Chapter 149 The ability to bring books is a bit strong
Xu Xiaoyin also received notification of Lu Yanhe’s live broadcast.
She didn't expect that after she finished chatting with Lu Yanhe in the morning and followed his live broadcast room, he started broadcasting again in the afternoon.
He broadcast the show from 3pm to 6pm, three hours in a row, without saying a word. He left for a while in the middle, probably to go to the bathroom, and didn't do anything else.
Xu Xiaoyin was quite surprised.
After all, seeing is believing. Seeing that Lu Yanhe could sit for three hours to read a novel, she really believed that Lu Yanhe loved reading.
If you don’t really like someone, you won’t be able to sit still for so long.
Before leaving get off work, Xu Xiaoyin went to see Liucheng.
"Editor-in-chief, thank you very much for helping me get Lu Yanhe's contact number. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to contact him." Xu Xiaoyin said, "Xu Mingyue and I went to see him this morning and also contacted his agent."
She rattled off some key information, then handed over a cooperation plan.
"Even though he said he doesn't want any promotional fees, I think if he's really so proactive and willing to help promote our book, we can't just sit back and do it for free," Xu Xiaoyin said. "From what I've heard from his agent, he seems willing to cooperate long-term, so it would be even more embarrassing to take this free ride, especially since he read 'Nineteen Years' again in his livestream this afternoon. According to feedback from several of our major channels, 'Nineteen Years' is also selling fast today. Although not as much as yesterday morning, several major online channels have sold nearly 800 copies, which is still very appealing."
Liu Cheng nodded and said, "It was you who told me he was a student at No. 13 Middle School that I found out he was actually in the class of an old classmate of mine. So, is your plan to invite Liu Jiazhen, the author of 'Nineteen Years,' and Ming Yin, the author of 'Star Tracks,' to Lu Yanhe's livestream studio for a livestream discussion?"
"Yes," Xu Xiaoyin said. "Lu Yanhe isn't very famous. He only made some headlines about half a year ago. I was thinking, since he loves reading and is willing to help us promote his books for free, if he's willing, we can invite the author to his livestream. His livestreams are really bland and boring. It's just him reading in front of the camera. And don't we have a partnership with J Station? We can have J Station help us put this livestream on their homepage, which will also help drive traffic to his livestream. It's like returning the favor."
Liu Cheng took the cooperation proposal written by Xu Xiaoyin, nodded, and said, "Let me take a look first."
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Lu Yanhe has been thinking about how to set up his own live broadcast room.
What exactly should be done?
Until I think it through, it will just be like this.
But if I do it, I still want to do it well.
I was preparing for the college entrance examination before, and I didn’t have the time or energy to do anything fancy. Now I’m still busy broadcasting live, which can only be said to be perfunctory.
He didn’t set up a live broadcast room to enjoy the “peaceful years”.
He originally wanted to create a live broadcast room just to see if he could gain some popularity and earn some pocket money through this approach, but the direction of the live broadcast room later on was completely beyond his expectations.
Especially when others give him rewards, he always feels unworthy.
I used to think about becoming a book-reading anchor, or broadcasting myself doing something else, and there always has to be something interesting to come out.
I thought about it all night.
Chen Ziyan contacted him.
"Invite two authors to my live broadcast room as guests?" Lu Yanhe was extremely surprised by the news Chen Ziyan told him. This was another unexpected thing. "Let me chat with them? This, this..."
Chen Ziyan smiled and said, "Don't be nervous. I'm not asking you to be the host or do the interview. Of course, since this is in your live broadcast room, you still have to play the role of the host. This is a great event opportunity. Your live broadcast platform J Station will also be promoted on the homepage, which can help attract traffic to your live broadcast room."
Lu Yanhe never imagined that so many things would happen after he accidentally read a book called "Nineteen Years of Crime Records" the night before yesterday.
The live broadcast exchange event is scheduled for this Saturday, the third day after the release of "Star Trails".
When Chen Ziyan came back from a business trip, Lu Yanhe handed her the signed contract.
Chen Ziyan glanced at the contract, nodded, and said, "I'll handle the follow-up matters, so you don't have to worry about it. Zhou Ping'an and his team acted quickly and have deleted you from the company's official website. I'll have someone add you back later."
Lu Yanhe nodded.
"When are we moving?" Chen Ziyan asked, "Didn't Zhou Ping'an urge you?"
