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Embracing the overprinting contract with Mr. Zhen Ji's name finally signed, editor Hejian first took photos and sent them to the publishing house, so that they can send the second batch of overprinting "Envoy of God" in the printing factory to major bookstores: Wait After signing the contract, it would be too late to reprint, so before coming here, the printing factory had already started to reprint the second batch of 30 volumes, but before the contract was signed by Mr. Zhen Ji, even if all of them were printed, those books would not Can't come up with a printing house step.

After finishing all this, editor Hejian let out a long sigh of relief: "We should be able to send out the new book before the bookstore is sold out... Speaking of which, yesterday's sales speed hit a new high, especially in the afternoon and evening, it's really scary , Several bookstores had to display sold out signs..."

He recalled that the editorial department collected the sales data reported by various bookstores, and said with some confusion: "The sales volume in the past few days has been flat, why did it suddenly increase again?"

Yuanchuan Bookstore has not invested in new publicity channels recently!

After signing, Xiao Ba was eating the omelet rice she ordered. Hearing this, he remembered how he was surrounded by his classmates in the morning: "...Maybe it's because school started."

"Hey?"

Editor Hejian looked confused, which made Xiao Ba also confused: "Isn't Editor Hejian a senior light novel editor?"

"I'm a senior, but this 'senior' is limited to Yuanchuan Bookstore... I joined Yuanchuan Bookstore after graduating from university. About two or three years ago, Yuanchuan Bookstore saw the prospects of the light novel market and decided to try it out first. Water, so I was transferred to be the editor of light novels." Editor He Jian wiped his forehead with a handkerchief with a wry smile, "But, how should I put it... The focus of Yuanchuan Bookstore is still on serious literature. Although I saw the prospect of light novels, I didn't invest too much, and when new writers prepare to contribute light novels, they basically don't consider Yuanchuan Bookstore, which has almost no publicity in this regard..."

So in these years, although editor Hejian has been in charge of several light novels with sufficient qualifications, the response to those few books was mediocre, and they belonged to starvation but could not be supported, so he was very concerned about the sudden and sudden increase in "Envoy of God" yesterday. It is normal to have no clue about the sales volume.

"That's right!" Xiaoba nodded after understanding, "Yesterday's sales suddenly increased, probably because school started all over Japan yesterday. The original sales target of light novels are middle and high school students. When you meet your classmates and friends, isn’t it a matter of course to give your favorite novels to each other?” Just like Huahuajia’s online literature, the traffic increases on weekends, and the “golden traffic” during the winter and summer vacations is the same. It is caused by the students who usually cannot get their mobile phones to go home.

Editor He Jian paused as he wiped his forehead with a handkerchief: "Teacher Zhen Ji means..."

"If the previous sales volume is as shown in this table, there is no moisture (Editor Hejian: Absolutely no moisture! Teacher Zhenji, you underestimate yourself!)," Xiaoba picked up the tablet, which was shown to her by Editor Hejian just now On the sales volume graph of "The Envoy of God", the thin white and slender fingers traced a curve that rose at first and then flattened at the point of sale as of yesterday. "It will probably be flat for at least a week."

Editor Hejian: "..." No, if it's really because of the first day of school as Teacher Zhenji said, judging from the early stage of "Envoy of God", it is impossible to be even in the next week!

It is right to continue to rise!

Suddenly, I feel that the 30 copies set by the director's boldness will not be able to support the next time Teacher Zhen Ji has time to sign the contract for reprinting!

He has to tell the director about this as soon as he goes back!

"By the way, since Teacher Zhen Ji is free today, we want to talk about the remaining content of "Envoy of Gods"..." Editor Hejian remembered his second purpose for coming.

"Ah, I was going to ask you this question too," Xiao Ba twitched his lips, "Why did you divide a 12-word book into two volumes!? Normally, this isn't the content of one volume!"

——At that time, she was too relieved to ask Teacher Ji to find a professional lawyer, and the lawyer focused on whether there were any loopholes in the contract. She didn't know much about the word count requirements for a regular book of light novels. She thought that a book of 12 It is a normal operation to divide the [-]-word book into two volumes and add illustrations. It can also increase the price and bring higher profits to the author, so I didn’t notice this abnormality, so after the lawyer said that there was no problem, Xiao Ba didn’t look carefully The several-page contract was signed directly.

Who knows that they actually divided her 12-word book into two volumes!

