Rekindling the Youthful Era

Chapter 656 Do you want me to kiss you awake?

When Gong Ao took out the admission letter, not only Li Luo was stunned for a moment, but the audience watching the live broadcast room were also stunned for a moment.

【? ? ? 】

A large number of question marks passed by.

Then the number of barrages suddenly exploded.

【Killing me】

【Hahahaha! Look at Ran Shen’s expression! 】

[Brother is awesome. He sent the book thousands of miles away just to get him to update more. I am so touched]

At this time, the audience watched Li Luo stand up to confirm the authenticity.

[Still a little unconvincing, right? ]

[Are you trying to default on your debt?! ]

[I am dying of laughter. How about writing a chapter on the spot? 】

After Li Luo confirmed it, he actually took out his mobile phone and added another chapter.

【what? 】

[No, buddy, are you serious? 】

【WTF, it’s actually updated! 】

[This guy has a manuscript saved! ]

[No wonder he is so calm, there seems to be a lot of stock]

[My score is good enough to get into a 985 university, but the admission letter hasn't arrived yet. Can I ask Ranshen to update more chapters after I get it? ]

[Add more! We have to add more! It’s up to you guys! ]

[What happened to you guys? You said you would be bad students together, but now none of you want to act anymore, right? ]

[How can I be worthy of reading the same book with you guys? 】

After returning to his seat, Li Luo signaled the host to wait, then picked up the microphone and said to the camera in the live broadcast room:
"I am a person who always keeps my word."

"So during the summer vacation, all readers who have been admitted to 985 universities."

"As long as you apply to join the full subscription group of "Daqian Night Patrol", and ask the group owner to send your acceptance letter to prove that it is you, I can add another chapter."

"We are a gentleman's agreement, and we will never break our promise!"

"Oh, by the way, since I'm working so hard to update, please remember to support me with monthly tickets!"

After saying that, Li Luo put down the microphone with a smile and nodded to the host.

The host then picked up the microphone and said with a smile: "I have truly felt everyone's love for Mr. Chongran's works."

"After sitting here for so long, I guess everyone must be eager to get the physical copy of Little Joy signed by Mr. Chongran."

"That concludes our interactive question-and-answer session today."

"Next, everyone please line up on the left side of our stands and come to our teacher Chongran to receive books and peripheral gifts."

"Please take your book purchase receipts and collect them according to the receipts."

The audience who had been waiting for a long time stood up and went to line up.

Before entering today, they had already decided at the door what kind of physical book they wanted, completed the payment, and received the corresponding receipt.

After starting to line up, they came to Li Luo one by one in order.

At this time, two girls on Li Luo's left and right stood up. One was responsible for collecting the receipts, and then sending out the corresponding physical books based on the contents of the receipts.

The other is to wait for readers and fans to take photos with Li Luo and then give them small peripheral gifts.

Li Luo himself was not that busy. He just stood there as a mascot and took photos with people.

It’s just that occasionally some female fans would come up to take photos with them and get too close to Li Luo, which would make them a little unhappy.

Especially Xu Youyu!

He pretended not to know the three of them, and no one knew where he got the receipt from, but he actually came up to take a photo with Li Luo.

She almost squeezed into Li Luo's arms when taking the photo!

Excessive!

At this time, the host faced the camera in the live broadcast room and began to introduce to everyone the collector's edition and ordinary signed edition offered at this signing event.

After the physical book of "Little Joy" was released, it was divided into three volumes: upper, middle and lower. The price of a single book was 35 yuan, and if you buy a set directly, it would be 99 yuan.

Today, the ordinary signature model is priced at 168 yuan. There are a total of sets, and there are more than sets left.

The collector's edition with all three books signed is priced at 208 yuan, and there are more than sets left.

The entire signing session started at 1:30 p.m., with Li Luo’s sharing session lasting 15 minutes and the interactive Q&A session lasting more than half an hour.

The final autograph session with queuing for photos still took nearly three hours to complete, even though Li Luo had signed autographs in advance.

But about an hour into the signing, the audience in the live broadcast room had already ordered all the autographed models.

When the signing was finally finished, Li Luo took a group photo in front of the poster with the remaining dozens of readers and fans who had not left. After seeing them all off, the signing event was finally over.

After receiving the news from Manager Zhang that all the signed editions were sold, Li Luo breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing the happy smile on the other person's face, he also smiled.

