He went to bed at two o'clock, but at five o'clock, Li Yi was woken up by a phone call. Without looking at the number, Li Yi could almost guess that it was most likely a cucumber.
There were only a few people in his phone. There were two apartments each, including Qiao Xiaojiao, Qing Gua, Wang Yuesheng from China Original Music Network, and his assistant Xiao Dong. Finally, it was Na Ying, who had exchanged numbers yesterday.
Needless to say, the first four of them lived together. If they called him, he would immediately knock on the door. Moreover, he did not have the habit of locking the door when he slept. Qiao Xiaojiao? It was even more impossible. This was the most sensible girl Li Yi had ever met. Meanwhile, on China Original Music Network, Li Yicai had a phone call with Wang Yuesheng yesterday.
"Green Melon, if you don't give me an explanation, I'll sell you to Africa!”Li Yi said fiercely.
"Li Yi, I'm already downstairs. Hurry up and come down. I'm going to discuss the contract with the publishing firm today. If you can come down in ten minutes, I'll introduce you to a beautiful woman!”Qing Gua seemed to be in a particularly good mood today.
Li Yi randomly put on a few clothes and went downstairs. The first thing he saw was Qing Gua, who was waiting at the stairwell entrance.
"Pa! Pa! Pa!" Li Yi didn't say anything else. He first slapped Qing Gua's butt a few times. "Wretched girl, you actually woke me up so early. Sleep is not only important to women, but also to men, do you understand?”
Li Yi started to regret his decision. After all, Qing Gua was a girl, and a very pretty one at that. He had hit the wrong spot.
"You…you bad guy, I'm ignoring you!”Qing Gua blushed and turned to run away.
At the same time, Li Yi heard the system say,"
Ding!" Congratulations to the host. Huang Qianqian's favorability towards the host has reached 85 points. The host has been rewarded with 500 points. Huang Qianqian has entered the Beauty Chart.”
"Ding! You have triggered a side quest--One lucky draw ticket. [Failure: Huang Qianqian's favorability towards the host will forever be lower than 85 points. Time limit: 180 days."
What was going on? Li Yi was completely confused. After three slaps, he had actually gained Huang Qianqian's favorable impression of him. Moreover, it had increased by such a large margin.
It was the same last time. Three slaps had caused Huang Qianqian's favorability towards him to go from-30 to 35. This time, it had jumped from 35 to 85.
Should he give it a try later and hit it a few more times? Could he reach 100 points? Li Yi shook his head hard to get rid of this unreliable thought.
There were already three beauties in the group. After Yifei and Meijia, Qingua, who was also Huang Qianqian, officially became a member of the group. Moreover, his favorability towards Li Yi had directly surpassed Hu Yifei and Meijia, becoming the one with the highest favorability.
Of course, favorability only meant that the girl had a good impression of him. It did not represent the actual relationship between the two. For example, he could now kiss Hu Yifei occasionally and secretly take advantage of her. However, he couldn't do these things to Qing Gua. Otherwise, it might cause Qing Gua's favorability towards him to decrease drastically, or even drop to a negative number again.
"System, can you tell me why the green melon's favorability towards me has increased so much?”
Ding!" Huang Qianqian's favorability towards the host has been accumulating since she read the host's novel, Ethereal Journey. Today, it has only reached a critical point and exploded. In addition, if the host did not handle it properly, if the host had said something caring to Huang Qianqian when he saw her just now, Huang Qianqian's favorability towards the host would have been 95 points.”
Li Yi was speechless.
It seemed that the three slaps just now had reduced Huang Qianqian's favorability by 10 points!
After all, Huang Qianqian was a cultured person. She actually liked him so much just because she liked his novel.
Li Yi opened the Music Chart and looked at the attribute bonuses that the cucumber had given him.
Green Melon:
[Charm: 90, Rating: A]
[Favorable impression of the host: 85 (between normal friends, favorable impression is 30)]
[Additional stats to the host: Singing 10%, acting 10%, charm 1]
The bonus was the same as Hu Yifei and Meijia. Originally, Hu Yifei could only give him a 5% bonus to his singing and acting skills. However, after her favorability towards him reached 70, the bonus to his attributes became 10%.
It had been a long time since he checked his own attributes, so Li Yi decided to check them out as well.
[Host: Li Yi]
[Charisma: 63.5 (max value: 100)]
[Singing Skill: D rank 70%(Mass Music 30%, Skills 90%, Achievement 25)]
[Acting skills: D-rank 50%]
[Exchange Points: 800]
[Skill: Detection (Able to detect other people's attribute information, range of 10 meters, limited to three uses per day)]
Guitar Mastery (Additional skill of the exquisite electric guitar)
piano proficiency
Emotional skill-Sad Voice. (Singing 50)
Emotion type skill-Sweet Sound. (Singing 50)
[Prop: Exquisite electric guitar] (Singing 40)
Training time: None
His charm had increased by another point, and his singing had reached 70% of D . Only her acting skills were still at D grade and needed to be improved.
Of course, what made Li Yi the happiest was that the exchange points had reached 800 points. Qing Gua was really his lucky star, sending him 500 points early in the morning. As for waking him up? Li Yi had long forgotten about this.
