Chapter 141 The quintessence of the nation that night
"Who does he think he is?"
"Tell him and don't regret it."
"Haha, I'm lucky enough to write a popular novel, so I feel great. Tell him, I don't care about collaborating with him. What the hell."
After Cucumber told the heads of other companies that Lin Xia would talk about copyright after finishing the book, most of the replies he got were in this unkind tone.
And there are many such replies, which shows that these companies are not satisfied with Lin Xia's answer.
However, Cucumber can understand why these companies are so arrogant.
Because in their opinion, if they take the initiative to talk to the author about copyright, the other party should be very happy, which is also in line with the current status of the entire industry.
Because there are actually not many authors and good novels nowadays.
At present, the vast majority of movies, TV shows, and animations are basically adapted from novels, which is also the most common practice at present.
It's not that screenwriters can't create good scripts anymore, it's mainly because it's much better to adapt existing novels than to wait for screenwriters to write scripts.
Directly adapting ready-made novels into TV or animation not only can quickly create the framework of the entire subsequent plot, but also has ready-made IP.
After all, the novels they chose to adapt into TV anime are actually quite popular themselves.
Basically, the novel itself already has a lot of fans, so after it is adapted into TV or animation, it can save a lot of effort in publicity. It can be said that adaptation is a matter of one plus one greater than two.
So as long as there are some popular novels, most of them will be purchased by these companies and then adapted.
Copyright negotiations are very common for these companies.
But generally speaking, as long as they express that they want to negotiate copyright with an author, those authors are very flattered and appear very happy.
Especially for new authors, they will even take the initiative to contact them to discuss copyright.
Basically all authors, even those who have been famous for a long time, are very welcome to talk about copyright matters.
This was the first time that they encountered a situation where they wanted to discuss copyright with the other party in advance, but the author did not agree.
You need to know about these companies, but basically all authors want to meet and cooperate with them in their dreams, so their attitude towards authors is naturally not too humble.
They have always been the dominant side.
Therefore, being used to being begged for by others, Lin Xia's attitude naturally directly annoyed them. In their eyes, he was equivalent to giving money to Lin Xia.
But the other party actually rejected me. He didn't even listen to the conditions he offered, and just refused so directly.
Now in the eyes of these companies, I always feel that Lin Xia looks down on them and doesn't give them face.
After Huagua saw these messages, he could only start to reply to these messages one by one, and could only comfort these companies one by one. After all, as an editor, this is his job.
He also knew that after releasing this news, most companies would definitely be dissatisfied.
But there was no way. Although these companies were dissatisfied, it was Lin Xia who he did not dare to offend.
If Lin Xia, a busy person, suddenly decides not to write anymore and stops updating novels because he thinks these companies are troublesome, then the website will be in real trouble now.
Others may not know about the author of "Zhu Xian", but as an editor, Huanggua knows that Lin Xia actually does not rely on the income from this novel to live at all.
Maybe writing novels is just a little hobby.
If the most popular novel on the entire website is discontinued, most of the trouble would be gone instead of offending these companies. After Huagua’s simple reply, many companies were still dissatisfied with Huagua’s reply and the writer Lin Xia. So, he had no choice but to go to the editor-in-chief's office and asked the editor-in-chief how to handle this matter.
After hearing about Cucumber’s problem, editor-in-chief Hu Lai also felt a little headache at this time.
The situation of Cucumber is indeed the most special one on the Origin website. The signed author wrote the most popular novel on the entire website. This should have made the entire website very happy. p>
But the author of this novel is currently the most popular producer.
Logically speaking, if the combination of the two identities is known to the outside world, the traffic on the origin station will definitely explode, and the entire origin will explode again.
However, the problem before them now is that they dare not reveal Lin Xia's true identity to the outside world, and they cannot urge the update of the novel, nor can they urge the copyright matter, which has offended many partners.
The current situation is equivalent to you learning a dragon-slaying skill that will shock the world and make ghosts and gods cry, but there are no dragons in this world.
Not being able to use his strength is what makes Hu Lai feel the most uncomfortable now.
And I couldn’t afford to offend both parties. In fact, this situation didn’t last just one or two days, but lasted for nearly more than a month.
Since the release of Zhuxian, basically as the chief editor, he has been able to receive various urgings and conversations from the bosses of various companies.
In this case, after my boss found out that the author was Lin Xia, he couldn't say anything more. He just told him to serve Teacher Lin Xia well and not to interrupt the update.
His boss spoke lightly, but some criticisms from the outside world required him to reply all the time, which made him feel very troublesome.
"Chief Editor, I feel that we cannot continue like this. If we continue like this, there will be a lot of losses for our website."
"Well, you think I thought, now many old friends have complained to me, and they have dragged me to look at the copyright issues, and they also said that our new group of authors is really a bit too arrogant.
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"Hey, who says it's not the case? I'm all talking about Lin Xia here."
"But how do they know that this Lin Xia is the real Teacher Lin Xia? By the way, have you been in contact with Teacher Lin Xia recently? Didn't he take a week off not long ago?"
"I got in touch. Teacher Lin Xia just replied. We won't talk about copyright cooperation until we finish talking about this book. I guess people don't like this kind of copyright. After I just told other people in charge who want to cooperate, everyone also
Talking about Teacher Lin Xia..."
At this time, the two of them were sitting on the table chatting, feeling helpless.
The current state of the two of them can be said to be painful and happy.
