The King of Crossover Entertainment

In a small warehouse that can only accommodate six desks, Zheng Rong, Guo Chuan, and Dong Jie, the entire labor force of Novel Monthly, have been busy all day, and it was not until the evening that they could rest and sit down for a sip. water.

"Brother Zheng." Guo Chuan's tired face was filled with happiness, and he said excitedly: "Two hundred thousand copies, all sold out in less than a day."

This has caught up with their sales in the past three years.

Dong Jie pursed her dry lips and said happily: "I did the math and found that we received a total of 1.5 million orders today, and this is only the demand from first-tier cities. If we wait to expand to second- and third-tier cities, Fourth- and fifth-tier cities, I think..."

Speaking of this, she no longer dared to think about it. When the novel monthly was at its most glorious, the annual sales volume was only a million copies. Moreover, it was just the beginning. "Maoyan" and "The Bodyguard" could last ten issues. .

Zheng Rong looked very calm, and his anxious heart finally relaxed.

The outcome of this gamble is already clear.

He was glad that he had made this bold decision to use the completed online novel to serialize it in their magazine.

It seems now that the analysis at that time was correct.

Don’t look at the fact that Micro Circle has a 97% market share among similar applications in the world, with over 3 billion users. However, there are only over 10 million users who pay attention to online novels, and there are only five micro circles of cross-border kings. More than a million fans are paying attention. Compared with China's 1.8 billion population and the world's 8 billion population, these are like a stream facing the sea.

Furthermore, there are no fewer people who like to read paper books than people who like to read e-books.

Therefore, the serialization of "Maoyan" and "The Bodyguard" in the monthly novel magazine is bound to be successful.

Of course, this is a bit of an afterthought. Zheng Rong stayed up all night last night because he was worried about sales. After all, he invested all his wealth in it.

Now I can have a good sleep.

Zheng Rong was in a good mood and said to Guo Chuan and Dong Jie: "This year's year-end bonus is doubled, and the overtime salary during the Spring Festival is six times!"

Guo Chuan and Dong Jie cheered in unison: "Long live Brother Zheng!"

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"Honey, come on, what are you looking at?"

When Helan turned around, she found her boyfriend walking slowly behind, seemingly reading a book.

"coming."

Yang Ming had just passed a bookstore and went in to ask about the sales volume of the latest issue of Extraordinary Magazine. The clerk's answer surprised him, "The sales of Extraordinary Magazine are average, neither up nor down, but the monthly novels are selling very well, basically to The goods were sold out in half a day." Why did the old club, which had been in decline for several years, suddenly gain momentum? So, I bought a copy out of curiosity.

Helan waited for Yang Ming to come over, her eyes changed, and asked: "Dear, what's wrong with you? Your face looks so bad. Are you feeling unwell?"

Yang Ming forced a smile and said: "It's okay, let's go, the movie is about to start."

The two held hands and came to the theater.

After entering the venue, Helan concentrated on watching the movie.

As for Yang Ming, he has been absent-minded since he came out of the bookstore.

"Zheng Rong, you really found a chance to make a comeback."

When I saw "Maoyan" and "The Escort" serialized in the monthly novel magazine, I knew that what the bookstore clerk said was true.

"But where did he get the money to buy the rights to "Maoyan" and "The Daredevil"?"

Yang Ming unconsciously flipped through the novel monthly newspaper in his hand, pondered for a long time, and suddenly snorted with his nostrils, trying to understand Zheng Rong's operation.

Since we can't buy the book rights of "Maoyan" and "The Bodyguard", the next best thing is to get the copying rights and use them for serialization in the monthly novel.

"Zheng Rong, Zheng Rong, you still don't want to admit defeat."

Yang Ming narrowed his eyes, tilted his head and said in his girlfriend's ear: "I'll go out and make a phone call."

Before Helan could react, he had already stood up and left.

When he came to the corridor, Yang Ming took out his mobile phone and dialed the number of the cross-border king, but it kept beeping and no one answered.

He replayed it several times, but still got the same result, so he changed the number and dialed it.

All I saw on the phone was: Hu Guoting, editor-in-chief of Panda Chinese.com.

