About ten days later.
Chu Li and Zhou Chuan returned home with a big heavy suitcase alone, and the plane returning home was with Gu Baizhi and the others. When you look at each other, you can feel the conspiracy in the eyes of the other party that "put the children together and they can play by themselves, and parents can take the opportunity to rest".
On the way back, according to Hiukawa's cross-examination, Chu Li learned that Jiang Yucheng put down his dignity without much hesitation, and readily agreed to participate in the cooperation plan with Herman.
"You always give me some soup when you eat," Jiang Yucheng replied very calmly, "Otherwise?"
"You won't be able to talk to me in such a ridiculously arrogant tone within three years," Hirokawa raised his chin and said very annoyingly, "You're defeated."
"Yes, after living for more than 20 years, I finally won this time. Haiji won when the opponent couldn't let go of Ben Da, but Ben Da was so jealous." Jiang Yucheng kicked Zhou Chuan with a smirk. , "I'll send you a pennant to hang on the door when I get home, 'Congratulations to the kid from Richuan who finally wins temporarily over the kid next door in his lifetime'—"Temporary victory", temporarily."
Zhou Chuan took off his neck pillow and covered Jiang and Cheng's face.
Here, Chu Li withdrew his gaze from the foolish duo, and looked at Gu Baizhi, who propped his face with one hand, with a look of insight: "The diamond ring is really big, congratulations."
Chu Li still blushed a little: "The ugly product of the boutique."
"Don't lie to me, boutiques don't have such ugly rings, they can't be sold, and the owner is not a fool to buy this kind of money," Gu Baizhi waved his hand, "This kind of rings can only be found in serious jewelry stores If you mark it with a price of seven to eight figures, people will ignore its ugliness and say in conscience: Oh my god, this diamond ring is so beautiful!"
Chu Li felt that what Gu Baizhi said made sense—
At least that's what she thought.
Gu Baizhi said with emotion: "It's so good, Mr. Zhou Chuan is very generous, I quickly married before the other editors in the same industry can react - the man who will spend money on you may not necessarily love you, but he will buy you a seven-figure diamond ring Your man must love you to death."
At this time, Chu Li was feeling bored and groping around, and after hearing Gu Baizhi's words, he grinned at a vomit bag: "What will happen if other editors react?"
"Scrambling to be the first, one after the other," Gu Baizhi said lightly, "but not including me, I will never be able to get along with the author in my life, because before I have time to see their beauty, they have already made me lose my ability to explore their beauty Confidence."
Chu Li smiled and bent over.
It once again consolidated the fact that Gu Baizhi's character suits her taste very well.
— Then five minutes later, when I knew that Gu Baizhi brought a bag that cost about 1,000 yuan to each of the little girls in the editorial department, I thought about the fridge stickers that I had a suitcase as a souvenir. This idea was strengthened.
Chu Li: "So do you really want people?"
Gu Baizhi: "You can come here as soon as you finish Herman's book. With such great achievements, not to mention promotion, at least you will be given the position of editor-in-chief so that you can at least parachute in parallel. It's okay."
Chu Li narrowed his eyes with a smile: "I also want to have an editor-in-chief who travels on a business trip to buy bags."
Gu Baizhi: "The person who wears a suit on his hand, turn his face to the left, do you see the man sitting on your left, he is coquettish with your husband, he can buy you a suitcase."
Chu Li turned his face to Zhou Chuan, who heard what Gu Baizhi said, and covered Chu Li's ears with his hands: "Don't ruin a simple girl who only knows which shop on Taobao sells bags that are strong and last a long time."
Gu Baizhi smiled meanly: "It's not me who bought her a house and put it on."
Hiukawa: "..."
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After more than ten hours of connecting flights and long-distance flights, the group returned home smoothly.
After saying goodbye to each other at the airport, Chu Li and Hiukawa went home and fell asleep.
Probably because the things that were on my mind were done well, and the whole person was relaxed when I got home from the exhaustion of the journey. Chuli woke up the next day and developed a high fever... rested for a long time, and then couldn't stand Liang Surf's death In the afternoon, under the disapproving gaze of Hiukawa, he begged him to drive him to work.
Hiukawa was reluctant at first, feeling that Liang Surf was in such a hurry that the sky would fall, the two argued with each other, and finally saw that Chu Li's throat was so swollen that he couldn't speak, and insisted on going back to report. Hiukawa had no choice but to stuff her into his car, he couldn't really let her squeeze the subway...
