Chapter 68 Wrong
The news brought by Ling Jingsu can be said to have shocked all three people in the office.
The one who reacted the most strongly was Kong Lu, who wanted to increase his royalties by stepping on "Love and Sex".
Kong Lu's tone and attitude just spoke was neither humble nor arrogant. Of course, this was because of the popularity of "Length Life" made him full of confidence, but now he was a little angry and incredible: "How is this possible? "Love and Sex" sold only a little in a week, and now he sold 10,000 copies at once? It's simply nonsense!"
Ling Jingsu's assistant was too lazy to talk nonsense, so he only asked him to read the World Journal by himself.
However, it was Wang Defu and Ling Jingsu who could read the World Journal first, which made Kong Lu unable to scratch his ears and faces and was impatient.
Wang Defu and Ling Jingsu quickly understood why the sales of "Love and Sex" suddenly soared. It turned out that it had actually caught the eye of the literary giant He Shouchang. The other party wrote a long article for the novel and also complained about the appearance design of the novel, and the poor publicity before it was launched...
He Shouchang believed that the work "Love and Sex" could become popular instantly after it was launched, but the publisher's operations were too eye-catching and despised the value of this work. Therefore, he suggested that the new writer "Ms. Yiren" should be better for a new publisher to change to another publisher. The king is the way to sign a contract with a large publisher, and small publishers are all tricks.
When Ling Jingsu first read He Shouchang's article "The Boundary of Lightness and Heavyness - Interpreting "Love and Sex" in My Eyes", she felt honored. After all, Wang Defu's works were favored by such a heavyweight literary giant, which shows that she had a good vision and had won over such a genius writer who emerged in advance.
But when she saw He Shouchang's complaints later, she was ashamed to find a hole to get into it. She always thought that it was Wang Defu's own work that led to the poor sales of "Love and Sex". She didn't have to bear any responsibility. Now she realized that she had made something wrong herself!
She mistakenly regarded "Love and Sex" as a popular novel of the Mandarin duck and Butterfly School, designed its single-line version with this idea and went public without any publicity. This is obviously a trick of "Love and Sex"!
Such behavior is probably like putting Mo Yan's Nobel Prize-winning novel on sale... It would be strange if the subscription can be high!
She should treat "Love and Sex" as a pure literary work, and ask literary giants like He Shouchang to write the preface. There should also be a book cover on the cover, and there are words that are strongly recommended by the big writers. This is the correct way to open the sales of "Love and Sex"!
Ling Jingsu almost apologized to Wang Defu in person, but thought that the other party did not want to admit that he was "Ms. Yiren", so he forced himself to hold it back, but said to his assistant directly: "Don't be anxious to add "Love and Sex". Redesign the appearance of "Love and Sex", invest more costs, and create a hardcover version. In addition, it also needs to add a book waistband, which should be written on it that He Shouchang strongly recommends, and extract appropriate recommendations from the article "World Daily".
"Okay, I'll do it right away!" the assistant said excitedly, "Love and Sex can be highly recommended by literary figures like He Shouchang. Our magazines may be more famous. Editor-in-chief Ling, your vision is really great. You can make such masterpieces serialize in our magazine."
After hearing this, Ling Jingsu still looked cold. In front of people other than Wang Defu, she was like an iceberg that had remained unchanged for thousands of years. Maybe she thought this would be very helpful in establishing her authority in the company.
As the sales of "Red Rose" became better and better, Ling Jingsu's original small workshop-like publishing company has further expanded its scale and recruited more employees, of course, mostly women, because many men immediately ran away when they heard that they wanted to work in a company where a woman was the boss, like a cat with a tail stepped on, and immediately ran away.
Maybe these men think they are more backbone and are literati, so they can't lower their arrogant heads at all. On the contrary, those employees who are responsible for doing odd jobs and running errands to the company do not have this psychological pressure and feel that it is embarrassing to work under women. As long as they have money, they can get it.
Because there are many female employees in the company, this inexplicably creates a cohesion of "who says women are inferior to men". Like Ling Jingsu's assistant just now, he truly regards the company's development as his own career and is very happy to see everything that is conducive to the company's development.
When Ling Jingsu ordered his assistant, Kong Lu, the author of "Desire Life", looked at "World Daily" without believing in his belief. As he looked, he actually looked envious and jealous and hatred on his face. He thought, when one day, his works could be strongly recommended by such a big shot?
After Ling Jingsu ordered his assistant, he didn't care whether Kong Lu was still reading the newspaper. She just said in an extremely cold tone: "I don't know where you found out the price of the author of "Love and Sex", but now you also see that the reputation this work brings to the magazine is not comparable to your work. It is completely worthy of the price offered by the magazine. If your work can also be highly recommended by an academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a professor of the Department of Literature of a prestigious university, then of course I would like to raise the price for you."
Kong Lu can no longer act as a humble or arrogant person. He said embarrassedly: "How can I write such a work..."
When Kong Lu was about to retreat in shame, Ling Jingsu said in a gentle tone: "The popularity of "Light Life" is still very good. As long as you finish this work well and maintain such popularity in the next film, it is natural to raise the price for you, so don't be impatient."
When Kong Lu heard this, he felt that the female editor-in-chief was not that cold anymore. He bowed and left helplessly.
At this time, only Ling Jingsu and Wang Defu remained in the office.
Ling Jingsu closed the office door and locked it back, and then came to Wang Defu. His cool appearance just now no longer existed. Instead, he became a girl who was as humble as the dust. She hugged one of the man's hand, shook it gently, and said softly: "Mocun, I was wrong..."
Chapter completed!