Due to the popularity of the novel Zhu Xian, Huagua has now successfully become the editor-in-chief of the Xianxia category. As for the previous editor-in-chief Wang Yan, he was directly fired by Hu Lai due to improper transactions with the author Wang Daxian.
, promoted the cucumber.
Nowadays, Cucumber's income and status in the company can be said to have risen sharply, all because of the popularity of Zhu Xian.
At this time, Hu Lai can be considered to have gained a lot, because the popularity of this novel and the increase in website traffic have naturally increased his dividends a lot.
Now both of them have greatly increased their income and their lives have also been greatly improved because of the novel Zhu Xian.
But also, because of this novel, they are now in a dilemma, caught in the middle, and their current situation can be said to be very uncomfortable.
"How about we take some time to meet with Teacher Lin Xia?"
"Why would Teacher Lin Xia meet with us? She is so popular now, but now she is the hottest star in the entire Huaxia Kingdom. Who are we? People who want to meet Teacher Lin Xia can probably line up from the imperial capital.
In France, will people meet with small website editors like us? The reason why they can chat with us is because writing novels is their hobby..."
Originally, Cucumber wanted to meet with Lin Xia and ask if he could disclose his identity so that they would be less stressed.
But Hu Lai's words also made him sober up a lot.
Indeed, his current status is far different from theirs. It seems that it is too difficult to meet Lin Xia.
For the first time in so many years of working in the industry, Cucumber felt that as an editor, it was so difficult to meet and chat with his authors.
When I occasionally reply to the messages sent by other authors, the other party will be excited to thank them for a long time, but when it comes to Lin Xia, it's completely the other way around.
Lin Xia replied with a message, saying that he could enjoy himself for a long time, it was outrageous but very scientific.
"Let's do this, you send a message to Teacher Lin Xia and see if you can spare some time to chat and interact with the fans. After all, there are so many fans who have given huge rewards, and Teacher Lin Xia has not replied even once so far.
Passed..."
"Okay, actually I helped and thanked you several times in the background..."
"Well done. For those users who reward large amounts, you must be steady."
"Alas, for such a reward of tens of thousands of dollars, maybe Lin Xia is the only one in the entire writer industry who doesn't even say thank you."
"It's harmful, Teacher Lin Xia probably won't even read it..."
In fact, there have been a lot of large rewards for Zhu Xian recently, mainly because the update of Zhu Xian is really too slow. Other works that have achieved better results after being put on the shelves can't wait to update tens of thousands of words every day.
But only Lin Xia's Zhu Xian has always maintained an updated word count of the Buddhist series.
"There are indeed a lot of rewards for prompting teachers. We don't expect Teacher Lin Xia to thank them. However, you remember to mention it from time to time. If Teacher Lin Xia sees it one day, just reply with a few words."<
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After finishing speaking, Cucumber started to work with the editor-in-chief Hu Lai at the side in the office. After repeated deliberation, they edited a message and sent it.
Just after sending it, nothing happened.
The two of them waited in the office for a long time, but did not wait for Lin Xia's reply. They could only look at each other, gave a helpless smile, and went back to their respective jobs.
At this time, Lin Xia returned to the hotel after finishing a day of practice in the recording studio.
After arriving at the hotel, I saw the long message sent to me by Cucumber again.
Generally speaking, this editor Cucumber will not particularly bother me. Now that he is sending so many messages one after another, he must be under a lot of pressure.
After reading the previous news, Lin Xia could probably guess that her novel was very popular now. Those companies got unwanted results after contacting Cucumber. They would definitely treat a small business like Cucumber.
Editorial pressure.
However, this incident did make Lin Xia feel a little surprised.
Although I also knew that this novel was very powerful, I did not expect that it would become so popular. This popularity was indeed beyond my expectation.
In this paragraph of text I sent, in addition to asking me to try my best to deal with those fans who rewarded me with large sums of money, I also wanted to make myself pay more attention to this aspect of the novel.
In Lin Xia's opinion, this editor Cucumber can be regarded as a responsible editor.
However, thinking about it with confidence, it seems that I have not paid attention to this aspect of the novel for too long. For such a long time, since the novel was put on the shelves, it has only been updated automatically and regularly every day.
As for the backstage messages and fan comments, Lin Xia actually hasn’t read them at all.
Most of my time is still spent on the recording of "Ace Producer", and I am indeed a little neglected in terms of novels.
So Lin Xia called directly.
Compared to chatting sentence after sentence, when it comes to work, Lin Xia still prefers to communicate directly on the phone, which can be more efficient.
When Cucumber in Shanghai saw the call, he immediately thought he was hallucinating.
But what he didn't expect was that it was actually Lin Xia who called him and took the initiative!
At this time, Cucumber coughed hard several times, cleared his throat, and immediately put the receiver to his ear after answering the call, saying in a respectful tone: "Hello, Teacher Lin Xia!"
"Hello, cucumber."
"Teacher Lin Xia, I didn't expect you to call me personally. I wonder what your instructions are..."
......
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!!! Fuck!! Fuck!!!"
At this time, Cucumber was in the office area, talking about the quintessence of Chinese culture as if no one else was around, and walked into the office of Chief Editor Hu Lai.
In less than a minute, two voices of "Fuck!" came from the office.
And on this night, a piece of news was announced on the Origin Station.
The author of the most popular novel "Zhu Xian" on the website will conduct a live broadcast next Wednesday to communicate with fans of the novel.