Who is still a star after rebirth?

Chapter 141 The Hottest "Secretary Kim"

This is the first time that the domestic entertainment industry has been baptized by the "sweet pet drama". "Why Secretary Kim" can be regarded as a severe lesson for the idol drama track.

As the first person to try something new, it is only natural that he deserves to make a fortune.

Kiwifruit made a lot of money, Daxiao Entertainment was very happy, and Lin Luo, the original author, was of course like Qin Shihuang touching a telephone pole——

Won Ma.

The most direct manifestation of the benefit is that the sales of the physical novel "Why Secretary Kim" are growing extremely rapidly, and the sales of online electronic subscriptions are also increasing sharply.

Yunqi responded quickly. On the second day after the TV series was broadcast, the operation team organized a promotion for the completed "Kim's Secretary", saying that the full version could be subscribed at a 20% discount and that players could also win exclusive pendants or something.

The reaction of the Juzhu Publishing House was even quicker. It could even be said that they were well prepared and printed 10,000 copies of the physical book in advance. However, they did not expect that the TV series would become a big hit and the 10,000 copies were not enough. So they continued to print more copies...

you could put it that way:
The TV series became a huge hit and all relevant stakeholders benefited from it. Lin Luo felt a little full just by drinking the soup.

However, the biggest influence of the popularity of "Why Secretary Kim" was another book by Lin Luo:

"Full House"!
Yunqi saw it before and thought that the TV series "Kim's Secretary" was so good that it actually sold three million?
As Lin Luo’s second book, “Full House” must be sold for at least four million or even five million!
This is human nature. The copyright fees cannot be kept lower and lower.

But the three million yuan that "Kim's Secretary" sold for is already a "sky-high copyright price" for those interested companies, and they really can't bear to pay a higher price.

All parties were dissatisfied with Yunqi's exorbitant demands, which resulted in all related companies interested in the film and television rights of "Full House" choosing to wait and see.

Let’s see how the TV series “Kim’s Secretary” performs.

If the effect is good, then it is not impossible to spend four or five million to buy the copyright;
If the effect is not good, then see if you can get a bargain and spend a few hundred thousand to get it.

As a result, no one expected that "Kim's Secretary" would become a hit. When it aired to the twelfth episode, it even topped the Kiwi popularity list, and it was ready to dominate the Spring Festival season!
All the onlookers were dumbfounded. No way, are female-oriented adaptations so popular?
The senior executives of Daxiao Entertainment, who were originally hesitating whether to spend five million to buy "Full House", immediately beat their chests and stamped their feet in regret!

Because the price of "Full House", which was originally 5 million for Daxiao Entertainment, is no longer the same as before.

Yunqi Copyright Department directly said:
Don’t enter Yunqi if the money is less than 10 million. The film and television rights of "Full House" start at 10 million, and the main theme is "Yesterday you ignored me, tomorrow I will make you out of my reach."

You can imagine:

Next, the copyright fees for the film and television adaptation of "Full House" will definitely be a fierce dispute.

After seeing the commercial value of "September", Yunqi's editor Yaya contacted Lin Luo as soon as possible, saying that the website was willing to sign the highest level platinum contract with him this year.

The prerequisite is that "Teacher September" must publish a new book.

Apparently, the website was getting nervous about Linloh not releasing a new book since Full House.

Lin Luo replied "I don't have any inspiration at the moment" and evaded the question. He no longer wanted to hand over the copyright of the novel to the website operator.

The Gouba website wants to take half of the money, whether it is subscription or copyright fee, who can withstand this?

Anyway, "Kim's Secretary" has become a hit, so Lin Luo is fully qualified to show off to Yunqi. Besides, he is not short of pocket money now and does not need to bow down for a few dollars.

It is worth mentioning that:
In fact, the popularity of "Kim's Secretary" is not only due to the fact that it is the first sweet pet drama in the domestic entertainment industry, but also because there are no particularly good TV series on Kiwi TV during this year's Spring Festival.

It has a bit of the flavor of "When there is no tiger in the mountain, the monkey becomes king."

It's not just Kiwi. Youku and its neighbor Penguin Video, which has become increasingly popular in recent years, also failed to make much of a splash in the TV series they bet on during this year's Spring Festival.

Since there were no blockbuster works coming out to compete during the same period, "Kim's Secretary" naturally had a very comfortable time.

Two days later, "Kim's Secretary" finally reached its sixteenth episode finale. At this time, even many Penguin Video and Youku viewers were siphoned over and became loyal fans of the show.

This has become a traditional program for the three major video websites. During every important period, whoever bets successfully can siphon audiences from the other two.

Although Kiwi's initial bet was not "Kim's Secretary", when the drama showed great potential, the operation department immediately changed its mind and began to promote the drama, which led to the glory of this sweet pet drama.

Unfortunately, until the finale, the popularity value of "Kim's Secretary" failed to break 9527, and finally remained at .

The reason is that "Kim's Secretary" is too short. Who can watch it with only sixteen episodes?
These days, domestic entertainment dramas often have a minimum of 50 episodes, but "Kim's Secretary" was only shot in 16 episodes, which is simply an anti-market approach. Its advantage is that the plot is not padded at all and every episode is very exciting, but its disadvantage is that the popularity and topic have just been aroused, and the TV series has ended.