"Teacher Chongran, it's a pleasure working with you." Manager Zhang shook Li Luo's hand firmly and said with a smile, "We have arranged a dinner party tonight. Please do us a favor and let's celebrate."

"Okay, I have three more friends..."

"Everyone, come on!" Manager Zhang immediately added enthusiastically, "Let's just pack up and go, shall we?"

"Well, let's go." Li Luo said with a smile, "I'm a little hungry."

In the evening, Li Luo and Xu Youyu both drank a little wine at the dinner table. They came out of the restaurant at around eight o'clock, and the responsibility of driving was handed over to Ying Chanxi.

Yan Zhusheng sat in the co-pilot seat, leaving the empty seat at the back for the two drunkards.

"I told you to drink less." Ying Chanxi was driving and looked at Li Luo in the rearview mirror, who was holding his head and rubbing his forehead. He couldn't help but complain, "Look at how drunk you are."

"It's okay, I'm fine." Li Luo actually just felt a little dizzy, and his body had a light and floating feeling, but he was not drunk yet.

Xu Youyu, who was standing next to him, had drunk about the same amount as him, so he didn't seem to be abnormal at this time. He looked at him with a smile and said, "You can't do this. You're already drunk at this little?"

“Not drunk…”

"That's what drunk people say."

Li Luo rolled his eyes at her: "I was just happy drinking, I accidentally drank a little too much."

"Just because of the reprinting?"

"I guess so." Li Luo smiled, still feeling a little dizzy, so he simply lay on Xu Youyu's thighs, "Let me lean on you for a while."

Xu Youyu reached out to hold his head, and seeing that he closed his eyes in his arms, he couldn't help but stroke his brow with his slender fingers.

"The royalties from physical books are not as high as the 50-50 split for online articles. What's more, you are a platinum now, so the royalties should be split 30-70," Xu Youyu continued.

"But physical books sell a lot." Li Luo said with his eyes closed in her arms, "and I signed a tiered contract with the publisher."

"Ah?" Xu Youyu was stunned for a moment, "Step-by-step?"

"It's like a bet agreement." Li Luo smiled. "Because the physical book has to be on the shelves during the broadcast of the TV series, the time for publishing the physical book must be before the TV series is broadcast." "At that time, the publishing house didn't know how the TV series would perform. Although my online writing performance is very impressive, there is no previous performance as a basis for the publication of physical books."

“So we just negotiated a tiered contract.”

Li Luo said this and explained the contents of the tiered contract.

Simply put, royalties are divided into different levels according to sales volume.

The publisher initially printed 5 copies, with a royalty of %.

Once this sales volume is exceeded, the royalties will rise to 6%.

If the sales volume exceeds 8 copies, the royalties will increase to %.

20 copies is 10%.

40 copies is 12%.

And so on, the final cap is one million copies, and the highest royalties can reach 15%.

Although Li Luo has no previous record of physical book sales, he is, after all, a popular platinum online writer.

So if we negotiate normally, the royalties offered by the publishing house would be around 8%.

But Li Luo was well aware of the power of "Little Joy", so he asked Lawyer Tian to represent Chongran Culture to negotiate such a tiered contract.

The publishing house was naturally happy to accept it. After all, the TV series had not come out at that time. If the sales were not good, the 5% royalty would allow them to earn a little more.

If the subsequent sales can really exceed hundreds of thousands of copies, it means that the commercial value of the physical book of Rekindled is also very high. This time, just treat it as making friends, and it’s okay to get a little more royalties.

The results are also encouraging.

Just a few days after Little Joy was aired, the physical book hadn’t even been released yet, but Manager Zhang, who was in charge of Little Joy at the publishing house, felt that the TV series had the potential to become a huge hit.

Therefore, the original initial print run of 50,000 copies was urgently increased to 100,000 copies.

As a result, after the physical book was released on July 15, the publishing house took advantage of the huge traffic brought by "Little Joy" and also placed a lot of advertisements online and offline.

Under the name of the provincial top scorer's college entrance examination notes, it really attracted a wave of traffic.

After all, the best-selling offline physical books these days are never novels, but various educational guidance and children's books, or some chicken soup books about success.

People who buy books in China often do so with a strong purpose.

This book can only be sold if it can gain something from its purchase.

Children and young people are the main readers.

But the financial power of the family lies in the hands of the parents.

Therefore, if you want to sell books well, you have to find ways to stimulate parents' desire to buy.

