without any surprises.

But brother Brett’s first letter of rejection was not a university admission letter, which is really depressing. Fortunately, there are still two universities, USC and the University of Oklahoma, who have not yet responded. The most famous universities in the ncaa football league, if you can't get into any of the three, you can only choose from the second-level universities. Two days ago, I received an admission letter from Texas A&M University, although this school is very good , but for Bright, who is determined to play professional football, it is obvious that the historical performance of this school is significantly different from the previous ones.

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In the past month, although high school has officially started, for their group of graduates who are about to graduate, it is basically a sheep-herding stage. There are only one or two courses, and it doesn't matter whether they go or not. Just say hello.

For example, this is what Adam did. Because of the previous interviews and the ten days of crazy fun at Christmas, the progress of the comics will inevitably be delayed. Do it, always have to do it, because the deadline is there.

So Adam could only work hard behind closed doors. In his busy schedule, Adam even thought about whether he should hire some assistants. After all, comics are just his stepping stones and stepping stones, and he can't devote most of his energy to them forever. And delayed other work.

But as long as he is in a small town, it will be difficult after all. When he goes to Los Angeles, there are many talents there, and it is very convenient to find some assistants for novels or comics.Therefore, although it is relatively difficult at present, we can only grit our teeth and persevere.

However, the hard work is still rewarding. The new year is destined to be a year of harvest. Since Christmas, the sales volume exceeded one million for the first time and reached nearly 170 million sales. In the ensuing cold January, it continued to win the sales champion for four consecutive weeks. , with an undisputed, even crushing sales volume of 180 million units, which shocked the entire market.

And this month's sales plus the previous year's sales made this fictional science fiction novel, which has just been released for just over two months, achieve a terrifying crazy sales of 350 million. Judging from the sales situation , this novel is bound to break through 500 million sales in the first half of the year, and there is basically no doubt that it will win 800 million sales in the whole year. One thing to question.

As for the sales volume of tens of millions, according to the statistics of the Writers Guild of America, only 5.00% of professional writers in the country can rely entirely on writing to sustain their lives for a long time.The remaining 90.00% five, either have another normal job, or work part-time, or are supported by their spouse.Among those writers who do not have part-time jobs and devote all their time to writing, only 30.00% can earn more than 1000 yuan per year, and the average income of the rest is only [-] yuan, which is far below the poverty line.

As for novels with tens of millions of sales, they are definitely the top group of people in the pyramid. Some famous best-selling authors, the sales of all novels are at this level, just like the previous "Scarlett" writer, except Other than this novel, the others are less than a million, and the sales of all novels in his life add up to only 500 million, and this is already considered one of the top writers.

If you want to get into it, you can only take out Tolkien, Dan Brown, JK Rowling, Agatha Christie, and thriller writer James Patterson, among them JK Rowling And Dan Brown has not yet become famous, and their famous works "Harry Potter" series and "Da Vinci Code" series have not yet appeared.

With this book alone, Adam is enough to be listed among the famous North American science fiction writers, and without the lucrative contract, if calculated by tens of millions of sales, Adam's royalties can get 4000 million US dollars, deducting Taxes and agency fees (for Anderson), Adam finally got 3000 million.

Don't look at it as if it is incomparable to those movie box office with hundreds of millions at every turn and Internet tycoons who can casually tens of billions, but with 3000 million US dollars, as long as you don't degenerate into squandering prodigals, it can be said that Adam has lived comfortably all his life.

And this does not include the softcover version of the book that will be released later. Although the money that Adam can get for this part will be greatly reduced. Say?Mosquito meat is still meat no matter how small it is. No matter how you divide such a super bestseller, it can always be divided into millions.

In order to be able to continue to cooperate with Adam on the copyright in the future, and to promote the relationship with Adam's new book, Harper Collins sent the royalties of 500 million copies of "Jurassic Park" to Adam in advance, making Adam instantly become a became a millionaire.

Fortunately, for the sake of confidentiality, Adam asked Harper Collins to keep it a secret. Otherwise, Adam would have no time to practice the car, and he would be blocked by the paparazzi at the door every minute.

However, although he escaped, Adam knew that he had to consider security and confidentiality. He personally didn't care. After all, he was about to go to college. forgotten.

But mother Catherine and younger sister Michelle must pay attention. As Adam's value increases in the future, no matter how hidden they are, they will always attract the attention of interested people.

After Adam got the money, he held a closed-door meeting with Catherine, because Catherine didn't want to leave after living in a small town for more than ten years, and for the sake of her sister's study, it was not appropriate to change to a completely strange place.

What's more, where can I find a safer place for a while?After careful consideration, Adam felt that a small manor for sale near Carroll's house was not bad. Compared with Anderson Manor, it was much smaller, but because it was located in a wealthy area, security and confidentiality could be guaranteed. Not too expensive either.

The land area is more than 2000 square meters, and the building area is more than 500 square meters. The luxury house is about 150 million US dollars. If you talk about it, you can even lower the price to 130 million.

The house is not high, only two floors, basically a wooden structure with 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and 3 garages, so that the four of them can have independent rooms, and the car does not need to be exposed to the sun and rain outside the house, and there is even a very A beautiful swimming pool. In California, where the seasons are like spring, you can swim in the swimming pool in every season of the year.

What made Adam especially satisfied was that in addition to the external security, the whole house itself was equipped with security devices, and the back of the house faced the mountain, which increased the protection. Although he hadn't communicated with Catherine yet, Adam had already made a decision.

However, at this moment, a phone call disrupted Adam's arrangements.