"He didn't urge me to move out." Lu Yanhe also found this strange. "I thought he would ask me to move out that day."
Chen Ziyan: "Do you have any ideas?"
"I'll wait for Li Zhibai and Yan Liang to come back and tell them in person before moving."
"OK."
Chen Ziyan nodded and said, "The acting teacher I found for you will start teaching you from next Monday. The class will be held at the company, and I've arranged a rehearsal room for you."
"Okay." Lu Yanhe said immediately, "Thank you, Sister Ziyan."
"Also, I've hired someone to arrange the song 'Childhood,' and we'll find time to record it later," Chen Ziyan said. "I haven't decided when to use it yet, but I plan to find a decent evening concert to perform this song for you first. After that, I'll upload the studio recording to major music platforms."
"Okay." Lu Yanhe nodded.
"Although there's no promotional fee for the cooperation with Jiangyin Publishing House, it's mainly because the amount they can offer is too little. There's no need to take advantage of this little bit of money. There's no obvious profit value at the moment, but I think it will have positive feedback for you in the long run."
"It doesn't matter, Sister Zi Yan. Whether they give me promotion fees or not, I will read books in the live broadcast room. I'm also happy to help these authors sell more books."
"It's good that you have such an idea." Chen Ziyan said.
Chen Ziyan knew Lu Yanhe's situation. He had no parents at home and only an uncle who was looking for money to suck his blood. He had no support whatsoever. He had not made much income in the past few years since his debut and had to rely on the company's monthly subsidy of 3,000 yuan to make ends meet. His savings were limited.
In this case, you may be very stubborn about money.
Chen Ziyan was mentally prepared to talk to Lu Yanhe about money, and to persuade him not to take money too seriously in the early stages, and only look at immediate interests instead of the future.
However, Lu Yanhe was more open-minded than she had imagined.
What Chen Ziyan didn't know was that Lu Yanhe wasn't the same Lu Yanhe anymore. The old Lu Yanhe might have had this issue due to his upbringing, but the current Lu Yanhe had essentially grown up with both parents still alive, a family that wasn't exactly wealthy, but still had enough to eat and sleep. He didn't place a high value on money, but he knew it was important and he knew how to save, but he hadn't personally experienced the hardship of not having money, so he didn't prioritize money over everything.
Chen Ziyan was very relieved.
Lu Yanhe gave her the impression of being very sensible.
He was so sensible that many of her preparations were useless.
But of course the more useless this is the better.
When Chen Ziyan brought Lu Yanhe's contract back to the company, Zhou Pingan was also communicating with Cheng Hai and several others in the human resources department.
To revise the terms of the contract.
"Lu Yanhe has been deleted from our company's official website, right?" Zhou Pingan asked someone.
"It's already been deleted." The other party was puzzled. "Brother Zhou, why are you in such a hurry?"
Zhou Pingan said, "Why do you care so much? Just delete them and move Li Zhibai, Cheng Hai, and Yan Liang to the second rank."
The other party was stunned and said, "This doesn't comply with the regulations. The ranking of artists on the official website is regulated."
"How can I let you take risks? Here, this is the permission signed by President Ma." Zhou Ping'an handed a statement signed by Vice President Ma to the other party.
"That will make things easier."
Zhou Ping'an finished his work and left leisurely.
Chen Ziyan arrived just after that.
She went straight into the office of the head of human resources.
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Zhou Ping'an strolled over to the Ministry of Commerce and talked to them about the impression and positioning of several of his artists on the brand side.
For a large agency like this one with hundreds of contracted artists, the agents must maintain good relations with the Ministry of Commerce.
For idol artists, unless they are extremely popular, once a business resource is given to someone, it will be given to that person. At this time, it depends on who the Ministry of Commerce will give it to.
If the agent maintains a good relationship with the Ministry of Commerce, more resources will flow into the hands of their own artists.
After Zhou Ping'an finished talking with the people from the Ministry of Commerce and walked out, his cell phone suddenly rang.
It was Vice President Ma calling.
Zhou Pingan answered the phone and asked happily, "Mr. Ma, do you have any instructions?"
Vice President Ma, however, was filled with anger and dissatisfaction. He asked, "How on earth do you do this? Why is Lu Yanhe still listed on our company's website? And even a second-tier artist?"