The huge popularity of "Little Joy", coupled with Li Luo's identity as the provincial top scholar, has brought a strong driving force that is an extremely huge temptation for parents.

I can't resist it at all!
Therefore, after the physical book of "Little Joy" was released, 100,000 copies were sold out in just half a month.

Just now at the dinner table, Manager Zhang told Li Luo about this matter, and he will print another 100,000 copies later.

This is already a minimum of 200,000 copies.

According to the royalty system in the tiered contract, Li Luo's royalty had risen to 10% by then.

This is equivalent to a complete set of "Little Joy" sold for 99 yuan, and Li Luo can earn 9.9 yuan in profit from it.

Two hundred thousand copies, that would mean nearly two million in royalties!

If this book can really sell 100 million copies in the future, with a 15% royalty, that would be a full 1500 million in real money!

Although Li Luo is not short of money now, being able to have this kind of long-tail income that can last for a long time can still boost his inner sense of security and satisfaction.

Just as Yu Hua said, he lives on "To Live". Although it seems like a joke, it is the truth.

After all, the endless income from royalties every year has truly helped him achieve financial freedom by allowing him to count his money without doing anything.

Although Li Luo's "Little Joy" is far from comparable to "To Live", it is still a very popular book among physical books.

After all, compared to the previous life's "Little Joy", Li Luo has added more buffs for this.

Whether it is the pre-promotion and warm-up, the support of multiple songs, and the publicity matrix of Huayue Film and Television headed by Ying Zhicheng, and Wenyue Group including Penguin Video behind it.

Add to that the popularity of Li Luo, the top scorer in the college entrance examination.

This life's "Little Joy" is far more popular and has more traffic than the previous life's "Little Joy".

"I should have bought a bigger villa earlier." Li Luoyao thought about the wonderful life in the future, and fell asleep on Xu Youyu's lap in a daze, muttering something.

When Xu Youyu heard this, he burst out laughing.

Ying Chanxi, who was in the driver's seat, complained: "The villa at Tianlu Yaju is big enough. If it were bigger, going to the toilet would be like going to work."

Xu Youyu chuckled, then immediately covered his mouth. He lowered his head and noticed that Li Luo was asleep and snoring softly. He raised his index finger and whispered to the front row, "Don't talk, he seems to be asleep, be quiet."

Upon hearing this, Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng immediately kept quiet and no one spoke.

The Audi A6 drove along the highway, along the road between Changning City and Yuhang City, and soon returned to the Bihai Lanting community in Yinjiang District.

At 9:30 in the evening, Ying Chanxi parked his car steadily in the parking space downstairs.

Xu Youyu in the back row gently patted Li Luo who was lying in his arms.

"Um...are you home?"

"We're home now." Xu Youyu smiled softly, "You don't want me to kiss you awake, do you?"

"That's not impossible." Hearing this, Li Luo deliberately closed his eyes again.

As a result, at this time, the car door was opened.

The next second, Li Luo felt Xu Youyu approaching him.

But this touch doesn't seem to have Sister Yu's, it's thin, light, more like...

As soon as Li Luo opened his eyes, he saw Yan Zhusheng standing outside the car, leaning over and kissing him on the mouth. He was suddenly at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

Xu Youyu was also speechless: "Okay, okay, get up quickly after the kiss."

As a result, just as Xu Youyu pushed Yan Zhusheng away, Li Luo hadn't even stood up when she leaned over and kissed him hard again.

At this time, Ying Chanxi had already walked to the entrance of the corridor. Seeing that the three of them had not come over yet, he immediately shouted in confusion: "What are you doing? Hurry up and go home!"

"I'm coming!"

Li Luo finally stood up from the car, pushed open the door on the other side and got out.

Xu Youyu also got out of the car, and the three of them walked towards Ying Chanxi at the entrance of the corridor.

"Hurry up, I'm busy tonight." Ying Chanxi urged.

"What are you busy with?" Li Luo asked puzzledly.

"Have you forgotten? I am now the group leader of your new book subscription group, okay?" Ying Chanxi rolled his eyes at him. "On the way home just now, my phone kept vibrating. They were all people sending me acceptance letters."

Hearing this, Li Luo was immediately shocked: "How many people are there already?"

"This... let me take a look?" Ying Chanxi took out his phone and took a look. Then he was stunned for a moment, "Hmm... it seems... there are at least more than fifty now..."

(End of this chapter)