At the age of 38, he went to college and his children were classmates.

Chapter 185, A Sky-High Copyright Price! (Includes a notice about older books)

Lin Yufei is a sweet-looking young woman, a type of appearance that appeals to all ages and is popular across all age groups.

Children will likely call her "pretty sister," and elders will probably remark, "This girl is so beautiful."

In the eyes of boys her age, she is a goddess.

She is the white moonlight in the hearts of many young boys who are just beginning to experience love!

Shen Qiushan would naturally be very pleased if his son could find such a girlfriend.

After getting out of the car, Lin Yufei went to the trunk to get her wheelchair.

Seeing this, Lin Kaixuan quickly strode forward and said, "Let me do it."

He only has one daughter, Lin Yufei, whom he dotes on and never lets her do any work.

Lin Kaixuan felt quite uncomfortable seeing his own daughter having to help a brat carry his wheelchair.

"Brother Lin, let me do it!"

Shen Qiushan quickly came over to help. He also had a daughter and could understand Lin Kaixuan's feelings. Although the other party seemed to be offering help, he might not necessarily be thinking what she was really thinking.

Seeing Shen Qiushan approach, Lin Kaixuan released his grip and pointed at Shen Qiushan, saying to his daughter, "This is your Uncle Shen."

Lin Yufei had already seen Shen Qiushan and knew that he was Shen Yixiao's father.

I was still a little nervous.

She and Shen Yixiao had only known each other for three days, but they had already met each other's parents!
"Hello Uncle Shen."

Lin Yufei greeted them politely.

Shen Qiushan nodded with a smile: "Yufei, thank you for taking care of Xiaoxiao these past two days and for taking him to see the flag-raising ceremony."

"Uncle Shen, I shouldn't have taken him running around like that."

Lin Yufei clearly misunderstood, thinking that Shen Qiushan was complaining that she had taken the injured Shen Yixiao to see the flag-raising ceremony.

"Don't overthink it, I genuinely think it's a good idea to go watch the flag-raising ceremony."

Shen Qiushan smiled and waved his hand.

"Dad, could you please sit down first so you can talk?"

Shen Yixiao, who had already gotten off the bus, was leaning on her cane when she saw her father chatting with Lin Yufei while carrying a folded-up wheelchair. She couldn't help but feel speechless.

"Uh, I forgot about you, kid."

Shen Qiushan quickly opened the wheelchair and let his brat sit in it.

"Oh, right."

"This is Yufei's father, Uncle Lin."

Shen Qiushan then pointed to Lin Kaixuan and introduced him.

"Hello, Uncle Lin."

Shen Yixiao immediately nodded in greeting.

Lin Kaixuan's gaze had been fixed on Shen Yixiao for a long time, and it was a scrutinizing gaze. His own daughter had been lured away by this kid!

Therefore, even before meeting Shen Yixiao, Lin Kaixuan already had a negative impression of her, and now that he had seen her in person, that negative impression had not been eliminated much.

In his eyes, although Shen Yixiao was decent-looking and tall, he was clearly not the kind of "well-behaved child" and was far from the image of his ideal "son-in-law".

He hopes his future son-in-law will be a gentle, refined, and highly learned young man.

Shen Yixiao, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be that type at all.

But when the other person took the initiative to greet him, Lin Kaixuan still responded politely.

The group returned to the ward.

After a morning of fussing and turning, Shen Yixiao finally lay back down in her hospital bed.

At that moment, Lin Xiamo returned from Director Liu's office.

"What did the doctor say?"

Shen Qiushan quickly asked.

"It's not serious. The doctor said I can stay in the hospital for a few days and then go home to recuperate."

"Going to school is fine, it's just a little troublesome to get to class."

Lin Xiamo repeated what Director Liu had just told her.

"Today is the 2nd, so we'll process your discharge and return to Sanjiang on the 6th."

Shen Qiushan made a decision immediately.