Zhou Pingan was stunned when he heard this. "No way! I just came out of the Human Resources Department and confirmed with them that Lu Yanhe has been removed from the official website! Could it be that their people made a mistake and originally wanted to put Cheng Hai and the others in the second rank, but ended up putting Lu Yanhe instead?"
When Vice President Ma heard Zhou Ping'an's words, he immediately said, "Then go and confirm and delete Lu Yanhe!"
Zhou Pingan: "Okay, I'll go there again right away."
Zhou Ping'an went to the Human Resources Department with a lot of doubts in his mind.
"Chen Ziyan signed Lu Yanhe?!" Zhou Ping'an looked at the person who told her the news in shock.
"Yes, the contract I just sent over."
"Doesn't she need Vice President Ma's signature when signing artists?"
"Chen Ziyan doesn't need Mr. Ma's approval to sign an artist."
Zhou Ping'an wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say for a long time.
He was speechless and silent for a while. Knowing that there was no point in saying anything more here, he turned and left the Human Resources Department and walked towards Vice President Ma's office.
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Chen Ziyan was sitting in her office, thinking seriously about the future development paths of Tu Song and Lu Yanhe. Suddenly, Vice President Ma pushed open the door and rushed in.
"Chen Ziyan, what do you mean?!" Vice President Ma rushed in and asked in a stern tone, "Didn't you agree not to sign Lu Yanhe? Why are you going back on your word?"
Chen Ziyan was frightened at first by Vice President Ma's sudden rush in, but she soon breathed a sigh of relief.
"Mr. Ma, no matter how angry you are, it is polite to knock on a lady's door before entering her office." Chen Ziyan said calmly.
Vice President Ma's anger was blocked in his throat by Chen Ziyan and interrupted.
"Besides, when did I ever tell you I wouldn't sign Lu Yanhe?" Chen Ziyan stood up leisurely, one hand on the table, her posture taking on a somewhat aggressive questioning tone. "Do I need your consent to sign someone as my artist?"
Vice President Ma, who rushed over in anger, was suddenly dampened by Chen Ziyan's attitude.
Chen Ziyan's position in the company is no lower than his.
As a legendary agent, she was not promoted to a senior executive purely because she didn't want to, not because the company didn't want to give her this position.
Her status in the industry, her connections, and the trust that President Hong has in her are not enough for Vice President Ma to reprimand her in a condescending manner as if she were a subordinate.
Vice President Ma was completely blinded by anger.
After he realized what was happening, he immediately put away the anger on his face.
"Zi Yan, I've already told you, this person cannot be kept." Vice President Ma changed his approach to persuasiveness.
Chen Ziyan raised her eyebrows slightly. "Why can't he stay? I've always been curious. He's just a high school graduate. What secrets could he have that would warrant such ulterior motives, such as targeting an eighteen-year-old boy?"
Vice President Ma was speechless for a moment.
Chen Ziyan smiled and said, "Boss Ma, I won't make things difficult for you. Who wants you to kick Lu Yanhe out? Just tell me directly, or have him contact me directly, okay? Signing Lu Yanhe back is my decision, and I will take responsibility."
Vice President Ma had nothing to say.
Having said that, what else can I say?
Chen Ziyan has already shown her willingness to take responsibility, so it is meaningless for Vice President Ma to say anything more.
"Zi Yan, that's all I have to say. If you have any trouble later, don't blame me for not telling you in advance."
"Okay." Chen Ziyan nodded. "Then I have to thank Mr. Ma for reminding me."
Vice President Ma took a deep breath, turned and left.
Chen Ziyan's smile only faded after he left.
She really didn't care what kind of monsters were behind all this.
If he really had the ability, he wouldn't have hidden himself in the dark and done this through Vice President Ma.
In the past three years, there have been plenty of opportunities to drive Lu Yanhe away. To put it bluntly, it's just someone who has some power, or who can exert some influence on Vice President Ma, but it's obviously not that capable.
Now that Lu Yanhe had made it clear that she wanted to keep him, she wanted to see if anyone dared to come and say something to her.
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"Star Orbit" is released on Thursday.
Lu Yanhe read this book in his live broadcast room.
He said: "This was given to me by an editor from a publishing house. It's on the market today, so I'm going to read this novel in my live broadcast room. In a couple of days, the author of this book and Liu Jiazhen, the author of 'Nineteen Years of Crime Records', will come to my live broadcast room as guests. We will chat together. If you are interested, you can tune in."