"This is also what I want to discuss with Teacher Zhenji on behalf of Yuanchuan Bookstore today." Editor Hejian sat upright, and then asked in a very, very cautious tone, "That... Teacher Zhenji, have you considered changing the " The ending of "The Envoy of God"? The reason why we only released the first volume this time is that the editorial department thought that the ending of the second volume of "The Envoy of God"...is not bad, but...can you change it a little?"

Xiaoba: "No, it can't be done, it's impossible!"

Editor He Jian: "..." The rejection was quite straightforward.

"I know that this requirement is very strong and difficult for others. Teacher Zhen Ji's emphasis on the 'completeness' of her works is also responsible for her hard work as a writer, but aren't light novels all novels that are easy to read! The ending of "Envoy" is really too ...too..." Editor He Jian opened his mouth, but couldn't think of how to describe it after thinking for a long time.

Say sadness, it's kind of healing;

Let’s talk about healing, just got the manuscript of the last chapter, the unsuspecting editor Hejian almost cried after reading it...

"Changing the ending would be equivalent to overturning the setting of the entire book, which is impossible." Xiao Ba said decisively, "You might as well ask me to overturn and rewrite the entire "Envoy of God"!"

He even said the words of overthrowing and rewriting. Editor He Jian knew that there was no room for reversing the matter, so he had to give up: "Then, what about continuing?" Afraid that Teacher Zhen Ji didn't understand, he quickly explained, "It's just the "God". The second volume of "Make" is regarded as a phased end, and then continue to write the second volume."

Because the current results of "Envoy" have exceeded Yuanchuan Bookstore's expectations, and its performance is sufficient to become a long-running series, so Yuanchuan Bookstore immediately decided to abandon the original plan of "only publishing two volumes". It was decided to change the book into a long series.

This is relatively common in Japan. In the manga world, which is close to the field of light novels, Mr. Toriyama wanted to finish the Namek chapter, and Mr. Inoue decided to end "Slam Dunk" in the national competition.The difference between the two is that the editorial department suppressed Mr. Toriyama Akira’s first idea of ​​ending, and abruptly dragged “Dragon Ball” out of the Cyborg chapter and Majin Buu chapter, for the sake of the naked eye when “Dragon Ball” ends. It can be seen that the sales volume of the magazine is about to plummet. The magazine held several big meetings before finally ending this super series cautiously, and Mr. Inoue of the latter stubbornly ended "Slam Dunk" in the national competition chapter.

——Although there were rumors on the Internet that the cooperation between Mr. Inoue and JUMP broke down before Xiaoba crossed, which led to the end of Xiangbei’s championship journey after the Shanwang battle, but no matter what the possibility is, the Japanese editorial department has a strong control over the work You can still get a glimpse of it.

"Take the current ending as the end of a plot rather than the end of the whole book..." Fukuzawa Yukichi frowned slightly, "Forcing the continuation of the story that has already ended would only be a continuation."

"No, no, Mr. Fukuzawa!" Editor Hejian said hastily, "Our editorial department has carefully reviewed "Envoy of the Gods", and Mr. Zhen Ji buried a lot of points in it without elaborating, let's not talk about anything else,' What is the "grey fog", where did the people who were swallowed by the "gray fog" go, why there is a "gray fog" in this world... These questions have not been answered! Judging from the current state of "God Envoy", if the It is completely possible to regard the ending as the opening of a new story!"

Fukuzawa Yukichi didn't speak, but just stared at Editor Hejian with very oppressive eyes.

More sweat broke out on the latter's shiny forehead.

"Mr. Yukichi, you scared the editor Hejian... I'm fine," Xiao Hachi finally swallowed the omelet rice in his mouth, and rescued the editor Hejian who was stubbornly confronting Fukuzawa Yukichi, "You guys I found it... yes, I can continue to write "Envoy of God."

Editor Hejian was overjoyed, but then noticed something was wrong: "...we found out?" He repeated this in confusion.

"Well, when I first conceived "The Envoy of God", I thought about a lot of settings, but the current 12 words did not reflect it at all, or only part of it was reflected. Originally I planned that if the sales volume is good, you want to make it If it is changed to a long series, then these settings that are only mentioned or have not been explained become foreshadowing that can be developed in the later stage." Xiaoba took a sip of orange juice and smiled, "It is a bad writing habit of mine. Bar."