Kiwi is also helpless. They can't deliberately delay the update just to extend the broadcast time, right?

The original strategy for this drama was to air two episodes a day. If it was forced to be changed to two episodes a week because it became popular, the audience would definitely rant about it...

The second reason is that the actors in "Kim's Secretary" are too amateurish. The male lead Bai Yunxian is acting for the first time and has no popularity at all. The female lead Bai Jing may be a little better, but she has only played maids in some TV dramas and the audience has no impression of her at all.

Not to mention that the male and female protagonists have no traffic at all, if they had even a little bit of audience base, the popularity of this drama would have exceeded 10,000 before the finale.

However, what Kiwi regrets most now is that it did not arrange "Kim's Secretary" as a weekly drama and try its best to expand its popularity period.

This was a mistake on the part of the content department. No one saw the amazing potential of "Kim's Secretary" in advance.

Having learned a lesson, Kiwi secretly contacted Yunqi before "Kim's Secretary" was finished airing.

The purpose is very clear, they want to buy the copyright of "Full House" and broadcast it weekly this time!

You should know that in the opening credits of the drama "Kim's Secretary", there is a line of big words flashing across it: [This work is adapted from the novel of the same name by the great writer Jiu Yue from Yunqi. ]

The first line of the opening credits introduces the author. His salary is too high, almost the same as that of director Xu Yang.

But the reason is funny.

Daxiao Entertainment did this not out of respect for the original author "September".

It was simply because Lin Luo had a sister named "Qian Xueying" behind him...

Whatever the reason.

Anyway, most viewers of this drama now know that "Why Secretary Kim" is adapted from Yunqi's female novel, and the original author is called Jiu Yue.

If Kiwi wasn't stupid, he would certainly hope to get the copyright of another novel written by September.

Although no one can guarantee that another novel in September can reach the heights of "Kim's Secretary", everyone still flocked to it as expected...

That's right, they flocked to it, because not only Kiwi, but also Youku Video, Penguin Video, etc. have also made moves, and are all interested in "Full House".

These were all told to Lin Luo by the editor Yaya.

Lin Luo felt very unhappy, and became more determined to keep the copyright of the novel in his own hands in the future.

YaYa also told Lin Luo: “When some companies saw how fierce the competition was for Full House, they turned around and bought the film and television rights to other best-selling books on the website. People are basically asking for the prices of the books that have performed well enough on the website in recent years…”

Lin Luo raised his eyebrows slightly. 2014 is the famous first year of IP.

It seems that the popularity of "Kim's Secretary" has, to some extent, also promoted the IP fever that was destined to start in 2014?
"Right now, the best-selling copyrights are those with sweet love themes similar to "Kim's Secretary". Previously, several authors followed Jiu Ye's lead and wrote sweet love stories with overbearing CEOs in a similar setting. They all reaped the benefits of this wave, with the highest price for a single copyright being three million."

Listen.

YaYa was called Lin Luo Jiuyue in the early days, then called Jiuyue Teacher, and now everyone starts calling him Jiu Ye.

Lin Luo just didn't expect that the author who followed his lead would actually sell the copyright of his novel for three million, which is the same price as the original "Kim's Secretary".

However, Lin Luo also knows that with the advent of the IP era, copyrights will be easier to sell than before, and the prices will of course be higher. What he can expect now is that "Full House" can be sold at a good price.

……

The so-called "sweet pet" is a relatively unfamiliar concept to domestic entertainment audiences, and its freshness is still very high. Therefore, after the finale of "Kim's Secretary" was broadcast, it did not immediately retreat to the second line, and it is still the most discussed work at the moment.

Major media outlets have reported on this and educated domestic entertainment audiences on what the "sweet pet" theme is.

Female readers in the online literature circle have a great sense of superiority about this: "Sweet pet elements began to appear in the online literature circle a few years ago. Although they are not mainstream, there have always been popular books. "Kim's Secretary" is the most representative one."

The implication is that the domestic entertainment television industry is too backward, and a "sweet pet" can cause a fuss.

However, after such media publicity, Jiu Yue, the author of "Kim's Secretary", has become a representative writer of sweet pet novels in the online literature circle.

Lin Luo’s most obvious feeling is that he has become a popular figure in the online literature circle.

Before, when he was in Yunqi’s group of great authors, people didn’t ignore him, but they weren’t very enthusiastic about him either. After all, the group was not short of female authors, and Lin Luo was at most a junior.

But after the TV series "Kim's Secretary" became a hit, Lin Luo popped up in the group and everyone wanted to talk to him.

Even those big names who have been influential in the women's channel since the early 2000s have taken the initiative to add him as their friend.

However, the bigwigs in the female frequency have their own status after all, and they are not ashamed to call Lin Luo "Nine Master".

Lin Luo was naturally very polite. He accepted the friend requests from these people and had already started thinking about who he could take advantage of.

Because Lin Luo knows that there are several people among them who will become big IP owners in the future, and every TV series adapted from their novels will be a hit.

