At around 9 a.m., Sun Quan received a strange phone call with the name "Modu" on the caller ID.
He was typing in the study when he saw this unfamiliar number. He hesitated slightly but picked it up.
"Hello? Hello! Are you Mr. Sun Quan, the old man from Xianyu?"
The phone was connected, and a pleasant female voice came. Seeing how pleasant her voice was, Sun Quan did not hang up the phone in a hurry. At the same time, he was also a little curious. This woman actually announced his pen name and what she did.
?What do you want to do?
"Well, yes, it's me. Who are you?"
Woman: "Ah, hello! I am a staff member of the investment department of Juling Group. My surname is Fan. Mr. Sun, you can call me Xiaofan. Oh, by the way, Mr. Sun, have you heard of our Juling Group?"
?"
Sun Quan narrowed his eyes. Although he didn't usually play games, he had heard of domestic gaming giants like Juling Group.
"Oh, I know, hello Miss Fan, who are you looking for?"
Woman: "That's right, we are quite interested in the book "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" that you are currently serializing, so I would like to ask if you still have the game adaptation rights for this book?"
Sun Quan smiled and said, "Well, yes, I still have it. Does your group want to buy it?"
Woman: "Yes, yes, I wonder what your opinion is, Mr. Sun? For example, at what price would you consider selling the game adaptation rights of this book?"
The corner of Sun Quan's mouth raised slightly. He did not respond to the question immediately. Instead, he turned on the recording function on his phone and then said: "Oh, you should quote the price first, right? You quote a price. If I am satisfied, then we can continue the discussion."
Bar?"
Woman: "What do you think of this...500,000? This price should be able to show the sincerity of our Juling Group, right?"
Sun Quan laughed and said, "Miss Fan, you are so funny. Usually a lot of people in your company like to chat with you, right?"
Woman: "Ah? Mr. Sun... what do you mean?"
Sun Quan: "I don't mean anything. I just think you are quite humorous, Miss Fan. This is a good quality. Please keep it up."
woman:"……"
After a moment of silence, the woman asked tentatively: "Mr. Sun, does he think my quotation just now is too low?"
Sun Quan chuckled, "Anyway, I have no interest in considering this price at all. By the way, I forgot to ask just now, where did Miss Fan get my private mobile phone number? Was it from the Qidian website?"
Woman: "Yes, yes, I just contacted Qidian.com, but they said that the rights to adapt the game belong to the author himself, so I asked them for your contact information and took the liberty to call you if you have any questions.
Please forgive me for disturbing you!"
Sun Quan: "Oh, then didn't they tell you how much the monthly manuscript fee for my book is now?"
woman:"……"
After a few seconds, the woman asked a little guiltily: "How much, how much?"
Sun Quan: "If I say it myself, I will inevitably be suspected of being pretentious. Since Miss Fan can contact Qidian, you should go and find out for yourself! After asking, if you still feel about the game adaptation of my book
If you’re interested, let’s talk again, okay?”
"this……"
The woman hesitated and said another number, "Well...Mr. Sun, what do you think of 800,000?"
"Dudu...dudu..."
Mr. Sun has already hung up the phone.
800,000 yuan to buy his adaptation rights to "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon". He has been daydreaming this morning. Sun Quan is too lazy to pay attention. So what if Juling Group is a giant in the gaming industry?
A giant company that cannot bring him huge adaptation fees is worthless to him.
He, Sun Quan, doesn't point to the Juling Group for dinner.
What's more, he and Sha Lun signed a letter of intent to cooperate. Although that thing is not legally binding, in life, apart from the contract, there is also integrity.
That's not to say that it's completely impossible for him to tear up the letter of intent for cooperation, but if the other party's price doesn't satisfy him, it's impossible for him to consider it.
Even if you use money to buy his integrity, you have to pay a high price. Besides, he doesn't think Juling Group can offer a high price that satisfies him.
Someone's moral integrity is very expensive.
As for why he was recording just now?
Of course, this is so that when we cooperate with Shalun in the future and discuss shares, we will be more confident and can ask for more shares.
Is this a sinister move?
In the adult world, when it comes to one's own career and future, what's so sinister about it?
…
About an hour later, the number called Sun Quan's cell phone again.
Sun Quan smiled, answered the call, and turned on his phone to record again.
Woman: "Um, hello Mr. Sun, it's me, Xiaofan! Sorry, I'm disturbing you again."
Sun Quan smiled and asked: "What does Miss Fan want to say? Let's keep the story short!"
Woman: "Okay, okay, Mr. Sun, I just asked the manager for permission. Do you think 1.5 million is okay?"
To be fair, the game adaptation rights of an online novel in 2008 could be sold for 1.5 million, which is a rare high price.
