Lu Yanhe accompanied Li Pengfei shopping and bought a laptop. Just as they finished, Li Pengfei suddenly thought of something and said, "Should I buy one for Xu Zijun too? She definitely doesn't have one."
"Take it easy for now. She might not be willing to accept it," Lu Yanhe said. "A suitcase costs a few hundred yuan, but a laptop costs several thousand. It might not be much for you, but it's a very expensive gift for her."
"You're right." Li Pengfei nodded and accepted it very readily. He didn't say in an exaggerated tone like those rich second-generations in TV dramas, "What's so expensive about this!"
This is Li Pengfei, a rich second-generation who doesn't usually show off his wealth and doesn't like Chu Saiying's "class theory". He doesn't have the "why not eat meat porridge" mentality.
Just as Lu Yanhe was thinking this, he heard Li Pengfei suddenly say, "Next time, find a good excuse to give it to him."
"..." Lu Yanhe glanced at this guy.
Is this a question of origin?
The cell phone suddenly rang.
It was a call from an unfamiliar number.
Lu Yanhe answered the number with some surprise.
"Hello, is this Lu Yanhe?" the other party introduced himself. "I'm Xu Xiaoyin, the fiction editor at Jiangyin Publishing House. Is it convenient for you to talk?"
"I, I am." Lu Yanhe was confused. "Excuse me?"
"Look, I'm the editor-in-chief of 'Nineteen Years of Crime Records.' I'd like to thank you very much for recommending this book during your livestream last night. I'm not sure if you're free today, but I wanted to express my gratitude to you in person."
After hearing this, Lu Yanhe was even more shocked.
This is really something that I didn't expect.
"Uh, no need to thank me, you're very polite." Lu Yanhe said, "I didn't make any special recommendations. I just read this novel during the live broadcast. I haven't finished it yet."
Xu Xiaoyin said, "But because you read this book, it sold over a thousand copies online last night. If you have time, please let me express my gratitude in person. I also have another book I'd like you to read and see if we can collaborate."
Lu Yanhe was surprised when he heard this.
cooperate?
Lu Yanhe hesitated.
He said, "Well...is it convenient for you to come to Zhoufujing now? There's a cafe on the first floor here, if that's convenient for you."
Xu Xiaoyin immediately smiled and said, "Of course it's convenient. It will take us about 30 minutes to get here. Is that okay?"
"Okay, I'll wait for you here."
Lu Yanhe hung up the phone, thought for a moment, and sent a message to Chen Ziyan to tell her about this.
Chen Ziyan replied: Maybe they saw that your live broadcast reading of the book yesterday helped sell more than a thousand copies, so they want you to help promote the book. However, booksellers have low profits, and they can't pay you much for cooperation in promotion. You can talk to her first to see her intentions. If you really want to establish a business partnership, you have to sign a contract seriously. We can talk to you when I come back. But based on my understanding of the publishing industry, it is difficult for them to offer a high price.
Lu Yanhe thought for a while and said: Then I'll talk to her first.
Chen Ziyan: Well, it depends on your mood. If it is a non-commercial cooperative promotion, you should consider whether you like this book, whether you are willing to help promote it, and whether the content and theme of this book are suitable for appearing in your live broadcast room. In short, listen to everything first, don’t agree. I will help you check it, and then you can reply.
Lu Yanhe: If it’s too troublesome, I’ll just refuse it directly.
Chen Ziyan: If it were any other artist, I would have asked them to turn it down. But you are different. Your live broadcast room itself is a learning-oriented approach. In the future, doing live broadcasts and becoming a reading blogger will also add points to your public image.
Lu Yanhe understood Chen Ziyan's intention.
Chen Ziyan said: This is what makes you different from other artists. Knowledge, academic qualifications, and intellectual status are things that cannot be packaged by an agency. It's not that we ask you to rely on these labels in a worldly way, but you are a good student and love reading, so let's write about these things, do it without feeling guilty or guilty, and others won't be able to imitate you.
Lu Yanhe replied with an "OK".
"I've bought it." Li Pengfei paid the bill and had the laptop assembled for him.
He held a suitcase in his left hand and a laptop bag in his right hand. He had a youthful face and looked like a teenager who had just finished the college entrance examination.
"Let's go." Li Pengfei said.
They will go to Li Pengfei's house later.
Lu Yanhe said, "I just received a call. I need to meet someone from the publishing house here later. Why don't you go back first and I'll come back myself later."
"People from the publishing house? What does this have to do with you?" Li Pengfei looked puzzled. "Let me go with you. I'll wait for you here."