"Opportunities are everywhere, but unfortunately I have limited funds now, so I have to use the best steel on the blade."

Lin Luo originally had 350,000 yuan left in his hands. After returning home, in order to make his parents happy, he transferred 100,000 yuan to each of them.

Now I only have a few hundred thousand left.

At first, his parents didn't want Lin Luo's money, but when he said that the copyright of his novel had been sold for several million and the TV series would be aired soon, his parents accepted it.

In order to prove his words, Lin Luo drove the Porsche in front of his parents and said, "I bought this car with the copyright fee of the novel, which cost just over one million yuan."

Lin Luo's parents were shocked. They remembered that when school was about to start, their son's online novels only earned about 30,000 or 20,000 yuan a month in royalties, right?

At that time, the parents already felt that their son had a promising future.

But how come Lin Luo earned more than a million dollars in just one semester, and even his novel was made into a TV series?

His parents even suspected that Lin Luo was bragging, for example, the car was borrowed, until they saw the TV series "Kim's Secretary" aired, and then they realized that their son was really taking off!
Now, my mother has become a fan of Lin Luo and reads reviews of "Kim's Secretary" on the Internet every day.

When seeing bad comments, my mother would turn into a keyboard warrior and directly confront the trolls. There was one time she was so angry that she didn’t even cook.

Dad said he was hungry, but Mom glared at him and told him to "order takeout." It was not until Lin Luo said takeout was unhealthy that she went into the kitchen to cook, cursing.

Anyway, my mother’s greatest happiness now is to see how people praise “Kim’s Secretary” on the Internet every day.

Seeing that the time was right, Lin Luo said to his parents, either you stop working or I will earn enough for you to enjoy your retirement.

My parents’ first reaction was that it was not possible and they had to work. What if something unexpected happened in the future?
Lin Luo smiled: "Once I sell the copyright of my next book, I will get at least several million after tax. What accidents can there be? Factory work is too tiring. You listen to me and quit your job."

After much persuasion, my dad finally came up with this plan: "Your mom will quit first, and I'll continue working. When you really have that much money, I can quit."

Mom nodded and said, "In fact, your dad and I have worked for so many years mainly to make more money for you to buy a house and marry a wife in the future. If you can buy a house and marry a wife on your own, then your dad and I will be relieved."

"Then listen to my dad."

Things have been settled for now. My mom resigned from the factory and my dad said he would continue working there for a few more years.

Lin Luo thought that his mother should take a rest first. If he could give his father more money next semester, he would dare to resign. Now he just felt uneasy. The older generation was all like this.

And after "Kim's Secretary" was broadcast.

Actress Bai Jing, the heroine of "Kim's Secretary", added Lin Luo as a friend through Xu Yang.

Bai Jing became famous with "Kim's Secretary" and is now considered a big star, but she is quite enthusiastic about Lin Luo and said that she is a fan of Teacher Jiu Yue's books.

"I recently read Full House by Jiu Yue, and I love this book so much. It would be great if I could play the female lead..."

Lin Luo understood the seemingly unintentional words, but unfortunately he couldn't decide who would play the male and female protagonists in "Full House" in the future, so he replied:
"You are already a popular actress. You will definitely have plenty of roles to play in the future. I guess you are overwhelmed by the selection of scripts you can find recently."

"Haha."

Bai Jing did not give a direct answer, but as Lin Luo said, there were indeed a lot of people looking for her books recently.

Because of her popularity with "Kim's Secretary", her next drama will naturally be hot, but Bai Jing feels that this popularity is only temporary.

If her next movie fails, she will most likely become a flash in the pan in the entertainment industry.

So in Bai Jing's opinion, it would be best if she could star in the TV series "Full House". This novel was also written by Jiu Yue. She has actually read the original novel and it is indeed very exciting.

I feel like it’s a good shot, it will be a hit!

Although the agent also reminded Bai Jing that although Jiu Yue was the author of the novel, he did not have the copyright of the novel.

Whether you can act in "Full House" depends mainly on whether Daxiao Entertainment can obtain the copyright of this drama.

However, Bai Jing still added Lin Luo as her friend. Even if the other party could not make the decision, she should at least express her gratitude. After all, she became famous because of "Kim's Secretary".

Having played so many small roles like maids, Bai Jing knows how difficult it is to make a name for herself in the entertainment industry, so she is really grateful to Lin Luo, the original author of the novel.

Finally, he also said that if there is a chance in the future, he would like to invite Lin Luo out for dinner.

Lin Luo smiled and said yes.

Of course, it's just a courtesy. It's hard to say whether we will have the chance to have dinner together in the future.

The person Lin Luo really wanted to have dinner with was Xu Yifei, and he specially chose to send out the invitation on the day of the finale of the TV series "Kim's Secretary".

But to Lin Luo's surprise, Xu Yifei refused, saying that it was too cold and she didn't want to go out.

Not wanting to go out was of course an excuse. Lin Luo was not a fool, so he could tell that Xu Yifei rejected him most likely because of Xiao Longyue, so he still had some grudges in his heart...

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