Along the way, I still have to rely on the first ceremony to be speechless, and educate her like an old mother——
"Send me a WeChat message when you're almost done, and I'll pick you up and take you to the hospital." The man holding the steering wheel frowned, "How much is it, the time you measured it before going out?"
As he spoke, he wanted to reach out and touch Chu Li's forehead.
Chu Li dodged, put his hands back on the steering wheel to indicate safe driving, and then gestured: Thirty-nine degrees, it's okay.
"Thirty-nine degrees are fine, how many degrees are there? What to do if you burn stupidly, you are not smart at all," Hiukawa persevered, and then added with enthusiasm, "Let's go to the hospital first, and don't rush to sleep when we come back. Hit your resignation report..."
Chu Li glared at him: Resign ass, resign now, will you take A Gui and Suo Heng to the autograph signing next year
Hiukawa: "You still have the strength to stare at me."
Chu Li reached out and patted his thigh.
Then he said in a hoarse voice: "I still have the strength to hit you, shut up."
Hiukawa: "..."
Half an hour later, the car stopped at the gate of Yuanyue Club. Chu Li unbuttoned his seat belt and got out of the car. After walking two steps into Yuanyue Club, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. When he turned around, he saw the front of Rikawa's car at the gate. Halfway through the drive, the man was lying on the window while talking to the security guard while pointing at her.
Chu Li was stunned for a moment, and after a while the phone rang, and he picked it up to see—
[Teacher Actor: Look at Mao, come in quickly, I'll wait for you downstairs.]
Chu Li was silent for a while, raised the corners of his lips and put away his phone, smiled and waved to the man behind him, and trotted up to the office building. Liang Surf has already led the legal department, marketing department, editorial department and others to wait in the conference hall .
Chu Li pushed open the door and saw the complete formation, and he was stunned for a moment. After sitting there, he realized—
It turned out that from the day she sent back the news that "Hellman was fixed", the Yuanyue club was as happy as New Year's Eve every day... Colleagues from the legal department arranged Mirai Hirukawa and Herman with unprecedented efficiency. Mann's publishing contract was pinched out. In addition to the first printing of one million copies and the astronomical figure of twelve points, in order to ensure that this contract can be signed, there are many attractive conditions stuffed in the contract—
For example, the promise of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan traditional cooperation delivery channels that will never appear in the general contract of Yuanyue Society was not an exclusive agent a few days ago, and it was a very low commission. God descends to the mortal world to throw money;
Related works, film and television copyrights, audiobook copyrights, animation and manga adaptation copyrights and other copyrights are all released, and the agency fee is directly capitalized as 0%. It looks like a good person who wants to do a dowry for Hiukawa for free and does not charge money...
Chu Li looked at the contract, imagining Xia Liang Surfing's frantic challenge of his lower limit in the process of pinching the contract, and the process of constant self-struggle, and almost laughed out loud—
At the same time, I felt a little relieved, thinking that Yuanyue Society could finally save people's worries this time... Nodding with satisfaction, she said in her hoarse voice like an old witch: "Yes, I am very sincere."
Liang Surf smiled happily: "You need to talk to Zhou Chuan more, the fat water doesn't flow to outsiders' fields, that's Herman, and you can see how much "Farewell to the Magpie" sold last year. In the next three years, we will Eat meat or eat air, just watch it anyway.”
Chu Li nodded, indicating that he understood.
After reading Hiukawa's contract, Chuli gestured that she would show the contract to Hiukawa, and would try her best to persuade him—of course she didn't tell Liang Surf that because he was anxious to call her back to fight with illness, someone Forced her to resign... put aside Zhou Chuan's contract, and Chu Li did not hesitate to reach out for Suo Heng, A Gui, and Suo Guang's new serial contract—
She was a little bit prepared for Liang Surf's hesitancy and hesitation.
But when Liang Surf waved his hand and really took out three contracts, Chu Li was really shocked to think that he had gone to the wrong door, or that he had traveled to the Yuanyue Club in a parallel space.
"Did you take the wrong medicine?" She looked at Liang Surf in surprise, "Suddenly so efficient."
"I said several contracts to do it together, and I said that I would give some benefits to the other two authors. You are always so anxious." Liang Surf handed the two contracts to Chu Li.
Since it was said to be welfare, Chu Li accepted it almost with gratitude, and felt a little more at ease, thinking that he could finally give some explanation to Ah Gui and Suo Heng after waiting for such a long time: at least in the contract of Zhou Chuan, those clauses were true. It can be said to be very beneficial.
After receiving the contract, Chu Li originally thought that according to what Liang Surf said, the three contracts should be similar, at most, he would not promise to give A Gui and the others three high-value initial seals and some differences in royalty points, so he just casually opened it when she opened it. one look-
Then I found out that something didn't seem right.
