Rekindling the Youthful Era

Chapter 642 How about typing while...

The next afternoon, Wenyue Group’s annual mid-year writers’ salon event officially opened in the conference hall on the third floor of the hotel.

Li Luo's seat was arranged in the first row at the front. Knowing the close relationship between Xu Youyu and him, Xu Youyu also took advantage of it and sat next to him.

In addition, those who can sit in the first row are almost all platinum bosses who have been famous for a long time, or top gods who are currently famous.

At a glance, the people in the first row are probably all worth tens of millions or more, and they are all well-known figures in the online literature circle.

"Little Pujie is already trembling." Xu Youyu leaned close to Li Luo's ear and whispered, "It's all thanks to Chongran for protecting me~"

Li Luo rolled his eyes at her: "I don't see that you are shaking."

"It's all thanks to you that I can sit in the first row." Xu Youyu said with a smile, "People who don't know me think I'm amazing, but I'm actually not even a great person."

"It's okay, it will be done soon." Li Luo said this, and then asked, "How much is your average order now?"

"It's already more than 19,000~" Xu Youyu said cheerfully, winking at him, "Wait for the editor to arrange another recommendation for me next month, it should be around 20,000."

"Then it's definitely stable." Li Luo reached out and held Xu Youyu's hand, kneading it gently twice, "By the end of the year, you should change your name to the God of Early Sleeping."

"Don't mention this to me, it's so unpleasant." Xu Youyu looked disgusted and waved his hands repeatedly.

Li Luo smiled and added jokingly: "Then let's simplify it and call it the God of Sleep?"

"Get out of here!"

The two of them were flirting in their seats until 1:30 p.m., when the editor-in-chief Nanfeng, who was responsible for hosting the salon event, walked onto the stage.

Compared with the annual writers' meeting at the end of each year, the writers' salon activities in the middle of the year are less formal, and the various processes are relatively casual. There will be no live broadcast to the outside world, and it is generally a relatively closed small circle social event.

Many online writers don’t like to be in the spotlight, so the atmosphere of salon events is very much to their liking.

After Editor-in-Chief Nanfeng came on stage, he briefly and casually introduced the schedule of this year's salon activities, and joked with several familiar platinum bosses in the audience.

Then we got to the point and introduced several essay writing activities that will be launched in the second half of this year.

For example, in the light novel field, this year they plan to launch a writing competition called "One Emperor and Four Emperors", which looks quite childish and very consistent with the temperament of light novels.

In addition, corresponding writing competitions are also launched for niche categories such as science fiction, fantasy, martial arts, and military.

Among them, there is one that Li Luo is very familiar with - the third realism-themed essay writing competition.

Back then, "Little Joy" won the first prize in the first realistic essay contest. Now, in the blink of an eye, it has already been the third session.

For many of the popular writers, such topics are tasteless.

For example, the light novel "One Emperor and Four Emperors" writing competition is an internal activity launched by Qidian's light novel category, which is mainly used to reward new authors.

However, some great authors would be more interested in writing competitions like those on realistic themes that have cooperative relationships with official government agencies or certain large companies.

Because it means it is easier to sell the copyright.

However, this does not mean so much to Li Luo now.

"Little Joy" is now officially on the air and has achieved explosive results, which has completely proved the copyright value of the production.

So now Li Luo has passed the stage where he needs to find someone to sell the copyright himself. Instead, a bunch of people come to him and beg him to buy the copyrights of his other books.

When capital pursues profits and also wants to pursue lower risks, this result is often caused.

So a certain platinum boss privately warned Li Luo before that he should sell the film and television copyrights as soon as possible and not to care too much about the price. This is what he meant.

Of course, Wenyue Group holds salon events not just to bring authors together, but there are also copyright considerations behind them.

The authors who are invited to participate in the event are basically those who have already made a name for themselves on the platform and are qualified to be involved in copyright adaptation.

It is a great advantage to know the content of the subsequent essay competition in advance, communicate with the editor privately, and find out the intentions of the official organization or financial sponsor behind the essay competition.