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Yun Yun was holding a bag of potato chips and watching TV on the sofa. When she saw Yun Feng coming back, she said, "Brother, your phone just rang several times."

"Yes, I understand." Yunfeng had just gone out to have barbecue with Wang Defa and Ma Siyu. His phone ran out of battery and he left it at home to charge.

It wasn't that Yun Yun didn't answer the call for Yun Feng, but that she couldn't answer the call because Yun Feng had set his phone to unlock before he could answer the call.

After returning to the room, Yunfeng unplugged the charging cable and found six missed calls, all from the same number.

"Tail number 1133, seems a bit familiar."

He scrolled down the call history, and sure enough, this number had called before, on the day he returned home.

"What's the emergency?"

Very few people know his mobile phone number, and Blue Star doesn't have those harassing calls.

But when I called back, the other party didn't answer.

"what the hell."

Yunfeng shook his head slightly and then opened the micro-circle.

At noon today, he updated the 20,000-word text of "The Legend of Wukong". Half a day passed and he wanted to see how the fans reacted.

Moreover, this is the first time that he modified a novel that was rewarded by the system with his own sharp and gorgeous writing style.

He has always believed that the plot does not need to be changed, unless it is a novel with a bad ending, but the writing style can be changed to make it a novel of his own style.

[The Greatest Hero]: What the hell is this? Did he write it after drinking?

[Nobody Knows]: Annotation of the short film "Journey to the West", hypocritical, Mary Sue, lacking literary value, and no rules.

[Waiting for You for the First Time]: A lot of dialogues piled up, the four great classics have been changed to be like a simple text, and it has nothing to do with literature.

[Dian Luo Qiu Yu]: I have no idea what it is talking about. It is too stream-of-consciousness writing, and it involves some very mysterious things. Maybe I didn't understand it.

[Ma Xiaode]: It feels like a long stream of water. How did the cross-border king do this kind of machine gun-like confession? When reading the book, it seems to hear waves of rock music and shouting. This is the most explosive online novel I have ever read.

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This is the first time that Yunfeng has seen his own comments section, where negative comments outnumber positive comments by several times.

This is normal. When he read "The Legend of Wukong", he only thought it was a deconstruction of "Journey to the West", just like "A Chinese Odyssey", which was made for the purpose of spoof.

The opening of the text is a complete subversion of the four protagonists. Tang Seng is slick and has no teacher style, Sun Wukong is slightly petty bourgeois, Zhu Bajie is heartless, and Monk Sha is eccentric and lonely.

And the three brothers are named "Three Monsters", as if to tell readers that this is not the "Journey to the West", but just the story of three monsters and a monk.

Such extreme spoofs will indeed make people confused.

Yunfeng fully understands the readers' feeling of "not understanding" after reading the 20,000-word text, and he felt the same at the time.

Because "The Legend of Wukong" is not something that can be understood by reading it once or twice.

Yunfeng also read it several times before he understood that the whole book was actually a rewrite of the part about the true and false Monkey King in "Journey to the West", and added several stories about past and present lives to make all the events become fantastic and unpredictable.

When writing, he modified some character dialogues and some event descriptions, trying to make the plot twists look more reasonable, but the taste is still the original taste.

However, he believes that as long as it is updated twice more, readers will be involved in the plot and truly understand what "The Legend of Wukong" wants to express.

Different monkeys, different Jin Chanzi, different Tianpeng... will definitely shock the readers of Blue Star from the bottom of their hearts.

"I'm so angry!"

At this time, Yunlin pushed the door into the room with an angry face.

Yunfeng smiled and asked, "What's wrong? Who has offended you again?"

Yunlin snorted, "Those people don't understand, but they keep criticizing. What kind of quality is that?"

Yunfeng didn't understand and asked again, "What are you talking about?"

Yunlin didn't answer but asked, "Brother, have you read the text of "The Legend of Wukong" posted by the cross-border king on Weibo?"

Yunfeng nodded subconsciously, and then his face became strange.

Yunlin asked directly, "Brother, do you understand it?"

Yunfeng just smiled and said, "Then do you understand it?"