Chapter 21 Contact

Although Ye Jingyi doesn't play "Honor of Kings", she knows that the influence of "Honor of Kings" e-sports events has been growing.

Anyway, the top star players in the e-sports circle may not be as famous as first- and second-tier artists, but they can still be compared with third- and fourth-tier artists.

Many big investors have also entered the e-sports circle, so some key battles in the league and various news about the games will become hot searches on Weibo.

Not to mention foreign wars, every year's Mid-Season Invitational and S-League, Weibo's hot searches will be dominated by e-sports events. As long as a player can create a positive and famous scene in the game, he will definitely attract a lot of fans.

In short, the current e-sports circle has become more and more like a fan circle.

Some contestants clearly don't have much talent, but they have a lot of so-called "mom fans." If you call them "bad," their fans will say, "Do you know how hard he works? He's so cute, so what if he's a little bad? No matter how bad he is, he's still better than you..."

Anyway, the e-sports circle has also begun to learn from the entertainment industry, and professional players have also begun to establish personalities to attract fans. There are hard-working personalities, inspirational personalities, and academic personas, and fans just happen to like this.

In any case, after Ye Jingyi discovered that this novel was written in a unique way about the e-sports circle, she was very optimistic about this work.

The emergence of this work can be said to fill the market gap in this field.

In addition, its writing style is really good, and there are no extremely cruel plots that abuse the protagonist. As a popular novel that caters to readers, it is already very outstanding.

Ye Jingyi decisively decided, "There's no need to serialize this work in a magazine anymore. Let's just publish it as a physical book. 200,000 words per volume. The manuscript fee is 100 yuan per thousand words, and the royalties are 5%. Liu Shutang, please tell the author the contract terms for this work."

Liu Shutang found it a little unbelievable. Such publishing conditions were too sincere for a new author.

You know, many authors in the popular fiction circle are not qualified to publish single volumes——

They must first serialize their work in a magazine. If, after several issues of reader feedback, the work is indeed popular, then they will have the opportunity to publish it as a single volume.

Many authors often compete for this opportunity, and senior editors hold meetings to discuss and ultimately decide which work to publish as a single volume.

Whether or not one is qualified to publish a single volume is a threshold for authors in the popular fiction circle. It is like an online writer in the original world can only be considered a high-quality author if he or she writes a work with an average subscription of over 3,000.

"Okay, Editor-in-Chief Ye." After being incredulous, Liu Shutang agreed excitedly.

He had no doubt at all whether Ye Jingyi was qualified to offer such conditions. After all, some of the gossip was not groundless. The background and connections of Editor-in-Chief Ye were indeed not comparable to those of ordinary editors-in-chief.

In fact, Ye Jingyi's appearance, temperament, her usual dress, and her car can all indirectly reveal her family background.

"You have a pretty good vision to have discovered this work. It's a bit of a waste for you to be a web editor under Lao Pan. Let's put it this way, if this 'Who's the Contender' that you're interested in becomes popular, I will transfer you directly to my team. Otherwise, you will become the scapegoat." Ye Jingyi said lightly.

Liu Shutang felt no pressure at all, not only because he was very confident in this work, but also because he was a web editor, and his job was to find something to do and experience life.

"Editor-in-Chief Ye, don't worry. I'm not afraid of taking the blame. I just hope that my favorite works can be seen by more readers." Liu Shutang said casually.

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The next day after that day, Gu Qingge saw an internal message in her author background reminding her to sign the contract.

She couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, even though the side quest of "creating an online novel of more than 500,000 words" didn't have any performance requirements.

However, she still attaches great importance to her debut work, and has made up her mind to write a popular pioneering work to make "Nan Gezi" famous.

Besides, she possesses master-level literary skills. It would be shameful if she couldn't even write popular novels that met the contract standards.

So she still hopes that her work will be noticed by the editor and signed, so that she can earn some royalties and buy some things she urgently needs, such as a laptop.

Gu Qingge directly added the Penguin account of editor Liu Shutang, whose nickname was "Blue Tree".

Her own note information, of course, is the author of "Who Can Compete".

After Liu Shutang sent an internal message to "Nan Gezi", he has been paying attention to his own Penguin account. Every "cough" sound of message reminder makes him expect that it is a friend request from "Nan Gezi".

Finally at this moment, he waited for it.

Generally speaking, editors are rather aloof, especially when facing newbies who have just entered the industry.

Obviously, Gu Qingge is also a newbie among newbies, but Liu Shutang doesn't dare to look down on him.

Liu Shutang had a preconceived notion that this "Nan Gezi" was by no means a pure new author, but a capable senior author who was trying new themes under a new alias. He was of course male, and he was very good at playing "Heroes of Glory".

Liu Shutang gained a lot of points through the details, skills, and understanding of the military lines described in "Who Can Compete". He was originally in the platinum rank, but now he is in the diamond rank.

The higher his gaming skills and the deeper his understanding, the more he admired the gaming skills of Nan Gezi, the author of Who Can Compete?

The other party might not just be at the King level of this game, but a professional esports player or analyst who writes popular novels for fun...

But this doesn't make sense. If the other party is really in the e-sports circle, then why is his writing so good and he seems like a powerful author who has been in the literary circle for many years.

The more Liu Shutang speculated, the more he felt that the author "Nan Gezi" was full of mysteries, and he became more and more curious about "Nan Gezi".

"Hello, Teacher Nan Gezi. I'm web editor Lan Shu. I must congratulate you on your work "Who Can Compete?" It has reached the publishing standards of our Qidian Publishing House. Here is a contract for you to sign. It was approved by the editor-in-chief himself." Liu Shutang said straight to the point.

Gu Qingge replied briefly with "OK" and began to look at the electronic version of the contract.

Since the popular fiction circle in this world has been developing for so many years, its rules of the trade have long been clear. The contracts issued by regular large publishing houses are basically standard contracts and will not cheat the authors. Even if they are cheated, there is no need to be afraid. You can directly seek help from the authors' union to protect your rights.

While Gu Qingge was reading the electronic contract, Liu Shutang was also bored, so he casually looked at "Nan Gezi's" Penguin account information, personal space, etc.

When he saw the gender listed on the other party's profile was actually female, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised.

After being surprised, he laughed again, thinking that teacher "Nan Gezi" was quite interesting. He was obviously a male author, but he insisted on setting her as a female in the information.

However, when Liu Shutang clicked into the other person's personal space, he began to doubt his life...

It’s not that Gu Qingge has any photos of himself in his personal space, in fact there is no original content at all.

The space is full of her, who once had no soul, reposted articles, pictures and the like.

The articles are all full of complaints, saying things like this girl must be an angel with broken wings in her previous life, and that if you don’t repost it, you are not Chinese.

Of course, there are also 15 makeup tips for girls and 30 ways to show someone loves you...

As for the pictures, of course they are full of girlish charm.

To put it bluntly, this kind of personal space is really too feminine, and it is the kind of thing that an ordinary girl would do. The time limit is a few years ago, because the current Penguin Space is no longer of this style.

"Teacher Nan Gezi, who created 'Who Can Compete', is actually a female author?"

Liu Shutang thought in great shock.