"Do you have any thoughts on this essay contest on realistic themes?" Half an hour after the opening, it was time for a break. Editor-in-Chief Nanfeng walked down the stage and asked Li Luo with a smile.

To be honest, Li Luo does have a novel that meets the requirements of this essay topic.

But because he had already been chosen by his father-in-law, Li Luo naturally could not tell anyone else.

So he shook his head gently and said with a smile: "Mr. Editor-in-Chief, I am currently working on two publications, and "Daqian Night Patrol" has always been updated with 10,000 words every day. If there is another one, I am afraid I will die suddenly."

"Haha, that's just what I mentioned." Nan Feng smiled and patted his shoulder. "After all, your Little Joy received such a warm response this time, which shows that you are very talented in this area. If you have some free time in the future, it's not impossible for you to try more short stories."

In response to the praise from editor-in-chief Nanfeng, Li Luo echoed the praise with a few words but did not go into further details.

As for selling copyrights, if you can sell them yourself, who would be willing to share the income with the platform?

He now has channels from Ying Zhicheng. Short stories like "Little Joy" do not generate much subscription income, so there is no need to put them on Qidian's platform.

Sell ​​it directly to your father-in-law and all the copyright fees will belong to you. Isn’t that great?

Anyway, Ying Zhicheng used the money of Huayue Film and Television Company to buy the copyright of his novel.

Thinking of this, Li Luo couldn't help but smile, wondering if Ying Zhicheng was using his power for personal gain?
However, just the movie "Little Joy" has made Huayue Film and Television a lot of money. Next, if they buy the copyright of a novel from him, there will probably be no resistance from the board of directors.

The price will probably increase a lot too.

Especially after the great success of "Little Joy", Ying Zhicheng should be able to completely secure his current position, and his voice in the board of directors will also be greatly enhanced accordingly.

If the next drama goes well, Li Luo feels that he will have more than enough money to spend even if he does nothing else for the rest of his life.

After all, he had a lot of money in the stock market. When he thought of the dramatic rise in those stocks in the next ten years or so, Li Luo couldn't help but sigh.

"Rekindle, I brought you something good."

Just as the writers' salon was approaching evening and free time had begun in the conference hall, editor Qianzhou suddenly walked up to Li Luo and Xu Youyu in a mysterious manner, holding a bag in his arms, and it was unknown what was hidden in it.

"Are you smuggling?" Li Luo saw him like this and said with a bit of amusement, "What is it?" "Hey, I got the materials from the operation side." Qianzhou opened the zipper of his backpack, took out a book from it, and stuffed it into Li Luo's arms, "Here, take it."

"What is this..." Li Luo looked down with curiosity and found three big words written on the cover of the book - "Little Joy".

"Huh?" Xu Youyu came over to take a look and immediately asked in surprise, "Isn't this your physical book? I remember it shouldn't be on sale yet?"

"It's not on sale yet." Qianzhou said with a smile, "The official release date is July 15th, but the operations department has asked the publisher for a few copies first."

"One set is kept in the collection exhibition room of the headquarters company."

"The other sets were given to company presidents and senior executives for collection."

"I've got a set for you to try in advance."

"Then why is there only the first volume?" Li Luo noticed the words "First Volume" next to the three words "Xiao Huanxi" and asked in confusion.

"You haven't finished yet." Qianzhou reached into his backpack again and took out the remaining two books. "Here, there's also the middle and lower volumes."

The "Little Joy" written by Li Luo at the beginning was completely different from the original novel of "Little Joy" in his previous life, because he had never read the original novel at all, and when he was typing, he wrote it completely according to the content of the TV series.

In the end, I wrote a total of more than 800,000 words, which was divided into three volumes to publish as a physical book, which was just right.

"Oh, right." After Qianzhou handed the physical copy of Little Joy to Li Luo, he added, "The Operations Department wants to launch a pre-sale event for the physical copy while Little Joy is at its peak."

"On top of that, they also want to hold an offline book signing event around you."

"When they gave me the physical book just now, they also asked me to ask for your opinion."

