Su Yu, we agree to your terms! But we also have a condition!
After Wu Yue returned, he looked at Su Yu with an extremely serious expression.
“Tell me!” Su Yu nodded slightly, waiting quietly for Wu Yue to state his condition.
“The condition is that your next novel’s theme must still be Wuxia, and the total word count of the finished novel cannot be less than one million words!”
Wu Yue clearly stated the conditions that Shengshi Fenghua’s senior management had discussed and decided upon, one word at a time.
“No problem!” Su Yu agreed almost without thinking.
This scene made Hu Jian dumbfounded!
Oh my goodness, didn't you just say the theme wasn't certain? Why did you suddenly agree to write Wuxia now?
Also, when I advised you to write more words for the current book, what did you say? You said that adding unnecessary words would only affect the quality of the work!
Now, you agreed to the Chief Editor's request for one million words without even thinking?
Where is your integrity? Where is your persistence?
It seems you're not unable to write long novels; it's just that the conditions weren't good enough!
After happily signing the new author contract, Su Yu bid farewell to the two.
Watching Su Yu’s back as he walked into the Yan Music campus, Hu Jian suddenly thought of something: “Chief Editor, isn’t the lyricist and composer of “flowers bloom at parting” also named Su Yu? And also a student of Yan Music? Do you think they might be the same person?!”
“Otherwise? Why do you think we agreed to his terms? Isn't it because we value his future! Let's go, now we can peacefully wait for updates, and by the way, look forward to his next Wuxia novel, hahaha…
Wu Yue smiled, giving Hu Jian a dumbfounded answer.
It turns out the Chief Editor already knew Su Yu’s other identity!
In fact, the higher-ups agreed directly when they heard Su Yu's request for renewal, after all, they didn't have much substantial loss.
And the subsequent conditions were actually added by Wu Yue himself! Because he was so eager to see the day Wuxia novels would rise again.
Su Yu naturally didn't know these things; after all, the other party was an old fox, how could he, a young fox, possibly outsmart him?
In the following days, Su Yu lived a very fulfilling and regular life.
A daily writing task of 50,000 words finally allowed Su Yu to complete “amorous swordsman ruthless sword,” which originally didn't have many words.
And Su Yu, suddenly idle, felt an emptiness in his heart.
However, after these few days since the novel was put on shelves, his prestige value had increased quite a bit, already breaking through the 800,000 mark.
And after the prestige value reached 800,000, the growth almost stagnated.
Clearly, during this period, this novel had already reached all the readers it could cover.
To go further, perhaps he could only hope for the influence of the novel to ferment and spread.
However, for Su Yu, this had already exceeded his expectations.
On Tuesday evening, July 17th, Su Yu first received a call from Xie Jie.
Su Yu knew that today was the recording day for the fourth episode of “The King of Singers,” and his new song would once again appear on the stage of “The King of Singers” today.
“Brother, I really have to thank you this time! I didn’t let your “life is like summer flowers” be overshadowed, just wait for the show to air, this time I got first place! First place! It’s my first time getting first place!”
Xie Jie on the phone was already beyond excited, those three words “first place” were almost shouted out at the end.
“Then congratulations, Brother Jie. It’s not surprising for Brother Jie to get first place with his singing skills. My song was just the icing on the cake. By the way, Brother Jie, what about Senior Sister Han’s ranking?”
Flattery gets you everywhere. Su Yu smiled and congratulated Xie Jie on winning, but what Su Yu cared more about was Han Jiangxue's ranking in this episode.
“She sang a new Chinese-style song written for her by Teacher Li Dayue in this episode, and her performance was also very good, quite decent, but the song wasn't as stunning as “the wind rises”! She ended up in fourth place. She was first in the last challenge round, so without your blessing, her results naturally slipped quite a bit.”
Xie Jie didn't care about confidentiality agreements or anything; besides, he knew Su Yu wouldn't spread rumors, so he just told Su Yu everything.
“Brother Jie, you shouldn’t say that! Teacher Li is a gold-medal lyricist and composer, and his strength is obvious to all. I just got lucky and wrote a few decent songs.”
Although Su Yu was laughing in his heart, he was exceptionally humble in his words.
Li Dayue, I told you not to snatch my Senior Sister Han, now look what happened?
You have so many singers at Tianxing, why don't you write songs for others? You just had to compete with me.
“Brother, your strength is also obvious to all, alright! Three songs in a row are all above standard, doesn’t that explain the problem? As soon as these three songs of yours go online, you’ll instantly be promoted to an intermediate lyricist and composer, alright? By the way, Brother, do you have any other songs suitable for me? I want to buy another one!”
Xie Jie truly admired Su Yu’s songwriting abilities from the bottom of his heart! So his praise was completely unrestrained.
However, what Xie Jie wanted to do most now was actually to continue asking Su Yu for songs, after all, he had tasted the sweetness.
As long as he could get another hit song to consolidate the popularity after “life is like summer flowers” aired, his position in the music industry could be elevated another notch!
“Brother Jie, I really don’t have any songs suitable for you at the moment, but I will try to write some more. If I have any that are suitable for you, I will notify you immediately.” Su Yu replied helplessly.
What a great opportunity to sell songs and promote them, but unfortunately, he only had one song, torment, left.
And this song, he saved it for Han Jiangxue!
Because Su Yu felt that after this defeat, Han Jiangxue would definitely contact him again to request songs.
“Alright, Su Yu, don’t overwork yourself. It’s not too late to write when you have inspiration. Be sure to take care of yourself!” Xie Jie also felt that Su Yu might not have much inventory left, so he was just trying.
However, showing concern for Su Yu was still very necessary.
Sure enough, not long after Xie Jie hung up the phone, Han Jiangxue’s voice call came in.
Su Yu didn't deliberately delay answering, but quickly picked up.
“Senior Sister, is the recording over?” Su Yu pretended not to know the result and asked curiously.
This week, after they had dinner, the communication between the two of them significantly decreased.
One reason was Su Yu was busy writing and recovering his physical strength, and another was Han Jiangxue was diligently practicing the new song Li Dayue gave her.
Both were busy, so naturally, their communication decreased.
And with less contact, a slight unfamiliarity crept in between them.
“Mm, I lost to your “life is like summer flowers.” Junior Brother, promise me, no matter what, you won’t take your own life, okay?” Han Jiangxue’s voice was a bit low, and her last sentence made Su Yu stand rooted to the spot.