Lu Yanhe nodded. "Okay, I've made an appointment with them to meet at the cafe just outside the entrance. Let's go over there and wait for them."
"Okay."
The two of them went over together.
After listening to Lu Yanhe's story, Li Pengfei finally understood why people from the publishing house came to see Lu Yanhe.
"It's amazing! I helped sell a thousand books just by doing a live broadcast," said Li Pengfei.
Lu Yanhe was actually quite surprised. The number of viewers in his live broadcast room was generally around 4,000, and this number had slowly increased over the past six months. Adding in the people coming in and out, he probably live-streamed for half an hour yesterday, and a total of about 10,000 people had watched his live broadcast. Could that mean a thousand people would buy this book?
Is his appeal so strong?
Lu Yanhe always felt that it was unreliable.
However, this data was given by the publishing house.
-
Xu Xiaoyin brought Xu Mingyue to the coffee shop in Zhoufujing. When they pushed the door open and went in, there were quite a few people inside, but Lu Yanhe was easy to find. A search on the Internet would bring up his photo. Good-looking people always stand out in the crowd, so he could be spotted at a glance. It can only be said that people's eyes tend to focus on good-looking things.
Xu Xiaoyin and Xu Mingyue are both women. They are always happy to see a handsome guy in real life, especially a handsome guy who just graduated from high school.
They went over to say hello.
"Hello, Lu Yanhe. I'm Xu Xiaoyin, who called you before."
Xu Xiaoyin stretched out her hand and shook hands with Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe: "Hello, Sister Xiaoyin."
Xu Xiaoyin glanced at Li Pengfei, somewhat puzzled about his identity.
Li Pengfei grinned and said, "Li Pengfei, classmate Lu."
"Xu Mingyue, an intern in our company." Xu Xiaoyin also introduced her to them.
Xu Mingyue felt quite complicated at this moment.
A year ago, she accidentally saw Lu Yanhe's live broadcast room. Because she thought the anchor was handsome, she recommended it to her roommate. As a result, Helan became his die-hard fan. A year later, she met him again because of his live broadcast room.
He probably never imagined that she was once a viewer of his live broadcast room.
Xu Xiaoyin picked up a heavy canvas bag that looked like it had been specially designed. She placed it on the table and pushed it towards Lu Yanhe, saying, "Thank you very much for reading the book 'Nineteen Years' during the live broadcast. This is a small thank you gift from our publishing house. It's from a series of hardcover books by famous authors."
Lu Yanhe was a little surprised and said, "Oh! Thank you! You are so polite."
Xu Xiaoyin said, "I was really touched when I learned about this. There are so many so-called book bloggers online who record videos and write articles promoting books, and they only do this for money. So when we heard the news, we thought it was done by someone in the marketing department. Later, we realized it was your own initiative."
"I used to livestream all the time, and now that I'm done with my exams, I'm doing some livestreaming to read novels. I really enjoy reading novels," Lu Yanhe said. "I've only read a little bit of 'Nineteen Years of Crime Records' and haven't finished it yet."
"This novel is very well written, but because it's a new author, it hasn't received much attention since it was released." Xu Xiaoyin asked curiously, "How did you hear about this book?"
"I finished my exams the day before yesterday, and yesterday I went to the bookstore and picked this one out. I didn't know about it from any particular source."
Xu Xiaoyin was surprised.
Then this is really a kind of luck that happened by chance.
She laughed. "That's great! I thought not many people were willing to go to bookstores anymore."
After the greetings, Xu Xiaoyin started to talk about business.
"Yan He, I came to you today specifically for another matter, which is also a collaboration. Another book I'm responsible for, "Star Orbit," will be on the market this Thursday. I wonder if we can cooperate on the promotion of this book." Xu Xiaoyin took out another book from her bag, a new plastic-covered book, and pushed it in front of Lu Yan He.
Lu Yanhe looked at Xu Xiaoyin in surprise and said, "Promotion?"
"Well, I'd like you to read this book during the livestream," Xu Xiaoyin said. "I discovered this novel two years ago. It's a new author, and the market is tough right now, so it's hard for new authors to get a foothold. I finally managed to secure a book number and the opportunity to go on the market. The first print run is only 8,000 copies, and since I happened to meet you, I was thinking about whether we could collaborate."
Lu Yanhe looked at the book in his hand hesitantly.
"Of course, we're definitely not taking advantage of this," Xu Xiaoyin said immediately. "We will provide the corresponding promotional expenses, but our publishing industry is not like other industries, so the promotional expenses may not be as high as your usual quotation."
