Shalun shook his head, "You don't need to invest. For the development of the game, it's just a drop in the bucket if you and I personally invest. I will find a way to raise funds!"
Sun Quan frowned, "Then how do you want me to become a shareholder?"
Shalun: "Your "Ring of the Immortal Dragon"!"
""The Ring of the Immortal Dragon"?" Sun Quan understood a little bit, but he didn't fully understand what Sha Lun meant.
"You want to adapt my book into a game?"
Shalun smiled and nodded, "Yes! You know, the works I have written over the years are basically urban, and urban works are not suitable for adaptation into online games. I have read your book "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon".
The idea is very good and the writing is wonderful. The popularity and popularity of this book are very good at present. It happens to be a fantasy work. I have thought about it carefully and found that your book is very suitable to be adapted into a game. If you agree, you can use it.
What do you think of the game adaptation rights of your book?"
Sun Quan said oh and subconsciously glanced at Shen Ji next to him.
Shen Ji looked aloof from the incident at this time, just listening with a smile and no longer interested in speaking.
Sun Quan fell into thinking.
He remembered that after Sha Lun changed her career, the first self-made game was "Shen Shang".
In order to promote this game, he specially came back to Qidian to write a novel of the same name, and reached a promotion agreement with Qidian. The promotional advertisement for the game "Shen Shang" has been hanging on Qidian's webpage for a long time.
Perhaps due to lack of concentration and the dissipation of popularity after a long cessation of writing, Sun Quan remembered that the novel "Shen Shang" was not very popular during the Qidian serialization period.
Compared with the popularity of Sha Lun's works during her peak period, the popularity is much lower.
Just after he thought that Shalun had failed in changing her career, about a few years later? Sun Quan couldn't remember clearly, but he suddenly heard that Shalun had reserved the rights to adapt Tomato's new book and game.
At that time, Tomato's new book had not yet been released, but the news circulating in the circle was that the price of the game adaptation rights was 50 million.
At that time, the circle was shocked.
I was shocked by the popularity of Tomato and the outrageous copyright price. I was also shocked by the fact that after Shalun changed her career, she quietly developed the company to such a height that she bought the game adaptation rights of a novel and was able to develop it.
Such a sky-high price.
"How about it? Think about it?"
Sha Lun asked with a smile.
Sun Quan suddenly asked: "If I use the game adaptation rights of this book to invest in shares, how many shares can I hold? Also, has your company been established?"
Shalun shook his head slightly, "The company hasn't been established yet, but I have experience in running a company, but it went bankrupt before. In recent years, although I write online articles at Qidian, I have also been working part-time as a planner and consultant for several companies.
, so you don’t have to worry about the establishment of the company! Moreover, if you agree to use the game adaptation rights of "Undying Dragon Ring" to become a shareholder, we don’t need to sign a formal contract immediately, we just need to sign a letter of intent first!
When I get the funds and the company is established, we will discuss the formal shareholding contract, and then we will discuss the specific shares. Do you think this is okay?"
"I'm going out to have a cigarette!"
Shen Ji suddenly said something, then waved to Sun Quan and Sha Lun, and walked away leisurely.
I guess I really have no interest in listening anymore.
Sun Quan waited for Shenji to leave, exhaled, and said with a smile: "Okay! You can sign the letter of intent. You can also discuss the number of shares when the contract is officially signed!"
Shalun was a little surprised, "Really? Do you really agree to use the adaptation rights of "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" to become a shareholder?"
Sun Quan nodded, "Well, it's true! But let's talk about the ugly things first! If the shares are given to me too few by then, I won't agree."
Sha Lun smiled, stood up and extended her right hand to Sun Quan, "No problem! I will let you see my sincerity when the time comes! I wish us a happy cooperation!"
Sun Quan stood up, and the two of them held hands together, smiling broadly.
They are both very young. Sun Quanxu is only 23 years old, and Shalun is not much older. But Sun Quan has seen some personal interviews of Shalun before, so he knows that this guy is different from ordinary people. He published the first book when he was about 18 years old.
In this book, when he was about 19 years old, he worked as a consultant for several advertising companies, and when he was about 20 years old, he started his own company. By the way, he seems to be from a businessman family, and he likes to do business at heart, and his experience is terrifying.
When Sun Quan read his interview records before, he felt that if this guy didn't brag, he would be a genius.
Unlike most people who write online articles out of hobbies, Shalun writes novels. It seems that because the company he started in his early years went bankrupt, he was forced to write online articles to save himself.
Then he became one of the early platinum gods in Qidian.
Now it seems that he has saved enough money and adjusted his status in the past few years of writing online articles, and now he wants to start a company and continue to work hard.
Sun Quan couldn't figure out why Shalun came to him to cooperate.
The original time and space and starting point are not without their popular fantasy works. But that time, Shalun created a story herself and then adapted it into a game.
In this life, for some unknown reason, he actually fell in love with his "Immortal Dragon Ring".
Maybe in the original time and space, Shalun also approached a master who writes fantasy to discuss the adaptation of his work? Because he couldn't reach an agreement, he got angry and wrote a game adaptation of "Shen Shang" by himself?
