The literary era since 1979

March 3, Joint Publishing Company, Hong Kong.

Pan Yaoming hurried into Fangyan's office, closed the door, and said bluntly:
"Cui Zai has already confronted Huang Yulang."

"I thought I would have to wait a few more days, but I didn't expect him to be so decisive."

The dialect was quite unexpected.

"After all, Cui Zai is only Rong Cheng's assistant in Huang Yulang's company, but in our company, he is the head of the comics department."

Pan Yaoming smiled and said, "But during the process of resigning, he seemed to have some unpleasantness with Huang Yulang."

Fang Yan frowned: "Why, Huang Yulang is still unwilling to let an assistant go?"

"No, Huang Yulang doesn't know that he has a relationship with us, so how could he be willing to pay a huge price to keep him here?"

Pan Yaoming said: "It's just that Huang Yulang is worried that his resignation and job-hopping may affect his stay in Rongcheng after his contract expires."

"No matter how worried Huang Yulang is, it's useless now."

Fangyan shrugged, "It's a done deal."

"you do not say."

Pan Yaoming had a wicked smile on his face. It wouldn't be long before Cui Xingzhong would implement the recruitment plan, and there were many people from Huang Yulang's company on the list of people to be poached.

Fang Yan said: "I'll leave this to you guys."

"I understand. It's not convenient for you, the boss behind the scenes, to be exposed now. Otherwise, it will easily alert Huang Yulang."

Pan Yaoming understood very well.

"Not only that, I'm planning to go to Japan during this period."

Fangyan turned around and his eyes fell on the world map on the wall.

"What are you going to do in Japan?"

Pan Yaoming was very surprised.

“The movie ‘Love Letter’ is going to be released soon.”

Fangyan smiled and said, "And by the way, I'm going to receive an award. Love Letter won this year's Kawabata Yasunari Literature Award."

"Hiss, good news! Double happiness!"

Pan Yaoming congratulated him repeatedly, then showed a playful smile, "You don't mind letting Sanlian Bookstore share in your joy, right?"

Fangyan was amused, "How do you want to dip it?"

Pan Yaoming said that given the popularity of "Love Letter" in Japan, the movie would surely be a box office hit after its release, and the sales of the novel would then usher in another surge. This news would naturally reach Hong Kong, and if Sanlian Bookstore had made preparations early, it would have been able to reap the benefits of this. For example, it could have notified the printing factory that often cooperated with Sanlian Bookstore to work overtime to print another batch of "Love Letter".

"You are good at business, but I have already thought of this."

Fang Yan joked, "I will mention this matter when I ask for leave from Mr. Xiao, and then hand it over to Comrade Yuxiu."

Pan Yaoming nodded and agreed to his arrangement. "So when are you going to leave for Japan? Have you booked your flight ticket?"

"In a few days."

Fang Yan said, "After I explain the characteristics and requirements of the character design for Xuan-Yuan Sword."

…………

Three days later, Tokyo.

Fangyan informed Yuhikaku and Shochiku Film Company of his trip, but declined their offer to send a special car to pick him up.

Instead, Dengeki Bunko made special arrangements. At this moment, Kadokawa Toshihiko and his secretary were standing at the airport exit.

As soon as Fangyan saw the sign holding high that read "Welcome Fangyan to Japan", he walked through the crowd and over.

"Li Yanjun, why did you come here in person?"

"Haha, it's rare for a shareholder to come to Japan, so how can I, as the chairman, not come to greet him?"

Kadokawa Koyomi joked, and the two hugged each other, and in order to avoid exposing their identities and causing a commotion among passers-by at the airport, they went to the parking lot very low-key.

The secretary got into the car and just as he turned the key to start the engine, the radio happened to start playing Keiko Matsuzaka's melodious singing.

"The wind blows and tells me summer is coming,

Quietly, quietly,
……

Joy becomes a river,

Sorrow brings the rainbow,

Although there is no road on this journey,

But I walked so comfortably.
I don't know when the rice ears have drooped.
There are also purple orchids to decorate the journey. "

"This is the theme song of the movie Love Letter. Audiences keep requesting it these days. It's really popular."

Kadokawa Koyomi said this casually.

Fangyan was not surprised at all, but when the secretary mentioned that the single "Hanasaki Ku Tajiro", it not only broke the record of weekly champion of Japan's cable on-demand chart held by Keiko Matsuzaka's "Snow Flower", but even broke the record of the number of online on-demand views of a Japanese single.

"This song is written by you, right?"

Kadokawa Lehiko cast a meaningful look at him.

"Yes."

Fangyan agreed readily. After all, the movie was adapted from his own novel, so naturally he wanted to make it as perfect as possible.

"If that's what you said, then when Tokyo Love Story is made into a movie or a TV series, you must not be partial to one and be stingy with your writing." Kadokawa Koyomi said with a smile, "The quality of the lyrics must be at least as good as this song Hanasaki-ku Taroki."

"Aren't you too anxious?"

Fangyan asked curiously, "Has the manga of Tokyo Love Story been released yet?"

“It has been serialized for two issues so far.”

Kadokawa Toshihiko said with great satisfaction: "Whether it is sales, popularity, or reader feedback, it can be proven that this is a popular masterpiece."

Fangyan touched his chin and thought that after the comic serialization was completed, he could let Dengeki Bunko publish a novel of the same name and earn a lot of royalties.

Kadokawa Leyan said seriously: "I plan to start publishing the single volume when the comic is serialized to the seventh or eighth issue."

Fangyan was surprised, "So fast?"

"Isn't it just a matter of time?"

Kadokawa Koyohiko said that although "Tokyo Love Story" has only been serialized for two issues, many TV stations and film companies have already contacted Dengeki Bunko to compete for the film and television adaptation rights of "Tokyo Love Story". After all, the author of this script is "the great writer Fang"!
"Wait a minute."

Fangyan listened patiently to each company's quotation and then waved his hand.

"Tokyo Love Story" is known as the "Japanese Drama Love Trilogy" together with "Long Vacation" and "Love Century", and it was also the ratings champion in Japan that year. The film and television adaptation rights of such works are not so "cheap", and it would cost at least 1000 million yen.

Of course, this 10 million yen royalty is not the limit for Fangyan, but the maximum copyright fee for works set by the Japan Literary Association.

For example, "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba", a series of theatrical films raked in 320 billion yen, even achieving the top achievement in Japanese film history, but the cartoonist of "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba" only received 1000 million yen, and there was no reason for him to be eligible for additional share.

Therefore, he decided to invest in Kadokawa Lehiko and founded Dengeki Bunko, so that when he cooperated with TV stations and film companies, he could obtain benefits far exceeding the maximum upper limit of 1000 million through this channel.

"Alright."

Kadokawa Koyomi nodded.

"Speaking of which, you also contributed to the film Love Letter. Will Li Yanjun be there to attend?"

Fangyan glanced at it.

"I'd better forget it. Please say 'congratulations' to my big brother, President Okuyama, on my behalf."

Kadokawa Koyomi sighed. Ever since he resigned as president of Kadokawa Bookstore, the relationship between the two brothers could never go back to the past. (End of this chapter)