Lu Yanhe thought, you’re overthinking it.
This was his first time doing this kind of promotion work.
"Sister Xiaoyin, this is the case. If it's a commercial collaboration, my work needs to be approved by my agent, so I can't reply to you right away."
Xu Xiaoyin nodded. "I understand. We understand. I don't have your agent's contact information either. Do you want to give me your agent's contact information, or could you please relay it to me?"
Lu Yanhe: "I'll talk to my agent and ask her to contact you, how about that?"
"That's great." Xu Xiaoyin said.
-
After coming out of the cafe, Xu Mingyue followed Xu Xiaoyin into her car.
Xu Mingyue asked, "Sister Xiaoyin, how much do we usually pay artists like Lu Yanhe for promotion?"
Xu Xiaoyin said, "I don't know either. If you really want to pay for promotion, you need to discuss it with the publishing house. Generally speaking, unless you are a dedicated book blogger and have negotiated a cooperation framework with the publishing house, the promotion of a single book usually relies on personal connections or favors, asking for help."
Xu Mingyue asked in confusion: "Then you asked him for promotion fees just now..."
"That shows our attitude," Xu Xiaoyin said. "We can't really ask for help with the idea of getting something for free."
"What if they really want promotion fees?"
"Then we'll report it to the publishing house and settle the bill," Xu Xiaoyin said. "Lu Yanhe helped sell a thousand copies of this book in a live broadcast without saying anything. What's wrong with asking for a promotion fee? It's just not going to be too high. Usually, celebrities like him will just give it to us for free after hearing how much our promotion fee is."
"ah?"
"How much promotion fee do you think we can give?" Xu Xiaoyin looked at Xu Mingyue and laughed.
Xu Mingyue: "How much do you usually give?"
"Five hundred, or a thousand?" Xu Xiaoyin said, "Unless it's a very popular livestreaming room that can help us sell tens of thousands of copies in a single night, that's usually the price."
“Isn’t this too low?”
"That depends on what you're comparing it to. The profit from a book is only this much. If you pay more, wouldn't that be a losing proposition?" Xu Xiaoyin sighed. "It's also true that the publishing industry is really in a downturn right now. Mingyue, are you really planning on going into publishing in the future?"
Xu Mingyue hesitated for a moment and said, "I've always had this dream, but I haven't thought it through yet. I want to do this internship now so I can figure out if I'm really passionate about this field. When I was a kid, I read a lot of novels and magazines, and I really wanted to work in a magazine. But now, many magazines have ceased publication."
"There's no way. I used to think that e-magazines were a new way of development, but now I find that e-magazines don't work." Xu Xiaoyin sighed with a smile.
-
Lu Yanhe called Chen Ziyan in the car and told her about Xu Xiaoyin.
When Chen Ziyan heard this, she said, "Okay, send me her number and I'll contact her."
Lu Yanhe agreed.
After hanging up the phone, Li Pengfei looked at Lu Yanhe with a strange expression and asked, "Are you so obedient in front of your agent? You called her first for such a small matter."
Lu Yanhe said, "As for my agent, this is my job. Of course I have to tell her right away, and I also need her to help me with the follow-up matters. I haven't handled these things myself."
What Lu Yanhe didn't say was that he and Chen Ziyan had just started working together, and he didn't want Chen Ziyan to misunderstand that he was someone who liked to take private jobs because of his lack of communication.
Many artists will take private jobs on their own to bypass their agents, which is often one of the reasons that lead to a breakdown in the relationship between artists and their agents.
"I forgot to ask just now, how did they know the number?" Lu Yanhe suddenly said.
"Huh?" Li Pengfei looked at Lu Yanhe in surprise. "Didn't she tell you?"
"No, I forgot to ask." Lu Yanhe said, "Not many people know my number."
-
"But it's also very strange." Xu Mingyue suddenly said in the car.
"What's strange?" Xu Xiaoyin asked.
Xu Mingyue: "When we called Star Entertainment Agency, didn't they say he had terminated his contract with Star Entertainment? Then he said he would find an agent to contact us. Where did he get the agent?"
Xu Xiaoyin came back to her senses and realized the problem.
"Really." She thought for a moment and said, "Did he change his agency?"
Xu Xiaoyin's cell phone rang at this moment.
It's an unfamiliar number.
Xu Xiaoyin answered the call and connected her phone to Bluetooth. She signaled Xu Mingyue not to speak for the time being.
"Hello? Who is this?"
"I'm Chen Ziyan, Lu Yanhe's agent." A somewhat capable female voice sounded, "Are you Xu Xiaoyin?"