This is also a preview.
Lu Yanhe pointed out directly that "Star Orbit" was a gift from the publishing house, so that no one would find out about it later and exaggerate that he had received promotion fees.
That would be such a shame.
Because Star Orbit is a work of youth literature, Lu Yanhe had some trouble getting into it at first. He was not a traditional literary youth and did not have much in mind for the feelings and emotions of those young boys and girls.
But this story has a great impact. It tells the story of members of a high school club. They participated in a competition together in high school, and then after the college entrance examination, they went their separate ways. They had occasional contact with each other in the meantime, but the distance between them grew farther and farther, until everyone started working, and the club's instructor suddenly passed away due to illness, so everyone was gathered together from all over the world to face the regrets left behind that year again.
The story is not actually the focus, nor is it particularly creative, but the author's writing is very good. It's not the kind of good that uses flowery words, but it is very good at moving the reader's emotions.
For example, it writes about the regrets of a boy and a girl in the book. It writes that he always deliberately made her angry in high school, and then apologized profusely after she got angry. It goes back and forth repeatedly, making people feel that the boy deserved it for having secretly loved the girl for so long without being discovered by the girl. Until something happened in the boy's family, he never took the initiative to provoke the girl again, and even became a little distant from her.
The author writes about how the girl would think of the annoying boy from time to time in her daily life. The two of them were not as close as before until after the college entrance examination. They met a few times in each other's schools due to school activities, but no one broke the window paper between them.
Then, it worked.
Then, they met again at the funeral of the club's instructor and talked about the past.
The girl smiled and said, "You were really annoying at the beginning. You always tried to make me angry." She didn't say that she didn't know why later on, but she kept thinking of his snickering when he did bad things on purpose. It was silly, but silly in a bright way.
The boy said yes, I'm sorry, I always made you angry at that time. He didn't explain why he did so many nasty things. He couldn't help but want to see her getting angry because of his teasing, and chasing him to hit him.
The girl asked later if you were a little disgusted with me and seemed unwilling to pay attention to me.
The boy said no, it’s just that the college entrance examination is coming soon and he’s under a lot of pressure.
When everyone was having dinner together, while the boy went to the bathroom, his friend deliberately let it slip that the boy had a crush on the girl.
The girl smiled but said nothing.
A friend asked, if he confessed to her, would she agree?
Not anymore, she said.
A friend asked why.
She said she was already in a relationship with another person.
When she answered this, the boy had already returned.
He heard her answer.
The next day, everyone left the hotel, the boys left first and the girls left later.
Two years later, the two got married and each brought their then-partners to each other's weddings.
They sincerely wished each other well, and from the beginning to the end, they never mentioned their love for each other.
This is just one of the regrets about teenage crushes in this novel, and there are many others, all interwoven into this story.
When Lu Yanhe read the novel, his eyes even became red towards the end, because there was another story in the novel, which was about a boy who was introverted and autistic since childhood. Because he had no friends and was timid and cowardly, his mother always worried about him. His father died very early, and only his mother worked hard to raise him. Fortunately, he joined this club in high school and had a group of friends of his own. It also made his closed heart slowly open up, and he began to be willing to communicate with people around him.
When he was in his senior year, his mother passed away, and many friends from the club came to help him with funeral-related matters. They were all young people and didn't understand these things, but they didn't shy away and helped from beginning to end.
Then, ten years after graduation, he had become a researcher at a research institute. He talked to everyone about why he joined the club. He said that after receiving the club's promotional poster, he actually wanted to join, but he didn't dare to take the initiative. If everyone hadn't pulled him to the registration office one by one to sign up, he might never have taken this step, so he has always been grateful to these friends from the bottom of his heart.
It was not until this time that everyone told him that the reason they welcomed him one after another and asked him to join was because his mother had come to them with this promotional poster and asked for help.
——My son is a very introverted child, but he has a kind heart and is very interested in astronomy and geography. Could you please take the initiative to invite him to join your club?
——He has been an introvert since he was a child and no classmates are willing to play with him. If possible, could you please try to become friends with him?
——This is some nougat that I made myself. I don’t know if you like it. If you like it, I will make it for you next time.
——Thank you so much.