——If the income is not bad after being put on the shelves, let’s break up the foreshadowing in the early stage and write the text that was originally intended to be 30 words into 50, 100 million, 200 million words... When all the foreshadowings and points have been dug out, then It can be a perfect end.Of course, if the subscription is not working and the income is not good after it is put on the shelves, then follow the original outline to finish writing the superficial things and then prepare to open new pits.

As for those foreshadowings and settings that have not been excavated... maybe one day, they can appear again in a future work?

There is no way, we need to have a meal!

If you don't have money, you can't even support yourself. How can you think about generating electricity for love?

"Teacher Zhenji means... you already have an outline?" Editor He Jian asked hastily.

That means that the ending of "Envoy of God" that made him almost cry out of character can be changed!

"Well, wait a minute," said Xiaoba, and took out the terminal, operated a few times, found a document from a folder, opened it, and then handed the terminal to the editor Hejian, "Follow-up outline, Hejian Please take a look at the editor, if there is no problem, I will write according to this later."

After she finished speaking, she continued to bury her head in eating her omelet rice: After finishing the work here, I will go back to school soon after class, if I don’t take advantage of this time to eat, there will be no time to fill my stomach later!

After she finished eating, the editor Hejian also read the follow-up outline: "...It's great, what a grand world view! It seems that it is just the events that the protagonist Cesar encountered along the way, but there is a gap between each event. There is a secret connection, and the truth of the world that Cesar faced in the end even recovered all the foreshadowing in the early stage, and it ended perfectly!" Editor He Jian exclaimed, but then his face collapsed, and he returned the terminal to Xiao Xiao in a depressed mood. Eight, "...but, why, the ending is still the same as before!"

Except for deepening its tear-jerking and healing degree with the outline of the whole article, there is no change!

If the tear gas and healing level before is LEVEL1, then the tear gas and healing level at the end of this complete outline is LEVEL6!

What did the reader do wrong to be hurt so much by Teacher Zhenji! ! !

One of the purposes they tried their best to persuade Mr. Zhenji to extend the front line and continue writing "Envoy of the Gods" was to change the original ending!

As a result, going around and going around, nothing changed except that the knife in their hearts was pierced deeper!

"There is a change!" Xiao Ba put down the orange juice and said seriously, "At least after reading the entire outline, you can't say 'please change the ending', right?"

"..."

This is the truth.

If they only read the current chapters of "Envoy of the Gods" before and let them still have a little hope, after reading this outline, they can fully understand why Teacher Zhenji said that instead of changing the outline, it is better to overthrow the entire book and rewrite up...

"By the way, the one who drew the illustrations for "The Envoy", um...what's his name?" Hachi tried hard to think about it, and finally remembered, "Is that Shimazaki Setsuna? There is that Shimazaki-sensei Is there any contact information for her? Now that "Envoy of God" has been finalized to be changed to a full-length novel, I need to talk to her later to avoid bugs in the previous illustrations..."

Of course, the most important thing is the ambush pen, the kind that allows readers to find details that they didn't notice before when they go back and revisit after reading the book.

Then the reader will be more impressed with the ending...

"Yes, yes..." Editor Hejian hesitated for a moment.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Ba keenly realized something from the hesitation.

"Actually, the editorial department is currently thinking about whether to replace the illustrator who drew the illustrations for Mr. Zhenhime..." If this resolution, which is still under discussion, is implemented, then Mrs. Zhenhime will have no need to communicate with Ms. Shimazaki Setsuna contacted.

"Why?" Xiaoba asked suspiciously, "I saw Shimazaki-sensei's illustrations yesterday, and they are very suitable for "Envoy", and there are no bugs. On the premise that I have not communicated with Shimazaki-sensei, this The teacher can draw the scene I described in words with a brush, and even draw the details that are not mentioned in the current scene but mentioned in the previous article, which is enough to prove that at least I have read the original text of "The Envoy" and understand Roughly set. On the premise that Mr. Shimazaki’s works are completely fine, why do you want to change people?”

"Just, it's just a discussion of the direction of the wind! If you don't want to, Mr. Zhen Ji, I'll convey your request to the editorial department immediately!" Editor He Jian hurriedly said, "Actually, it's because of Shimazaki-sensei's personal reasons... We have discussed it before. I am paying attention to online comments, forums and comment areas where "Envoy of God" is discussed, and occasionally there will be a few posts mentioning Mr. If plagiarism is involved, then the only option is to replace the person, and we must not let "Envoy of God" be stained with this kind of taint!"