In terms of missions, other than the main mission, there were three missions to increase favorability. They were Hu Yifei, Meijia, and Huang Qianqian.
Among them, there was no need to rush for Meijia. The deadline was 300 days, and it had only been a few days. Huang Qianqian's deadline was a little less, only 180 days, which was equivalent to half a year. It was not too urgent. Only Hu Yifei's was the most urgent.
……
Li Yi walked out of the unit door and saw Hu Yifei and Meijia chatting and laughing with a woman. This woman was Lin Wanyu. Speaking of which, he and Lin Wanyu's Little Chili Pepper had been friends for a long time. Today, they finally had the chance to meet.
"Zhu Yi, guess who this beauty is?”Hu Yifei pointed at Lin Wanyu and asked.
Lin Wanyu was wearing a T-shirt with various fruits and vegetables on it. Seeing Hu Yifei making things difficult for Li Yi, Lin Wanyu winked at Li Yi and pointed at a green pepper on her shirt.
"Oh, I know. This must be Qing Gua's colleague. Hmm, let me guess. What would your name be? Green peppers! Am I right?" Li Yi deliberately made a joke.
Lin Wanyu immediately pouted. She had already given him such a big hint, but he could still guess wrongly. Or did he not take her seriously at all?
"Haha, alright, stop joking. Little Chili Wanyu, right? Thank you for your support!" Li Yi took the lead and extended his hand to Lin Wanyu.
Lin Wanyu's personality was almost the same as the one in iPartment that Li Yi had watched before. She was lively and cute. After they got into the car, Lin Wanyu started to talk to Li Yi about various things related to " The Best Childe " and " Ethereal Journey ". She temporarily abandoned her good friends Hu Yifei and Meijia.
This time, the publication of 'Top-grade Young Master' and 'Ethereal Journey' was completely under Lin Wanyu's control. Before this, in this world, the paper copyrights of web novels were almost worthless. No one thought that web novels were everywhere on the Internet and that people would spend money to buy them.
In this world, as long as it was a paper book, it was considered a part of literature. Could it be considered literature? Obviously not!
Of course, there had been publishing houses that tried to publish online novels before, but they all ended in failure.
"Wen Xiaoyi, I think this publication is an opportunity.”Lin Wanyu said," I've already discussed the contract with Rising Sun. I'll tell you about it. Then, you can voice your opinions. We'll study it together."”
When it came to serious matters, Lin Wanyu also became serious. Whether this matter could be successful was already a major part of her life. She could not afford any failure.
Li Yi nodded and waited for Lin Wanyu to continue. Hu Yifei, Meijia, and Qing Gua also stopped talking.
"First of all, we will be responsible for all the costs of this publication. As for Rising Sun Press, they only provided the publishing, printing, and publishing of books. The publishing house will take 30% of the profits, while Singularity Chinese Network and you will take the remaining 70%.
Because Singularity Chinese Network will be responsible for all the fees, you will be able to get a 20% share of the profits. This figure is already far higher than the 12- 15% royalty of other books. In the meantime, you have to fully cooperate with Singularity Chinese Network and do a good job in publicity. The main thing is to sign the sales. If the sales reach a certain level, your share will increase by 10%.”
Li Yi thought for a while and said,"How about this? The royalty is a little high. I only want 15%." I feel that my book is still worth the 15% royalty.”After all, he had chosen to split the profits. Under this model, if a book could not be sold, his income would be zero.
Of course, even so, 28% royalty was still a little too high. One had to know that Singularity Chinese Network had to bear all the risks. Li Yi did not want to take advantage of Lin Wanyu in this aspect. How could he not see that Lin Wanyu was taking care of him on purpose?
Lin Wanyu obviously didn't care about such a small matter. To her, there wasn't much difference between 15% and 20%. She continued,"Alright, 15% it is then. The full text of 'Top Grade Childe' is 3.12 million words. Each set will be divided into 24 copies and sold at the same time. The first batch will be printed in 10,000 copies. Meanwhile, the first and second volumes of "Ethereal Journey" would be published for the first time, with 50,000 copies each.”Obviously, Lin Wanyu was more optimistic about Ethereal Journey.
"What? Wanyu, why did only 10,000 copies of " Top Grade Young Master " have been printed? Can you sell it for so little?" Hu Yifei felt that Lin Wanyu was really not generous enough. It would save her a lot of trouble to just print a million sets.
"Yifei, 10,000 copies is actually quite a lot. You should know that a book that sells 30,000 copies is already a bestseller.”Li Yi gave Hu Yifei a brief explanation.
"Since Yifei said so, then print 20,000 sets first! Actually, I also think that 10,000 sets are a little too little!”Lin Wanyu was magnanimous when she did things. With just a few words, she doubled the first seal of " Top Grade Young Master."
" Wanyu, this…" Li Yi was a little worried. Web novels were not like other books. Moreover, there were a total of 24 copies of " Top Grade Childe ". Even if the price was 20 yuan per copy, it would cost 480 yuan to buy a set. This determined that most middle school students did not have the spending power.
If he only bought one or two books, it would not be a complete story at all. How could he read it? At most, it would be kept as a collection. This was also a major drawback of publishing online novels. There were too many words, and they could easily be more than a million words.
This book comes from：m.funovel.com。