Finally, Jiang Wenming left.
He left with a smile on his face, but a thousand expletives in his heart.
He truly couldn't understand why Ting Yu refused.
Be it the billion-year salary, the status of a star producer, or the opportunity to collaborate with top male and female artists.
Moreover, he had repeatedly emphasized his role as a star producer and the chance to work with renowned singers.
These were things that any senior producer would dream of!
He believed that any producer with a dream would be drawn to such conditions.
And since Ting Yu could write so many good songs, he must be a young man with a dream.
However, the reality was that Ting Yu had rejected him without hesitation, as if completely uninterested in what others coveted.
Furthermore, there was a hint of disdain in his eyes – yes, disdain.
Jiang Wenming felt like swearing.
But his parents had always taught him to be civil, and he was a good son who listened to his mother, so he ultimately held back.
"Brother Yu, why refuse such a great opportunity?"
Zhang Wei was completely stunned the moment Su Yu rejected the offer.
He had only just snapped back to reality.
"Heh, Xinghui has treated me well. I, Su Yu, am not an ungrateful person."
Su Yu swallowed the bun in his mouth and shook his head nonchalantly.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Wei's respect for Su Yu surged!
How noble!
Brother Yu's realm is beyond our reach!
He wanted to say something flattering, but found that no words could adequately describe his admiration for Brother Yu.
Any words of praise would be a desecration of Brother Yu.
A thousand words.
Ultimately, they converged into a simple exclamation: "Brother Yu is awesome!"
At this moment, Su Yu nodded slightly.
He appeared calm on the surface.
But inwardly, he was utterly speechless.
Was this Jiang Wenming brain-dead?
When discussing business.
You're supposed to negotiate.
You kept emphasizing all sorts of extraneous things to me, like dreams, star producers, and collaborations with top artists.
What use are those things?
The focus, the main point!
In business, the most important thing is money!
This type of annual salary contract is essentially a buyout of copyrights.
It's equivalent to working for someone else, and it's a one-time deal.
While this price might seem like a loss for the company at first glance, they would start making money once they accumulated enough of his songs.
A billion-year salary might seem a lot, but this is the era of traffic.
The finished music for the song "Drifting for Ten Years" was bought for five thousand yuan online, and it was resold for a hundred million.
The tax evasion exposed by livestream hosts amounts to billions. I, Su Yu, possess cultural treasures from an entire world. Am I even worse off than these online streamers?
Isn't this an insult? Even if you added another hundred million, I would still feel respected by you.
...
Winter break.
Due to the holiday season.
The online literature market also became hot.
Su Yu's pen name, "Jiangnan," was considered a newcomer in the online literary world.
He hadn't received much promotion previously.
His earnings came solely from gifts.
After the book went on sale, there were three thousand subscribers. While this achievement wasn't terrible, it couldn't compare to authors who had over ten thousand initial subscribers.
The website's promotional resources were limited.
And the Xianxia genre was inherently niche.
Therefore, getting featured on the homepage wasn't easy.
Editor Zhou Sisi had told Su Yu this many times, urging him to focus on writing. She assured him that the readership data for "Legend of Sword and Fairy" was excellent, and the recommendation request had already been submitted. Once the four rounds of recommendations were completed, it would skyrocket.
Besides category-specific minor recommendations, the website also had major homepage recommendations.
The homepage's major recommendations operated on a PK (Player Kill) system. Books from any category that started recommending at the same time would compete, and those with better data would advance to the next round, with each subsequent round offering a significantly better position.
After completing all four rounds, the book would receive the most prominent homepage recommendation, a coveted spot for all authors.
Su Yu maintained a positive mindset.
Moreover, he wasn't writing web novels primarily for the subscription revenue.
What he aimed to earn was the film and television adaptation rights.
And also the insert songs and theme songs after the adaptations.
The music in the television series "Legend of Sword and Fairy" was akin to an open-book exam.
Those were the real money-makers.
Therefore, the early subscription numbers had little impact on him.
He had great confidence in the quality of this "Legend of Sword and Fairy."
...
Qingkong Literature Ten-Thousand-Subscription Author Group.
Here, the minimum requirement was to be a ten-thousand-subscription author.
"Finally on recommendation!"
"I'm on recommendation too!"
"Haha, shall we compete together this time?"
"Not bad, not bad. Having company makes it more interesting."
"Holy crap, Da Luo Hua and Chu Feng are on recommendation at the same time?"
"One is a master of urban fiction, the other a sci-fi master. This is going to be good."
"Just took a look, it seems all the books this round are by newcomers."
"Haha... then the grand homepage recommendation will be decided between Da Luo Hua and Chu Feng."
"Don't celebrate too early. By the third round, there might be some top authors who failed the PK and re-entered the competition."
"None of the authors who failed last time were top authors."
"Last time, Liu Ming's 'Grasping the Heavens' seemed to fail in the third round due to a half-month hiatus."
"What? The Xuanhuan master Liu Ming?"
"That guy?"
"Has anyone added him to the major author group? Go ask."
Da Luo Hua and Chu Feng were both top authors in their respective categories.
Their average subscriptions had surpassed fifty thousand.
However, compared to Liu Ming in Xuanhuan, they were significantly weaker.
Liu Ming was a master author who had written a book with a hundred thousand subscriptions.
Furthermore, his older works had been adapted into films, and he possessed a loyal fan base.
If it weren't for his half-month hiatus due to personal matters, which led to abnormal data and his failure in the third round of PK, his current book, "Grasping the Heavens," would likely have entered the top ten best-selling charts on the website.
There were hundreds of books participating in the PK.
Not much change was visible in the early stages.
Due to the recommendation status, Da Luo Hua's and Chu Feng's books had already climbed onto the new book charts for their respective categories the next day.
Urban and Sci-Fi were the hottest categories in the past two years.
The charts featured many books with good achievements.
Although the two had talent, securing the first place on the new book chart with just one round of PK was still somewhat difficult.
While everyone in the group was speculating about who would be the first to claim the new book chart's top spot.
No one noticed.
A niche Xianxia novel.
Unintentionally, it had secured the first place on the Xianxia new book chart, and its subscriptions were rapidly increasing.
...
Gong Shi Xiong Hot Pot Headquarters.
Gong Youcai, as usual.
Reserved an hour for himself to drink tea and read.
He disliked reading traditional literature.
He also disliked professional business books.
He found them too tiring and didn't want to bother studying them.
The reason Gong Shi Xiong Hot Pot had become so large wasn't because he was skilled in management, but due to its taste and reputation.
Gong Youcai had always believed that taste was the bottom line in the catering industry, and reputation represented the ceiling.
Customers are God, this was Gong Shi Xiong's corporate culture.
In the service industry, one must provide excellent service.
This was the reason for its enduring success.
In his leisure time, his method of relaxation was reading online novels.
He enjoyed Wuxia and Xianxia.
He liked the stories of chivalry and revenge within them.
After finishing a book yesterday, he had tipped a few tens of thousands of yuan and was now experiencing a reading drought.
So, while sipping tea, he browsed the website for books.
The Xianxia bestseller list. A new book appeared before his eyes.
"The Legend of Sword and Fairy?"
The name was decent, and Xianxia was his preferred genre.
Moreover, it was ranked first on the new book list, so the quality should be guaranteed.
With that thought, he clicked on it.