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Chapter 29 Good news one after another
Time enters June.

The book "Living with a Flight Attendant" that Cao Sheng was worried about was becoming more and more popular under the banyan tree as more and more chapters were updated.

The growth rate of various data is getting bigger and bigger.

The number of new book reviews added every day is also doubling.

Because the plot of the latest serialization of this book is that the male protagonist Ding Yang tries every possible way, like a peacock spreading its tail, to show off his various advantages in front of the female protagonist Ran Jing, but repeatedly makes jokes.

And what about the heroine Ran Jing?
In recent plots, her beauty, gentleness, virtue, and tolerance are all presented.

Although she was sad because her lover had died and she didn't feel anything about Ding Yang's pursuit, she could tolerate the influence Ding Yang had on her life.

It was quite brain-racking for Cao Sheng to write these plots, because he wanted to create a lot of jokes, and to write such a plot, careful conception is required, otherwise, if the readers are not amused, the plot will seem awkward.

It is these plots that have made readers excited recently.

More and more readers like Ran Jing.

The number of readers who find the male protagonist Ding Yang fun and interesting is increasing day by day.

By mid-June, the book had been read by more than one million people, setting a new record for Under the Banyan Tree.

Under the Banyan Tree, a website that was recently established, specially put up a banner on the homepage to announce the good news.

This undoubtedly further enhanced the fame of the book.

As a result, more long serial novels began to appear under the banyan tree.

……

For Cao Sheng, the good news this month is not just the surge in popularity of the book "Living with a Flight Attendant".

What made him happiest was the good news from Xinchang Publishing House.

On a Friday night in mid-June, he went to the Internet cafe again to spend the night.

After turning on his computer and logging into his email, he received an email from Changqingshu.

The content is as follows:

"Cao Sheng, I have good news for you. The sales of the first and second volumes of your work "I Want to Become an Immortal" have been very good after they were released, and the readers' feedback is also very good. Therefore, the president has specially approved that the observation period of your work can be shortened by one month. In other words, starting from this month, "I Want to Become an Immortal" does not have to be limited to publishing one volume per month. If you have manuscripts in hand, you can publish two or three volumes this month. Moreover, your manuscript fee this month does not need to be postponed. Just send us a few volumes of manuscripts and we will soon be able to transfer the manuscript fee to your bank account.

When you see this letter, please contact me as soon as possible, because if you want to publish one or two more volumes this month, you need to do it as soon as possible, otherwise the time for proofreading, typesetting and printing may be very tight.

Looking forward to your reply.

——Xinchang Publishing House Evergreen"

……

Seeing such an email, Cao Sheng was naturally happy.

The royalties for his second collection of works, published in May, were used as a deposit and were not paid to him.

In other words, he has published two volumes of this book so far, but he actually only received royalties for one volume.

Originally, he thought he could only get paid for one episode in June.

After all, Evergreen had told him before that according to the rules, for a new author's new book, only one volume can be published per month in the first three months, and the publishing house needs to observe the market's reaction.

After three months, if the response is good, the publisher will be allowed to increase the number of volumes published each month. Otherwise, the publisher has the right to demand that the work be completed immediately at any time.

These are the terms written into the contract.

And now, the publishing house has proactively shortened the observation period by one month, allowing him to publish one or two more episodes every month in advance.

What does this mean?
Cao Sheng's judgment is that the response to the first two volumes of this book was very good after they were released.

At least in terms of sales, Xinchang Publishing House should be very surprised.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have gotten the president's special approval and wouldn't have been so eager to speed up the publication of the book. While Cao Sheng was happy, he also had the idea of ​​increasing his royalties.

——Since my book is selling well, should I ask the publisher to increase my royalties now?

He kind of wanted to mention it.

But reason stopped him.

There was a voice in his heart telling him: It’s not the right time to ask for it now, wait a little longer! It would be best to ask for it when the sales of the book are higher and the plot is getting better. Moreover, the sales volume should not have reached the peak yet, so even if the fee is increased at this time, it will not increase much. You can’t ask for a fee increase after a while, right? If you ask for a fee increase several times during the publication of a book, it will disgust the publisher, right?
Wait! Wait a little longer!

Anyway, "I Want to Become an Immortal" is a fairy-tale and cultivation novel. This kind of subject matter can easily be written into a super-long novel of four or five million words. There is no need to rush to increase the royalties now.

After thinking it through clearly, he felt calm.

With a slight smile, he flipped open the draft book he brought tonight, opened the electronic document, and began to convert the handwritten manuscript into an electronic document bit by bit.

At dawn, a manuscript of more than 12,000 words appeared in his mailbox.

Adding the manuscripts already in his mailbox, he put together two episodes of manuscripts and sent them to Changqingshu.

Sending these two episodes of the manuscript means that he will receive 8000 yuan in royalties this month.

Adding the remaining money from his first collection of manuscripts, he would have over ten thousand in savings.

In 98, the savings of most families in China would not exceed yuan, but Cao Sheng had so much money while he was still studying.

This is a small achievement.

……

The next day, Saturday night.

Cao Sheng went to the Internet cafe again to spend the night and continued to convert his saved manuscripts into electronic documents.

Monday, noon.

After lunch, he found some time to go to the Internet cafe again. Today was the day he was supposed to update "Living with a Flight Attendant".

After the computer started up successfully, he first logged into the author backend of Under the Banyan Tree. When he was about to log into his email and retrieve the saved manuscripts, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a new text message in the author backend of Under the Banyan Tree.

Under the Banyan Tree sent me a message again?

Has this book of mine been recommended again?

Cao Sheng clicked on the message with some anticipation.

However, the content of this text message was: "Dear writer Zhongyuan Yidianhui, hello, first of all, congratulations on your work "The Days of Living with the Air Hostess" becoming the first author on this site to have over a million readers. This is your achievement and also the honor of us at Under the Banyan Tree. For this reason, we held a meeting and unanimously decided to strongly recommend your work to many domestic publishing houses, hoping to help you publish this work in China. But before that, we need to get your publishing agency authorization. If you are willing, please send us your address and we will send someone to negotiate the publishing agency contract with you. We look forward to working with you! - Under the Banyan Tree"

After reading this in-site message, Cao Sheng looked very surprised.

He didn't expect that someone under the banyan tree would have such an idea.

You actually want to help him publish this book?

He didn't expect the book to be published in the short term.

I have always wanted to write this book, and I am doing it out of love.

And now?

Want to generate electricity for me under the banyan tree?

Strongly recommend to many domestic publishers? When they say many domestic publishers, do they mean the ones in mainland China?

It’s not easy to publish simplified Chinese books in mainland China these days!

(End of this chapter)