"Oh, yes, I'm Xu Xiaoyin, Chen... your agent, hello."
"Hello." Chen Ziyan laughed. "Yan He just called me and told me you have a collaboration opportunity with him. I heard he wants to help your publishing house promote a novel?"
Xu Xiaoyin: "Yes, I am the editor-in-chief of this book. Actually, Lu Yanhe read another book I was responsible for during the live broadcast yesterday. The market feedback was very good, so I wanted to see if we could cooperate in promoting the new book "Star Orbit"."
Chen Ziyan said, "Editor Xu, this is what's going on. Yan He loves reading, so there's nothing wrong with promoting books he enjoys. It's just that this kind of cooperation is a bit restrictive. How about this? If your publishing house has books you'd like Yan He to promote, just send one or two, and Yan He can choose the ones he likes and is willing to promote. As for promotion fees, forget about it. It's not serious marketing. He's just reading a book in his livestream. Accordingly, don't specify which books he should promote. Books are selective in their audience. What Yan He doesn't like might not be liked by his fans in the livestream either. Let's make this cooperation less utilitarian, what do you think?"
Xu Xiaoyin was of course very surprised.
"Of course that's fine, but..." Xu Xiaoyin felt embarrassed. Giving Lu Yanhe a few books was nothing, it was simply a free bargain. "Not paying for promotion wouldn't be a good idea, right? This isn't some kind of charity collaboration, just one or two books, but if we can have a long-term partnership, we wouldn't want to keep taking advantage of it."
Chen Ziyan smiled and said, "Let's talk about the initial phase first. If there's room for long-term cooperation, and Yan He's influence can help you sell more books, then we can discuss a framework for cooperation. I know that unless your book is a super-bestseller, the profit from a single book isn't high. I also saw that Yan He himself loves reading, so I helped him take the deal."
Xu Xiaoyin always felt embarrassed to take advantage of someone for nothing - this time she brought a book "Star Orbit" for promotion cooperation, and it was understandable to take advantage of it without charging any promotion fees, but Chen Ziyan's intention was obviously to let Lu Yanhe promote the book in his live broadcast room for a long time. As long as Lu Yanhe liked the book they gave him and was willing to promote it, she would not be able to lose face.
But Chen Ziyan obviously didn't need that little promotion fee right now, and she hadn't gotten the newspaper's consent yet, so how could they force her to pay the promotion fee?
Xu Xiaoyin had no choice but to say, "Thank you very much."
After hanging up the phone, Xu Xiaoyin felt that the matter went so smoothly that it was unbelievable.
She asked Xu Mingyue doubtfully, "Are people in the entertainment industry so easy to deal with?"
Xu Mingyue: "...No."
-
Chen Ziyan really didn't think much of that small promotion fee.
I'm too lazy to make small profits, so it's better to let Lu Yanhe get on the line of Jiangyin Publishing House. There may be some unexpected opportunities in the future.
Jiangyin Publishing House is also one of the large publishing houses in China. It has a national background and many writer resources. In this IP era, it has good relations with many film and television companies and has participated in the investment of many film and television dramas.
This is a big consideration. On a smaller scale, Chen Ziyan does not intend to let this matter be tainted with the smell of money.
To be precise, he didn't want Lu Yanhe's image of loving reading to be tainted with the smell of money.
Once people knew about it, his love of reading would inevitably become more utilitarian, and a good thing would turn into a bad one.
-
When he was almost at Li Pengfei's house, Lu Yanhe found out who had given his number to him.
Liu Qin called him and said, "Yan He, a classmate of mine from a publishing house just contacted me and said she wants to collaborate with you. Since she's my old classmate, I didn't think much about it and gave it to you. I just realized what happened and I have to tell you first. Has she contacted you yet?"
"Ah, they contacted me." Lu Yanhe never expected that it was his homeroom teacher. "Editor Xu Xiaoyin is your classmate?"
"She? Who is she? The one who asked for my number was Liu Cheng, now an editor-in-chief at Jiangyin Publishing House."
"Oh! The person who came to see me is an editor named Xu Xiaoyin." Lu Yanhe explained.
"That might be one of her editors," Liu Qin said. "I'm sorry, I didn't think too much about it. Your status is quite special, so I really can't just give out my phone number. Next time, I'll let you know first and ask if it's convenient."
"Okay, thank you Teacher Liu for your concern." Lu Yanhe said.
Liu Qin: "I haven't asked you yet, how did you do on the test? You kids are the same, you didn't tell me after the test, so I didn't feel comfortable asking."