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The boy who was introverted, autistic and afraid to communicate with anyone has now become a researcher at the institute.
He is still not an extrovert or enthusiastic person, but his colleagues say that he has a warm power and is someone that his colleagues in the institute are willing to trust.
In his senior year, his mother passed away. Before she left, she held his hand and looked at him with tears in her eyes. She wanted to say something, but in the end, she said nothing.
He knew that she hoped everything was fine for him, that he was cheerful and kind, and that he could still live a good life after she left.
-Mom, I'm doing very well now. Don't worry about me anymore. You should also live well over there, okay?
Lu Yanhe's eyes turned red here.
Who has no regrets in life?
Do you read yourself in this novel?
Lu Yanhe read the last page in silence, took a deep breath, and put the book down.
In the barrage room, many people were shocked that Lu Yanhe's eyes were red.
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In the dormitory of Zhenhua University, Helan was a little conflicted. Should she place an order for another copy of "Star Orbit"?
The "Nineteen Years of Crime Records" that I had ordered from Lu Yanhe had just arrived, and I had just read a few pages. Now, Lu Yanhe was reading another novel in the live broadcast room, and his eyes were red from reading it, and he almost cried.
Is this book so touching?
Helan hesitated for a long time, but still went to place the order.
It must be a good novel that Lu Yanhe could read until his eyes turned red in the live broadcast room.
There are many people who share the same idea as Helan.
Many people ordered "Star Orbit" online after watching Lu Yanhe's live broadcast.
At the same time, people who got the "Nineteen Years of Crime Records" began to read the book one after another.
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Thanks to the current Internet age, publishers used to find it difficult to obtain real-time sales information for a book, but now they can obtain very useful data from e-commerce channels.
For example, after the release of "Star Orbit", due to the early promotion, this novel sold 800 copies within two hours after it was put on the shelves.
But sales trends began to slow down afterwards.
However, as Lu Yanhe started a live broadcast reading the book in the afternoon, the e-commerce sales data began to grow at a faster rate, especially around five o'clock in the afternoon. "Star Orbit" even appeared on the hot search list of several e-commerce book categories. That evening, "Star Orbit" was on the new book rankings of several e-commerce platforms.
This completely exceeded Jiangyin Publishing House's expectations for "Star Orbit".
In this era where most data can be traced back to their sources, the hot sales on the first day of "Star Orbit" clearly point to Lu Yanhe's live broadcast room.
Once is an accident, twice still a coincidence?
Xu Xiaoyin could not hide the joy on her face.
You know, the authors of "Nineteen Years of Crime Records" and "Star Orbit" will have to go to Lu Yanhe's live broadcast room to communicate, which will definitely boost sales again.
She now hopes that these new readers can form a force and slowly spread these two novels to people around them.
The sales of novels nowadays depend on the author’s fame and whether it can become an “Internet celebrity” in this Internet age, whether it can become a novel read by many people on social platforms and become a “social tool”.
Xu Xiaoyin immediately contacted several familiar e-commerce companies and added the words "Lu Yanhe live broadcast recommendation" to the recommendations for the two books.
Lu Yanhe's live broadcast room is not very popular now. This afternoon, when he was reading "Star Orbit" live, the peak number of viewers was only more than 6,000, and the average remained at around 4,000. But the key is that the conversion rate of these viewers is high. With such a small number of viewers, nearly a quarter of them went to buy books.
Lu Yanhe's popularity will definitely increase in the future.
After promoting these two books, Xu Xiaoyin now completely believes in Lu Yanhe's ability to promote books.
She didn’t know how Lu Yanhe performed with other products, as he had never sold any in his live broadcast room, but promoting books was very effective.
On the one hand, Xu Xiaoyin hopes that Lu Yanhe’s live broadcast room will become more and more influential, and on the other hand, she also hopes to cooperate with Lu Yanhe for a long time.
Xu Xiaoyin thought about it and turned her attention to the collector's edition of a best-selling novel that the publishing house would be releasing next week.
The author of this best-selling novel is very well-known and has many readers. If this person can be invited to Lu Yanhe's live broadcast room, both parties can benefit mutually.
This author can bring more viewers to Lu Yanhe's live broadcast room and deepen the impression of Lu Yanhe's reading live broadcast room. The audience of Lu Yanhe's live broadcast room can also help promote the sales of the collector's edition of this best-selling novel.