As the most talented literary genius in high school, Guo Rui's masterpieces have always been classics circulated by everyone in the class. Naturally, he was so proud that he could not accept the fact that his manuscripts were rejected.
As a strong second-generation rich man at the foot of the Imperial City, this matter also became a small obsession in Guo Rui's heart at that time.
This time the blow was so severe that he never dared to submit a manuscript to "Grudge" again.
The royalties for "Sprouting" are considerable for most students.
But for Guo Rui, who comes from a wealthy family, it is not worth mentioning.
Later, after going to college, this little obsession began to sprout.
So, after Guo Rui received a sum of funds from his family, he created "Contemporary Literary World" with his own hands!
"Contemporary Literary Circle" was just a campus literary magazine at that time and was unknown.
After Guo Rui's efforts, this campus magazine founded by college students gradually became popular throughout Peking University.
Not long after that, with the influence of Peking University, "Contemporary Literary Circle", which is the first magazine of Peking University, gradually spread to many surrounding universities, and then to universities, middle schools and primary schools across the country...
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Finally, after four years of hard work, what was originally a small campus magazine has now become one of the favorite reading materials for all students on campuses in China.
Although there is still a big gap between "Contemporary Literary World" and "Grudge" in terms of sales volume, it is not as good as the previous one but more than the lower one.
The original obsession, and now "Contemporary Literary World", has become the rainbow and heart of Guo Rui's career.
As the saying goes, where there is a market, there are interests.
Where there are interests, there are struggles.
The original literary dream has gradually dissipated. Now that he has become a businessman, Guo Rui is naturally an eyesore to the equally powerful competitor "New Red Learning".
On the other hand, looking at "New Red Learning", why don't you want to get rid of the thorn in the side of "Contemporary Literary World"?
For this reason, when trying to boost their own morale, the two magazines regarded each other as a hostile force.
As time passed, some invisible hostility developed between them.
This resulted in many in-house reviews where the commentators and editors of the two magazines satirized each other in various ways in their own publications. These battles once became the talk of the industry after dinner.
Faced with the sarcasm from Chang Silin, the editor-in-chief of "New Red Science", although he was disgusted in his heart, Guo Rui smiled gently on the surface and said: "Mr. Chang, don't talk about me. Aren't you also here to buy books in the bookstore?
?Don’t tell me that you came here to eat, it’s not even time yet!”
Chang Silin smiled. He came to the bookstore to buy books. He just happened to see Guo Rui entering Xinhua Bookstore, so he thought of it and followed him.
He was thin and thin, with extremely big eyes and a slight suspicion on his face. From the moment he walked in, he didn't believe that Guo Rui was here to buy books.
Therefore, his dark eyes rolled, he looked at Guo Rui, and said with seemingly profound meaning: "I recently heard that Mr. Guo is very close to Hanhai Media. Could it be that he wants to buy the second part of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp"?
Serial copyright? Mr. Guo is really wealthy. Li Qing’s works are extremely expensive, with a 31% royalty rate. If it were me, I wouldn’t agree.”
Although Guo Rui wanted to leave the bookstore at this time, he was more worried that after he left, Chang Silin would elicit words from the bookstore staff about Li Qing's "The Three-Body Problem". He was already extremely greedy for "The Three-Body Problem".
In recent days, he has been in and out of Hanhai Media Company frequently. If Li Qing hadn't happened to be on a business trip and was away from the capital, he would have stayed at Hanhai.
He was afraid that Chang Silin would get there first after learning the news, so his heels seemed to be stuck to the floor, unable to move, and he replied in a pretentious manner: "You can just say that."
No, Li Qing's reputation is top-notch, and since Tang Dynasty Publishing House dares to pay this price, it is naturally not stupid. If it were you, would you do something without profit? As the largest publishing house in the country, would you do it?
Would the Tang Dynasty of the society fail to consider this and make a loss-making purchase? You underestimate Mr. Fang too much."
Chang Silin originally just mentioned it casually, but when he saw that Guo Rui stayed in front of him and refused to leave, he felt angry.
But after all, he had been in the arena for a long time, and he saw something strange in Guo Rui's calm young face. His heart moved, and he began to look around and asked seemingly casually: "Oh? It seems that Guo Rui
Have you always planned to buy the second part of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" with a royalty rate of more than 30%? This is really a coincidence, our "New Red School" has also had this intention recently..."
Chang Silin kept talking nonsense, but Guo Rui just thought that the other party was farting and ignored him and said: "That's good, it will also give Hanhai more choices..."
Chang Silin sneered, feeling very contemptuous in his heart.
Regardless of whether it is "New Red Learning" or "Contemporary Literary Circle", although they have their own publishing mechanisms, they rarely deal with matters such as obtaining ISBNs and publishing. Most of them still serialize reading materials, and publish
The tax rate is not very applicable to magazine serialization. In this regard, most magazines settle accounts on a thousand-word basis, which is a one-time settlement.
Therefore, the two of them did not believe even a single punctuation mark when the other party wanted to obtain the publishing rights of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".
Chang Silin looked around for a long time and didn't see anything strange. Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly heard the enthusiastic discussion of several middle school students who were checking out at the bookstore counter.
"It's really eye-opening. I didn't expect that Li Qing got full marks in his college entrance examination essay!"
"Does the world of Trisolarans really exist?"
"What a magical alien civilization. I don't feel that this is an essay at all. It is more like an article, and the content is logically clear and organized, as if it is a real thing."
"Li Qing has written a martial arts movie called "Looking for Qin", and will recently release a tomb-robbing movie called "Ghost Blowing the Lamp: The Ancient City", hehe, don't look at me in such surprise, I am a fan of Li Qing,
I have watched all his songs. Didn't you all like to watch "The King of Masked Singer" before? The blind monk in it is Li Qing. You should all know this!"
Several students had looks of shock on their faces.
"Of course we all know that I still know Li Qing from "The Masked Singer", but what we don't know is that Li Qing actually wrote it?"
""Looking for Qin"? Is it in the Xinhua Bookstore? Where is it? Why didn't I find it?"
"Boss, when will "Ghost Blowing the Lamp: The Ancient City" be released?"
The students asked several questions in succession, and the bookstore staff who asked them directly were speechless.
In fact, even these people have never read "Looking for Qin". Among them, only some of them have vaguely heard of the title of the book and know the pen name of the author Qinglian Sword Immortal.
As for the release date of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: The Ancient City", without receiving any news, they knew nothing about it.
At this time, Guo Rui, who was standing aside, felt his heart suddenly sink when he heard the conversation between these students.
He looked up nervously and saw a pair of rat eyes under Chang Silin's brows, staring at the group of middle school students discussing enthusiastically, his eyes flickering...