Suspicion flashed through Sun Quan's mind. After all, Sha Lun was good at urban works, and fantasy was not his specialty.
At the same time, Qidian's contracts these days are very loose. Except for works signed through buyouts, Qidian's current contracts with authors only require the electronic copyright of the works.
Rights such as Traditional Chinese publishing rights, Simplified Chinese publishing rights, game adaptation rights, audio novel adaptation rights, TV series adaptation rights, film adaptation rights, comic adaptation rights, etc., are all owned by the author personally.
It is not as overbearing as 15 years later, when all contracts were signed with full copyright.
Otherwise, even if Shalun was interested in Sun Quan's rights to adapt "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon", she wouldn't go out of her way to negotiate with Sun Quan himself, and would just go directly to the starting point.
…
The hotel Qidian chose for this annual meeting is of high quality and the service is great.
Shalun called the front desk of the hotel and asked to borrow the hotel's printer. The front desk agreed without hesitation.
This greatly facilitated the signing of the letter of intent between Sun Quan and Sha Lun.
Two copies of the letter of intent were printed out, and after a brief inspection, the two of them signed and fingerprinted it readily.
The content of this letter of intent is not complicated. It only agrees that within two years, Sun Quan will not sell the game adaptation rights of "The Immortal Dragon Ring" to other companies. Within two years, as long as Shalun's company is established and the funds are in place, the two parties will formally sign the "Immortal Dragon Ring"
An agreement to acquire the rights to adapt the game "Dragon Ring" into a stake in Shalun Company.
The specific shares will be negotiated in detail based on the value of the company.
If you just look at the terms of this letter of intent, the two people who signed this letter of intent seem to be quite unreliable.
Before a company is established, it is discussed about acquiring the rights to adapt the works of others.
The other one just signed such a letter of intent with others without first determining a minimum shareholding ratio.
But they just signed it.
For Shalun, his style of doing things may have always been like this, or it may be because he happened to see Sun Quan when he attended the Qidian Annual Meeting, and then thought that Sun Quan's "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" was suitable for adapting into a game, and he had a whim.
, come to Sun Quan to try your luck.
Regardless of whether there are dates or not, let’s try hitting two poles first. What if it works?
Anyway, you won't get pregnant if you try.
As for Sun Quan, if what Sha Lun had just proposed was not to buy a stock, but to buy him the game adaptation rights of "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" for hundreds of thousands, he might have rejected it outright.
Because he knows that in a few years, when the film and television circles and the game industry are experiencing an upsurge in IP adaptation, the copyrights of well-known works that have a slight adaptation value will almost be sold out.
At that time, an adaptation right from a Qidian Platinum author could easily be sold for millions, or even tens of millions.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for him to sell the game adaptation rights of "Undying Dragon Ring" for hundreds of thousands now.
If he keeps it in his hands for a few years, even if the game adaptation rights of his book cannot be sold in the end, it will only be a loss of hundreds of thousands.
But if it is sold, it can be sold for tens of millions, or even if it is not good enough, it can be sold for several million.
The risk is low and the prospects are promising. He will sell at a low price only if he is out of his mind.
But Sha Lun approached him today to talk about buying shares in the adaptation rights.
For Sun Quan, these are two concepts.
Although, if the final game is adapted, it is possible that it will not make much money and will suffer a loss.
But after all, there is still the possibility of making a lot of money!
Once you make a big profit, it will probably not be hundreds of thousands in income.
Not only the monetary benefits, but also the opportunity benefits of being one step ahead.
Just imagine: before the rights to game adaptations of other great gods' works were sold, his "Ring of the Immortal Dragon" was not only adapted, but also very popular.
Then when IP becomes popular in the entertainment industry and the game industry, other great masters can sell an adaptation right for millions or tens of millions. How can Sun Quan sell an adaptation right for less than others if it is rare?
Therefore, Sun Quan has no psychological burden when signing this letter of intent, which is only valid for two years.
Anyway, within two years, he had no intention of selling the game adaptation rights of this book. Within these two years, if Shalun really brings in the funds and the company is officially established, and he uses the game adaptation rights of this book to become a shareholder, what will happen?
Not possible?
On the contrary, he has nothing to lose.
After signing the letter of intent, the two went downstairs to order some dishes and a bottle of red wine to celebrate the signing of the letter of intent.
We chatted while eating, and it ended after more than an hour.
By the time Sun Quan returned to the room, Shenji had already returned and was sitting cross-legged on the bed, typing, with his laptop lying across his legs.
Seeing Sun Quan coming back, Shenji temporarily stopped his hands, frowned and asked: "How was your final discussion? Did you agree to become a shareholder?"
Sun Quan hummed and replied with a smile: "I agree, but you don't seem to like it?"
Shen Ji was silent and shook his head slightly, "I can't say whether I'm optimistic about it or not. I just think that Sha Lun's career change is a bit big this time. She writes novels and engages in game development..."
He shook his head again and said, "If he talks about setting up a novel website, maybe I'll still be interested, let alone game development. I don't understand this stuff, and I won't touch anything I don't understand!"