After all, the concept of Internet IP is not very popular these days, and many great masters may not be able to earn so much money after their works have been serialized in Qidian.
So when Sun Quan heard the quotation this time, his attitude became slightly better, "I'm sorry, this price is still not enough."
woman:"……"
This was probably a reply that was beyond her expectation. This time she was silent for a while before asking: "Mr. Sun, what is your psychological price range? Tell me. If the difference is not big, I can help you to ask for it again.
Our manager strives for it.”
Sun Quan hesitated for a moment, then shook his head slightly and sighed: "Miss Fan, since you know our starting point, you should know that my book was not the most popular at the starting point. I suggest you choose other works!
I have already made an agreement with my friend about the game adaptation rights of this book, and I will give it to him to adapt, so don’t waste your time on me, I’m sorry!”
The woman was silent for a while, and then asked persistently: "Mr. Sun, we can discuss the price again, do you really not consider it at all? The quotation our Juling Company gave you may not be the highest, but our Juling Group
You should have heard about your strength in the gaming industry. If your book is adapted by our group, there is a greater hope that it will become popular. It will also have a great improvement effect on your personal reputation and worth.
What do you think?"
Don't tell me, Sun Quan really agreed with what she said.
Compared with Juling Group, Shalun Individual, who has not yet established a company, has a very obvious strength gap.
But again - someone's integrity is very expensive.
Moreover, he has another consideration in mind - if "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" is handed over to Sha Lun to adapt, it will be the only adaptation project Sha Lun has at hand. Sha Lun will definitely invest 120% of his energy and efforts in this project.
We will do our best to ensure that this project does not fail.
Because for Shalun, he couldn't afford to fail in this project.
But if the adaptation rights are handed over to Juling Group, the project "Ring of the Immortal Dragon" may be one of n projects for a giant company like Juling Group.
First of all, it is not that important in terms of importance. Whether this project can get the attention of Juling Group by then will only depend on luck.
If this project is handed over to an unreliable person, after the game is developed, it will not hurt the Juling Group and it will not hurt the bones.
But for him, Sun Quan, what will affect him is the price of the game adaptation rights for each of his future works.
so……
Sun Quan: "Sorry, Miss Fan, you should consider other works! I wish you good luck, and I wish you good luck."
woman:"……"
After a moment, the woman sighed softly, "Okay! I understand what you mean, so I won't bother you today. Goodbye!"
Sun Quan: "Goodbye!"
After ending the call with Miss Fan, Sun Quan took his cell phone and thought for a while, searched in his address book, found Sha Lun's number and dialed it.
When the call was connected, Sha Lun smiled and asked, "Huh? Why did you remember to call me today?"
Sun Quan: "Haha, if I say I dialed the wrong number, will you hang up immediately?"
Sha Lun: "Hey, guess?"
Sun Quan: "Not interested! By the way, do you know about Juling Group?"
Shalun: "Huh? I know! I went to the investment department of their group to solicit investment a few days ago. What's wrong? Why did you suddenly mention this company?"
Sun Quan: "Oh? Have you visited their investment department?"
Shalun: "Yes, what's wrong?"
Sun Quan shook his head slightly, "Then what they did today is ugly!"
Shalun: “What do you mean?”
Sun Quan: "Wait a moment! I will send you two phone recordings. You can listen to it yourself!"
After saying that, before Shalun could ask anything else, Sun Quan hung up the phone, then plugged in the data cable to the phone, connected it to the computer, recorded the two calls recorded on the phone, imported them into the computer, and then used QQ to
Send it to Sha Lun.
After sending it, he sent a text message to Shalun on his mobile phone.
"The recording has been sent to your QQ, go and listen to it!"
"good"
After Shalun gave a brief reply, she temporarily disappeared.
About a few minutes later, Shalun sent a video call request to Sun Quan on QQ, and Sun Quan easily connected the video call.
In the video, Shalun is sitting in a very stylish study room. The bookshelf behind her is full of various books.
As soon as the video came through, he asked in a deep voice: "Old Sun, those two recordings just now were recordings of people from the Juling Group calling you?"
At this time, Shalun's brows were furrowed.
Those two recordings did not record Ms. Fan's initial self-introduction, because when she introduced herself, Sun Quan had not turned on the recording on his mobile phone.
Sun Quan smiled and said, "Yes."
Shalun's face turned a little dark, and she cursed with an unhappy expression: "You're stepping on a horse! You're too much of a horse-stealing grandson to play this trick with me!"
Sun Quan rolled his eyes and gave a friendly reminder: "Boss! When you scold someone's grandson, can you consider my mood? My surname is Sun!"
Shalun chuckled, amused, "Can you please stop making me laugh at this time? I'm angry!"
Sun Quan smiled, "I teased you just because I saw you were angry! How about it? Is the financing not going well recently?"