"Okay, I'll book a hotel now."

After saying that, Lin Xiamo turned on her phone.

"If we go back on the 6th, doesn't that mean we can spend three days in Beijing?"

Shen Yanran's face lit up with joy.

"Shen Yanran, don't you have a conscience? I'm in this state, and you're still thinking about having fun in the capital!"

Lying in the hospital bed, Shen Yixiao immediately started complaining.

"Since we're already here, of course we should take a look around. You don't need so many people to accompany you!"

The sibling-like relationship between the two only existed at certain times. Seeing that Shen Yixiao was perfectly fine, Shen Yanran didn't treat him as a patient at all.

Shen Qiushan was already used to this way of getting along between the siblings. He asked Shen Yanran to stay at the hospital to take care of Shen Yixiao, while he and Lin Xiamo went to the police station with Lin Kaixuan and Zhou Yamin to find out what was going on.

After the adults left.

Only a group of college students remained in the ward.

"You must be Lin Yufei."

"My name is Shen Yanran, and I'm Shen Yixiao's older sister. We're twins, a boy and a girl, and I'm two minutes older than him!"

Shen Yanran had noticed Lin Yufei long ago, but since the adults were all there, she didn't have a chance to greet Lin Yufei.

"Hello, Sister Yanran."

Lin Yufei, on the other hand, knew her place very well and called her "Sister Yanran" directly.

"Yufei, you really are amazing!"

"This way, we can address each other the same way as Brother Xiao!"

Kong Xiaoyi immediately teased, saying that she and Shen Yanran had chatted upstairs for a while and had become quite familiar with each other.

Therefore, there are no reservations about playing this kind of game.

"Yufei, Xiaoyi just told me about you and Shen Yixiao. You two aren't really dating, are you?"

Shen Yanran immediately followed up with a question.

"Uh!"

"not yet!"

Lin Yufei's pretty face flushed slightly, and she quickly shook her head in denial. "Still..."

"So that means it's coming soon?"

Kong Xiaoyi seized upon the grammatical errors in Lin Yufei's words and continued her attack.

"Kong Yiji, that's enough!"

"How gossipy!"

Shen Yixiao, who was lying in bed, stepped forward to help Lin Yufei out of the predicament.

The young people started chatting like this, one after another.
the other side.

Shen Qiushan and his group had arrived at the hospital entrance.

"Brother Shen, I haven't had a chance to ask yet, is this your girlfriend?"

While waiting for a ride-hailing car, Lin Kaixuan looked at Lin Xiamo and asked.

He was quite curious about Lin Xiamo's identity when he was upstairs. She looked to be under thirty years old, so she shouldn't be Shen Yixiao and Shen Yanran's mother.

Moreover, when his wife Zhou Yamin talked to him about Shen Yixiao's family situation yesterday, she also mentioned that Shen Yixiao comes from a single-parent family and his mother passed away when he was born.

Therefore, the mother's option was directly ruled out, and Lin Xiamo seemed to be very familiar with both Shen Yixiao and Shen Yanran.

"Lin Xiamo."

"I am Yanran and Xiaoxiao's second aunt."

Before Shen Qiushan could answer, Lin Xiamo introduced herself.

"Lin Xiamo?"

"Red Rose!!"

Upon hearing Lin Xiamo's name, Lin Kaixuan was immediately surprised. The "Red Rose Band" had been very popular online recently, and as a lawyer who was also an internet celebrity, Lin Kaixuan naturally paid close attention to trending topics online.

He had watched several of Lin Xiamo's performance videos, but Lin Xiamo's styling in the videos was quite exaggerated, and she was wearing all sorts of wigs, which didn't match the real Lin Xiamo at all.

“When I saw the performance video, I was saying that we might have been one family five hundred years ago, and we are all descendants of the Lin family.”

