As soon as "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: The Ancient City" was put on the shelves, it was enthusiastically sought after by fans from all over the country. This phenomenon was recorded by many news newspapers.
Many reporters lamented that Li Qing's popularity was unparalleled. Therefore, in the relevant reports the next day, all the media seemed to focus on Li Qing's popularity, and the novel "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" that should have been the focus of attention.
Instead, no one paid attention.
Mainland people's impression of Li Qing is that of a popular singer. They have heard Li Qing's songs, but they didn't know that Li Qing could also write novels.
Even though "The Three-Body Problem" caused waves in the literary world, the general public was completely unaware of it.
Therefore, even if I heard that Li Qing published a novel, I thought it was Li Qing who wrote it to make money.
Therefore, except for Qing fans, most people have not purchased Li Qing’s novels.
In addition, all the releases this time were in simplified Chinese, and Li Qing's large number of loyal readers in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places did not check it out immediately. Therefore, "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" did not cause much attention in the mainland as soon as it was put on the shelves.
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It was not until some archaeological experts jumped out to criticize "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" as a feudal superstitious novel and requested the General Administration of Publishing to ban it that everyone turned their attention to the textual description of the novel "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp".
You don’t know it unless you look at it, but when you look at it, everyone suddenly understands.
This "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" turns out to be a novel about the experience of a tomb robber!
No wonder those archaeological experts are gnashing their teeth about it and wishing to block this novel as soon as possible.
Even those who don’t understand this industry know that the world of archeology and the world of tomb robbing are definitely enemies.
However, these experts' fuss has had the opposite effect.
Not only was "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" not banned, but its sales performance became even more impressive.
People who originally didn't care about this novel couldn't resist the publicity and entered major bookstores.
In Guangdong, southern Fujian and other places, some readers from Hong Kong and Taiwan have frequent exchanges between the two places in the past few days.
Many people were curious, and after asking around, they found out that these people were all here for Qinglian Sword Fairy's new work "Ghost Blowing the Lamp"!
Almost every person from Hong Kong and Taiwan, after coming to the mainland, will buy dozens of copies of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" to collect and give away.
After this phenomenon was noticed by many owners of publishing houses in Hong Kong and Taiwan, they immediately took a flight to the mainland, came to Tang Dynasty Publishing House, and requested to purchase the traditional Chinese publishing rights.
As we all know, the Simplified and Traditional Chinese copyrights of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp: The Wonderful Ancient City" were purchased by Tang Dynasty Publishing House. If you want to publish the traditional Chinese version, you must purchase it from Tang Dynasty Publishing House.
However, Tang Dynasty Publishing House, faced with the increasing sales of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", was unwilling to sell the traditional Chinese copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" that it had bought at a high price.
Fang Sihai, the editor-in-chief of Tang Dynasty Publishing House, has been very busy recently. He does almost all operations of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" personally.
Just two days after it was put on the shelves, the "archaeological community blocking incident" occurred, which made Fang Sihai, who was originally happy with the continuous increase in sales, almost explode with anger. He bought "Ghost" with a 31% royalty rate.
"Blowing Out the Lamp", if it died like this, the biggest loss would be their Tang Dynasty Publishing House.
Fortunately, Tang Dynasty Publishing House has been established in the publishing industry for so many years and has a lot of capital. After some operations, this matter was suppressed.
However, the copyright dealers from Hong Kong and Taiwan who came to the mainland one after another to purchase traditional Chinese copyrights did not tempt Tang Dynasty Publishing House, but instead made the latter a little bit ambitious.
Although the mainland market is large, due to the existence of the piracy industry, the profit time has been greatly compressed.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Tang Dynasty Publishing House's distribution tentacles could be extended overseas based on the novel "Ghost Blowing the Lamp"?
Fang Sihai heard that because of the novel "Looking for Qin", the four characters "Qinglian Sword Immortal" are really famous overseas!
This time "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" was released, many overseas Chinese fans of Qinglian Sword Fairy almost immediately flew to the mainland to buy it.
This scene made even the well-informed Fang Sihai quite emotional. He had never encountered anything like this before.
This is enough to illustrate the feasibility of expanding overseas business.
With this thought in mind, Fang Sihai ordered people to send those copyright dealers back and at the same time began to collect information and prepare to establish branches in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Even though the local publishing house obstructed it, Fang Sihai still had the confidence to use the sharp knife of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" to pierce through their layers of protective barriers.
Just when the English version of "The Three-Body Problem" is undercurrent in North America and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is stirring up trouble in the Mainland, the Qinglian Sword Fairy Concert is ready after more than ten rehearsals and is only waiting for January 1st.
When the day comes, 15,000 fans will be able to see it.
Before that, New Year's Eve is about to begin.
On the evening of December 31st, at eight o'clock.
As night falls, the lights on Hong Kong's major streets begin to light up one after another.
Skyscrapers one after another have also begun to emit misty and colorful lights, and various major streets have also been arranged by police officers to free up a wide pedestrian street to facilitate the performance of a unified acrobatic team.
That night, there was almost no motor vehicle in the bustling city of Hong Kong.
Almost everyone takes to the streets on foot.
At ten o'clock, under the dark sky, bunches of fireworks bloomed brilliantly on the rooftops of various iconic buildings in Victoria Harbor. They were fireworks in four colors: red, silver, green, and gold. These four kinds of fireworks respectively symbolized "
"Happiness", "health", "satisfaction" and "abundance".
When the light flashed across the night sky, everyone in the bustling crowd began to close their eyes and make wishes.
The cameras of major TV stations such as Hong Kong ATV and TVB record these scenes all the time.
In the square of Tsim Sha Tsui Pier, the crowd cheered from time to time.
Many young singers or groups from Hong Kong have begun to take turns to appear on stage. They are all good at singing and dancing, and are handsome and charming, setting off waves of craze among the crowd.
Under the cold wind, the enthusiasm of people waiting for the New Year has not faded, but has become even higher.
Whenever a star appears on the stage, the scene becomes a wave of heat.
Many fans held inflatable sticks and waved them vigorously to the music.
In the crowd, in addition to Asians with black hair and yellow skin, there were also many foreigners with blond hair and blue eyes.
Some of them wore glowing rabbit ears and horns, and some were simply clown masks, which made them particularly eye-catching among the crowd.
At this moment, one of the young men, wearing a clown mask, tall and tall and wearing black clothing, was pointing at the lion dancer on the street in the crowded crowd and laughing. After laughing, he suddenly took something from his pocket.
He took out a bright red brocade box and handed it to the woman next to him who was also wearing a mask: "Girl, take it."
"What?"
The woman was wearing a Snow White mask, and her expression could not be clearly seen, but her tone sounded unusually surprised.
This scene is a scene that often happens in TV dramas. After being seen by some people around, everyone started to boo.
People almost all laughed and moved out of the way.
In just the blink of an eye, five or six square meters of space were vacated.