First of all, the delivery channel commitment for traditional Chinese characters in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan is still there, but the non-exclusive agent of Day Chuan has become an exclusive agent, and there is still a 50% commission;
Compared with the thousand-word prices of the two authors' previous ones, the serial manuscript fees only increased by ten thousand words and fifteen thousand words respectively;
Related film and television copyrights and other copyright waiver clauses disappeared directly, and the agency is still exclusive agency, and the agency fee is 35%;
— There is also the copyright ownership period of the work. Da Lala's "ten years" almost blinded Chu Li's dog's eyes.
Hello, why don't you say that you bought the lives of these three authors at a "sky-high price" of one hundred and fifty thousand words? ! ! ! !
This broken contract also has the face to be called welfare, right? ! ! ! ! ! !
Should the fridge magnets that I brought back to you be called God-given grace? ! ! ! ! ! !
Chu Li slapped the three contracts on the table. Everyone present except Liang Surf was frightened and jumped on their seats. Contract exhausted all his strength and asked in a hoarse voice: "You care about this, it's called welfare?!"
Liang Surf grinned: "Not all authors have overseas channels in traditional Chinese..."
Chu Li felt that he was about to be pissed off, and he didn't know if this was murder. His mind was buzzing, and his mood suddenly went up and down: "50% of the tax is levied, and there is no hair left... I'm not a fool, if you want to do this, why don't you give it away, who do you look down on?"
After she finished speaking, she coughed wildly, until the smell of blood came out of her throat!
The little editor of the "Moonlight" editorial department quickly stood up and poured her a glass of warm water. Chu Li took a sip and breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that his entire chest was like a broken bellows—
She took a deep breath and tried to persuade: "Old Liang, you are really ugly like this, what would Suo Heng and the others think if they found out?"
Liang Surf didn't speak, but kicked Ma Zai next to him, and the people next to him immediately started chattering—
"There is a confidentiality clause, how would they know."
…
"Chu Li, don't always stand on the author's side, you are an employee of Yuanyue Society, think about our interests."
…
"Wow, the overseas channels that didn't exist before are promised, so it's not called welfare? At least it's promised, no matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat?"
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"We have to make less money from Hiukawa, and we have to balance some of the money from other authors..."
…
"How do you know they won't agree?"
When all the voices swarmed towards Chu Li, Chu Li suddenly heard "buzzing" ringing in her ears, and her headache was about to burst. She looked at the surrounding legal department and marketing department in a daze, and suddenly realized that What are these people doing here today...
She blinked, and in the crowd, the smile on Liang Surf's face seemed to be infinitely distorted.
It's like being knocked off the head with a basin of cold water—
Chu Li smashed the desktop of the conference hall with both hands.
The surroundings suddenly became quiet.
Ah Xiang couldn't bear to stand up, tugged on Chu Li's sleeve, found a chair for her to sit down, stood on her left and said in a stern voice, "Come on, come on, what can't you talk about slowly? ... Mr. Liang, you are going too far. Our boss just came back from abroad, and his eyes were so red that he ran to look at the contract. There is hard work without credit, right? What's more, she has a lot of credit, and she thinks the contract is not suitable. It’s enough for everyone to discuss and change it a little bit, and it’s as if we have to make a quarrel... "
Chu Li waved his hand and interrupted Ah Xiang.
He stood up, scanned the surrounding people, and said slowly: "Ms. Xia always told us before leaving that we should respect the author and the readers. Who among you people has taken it to heart—"
Her voice became deeper and deeper, she moved her lips, her throat was on fire, and she couldn't make a sound at all.
At this time, there were people talking again, and she found that the voice was much lower. At first, she thought that they had really learned a lesson, but after listening for a while, she found that it was not the case, because at this time, her voice was louder in her right ear, and the voice in her left ear was louder. The sound is small.
Chu Li glanced blankly at Ah Xiang beside him, and found that she had been talking to someone from the marketing department...but she couldn't hear her voice at all—
Chu Li raised her hand to cover her right ear, and then realized that it wasn't someone who spoke in a low voice or something, but her left ear was completely deaf.
First ceremony: "..."
At the moment, Chuli was a little panicked—
First of all, I wondered if I would be so deaf.
Then I thought that if the person waiting downstairs knew that he would have to chop me into meat paste
………… I fuck with Yuanyue Society, these idiots!
Since joining the Yuanyue Society, this is the first time that Chuli has seriously thought of running away and quitting.