"Very good, I performed normally." Lu Yanhe said with a smile, "The results haven't come out yet. How can I have the nerve to call you before the results are out? If I say it's too high, I'll be embarrassed later, and if it's too low, I'm afraid you'll worry."
Liu Qin smiled generously and said, "Just perform normally. If your grades improve quickly later on, you'll definitely be able to get into a key university."
"I'm looking forward to it too." Lu Yanhe said.
The teacher and student chatted for a while before hanging up the phone.
Lu Yanhe is sincerely grateful to his teacher Liu Qin.
Not only her, but also Old Chen, Su Su, Old Lady Lin and others.
If he hadn't met these good teachers, he wouldn't have been able to improve his grades so quickly on his own.
Especially Su Su.
History is really a difficult subject. If he hadn't met a teacher like Su Su who can teach and solve problems, he really didn't know whether he would be able to finally get it.
Li Pengfei shrugged him off and said, "What are you daydreaming about? We're here."
Lu Yanhe came back to his senses and looked up, and was shocked to find that although Li Pengfei's house was also in the same community, it was a small villa with a yard. The yard was not big, only about 50 square meters, but in such a location, the price of having a yard must be very expensive.
It can only be said that the "rich family" he usually jokes about is not a joke to others.
"How generous." Lu Yanhe sighed enviously.
Li Pengfei chuckled.
"Go in and take a look. My dad is not at home. Only Aunt Zhang is home."
Lu Yanhe also knew Aunt Zhang from Li Pengfei's family. Before, Aunt Zhang often came to the school to bring meals to Li Pengfei, and Lu Yanhe had come to her many times.
"Aunt Zhang, please help me cut some fruit and make two cups of coffee and bring them up." Li Pengfei shouted as he entered the door, and asked Lu Yanhe to follow him upstairs.
Aunt Zhang was sitting on the small balcony browsing her phone. When she saw him coming back with his classmates, she responded with a smile.
Lu Yanhe followed Li Pengfei upstairs and into his room.
Li Pengfei put his suitcase against the wall and said, "Let's go, there's nothing interesting in my bedroom, let's go next door."
There was actually a game room next door, with an entire wall covered in an electronic screen.
It was the first time that Lu Yanhe saw a room specifically set aside as a game room. Two lazy sofas were placed against the other wall. People could lie on them, pick up the controller and play games comfortably.
"This is really enviable," said Lu Yanhe.
Li Pengfei asked: "Have two?"
"Okay." Lu Yanhe nodded.
-
After staying at Li Pengfei's house for half a day, Lu Yanhe went back.
Li Pengfei really wanted to keep him to play for a while, but Lu Yanhe was thinking about the unfinished book "Nineteen Years of Crime Records" and didn't want to play games with Li Pengfei here all day, so he said he had something to do and left after lunch.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Yanhe started the broadcast on time and continued to read the novel, "Nineteen Years of Crime Records".
As for the book "Star Trails", Lu Yanhe has not received a call from Chen Ziyan yet, so he doesn't know what to do.
But if I really want to promote it, I will definitely continue to read this book in the live broadcast room.
Lu Yanhe felt that he had to finish reading "Nineteen Years of Crime Records" first.
This novel is really good. It tells a murder story spanning nineteen years.
Starting from college, the characters that appear later are all middle-aged.
The time span is very large.
Lu Yanhe read for three hours in one breath, and when night was almost falling, he finally finished the book.
It's June now, and it gets dark late. It's only six o'clock now.
The ending of this story made Lu Yanhe feel lost and he was stunned for a long time.
When he came to his senses, he thought of checking the comments and found that many people were discussing this book.
——I went to have lunch at noon today and happened to pass by a bookstore. I remembered that Lu Yanhe read this book last night, so I bought a copy. After lunch, I opened it and read a few pages. The beginning was creepy and scary.
Is it scary? I'm so afraid of scary stories like this that I don't even dare to read them.
——It’s not that scary. The beginning seems to deliberately create a horror atmosphere, but it’s actually not that scary. It’s not a thriller horror novel.
——I placed an order online, but it hasn’t arrived yet. I’ll receive it tomorrow.
--Me too.
——I haven’t read a novel for a long time. I didn’t expect Lu Yanhe to read it for so long in one breath. It must be so good.
——He has almost finished reading it.
…
Lu Yanhe kept scrolling through everyone's speeches and started laughing.
He turned on the mute function and said, "I just finished reading this novel. The ending was a bit unexpected. It's a very good story. If you like crime-solving novels, you should give this one a try."