Lin Kaixuan made a connection with Shen Qiushan, and then said, "By the way, Brother Shen, I've seen the video of you singing at the bar. That song 'Red Rose' was really good. I listened to it on repeat in my car for a long time."

"This shows that Brother Lin has good taste."

Shen Qiushan laughed heartily.

As we were talking, the car we had called arrived.

The four got into the car and headed straight to the police station.

Lin Kaixuan was a lawyer, so the task of communicating with the police was naturally assigned to him.

After learning the details, Lin Kaixuan was stunned. According to the police, the interrogation of the group of thugs uncovered other cases. The bald man was also running an underground casino with a huge amount of money involved. In addition, he had a criminal record, and with multiple crimes, he might not be able to get out for ten years.

In this way, Lin Kaixuan no longer needs to keep an eye on this case.

Upon hearing this news, Shen Qiushan was quite pleased. Although the other party could no longer compensate for medical expenses under these circumstances, it was still gratifying to see the wicked person punished by law.

Besides, Shen Qiushan is not short of money at all.

No amount of compensation or medical expenses can compare to the satisfaction of bringing evildoers to justice!
The incident has come to a temporary close.

Lin Kaixuan and Zhou Yamin are preparing to fly to Shanghai to continue their previous work.

Shen Qiushan and Lin Xiamo went to the Hilton Garden Inn, which she had booked online, to check in.

Hotel prices soared during the National Day holiday, with hotels that usually cost around 1,000 yuan now costing over 2,000 yuan.

But money is not a problem for Shen Qiushan now.

I took the room key and went into the room.

Shen Qiushan planned to rest for a while before going to the hospital, after all, he had been through a lot that morning.

He had just lain down on the bed when his phone rang.

It was Chen Min, the editor-in-chief of Huawen Publishing House, who called.

"Sister Min, what's going on?"

Shen Qiushan had a pretty good impression of this beautiful editor-in-chief. She was decisive, had strong business skills, and was also the mother of his daughter's roommate.

It's the kind of network that allows for sustainable development.

"Old Shen, a film and television company wants to buy the rights to 'The Three-Body Problem,' but they couldn't contact you, so they came to me."

"Sister Min, you seem to have told me about this before."

On the day "The Three-Body Problem" was officially released, Chen Min told Shen Qiushan that a film and television company wanted to buy the film and television rights.

“The companies that came to us before were small companies, but this time it’s different, it’s Benteng Pictures.”

You know Bentech Pictures, right?

"I really don't know."

Shen Qiushan thought for a moment, but he didn't have any impression of the Benteng Pictures that Chen Min mentioned.

"You're a writer, don't you care about potential investors?!"

"Anyone who didn't know better would think you treat money like dirt!"

Chen Min joked and introduced, "Ben Teng Pictures is one of the top three film and television companies in China. It has produced many films that have grossed over 3 billion yuan at the box office and has a market value of over 100 billion yuan. It is very powerful."

"That's it."

"Let's chat then!"

Shen Qiushan stretched lazily, seemingly unconcerned.

"Then I'll give them your phone number."

"OK!"

"By the way, we need to print an additional 30 copies of the book. I've sent the electronic contract to your email."

"OK!"

"That's all for now!"

Chen Min was about to end the call, but Shen Qiushan, who had responded with "OK" twice, suddenly called out to her: "Sister Min, wait a minute."

"I'm not very familiar with copyright prices. How much do you think would be a suitable price for the film and television rights to 'The Three-Body Problem'?"

Upon hearing this question, Chen Min hesitated for a moment before replying, "That depends on whether it's an exclusive buyout or a segmented licensing agreement."

"If it's an exclusive buyout, I'll start negotiating from 5 million!"

"5 million??"

Upon hearing this number, Shen Qiushan, who was initially exhausted, immediately perked up.

"What I mean is to start the negotiations at 5 million, not that a deal will definitely be made at 5 million."

"Negotiations are always about asking for the moon and then settling for the bottom!"

(End of this chapter)