This is the consensus of Yuanchuan Bookstore, which has finally ushered in a light novel cash cow.

Fukuzawa Yukichi couldn't help but frowned: "Plagiarized the illustrations drawn for Xiaoba?"

"No, the few posts we have seen so far are all about the plagiarism of the Two-dimensional fan works that Mr. Shimazaki uploaded to N station before, and no one has said that the illustrations of "God Envoy" are plagiarized." Editor He Jian explained .

After hearing this, Xiaoba picked up the terminal and searched for the name "Shimazaki Setsuna" on the Internet, and a series of search results quickly popped up, most of which were related to "Envoy of God", but after she turned a few pages, she found I saw a website called "Summary Wiki of Plagiarism of Painter Setsuna".

"All in all, don't worry about it, Teacher Zhenji. Our editorial department will deal with these matters, and we will inform you, Teacher Zhenji, of the results!" Editor Hejian saw that the time was almost up, and got up to leave, "By the way, Teacher Zhenji has If you are free, start a Twitter, now there are many readers who want to communicate with you but can’t find a place, so it’s very scattered——ah, Teacher Zhen Ji doesn’t need to worry about taking care of Twitter, just create an account and then When the new book is released, just tell your fans, and our publishing house’s Twitter will also help.”

Xiaoba nodded, seeing that editor Hejian left in a hurry, the matter here came to an end... Oh, no, she still has to tell Mr. Yuji about her becoming a king...

Sure enough, Fukuzawa Yukichi's mentality almost burst when he was suddenly told that the child he had adopted had become the colorless king, especially because he had experienced the previous scarlet king Kaguto's revelation to Damocles. The sword fell in the era when a huge crater was smashed in Kanagawa Prefecture that killed 70 people. I know how terrible the power of the king would be if it was not controlled.

"Actually, you don't have to worry about this. The previous colorless king died of illness. Except for Kaguzu Xuanshi, I haven't seen any king who dropped his sword and died! So this drop of the sword is still a small probability event, pay attention It's fine, and my colorless king ability is very troublesome and very difficult to use, it's basically impossible for me to "abuse power and cause the sword to drop" to happen to me, so don't worry, Mr. Yuji!"

Fukuzawa Yukichi took a deep breath, and just asked her to go back to Tokyo to prepare for school, and this child really couldn't be wrong with such a big event: "...the reason why I didn't contact me before was because of the king's authority? "

"Well, I was called away by Mr. Dajue of Guochang Road, and I was taught a lot of common sense about kings." Xiao Ba said with a look of embarrassment.

——I didn’t lie, I just concealed part of the truth.

The matter has been done, and it is impossible to return the sword. In the end, Fukuzawa Yukichi could only tell him not to abuse the power of the king, and call him if there is anything. Yokohama subway.

After seeing off Mr. Fukuzawa Yukichi, Xiao Hachi also went back to Weizhong Academy, but instead of taking a short nap in the car, he changed to check the post he just found.

After reading all the content compiled by the other party along the post, Xiao Ba couldn't help but frown: What, it's all talking nonsense and finding fault. If this can be regarded as plagiarism, anyone's book is plagiarism-copied dictionary.

She thought it was plagiarism!

If it’s just these contents, then Mr. Shimazaki’s status as an artist of “The Envoy” will basically not be replaced, so you can rest assured.

After all, she quite likes Mr. Shimazaki's painting style.

...Compared to plagiarism, it is more like someone with pink eyes.

Thinking of this, she redirected the page to Twitter. She has a Twitter account, which is used to follow fans, and also follows each other with some classmates in the class—it is absolutely impossible to change the ID to be Zhenji Bacai Twitter to use.

Xiaoba quit her Twitter without hesitation, and re-registered an account, the ID is the pseudonym Zhenji Bacai, very good, no one registered.

After filling out the information and registering, Xiaoba followed Yuanchuan Bookstore's Twitter account, retweeted the other party's tweet about "God Envoy", then closed Twitter, and found out that he had just received it from Editor Hejian. Setsuna Shimazaki's contact information, sent a text message:

Hello, Mr. Shimazaki, I am Zhen Ji Bacai, the author of "The Envoy of God". I just learned that "The Envoy of God" will be changed into a long novel and continue to be published, so our cooperation will continue for a long time (ω)

If it is convenient, can we talk about the follow-up illustrations of "The Envoy" tonight?Some details that I failed to write in the book need Mr. Shimazaki's illustrations to supplement!