"When is the signing event?" Li Luo asked.

"Let's tentatively schedule it for early August," Qianzhou said, "which is exactly when the TV series Little Joy is finished."

Li Luo thought about it for a while, and it seemed that there was no other arrangement in early August, so he nodded and agreed: "It's no problem on my side, you can ask them to take care of the arrangement, and just inform me of the plan in advance."

"Ok." After receiving his affirmative answer, Qianzhou nodded with satisfaction, "Then I'll go and get back to you. Bye."

After watching Qianzhou leave, Li Luo flipped through the physical book of "Little Joy" in his hand.

Xu Youyu also took one and weighed it in his hand before flipping through it and taking a look: "The quality seems pretty good. When it's published, I'll buy a set for my collection."

"I can send you a copy in advance." After hearing what Xu Youyu said, Li Luo seemed to suddenly think of something. He smiled and opened the cover of one of the physical books. He picked up the pen on the table next to him and signed his pen name and real name in the blank space inside.

【Rekindle/Li Luo】

Seeing Li Luo signing his name and handing the physical book to him, Xu Youyu happily took it, then returned the book he had just taken and looked at Li Luo with anticipation.

But Li Luo just coughed a little embarrassedly, and had no intention of giving her the remaining two books: "There are also Xixi and Zhusheng, one for each of them."

Xu Youyu: “……?”

Looking down at the [Middle Volume] in his hand, Xu Youyu was speechless: "How dare you? You divide the whole set of books into three parts for us. You're so smart. Why don't you just divide the people into three parts as well?"

"Ahem..." Li Luo felt a chill down his spine when he heard this. "Don't say that. It sounds creepy."

"You also know it's creepy." Xu Youyu rolled her eyes at him, but she held the book "Little Joy" [Volume 2] tightly in her arms, with no intention of returning it to Li Luo.

……

After the salon banquet at dinner, Li Luo and Xu Youyu were full and had no intention of staying at the venue any longer.

Xu Youyu put down the chopsticks in his hand, looked around, then quietly stretched out his leg, kicked Li Luo on the calf, then raised his mobile phone and pointed to the time displayed on it.

Half past six in the evening.

It's still very early.

But when Li Luo looked at Xu Youyu, his eyes met his charming eyes at the moment, and he blinked at him very ambiguously, he instantly understood what Xu Youyu meant at the moment.

Li Luo immediately put down his chopsticks and apologized to the editor-in-chief Hongdou beside him: "I still have to write tonight, so I will go back to bed early. You guys can eat slowly."

Hongdou was also very clear about the writing schedule of these guys. None of them would move until the early morning, not to mention that Li Luo had two accounts open at the same time, so there were tens of thousands of words of updates waiting for him every day.

So Hongdou nodded very considerately: "Go ahead, don't worry about us."

Li Luo stood up, and together with Xu Youyu, said goodbye to the other people at the table and left. After quickly walking out of the restaurant door, holding hands, their steps became faster and faster, almost running.

It looked like they were eloping.

The two people had smiles of anticipation on their faces. They finally ran into the elevator and stopped. After pressing the button for the eighth floor impatiently, they looked at each other and laughed out loud instantly.

"Sister You Yu, why do I feel like you are more anxious than me?"

"Nonsense." Xu Youyu rolled his eyes at him and said stubbornly, "Just now someone pulled my hand and ran forward. Why was he running so fast?"

"You're not slow, are you?" Li Luo pointed at the elevator button on the wall. "I haven't even had time to press it yet, and you've already mastered it."

The two of them joked and complained to each other, and when the elevator reached the eighth floor, they held hands and quickly came to the door of the room, took out their room cards, swiped them, and pushed the door open.

There was a bang, the sound of the door closing.

Then there was another bang, the sound of someone being pressed against the door.

Then after a while, voices that could not be heard in the corridor were heard from inside.

"Isn't this a bad idea? I still need to sleep in this bed tonight."

"So what does Sister Yu want?"

"Hmm...how about I type this while...hmm~ I haven't finished yet! Ah..."

(End of this chapter)